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    Citizens of the Green Room: Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 500min
    Author of the groundbreaking number-one New York Times best seller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington's elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a "master of the political profile," Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about politicians and other notables. Currently chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, Leibovich punctures the inflated personas of the powerful, and in Citizens of the Green Room, he reveals the lives, stories, and peculiarities behind the public masks. A brilliant reporter with a talent for subversive, engaging storytelling, Leibovich maintains a refreshing conviviality with many of his subjects even as he renders incisive and unflinching assessments. His features have driven the national conversation while exposing the fallibilities of the kingmakers and media stars: consider his 2007 profile of Hillary Clinton, which unearthed a treasure trove of old letters that the then-senator had written as a vulnerable young college student; or his much-talked-about 2010 portrait of Glenn Beck, which laid bare the tortured soul and precarious standing of the once invincible host and his uneasy relationship with his soon-to-be ex-employer FOX News. In the political arena, Leibovich's portraits of John Kerry, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, and John McCain are already classics; they invariably remind us that great journalism and stylish writing are not only essential to the Republic but necessary to maintain the citizenry's sanity and humor in the face of made-for-TV government. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002500/bk_peng_002500_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Historia de Chicago [Chicago History]: Una Guía Fascinante Acerca de las Personas y Eventos que Determinaron la Historia de la Ciudad de los Vientos [A Fascinating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the Windy City] , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
    Descubra la fascinante historia de ChicagoFundada como un pequeño asentamiento temporal, Chicago se convirtió en un punto crucial del comercio de pieles estadounidense antes de convertirse en una de las potencias de la Revolución Industrial. Desde la adquisición de agua potable hasta la implementación de la igualdad racial, nada ha sido sencillo para las personas que han llamado hogar a Chicago, y sin embargo, existe un inmenso orgullo entre los habitantes de Chicago por lo que ellos y sus miembros han logrado. La ciudad ha sido el hogar de algunas de las personas más influyentes de Estados Unidos, ya sean presentadores de programas de entrevistas o presidentes de la nación. Cada estrella en la bandera de Chicago representa un logro para ser recordado; cada edificio una era que ha ayudado a dar forma a la ciudad moderna que es actualmente. En este libro, descubrirá historias notables de personas y eventos que determinaron la historia de esta fascinante ciudad. Historia de Chicago: Una Guía Fascinante Acerca de las Personas y Eventos que Determinaron la Historia de la Ciudad de los Vientos incluye temas como: El Sendero de Lágrimas de ChicagoTodos los Caminos (y Ferrocarriles) Conducen a ChicagoTrabajo y la Era IndustrialLa Ciudad más Sucia en AméricaEl Distrito Financiero de AméricaDe Casas Rurales a Rascacielos; Arquitectura y Diseño de ChicagoConvención Nacional Republicana de 1860Exposición Colombiana Mundial en ChicagoEl Bar Clandestino y Al CaponeEl Verdadero Sabor de ChicagoLa Gran Depresión y la Segregación LegalSiglo Del ProgresoLa Agencia Nacional de Detectives PinkertonLa Dinastía DaleyOprah Winfrey y HarpoChicago Hoy¡Y Mucho, Mucho Más! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luis Trumper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223134/bk_acx0_223134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Breakthrough: Confronting UFOs, Men in Black, Mothman, and Mysterious Humanoids - Trojan Horses of a Breakaway Civilization? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
    During 1966 and 1967, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York: UFOs, Men in Black, creature entities, ultraterrestrials, and odd coincidences and synchronicities. The result was a series of concise, thematically related reports, many of which were incorporated into magazine articles for Saga, Fate, and Flying Saucer Review. In these papers, Keel unravels threads discussed in his classic books Operation Trojan Horse, The Mothman Prophecies, and The Eighth Tower, which were written soon after. Utilizing occult lore, recent scientific research, and direct personal investigation, Keel draws back the curtain on the mind-blowing nature of our terrestrial reality.  By looking deeply into specific cases, Keel begins to understand that there are different types of UFOs, surmising that the “aliens” and their apparent buddies, the MIB, may emanate from a breakaway civilization bent on controlling the human race. Surprisingly, Keel's research into Mothman could play a key role in deciphering the mystery of “Ancient Aliens” - whether or not the human race was actually created, genetically, by giant birdmen mating with Earth women. This special edition features a revised introduction by Keel, a note from the editor, Andy Colvin, and interesting correspondence between Keel and other notables in the Mothman saga: Mary Hyre, Gray Barker, Jerome Clark, Ivan Sanderson, Charles Bowen, Jim Lorenzen, Jaye Paro, and the infamous “outer space” denizens “Apol” and “Agar”.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Ferrand. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121330/bk_acx0_121330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History of the Ottoman Empire
