• 

  Villains, Villainy & Villainpunk: Monstrous Microfictions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min

  Before we begin, you should know: Villainy is apparently contagious.    The Writings of Villains are secret runes, innocuous at first glance, but addictive, seductive, and, in the end, ineluctable. Hearing those words aloud? Why, that's just abominable.  Quick! Run, before the words can eat you!Contained in this deceptively short volume are many, many little stories, largely in assorted scifi/fantasy/speculative fiction settings (and don't get us started on the Fairy Tales). They're often satirical, frequently sharp-edged, sometimes poison-tipped, and what's worse is, none of them show proper respect and reverence to Heroes, much less Goodness, Truth, and Light. This is clearly Very Bad, and you should stay far away from this book. I mean, you’re familiar with Atlantis, surely? It drowned because its citizens didn’t recognize the basic truth: Words are immensely powerful, and thus need to be trapped beneath layers of fear, shame, guilt, and unhappiness. We need to rely those who seek selflessly to protect us by trying to blot out, censor, cancel, or silence the wrong words; and if all of those Wards and Circles of Protection fail us, we’ve nothing left to fall on except the knowledge that we’re bad people for doing all this listening, and we should feel the most hideous Remorse.  Because otherwise....  Otherwise, how will we know which things are acceptable to do, speak, and think? It’s those damn Villainpunks, the Dark Lords, Villains, and Monsters who break rules, disobey, and challenge the ideas of what’s permissible and what’s possible.They’re beasts; unruly, unrulable; rogues, cads, ne’er-do-wells, rakehells, vagabonds, pirates, fiends.  And you surely don’t want to be like them.  Wait…you do?  Damn it, it's too late. The contagion has spread, and you are infected.Well, nothing for it, then. Best buy this book and resign yourself to a life ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zak Price. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200817/bk_acx0_200817_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1403min

  Nietzsche never recovered from his mental breakdown in 1889 and therefore was unable to further any plans he had for the ‘magnum opus’ he had once intended, bringing together in a coherent whole his mature philosophy. It was left to his close friend Heinrich Köselitz and his sister Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche to go through the remaining notebooks and unpublished writings, choosing sections of particular interest to produce The Will to Power, giving it the subtitle An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. It was published in 1901, was expanded in subsequent years and was translated into English in its expanded form in 1910 by Anthony M Ludovici, who had done so much to bring Nietzsche’s work to the English-speaking public. Ludovici explains that for Nietzsche, the Will to Power was the fundamental principle of all life, a view that could be found in many of his earlier texts, including Thus Spoke Zarathustra: ‘Where there is life, there is also will: not, however, Will to  Life, but - so teach I thee - Will to Power!’ (In this, Nietzsche was concerned to overtake Schopenhauer’s concept of the ‘Will to Live’.) This posthumous compilation is arranged in four books (divided into 1,067 sections):European Nihilism A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoThe Principles of a New ValuationDiscipline and BreedingAmong the themes given prominence by this compilation - and it is, it must be remembered, basically an anthology - are nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe.  Nietzsche identified Christianity (and its claim to be ‘higher and better’) and its ‘meek/weak’ attitude as one cause of the nihilism that so concerned him. Another side of the coin was the ineluctable basic human nature of ’the will to power’. Deny that, and nihilism results. But passive nihilism (following the breakdown of social conventions ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Lunts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000221/bk_dhrm_000221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min

  A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Pauline Chen began medical school 20 years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox: that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality. She struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. From her first dissection of a cadaver in gross anatomy class, to the moment she first puts a scalpel to a living person; from the first time she witnesses someone flat-lining in the emergency room, to the first time she pronounces a patient dead, Chen is struck by her own mortal fears. There was a dying friend she could not call, a young patient's tortured death she could not forget, and even the sense of shared kinship with a corpse she could not cast aside when asked to saw its pelvis in two. Gradually, as she confronts the ways in which her fears have incapacitated her, she begins to reject what she has been taught about suppressing her feelings for her patients, and she begins to carve out a new role for herself as a physician and as human being. Chen's transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pauline W. Chen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000041/bk_pnix_000041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

  From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language - "so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy" - and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making - how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated - and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium - the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it - and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W. C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption.The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Winchester. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000734/bk_harp_000734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1181min

  In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. Now, drawing on extensive new research, Strange Glory offers a definitive account, by turns majestic and intimate, of this modern icon. The scion of a grand family that rarely went to church, Dietrich decided as a 13-year-old to become a theologian. By 21, the rather snobbish and awkward young man had already written a dissertation hailed by Karl Barth as a "theological miracle". But it was only the first step in a lifelong effort to recover an authentic and orthodox Christianity from the dilutions of liberal Protestantism and the modern idolatries of blood and nation - which forces had left the German church completely helpless against the onslaught of Nazism. From the start, Bonhoeffer insisted that the essence of Christianity was not its abstract precepts but the concrete reality of the shared life in Christ. In 1930, his search for that true fellowship led Bonhoeffer to America for 10 fateful months in the company of social reformers, Harlem churchmen, and public intellectuals. Energized by the lived faith he had seen, he would now begin to make what he later saw as his definitive "turn from the phraseological to the real". He went home with renewed vocation and took up ministry among Berlin’s downtrodden while trying to find his place in the hoary academic establishment increasingly captive to nationalist fervor. With the rise of Hitler, however, Bonhoeffer’s journey took yet another turn. The German church was Nazified, along with every other state-sponsored institution. But it was the Nuremberg laws that set Bonhoeffer’s earthly life on an ineluctable path toward destruction. His denunciation of the race statutes as heresy and his insistence on the church’s moral obligation to defend all victims of state viole ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Hecht. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/007812/bk_reco_007812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Songs for the Butcher's Daughter: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 911min

  Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, and the Ribalow Prize for Fiction. The novel was also a finalist for France's Prix Medicis and the Center for Fiction's First Novel of the Year Award. In a warehouse full of forgotten books, a man at the beginning of his adult life - and the end of his career rope - becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces - 22 volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit - the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways. Moving from revolutionary Russia, to New York's Depression-era Lower East Side, to millennium's-end Baltimore with drama, adventure, and boisterous, feisty charm to spare, the unpeeling of this friendship is a story of the entire 20th century. For fans of Nicole Krauss, Nathan Englander, Richard Powers, Amy Bloom, and Lore Segal, this book will amaze listeners at every turn. Narrated by two poets (one who doesn't know he is and one who doesn't know he isn't), it is a wise and warm exploration of the constant surprises and ineluctable ravages of time. It's a book about religion, love, and typesetting - how one passion can be used to goad and thwart the other - and most of all, about how faith in the power of words can survive even the death of a language. A novel of faith lost and hope found in translation, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter is at once an immigrant's epic saga, a love story for the ages, a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears tour of world his ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001023/bk_acx0_001023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Julio César (eBook, ePUB)

  Parte figura histórica, parte leyenda, Cayo Julio César fue uno de los grandes personajes de la Antigüedad y un individuo complejo: político brillante y maquiavélico, general genial, afortunado e implacable, un consumado conductor de hombres de agitada vida sentimental... Una imagen deformada tanto por la propaganda que el propio César vertió a la posteridad en sus Comentarios como por las sucesivas capas de ornato que, desde la Antigüedad hasta el presente, los historiadores han ido añadiendo a la vida del Divino Julio. Cribar entre realidad y leyenda es lo que plantea Patricia Southern, autora de libros como El Ejército romano del Bajo Imperio o Augusto, para mostrar que la vida de César fue extraordinaria, sí, pero que distó mucho de ser una trayectoria ineluctable, con un destino inevitable, sino que fueron el implacable carácter del personaje y sus decisiones -además de más de un guiño de la diosa Fortuna- las que condujeron a aquel. Si antes de su consulado en 59 a. C. César era un senador más, en los siguientes quince años una extraordinaria sucesión de maniobras políticas y campañas militares le llevaron a acumular un poder inmenso, más del que ningún romano hubiese reunido nunca, apuntando al gobierno unipersonal que su hijo adoptivo Octavio finalmente instaurase. Desde la juventud de un patricio vanidoso y petulante a su asesinato, acaso el más célebre magnicidio de la historia, Patricia Southern consigue sumergirnos en las agitadas últimas décadas de la República romana, acompañando a César en sus ocho años de interrumpidas campañas en la Galia, en la guerra civil contra Pompeyo y los optimates que le llevó a recorrer el Mediterráneo y combatir desde Egipto hasta Hispania, y también a intimar con Cleopatra, la última faraona. Seguir la vida de Julio César es asomarse a un tiempo y una vida convulsos, entreverados de leyenda, pero que este libro despeja para arrojar luz sobre el hombre que hubo detrás del mito.

  • Shop: buecher
  • Price: 11.99 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  La penurie en eau est-elle ineluctable ?

  La penurie en eau est-elle ineluctable ? - Une approche institutionnaliste de l'evolution du mode d'usage de l'eau en Espagne et au Maroc: ab 66.99 €

  • Shop: ebook.de
  • Price: 66.99 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Victoire dans les dunes

  Victoire dans les dunes - L'enlisement de la crise sahelienne n'est pas ineluctable : l'exemple mauritanien: ab 28.99 €

  • Shop: ebook.de
  • Price: 28.99 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Harry Monument

  Harry Monument has a junk food problem - he's been found murdered in a pile of French fries. Harry's partner, private-eye Keno Argyle, snags a job as a stand-in on a Kung Fu movie, gets kicked in the head and imagines himself in Los Angeles on the trail of Harry's killer. His search leads him to Hedda McGill a seductive beauty with a hidden agenda and a sinister scheme involving a mysterious cookbook, a one-eyed building inspector with a wooden leg, millions of used bricks and a number of drowned little people. Homicide cops Blume and Quinlan prowl the underworld along with Keno and, in a convoluted denouement, the true identity of the killer is revealed. A tongue-in-cheek homage to noir, HARRY MONUMENT provides enough twists and turns to see Hammett and Chandler spinning in their graves. This zany feature received an Award of Excellence at the 2004 Berkeley Film and Video Festival. 'Richard Evans is a master of absurd comedy. This new film coins that title for him.' ~ Denne Bart Petitclerc (Then Came Bronson) 'Harry Monument is an ineluctable, hilarious journey through cine noir, benign schizophrenia and theater of the absurd.' ~ Lewis John Carlino (The Great Santini) 'This incredible work is steeped in noir visuals, outlandish plots and intriguing characters...a tongue in the cheek of Raymond Chandler.' ~ Chris Crotty (The Marketplace) Visit veteran actor/writer/director Richard Evans on the web: artificialcityfilms.com and IMDb.com for filmography and career info as well as trailers for his film and TV work (Peyton Place, Dirty Little Billy, Shadow of Rain, Shuffle & Cut ( (A Question for Godard ) He is currently editing his new film,'Sans Sync' to be released in 2013.

  • Shop: odax
  • Price: 22.28 EUR excl. shipping

---

---