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  The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 913min

  The fictitious memoir of an unlikely foreign spy planted in Washington, D.C., in the years after World War II Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition of the anti-spy. Yet he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee. From that perch, Bates has extensive and revealing contacts with the Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippman, Roy Cohn, and even Ollie North - to name but a few of the historical players in the American experience Winston befriends - and haplessly betrays for a quarter century. A comedy of manners set within the circles of power and information, Peter Warner's The Mole is a witty social history of Washington in the latter half of the 20th century that presents the question: How much damage can be done by the wrong person in the right place at the right time? Written as Winston’s memoir, The Mole details the American Century from an angle definitely off center. From Suez, the U-2 Crash, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, and Watergate, the novel is richly and factually detailed, marvelously convincing, and offers the listener a slightly subversive character searching for identity and meaning (as well as his elusive handler) in a heady time during one of history's most defining eras. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ledoux. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015970/bk_adbl_015970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  History for Kids: The Lives of Archimedes and Leonardo Da Vinci , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min

  In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist, and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth. Regardless, he's considered the first man to determine a way to measure an object's mass, and also the first man to realize that refracting the sun's light could burn something, theorizing the existence of lasers over two millennia before they existed. People still use the design of the Archimedes screw in water pumps today, and modern scholars have tried to link him to the recently discovered Antikythera mechanism, an ancient "computer" of sorts that used mechanics to accurately chart astronomical data depending on the date it was set to. It has long been difficult to separate fact from legend in the story of Archimedes' life, from his death to his legendary discovery of how to differentiate gold from fool's gold, but many of his works survived antiquity, and many others were quoted by other ancient writers. As a result, even while his life and death remain topics of debate, his writings and measurements are factually established and well known, and they range on everything from measuring an object's density to measuring circles and parabolas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092623/bk_acx0_092623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon (True Crime History) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min

  Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper. Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations: the initial wave of journalism that followed the 1888 murders; the revelations of highers-up in Scotland Yard who pretended to know more than they actually did; the period between 1925 and 1949 when sensational and factually shaky book-length solutions were proposed, including the theories that Jack avenged his son's syphilis or was a female midwife in disguise; the dawn of more responsible study, between 1950 and 1975, in which the author himself played an important role; better documented studies spurred by the opening of Scotland Yard files in 1976; the explosion of new Ripper hypotheses in the 1990s; and current theories, including Patricia Cornwell's DNA-based accusation of artist Walter Sickert. Ripperology does not attempt to give a detailed, encyclopedic account of the murders. While there are no formal conclusions, and this book does not seek to saturate the listener with minutiae, exaggerated claims are debunked and misconceived ideas are dispelled. Author Odell, having studied these unsolved serial killings for four decades, guides the listener in his easy narrative rich with documentation. Ripperology will be welcomed by true crime aficionados.The book is published by The Kent State University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Odell's mastery of the competing paths of Ripperologists resists sensationalism…instead offering a level-headed reappraisal…that Ripper fans and true-crime readers will enjoy." (Publishers Weekly ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dean Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166416/bk_acx0_166416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance Man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous Ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth. Regardless, he's considered the first man to determine a way to measure an object's mass, and also the first man to realize that refracting the Sun's light could burn something, theorizing the existence of lasers over two millennia before they existed. People still use the design of the Archimedes screw in water pumps today, and modern scholars have tried to link him to the recently discovered Antikythera mechanism, an ancient "computer" of sorts that used mechanics to accurately chart astronomical data depending on the date it was set to. Archimedes was a legend even among the Romans, who were expanding their empire during the great scientist's own lifetime. A Roman soldier has long been blamed for killing Archimedes after taking over Syracuse, but not before Archimedes reportedly helped the island's defenses with ingenious devices that burned Roman ships and even lifted some of them out of the water. The stories are probably apocryphal, but they speak to the man's reputation even among his contemporaries, and Cicero himself went to visit Archimedes' tomb. It has long been difficult to separate fact from legend in the story of Archimedes' life, from his death to his legendary discovery of how to differentiate gold from fool's gold, but many of his works survived antiquity, and many others were quoted by other ancient writers. As a result, even while his life and death remain topics of debate, his writings and measurements are factually established and well known, and they range on everything from measuring an object's density to measuring circles and parabolas. /p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johanna Oosterwyk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034840/bk_acx0_034840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  GustoSinga , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min

