35 Results for : senility
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The Grim Reaper's Bedside Story Book: Tales of Gruesome and Unusual Deaths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 917min
A highly unsettling collection of macabre stories in which death and the dead are key themes. "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle "A Strange Goldfield", by Guy Boothby "The Withered Arm", by Thomas Hardy "The Pistol Shot", by Alexander Pushkin "The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe "The Dead Hand", by Wilkie Collins "The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller", by Sidney Keyes "The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe "Nine O’Clock", by Wilkie Collins "The Queen of Spades", by Alexander Pushkin "The Other Side", by Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock "The King is Dead, Long Live the King", by Mary Coleridge "The Restless Dead", by Lord Halifax "The Dumb Man", by Sherwood Anderson "The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett "The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley "Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa M. Alcott "They", by Rudyard Kipling "An Idyll of London", by Beatrice Harraden "The Monkey’s Paw", by W. W. Jacobs "Senility", by Sherwood Anderson "The Black Ferry", by John Galt "The Mines of Falun", by E. T. A. Hoffmann "The Dead", by James Joyce "The Cord", by Charles Baudelaire "The Child with the Bread Shoes", by Théophile Gautier "Jenny", by Victor Hugo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000401/bk_redd_000401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Never Forget: Beacons of Hope, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
Rose Island Lighthouse, Rhode Island, June 1880. Will she betray his trust to stay on the island she loves? Abbie Watson is content to spend her days clamming, crabbing, and tending Rose Island Lighthouse. Her grandpa is the head light keeper, but his senility may lead to their eviction. Since leaving the island would kill her beloved Gramps, Abbie will do anything to keep him in the one place he knows and loves. Wealthy Nathaniel Winthrop III's wild living has gained him a reputation as the bad boy among the elite social circles of Newport. After a blow to the head in a yachting accident washes him up on Rose Island, Nathaniel has no memories of his past. Abbie tends the wounded stranger in her home only to realize he assumes they're married. Although she knows she needs to correct Nathaniel's mistake, his presence calms Gramps and provides a way to prevent eviction from the lighthouse. The longer the charade continues, the harder it gets for Abbie to tell Nathaniel the truth, more so as she begins to fall in love. Everyone she's ever loved has abandoned her. Will Nathaniel leave her too, once he discovers he's not really her husband? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Becky Doughty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082861/bk_acx0_082861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Hundred Years of Solitude , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min
Includes a bonus PDF with a character chart! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005853/bk_blak_005853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Okinawa Centenarian Diet Secrets: 10 Super Foods That Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 25min
At the southernmost prefecture of Japan lives a population who treats centenarians as if they are ordinary beings and are not walking miracles. And why shouldn't they when they live in a place where aging past 80 or even a hundred years isn't a miracle but is an inevitability? Such is the way of those who, to us with an average life expectancy of only 70 years, seem to be immortals. Besides collectively owning a world record for their longevity, Okinawans are strong even against senility, have a low risk of catching age-related diseases, especially heart disease, and are of such pleasing temperaments as if they came from another world. Imagine all the free time they have to enjoy the remainder of their lives after retirement - and the energy, too. Since the discovery of this simple but amazing fact about the prefecture, people all over the world have been trying to find out a way to live as long. Their conclusions? Okinawans have been forced to feed on specific food types for the whole of their lives. Why? Because of how they live: isolated in the fertile Ryukyu Islands. If you are one of those people who want to get the same long life and overall good health without leaving the comfort of the city, then you have the right book in your hands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abernathy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064297/bk_acx0_064297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Memory Power 101: A Comprehensive Guide to Better Learning for Students, Businesspeople, and Seniors , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