    History of the Ottoman Empire ab 40.99 € als Taschenbuch: Piri Reis Franco-Ottoman alliance Armenian notables deported from Constantinople in 1915 Van Resistance Fall of the Ottoman Empire History of the Jews of Thessaloniki Rise of the Ottoman Empire. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The Road to Ruins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1052min
    For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the "last explorer" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables, beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood. Born in 1923 into an aristocratic family descended from Oliver Cromwell, Ian Graham was educated at Winchester, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin. His career in Mesoamerican archaeology can be said to have begun in 1959 when he turned south in his Rolls Royce and began traveling through the Maya lowlands photographing ruins. He has worked as an artist, cartographer, and photographer, and has mapped and documented inscriptions at hundreds of Maya sites, persevering under rugged field conditions. Graham is best known as the founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1981, and he remained the Maya Corpus program director until his retirement in 2004. Graham's careful recordings of Maya inscriptions are often credited with making the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics possible. But it is the romance of his work and the graceful conversational style of his writing that make this autobiography must reading, not just for Mayanists but for anyone with a taste for the adventure of archaeology. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Mawson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004461/bk_adbl_004461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Valiant Thor's JFK Assassination Reader: Featuring the Torbitt Document , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1089min
    New Saucerian Press proudly presents Valiant Thor's JFK Assassination Reader - one of the last works ever published by the iconic ufologist, conspiracy buff, and best-selling author Gray Barker, whose writing informed the plotlines of shows like Star Trek, Futurama, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.Shuttling between his Manhattan publishing office and his secluded cabin deep in the hills of his home state of West Virginia, the prolific Barker single-handedly kept public interest focused on UFOs and conspiracies during their leanest years. He introduced many themes still discussed and investigated by today’s paranormal and conspiracy researchers: the Roswell UFO crash, Men in Black, ancient aliens, Nazi UFOs, the Philadelphia Experiment, the Flatwoods Monster, Mothman, MJ-12, secret underground bases, little green men, and the Maury Island Incident.Valiant Thor's JFK Assassination Reader and its sister books, Mysterious Ascension, Serpents of Fire, Saucers of Fire, Saucers of Fear, Bigfoot Shootout, Time-Traveling Through Swamp Gas, and When Men in Black Attack: The Strange Case of Albert K. Bender, were collated by Barker shortly before his death, using material culled from deteriorating copies of his notoriously speculative newsletters and gossipy syndicated column - for years the most widely read national column on UFOs, Forteana, conspiracy, and “weird science”.This unique edition was guest-curated by the illustrious thinker Valiant Thor and features an introduction by Gray Barker, as well as articles by such JFK research notables as Jim Garrison, John Judge, Fletcher Prouty, Mae Brussell, Timothy Leary, Alex Constantine, Martin Cannon, Paul Rydeen, Paul Kangas, and William Torbitt. They shed urgent, much-needed light on the "high-strangeness" aspects of JFK's murder.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Welte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139417/bk_acx0_139417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    From Cowgirl to Congress: Journey of a Suffragist on the Front Lines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    From Cowgirl to Congress is an eyewitness account of Jessie Haver Butler, a suffragist on the front lines of the women’s movement. She was there, and you get to be a fly on the wall.Jessie escaped a childhood of unthinkable tragedies on a Colorado cattle ranch to attend Smith College, which propelled her into the center of the fight for the rights of women. Inspired by meeting Susan B. Anthony at age 10, she later worked side by side with Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt.When women won the right to vote on August 18, 1920, Jessie became the first official woman lobbyist at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Before that, she helped establish the