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    Sinology during the Cold War (eBook, PDF)
    This volume provides the first study of the history of Sinology (aka China Studies) as charted across other Communist states during the Cold War. The People's Republic of China was created in the first years of the Cold War, with its early history and foreign policy intimately bound up in that larger geopolitical fight. All the seismic changes in China's geopolitical landscape-from its emergence and close relationship with the Soviet Union, to the Sino-Soviet split and the eventual rapprochement with the United States-resulted in a great deal of interest by journalists, politicians, and scholars. Yet, although scholars across the Soviet Bloc produced an impressive body of work on a range of sinological studies, with rare exceptions most of those scholars and their work remains unknown outside their own intellectual circles. This book redresses this dearth of knowledge of sinological scholarship, providing invaluable and unique glimpses of Soviet Bloc sinologists and their work during the Cold War, including cutting-edge research on lesser-studied Communist states, such as Poland, Hungary, Mongolia and others. International in scope, this book is ideal for scholars and researchers of Modern History, Chinese studies, Sinology, and the Cold War.
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    Sinology during the Cold War (eBook, ePUB)
    This volume provides the first study of the history of Sinology (aka China Studies) as charted across other Communist states during the Cold War. The People's Republic of China was created in the first years of the Cold War, with its early history and foreign policy intimately bound up in that larger geopolitical fight. All the seismic changes in China's geopolitical landscape-from its emergence and close relationship with the Soviet Union, to the Sino-Soviet split and the eventual rapprochement with the United States-resulted in a great deal of interest by journalists, politicians, and scholars. Yet, although scholars across the Soviet Bloc produced an impressive body of work on a range of sinological studies, with rare exceptions most of those scholars and their work remains unknown outside their own intellectual circles. This book redresses this dearth of knowledge of sinological scholarship, providing invaluable and unique glimpses of Soviet Bloc sinologists and their work during the Cold War, including cutting-edge research on lesser-studied Communist states, such as Poland, Hungary, Mongolia and others. International in scope, this book is ideal for scholars and researchers of Modern History, Chinese studies, Sinology, and the Cold War.
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    Cather and Opera (eBook, ePUB)
    Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-three operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the genre beginning in her earliest criticism and continuing throughout her career. She counted opera stars among her close friends, and according to Edith Lewis, her companion throughout adulthood, the two women frequently visited the theater, even in the early days, when purchasing tickets to attend performances proved a financial sacrifice. Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of her works and discussions of opera's complex place in turn-of-the-century America, David McKay Powell's Cather and Opera offers the first book-length study of what drew the writer so powerfully and repeatedly to the art form. With close attention to Cather's fiction and criticism, Powell posits that at the heart of both her work and the operatic corpus dwells an innate tension between high artistic ideals and popular acceptance, often figured as a clash between compositional integrity and raw, personal emotion. Considering her connection to opera in both historical and intertextual terms, Cather and Opera investigates what operatic references mean in Cather's writing, along with what the opera represented to her throughout her life.