Drawing on his years of expertise in neuroscience, the "Memory Medic", Dr. W. R. Klemm, offers hundreds of tips and techniques for improving your memory. Today, younger and older people alike are worried about their memories. Billions of dollars are spent each year on herbs, vitamins, and drugs that can supposedly help you build a better memory or protect the skills you have. With over 200 well-researched tips and 300 scholarly references, Memory Power 101 can do what no pill can—help students get better grades, aid professionals in essential confidence building, and give seniors a means of taking control of senility. Dr. Klemm explains the different kinds of memories and how they are stored and accessed in everyday situations. He offers advice on learning how to focus and pay attention so that key pieces of information are more easily used. He talks about the importance of cues and stimuli both when learning and in recall, discusses repressed memories, Freudian slips, the roles of both exercise and sleep in building a better memory, and more. With his advice, you’re bound to improve your memory of names and faces, as well as read and heard information. Keep better track of numbers and places, and even remember where you left your house keys and where you parked your car! Memory Power 101 is a unique book that can help almost anyone be more successful and happier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Heath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008488/bk_adbl_008488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Metronome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min
It is for the entities known as Sleepwalkers to cross the doors between dreams and hunt the nightmares that haunt sleeping minds. Theirs is a world of impossible vistas, where reason is banished and only the imagination holds sway: the connected worlds that all sleeping minds inhabit, and the doors that lead between. But tonight, one Sleepwalker has gone rogue. Abandoning her sworn oath to protect the dreamscapes, she has devoted herself to another cause, threatening to unleash a nightmare older than man. The only chance of stopping her lies with a man named Manderlay. Once a feted musician, William Manderlay is living his twilight years in an Edinburgh care home, riddled with arthritis and filled with a longing for his youth, for the open seas, and for the lost use of his hands and the violin he has always treasured. For too long now, Manderlay's nights have been coloured by dark, corrupted dreams: dreams of leprous men in landscapes plucked from his memory, of dark figures seeking him on city streets. His comrades in the retirement home believe Manderlay is giving in to age and senility - but the truth is much worse. For in dreams, maps are made from music - and it just might be that one of William Manderlay's forgotten compositions holds the key to unleashing the nightmare that holds the world of dreams in balance. The Sleepwalkers are zoning in on him. He might be their saviour, or his music might be their damnation.... From the acclaimed author of Dark Star comes a literary fantasy like no other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cameron Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029710/bk_adbl_029710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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British Legends: The Life and Legacy of King George III , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min
Explains George III's role and policies during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Era. Discusses George III's mixed legacy and whether criticisms of it are fair. “I wish nothing but good; therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.” – King George III When he died in 1820, King George III had presided over the longest reign by a monarch in England’s history and ruled the British Empire during one of its most turbulent and important periods, but he was remembered by the unappealing sobriquets "The Mad King” and ”The King Who Lost America". The British remembered him based on the fact that he began suffering serious mental illnesses by the end of his life, and he was even more despised in America, with Jefferson summing up the public opinion of the British king in a letter to then-ambassador John Adams: "We I hope shall be left free to avail ourselves of the advantages of neutrality: and yet much I fear the English, or rather their stupid king, will force us out of it. (...) Common sense dictates therefore that they should let us remain neuter: Ergo they will not let us remain neuter. I never yet found any other general rule for foretelling what they will do, but that of examining what they ought not to do." Given George III’s descent into senility, and the fact that he was the monarch during the American Revolution, it was only natural that George III would be remembered those ways, but his reputation and legacy have been given a more objective and positive reexamination over the last few decades. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100053/bk_acx0_100053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Godspeed: Earls of East Anglia, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min