  GustoSinga is an adventure not to be missed! Based on truth, but written with imagination, Dinieve (life-giver) is an orphaned girl who has intuitive communication skills with all living things. She finds an orphaned lion cub, who she names Gusto, and knows that advice from the matriarch elephant must not be taken lightly. Humor and truth are shared with a positive vibe, portraying bravery against all odds. We are all on a journey, and Marguerite MacLean invites every listener to join her on this adventure, encouraging all to embrace the future of our world with a new awareness like never before. The calls of nature bring Dinieve a huge leap of faith in a dangerous voyage with Gusto, who meets another orphaned feline, Singa - the offspring of the last tiger to be shot in Singapore in 1930. If the elephants can share over continents as they do, may MacLean's written words share an adaptability and sensitivity to cultural diversity and an important insight into endangered species, and collectively, our endangered planet, Earth. I can highly recommend this book for ALL ages. The author's love and knowledge of animals shines through, and her experience living in Africa, UK, and Asia contributes extensive local knowledge, which excites and educates the listener and provides a memorable setting for the main characters. This is equally matched by her love for humanity and every living thing, which infiltrates throughout the book leaving one pondering many of life's conundrums. This fast-paced story, shared factually and creatively will spellbind any listener. Marguerite's writing seems to have that magical power of giving life and personality to animals in the style of David Attenborough, bringing a unique, imaginative experience - a new slant on how man and nature interact, a definite inspiration for all! Communication with animals and people from all cultures through intuitive listening skills leads to true excitement and roma ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: FR Vincent Sullivan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144980/bk_acx0_144980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vaughan Williams (eBook, PDF)

  A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His dedicated work ethic and fastidious attention to musical detail helped him forge a compelling and original expressive idiom grounded in a profound understanding of musical history and tradition, popularized in concert staples like the Tallis Fantasia, The Lark Ascending, A London Symphony, the Songs of Travel, and the Serenade to Music. Drawing upon both recent scholarship and newly accessible scores and correspondence, author Eric Saylor interweaves in Vaughan Williams an exploration of the composer's life - including new insights about his early career, military service in the Great War, and relationships with the women he loved and married - with chapters surveying his enormous body of music, spanning hymn tunes to operas, keyboard etudes to solo concerti, wind band music for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. The resulting portrait reveals Vaughan Williams's complex artistry and dynamic personality, a portrayal often at odds with the avuncular persona of "Uncle Ralph" familiar to the public. This contemporary reassessment of the composer's life and works provides a concise and engaging overview of both, positioning Vaughan Williams as an artist of rare skill, sensitivity, and human insight.

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  Vaughan Williams (eBook, ePUB)

  A new biography of which paints the most well-rounded and factually accurate portrait of the composer to date Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His dedicated work ethic and fastidious attention to musical detail helped him forge a compelling and original expressive idiom grounded in a profound understanding of musical history and tradition, popularized in concert staples like the Tallis Fantasia, The Lark Ascending, A London Symphony, the Songs of Travel, and the Serenade to Music. Drawing upon both recent scholarship and newly accessible scores and correspondence, author Eric Saylor interweaves in Vaughan Williams an exploration of the composer's life - including new insights about his early career, military service in the Great War, and relationships with the women he loved and married - with chapters surveying his enormous body of music, spanning hymn tunes to operas, keyboard etudes to solo concerti, wind band music for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. The resulting portrait reveals Vaughan Williams's complex artistry and dynamic personality, a portrayal often at odds with the avuncular persona of "Uncle Ralph" familiar to the public. This contemporary reassessment of the composer's life and works provides a concise and engaging overview of both, positioning Vaughan Williams as an artist of rare skill, sensitivity, and human insight.

