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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 788min

In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opulence and grandeur. By the second half of the 17th century, the Mughal empire was one of the largest and richest in the world. The Mughal women - unmarried daughters, eccentric sisters, fiery milk mothers and powerful wives - often worked behind the scenes and from within the zenana, but there were some notable exceptions among them who rode into battle with their men, built stunning monuments, engaged in diplomacy, traded with foreigners and minted coins in their own names. Others wrote biographies and patronised the arts. In Daughters of the Sun, we meet remarkable characters like Khanzada Begum who, at 65, rode on horseback through 750 kilometres of icy passes and unforgiving terrain to parley on behalf of her nephew, Humayun; Gulbadan Begum, who gave us the only document written by a woman of the Mughal royal court, a rare glimpse into the harem, as well as a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of three emperors - Babur, Humayun and Akbar, her father, brother and nephew; Akbar’s milk mothers or foster mothers, Jiji Anaga and Maham Anaga, who shielded and guided the 13-year-old emperor until he came of age; Noor Jahan, ‘Light of the World’, a widow and mother who would become Jahangir’s last and favourite wife, acquiring an imperial legacy of her own; and the fabulously wealthy Begum Sahib (Princess of Princesses) Jahanara, Shah Jahan’s favourite child, owner of the most lucrative port in medieval India and patron of one of its finest cities, Shahjahanabad. The very first attempt to chronicle the women who played a vital role in building the Mughal empire, Daughters of the Sun is an illuminating and gripping history of a little known aspect of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shernaz Patel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050355/bk_adbl_050355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1351min

In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history. These titans of history - encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers - lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l’Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events - from ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars. These are the historical figures everyone should know and the stories we should never forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006415/bk_rand_006415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tarot for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Reading Cards, Understanding the Signs and Interpreting Cards , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min

Top tarot card professional and exponential secrets of the higher realm revealed in this audiobook!This all-new, fresh, and interesting Tarot for Beginners gives you a practical guide to reading cards, understanding the signs, and interpreting cards. Award-winning and knowledgeable Tarot and fortune telling professional, Jacqueline Mayer bring to your knowledge the deep secrets, history, and the meaning of cards. This audiobook is a "must get" for everyone who wants to be filled in with the secrets of reading tarot cards.This audiobook, Tarot for Beginners, will let you discover the meaning and core definition of all the 78 cards, clearly breaking down into sections and segments like Major and Minor Arcana, Number, and Suits. This audiobook carefully pleads to be listened to, and it contains powerful symbols that represent kings and queens, emperors and empresses, sun and moon, etc.Learn about Symbols, Tarot History, Reversals, and Interpretive techniques Step-by-step guide to professional tarot card reading, creating a new style for you to be familiar with Identify card images from three popular tarot decks using Trump Major. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Florin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181422/bk_acx0_181422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tiassa: Vlad Taltos, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min

Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living. That skill got him his foothold in House Jhereg, running the rackets for a chunk of urban Adrilankha. Later, things happened that left Vlad a changed man, on the run from the Jhereg and frequently involved in the affairs of Dragonlords, Empresses, and even Jenoine. Far more involved than the average human. Meanwhile, in the very distant past, one of the gods fashioned an artifact - a silver figurine of a tiassa, a winged panther-like animal. To Devera the Wanderer, it’s a pretty toy to play with. To Vlad, it’s a handy prop for a con he’s running. To the Empire, it’s a tool to be used against the Jenoine. And to the Jhereg, it’s a trap to kill Vlad. As it happens, however, the silver tiassa has its own agenda. Tiassa tells a story that threads its way through more than ten years of the remarkable life of Vlad Taltos - and, to the delight of longtime fans, brings him together with Khaavren, from The Phoenix Guards and its sequels. Khaavren may be Vlad’s best friend - or his most terrible enemy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004166/bk_adbl_004166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tarot Bible: 2 Books in 1: The Complete Guide of Tarot for Beginners, Egyptian’s Tarot Cards and Thot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

