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    Science Comics: Birds of Prey: Terrifying Talons
    Spread your wings with Science Comics: Birds of Prey, a new and exciting volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic-dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you! In this volume, you'll get up-close and personal with some of the world's most skilled hunters, from the majestic eagle to the oft-maligned scavenger vulture! Armed with razor-sharp claws, keen eyesight, powerful wings, and killer instincts, these stealthy predators can make a meal of rodents, fish, snakes, lizards, monkeys, and even kangaroos! Discover how these amazing birds who are often at the top of the food chain, play an integral role in many different ecosystems around the world.
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    Electric Shock: How Electricity Could Be The Key To Human Regeneration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
    Regenerative medicine has long targeted the impossible - regrowing a diseased organ, or a hand lost in an accident. But biologist Michael Levin thinks an astonishing breakthrough may be within reach. He has resurrected a much-maligned branch of science, and shown that a little-understood process can trigger remarkable feats of regeneration in animals. As his research advances, he's moving us closer to the day when regeneration is possible in people. Levin isn't focused on genetics or stem cells. His secret is electricity. Long dismissed as quackery thanks to its "Frankenstein" connotations, the idea that charge and voltage help shape our bodies is now being revived. In this profile from new digital publisher, MATTER, award-winning science journalist Cynthia Graber traces Levin's roots from Moscow to Massachusetts - and describes how his ideas are about to face their biggest test yet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Graber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008036/bk_acx0_008036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Norse Winds Blow , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 903min
    Fresh in its originality When Norse Winds Blow is an engrossing journey into the era of the much-maligned Vikings. A compelling and emotional tale, follow the lives of very memorable male and female characters whose destinies are changed forever by the combination of the forces of love, fierce battles and raids, and the coming together of different cultures. This is an all-consuming story, one which makes you care what happens to the people. Vikings were known throughout the world. They travelled far, reaching many countries. In previous times, Vikings were portrayed as mindless killers, but contrary to belief, apart from their enemies, to whom they showed no mercy, they are known to have integrated with various cultures in many places. Viking culture was the only one of that time to ensure their women were respected and given an equal place in Viking society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Georgina Tate. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062695/bk_acx0_062695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Button , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 61min
    Press here for pleasure. Only Wednesday Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, could combine anthropology, anecdote, and adventure to hilariously right an anatomic wrong.For millennia, the woman’s most sensitive part has been maligned, misrepresented, and cut out entirely from medical texts, our culture, and our general understanding of female sexuality. Not anymore. Join Martin in the “cliteracy” movement - a stimulating quest from ancient Greece to medieval Europe to the Costa Rican rain forest to rediscover the significance, the symbolic power, the cultural history, the intimidation, the scandal, the vast terrain, and the pleasure of “the button”.Wednesday Martin’s The Button is part of Missing, a collection of six true stories about finding, restoring, or accepting the losses that define our lives - from the mysterious to the inspiring. Each story can be listened to in a single sitting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wednesday Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010805/bk_brll_010805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 216min
    Thomas Paine was one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defense of the rights of man. Paine argued against monarchy and outlined the elements of a successful republic, including public education, pensions, and relief of the poor and unemployed, all financed by income tax. Since its publication, The Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, and suppressed. But here, commentator Christopher Hitchens, Paine's natural heir, marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Above all, he shows how Thomas Paine's Rights of Man forms the philosophical cornerstone of the world's most powerful republic: the United States of America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000472/bk_tant_000472_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Misunderstood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
    Misunderstood is the enlightening story of four biblical women who have historically been maligned by Bible scholars. Commentaries and study notes throughout the ages have condemned them for one reason or another. I hope you will take some time to think about giving grace to others instead of judging. Judging is the easiest and most natural thing we do when things don't look right to us. A holy God above us sees all. I would rather err on the side of grace than judgment. What if some women in the Bible weren't the evil souls portrayed by biblical scholars throughout history? Suppose their stories were interpreted through a different lens? In the past, most accounts of women have been portrayed by men. What if, like many women throughout history, these women were simply misunderstood? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denise Washington Blomberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047930/bk_acx0_047930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On Anarchism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 295min
    On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action. The collection includes a revealing new introduction by journalist Nathan Schneider, who documented the Occupy movement for Harper's and The Nation, and who places Chomsky's ideas in the contemporary political moment. On Anarchism will be essential listening for a new generation of activists who are at the forefront of a resurgence of interest in anarchism - and for anyone who struggles with what can be done to create a more just world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Jason Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016531/bk_adbl_016531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
    For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.
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    Foretold (Legends of the Forsaken Empire, #4) (eBook, ePUB)
    AS HIS GRANDFATHER'S ONLY LEGAL HEIR, Tarian Savtroi is taken from his family and trained to fight to recover his rightful place as earl of the Vales. To protect his loved ones, Tarian hides his notorious family's secrets, particularly their continued reverence for Ceyfraland's forbidden Scriptures-the Rone'en-even as they conspire to topple the powerful Religious rulers who control and threaten their lives.Placed in the household of Ceyfraland's scheming young queen, and betrothed to a highborn girl who should be his enemy, Tarian strives to hide his faith, and to protect his foolish, vulnerable king, whose lethal plots could destroy everyone and everything he loves. SELIYTA KALVAII OF STORMCAIRN shields her family with outward compliance to Seoftor's threats and regulations. But when she is drawn into treasonous court intrigues alongside her cousin Tarian, her fierce, loyal nature emerges as she fights for her hidden faith, and for love. THE EPIC, SWEEPING CONCLUSION to a maligned family's struggle for justice and for the freedom to learn the sacred verses that control their world.
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    Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
    Throughout the devastating years of the Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac seldom marched in step. In this provocative book, acclaimed historian and award-winning author Stephen W. Sears takes a fascinating look at some of the intriguing Union generals and the controversies that swirled around them. Delving into historical documents and the personal papers of military officers, Sears shares the compelling stories of oft-maligned Generals McClellan and Hooker, the shocking court-martial of patriotic General Stone, the failed plots to kidnap Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and more. As the facts come to light, the Union’s renowned leaders stand revealed as what they really were: ordinary men in the grip of extraordinary times. An authority on the Civil War, Sears skillfully paints a remarkable portrait of the personalities and events that shaped our nation’s greatest crisis. The rich analysis becomes ever more clear and accessible with Nelson Runger’s thoughtful narration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nelson Runger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006126/bk_reco_006126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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