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    The Stream of Everything (eBook, ePUB)
    It's summer, and John Connell finds himself, like so many others, confined to his local area, the opportunity to freely travel and socialise cut short. His attention turns to the Camlin river - an ever-present source of life for his hometown's inhabitants and, for John, a site of boyhood adventure, first love, family history and local legend.He decides to canoe its course with a friend, a two-day trip requiring physical exertion and mental resilience. Despite the world growing still around them, the river teems with life - a symphony of buzzing mayfly and jumping trout. Meandering downstream, John muses on what's brought him here: his travels, his past relationships and his battle with depression, as well as on Irish folklore, geopolitics and philosophy.The Stream of Everything is both a reverie and a celebration of close observation: a winding, bucolic account of the summer we discovered home.'Quietly triumphant.' Donal Ryan'A contemplative, open-ended, ethically attuned pilgrimage.' Niamh Campbell'A terrific book.' Michael Harding'This is a sensitive, edifying, soul-nourishing book, celebratory, salutary and quietly triumphant. I loved reading it.' Donal Ryan'A rich river journey, entrancing as all rivers are.' Bruce Pascoe'Gentle, restorative, devotional, and strange.' Niamh Campbell'A hugely satisfying read, full of imaginative wonders and absorbing philosophical musings.' Michael Harding'In his joyful consideration of his native place, there is sweetness and ease ... A book very much of its strange and eye-opening time.' Belinda McKeon
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    The Georgics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 197min
    Virgil's Georgics ranks as one of the most precious pastoral poems ever written, and it has served as a model for its type ever since. Georgics means "of or relating to agriculture or rural life" and it comes from the Greek word "georgicus". Virgil's main theme in this, his second great work after The Eclogues, was the importance of peace both in the spiritual and physical sense. One arrives at this peace through embracing the hard life of the farmer and also coming to an understanding of one's place in the universe. Virgil used the Greek poet Hesiod as his guide for describing why the cheerful acceptance of laboring on a farm was salutary. (Hesiod's Works and Days is an attempt by the poet to explain to an estranged brother why his work on the family farm would make him a better person.) As for an understanding of one's place in the universe, Virgil used as his model the Epicurean philosophy in the poetry of his fellow Roman, Lucretius. But although Virgil absorbed the incredible poetry of both Hesiod and Lucretius, he did not copy them. His work is entirely his own. The Georgics is an amazing synthesis of the scientific and the spiritual which continues to amaze us to this day. This great poem is organized into four parts, or books. Its ostensible subject is farming and the correct seasons for the various chores of the farmer: the cultivation of vines and the planting of trees, farm animals and their diseases, and, finally, how to care for bees. Though Virgil claims that his aim is to teach, the real result is to inspire us with the genius of his poetic ability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000088/bk_acon_000088_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jeremy Hardy Feels It: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 111min
    Jeremy Hardy returns with a brand-new series that not only seconds that emotion but explains it, too. Yes, BBC Radio 4's most passionate polemicist returns to the airwaves with a new format which promises to be both personal and profound, and to present sides of Jeremy you won't have heard before. He may even sing. (He won't sing.) The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue regular, proud progenitor of 10 series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, and winner of numerous awards and almost certainly the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Jeremy is famous for lines like: 'Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year-old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own' and, 'Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the jokes taken out.' His unique worldview once lead him to be likened to 'an incendiary vicar'. Gillian Reynolds called him 'an idealist, a dissenter, a polemicist and moralist - he's a salutary reminder that jokes can, and should, be about big things'. The show is produced by Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler, whose radio credits include Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore's Double Acts, Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!, Marcus Brigstocke's The Brig Society, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The Castle, The 99p Challenge, Deep Trouble, My First Planet, Radio Active and Bigipedia. His TV credits include Paul Merton - the Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Coogan's Run and executive producing Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies. In the four shows, Jeremy is feeling, in turn, happy, sad, fearful and, finally, hopeful! Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Hardy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003042/bk_rhuk_003042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Relaxation and Harmony - Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Hörbuch, Digital, 75min
    The progressive muscle relaxation, also knows as PMR, is a relaxation technique, developed by the US american physician Edmund Jacobsen (1888-1983). He discovered, as a result of his scientific studies, that this relaxation technique could be salutary for many phsychomatic diseases and may also be a method to reduce stress. PMR is a method by which in changing deliberately and intentically relaxation and strain of different parts of muscels a deep state of relaxation of body and mind is reached. PMR is a high effective method, which is proven by clinical examinations, against corporal and mental difficulties like: restlessness and excitement, stress, extreme heart pounding, sweating, shiver, headache, high blood pressure, muscle tension, postural defect, backache, disturbance of stomach and intestines, insomnia. PMR also sees use in anxiety disorder, as an accompaining relaxation technique in behavioral therapy. This Audiobook is a guide for your self -studies and learning. In listening regularly to this audioprogramm you can internalize its content everywhere - in a bus on the way to your place of work, in an office, at every moment wherever you are whenever you like, in the morning or in the evening- it is a relaxation ritual at every moment as you like. SyncSouls offers 5 different versions - each one of them is one complete exercise in it. 1. Body region: PMR - hands and arms (well applicable in case of increased desk work); 2. Body region: PMR - face (well applicable in case of headache); 3. Body region: PMR - head, neck and shoulders (fav, myosclerosis in shoulders and back of the neck), 4. Body region: PMR - abdomen, buttocks and legs (e.g. well applicable when sitting a long time or in case of pains and troubles at the lower back side and in the stomach region); 5. PMR for all parts of the body in one run-through. Syncsouls wishes you a great pleasure and re Language: English. Narrator: Colin Griffiths-Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sync/000056/bk_sync_000056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1349min
