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  The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 466min

  A conspiracy within the Vatican - to stop an outspoken Pope In 1938, Pope Pius XI was the world's most prominent critic of Hitler and his rhetoric of ethnic "purity." To make his voice heard, Pius called upon a relatively unknown American Jesuit whose writing about racism in America had caught the Pope's attention. Pius enlisted John LaFarge to write a papal encyclical - the Vatican's strongest decree - publicly condemning Hitler, Mussolini, and their murderous Nazi campaign against the Jews. At the same time conservative members of the Vatican's innermost circle were working in secret to suppress the document. Chief among them was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, whose appeasement of the Germans underlay a deep-running web of conspiracy. Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII, was joined by Wlodimir Ledóchowski, leader of the Jesuit order, to keep the finished encyclical from reaching the increasingly ill Pope. Peter Eisner, award-winning reporter and author of the critically acclaimed The Freedom Line, combines shocking new evidence (released only recently from Vatican archives) and eyewitness testimony to create a compelling journey into the heart of the Vatican and a little-known story of an American's partnership with the head of the Catholic Church. A truly essential work, it brings staggering new light to one of the most critical junctures in modern history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rick Adamson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003319/bk_harp_003319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe ab 255.99 € als pdf eBook: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe ab 265.49 € als pdf eBook: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  Why Does God Hate Me: How to Strengthen Your Faith in the Midst of a Spiritual Drought , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 342min

  Author Pens Soul-Embracing Book On Spiritual Healing: There are no tags to identify the spiritually dead. They walk upright as everyday citizens among us, like zombies in search of compassion in a sea of ambivalent love. They are victims of emotional doubt, believing in God by name only. They are only legally married to their spouses and parents to children in the same fashion. However, the emotional flame that once lit their path to adventure is now inevitably snuffed out, and they know not where to turn to reignite it.Where once the childhood spirit of imagination and motivation once welled from them like the Fountain of Youth is now all but replaced by the routine of mundane dogma. There is a specific time appointed to all of us to forgive our past hurts, settle our unpaid debts, and renew what is broken in our spiritual hearts or pay the consequences for a life of merely faking-the-funk of happiness. It is at these emotional wasteland crossroads of life that we find ourselves looking back longer far more than boldly navigating our forward momentum to growth. We become souls desperately seeking any lifeline thrown from humanity that only the Creator could provide if we would only look up to Heaven where our promised help springs eternal.Our contorted beliefs of God as a blocker to our peace and happiness is what damages our abilities to call down the full blessings of Heaven already promised humankind. It is during these painful growth junctures that invade everybody’s life that we can choose to break free of the pain that has enveloped our lives or wallows in the valley of the shadow of death known as spiritual suicide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James R. Cheatham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160067/bk_acx0_160067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Seven Miracles That Saved America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min

  “When the odds were stacked against us - and there have been many times when the great experiment we call America could have and should have failed - did God intervene to save us?” That question, posed by authors Chris and Ted Stewart, is the foundation for this remarkable book. And the examples they cite provide compelling evidence that the hand of Providence has indeed preserved the United States of America on multiple occasions. Skillfully weaving story vignettes with historical explanations, they examine seven instances that illustrate God’s protecting care: The unlikely discovery of America by Christopher Columbus How (and why) desperate English colonists were able to survive the “starving time” at Jamestown The Battle of New York during the Revolutionary War The miraculous creation of the United States Constitution Abraham Lincoln’s desperate prayer that turned the tide of the Civil War at Gettysburg How a series of extraordinary events changed the Battle of Midway during World War II The preservation of Ronald Reagan’s life from an assassin’s bullet, allowing him the time he needed to help extend freedom around the world Never, at any of these critical junctures, was a positive outcome certain or even likely. Yet America prevailed. Why? “No man is perfect,” write the authors. “And neither is any nation. Yet, despite our weakness, we are still, as Abraham Lincoln said, the best nation ever given to man. Despite our faults, this nation is still the last, best hope of earth.” In short, God still cares what happens here. This reassuring message is a bright light in a world that longs for such hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Van Wagoner, Art Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dsrt/000036/bk_dsrt_000036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Kingdom of Herod the Great: The History of the Herodian Dynasty in Ancient Israel During the Life of Jesus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min

