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Why Dinosaurs Matter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 264min
World-renowned paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara reveals how understanding dinosaurs can help us better understand our own biology - and our future. Dinosaurs captivate people. Men and women, young and old, have a deep fascination with the species that roamed Earth before us. In this audiobook, paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara takes listeners on a journey - back to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - to reveal how dinosaurs achieved feats unparalleled by any other group of animals. Lacovara shows why these sublimely adaptable, remarkable creatures deserve our awe and respect. Lacovara blends exploration in remote locations across the globe with the latest imaging and modeling techniques from engineering to medicine. This eye-opening look into the strange and calamitous event that wiped out the dinosaurs weaves together the story of their existence on Earth with our own. Why Dinosaurs Matter is compelling and engaging and a great reminder that our place on this planet is precarious and potentially fleeting. We must look to the past to protect our future. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Lacovara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008065/bk_sans_008065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Everything Is Illuminated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min
Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated.... Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened - seared in the fire of something new. (Washington Post)With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather’s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power."A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling.... Foer can place his reader’s hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating." (Philadelphia Inquirer) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164634/bk_acx0_164634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Our Ken Series 3: The classic BBC radio comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 420min
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and others star in the complete third series of the madcap forerunner to Round the Horne. A hectic mix of sketches and songs, Beyond Our Ken kept millions of listeners in stitches between 1958 and 1964. These 14 fantastic episodes, published for the first time in audio, were first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1960. In these uproarious half hours, you can enjoy a series of plays to remember; hear all about Kenneth Horne's adventures in Switzerland, Macau and the North West Frontier; check out the latest film releases in Picture Go Round; and learn about the worlds of photography, hobbies, food, the city and more in documentary feature Hornerama. In addition, Russian comrades Rodney and Charles launch their rocket, Felicity and Ambrose enjoy some home movies, Cecil Snaith goes on a polar expedition and there's a special edition of The Archers, American style. So join Kenneth Horne and friends for more witty wordplay, larger-than-life characters, comic catchphrases and sublimely silly humour from the hugely popular 'sort of radio show'. Written by Eric Merriman, with musical accompaniments provided by Pat Lancaster, the Fraser Hayes Four, Edwin Braden and the BBC Variety Orchestra. Duration: seven hours approx. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002625/bk_rhuk_002625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Understanding Nonverbal Communication, Hörbuch, Digital, 368min
Vocal tone and pitch. Posture. Eye contact and blinking. Gestures. Gait. Body type and clothing choices. How much of our communication is nonverbal? In Understanding Nonverbal Communication, you'll discover that nonverbal communication is less intentional and harder to control than the words you choose to speak. Because you are less aware of it than you are of your words, it provides better clues to what you are feeling and thinking. You can deliberately decide what to say, but from the deeper subcortical regions of your brain come your involuntary nonverbal expressions, including sweat, pupil dilation, facial movements, or blushing cheeks - any of which can speak more about your intentions or emotions than your actual words might. In 12 revealing lectures, you'll explore the history, evolution, and context of both the outright obvious and the sublimely subtle nuances of personal expression. The science of nonverbal communication has revealed intriguing insights into everything from how aspects of your reactions are biologically hardwired to how you are subconsciously influenced to vote by political speakers. You'll come to realize that the "invisible" world of nonverbal communication was always visible to you. You will explore the role of nonverbal communication as it relates to understanding other people's worldviews and interaction styles. With careful observation, you can capitalize on this science to further appreciate human expression, smooth social interactions, and strengthen relationships - helping to make the world a better and more accepting place. Language: English. Narrator: Mark G. Frank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000441/bk_tcco_000441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min
In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well - sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs? Does growing old gracefully mean more than simply refusing unseemly cosmetic surgeries? How do we face decline and the final drawing of the blinds? Will we know if and when we have lingered too long?Drawing on a lifetime of deep study and anxious observation, Miller enlists the wisdom of the ancients to confront these vexed questions head on. Debunking the glossy new image of old age that has accompanied the graying of the Baby Boomers, he conjures a lost world of aging rituals - complaints, taking to bed, resentments of one's heirs, schemes for taking it with you or settling up accounts and scores - to remind us of the ongoing dilemmas of old age. Darkly intelligent and sublimely written, this exhilarating and eccentric book will raise the spirits of readers, young and old.The book is published by Yale University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Scherer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002458/bk_acx0_002458_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One of the Boys: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
