31 Results for : infrequent
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If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
If We Must Die examines nearly 500 shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure. Taylor also explores issues like aid from other ships, punishment of slave rebels, and treatment of sailors captured by the Africans. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas. The book is published by Louisiana State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerald Zimmerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091302/bk_acx0_091302_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Carry the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
Eastern Kentucky, 1937.After the death of her husband, Ada Donovan returned home to live again with her aging parents. She does all she can to help them keep the small family farm going. But times are hard, and there’s never enough.During one of her infrequent visits to town, she sees a help-wanted notice for the Pack Horse Librarian Project, seeking librarians to ride up high in the mountains and bring books to the people there. Before her marriage, Ada was a teacher, and the thought of returning to the work she loved is impossible to resist. The mountains are her favorite place, books are her great joy, and her horse is her best friend.But not everyone on the mountain is happy to see her.Living in a crumbing cabin at the highest, most isolated point of Ada’s route, there’s a family that catches her attention. The father keeps to the shadows. There is no mother to dote on the happy, curious children. But soon, Ada comes to love them just as fiercely as the woman they lost.And makes it her mission to bring them the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eleanor Caudill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167728/bk_acx0_167728_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Thimble of Soil: A Woman's Quest for Land (Trail of Thread Series, Book 2) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 196min
Follow the widowed Margaret Ralston Kennedy (a relative of the author) in this second audiobook of the Trail of Thread series, as she travels with eight of her thirteen children from Ohio to the Territory of Kansas in 1855. Thousands of American headed west in the decade before the Civil War, but those who settled in Kansas suffered through frequent clashes between pro-slavery and free-state fractions that gripped the territory. Told through her letters, Thimble of Soil describes the prevalent hardships and infrequent joys experienced by the hardy pioneer women of Kansas, who struggled to protect their families from terrorist raids while building new homes and new lives on the vast unbroken prairie. Margaret was dedicated to the cause of the North, and while the male members of her family were away fighting for a free state, she valiantly defended their homestead and held their families together through the savage years of Bleeding Kansas. Experience the terror of the fighting and the determination to endure as you stake a claim alongside the women caught in the bloody conflicts of Kansas in the 1850s. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Dougherty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014586/bk_acx0_014586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Little Secrets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min, (USK 18)
Philip Hartley runs an elite finishing school, Ashby Chateau, which turns young women into perfectly submissive little ones. He has been zealous about discretion, ensuring that only those worthy and with a recommendation have the chance to become part of this world. When Charley Lockwood, a journalist for the local newspaper, begins snooping around the chateau, he catches a glimpse of a young woman in a dress far too scandalous to be legal. Curiosity and arousal strike him like an arrow, making him desperately keen to know more about the girl in the yellow dress. Eliza Stead was brought to the Ashby Chateau by her betrothed, who wanted to teach her to submit and become his little wife. However, his visits to her grow ever more infrequent, and she suspects his interest in her is waning; a fact which is soon confirmed. Due to her desire to continue her education rather than be forced to return home unwed, she must find a papa who loves her and is willing to pay her tuition and marry her. Will Charley's desire for the truth ruin Little Eliza's life at the Ashby? Can Charley accept the world he has stepped into without destroying it? And can they both find love in a world of little secrets? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beatrice Pendergast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070536/bk_acx0_070536_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kama Sutra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min, (USK 18)
Has your relationship fallen prey to the day-to-day routine of life? Has you and your partner's sex life been reduced to an infrequent occasion where you both act out the same moves, with the dwindling passion? And yet, as the fire that brought you two together fades, and you become emotionally more distant, there a voice from deep in your soul telling that you still unequivocally love them? Whether your relationship is on the brink of divorce, or your newlyweds and want to make sure the honeymoon never ends, this is the perfect time to take your relationship to the next level. This introduction to the Kama Sutra will help you get a fresh, healthier perspective on your relationship and provide techniques no how to reconnect sexually and emotionally so that you not only rekindle the flame, it will be blazing brighter than ever! Here is a preview of what you'll learn: Learn the lovemaking techniques that have couples for centuries Dispel the misconceptions of the Kama Sutra as "sex manual" Understand the true purpose of the Kama Sutra Learn the ancient art of seduction Learn about the ancient Indian society where the Kama Sutra originated Get tips on how to get the most out of Kama Sutra Much, much more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068089/bk_acx0_068089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emotional Detox to Rewire Your Brain to Success: Subconscious Mind to Conquer Negative Thinking, Learn the Law of Attraction Manifestation, Unleashing the Power Within Because Failure Is Not an Option , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min
