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Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported to the rough border town of Nogales, Sonora, with nothing but the clothes on her back. Her two-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son, both American citizens, were taken by the state of Arizona and consigned to foster care. Their mother's only offense: living undocumented in the United States. Immigrants like Elena, who've lived in the United States for years, are being detained and deported at unprecedented rates. Thousands languish in detention centers - often torn from their families - for months or even years. Deportees are returned to violent Central American nations or unceremoniously dropped off in dangerous Mexican border towns. Despite the dangers of the desert crossing, many immigrants will slip across the border again, stopping at nothing to get home to their children. Drawing on years of reporting in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands, journalist Margaret Regan tells their poignant stories. Inside the massive Eloy Detention Center, a for-profit private prison in Arizona, she meets detainee Yolanda Fontes, a mother separated from her three small children. In a Nogales soup kitchen, deportee Gustavo Sanchez, a young father who'd lived in Phoenix since the age of eight, agonizes about the risks of the journey back. Regan demonstrates how increasingly draconian detention and deportation policies have broadened police powers, while enriching a private prison industry whose profits are derived from human suffering. She also documents the rise of resistance, profiling activists and young immigrant "Dreamers" who are fighting for the rights of the undocumented. Compelling and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frankie Corzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005415/bk_rand_005415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Brave New World (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 60min
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental series of productions, subtitled "radio's distinguished series to man's imagination" that ran between 27 January 1956 and 22 September 1957. The premiere production was Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score that evidently took a long time to construct, and comprised a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, an air hose, a cow's moo, an oscillator, and three kinds of wine glasses clicking together. There was also a cast of some ten actors. What was most evident about this two-part adaptation, now available on podcast, was the vocal contrasts: between Huxley the narrator, telling the story in a cut-glass marked RP accent interspersed with occasional Americanisms ("diaper" instead of "nappy," for instance); the Controller, who spoke throughout in jovial tones, appropriate for the Brave New World of perpetual happiness; and the Savage, the representative of feeling, emotional humanity - now consigned to a reserve in darkest Mexico - whose tones became increasingly desperate as he understood how mechanized the universe had become. The Brave New World was a topsy-turvy environment, which despised institutions such as marriage and parenthood (any mention of such terms was greeted with scornful laughter), and advocated free love without passion. Everyone belonged to everyone else, and no one needed to think any more. Despite the Director's jovial protestations that this was the best of all possible worlds (shades of Voltaire's Candide), the doom-laden consequences of what had happened were suggested by Bernard Herrman's specially composed score, full of doom-laden chords, and metronome-like chimes played on the tubular bells. The adaptation was announced by the actor William Conrad - who subsequently found fame on television as the corpulent detective Cannon: at the end of the first episode he informed listeners in no uncertain terms about the Language: English. Narrator: Aldous Huxley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bnpp/000065/bk_bnpp_000065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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In a Different Key: The Story of Autism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1386min
Nearly 75 years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with autism - by liberating children from dank institutions, campaigning for their right to go to school, challenging expert opinion on what it means to have autism, and persuading society to accept those who are different. It is the story of women like Ruth Sullivan, who rebelled against a medical establishment that blamed cold and rejecting "refrigerator mothers" for causing autism, and of fathers who pushed scientists to dig harder for treatments. Many others played starring roles, too: doctors like Leo Kanner, who pioneered our understanding of autism; lawyers like Tom Gilhool, who took the families' battle for education to the courtroom; scientists who sparred over how to treat autism; and those with autism, like Temple Grandin, Alex Plank, and Ari Ne'eman, who explained their inner worlds and championed the philosophy of neurodiversity. This is also a story of fierce controversies - from the question of whether there is truly an autism "epidemic" and whether vaccines played a part in it to scandals involving "facilitated communication", one of many treatments that have proven to be blind alleys, to stark disagreements about whether scientists should pursue a cure for autism. There are dark turns, too: We learn about experimenters feeding LSD to children with autism or shocking them with electricity to change their behavior; and the authors reveal compelling evidence that Hans Asperger, discoverer of the syndrome named after him, participated in the Nazi program that consigned disabled children to de ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaleo Griffith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004459/bk_rand_004459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Political Works of Remigius Dei Girolami, Hörbuch, Digital, 220min
