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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 339min
Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, here is Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead. Final Salute is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them. They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. "The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know," said Major Steve Beck. Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck have ound themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine's name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Salute is the achingly beautiful, devastatingly hone ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001163/bk_peng_001163_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Women Who Run with the Wolves
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf • "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."-The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul. Praise for Women Who Run with the Wolves "Women Who Run with the Wolves isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."-Alice Walker "I am grateful to Women Who Run with the Wolves and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."-Maya Angelou "An inspiring book, the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature."-San Francisco Chronicle "Stands out from the pack . . . a joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift."-Los Angeles Times "A mesmerizing voice . . . dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts."-Newsweek "The work of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, rooted in old and deep family rites and in archetypal psychology, recognizes that the soul is not lost, but has been put to sleep. This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world."-Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul- Shop: buecher
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Nicolas Le Floch: Volume Three
Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful subordinate Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals. From seedy taverns to the muffled hallways of Versailles, from brothels to the Chatelet prisons, he tracks and stakes out suspects, questions witnesses, gathers evidence, foils traps, and unveils plotters.- Shop: odax
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Millions
The Weapons Factory stems from the brainchild of Nick Welch, and the result of a year of intense work creating a solid bed of Electro Ambient D+B mixes as a 15 year old Computer Game and DJ mix fanatic. The mixes were created as one of Nick's bedroom studio hobbies, with the intent to produce just a limited edition for friends and to sell to a few local boutiques and specialised gift stores to cover costs. An opportunity to move to California near silicon valley and the world of computer game development put a hold on any further energies being directed to the music projects., so the CD's and mixes ended up among his Dad's CD archives. Some years later, his father, a musician and producer, revisited the old mixes, and enthused by the sounds and possibilities, brought them to IMMG's studio to explore development and re-mastering. Experimental melodic layers were added, and so began a years work of additional vocals and instrumentation. As the layers and contributing artists grew, so did the excitement around the results. By the time the fourth track was finished, it was obvious that something exciting and releasable was in creation. By the end of the year, the debut 'Weapons Factory' album 'Millions' was complete, and a further selection of tracks laid down for the follow up of WF2. REVIEW: Artist: The Weapons Factory Album: Millions Review by Matthew Forss The electronic wizardry of ambient drum 'n' bass composer and DJ fanatic, Nick Welch, is refreshingly hip and cool with all the fixings for a delicious dance session. The music is largely composed of jazzy, ambient-centered tracks with some dub, trance, and new age elements, too. Nick is joined by sax player, arranger, and vocalist Robin Welch, along with producer, guitarist, and songwriter John Perkins. The performance repertoire is diverse with many musical layers of sound that reach far into the outer reaches of space and time. "Love Don't Live Here" begins with a light percussive sound of drum set swooshes, synth washes, and a single exhaling human voice before the music moves into a scattered break-beat pattern with the addition of a few sax notes. The beat speeds up as a female voice sings a few melismatic vocals, as another voice provides spoken word accompaniment. The break-beat, drum 'n' bass sound is definitely indicative of the music from other groups, including Lamb, Maxinquaye, or Massive Attack. The fast beat sound cuts in and out with room for the spoken word accompaniment, intermittent sax, and vocal melisma. The cascading sounds of the bass-like melody, dub sounds, synth washes, and selected vocals provide a good listening experience with room to dance, daydream, or drift away to a far-off land. "Forsaken" is a song with a gritty opening of equally-measured sounds that slowly speed up into a dance-laden concoction of mixed, male scat vocals. The song takes on an Eastern flair with a bit of bluesy/Western guitar work that would be a perfect addition to HBO's True Blood soundtrack. The haunting vocals are reminiscent of a monastic choir at times, with the guitar work bordering on