This audiobook will provide you with all the necessary guidance to learn how to read the secrets of cards, Egyptian tarots, and Thoth. It will also allow you to understand the tarot cards and the spiritual secrets of the tarot and interpret it efficiently.This brand-new, fresh, and interesting book will guide beginners and be a practical guide to reading cards, understanding signs, and interpreting cards. Jacqueline Mayer brings to your knowledge the deep secrets, history and meaning of the cards. This book is a must for anyone who wants to be filled with the secrets of tarot reading. This book will help you discover the basic meaning and definition of all 78 cards, clearly divided into sections and segments such as major and minor Arcana, number, and suits. This book carefully explains how to read Tarot that contains powerful symbols representing kings and queens, emperors and empresses, sun and moon, etc.Discover the symbols, the history of tarot cards, inversions, and interpretative techniques. This is a step-by-step guide to professional tarot reading, creating a new style to familiarize yourself with and identify card images from three popular tarot decks using Trump Major. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Florin, Isha Gill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189238/bk_acx0_189238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Nile: A Journey Downriver through Egypt’s past and Present , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 739min

A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult. Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: From the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters - the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019231/bk_adbl_019231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The First Ladies of Rome (eBook, ePUB)

Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers. But the women proved to be liabilities as well as assets - Augustus' daughter Julia was accused of affairs with at least five men, Claudius' wife Messalina was a murderous tease who cuckolded and humiliated her elderly husband, while Fausta tried to seduce her own stepson and engineered his execution before boiled to death as a punishment. In The First Ladies of Rome Annelise Freisenbruch unveils the characters whose identities were to reverberate through the ages, from the virtuous consort, the sexually voracious schemer and the savvy political operator, to the flighty bluestocking, the religious icon and the romantic heroine. Using a rich spectrum of literary, artistic, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this book uncovers for the first time the kaleidoscopic story of some of the most intriguing women in history, and the vivid and complex role of the empresses as political players on Rome's great stage.

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Jerusalem , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1530min

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day, and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism, and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors, and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers, and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity, and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on Earth. Read by John Lee. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000665/bk_orio_000665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Far Away Bird , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min

Inspired by true events, Far Away Bird delves into the complex mind of Byzantine Empress Theodora. This intimate account deftly follows her rise from actress-prostitute in Constantinople’s red-light district to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Her salacious past has left historians blushing and uncomfortable. Tales of her shamelessness have survived for centuries, and yet her accomplishments as an empress are unparalleled. Theodora goes on to influence sweeping reforms that result in some of the first ever Western laws granting women freedom and protection. More than a millennium before the women’s rights movement, Theodora, alone, took on the world’s greatest superpower and succeeded. Far Away Bird goes where history classrooms fear to tread, in hopes that Theodora can finally take her seat among the greatest women in history.Follow young Theodora through the scintillating and violent world of Byzantium. From the brothels to the bathhouses to the spectacular chariot races in the Hippodrome - her role in society seemed hopeless. But when she’s trained as a political spy, the lessons on personal power transform Theodora into the stuff of empresses. She seems impossible - yet her transcendence teaches us that society can’t tell us who we are deep down. Before there was a legendary empress, there was a conflicted young woman from the lower classes.And her name was Theodora. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Sarah. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191221/bk_acx0_191221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Face of Cthulhu and Other Weird Poetry and Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min

A collection of 18 poems and six stories, weird as fungi. Ghosts, monsters, and aliens; empresses, adventurers, and cultists; and a lot of death. Includes the poems "Walpurgisnacht" and "Terrors of the Night of April Twenty-Ninth", and the prize-winning Lovecraftian story "Looking into the Can"."The ambition of this collection is to be a 'quaint and curious volume'.""A volume to be listened to in your study, the lamp glowing, the curtains moving slightly with the air through the window. But is the window open?""Or to be listened to in your car, the headlights bobbing, the countryside rolling by empty. But did something move upon that hill?"The Face of Cthulhu and Other Weird Poetry and TalesContents: "Walpurgisnacht" - poem"A Short Account of Unremembered Ancient Times" - poem"Weird Adventure" - poem"The Stairwell" - tale"Zard Tsarina" - poem"Looking into the Can" - tale"Omniscience" - poem"Engine Room" (Blue and Orange) - tale"An Apology for Superstition" - poem"The Cromcast: A Sonnet" - sonnet"Stelae" - poem"Terrors of the Night of April Twenty-Ninth" - poem"Power of Prayer" - poem"In Houses of Dying Light" - prose-poem"The Earthling" - tale"Kyboks Coming Out of the Skies" - poem"The Face of Cthulhu" - poem"Devourer Emperor" - poem"Inconceivable Horror" - tale"The Cult of the Monstrous Man-God" - tale"The Golden, Gory Way" - sonnet"Ghosts" - poem"Just Think" - epigram"Slumber" - poem ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: The Voice Before the Void. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150553/bk_acx0_150553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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