A riveting and emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father - One of the Boys is a stunning work by a major new talent. The three of them - a 12-year-old boy, his older brother, their father - have won the war: the father's term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque, eager to begin again, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school, join basketball teams, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps - the dead-eyed absentmindedness, the late-night noises, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters - become sinister, and the boys find themselves watching their father change, grow erratic, then violent. Set in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world, One of the Boys conveys with stunning prose and chilling clarity a young boy's struggle to hold on to the dangerous pieces of his shattered family. Harrowing and beautiful, Daniel Magariel's masterful debut is a story of survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the compact power of We the Animals, One of the Boys is among the most moving and remarkable debut novels you'll ever experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gibson Frazier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007815/bk_sans_007815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Zeus: The Origins and History of the Greek God , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min
I will sing of Zeus, chiefest among the gods and greatest, all-seeing, the lord of all, the fulfiller who whispers words of wisdom to Themis as she sits leaning towards him. Be gracious, all-seeing Son of Cronos, most excellent and great! ("The Hymn to Zeus", attributed to Homer) Zeus is a god of apparent paradox: sublimely regal yet ridiculously fickle, a giver of laws but a slave to his own passions, a being of incredible power who is desperate to possess that which he cannot have. As the leader of the Greek pantheon on Mount Olympus, Zeus was the god of kingship (and the associated elements of law, oaths, the state, and the protection of property) and the god of storms, controlling lightning, wind, and thunder. In many ways, one of ancient Greece's most complex gods is also the most understandable, since he seems so human and because there is plenty of information about him that survived, including the original legends about his birth, his early deeds, and his many relationships with other gods, lovers, and humans. Furthermore scholars have been able to analyze the historical roots of Zeus as a concept, identifying what gods he is related to among other cultures, where the legends of Zeus originated, and what this information says about the ancient Greeks. One of the reasons Zeus remains one of the most recognizable gods in history is because of the spread of his influence. Due to the conquests of Alexander the Great, Zeus was brought along with other elements of Hellenization to Egypt and the Near East. A few centuries later Rome all but adopted him as their own chief god, Jupiter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruno Belmar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034268/bk_acx0_034268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Farewell Symphony: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1253min
Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections - and near misses - slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years - the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Backman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018642/bk_adbl_018642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ed Reardon's Week: Series 12: The BBC Radio Sitcom, Hörbuch, Digital, 167min
The complete series 12 of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy, starring Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon. Curmudgeonly author Ed Reardon is back - sent down from university and temporarily living in a hotel, where he's trying to write a novel. With Ping away 'oop North', Ed has a new agent, Maggie, a jam-making, sock-knitting 'older lady'. Can she help him to turn his fortunes around? In these six episodes, Ed gets a writing gig on Your Motorhome Magazine - and moves into exciting new accommodation and attends his annual health check, where he gets inspiration for his new column and tries to prove his identity to claim an inheritance. Plus, he is persuaded to enter the world of local politics, discovers a whole new world of self-satisfaction surveys and decides to put his relationship with Maggie on a more permanent footing by introducing her to his children. Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds, this sublimely funny sitcom stars Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon, with Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Philip Jackson, Monica Dolan, Geoffrey Whitehead, Brigit Forsyth and Stephanie Cole. Episode guide The Writer in the Van (24 October 2017) Diabetes Day (31 October 2017) The Legacy (7 November 2017) An Enemy of the People (14 November 2017) How Did I Do? (21 November 2017) A Different Direction (28 November 2017) Cast Ed Reardon - Christopher Douglas Receptionist - Nicola Sanderson Ping - Barunka O'Shaughnessy Jaz Milvain - Philip Jackson Maggie - Monica Dolan Stan/Cliff - Geoffrey Whitehead Pearl - Brigit Forsyth Olive - Stephanie Cole Policeman - Dan Tetsell Nurse - Ruth Madeley Nikki - Vicki Pepperdine Eli - Lisa Coleman Jake - Sam Pamphilon Dozzer - Don Gilet Jack - Karl Theobald Dominic - Tyger Drew-Honey Frank/Man - Simon Greenall Himself - Petroc Trelawney Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Douglas, full cast, Sally Hawkins, Stephanie Cole. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002931/bk_rhuk_002931_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Everything Is Illuminated (eBook, ePUB)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut??-??"e;a funny, moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible."e; (Time)With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man??-??also named Jonathan Safran Foer??-??sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. "e;Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened??-??seared in the fire of something new."e; ??-?? Washington Post "e;A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader's hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating."e; ??-?? Philadelphia Inquirer- Shop: buecher
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