This is an abridged version of Dr. Nicholas Newman's translation and commentary on the political works of Remigius dei Girolami. Not included in the audio version is Newman's commentary, footnotes, and works cited. Remigius dei Girolami, a Dominican friar and lector in the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence as well as a political philosopher and theologian, wrote in the context of the Guelf-Ghibbeline conflict in Florence in the early 14th century. Unfortunately, Remigius is rather poorly known, as he is eclipsed by his more famous teacher, Thomas Aquinas, and his Florentine contemporary, Dante Alighieri. Nevertheless, Remigius authored an impressive array of texts, ranging in topic from theology to science to music to politics. What is offered in this book is a new translation of several of Remigius dei Girolami's political works; the De Bono Communi, De Bono Pacis, Sermones de Pace, and the De Iustitia. These texts, in their discussion of how to overcome this conflict, offer a unique perspective, since Remigius carefully avoids the core of the conflict, the last playing out of the Investiture controversy between Pope and Emperor, and instead focuses on the relationship between the individual and the state. These are not polemic texts, meant to bolster one side over the other, rather he paints a picture in which even the victory of one side over the other results in destruction for all, since conflict is of detriment to society as a whole. It is not imperial party or papal party that are the problem and must be defeated, as is seen often in other texts of the same time period, such as the Defensor Pacis by Marsilius of Padua or Dante's De Monarchia, whose hatred of the Black Guelfs was so great that he consigned many of their leaders in the Inferno. Instead, it is the individual who does not love the city who is culpable for the destruction of the state, conversely, it is through the love of this individual for the community that all benefit./ Language: English. Narrator: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161053/bk_acx0_161053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ghosts of Ireland: A Collection of Ghost Stories Across the Emerald Isle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min
Ireland is an ancient land, filled with prehistoric ruins, age-old traditions, and a rich and abiding folklore. Many of the old Irish traditions and tales dwell upon the world beyond our own, the shadow world of spirits. Every village and landmark has a tale attached to it, a good many of them rooted in pagan beliefs from prehistoric times. Others are more modern, and deal with historic tragedies such as the English invasion, the Potato Famine, or the Troubles. According to some locals, ghosts seem to haunt every historic building and place, acting as symbols of the past that still haunts this troubled land. For example, at Aughagreagh in County Longford there’s a wall running alongside a road. It’s just a typical drystone wall like so many in Ireland used to show the boundary of a farmer’s field. The road is just a typical road. But sometimes at night passersby will see a woman and two small children sitting on this wall. They wear tattered clothing in the style of the 19th century. Their faces are drawn and emaciated, their eyes sunken. They have a look of hopeless resignation about them. This is because they are famine victims. The wall stands on the road to the old workhouse, where Ireland’s poor and starving were packed into cold rooms and forced to work long hours of hard labor in exchange for a crust of bread and constant abuse. They were literally punished for being poor, and their spirits have remained in this sad place. Ireland has a rich folklore. Everyone knows about the fairy folk and leprechauns and many have heard of the fearsome banshee. The stranger side of the Emerald Isle goes much deeper than that, however, with tales of phantom armies marching through the sky, sea monsters swimming in the waters around the island, and stories of strange powers and dark magic. Indeed, these tales are not consigned to the past; many unexplained occurrences continue to happen, even today. Here is a sampling of some of the Emerald Isle's better-kn ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103372/bk_acx0_103372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sparrowhawk, Book Two: Hugh Kenrick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 991min
Book Two introduces the second young hero, Hugh Kenrick, a member of the British aristocracy. While he has all the advantages that his rank bestows on him – family, wealth, prestige, and an assured future – his quest to preserve his self identity, his liberty, and his independence clashes violently with the demands of his station. The American Revolution was the capstone and apex of the European Enlightenment and an unprecedented philosophical and political event in human history. The second volume in Cline's epic about the foundations of the American Revolution (following Sparrowhawk, Book One: Jack Frake) follows precociously brilliant and rebellious English nobleman Hugh Kenrick. Kenrick show early on that his life among the aristocratic elite will be one of continuous conflict; as a schoolboy, he defies his malicious uncle, the Earl of Danvers. Key evidence of his nonconformance to aristocratic norms occurs early on, when he refuses to bow for the Duke of Cumberland during a politically important visit to his palatial home in Dorset. Hugh's talents are equal to his rebellious streak; he excels in academics, but decides to work for a tobacco merchant to learn a trade. His general curiosity leads to an involvement with a group of free thinkers called the Society of the Pippin, a small band that meets every week in a London tavern to discuss general philosophy and life under the monarchy. But disaster strikes when a member of the Society betrays the group to the authorities. The Pippins find themselves arrested, lodged in a perilous prison, and tried for treason and libeling the King. After a sham trial presided over by a judge promised a promotion to the House of Lords if he can indict the Pippins, who are valiantly, colorfully, but hopelessly defended by a barrister, Dogmael Jones, the surviving Pippins are consigned to a slow death in another infamous prison. By story's end, Hugh is aboard the Sparrowhawk bound for Virginia, where he will meet Jack Fra ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028695/bk_acx0_028695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with