    From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling A History of God, The Battle for God, and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.In one astonishing, short period - the ninth century BCE - the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Historians call this the Axial Age because of its central importance to humanity's spiritual development. Now, Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of this transformative moment in history, examining the brilliant contributions to these traditions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, and Ezekiel.Armstrong makes clear that despite some differences of emphasis, there was remarkable consensus among these religions and philosophies: each insisted on the primacy of compassion over hatred and violence. She illuminates what this "family" resemblance reveals about the religious impulse and quest of humankind. And she goes beyond spiritual archaeology, delving into the ways in which these Axial Age beliefs can present an instructive and thought-provoking challenge to the ways we think about and practice religion today.A revelation of humankind's early shared imperatives, yearnings, and inspired solutions - as salutary as it is fascinating.Excerpt from The Great Transformation:"In our global world, we can no longer afford a parochial or exclusive vision. We must learn to live and behave as though people in remote parts of the globe were as important as ourselves. The sages of the Axial Age did not create their compassionate et ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Armstrong. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000688/bk_bkot_000688_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    Here are three key works by Sigmund Freud which, published in the first decades of the 20th century, underpinned his developing views and had such a dramatic effect on world society. In the uncompromising Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), he declared that 'sexual aberrations' are not limited to the insane but exist in 'normal' people to a greater or lesser degree. The three essays are divided between sexual perversions, childhood sexuality and puberty. Twenty-first century society has opened and developed the subject considerably, but it is still salutary to return to one of the most important early discussions. Freud presents the force of the unconscious in the sexual instinct and complexes such as the castration complex and the Oedipus complex, the latter of which he first noted in The Interpretation of Dreams. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) Freud corrects his earlier view that libido or sexual drive is the overwhelming force behind human activity. Now he balances the drive of 'Eros' with 'Thanatos', the destruction or death principle. Along with the pleasure principle, he argues, there lies a tendency for people to self-harm in many ways, either literally or by replaying painful events or thoughts of the past - deliberately invoking 'unpleasure' (psychological discomfort or pain). Beyond the Pleasure Principle remains one of the most criticised texts in the Freud oeuvre. In The Ego and the Id (1923), Freud outlined his study of the human psyche, the result of many years of psychoanalytical practice. Based on the concepts of the 'conscious' and 'unconscious', three elements in the psychic apparatus come into play - the id (instinctual trends), the superego (the critical and moralising role) and the ego (the more conscious control that decides between the two). In the recording, the three works presented here are not only of interest in themselves but show the developing nature of Freud's thought ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Le Page. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000055/bk_dhrm_000055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Theology and Culture
    Description: How can we speak about God without assuming that God is nothing but our own speaking, nothing but our culture's effort to name what cannot be named? How can we deny that our speaking of God is always culturally located? To answer these questions, we need to pay close attention to what we mean by culture, and how we use this very complex term both in our everyday language and especially in the language of faith. Culture is an exceedingly complex term that nearly everyone uses, but no one is sure what it means. This work examines various uses of the term culture in theology today. Endorsements: ""Modernity, Steve Long tells us with his patented acerbity, is a broken record that never stops repeating its supposed novelty. If broken records require sharp, swift smacks to be knocked out of their tiresome grooves, Long's palm-sized book delivers a salutary slap that gets us back on track--and out of confused modern conceptualities that pit theology against culture. An excellent, masterly introduction to its topic."" --Rodney Clapp, author of A Peculiar People and Border Crossings ""Too many 'guides' pretend to a kind of theological neutrality that leads us nowhere. Steve Long's wonderful little book is a noted exception: here is a guide to the theological terrain that doesn't apologize for working with a compass. Providing a helpful survey of various schools of thought, the book also constitutes an argument for a particular theological understanding of culture. Long not only charts the territory, he also shows students how to plot a path through it. I've already been commending it to my students."" --James K. A. Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College ""Long's book is filled with deep insight and strategic provocation, both of which ought to push the theology and culture conversation beyond its unexamined truisms and self-satisfied dogmas. This is a book for people who take their theology without cream or sugar."" --Brent Laytham, Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics, North Park Theological Seminary ""This work, as the title suggests, offers a bird's eye view of the state of play between theology and culture. It provides a valuable summary of the contribution of Richard Niebuhr to the subject, but also suggests there is a need to revise Niebuhr's classifications in the wake of the rising influence of the theology of Henri de Lubac common to both the Radical Orthodoxy and Communio Catholic scholars. From de Lubac's perspective, Christ transforms cultures, rather than standing aloof outside them. The dynamics of this transformation is now a pressing theological concern which flows over confessional boundaries."" --Tracey Rowland, author of Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II (Radical Orthodoxy) About the Contributor(s): D. Stephen Long is professor of theology at Marquette University. He has published a number of works, including Divine Economy: Theology and the Market (2000), The Goodness of God: Theology, Church, and the Social Order (2001), John Wesley's Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness (2005), and Calculated Future: Theology, Ethics, and Economics (2007).
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    Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics
    Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics - 'A Salutary Moral Influence': ab 36.99 €
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    Salutary Neglect
    Salutary Neglect - Colonial Administration Under the Duke of Newcastle: ab 55.49 €
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    12 Etudes/Masques/4 Etudes/Metopes
    Szymanowski's most celebrated works have been recorded here. The early 4 Etudes include the popular "Andante in modo d'una canzone", a sorrowful song above slow repeated chords. The rest of the (later) works show the maturing of Szymanowki's unique piano style and in particular the salutary influence of Ravel?s and Debussy's weightless, diaphanous textures.
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