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Meshi (eBook, ePUB)

For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes felt lost in the past. In Japan, food is never just food: it expresses a complex and fascinating history, and is tied to tradition and spirituality intrinsic to Japanese culture.Exploring the meals of her childhood through Japan's twenty-four sekki (seasons), Katherine untangles the threads of meaning, memory and ritual woven through every glistening bowl of rice, every tender slice of sashimi and each steaming cup of green tea. With rich, visceral prose, vivid insight and searing emotional honesty, Meshi ('rice' or 'meal') reveals the culture and spirit of one of the world's most beloved cuisines.

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Sorcery of the Stony Heart: A Novella: The Books of Conjury, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 186min

The key to unlocking the heart of sorcery August Swaine’s secret pursuit of sorcery has cost him - he’s down to his last few pennies. Agents of His Majesty scrutinize his every move, ready to jail him for practicing the unseen arts. Worse, a demon more powerful than any he’s ever faced stalks him through the shadowy streets of London. As Swaine untangles the mystery of a cursed book, a beautiful actress, and the wanton heir to a brilliant magician’s fortune, the key to all research comes tantalizingly within reach. But only if he can outwit those, both human and inhuman, intent on driving him into oblivion. Kevan Dale returns to the historical fantasy world of the books of conjury with the supernatural adventure novella Sorcery of the Stony Heart. Listen today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rafe Beckley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150443/bk_acx0_150443_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Making Kids Cleverer: A Manifesto for Closing the Advantage Gap , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min

In this unabridged audiobook version of his acclaimed book, David Didau reignites the nature versus nurture debate around intelligence and offers research-informed guidance on how teachers can help their students acquire a robust store of knowledge and skills that is both powerful and useful.David argues that with greater access to culturally accumulated information - taught explicitly within a knowledge-rich curriculum - children are more likely to become cleverer, think more critically and, subsequently, live happier, healthier, and more secure lives. He underpins his discussion with an exploration of the evolutionary basis for learning - and also untangles the forms of practice teachers should be engaging their students in to ensure that they are acquiring expertise, not just consolidating mistakes and misconceptions.This wide-ranging enquiry into psychology, sociology, philosophy, and cognitive science is suitable for teachers, school leaders, policy makers, and anyone involved in education. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Didau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230731/bk_acx0_230731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min

In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.Asim claims that even when uttered by hipsters and hip-hop icons, the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America's socioeconomic ladder. But he also proves there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history: from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle to Mos Def. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur's grip on our national psyche. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002226/bk_blak_002226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems

With the emotional undertow of Ocean Vuong and the astute political observations of Natalie Diaz, a powerful poetry debut exploring the effects of racism, war and colonialism, queer love and desire. In their breathtaking international debut, Aaiún Nin plumbs the depths of the lived and enduring effects of colonialism in their native country, Angola. In these pages, Nin untangles complexities of exile, the reckoning of familial love, but also reveals the power of queer love and desire through the body that yearns to love and be loved. Nin shows the ways in which faith and devotion serve as forms of oppression and interrogates the nature of home by reclaiming the persistent echoes of trauma. A captivating blend of evocative prose and intimate testimony, Nin speaks to the universal vulnerability of existence.

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Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world. Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be half alive and half dead at the same time? Our journey into the quantum begins with nature's own conjuring trick, in which we discover that atoms - contrary to the rules of everyday experience - can exist in two locations at once. To understand this we travel back to the dawn of the 20th century and witness the birth of quantum theory, which over the next 100 years was to overthrow so many of our deeply held notions about the nature of our universe. Scientists and philosophers have been left grappling with its implications ever since. Read by Hugh Kermode. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Kermode. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000939/bk_orio_000939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Deadline: Sam Perry Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 587min

When a young drifter is found murdered in the desert outside of Palm Springs, the police start their investigation - but it's crime reporter Sam Perry who gets to the bottom of the story. Working her way backward to piece together the victim's mysterious life, Sam gets drawn into the seedier side of the glamorous resort town, a world of strip clubs, blackmail, and betrayal. All suspicions point toward former A-list actress and now mayoral candidate Ellen Konrad, a woman that Sam can't quite figure out but is deeply intrigued by. As their mutual attraction grows, the clues begin to add up, and the list of people with secrets and a motive to kill multiplies. When she finally untangles the shocking story behind the drifter's death, the revelations put Sam and those closest to her in grave danger. K. A. Tracy has penned a superb series debut, introducing a hard-nosed crime reporter that is perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and Liza Marklund. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julia Farhat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021580/bk_adbl_021580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Parchment and Old Lace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min

The New York Times best-selling author of Gossamer Ghost returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery. Carmela couldn't imagine a finer evening than dinner at Commander's Palace with her beau, Detective Edgar Babcock. The food and the company are equally divine - with the exception of Isabelle Black stopping by to brag about her upcoming wedding. Resuming the romance with a walk in the evening air, the couple is interrupted once again - this time by a terrifying scream from inside the cemetery. Having just seen Isabelle, Carmela and Edgar now find her lying across an aboveground tomb, strangled to death with a piece of vintage lace. Carmela would rather leave the investigating to Edgar, but she can't say no to Isabelle's sister, Ellie, the tarot card reader at Juju Voodoo, when she asks her to help. As she untangles the enemies of Isabelle's past, Carmela hopes she can draw out the killer before someone else gets cold feet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danielle Ferland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/008955/bk_reco_008955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min

An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracy For the last 60 years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America safer than ever. Why, then, are Americans so afraid - and where does this fear lead to? In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Fortress America charts the rise of a muscular national culture, undercutting the common good. Instead of a thriving democracy of engaged citizens, we have become a paranoid, bunkered, militarized, and divided vigilante nation. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003653/bk_hach_003653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 752min

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero-adopting, challenging, and redirecting its powerful meanings - as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first 15 years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001422/bk_high_001422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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