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  True Crime Canada (MP3-Download)

  » Morbid, whimsical, tragic ... Goosebumps! « – Leonie-Rachel Soyel (Podcast "Couchgeflüster") » Langenscheid's books are exciting, from the first page to the last! « – True Crime Podcast "Darf's ein bisserl Mord sein?" In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction. Free of any sensationalism, thirteen True Crime short stories retell some of the most spectacular Canadian criminal cases of recent decades. A gripping collection of accounts of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, abuse, fraud, betrayal, and theft that take the reader to the limits of the bearable. These are crimes involving "people like you and me"; people whose lives, due to tragic circumstances, are no longer what they were before. With expertise and excellent head-spinning narration, the true crime expert, in collaboration with the well-known true crime podcasts "Eyes in the Dark," "Murder Whispers," and "Crime Overdose," summarizes the most important findings from court hearings, case files, psychological reports, interrogations, and investigative protocols in his eventful tales. Captivated, stunned, amazed, and moved to tears, you will question everything you thought you knew about human nature. True crime cases, true crimes, and thus the full force of reality will strike you in thirteen detailed case histories, both well-known and undiscovered! Click "BUY NOW" and discover Canada's darker side. » Langenscheid writes matter-of-factly, focused and detailed stories reflecting on the darkest aspects of our existence. Relentless entertainment that makes your blood run cold. « – Dave Grunewald (Musician / Influencer)

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  Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min

  2019 Winner of the Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Book Awards We all long for boundless love as we long for home. But how can we find our home our meaning and purpose if we don't know our self? Wise-Love is an exploration of the self, or consciousness, guided through the meditative eyes of saints, sages, seers, and mystics. As we embark on the journey to the self, we discover that the self's most charming characteristic part of its eternal, unchanging nature is that it is a lover, a lover who can be satisfied only when ordinary love evolves into wise-love. Pranada Comtois, a devoted pilgrim and teacher, illuminates bhakti's wisdom school of heartfulness and shows why mindfulness alone can never satisfy the self. Joy comes from an awakened heart and expanded consciousness, not from a controlled or stilled mind. The first part of Wise-Love explores the nature of self/consciousness and how we interface with the world with the use of our physical body and subtle body (mind, intelligence, and ego). By understanding the distinctions between our real and false selves, we can factually answer the questions Who am I? What is my purpose? and How can I be happy? The second half of the book examines the nature of matter, the world of consciousness, karma, faith, mysticism, the efficacy of sacred sound, the maha-mantra, kirtan, humility, depth compassion, and how to culture wise-love. Each chapter unfolds with an understanding of matter and consciousness to present a key that unlocks our eternal nature so that we can experience the unbounded joy of the self in our daily lives. When we encounter the self, we are automatically introduced to our Divine Inner Suitor and our loving relationship with him. Filled with insight and fresh perspectives, Wise-Love offers a map for the journey to our home of eternal affection, where a porch light is always lovingly lit, and a warm embrace from our Divine Other awaits. /p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pranada Comtois. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/178523/bk_acx0_178523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Narcissistic Healing Relationship: Recognize Gaslight Effects in Narcissistic Relationship and Heal from Emotional-Psychological Molestation. Unlocking Mental Barriers, by Toxic Abuse of Relatives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 189min

  There is no relationship as painful and dangerous than that with a narcissist. The categorizing of these relationships is carried by making use of several kinds of abuse, which are: exploitation, gas-lighting, manipulation, disregard, and physical/verbal/mental/emotional/financial abuse. Empaths are seen to be generous, kind, deeply plugged into people’s emotions, and have more information about people than they do about themselves. Encountering a narcissist is an unlucky situation that doesn’t involve only empaths. The empaths are more often entangled with a pathological narcissist when compared to other people - this needs more investigations as it seems an unlikely paring in so many ways.  The empath in this relationship also needs to be fulfilled even though this does not ever seem to be the case. The empath is always the injured party, but she gets injured willingly. She has ended up caged in a relationship with someone who will always need her help. The empath has factually conjured up a career out of caring for a victim who does not desire to get better. To some people, this may look like victim-blame, but the empath can only get away from the narcissist for good by realizing that it is her choice if she stays and she can always choose to leave and that they only power he has over her is the one she gave to him.  Many narcissists are seen to be arrogant overachievers but tend to be a crip,ple in several ways by their disorder of not properly functioning in the environment not just superficially. The opportunity of taking care of someone in perpetuity is perceived by the empath, and even if she has no intentions of helping him, her nature can make her feel it is her obligation. How will he cope in her absence? Despite his horrible nature, abandoning him doesn’t seem fair due to his sickness is not his fault. The workability of his brain is not his fault. Perhaps he wasn’t loved enough when he was an infant, or he was abused. None of it ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Shelby Slone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189196/bk_acx0_189196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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