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    North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 778min
    North America’s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey recounts the story of a group of researchers, naturalists, adventurers, cooks, immigrants, and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of ambitious expeditions never before, or since, attempted. Their mission: to piece together the broken shards of the Channel Islands’ history and evolution. California’s eight Channel Islands, sometimes called “North America’s Galapagos", each support unique ecosystems with varied flora and fauna and differing human histories. The 33 men and women who set out to explore the islands hoped to make numerous discoveries that would go down in history along with their names. More than 80 years ago, a lack of funds and dearth of qualified personnel dogged the pre-WWII expeditions, but it was only after America entered the war and the researchers were stranded on one of the islands that the survey was aborted, their work left for future scientists to complete.This untold saga of adventure, discovery, and goals abandoned is juxtaposed against the fresh successes of a new generation of Channel Island scholars. Engagingly written, North America’s Galapagos illuminates the scientific process and reveals remarkable modern discoveries that are rewriting archaeological textbooks and unraveling the answer to the age-old question: How and when were the Americas populated?Anyone interested in the work conducted behind closed museum doors will want to listen to this book - so will history buffs, environmentalists, scientists, and general listeners curious about our world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith Surjaatmadja. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238613/bk_acx0_238613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Confidence: Stand Up for Yourself and Love Who You Are , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
    Never forget how awesome and amazing you are, because there is no one on earth like you. Confidence: Stand Up for Yourself and Love Who You Are will explain the ultimate significance of evolving into the courageous, self-assured man or woman you wish to be, and it all starts by loving yourself first. In this book you will learn everything you need to know about building your self-confidence by setting the right types of goals, retraining your brain, getting healthy, learning to love yourself, and, when all else fails, faking it until you make it. Enhancing your overall level of self-confidence is literally akin to improving your self-worth, which will help you along the way. In this book you will find the importance of: Maintaining a great appearance Building momentum through exercising and eating healthy Overcoming the fear of uncertainty Setting goals Making eye contact when speaking and always giving firm handshakes Being assertive The seven best ways to fake it until you make it And so much more Do you want to possess the full ability to achieve any desire that interests you? Would you like to wake up every morning feeling fresh and positive, just knowing that the world is yours? Do you often daydream of approaching your life with the self-confidence you wish you had? Nearly 50 percent of all adults exhibit a dearth of self-confidence when it matters most and suffer for it in nearly every aspect of their lives. If this sounds like you, then Confidence: Stand Up for Yourself and Love Who You Are is the book you have been waiting for. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061261/bk_acx0_061261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Three Book Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 189min
    Three Sherlock Holmes stories in the style of Doyle's originals: "Sherlock Holmes & the Monumental Horror": When Elise Clayworth disappears from a hotel room in Paris, Holmes and Watson work against a seeming dearth of clues: no ransom has been demanded, no one has seen or heard anything, and there appears to be no way out of the hotel without being seen. Only a small bit of masonry in Miss Clayworth's room can shed light on what happened to her. Can Holmes deduce the lady's whereabouts before it is too late? "Sherlock Holmes & the Adventure of Ichabod Reed": "The man is the mystery." So says young Malcolm Durstwell when he comes to Baker Street in hopes of discovering the truth about the man who has inherited his uncle's estate - a man no one has ever heard of or seen. Sherlock Holmes is inclined to dismiss the case...until Malcolm Durstwell himself is found dead shortly after his visit. Is it a coincidence? Or has the nameless, faceless Ichabod Reed gone so far as to commit murder? And if so, how can Holmes identify him and bring him to justice? "Sherlock Holmes & the Mystery of the Last Line": When Holmes rousts Watson and Mrs Hudson from their beds early one morning, they follow him without question, only to land at the estate of Holmesweald, Holmes's childhood home. Holmes has brought them there to see him through the process of ending his cocaine habit. Meanwhile, Watson discovers a diary that he is sure can help him solve the greatest mystery yet - that of Sherlock Holmes himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jared Ashe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087252/bk_acx0_087252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Confidence Code: Summary and Analysis of The Confidence Code , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