anything by Chris Isaak, and the dance beats of any trance group. Despite the multi-faceted depiction, the music seems to work together without reverting to anything melancholic. "Desert Dolphins" opens with a few electronic sounds, light percussive swooshes, and a sax intro before the dub 'n' bass leads the song into various directions of electronic blurbs, watery gurgles, and ambient soundscapes. The melodies merge into a heavy, dance track with electronic blurbs, sax accompaniment, and ambient washes. Though, the sax seems to be a pervasive theme throughout the song, and album, it may not be particularly necessary for a majority of the songs. This is mostly due to the electronic, ambient, dance track structure that does not necessarily need sax accompaniment. However, the sax does provide a dub 'n' bass, drum 'n' bass, and jazzy-trance ambiance that smoothes or cools the fiery dance tracks. "New Age Suite" opens with singing birds, water sounds, and synth washes, before a break-beat rhythm dives right into a heavy, dance medley with occasional ambient washes. The sax appears throughout, as muffled and staticky voices break-up the instrumental continuity. Different and clearer scat vocals are repeated a bit near the middle of the song. The electronic blurbs, ambient washes, dance beat, haunting, but indeterminate voices, and the jazzy elements seems to be something that would emanate from a 'New Age' suite. "Millions" begins with an earthy, ambient intro, light sax solo, and a frenzied break-beat rhythm. The slower, jazz elements and fast break-beat rhythm are complete opposites, but work well due to their instrumental polarization. The sax and ambient washes break-up the fast pace, though the rhythm slows half-way through the song, as a mix of radio or television interference and electronic voices take over. Nick Welch is a talented and diverse musician with a clear vision for his music. The incorporation of jazzy elements and electronic music seemed to be divergent, though the musical relationships to jazz and dance music are closer than other forms of music. Millions is an album with danceable tracks and some of the lighter, ambient fare. The scat vocals and mostly unintelligible vocals added a level of mystery to the music. At times, the sax did not seem to be a necessary addition to the songs, but it was not used too pervasively to warrant any major qualms. All in all, the album featured seven songs running around forty-five minutes. The musical arsenal of The Weapons Factory is an exciting contribution to the world of break-beat, trance, dub 'n' bass, and drum 'n' bass. Review by Matthew Forss Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)- Shop: odax
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Homestyle
Thumbtack Smoothie -bring a helmet and a microscope- Fury unleashed digits whirling amid chunks of molten synthetics and the power of sound, thunder from the depths and the heights of a code unknown .Through pulsation's of noise removed from the twelve tone system haunting melodies mirroring relentless shadow boxers emerge. For true connoisseurs of experimental electronic music. This artist doesn't easily fit into your standard electronic categories. Group members - one Albums - thumbtack smoothie - electrickitchentableland (2001) thumbtack smoothie - math is hard (2002) thumbtack smoothie - homestyle (2003) thumbtack smoothie - fall back (2006) THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE (a.k.a. Carl Coletti) made the strange transformation from studio session/live drummer (with bands like The Walkers,The Neighborhoods, Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra, the Jason Newsted-led Godswallop and Pancake Circus) to experimental electronic musician. His new album Fall Back (Quake Trap, 2006) reflects an artist reaching towards the peak of his extremely weird powers. 8 years ago, he was a drummer who stumbled upon the (then) Metallica Bass-player's portable sampler. Today he is easily one of San Francisco's boldest sonic alchemists. Naturally transferring his percussive knowledge to drum programming and sound manipulation Thumbtack Smoothie creates his densely layered tracks by loading his herd of samplers with insanely intricate sonic entities of his design and then plays the sampler pads real time improvising and responding to the overdubbed layers of sound as only a drummer of his caliber can. While tapping the sampler pads his waving hands disturb infrared light D-Beam controllers that change the parameters of the effects on his samples. This level of control shifts Thumbtack Smoothie into the territory of insane puppet master in complete command of his audio assault. This unorthodox style of track creation/performance unhinged from traditional production methods allows Thumbtack Smoothie's tracks to soar to places unexplored in the realm of experimental electronic music. Press - Some of you might be aware of Thumbtack Smoothie's deeply layered experimental electronic blanket's of sampled distortion and rugged beat-work on albums like 'Math is Hard' (Manic Obsessive, 2002) and 'ElectricKitchenTableLand' (Manic Obsessive, 2001). This year Thumbtack Smoothie released 'Homestyle' (Quake Trap, 2004) --also found in KUCI's RPM music library --where decomposed digital sounds interact with organically placed glitches, twitches, distorto beats and odd tweaks. It's an equation of electronics that twists and turns like mechanical insects lost in a frozen landscape in 2010. (Digital:: Nimbus