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    Brick Lane, Hörbuch, Digital, 368min
    Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. "I didn't ask to be born here," says Shahana, with regular finality. Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze, but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them both. While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a "love marriage", then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped, yet ultimately not bound, by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. Language: English. Narrator: Ayesha Dharker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000058/bk_hcuk_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Commandment
    Christmastime in London. When three seemingly unconnected victims are murdered with matching sequential Roman numerals carved into their foreheads, Metropolitan Police Commander Austin Grant finds his answer in one of the last places he'd expect: the Holy Bible. Each of the deaths correspond to a transgression of one of the Ten Commandments, and Grant must find the killer before the remaining Commandments are commemorated with homicides. Unfortunately for Grant, the next victim with a number on their forehead turns up not in London, but across the pond at the iconic St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, turning this English murder case into a transatlantic manhunt spanning two global metropolises, each with its own rich history and culture. Commander Grant must team up with a charming NYPD detective named John Frankel, as well as his own estranged daughter Rachel-a cunning investigative reporter with conflicting feelings about her father. The Last Commandment is the third novel by acclaimed screenwriter and producer Scott Shepherd, whose decades of television writing experience shine through in the swift pace and character-driven storytelling of this devilishly fun, page-turning mystery. Flipping the "buddy cop" story on its head with a touch of Old Testament fatalism, this twisty tale leads from the seedy back-alleys of Piccadilly to the Grande Dame hotels of Midtown Manhattan and back again.
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    Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 789min
    A Business Week, New York Times business, and USA Today best sellerIn this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today."Ambitious and readable...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." (The New York Times)"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." (The Wall Street Journal)"A lively panoramic book...Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." (Business Week)"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." (The Economist)"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world." (Worth)"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement." (Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers)"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." (John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics emeritus, Harvard University)"An extremely readable history of risk." (Barron's)"Fascinating...this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." (Money)"A singular achievement." (Times Literary Supplement ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan M. Timm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235651/bk_acx0_235651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Knights of the Hudson Book II: Boots and Saddles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
    Black Knights of the Hudson is a series of books about a fictional U.S. Army family from 1860 through World War II. The audiobooks should appeal to listeners who enjoy historical fiction, family sagas, and military fiction. Book II: Boots and Saddles (1868 to 1883) is the second installment in the story of the MacKendrick Army family, who live by West Point's motto of “Duty, Honor, Country”. With the Civil War over, James seeks a return to the cheerful fatalism of the professional soldier, and is even willing to serve in the hated Cavalry. Timothy, cooling his heels in a Staff position, has his hands full with his willful wife who has yet to learn that a good Army wife does not hesitate to follow her husband - even to dismal outposts in the Western territories. She pays a heavy price for her obstinacy and independence in the glittering social whirl of post-Civil War New York. Gwyneth O'Donnell, a young Army brat at an Arizona post, has learned the role of a true Army wife at her mother's knee and is prepared to throw herself into a passionate love for a professional soldier in a way that Timothy's wife cannot match. In Arizona and the turmoil of the Plains, James and Timothy face Apache, Cheyenne, and Sioux in the great Indian wars of the post-Civil War era as they come to terms with a military policy that in one breath wants to protect Indian treaty lands and, in the next, seeks to conquer them in the name of Manifest Destiny. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003712/bk_acx0_003712_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brick Lane , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 919min
    Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize This exciting and deeply moving debut novel follows the tumultuous life of Nazneen from her birth in a Bangladeshi village hut, to her arranged marriage to Chanu and the subsequent move to London's Tower Hamlets. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. 'I didn't ask to be born here,' say Shahana, with regular finality. Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the community's own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze -- but what she sees, in the end, comes as a surprise to them both. While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mother's ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a 'love marriage', then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasina's letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped -- yet ultimately not bound -- by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them. Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meera Syal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001443/bk_howe_001443_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1189min
