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  Great Men of Genius Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 340min

  Monologist Mike Daisey presents a dazzling new work: four "bio-logues" about megalomania and desire constructed from the interleaved life stories of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. Over four nights Daisey explores the nature of genius and wrestles with the pride, insanity, and chauvinism that bind these men together, and reveals how the heights and depths of their gifts have much to teach us about ourselves. Each evening is unique and can be listened to independently, but all four together form an epic oral accounting of triumph and folly told with Daisey's dark and hilarious intensity.The geniuses are, in order of appearance:Bertolt Brecht - playwright, poet, lover of women, and certifiable cad who escaped Nazi Germany, sympathized with the Communists, failed in Hollywood, was persecuted by McCarthy, and redefined world theater.P.T. Barnum - gifted entrepreneur, showman, raconteur, hoaxster, freakshow and circus promoter who changed the face of 19th century America through blatant, shameless lying.Nikola Tesla - mad genius, brilliant scientist and visionary who sparred with Thomas Edison and died insane and penniless writing love sonnets to pigeons after bringing the world electricity as we know it.L. Ron Hubbard - bigamist, occultist, and charismatic science fiction author-turned-guru who took 1950s popular psychiatry by storm and went on to create the Church of Scientology: the most celebrity-driven and litigious organization on Earth. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Daisey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000325/bk_adbl_000325_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fascism Versus Capitalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 342min

  Fascism has become a term of general derision and rebuke. It is tossed casually in the direction of anything a critic happens to dislike. But fascism is a real political and economic concept, not a stick with which to beat opponents arbitrarily. The abuse of this important word undermines its true value as a term referring to a very real phenomenon, and one whose spirit lives on even now. Fascism is a specific ideology based on the idea that the state is the ideal organization for realizing a society's and an individual's potential economically, socially, and even spiritually. The state, for the fascist, is the instrument by which the people's common destiny is realized, and in which the potential for greatness is to be found. Individual rights, and the individual himself, are strictly subordinate to the state's great and glorious goals for the nation. In foreign affairs, the fascist attitude is reflected in a belligerent chauvinism, a contempt for other peoples, and a society-wide reverence for soldiers and the martial virtues. Lew Rockwell, in this new volume, examines the starkly contrasting systems of capitalism and fascism, noting pro-fascist trends in recent decades as well as the larger historical trends in the United States and internationally. In Section one, Rockwell focuses on the nature of fascism and its influence in Western society, with a focus on American political and economic institutions. In Section two, Rockwell examines capitalism as the enemy of, and antidote to, fascism. Combining economics, history, and political philosophy, this book doesn't just provide a diagnosis of what ails American and Western society, but also sheds light on how we might repair the damage that has been done, and with the help of the intellectual work of great minds like Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul, we might as a society shed the fascism of our times and look to freedom instead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Horton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037654/bk_acx0_037654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 401min

  A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities - an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.When Will Hunt was 16 years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to the sacred caves, catacombs, and tombs, from bunkers to ancient underground cities in more than 20 countries around the world. Underground is both a personal exploration of Hunt’s obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted, repelled and captivated us through the ages.In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt follows a cast of subterranea-philes who have dedicated themselves to investigating underground worlds. He tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, camps out for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of Paris, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000-year-old sacred mine in the Australian outback, follows a ghostlike graffiti artist writing stories in the subway tunnels of New York, and glimpses a sacred sculpture molded by Paleolithic artists in the depths of a cave in the Pyrenees.Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy. In elegant and graceful prose, Hunt cures us of our “surface chauvinism”, opening our eyes to the planet’s hidden dimension. He reveals how the subterranean landscape gave shape to our most basic beliefs, including how we think about ourselves as humans. At bottom, Underground is a meditation on the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006600/bk_rand_006600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  ISIS: Attack on America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min