  Herod is one of the more well-known characters of the Bible, as even those with a limited knowledge of the Bible will recognize the name and maybe have some idea of who Herod was. One of the most popular stories, known even to non-Christians, is Herod's slaying of the Innocents, a gruesome part of the Christmas story. Others who may know a little bit more about the Bible will know of the accounts of Herod and John the Baptist, Herod and Jesus, Herod who was eaten by worms and maybe even Herod and Paul. Although Herod doesn't appear in the Bible very often, it appears at critical junctures in New Testament history, and a casual reader of the Bible might incorrectly assume that each time the name "Herod" is mentioned, the Bible is referring to the same person. In fact, there were actually six different people in the New Testament who were part of this dynasty of Herods. From before the birth of Christ until the destruction of Jerusalem, the Herodian Dynasty was the ruling family in Palestine. The family of Herod came from Idumea, so they were considered by some Jews to not be qualified to sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem. However, the close connections of the family with the current Roman emperors and those who were to become emperors kept them in power for almost 100 years. The dynasty started with a celebrated war hero and ended with strong rumors of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister. The power struggles among the aristocracy and the discontent of the populace also characterized the political scene behind the events of New Testament Palestine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Zarbock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082310/bk_acx0_082310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe ab 265.49 € als pdf eBook: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

  History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe ab 255.99 € als pdf eBook: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,

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  American Legends: The Life of Josephine Baker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min

  I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. - Josephine Baker "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker From a young girl growing up in the slums of Missouri who hired herself out as a maid at 12 to provide for her younger siblings to the lead dancer in the Folies Bergere idolized by Parisians, Josephine Baker danced to the beat of her own drum. Undeniably she possessed an innate charisma, but she also went out of her way to make an audience notice her. As a chorus girl in Harlem, she might have remained a bit player, but Josephine would break out of the line, crossing her eyes and mugging funny faces, all the while ignoring the other girls' synced steps, to dance in her own wild and unique style. She faced injustice and discrimination at many junctures of her life, but Josephine Baker, rather than succumbing to these setbacks, determinedly fought against them. During World War II, she enlisted as a member of the Resistance, mysteriously turning up in Morocco when many thought she had died. She also joined the fight for Civil Rights in the US, becoming such an instrumental figure that soon after Martin Luther King's assassination, his widow asked her to return to the US and serve as the new leader of the movement. Josephine fought oppression, but she never lost her gaiety or joie de vivre. She was devoted to her career, but she was equally devoted to the 12 children of various ethnicities she adopted, dubbed the "Rainbow Tribe". In the 1960s, Josephine suffered illnesses and setbacks that left in dire financial straits, and in 1968, the wo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bambi Lynn Augustin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085913/bk_acx0_085913_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Über das Eigene und das FremdeErste internationale Anerkennung erfuhr das Werk der japanisch-schweizerischen Künstlerin Leiko Ikemura Anfang der 1980er-Jahre mit ihrer ausdrucksstarken und kämpferischen Bildwelt im Umfeld der Neuen Wilden. Berühmt ist sie heute für ihre Ölbilder von in Zwischenwelten schwebenden Mädchen und kosmischen Landschaften mit märchenhaften Mischwesen. In Japan wird sie geschätzt als Künstlerin, die sich gerade durch das konsequente Eintauchen in die westliche Kunst zunehmend ihrer kulturellen Heimat bewusstwurde und zu einer einzigartigen Synthese beider Kulturen gefunden hat.Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fremdsein, mit Einsamkeit und der Aneignung neuer Sprachen bildet eine wichtige Schnittmenge mit dem Interessengebiet von Noemi Smolik. Die Kunstkritikerin beschäftigt sich vor allem mit der Aufarbeitung der osteuropäischen und russischen Kunstgeschichte.In der Publikation sprechen Leiko Ikemura und Noemi Smolik über Berührungspunkte ihrer recht unterschiedlichen Lebenswege: Existentialismus, die 68-Revolution, russische Literatur, das Fremde und das Eigene, Kollektivismus und Individualität.On the Familiar and the ForeignThe Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first garnered international recognition in the early 1980s with pictures in an expressive and pugnacious style that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She is now famous for oil paintings showing girls floating in oddly hard-to-place settings and cosmic landscapes populated by fabulous hybrid creatures. Japanese audiences cherish her as an artist whose headlong immersion in Western art prompted a growing appreciation of her cultural roots, eventually leading her to a singular synthesis of both cultures.Wrestling with the profoundly unfamiliar, loneliness, and the challenges of making new languages one's own: these salient themes in Ikemura's work are also major concerns in the writings of Noemi Smolik, an art critic whose work focuses on a deeper understanding of the history of Eastern European and Russian art.In this book, Leiko Ikemura and Noemi Smolik discuss historical junctures and interests in which their quite different lives and careers have intersected: existentialism, the revolution of '68, Russian literature, the foreign and the familiar, collectivism and individuality.

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