    Instant New York Times best-seller. A New York Times notable book of 2018. One of The Economist's books of the year."My new favorite book of all time." (Bill Gates)If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. Includes a Bonus PDF with charts and graphs.  PLEASE NOTE: ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003314/bk_peng_003314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Les Berberes et Moi: A Story of Poverty and Suffering, Elation and Hope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
    Magdalena Wasiura returns to Morocco after a holiday to live and work with the Berber community, sharing their experiences, customs, and way of living. Contents: Part One of Les Berbères et moi describes the author's first step into the life of her Moroccan family hosts, takes you to the souk and hammam, explains the importance of Fridays for Muslim society, sulks itself in whisky and the problems caused by it. In this part we are introduced to countless opportunists and amiable characters, and we visit a rather lavish circumcision party. Part Two: The second part of Magdalena's journal records her life with the Berber community in Khénifra, in the Middle Atlas of Morocco - their homes, social gatherings, and her work with their children in the Association Hannan. Get a good wash in hammam, eat boucheyar, drink shiba, meet her friends Mohamed and Ali, and go with them to Arougou, wakha? Part Three of Magdalena's journal describes broadly the "forbidden" subjects: intimacy and drinking in the context of Islam as supported by numerous tales from the Quran, and how young people will turn the prohibited into pleasure. She depicts the growing tension between herself and her Muslim family, and the cultural clash - something that one will not get in packaged holidays. "Lasciate ogne speranca, voi ch'intrate," it's Dante's invitation to Hell; here however, it invites one to hammam. Part Four: What about the fatalism? Should women wear tight jeans? What about swimming? Our God or My God; whose then? Some of those issues are discussed in Part Four of Magdalena Wasiura's account of her stay in Morocco. She also describes a rather stressful Christmastime spent there, the overprotective nature of her Muslim family, and her trip to Meknès where she was arrested. Part Five: Love and marriage.... Does it really go together like a horse and carriage? In Part Five of Magdalena Wasiura's journal, one will hear abou ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deanna Delaney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090463/bk_acx0_090463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Benefit from Your Breakup: Don't Just Move On, Move Up (The Missing Manuals to Male Success, Book 6) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
    What if you could make your worst breakup the best thing that ever happened to you? Gone will be the nights you stay up wondering what went wrong. Gone are the countless nights at bars drinking to your sorrows that refuse to go away.Get ready to flush the agonizing pain down the drain.Lose the stench of defeat and fatalism that keeps new and better women away.Breakups really suck. Broken hearts hold men back from their best lives. When you can't stop thinking about her or what you could have done differently - whether it was yesterday or 10 years ago.She's forgotten all about you like you never even existed or held a place in her life. What do you do when you're depressed and no one cares because you're not a chick?Leave behind all confusion, emotional pain, and withdrawals.Questions answered:Why recovery takes so much energyWhy she acts so cold afterwardWhy getting back together with her will ruin your lifeWhy getting back at her will not make you happyWhy most breakup recovery advice doesn't workWriting from experience as a dating coach and from personal, firsthand living in the aftermath of several devastating breakups, Cairo Copeland distills the best wisdom that lead to the life-changing success of him and his clients.What you'll discover:Self-defeating behaviors to shed yourself ofHow to expunge yourself of emotional painThe most powerful tool to take back your lifeThe most effective thoughts to quicken your recoverySimple, yet proven techniques that stop the moping and rumination in their tracksA clear roadmap to building a better life that will make her wish she didn't dump you so she could still be part of it.The risk of heartbreak exists even when you're single or in a happy relationship. But the wisdom of this book will make you immune to the pain that risk pres ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cairo Copeland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238915/bk_acx0_238915_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Enlightenment Now
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
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    Against the Gods (eBook, ePUB)
    A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller&quote;Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism.&quote; The New York Times&quote;An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book.&quote; The Wall Street Journal&quote;A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it.&quote; Business Week&quote;Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read.&quote; The Economist&quote;[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world.&quote; Worth&quote;No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement.&quote; Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers&quote;With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it.&quote; John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard UniversityIn this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.&quote;An extremely readable history of risk.&quote; Barron's&quote;Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face.&quote; Money&quote;A singular achievement.&quote; Times Literary Supplement&quote;There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company.&quote; The Australian
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