a riveting narrative that traces the truth behnd-and the impact of-a myth that tainted the history of the West In 1847, the missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were killed by members of the Cayuse tribe near present-day Walla Walla, Washington. A final response to years of Cayuse frustration with the Whitmans, the event recorded in Western history as the "Whitman Massacre" was a tipping point in American expansion, leading Congress to make the Oregon Country an official U.S. territory. It also became the kernel of a triumphal fiction of Western expansionism peddled by hucksters who would distort the actual history of how the U.S. became a continental nation. Their lie would torment the Cayuse tribe for more than 150 years. The fable's principal author was the Reverend Henry Spalding, a fellow missionary who, for his own personal gain, invented a story that portrayed his slain colleague as a heroic patriot and a Christian martyr. As Spalding told it, before Whitman was killed, he had ridden his horse across the country to Washington, D.C., where he persuaded the president to "save" Oregon from a British and Catholic plot to steal the Northwest away from the United States. Spalding persuaded Congress to endorse and print his myth. It was presented as fact in The New York Times and the Encyclopedia Britannica; and, by the end of the nineteenth century, Marcus Whitman was widely recognized as one of the most significant men in American history. Meanwhile, as the killers of a man now falsely hailed as a national hero, the Cayuses were demonized, hanged, dispossessed, and cheated. Along with two neighboring tribes, they were stripped of nearly all their land and consigned to the Umatilla Reservation in northeast Oregon. In this fascinating, impeccably researched narrative, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden traces the origins and effects of a foundational American myth across more than a century. Exposing the self-serving nature of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the dark realities of American expansion and of the lies that can persist when history is told only by victors. Story Locale: The Oregon Territory/present-day Washington- Shop: buecher
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Institutionalised Trilogy (eBook, PDF)
House of Erotica presents the Institutionalised TrilogyInstitutionalised - Volume 1Two unrelated young women coincidently find themselves in similar circumstances; each having an inheritance at stake with a grasping manipulative stepmother holding the purse-strings. Both girls have found an ally in a supportive, if overbearing, 'aunt' figure but find themselves lovingly guided into a stifling and increasingly dependent relationship. An advertisement calling for medical research volunteers seems to offer an ideal opportunity for each to temporarily distance herself from her situation. But is all as it seems? Why is the security so tight? Why are there bars on the windows? Why all the petty rules, restrictions and talk of punishment? Volume 1 of this adults-only trilogy uniquely ties together such themes as corporal punishment, bondage, humiliation, medical fetish, mind control, incarceration and others.Institutionalised - Volume 2St Mary's Hospital School - the motto: through obedience comes learning, through discipline comes obedience. Humiliating enough that it should be proudly emblazoned on the front of the gymslip, the breat pocket of the stiffly starched blouse, the little open-fronted waist-length cape - that fastened so tightly at the throat and that she wore of occasion over the top - and just about every other item of clothing to boot. As a statement of intent that fine embroidery spoke volumes; the crossed crook-handled canes as a heraldic device was of particularly questionable value, practically openly stating to the world that here was a young lady subject to the kind of physical chastisement that most would have assumed had long been consigned to history. But then again, the uniform itself was a thing of the past, an anachronistic throwback to long-obsolete values and the mentality of seen-but-not-heard, quiet-as-a-mouse submissive femininity. Bad enough, then, that she was way past school age - worse still that the institution in question was little more than the outcome of a gleam in a psychologist's eye. Elsewhere, another young womnan, already resigned to her ugly green and white striped nylon prison uniform dress, was beginning to appreciate the real meaning behing the nomenclature: Victorian Workhouse. Both have in common that they are at loggerheads with their respective guardians, both are volunteers having been persuaded of the advisability of building a financial buffer before starting university, but more importantly before undertaking mounting a legal challenge for their inheritance and rights. The financial return for a 90 day residential clinical trial had seemed too good to be true - perhaps it was. For both these young women it had been far easier to hoin than it was was turning out it would be to leave - there was always some obstruction, some excuse, some extension to their stay, justifiable by one clause or another. Both young women were now learning the hard way that freedom could be as tenous as a spidery signature scrawled on a crumpled document.Institutionalised - Volume 3Half their number were saddled with the additional encumberment of a plastic card hung around the neck on a thin, silvery chain-link lanyard spelling out the label 'STUTTERER' in glossy raised gold capitals. Not, ironically this violet eyed specimen, despite having developed a most debilitating nervous stammer even before beginning her tenure in this place. They were berated for the tiniest slip, while she would simply be told to take her time, to avoid long words and those she knew she couldn't' pronounce. Her stammer would be met with a condescending smile and the patient, resigned advice to try again avoiding this word or that or to find a shorter, simpler term - it was an insidious process she worried was making her worse not better....following on from the previous Institutionalised novels comes this final chapter in the trilogy.- Shop: buecher
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