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    No Treason: The Anarchist Classic with a New Introduction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 210min
    Lysander Spooner was one of slavery’s fiercest enemies. As a lawyer, he offered free legal services to escaped slaves, defending them in court. He advocated smuggling guns to slaves, with which to overthrow their masters, and take possession of their property. “Give the Slave-holders, then, a taste of their own whips.”    Yet when the Civil War erupted, Spooner wasted no time in opposing the Union’s war against the Confederacy. After the war, when Northern troops occupied the conquered Southern lands, purging their governments of the warped scaffolding that had propped up slavery for centuries, Spooner called them the enemies of freedom.   What odd logic could harmonize these seemingly dissonant opinions? What philosophy could possibly despise slavery, and despise Abraham Lincoln?   The answer lies in the essay before you, Lysander Spooner’s most influential work: No Treason.Here you will find many unorthodox, and certainly unpopular, perspectives. Many notions, foundational to our concept of democracy, will be questioned, and the solutions offered will undoubtedly run against the grain of our upbringing, and everything we’ve been told about freedom.   He’ll advocate peace and violence, the rule of law, and anarchy.  You may not be convinced, but you will certainly be interested. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ayrton Parham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157383/bk_acx0_157383_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Boxcars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min
    In May, 1944, a Jewish teenager's career as a promising concert violinist has been derailed, and he is on the run from the Nazis. With the Gestapo at his heels, he discovers a hidden cave in western France which he establishes as his hideout. There, amidst ancient cave drawings containing possible hidden meanings, and an underground river fed by soothing hot springs, he finds refuge but shallow peace until he joins the French Resistance. At age 17, he is called upon to take part in daring missions against the Germans who are racing to fortify the Atlantic Coast in anticipation of D-Day. At the same time, a Romani teenage prisoner at Auschwitz, who the famously sadistic Dr. Mengele refers to as "that Gypsy waif", escapes from a Nazi medical experiment and attempts to make her way back to France. The two teens are destined to meet under such circumstances that their lives become desperately entangled as they struggle to survive the Holocaust. These young adults of radically different backgrounds are cast together during war to experience their own distinct coming-of-age epiphany as they painfully explore their increasingly complicated and awkward relationship brewing beneath the canopy of dissonant cultures and beliefs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Fishman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017038/bk_acx0_017038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Volume 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 356min
    Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars as Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Claude Rains. What made Inner Sanctum Mysteries unique among radio horror shows was its host, a slightly sinister-sounding fellow originally known as Raymond. The host had a droll sense of humor and an appetite for ghoulish puns, and his influence can be seen among horror hosts everywhere, from the Crypt Keeper to Elvira. Raymond Edward Johnson was the show's host until 1945; Paul McGrath took over as host until the show left the air in 1952. Producer Hiram Brown would utilize the creaking door again in the 1970s, when he produced and directed The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Episodes include: "Blood of Cain" "Skeleton Bay" "The Man Who Couldn't Die" "I Walk in the Night" "Death Is a Double-Crosser" "Strands of Death" "Lady with a Plan" "Make Ready My Grave" "You Could Die Laughing" "Detour to Terror" "Eight Steps to Murder" "I Want to Report a Murder" Language: English. Narrator: Paul McGrath, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007570/bk_blak_007570_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inner Sanctum Mystery, Collection 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mystery debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. Inner Sanctum Mystery featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mystery told stories of ghosts, murderers and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains. What made Inner Sanctum Mystery unique among radio horror shows was its host, a slightly sinister sounding fellow originally known as "Raymond." The host had a droll sense of humor and an appetite for ghoulish puns, and his influence can be seen among horror hosts everywhere, from the Crypt-Keeper to Elvira. Raymond Edward Johnson was the show's host until 1945; Paul McGrath took over as host until the show left the air in 1952. Producer Himan Brown would utilize the creaking door again in the 1970s, when he produced and directed The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. 4/24/45 Song of the Slasher 5/1/45 The Girl and the Gallows 5/22/45 Dead to Rights 5/29/45 Musical Score 6/12/45 Portrait of Death 6/19/45 Dead Man's Holiday 9/18/45 Terror by Night 10/16/45 Till Death Do Us Part 2/12/46 The Man Who Couldn't Die (aka Elixir Number Four) 1/15/46 The Edge of Death 7/5/48 Death Demon 4/4/49 Death Wears a Lonely Smile ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009779/bk_brll_009779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Vol. 3: The Classic Radio Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 337min
    Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told a story of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC radio's Blue Network in January 1941 and featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history, as an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and a creaking door slowly began to open. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was produced in New York, the cast usually consisting of veteran radio actors, with occasional guest appearances by such Hollywood stars as Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Claude Rains. What made Inner Sanctum Mysteries unique among radio horror shows was its host, a slightly sinister sounding fellow originally known as "Raymond". The host had a droll sense of humor and an appetite for ghoulish puns, and his influence can be seen among horror hosts everywhere, from the Crypt Keeper to Elvira. Raymond Edward Johnson was the show's host until 1945; Paul McGrath took over as host until the show left the air in 1952. Producer Himan Brown would utilize the creaking door again in the 1970s, when he produced and directed The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In this collection are the following episodes and the date they aired on radio: "Corridor of Doom" (23 Oct 45), "The Wailing Wall" (6 Nov 45), "Boomerang" (20 Nov 45), "The Dark Chamber" (11 Dec 45), "The Confession" (22 Jan 46), "Death of a Doll" (18 Oct 48), "The Devil's Fortune" (31 Jan 49), "The Unburied Dead" (16 May 49), "The Corpse without a Conscience" (20 Jun 49), "Beneficiary: Death" (17 Apr 50), "No Rest for the Dead" (13 Jul 50), "Twice Dead" (6 Nov 50). Language: English. Narrator: Paul McGrath, Boris Karloff, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009281/bk_blak_009281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Minor Feelings (eBook, ePUB)
    A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human "Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human." -Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative-and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings." As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality-when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they're dissonant-and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche-and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.