experimental electronic radio KUCI 88.9 FM) Thumbtack Smoothie - Homestyle - CD - Quake Trap Quaketrap Recordings sent me these two highly experimental albums along with a compilation album to listen and immerse myself in their artist's auditory madness. The album Homestyle is the more bizarre of the two.What I found on this release may be music for individuals with a taste for oddly processed experimental electronic music that, according to the CD sleeve, was manipulated with infrared D-beam controllers. It's a 54-minute journey to a world you have never been to. A world that was uniquely created and belonging solely to the mind of the producer. Thumbtack Smoothie has given this world a tangible form in the likeness of a CD for people who desire to explore this realm but do not realize it yet. This is Thumbtack Smoothie's third release and it continues his science of melding drum & bass with eccentric sample material and fleeting appearances of I.D.M. as well as plenty of reverb, filtering, modulation and ring modulation. Notable tracks are: Never At Dusk, June Louder, Moondoggy, Sore Eye Soire, Scrunchie Misplacement Incident and Lil?? Dropper. ( Craig N. - Vital ) Thumbtack Smoothie - Homestyle - Quake Trap Something ruptured, something crude. San Francisco is imploding with a whole new sound. On his third full-length Thumbtack Smoothie's Homestyle has some in common with Amon Tobin, the rabid percussion is just left of center and the beats are ready to pounce at the quick. 'Clyde's Edge' certainly opens the package with an imploding whiff of absinthe. If you have ever played Pong on acid, this may be the sordid soundtrack. Something of a relentless blur. The Smoothie takes an amoeba-like sound, something edgy and organic, and struggles with it's silly putty edges, stretching it to the brink on tracks like 'Dodgeball Mentality' and 'Fragmentation Key' (which sounds like a two-parter, separated by a few tracks in between). He takes low-fi rhythms and hyphenates the backend, stunting the beats, roughing it up a bit. Where things take a synchronous turn is on 'June Louder' where added is a bit of piano, lain aside a big, bad post-rock wall of percussion. Things become much more interesting a few minutes into the track when a revving of game sounds start up a modulated drag race. Part Bi-God 20, the resemblance to early 90s industrial-goth is fragrant, but not exactly the point. ( TJ Norris - Igloo Magazine ) Math is Hard Thumbtack Smoothie (Manic Obsessive recordings) Who was it that said Collage was the art of the future? Some of the most interesting sounds that are being made today cannot be so easily be categorized. Those of you that know me know that I'm smiling right now, as I hate categorization. (If you don't know that by now, after reading this column, consider yourself forewarned.) Thumbtack Smoothie, who hails from San Francisco, does not have a problem mixing hip-hop, trance, electronic, trip-hop, drum n' bass and every other bit of noise that he can muster up, to create a sprawling, blippy psychotic trip through the ventricles that we call life. This CD explodes in your face. There is nothing neutral or relaxing here. It is what it is and there are no apologies for it. That's the beauty of this m?lange of sound that drips, bleeps, screams out of it's nerve endings that convulse sporadically like a nervous twitch in your arm. This is an experimental journey that takes you for a roller-coaster ride full of jolts and heaping mounds. You think you know the road ahead of you, only to end up doing a three sixty in reverse, followed by a screeching stop. This recording is meant to open the pores in your body that need a deep cleansing. Awaken your senses. Wake up people. I really dug the trip hoppy sounds of 'Sea From Grain', with buzz saws going off in the background. One of my favorite cuts is 'Still in a Cloud'. There's this sample that repeats like a floating string section and over the top, you can hear a muffled voice saying,'boring, boring, boring.' This recording is anything but boring. This is experimental music of the highest order. Available through cdbaby.com.(Midwest Ursine 'On The Turntable' May 2002 ) THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE: math is hard 'Thumbtack Smoothie's music looks at me naked and then takes my skin off and wears it - still dripping - traipsing around the kitchen singing in some alien tongue.'(Micro Vard - Club D'elf) THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE: math is hard Frenzied and frantic, the level of intensity on this CD is as abstract, yet exact as that description. For true connoisseurs of experimental electronic music. This one doesn't easily fit into your standard electronic categories. (CD Baby - editors picks May 2002) THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE: Math Is Hard (Manic Obsessive Recordings) Thumbtack Smoothie is a relatively new artist from Northern California who produces delicately crafted yet dark ambient electronics. (digital:: nimbus experimental electronic radio KUCI 88.9 fm) THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE - Math Is Hard (Quake Trap) Thumbtack is one of those vigilante types playing by his own set of rules.originally the drummer for Pancake Circus, Thumbtack branched out a few years back and began encoding the results of his own sophisticated programming -(of which, Math Is Hard is his second release). The r- Shop: odax
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