  ISIS is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of all of us. At first it was just another weird name from another distant part of the world where people made killing a way of life. Soon though ISIS has become the word that comes to mind when we see an explosion on television, or another street lined with dead bodies. Unlike so many of the other bad guys in the world like the North Koreans and Iranians, ISIS is in our back gardens. It has made fashionable an ideology that wants to destroy the West and quite literally take over the world under their black flag. Usually groups that commit ethnic cleansing and routinely force women into sexual slavery are unanimously hated. But young men and women from all over the Western world have made the long journey to join ISIS. To pick up the mantle of Islamic terrorist. Hundreds of them. What's worse is that ISIS sympathizers aren't just going to Syria; they're springing up here in the USA and other Western countries and killing civilians in lone wolf attacks. What little good news there to be found, is that we can stop them, and this book here is to help you find out how. When the now-monthly terrorist attack is announced on the news and we inevitably hear it was ISIS or some other Islamic terrorist organization, we start immediately hearing screams of #notallmuslims. Before anyone can even question why these people want to kill we are told we are racist for even thinking such a thing. But it's this political correctness and this type of liberal chauvinism that is making fighting ISIS all the harder. Attention is always turned away from ISIS, but it must not be and the first step in making sure this doesn't happen is in understanding what ISIS is, what radical Islam really looks like, and what we can do about it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shane Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083485/bk_acx0_083485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, Hörbuch, Digital, 384min

  Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the cold war. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George W. Bush, America needs it back. In this powerful and provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a new liberal vision, based on principles liberals too often forget: That America's greatness cannot simply be asserted; it must be proved. That to be good, America does not have to be pure. That American leadership is not American empire. And that liberalism cannot merely define itself against the right, but must fervently oppose the totalitarianism that blighted Europe a half century ago, and which stalks the Islamic world today. With liberals severed from their own history, conservatives have drawn on theirs, the principles of national chauvinism and moral complacency that America once rejected. The country will reject them again, and embrace the creed that brought it greatness before. But only if liberals remember what that means. It means an unyielding hostility to totalitarianism, and a recognition that defeating it requires bringing hope to the bleakest corners of the globe. And it means understanding that democracy begins at home, in a nation that does not merely preach about justice, but becomes more just itself. Peter Beinart's The Good Fight is a passionate rejoinder to the conservatives who have ruled Washington since 9/11. It is an intellectual lifeline for a Democratic Party lying flat on its back. And it is a call for liberals to revive the spirit that swept America, and inspired the world. Language: English. Narrator: David Slavin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001291/bk_harp_001291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Rising of the Women (eBook, ePUB)

  In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements between 1880 and 1917 in the USA. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the chauvinism of male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice in the industrializing landscape of North America. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose remarkable history is chronicled in this work. With a focus on the histories of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Tax shows how working-class socialist women navigated the terrain between the seemingly oppositional demands for suffrage and labour rights. The Rising of the Women also contains detailed case studies of two germinal moments in American labour history: the uprising of shirtwaist workers in New York City in 1909 - 1910, the real beginning of the International Ladies' Garment Worker Union; and the 1912 IWW strike of immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., making it an essential text for students of American labor history as well as readers interested in twentieth-century feminism. First published in 1980, the book is reissued by Verso as part of the highly successful Feminist Classics series, where it takes its place alongside texts by Sheila Rowbotham, Kathi Weeks, Stella Dadzie, Lynne Segal and more. The result of years of archival research, Tax blends original source material from the participants of the movements with her own sharp analysis into a rich narrative of women workers' struggle. The Rising of the Women is a classic of feminist labor history whose time has come to find the wide audience it deserves.