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    Postcolonial Indian City-Literature (eBook, ePUB)
    How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book looks for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India -from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities grown in the past six decades, as well as the literature focused on it? How does the city-lit depart from organic realism to dissonant themes of 'reclamation'? Most importantly - who does the city (and its narratives) belong to? Through the juxtaposition of critical theories, urban studies and variant literary works by a wide range of Indian authors, this book is divided into four temporal phases: the nation-building of the 50-60s, the dictatorial 70s, the neoliberalization of the 80-90s and the early 2000s. Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics of the time and its effect on urbanism along with historical data from various resources, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary works-- novel, short stories, plays, poetry and graphic novel. Each chapter comments on how literature frames real and imagined constructs and experiences of cities. To give the reader a more expansive idea of the complex nature of city-lit, the literary examples abound not only "Indian Writings in English", but vernacular, cult-works as well with suitable translations. With its focus on philosophy, urban studies and a unique canon of literature, this book offers elements of critical discussion to researchers, emergent university disciplines and curious readers alike.
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    Postcolonial Indian City-Literature (eBook, PDF)
    How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book looks for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India -from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities grown in the past six decades, as well as the literature focused on it? How does the city-lit depart from organic realism to dissonant themes of 'reclamation'? Most importantly - who does the city (and its narratives) belong to? Through the juxtaposition of critical theories, urban studies and variant literary works by a wide range of Indian authors, this book is divided into four temporal phases: the nation-building of the 50-60s, the dictatorial 70s, the neoliberalization of the 80-90s and the early 2000s. Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics of the time and its effect on urbanism along with historical data from various resources, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary works-- novel, short stories, plays, poetry and graphic novel. Each chapter comments on how literature frames real and imagined constructs and experiences of cities. To give the reader a more expansive idea of the complex nature of city-lit, the literary examples abound not only "Indian Writings in English", but vernacular, cult-works as well with suitable translations. With its focus on philosophy, urban studies and a unique canon of literature, this book offers elements of critical discussion to researchers, emergent university disciplines and curious readers alike.
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    Brad Howe: A Dance of Atoms
    This expansive volume follows key themes that Brad Howe has consistently explored throughout his career. His imagery plays off juxtapositions, contradictions, and coincidences. In this book, a woven tapestry emerges of Howe's work over time, reflecting ever-present spatial questions and thematic explorations. Brad Howe, born 1959 in Riverside, California, started his career in Brazil, after studying history in São Paulo. Recognized as a leading contemporary California artist and sculptor, he is best known for his large-scale public and private works; employing rigid materials, stainless steel and aluminum, animated by his vibrant color and challenging structural solutions. Howe's exuberant and pervasive work is grounded in a unique thought-provoking vision and philosophy. From the start, Howe has always taken his calling as an abstract artist, seeking poetry and unpredictable formulations. The interplay of his lyrical shapes and use of color are his signature characteristic. Sometimes his mood is vibrant and joyful with references to Calder, Miro, and Frank Stella, and then shifting to deeper explorations more subtle and restrained, with influences pointing to Brancusi, Arp, David Smith or Ellsworth Kelly. The resulting three-dimensional works are a dance of atoms, a romance between shapes, negative space and their playful shadows. The book is to be experienced as a symphonic arrangement of multiple voices. Sections, like instruments, come together in shared time, each instrumental group playing different narratives, creating a complex journey of rhythms and textures, functioning as a collective, contingent on each other, at times harmonious and resonant, at times enigmatic and dissonant.
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    Positive Thinking, Hörbuch, Digital, 22min
    Change your thoughts, and change your life! Whether or not you believe that what you hold in mind determines your future, there's no question that your thinking does effect how you feel in the present. Use this program to make a shift and adjust your inner climate.Cleaning up our inner environment is a great idea, but changing our thinking is not easy. The intellect is like a computer and tends to respond to the way it’s been programmed, and negative thinking is a pattern that most of us find difficult to break.Difficult, but not impossible! This program, designed for those serious about making positive changes, helps us go deep within and establish new programming. The guided imagery in Positive Thinking introduces two techniques:Inner Alarm Clock: Recognize the moment we're in negative thinkingRemote Control: Switch to positive thinking easily and quicklyThe techniques are simple to learn and use and draw upon positive imagery from your own life that's already meaningful to you.If you've wanted to make changes and think more positively, but find yourself stuck in a rut of negativity, this program can help you.Excerpt from the journey: "Observe yourself in the world below, in a typical situation in your daily routine, as you’re engaged in a neutral or positive line of thought. Imagine the colors in your energetic field, and you’ll see that they’re clear, beautiful, and bright. Imagine the vibrational sound within your field, and you’ll notice it’s gentle, resonant, and harmonic. And observe the feeling that seems to permeate your being, and notice that it’s warm and uplifting. Now observe yourself as you’re engaged in a negative line of thought. Imagine the colors in your energetic field, and you’ll see that they’re dark, muddy, and unappealing. Imagine the vibrational sound within your field, and you’ll notice it’s harsh, dissonant, and unpleasant. And observe the feeling that seems t Language: English. Narrator: Max Highstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dehe/000052/bk_dehe_000052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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