The trajectory of negative thinking is an endless loop. One negative thought takes over another, and before you know it, you are already reaping the loss of action driven by negativity. Our actions, decisions, perceptions, and outlook on life is dictated by thoughts.Count all of the times you found yourself in a pit of negative thoughts driving every decision in your life. It is a bad place to be in. Most people spend their entire lives having a perpetually negative outlook on everything. They stop chasing dream careers or give up easily. This book will transform the way you think. It is all about a mind shift: astonishingly simple but woefully infrequent by familiarizing with the grassroots causes and effects of negative thinking and allowing your mind an emotional detox and a paradigm shift.Backed by science, research from credible institutions, and most qualified professionals in human psychology, this book is a complete resource on enabling your conscious and subconscious mind to end and conquer negative thinking.We are talking about lateral thinking. We are talking about enlightenment. And we are educating ourselves of the simple secrets of adopting positive thinking and having it transform our careers, relationships, opinions, and life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Koschella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223240/bk_acx0_223240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Boy Dreamer: An Artist's Memoir of Identity, Awakening, and Beating the Odds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
The year is 1957. Four-year-old Paul Ecke sits timidly at a foreign kitchen table, eating the first inferior meal of many in a foster home. Longing for his beloved mother, he sees her only on short weekend visits that grow more infrequent over time, as she tries unsuccessfully to hide a nervous breakdown along with yet another growing pregnancy. Struggling to endure the strict rules of the house and the coldness of his foster parents, Paul begins to live in his creative mind where everything is possible and the grandest of dreams take flight. But after his family reunites, the adults he relies on both crumble and damage, as improprieties occur and secrets are slowly revealed that add more layers to the complexity of a visibly sensitive boy's view of the world.Despite - or perhaps because of - the emotional angst, complicated sexual identity issues, and deep loss he experiences, Paul cultivates a profound gift of creative genius. Vibrant with candor and resonant with details of coming of age in '60s and '70s California, as well as of bravely thriving for a decade with cancer, Boy Dreamer is a moving and ultimately triumphant story of a man who discovers his truth and courageously lives it, in a life brimming with love, art, gratitude, and beauty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Leo O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169596/bk_acx0_169596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Don't Set Sail without a Compass!, Hörbuch, Digital, 65min
What is Spiritual Truth? What is the nature of Enlightenment and what is the nature of God and the universe? Dr. Hawkins opens this powerful talk by asking these questions and with an unparalleled awareness, supplies us with the answers. As the role of teacher, his way has been extensively the pathway to Enlightenment. And he explains that the most important thing when one starts a spiritual journey is that "you don’t set sail without a compass." He further elucidates that the human mind does not have the capability to discern Truth from falsehood, which is one reason Enlightenment has been an infrequent occurrence. His aim is to give spiritual students tools to assist with this so Enlightenment is more readily attainable. This talk also explains the Newtonian paradigm, the levels of consciousness, the positive aspects of having positionalities and the importance of letting go and surrender. Spiritual progress is made through the willingness to surrender all belief systems and positionalities to God; to surrender the belief that the ego knows anything. How does one have the power and strength to let go of a belief? It comes only through humility and a devotion to God. Dr. Hawkins also inspires us with this powerful quote: "Great Power is only given through great purification". Language: English. Narrator: David R. Hawkins, MD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/veri/000090/bk_veri_000090_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, and friends who were enjoying more freedom and less parental guidance. At the age of 16, he attended his first Grateful Dead concert on June 30, 1987 - he was hooked. Between 1987 and 1995, Conners would attend Dead 'shows' all over the United States. He traveled with a makeshift 'family' of other Deadheads in a Volkswagen camper, selling drugs and whatever else would provide gas money to the next concert. His hair was a wild, unkempt bush and baths were infrequent. In short, he had progressed from suburban kid, to Grateful Dead fan, to full-blown Deadhead. Chronicling this progression, which culminates with the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia, Conners reveals the truth behind Deadhead culture and history. The result is a riveting insight into the obsessive fandom that made The Grateful Dead the most successful touring band of all time, as well as a cultural phenomenon. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017229/bk_adbl_017229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.The author was a keen recruit at initial training, and his excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. The horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit; their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front.This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, over five decades later, the fulfillment of a responsibility he feels to honor the memory of those who perished. Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He lives in Germany, having retired from his job as managing director of a sales company. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Patterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012091/bk_tant_012091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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