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The Eruption of Mount St. Helens: The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption in American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
One big 'Aha!' for geologists was that an entire mountain could collapse. (Peter Frenzen) "Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us. And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet." (Peter Frenzen) In 1980, the United States suffered the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in its history when Mount St. Helens literally blew its lid off, the result of seismic activity during the eruption. What made the eruption all the more remarkable was that a fair amount of preparations had gone into anticipating it, after an earthquake in the area a few months earlier alerted federal geologists to the possibility of activity there. In fact, Mount St. Helens had been the cause of the earthquake itself, the result of its own lava flows under the surface. Despite the warning signs, the volcanic eruption wound up being so powerful that it devastated hundreds of square miles around it and spewed volcanic ash in a giant plume that managed to scatter and deposit ash across 11 different states. Furthermore, another earthquake on May 18 managed to make the north face of the mountain collapse, shocking observers and scientists as it created the largest landslide ever recorded. Taken together, Mount St. Helens ultimately inflicted over $1 billion in damage and killed 57 people, including US scientists studying the volcano on the day it exploded. When President Carter saw the area he remarked, "Someone said this area looked like a moonscape. But the moon looks more like a golf course compared to what's up there." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Weippert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034134/bk_acx0_034134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ambrose Bierce: The Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Famous American Author , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
Includes Bierce's quotes about his own life and career "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." - Ambrose Bierce. Satirical commentary, memoirs from the agony of war, and horror stories of the supernatural have existed in literature since the beginning of the written word, and in virtually all global societies. The most lauded and familiar examples known to 21st century readers are emblematic of vast literary industries in comparison to previous eras. With an astonishing number of authors at liberty to self-publish and the rapid expansion of the relatively recent film industry, the world has never before seen such a vast expression of such genres. As a satirist, Bierce was famously dubbed the “Mark Twain of the North.” Inclusion of the "North," however, embodies several points of dissimilarity from the wit of Twain; sharp and lightning-clever like his counterpart from Missouri, Bierce the Ohioan made no pretense to Southern charm or allowed any room for a nuanced interpretation of his remarks. Once atop his profession, Bierce’s venom was spewed at virtually everyone, in almost every walk of life. Any figure of public note in San Francisco came to know him as “Bitter Bierce,” or by his initials, which in public life were often translated as “Almighty God Bierce.” As a war author, Bierce is the only one of the great literary figures who actually served as a front-line soldier in the American Civil War. Walt Whitman and Twain were somewhat removed from the conflict by comparison. Twain, in fact, “dabbled” at being a soldier before deserting his Confederate unit. Bierce’s often metaphysical and supernatural-tinged memoirs of his war service served as the ideal backdrop for the Poe-like “attraction to death in its most bizarre forms” and an affection for the ghost story as a “campfire tale.” A master of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085714/bk_acx0_085714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives and would rage uncontained for three days until its wreckage sank to a final resting place nearly a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor, the unit’s wellhead erupted. Over the next 10 weeks, as repeated attempts to cap the geyser failed, an estimated 1.7 million gallons of oil - the equivalent of 15 Exxon Valdez spills - spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away as Florida.Drowning in Oil, by award-winning business writer Loren Steffy - considered by many to be the writer with the best access to the story - is an unprecedented and gripping narrative of this catastrophe and how BP’s winner-take-all business culture made it all but inevitable. Through never-before-published interviews with BP executives and employees, environmental experts, and oil industry insiders, Steffy takes us behind the scenes of 100 years of BP corporate history.Beginning with the conglomerate’s early gambits in the Middle East to its recent ascent among energy titans, Steffy unearths the roots of the Gulf oil spill in the unwritten bargain between oil producers and consumers, whose insatiable appetites drive the search for new supplies faster, farther, and deeper. Beyond this, the Deepwater Horizon disaster was caused by BP’s reckless cost-cutting in pursuit of profits, particularly under the guidance of its two most recent ex-CEOs, John Browne and Anthony Hayward.Exhaustively researched and documented, Drowning in Oil is the first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in US history. It is an objective, definitive account of the energy industry and BP's pursuit of profit at any cost. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Loren C. Steffy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209091/bk_acx0_209091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dragon Light: The Chronicles of Shadow and Light, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
She was suddenly far from the underwater world, in a place that existed only in fire. The pressure was exquisite, crushing the breath and life from her. Magma spewed from roaring fountains, cascading all around her, touching the hem of her simple white dress and crumbling it to blackened ash. Soon, the shoes that had been on her feet were burned away, and only her pale skin was left behind. She stepped unflinchingly into the largest of the magma rivers, and waded out into the very center. Magma rose up from just beneath her, moving slowly up her skin as though a force greater than the center of the earth pulled it. It continued to rise until it covered her whole body, then it cooled rapidly, encasing her within smooth, black stone. There was no air anymore. No thought. No light. Only instinct. Golden-white light shot from the tips of her fingers downward into the magma, cracking the black stone, making the bubbling fire glow with radiance. It spread quickly through the river that she stood in, then traveled outward, rapidly transforming the entire network of rivers and streams, firefalls and oceans, until all were lit with her golden-white light. As the winding up days of the great and final battle commence, old alliances come to the fore, new alliances are strengthened, and their world of shifting light and dark becomes more hopeful as the numbers of the Luminari and those that follow the Dragon-King Cerralys continues to grow stronger. And then suddenly the unthinkable happens, and Auri discovers a secret so brutal that it shatters everything she knows. Everything she is. Before the end is come, before the final battle-horn knells and the fire of the Rebel Dragons descends, she must somehow find the courage to be the White Queen of elven prophecy, the strength to face the darkest shadows of Terradin, and the graces to heal that which seems irreparably broken. For herself, and for those that she just can't live without. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Goll. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058977/bk_acx0_058977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stock Market Investing for Beginners: An Easy and Simple Guide to Make Money in Stock Market , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min
The stock market is like a maze. To invest in stocks, one needs to have a thorough knowledge about the investments and different stocks. Stock Market Investing for Beginners is an audiobook that tells us in a very simple language all aspects of stock market investing and the issues concerned. It is a comprehensive study of all the data, analysis tools, and support that you need before investing. All forms of investment share a common purpose: to provide for a better future. Stock market investing is one of the best tools you can use to build a more secure financial foundation for you and your family. However, for those of us who aren't professional stockbrokers, the process of stock market investing can seem complex and bewildering. History has shown that investing in stocks is one of the easiest and most profitable ways to build wealth over the long-term. With a handful of notable exceptions, almost every member of the Forbes 400 list got there because they own a large block of shares in a public or private corporation. Although your beginning may be humble, this guide to investing in stocks will explain what stocks are, how you can make money from them, and much more. If you’re not well-versed in the basics of the stock market, the words and numbers spewed from CNBC or the markets section of your favorite newspaper can border on gibberish. Phrases like "earnings movers" and "intra-day highs" don’t mean much to the average investor, and in many cases, they shouldn’t. If you’re in it for the long term - with, say, a portfolio of mutual funds geared toward retirement - you don’t need to worry about this lingo, or about the flashes of red or green that cross the bottom of your TV screen. You can get by just fine without watching the market much at all. But if you’re interested in trading stocks, you need to start with some basic knowledge about how the stock market works. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Turner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106442/bk_acx0_106442_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Smashed Squashed Splattered Chewed Chunked and Spewed
Smashed Squashed Splattered Chewed Chunked and Spewed: ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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