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Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min

Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted charity and therapy in the 19th century. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Blackwell's missionary Reverend French, champion of the forgotten, as he ministers to these inmates, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Corrections Department and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man's inhumanity to man. For history fans, and for anyone interested in the ways we care for the least fortunate among us, Damnation Island is an eye-opening look at a closed and secretive world. In a tale that is exceedingly relevant today, Horn shows us how far we've come - and how much work still remains. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/002079/bk_high_002079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Third Eye Awakening: The Complete Beginner's Guide on How to Open Your Third Eye Chakra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min

Physical reality is constituted by the external environment in which we are immersed, and accessed through our sense organs, understood in its broadest form (sensitivity to heat, pain, pressure, vibration, etc.).It is true that reality exists out there that exceeds our physical senses, a reality beyond ordinary perceptions: the spiritual reality. To access said reality can only be made possible through a higher perspective, one that goes beyond the physical. This book contains helpful information about third eye (inner eye) awakening, what it is, and how to do it.Awakening your third eye refers to opening yourself up to the psychic world, and allowing your mind to receive psychic information! This book will provide you the steps and strategies required to successfully awaken your third eye. This step-by-step process is detailed in this book, and will have you easily opening your third eye in no time! Also provided, are some activities you can do to practice and hone your psychic abilities. These practices aim to test and improve your psychic skills, so that they become more reliable and efficient.Here is a preview of what you'll learn:Third eye explainedPsychic abilities explainedFactors that affect the third eyeWhat about your chakrasHow to open the third eyeBrow chakra meditationGain strength through spiritualityAnd much much more.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bode Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146662/bk_acx0_146662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rewriting the Newspaper: The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min

Between the 1970s and the 1990s American journalists began telling the news by telling stories. They borrowed narrative techniques, transforming sources into characters, events into plots, and their own work from stenography to anthropology. This was more than a change in style. It was a change in substance, a paradigmatic shift in terms of what constituted news and how it was being told. It was a turn toward narrative journalism and a new culture of news, propelled by the storytelling movement. Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional changes in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the 20th century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism’s evolution from the New Journalism of the 1960s to long-form literary journalism in the 1990s. Challenging the popular belief that it was only a few talented New York reporters (Tome Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, and others) who revolutionized journalism by deciding to employ storytelling techniques in their writing, Schmidt shows that the evolution of narrative in late 20th century American journalism was more nuanced, more purposeful, and more institutionally based than the New Journalism myth suggests.The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197350/bk_acx0_197350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 687min

Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, parent networks, and treatment conferences. She examines the love and labor of parents, who play a role in developing - in conjunction with medical experts - new forms of treatment and therapy for their children. While biomedical knowledge is dispersed through an emotionally neutral, technical language that separates experts from laypeople, parental advocacy and activism call these distinctions into question. Silverman reveals how parental care has been a constant driver in the volatile field of autism research and treatment, and has served as an inspiration for scientific change. Recognizing the importance of parental knowledge and observations in treating autism, this book reveals that effective responses to the disorder demonstrate the mutual interdependence of love and science. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Margie Lenhart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018225/bk_adbl_018225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Arrested: A Stepbrother Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min

He’s a good cop, but a very bad boy.When gorgeous Officer Carlisle pulled me over for speeding, I told him how sorry I was. That didn’t stop him from telling me to step out of the car for a full body search so he could check me for offensive weapons.I wanted to ask him if a hungry kitty constituted an offensive weapon, because damn, mine just wanted to eat him all up!Those eyes should have been enough to get him arrested, forget those cheekbones and delicious full lips that stayed serious, even when I was sassing him.And his hands. When he ran those rough palms against my thighs, I actually moaned.Then he pulled out his handcuffs and...okay, that last bit only happened in my fantasies later that night, and pretty much every night since Officer Carlisle told me what a bad girl I was. I thought I was never going to see him again, then Mom tells me she’s getting engaged to her boyfriend, and you guessed it, Officer Carlisle just happens to be my sexy new stepbrother!That should make me think twice about being a naughty girl, shouldn’t it? Except now, my past is coming back to haunt me, and Officer Carlisle might just be the only man who can turn this bad girl good.Officer Carlisle knows exactly how to use his equipment. Listen if you like your cops a whole lot dirty in the bedroom!52,000-word standalone romance novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stacy Hinkle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107549/bk_acx0_107549_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 622min

What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that 19th-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the 19th century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities, filled with new and stronger stinks, were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and "common sense" - the olfactory experiences of common people - on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes. The book is published by University of Washington Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101461/bk_acx0_101461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Pietr the Latvian: Inspector Maigret, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos. Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man. His firm muscles filled out his jacket and quickly pulled all his trousers out of shape. He had a way of imposing himself just by standing there. His assertive presence had often irked many of his own colleagues. In Simenon's first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. David Bellos is Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University and has won many awards for his translations including the Man Booker International Translator's Award (2005). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016160/bk_adbl_016160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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All These Things Added , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 175min

Like Wallace D. Wattles, the reclusive James Allen (1864-1912) has posthumously become an icon in the self-help industry and particularly for practitioners who promote a life of unrestrained abundance. Ironically, Allen actually recommended a life of simplicity and plain thinking and considered that a state of unshakeable peace and effortless wisdom constituted true wealth. In the foreword to this audiobook, which was published in two parts, the author states, "In seeking for pleasures here and rewards hereafter men have destroyed (in their hearts) the Temple of Righteousness and have wandered from the Kingdom of Heaven. By ceasing to seek for earthly pleasures and heavenly rewards, the Temple of Righteousness is restored and the Kingdom of Heaven is found. This truth is for those who are ready to receive it; and this book also is for those whose souls have been prepared for the acceptance of its teaching." Contents: Foreword Part I: Entering the Kingdom 1. The Soul's Great Need 2. The Competitive Laws and the Law of Love 3. The Finding of a Principle 4. At Rest in the Kingdom and All Things Added Part II: The Heavenly Life 1. The Divine Centre 2. The Eternal Now 3. The "Original Simplicity" 4. The Unfailing Wisdom 5. The Might of Meekness 6. The Righteous Man 7. Perfect Love 8. Perfect Freedom 9. Greatness and Goodness 10. Heaven in the Heart © Voices of Today 2015 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis Daly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001337/bk_mike_001337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ernst L. Freud, Architect (eBook, PDF)

Ernst L. Freud (1892-1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where he and his friend Richard Neutra attended Adolf Loos's private Bauschule, Freud practiced in Berlin and, after 1933, in London. Even though his work focused on domestic architecture and interiors, Freud was possibly the first architect to design psychoanalytical consulting rooms-including the customary couches-a subject dealt with here for the first time. By interweaving an account of Freud's professional and personal life in Vienna, Berlin, and London with a critical discussion of selected examples of his domestic architecture, interior designs, and psychoanalytic consulting rooms, the author offers a rich tapestry of Ernst L. Freud's world. His clients constituted a "Who's Who" of the Jewish and non-Jewish bourgeoisie in 1920s Berlin and later in London, among them the S. Fischer publisher family, Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones, the Spenders, and Julian Huxley. While moving within a social class known for its cultural and avant-garde activities, Freud refrained from spatial, formal, or technological experiments. Instead, he focused on creating modern homes for his bourgeois clients.

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Earth and World (eBook, ePUB)

Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that embraces otherness without exploiting difference. Rooted firmly in human beings' relationship to the planet and to each other, Oliver shows peace is possible only if we maintain our ties to earth and world.Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among the world's rich biodiversity.

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