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Emergence: Foreigner Sequence 7, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
The 19th book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi. Bren Cameron, acting as the representative of the atevi's political leader, Tabini-aiji, as well as translator between humans and atevi, has undertaken a mission to the human enclave of Mospheira. Both his presence on the island and his absence from the continent have stirred old enemies to realize new opportunities. Old hatreds. Old grudges. Old ambitions. The situation has strengthened the determination of power-seekers on both sides of the strait. Bren knows most of them very well, but not all of them well enough. The space station on which the world increasingly relies is desperate to get more supplies up to orbit and to get a critical oversupply of human refugees down to the world below. Rationing is in force on the station, but the overpopulation problem has to be solved quickly - and Bren's mission on Mospheira has expanded to include preparation for that landing. First down will be the three children to whom Tabini's son has a close connection. But following them will be thousands of humans who have never set foot on a planet, humans descended from colonists and officers who split off from Mospheiran humans 200 years before in a bitter parting of the ways. There is no way the atevi, native to the world, will cede any more land to these new arrivals: they will have to share the island. But certain Mospheirans are willing to use force to prevent these refugees from settling among them. Bren's job is as general peacemaker - but old enemies want war. Is Bren's diplomatic acumen enough to prevent a war that both sides are prepared to wage? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Thomas May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032595/bk_adbl_032595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Soviet Invasion of Hungary in 1956: The History and Legacy of the Hungarian Uprising and the Military Operations That Put It Down , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, “Their worst misfortune was his birth...their next worst his death”. Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least. And in one of history’s greatest textbook examples of the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Stalin’s Soviet Union allied with Britain and the United States to defeat Hitler in Europe during World War II.As it turned out, however, the Soviets would not cede any of the territory the Red Army took while pushing the Wehrmacht back to Berlin in the latter stages of World War II, ensuring that the Iron Curtain would envelop much of Central and Eastern Europe. In almost no time at all, most of these countries were transformed into authoritarian, communist, one-party states, and opponents were exiled or jailed.In 1955, Moscow had brought together all the satellites as part of the Warsaw Pact, a collective security organization to challenge the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which had been founded in 1949 by the United States and Western European allies. Nonetheless, the mid-1950's were tumultuous for the Soviet Bloc. Several countries saw Stalin’s death and the apparent change of direction, even the softening of policy under Khrushchev, as an opportunity to pursue a reformist path. In East Germany, Poland, and Hungary, demonstrations against the communist regimes induced uncertainty, and Hungarian leaders attempted to incorporate the protestors and orientate themselves towards the West, leading to a notorious Soviet invasion.Only occasionally did the peoples of the so-called Eastern Bloc attempt to b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Platt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194447/bk_acx0_194447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Chinese Vortex: The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impact on the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious infrastructure project ever undertaken, and will ultimately result in more than one trillion dollars of investment by the time it is finished. The initiative is breathtaking in its scope and scale, with scores of countries participating and dozens of massive dams, railways, roads, and power projects transforming the landscape throughout the developing world.Only China is capable of undertaking such a bold Initiative. Beijing might have chosen to make unadulterated development as its core objective, issuing billions of dollars in grants to host governments to fund the projects and lending its substantial engineering and construction expertise to nations that desperately need to develop their infrastructure, seeking nothing in return. Instead, Beijing chose to lend the governments of these nations money it knew could not be repaid and use the BRI not only to project its soft and hard power and seek greater influence throughout the world, but to blatantly pursue the acquisition of natural resources.In the process, many BRI host nations have become indebted to Beijing, owing it tens of billions of dollars and falling into a debt trap. Beijing required that these governments agree to either cede control or outright ownership of these projects to the Chinese government or its companies, when they inevitably defaulted. Some projects never stood a chance of operating profitably. Doing so has made these countries beholden to Beijing in a variety of ways.This book is an exploration of the profound impacts the BRI has had on nations around the world - both developing and developed - as well as on the Chinese government and its participating companies. Beijing failed to foresee the potential impacts of its approach on host nations - or, perhaps, it did not care. Now, there have been substantial negative reverberations, prompting Beijing to rethink it approach. Will Beijing approach the BRI diff ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raymond S. Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222235/bk_acx0_222235_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Admiral George Dewey: The Life and Legacy of the Most Decorated Naval Officer in American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
Didn't Admiral Dewey do wonderfully well? I got him the position out there in Asia last year, and I had to beg hard to do it; and the reason I gave was that we might have to send him to Manila. And we sent him - and he went! (Theodore Roosevelt, 1898)In 1898, one of Spain's last possessions in the New World, Cuba, was waging a war for independence, and though Cuba was technically exempted from the Monroe Doctrine because it was already a Spanish territory when the Monroe Doctrine was issued, many Americans believed that the United States should side with Cuba against Spain.Initially, Republican President William McKinley wanted to avoid any wars, and for its part, Spain also wanted to avoid any conflict with United States and its powerful navy. However, Spain also wanted to keep Cuba, which it regarded as a province of Spain rather than a colony. Cuba was very important to the Spanish economy as well, as it produced valuable commodities such as sugar and also had a booming port at Havana.Despite President McKinley's wishes to avoid a war, he was forced to support a war with Spain after the American navy vessel USS Maine suffered an explosion in Havana harbor. McKinley had sent the ship there to help protect American citizens in Cuba from the violence that was taking place there, but the explosion devastated the ship, which sunk quickly in the harbor. Two hundred sixty-six American sailors aboard the USS Maine died.Although the Spanish fought the US Army to a stalemate in Puerto Rico, Spain was forced to make peace after the US Navy destroyed both its Pacific and Atlantic fleets. The military defeat in Cuba meant that Spain would have to give Cuba its independence, and the destruction of its navy meant that Spain would have to cede its overseas colonies to the United States. The United States subsequently gained possession of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, marking the true beginning of American imperialism.The Spani ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169343/bk_acx0_169343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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47 Meters Down (f)
Apres la rupture de Lisa, sa soeur Kate decide de l'emmener en vacances au Mexique pour lui changer les idees. Avides d'aventures, elles decident de se mettre au defi de plonger avec les requins blancs, protegees par une cage. Une fois dans l'eau, le spectacle est incroyable. Mais tout a coup, la corde qui retient la cage au bateau cede, et les deux soeurs se retrouvent plongees a 47 metres de profondeur. Il ne leur reste qu'une heure d'oxygene et les grands blancs rodent...- Shop: odax
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TORO SCATENATO
Storia del campione mondiale di pesi medi Jack La Motta, detto il toro del Bronx per le furenti capacita di picchiatore, ma soprattutto di incassatore, un uomo la cui furia animale e sempre pronta a esplodere all'improvviso. Egli conquista il titolo nel 1949 contro Marcel Cerdan, e lo cede a Ray Sugar Robinson il 14 febbraio del 1951. Come contenuti speciali: Ricerca dei capitoli e trailer originale.- Shop: odax
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