Pulitzer School of Journalism and set the first minimum wage for women. She went on to live in London, where she shared the podium several times with George Bernard Shaw, attended parties with Emily Pankhurst, influenced the queen, and met her lifelong friend Lady Astor.Jessie later taught women the art of public speaking. She wrote Time to Speak Up and often lectured alongside such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem, and Marlo Thomas. She spoke out for women’s rights throughout her life and well into her 90s.This timely memoir takes us back to the suffrage movement and beyond, and includes unpublished letters from historical figures, as well as never-before-seen photographs. Jessie Haver Butler was an extraordinary woman, who lived her life with a spirit of adventure and open-mindedness. She was a mother, wife, and active community member, and her story weaves these threads together to complete her compelling journey - from cowgirl to Congress. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Iannone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230676/bk_acx0_230676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lorenzo's Daggers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    Combine one troubled boy with his concerned prep school teacher. Stir in a pinch of quantum physics, add Italian Renaissance political intrigue, and serve piping hot with Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, the Medicis, and a Borgia Pope on the side. That is the perfect recipe for a time travel adventure crackling with historical detail. A windswept, snowy day has shut down all movement on or off Block Island. It is the final day of classes before the winter break at the prestigious Block Island Academy High School. Prester Charles John is lecturing his class on the Italian Renaissance, and is displaying a set of twin daggers once belonging to Lorenzo de Medici. During the lecture, an angry young student, Kirk Renzo, grabs one of the daggers and runs away. The boy's footprints lead through pristine snow to a 500-year-old tree. Prester gives chase, but at the tree the footprints end. The boy and the dagger have vanished. Suspicion over the boy's unexplained disappearance falls hard upon Prester John. Ostracized by his friends and colleagues, Prester's life is turned upside down. But then Prester meets a physicist who theorizes that the boy has slipped into a parallel universe and been transported to 15th-century Italy. Indeed, Kirk Renzo has finally found his niche, his knowledge of the modern world serving to propel him to the level of prince in Renaissance Florence. But there are unseen dangers around every turn with political rivalries boiling over. Thus begins an adventure sending Prester John back in time where he will encounter numerous Renaissance notables as he searches for his lost student. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051131/bk_acx0_051131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Blackout: A True Tale of Ultraterrestrial Terror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min
    During 1967 and 1968, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York: UFOs, Men in Black, creature entities, ultraterrestrials, and odd coincidences and synchronicities. The result was a series of concise, thematically related reports, many of which were incorporated into magazine articles for Saga, Fate, and Flying Saucer Review. In these reports, Keel unravels threads discussed in his classic books Operation Trojan Horse, The Mothman Prophecies, and The Eighth Tower, which were written soon after. Utilizing occult lore, recent scientific research, and direct personal investigation, Keel draws back the curtain on the mind-blowing nature of our terrestrial reality. By looking deeply into specific cases, Keel begins to understand that there are different types of UFOs, surmising that the “aliens” and their apparent buddies, the MIB, may emanate from a breakaway civilization bent on controlling the human race. Surprisingly, Keel's research into Mothman could play a key role in deciphering the mystery of “Ancient Aliens” - whether or not the human race was actually created, genetically, by giant birdmen mating with Earth women. This special edition - the follow-up to Keel's popular book The Big Breakthrough: Confronting UFOs, Men in Black, Mothman, and Mysterious Humanoids - features a "confidential" introduction by Keel, as well as interesting correspondence between Keel and other notables in the Mothman saga, such as Mary Hyre, Jim Moseley, Mabel McDaniel, and Jerome Clark. In particular, there is an extensive exchange of letters between Keel and that infamous mystery man from outer space, “Apol".  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clay Lomakayu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139421/bk_acx0_139421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lists of people by time period
    Lists of people by time period ab 18.49 € als Taschenbuch: Lists of ancient people Lists of leaders by year Lists of philosophers by time period List of ancient Greeks List of ancient Egyptians Armenian notables deported from Constantinople in 1915 List of ancient Romans. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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