    Learn about The Confidence Code in a fraction of the time it takes to read the actual book! In The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman attempt to define confidence, to determine how it is developed and to give guidelines for developing it. Without confidence, you lack boldness and faith in your abilities, and this dearth can greatly affect your mental health as well as your career success. Low confidence can make women appear incompetent. The authors' premise is that confidence is "in alarmingly short supply" for women. Why women in particular? Some bigots suggest that women are biologically inferior; others insist that children change women's priorities so that careers and the confidence that comes with doing a job well are not important. Others blame the cultural, social, and institutional barriers set against women's success. Kay and Shipman acknowledge that there is some truth in the latter two reasons but point out that the main reason women have lower confidence levels is because they tend to lack self-belief. The authors find that women need to stop worrying about failure and second-guessing and to put less emphasis on how others might perceive them. Women need to stop worrying that they cannot succeed but instead start taking action and risking failure. By not believing that you can succeed, you are less likely to even try. Here is a preview of what you'll learn when you download your copy today: General overview and summary of The Confidence Code How confidence affects your income level The reasons why women are generally less confident than men ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beth Wray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056721/bk_acx0_056721_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: TV Milestones , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
    One of the most innovative comedic programs to air on television, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a mix of the carnivalesque and the critical. The show has become famous for eschewing many of the conventions of situation comedy, the fully formed and coherent script, narrative closure, predictable characters, and the decorum associated with presentation. Its curious transatlantic popularity defied the assumption that comedy is regional and exclusive, and the show’s cult status still lives on in the United States and United Kingdom through reruns, videos, DVDs, and continual reappearances by the show’s now iconic stars. Most written accounts of Monty Python’s Flying Circus focus solely on members of the Pythons, histories of the sketches, or the development of other Monty Python projects, leaving a dearth of scholarly and contextual analysis on the television show itself. Marcia Landy’s book is one of the rare studies available examining the Flying Circus within the context of its time, analyzing the show’s influence on 1960s and 1970s British television as well as British cultural influence on the show’s legendary material. Landy explores not only why the series’ complex form of comedy was important but also why it was so well received, citing the Pythons’ amalgam of comedic material: the unruly treatment of sexuality, the mockery of religion and class, and the critique of the medium of television. The Flying Circus parodied both the lowbrow and the highbrow, throwing many previously untouchable topics into the ring, and here Landy deconstructs the impact of the show’s risks and reception. As informative as it is engaging and entertaining, this book will appeal to film and media scholars, popular culture enthusiasts, and Monty Python fans alike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert J. Eckrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005923/bk_acx0_005923_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    No Return , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 831min
    On Jeroun, there is no question as to whether God exists - only what his intentions are. Under the looming judgment of Adrash and his ultimate weapon - a string of spinning spheres beside the moon known as The Needle - warring factions of white and black suits prove their opposition to the orbiting god with the great fighting tournament of Danoor, on the far side of Jeroun's only inhabitable continent. From the 13th Order of Black Suits comes Vedas, a young master of martial arts, laden with guilt over the death of one of his students. Traveling with him are Churls, a warrior woman and mercenary haunted by the ghost of her daughter, and Berun, a constructed man made of modular spheres possessed by the foul spirit of his creator. Together they must brave their own demons, as well as thieves, mages, beasts, dearth, and hardship on the perilous road to Danoor, and the bloody sectarian battle that is sure to follow. On the other side of the world, unbeknownst to the travelers, Ebn and Pol of the Royal Outbound Mages (astronauts using Alchemical magic to achieve space flight) have formed a plan to appease Adrash and bring peace to the planet. But Ebn and Pol each have their own clandestine agendas - which may call down the wrath of the very god they hope to woo. Who may know the mind of God? And who in their right mind would seek to defy him? Gritty, erotic, and fast-paced, author Zachary Jernigan takes you on a sensuous ride through a world at the knife-edge of salvation and destruction, in one of the year's most exciting fantasy epics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John FitzGibbon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010036/bk_adbl_010036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flaming? (eBook, PDF)
    Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "real" masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "alpha-male preacher", the "effeminate choir director" and homo-antagonism, are all in play. The "flamboyant" male vocalists formed in the black Pentecostal music ministry tradition, through their vocal styles, gestures, and attire in church services, display a spectrum of gender performances - from "hyper-masculine" to feminine masculine - to their fellow worshippers, subtly protesting and critiquing the otherwise heteronormative theology in which the service is entrenched. And while the performativity of these men is characterized by cynics as "flaming," a similar musicalized "fire" - that of the Holy Spirit - moves through the bodies of Pentecostal worshippers, endowing them religio-culturally, physically, and spiritually like "fire shut up in their bones". Using the lenses of ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, men's studies, queer studies, and theology, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes how male vocalists traverse their tightly-knit social networks and negotiate their identities through and beyond the worship experience. Author Alisha Jones ultimately addresses the ways in which gospel music and performance can afford African American men not only greater visibility, but also an affirmation of their fitness to minister through speech and song.
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