1215 A.D. - Dashiell "Dash" du Reims is the eldest son of the Earl of East Anglia and a cousin to the great House of de Lohr. Much like his warring and politically-involved cousins, Dashiell is also waist-deep in the political turmoil that is sweeping England at this time. As the Captain of the Guard for the powerful, and senile, Duke of Savernake, his is in the middle of the baron's rebellion against the king.Although his de Lohr cousins have been trying to lure him over into serving Christopher de Lohr, the greatest knight in the realm, Dashiell is reluctant for one very good reason, a woman. Specifically, the duke's youngest daughter, the lovely and sweet Belladonna. With the duke's senility, there is an undercurrent movement from within the family to usurp the duke by two of his ambitious sons-in-laws. As a man with only three daughters, the husbands of the older daughters are plotting to steal the duke's power and his seat, and Dashiell is the only thing that stands between them and the mad duke. He is also the only thing that stands between their wicked intentions towards Belladonna. Nothing will get past Dashiell when it comes to Belladonna, not even men who technically outrank him. He'll fight to the death.Soon enough, the evil husbands are plotting to be rid of Dashiell as well, but not if the powerful de Lohr family has anything to say about it. Enter a world of grand medieval pageantry, passion, battles, and politics in Dashiell and Belladonna's story, where love is the only thing that truly conquers all and family bonds are the strongest of all. It's an all-out knightfest in this glorious medieval epic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian J. Gill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139538/bk_acx0_139538_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Apology and Memorabilia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min
Xenophon was a friend of Socrates, and yet his concise memories of the iconic philosopher have lived under the shadow of the more voluminous accounts by Plato. Yet Xenophon’s two works - Apology and Memorabilia - are, in many ways, more entertaining and more accessible, and they present a different view of the man who embodies a clear mind, temperate, ethical living, sharp intellect and humour.For example, in Apology - the account of Socrates’ trial for corrupting youth and impiety - Socrates declines to mount a truly robust defence on the basis that in some ways it would be better to accept the judgment of the court, however unjust, and die, rather than ‘pay the old man’s forfeit’ by declining into senility and illness. Xenophon was not at the trial, being on the Persian campaign at the time, and bases his account on the reports of Hermogenes, who was there. But he was a student and even friend of Socrates and clearly knew him well. Memorabilia offers a succession of engaging tableaux in which Socrates (as in Plato’s accounts) interacts with a variety of prominent Athenian figures, challenging, explaining, expounding and generally running rings around his interlocutors. The topics are often about everyday civic life, purpose, manners and attitudes. He gives clear instruction on the value of good friends, how to be a good general, a good cavalry leader; unexpectedly, he compares the role of the businessman with that of the general and clarifies what is needed by an individual aspiring to be head of state. When someone asks Socrates what seemed to him the best pursuit for a man, he answers, “Doing well. He who does nothing well is neither useful in any way nor dear to the gods.” In Xenophon’s affectionate portrait, Socrates comes across as a truly human personality, warm, courageous, highly principled but also generous towards the more wayward members of society that he meets. These works are certainly far m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rintoul. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000215/bk_dhrm_000215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mentally Fit Forever: How to Boost Your Brain Power at Any Age, Hörbuch, Digital, 367min
Millions of Americans over 40 have a secret fear - that their memory isn't what it used to be... that they may be slipping into the first stages of an inevitable slide toward forgetfulness, fumbling for names or facts, muddled thinking, and eventually the "S" word - senility. They have good reason to fear. Over 50 percent of Americans over the age of 60 experience some loss of mental acuity including Alzheimer's disease. And yet scientific research is proving that it doesn't have to be that way! The reality is that you can be sharper as you age, if you start now to care for that most important of all organs, your brain. And even if you are already experiencing memory loss, you can do what hundreds of others have already done - reverse the process! Many of us fear something that is no longer true - you can grow smarter as you grow older. You don't have to suffer the consequences of age-related memory loss, nor do you have to be the proverbial 90-pound weakling at the Scrabble table. You can build your brain power and be Mentally Fit Forever! It's easy to train the mind! With the recommendations you'll find from psychologist and mind expert Dr. Lee Pulos, you'll discover not only how to recognize failing or fading cognitive skills, but how to enrich and amplify your natural brain power. Mentally Fit Forever is not a program for building your memory in the traditional sense. There are no mnemonic devices, in fact, there is no system at all to memorize! The program focuses specifically on the physiology of the brain and overall brain health. For years Americans have been bombarded by programs for weight-loss, heart health, nutrition, and exercise for a healthy body. But this is the first program of its kind that talks about your single most important physical asset - your brain. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Pulos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000143/bk_ntgl_000143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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