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  Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1021min

  From Paul Ham, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History, comes the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century. Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle. The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with poppies. But have we seen? Have we understood? Have we dared to reason why? What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the 'wearing-down war', the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious. Paul Ham's Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out. Yet the men never broke: they went over the top, when ordered, again and again and again. And if they fell dead or wounded, they were casualties in the 'normal wastage', as the commanders described them, of attritional war. Only the soldier's friends at the front knew him as a man, with thoughts and feelings. His family back home knew him as a son, husband or brother, before he had enlisted. By the end of 1917 he was a different creature: his experiences on the Western Front were simply beyond their powers of comprehension. The audiobook tells the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and milita ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Meldrum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/002859/bk_boli_002859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  In Whose Ruins (eBook, ePUB)

  In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fictionwith profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have been inscribed on the earth itself, overwriting Indigenous histories and binding us into an unsustainable future. In these pages, historian Alicia Puglionesi​illuminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, "discovered" in an ancient Indigenous burial mound, and used to promote the theory that a lost white race predated Native people in North Americapart of a wider effort to justify European conquest with alternative histories. When oil was discovered in the corner of western Pennsylvania soon known as Petrolia, prospectors framed that treasure, too, as a birthright passed to them, through Native guides, from a lost race. Puglionesi traces the fate of ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam. This act foreshadowed the flooding of Native lands around the country; over the course of the 20th century, almost every major river was dammed for economic purposes. And she explores the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power. This promise rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities that were harmed, and even for some scientists. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the futureone not driven by greed and haunted by ruin. This deeply researched work of narrative history traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is an invaluable torch in the search for a way forward.

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  In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

  In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have been inscribed on the earth itself, overwriting Indigenous histories and binding us into an unsustainable future. In these pages, historian Alicia Puglionesi illuminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, "discovered" in an ancient Indigenous burial mound, and used to promote the theory that a lost white race predated Native people in North America—part of a wider effort to justify European conquest with alternative histories. When oil was discovered in the corner of western Pennsylvania soon known as Petrolia, prospectors framed that treasure, too, as a birthright passed to them, through Native guides, from a lost race. Puglionesi traces the fate of ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam. This act foreshadowed the flooding of Native lands around the country; over the course of the 20th century, almost every major river was dammed for economic purposes. And she explores the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power. This promise rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities that were harmed, and even for some scientists. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the future—one not driven by greed and haunted by ruin. This deeply researched work of narrative history traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is an invaluable torch in the search for a way forward.

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  The Word Made Flesh

  The Word Made Flesh - Foreshadowed Fulfilled Forever: ab 8.32 €

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  A Foreshadowed Testimony of Jesus Christ (Edition 1)

  A Foreshadowed Testimony of Jesus Christ (Edition 1): ab 9.49 €

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  Symphony in 3 Movements

  Composed by Allan Loucks, and performed by Tin Ear. Movement 1: This energetic fanfare-like rondo starts the symphony, setting the pace for what's to come. Movement 2: The main themes of the symphony are developed, contrasted, and foreshadowed in this melodic triple fugue. Movement 3: From cloud-like tone-clusters, to fluid melodies, to frantic percussive passages, this expansive rondo-sonata movement explores a wide range of emotional interpretations.

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  Etched in Twilight

  Etched in Twilight (a trio for horn, violin, and piano) is dedicated to Neesha Joseph, whom I met at Stanford during the summer of 02', and who was the catalyst for the piece. Neesha translates, roughly, to twilight. The piece blends together microtonal, Neo- classical, and serial treatment of pitch, synthesizing abstraction with affectation. The work's drones and microtonal inflections allude to Neesha's Indian heritage, it's clave rhythms to her passion for Latin culture, and it's open lyricism to her tenderness. The Well-tuned Synthesizer was written for a synthesizer whose tuning can be adjusted in real time, so that a lot more notes can be used then the usual twelve per octave. This work uses integer ratios tuned to the nearest cent, creating pure, beatless sonorities not possible in conventional tuning. Intervals alien to classical Western music such as frequency ratios of 8:7 and 7:6 are prevalent. Each inflection is finely carved down to the minutest detail. The work's slow, sub-chromatic descents move through a large variety of shades whose differences are obscured in standard tuning. Étude and Meditation for Marimba was actually an exercise in which I was instructed to write a composition using transformations of a single five-note cell of my choosing. The freely composed first movement develops the motive of parallel fifths moving down a minor third, but the cell from the second movement is foreshadowed at several key moments. Shades of White is a theatrical production that intertwines spoken word, spectacle, incidental music and musical settings of textual collages drawing from a multitude of sources. Orlando mixes sections of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, and Coleridge's Dejection: An Ode and Aeolian Harp, Statue Plays is performed by a statue of a violinist that becomes animated when a quarter is dropped in it's moneybox, and Dance is a dance scene involving spirits that takes place at a café. Duluth 99' is a duet for flute and percussion consisting of three movements, each inspired by a different personal experience in Duluth. Gnossienne starts off calm, moody, and introspective, much like a Satie Gnossienne, but as the theme is developed, it shifts away from Satie, towards my own more elaborate idiom. Joshua Musikantow is a Chicago born poet and composer with a special interest in microtones. He graduated with honors from Lawrence University and Conservatory with a BA in English and a BM in theory/ comp from the studio of Joanne Metcalf. He is currently pursing his masters in composition at the University of Buffalo. Offbeatjm@aol.com.

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