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  The Lebensborn Alliance: Lebensborn, Book II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min

  The Lebensborn Alliance begins 11 years after The Lebensborn Experiment ends. In book I, during WWII, Sergeant Kapp Johnson of the 761st Tank Battalion was held prisoner by Nazi Colonel Victor Strauss in a medieval castle. Instead of a psychedelic drug meant to kill the sergeant, Johnson was injected with the Elixir of Life serum invented by Dr. Josef Weiss by mistake. Besides endless life, the serum enhanced Kapp's physical abilities, giving him superhuman powers. Dr. Weiss also injected his nephew, Hans, and a 10-year-old Polish boy, Adok, with the serum, boosting their natural abilities. Hans and Kapp were together in the castle tower when Kapp, believed to be dead, fell from the tower window. After the war, and the death of Dr. Weiss, Hans and Adok moved to Canada. The two become like brothers. It is now 1956, and the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement. Former Sergeant Kapp Johnson gets enlisted as Dr. Martin Luther King's bodyguard and moves to Montgomery, Alabama. Hans has inherited millions from his uncle and buys the Vancouver Daily Times. As Managing Editor, Hans sends Adok to Montgomery to report on the bus boycott. When Adok gets involved with the local KKK and goes missing, Hans' prophecy he would one day meet Sergeant Johnson again comes true. Hans travels to Alabama, where he solicits Kapp's help to find Adok. Kapp recruits two of his WWII buddies to join the search. Now a team, Hans and Kapp's quest to rescue Adok reveals a more sinister plot that may plunge the world into another global war and eventually lead the alliance back to Germany. In this exciting second installment of the Lebensborn series, the number of people transfused with the serum grows, and so does the threat that their immortality may get discovered. Learn about the chauvinism and class struggles among the civil rights leaders. Discover what happened to the Oberstfuhrer, Victor Strauss. In Book I, the high-minded Dr. Weiss d ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Othello Lofton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179491/bk_acx0_179491_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sexxx Soho Stories (eBook, ePUB)

  Sex-x-x: the only sitcom ever set in a Soho sex shop.With a cast of colourful characters: Ben - the sort of owner, and front man. Trying to be a hit with the ladies, and miss the customers. The brains of the outfit: well they must be somewhere else. In their place is Pauly. What can we say about Pauly? Whatever it is, best written up on the walls of a toilet cubicle. Not exactly stupid, and certainly not smart. But with the kindest heart in Soho, and suprisingly attractive to females everywhere. Then the lovely Katya: the shapely brunette student earning her way via the store shop counter. Putting down Ben's more gross manifestations of chauvinism. Which take up much of her time. The unusually recruited Toby: performing store security and occasional other sanities.There's the Sex-x-x gang, joined by a kaleidoscope of wonderful characters. From dominatrix Miss Kitty, to ex-pornstar and present masseur Paige. With the gangster, the bent cop and everything in between.With as much expense spared as possible, the scripts of the hit Loaded TV sitcom SEX-X-X have been pumped, preened and polished into short story form. By their original writer, Paul Chaplin. As an extra treat, Sex-x-x: the Movie, features as a bonus read. A thrilling novelised addition to the Sex-x-x library.These Soho Stories follow the 7 sitcom shows, taking the original scripts, and allowing you to read in novelised format. Unlike so many Hollywood novelisations, this one is written by the original sitcom script writer, with his unique insight into the characters, and their mad, mad world.As a bonus, a second part of the book provides a novelisation of the film: Sex-x-x: The Movie. Taking the gang to Amsterdam, in this classic re-imagining of the film that never was.Now the only thing missing is the t-shirt. That will be Pauly's idea: eventually.

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• In the Country of Others

  The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny, about a woman in an interracial marriage whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country's fight for independence The world of men is just like the world of botany. In the end, one species dominates another. One day, the orange will win out over the lemon, or vice versa, and the tree will once again produce fruit that people can eat. In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer's wife to defying the country's chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman, and proud of his wife's resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others-especially the women, forced to live in the land of men-and with this novel, Leila Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation. Story Locale: Morocco and France

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  Welfare chauvinism in radical right-wing populist parties. The reframing of the Sverigedemokraterna as true social democrats

  Welfare chauvinism in radical right-wing populist parties. The reframing of the Sverigedemokraterna as true social democrats: ab 12.99 €

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