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    Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 993min
    Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support, leaving it up to passionate individuals fighting on the ground to try to ensure that elephants, tigers, rhinos, and more are still around for future generations.As Reefer Madness (Schlosser) took us into the drug market, or Susan Orlean descended into the swampy obsessions of The Orchid Thief, Nuwer - an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology - takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who believe it is not too late to stop the impending extinctions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Delaine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/002235/bk_high_002235_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sowing: The Seeds Trilogy, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 755min
    The Resistance has begun. Remy Alexander wants vengeance. When she and her friends discover a clue that could help reveal the truth behind the massacre that claimed her sister's life, she may finally get her chance. Valerian Orlean wants answers: to why the girl he was in love with disappeared three years ago, why she joined the Resistance - a covert organization sworn to destroy everything he believes in. When he is appointed to lead a government program whose mission is to hunt and destroy the Resistance, he may finally find his answers - and Remy. In a world where the powerful kill to keep their secrets and the food you eat can change who you are, Remy and Vale are set on a collision course that could bring everyone together - or tear everything apart. In this science-fiction dystopia, the mother-daughter writing team of Kristina, Amira, and Elena Makansi immerse listeners in the postapocalyptic world of the Okarian Sector, where romance, friendship, adventure, and betrayal will decide the fate of a budding nation. Be sure to continue the story with The Reaping, book two of the Seeds Trilogy, and The Prelude, a novella about Soren Skaarsgard, one of listeners' favorite characters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ivy Tara Blair. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048440/bk_acx0_048440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gunning for Angels: Fallen Angels, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 693min
    Jack Fox, not handsome enough for Hollywood but too damned handsome for his own good, lands a plum job when the mysterious, gorgeous, and stratospherically wealthy Eve Hargrove shows up at his office and drops a stack of cash in his lap. All he has to do is drop her troubled sister's case - a down on her luck stripper with legs from here to the next zip code. It would all be so easy - if he didn't have an inconvenient hard-on for the truth - and Eve. When a golden-haired beauty is found brutally slain, the last thing that 16-year-old Enid Iglowski expected was to become the prime suspect. Running away from her troubled home in Florida and newly arrived in Phoenix in search of her real father, a private detective named Jack Fox, Enid finds herself caught in a web of murder, violence, and underage sex trafficking. When a corpse is found in the desert, a cold case gets red hot for Detective Bud Orlean, who'll sacrifice everything, including his marriage, to prove that Eve Hargrove is a sociopathic killer. When the bodies start piling up and Enid Iglowski is at the center of every mess, Bud finds himself forced to work with the one man he despises, Jack Fox, to get to the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044452/bk_acx0_044452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Iterating Grace: Heartfelt Wisdom and Disruptive Truths from Silicon Valley's Top Venture Capitalists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 19min
    What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks? With its privately printed, anonymously produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the Silicon Valley elite to heart - and ended up on a profoundly unexpected path, leaving behind only the lovingly hand-calligraphed tweets that had meant so much to him. His story struck an immediate chord. There were competing efforts to identify the author of Iterating Grace; blog posts and lengthy comment threads pointed fingers at writers all over the country, from Robin Sloan to Susan Orlean to Dave Eggers. Other early theories supposed it was the tip of an elaborate marketing scheme, and soon all would be revealed. But gradually it became clear that it was simply this: a small piece of literary art, perfectly pitched and driven by a Twain-like bemused outrage, by a creator who did not want to be identified and would not explain anything beyond what the satirical fable said for itself. Disruptive innovators whose tweets are illustrated in Iterating Grace include: Austen Allred, cofounder of Grasswire; Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator; Marc Andreessen, coauthor of Mosaic, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz; Jeff Bussgang, VC at Flybrige Capital; Tony Conrad, cofounder and CEO of about.me; Benedict Evans, VC at Andreessen Horowitz; Brad Feld, VC at Foundry Group; and many more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Hodgman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002168/bk_aren_002168_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
    The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes - and thousands more - to the American plate. “Fascinating.” (The New York Times Book Review)“Fast-paced adventure writing.” (The Wall Street Journal)“Richly descriptive.” (Kirkus)“A must-read for foodies.” (HelloGiggles)In the 19th century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. But as a new century approached, appetites broadened, and David Fairchild, a young botanist with an insatiable lust to explore and experience the world, set out in search of foods that would enrich the American farmer and enchant the American eater. Kale from Croatia, mangoes from India, and hops from Bavaria. Peaches from China, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta. Fairchild's finds weren't just limited to food: From Egypt he sent back a variety of cotton that revolutionized an industry, and via Japan he introduced the cherry blossom tree, forever brightening America's capital. Along the way, he was arrested, caught diseases, and bargained with island tribes. But his culinary ambition came during a formative era, and through him, America transformed into the most diverse food system ever created.  “Daniel Stone draws the reader into an intriguing, seductive world, rich with stories and surprises. The Food Explorer shows you the history and drama hidden in your fruit bowl. It’s a delicious piece of writing.” (Susan Orlean, New York Times best-selling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003387/bk_peng_003387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker, Hörbuch, Digital, 590min
    One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the '20s and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Marlon Brando and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age. These literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, are unrivaled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity. When they were first published, these biographies brought insight, amusement, understanding, and often, joy or sorrow to those who read them. Gathered here, in Life Stories, they provide an album of our era, a rich and diverse appraisal of some of the most prominent members of an entire century's cast. A Pryor Love (Richard Pryor), by Hilton Als A Duke in His Domain (Marlon Brando), by Truman Capote Isadora (Isadora Duncan), by Janet Flanner Lady with a Pencil (Katharine White), by Nancy Franklin Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (Heloise), by Ian Frazier The Coolhunt (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon), by Michael Gladwell Wunderkind (Floyd Patterson), by A.J. Liebling Mr. Hunter's Grave (George H. Hunter), by Joseph Mitchell Show Dog (Biff Truesdale), by Susan Orlean How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway), by Lillian Ross The Man Who Walks on Air (Philippe Petit), by Calvin Tomkins Covering the Cops (Edna Buchanan), by Calvin Trillin Language: English. Narrator: Philip Bosco, Amy Irving, Alton Fitzgerald White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000440/bk_rand_000440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grocery (eBook, ePUB)
    The New York Times-bestselling author "digs deep into the world of how we shop and how we eat. It's a marvelous, smart, revealing work" (Susan Orlean, #1 bestselling author). In a culture obsessed with food-how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us-there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight-in the aisles of your local supermarket. Using the human story of the family-run Midwestern chain Heinen's as an anchor to this journalistic narrative, he dives into the mysterious world of supermarkets and the ways in which we produce, consume, and distribute food.Groceryexamines how rapidly supermarkets-and our food and culture-have changed since the days of your friendly neighborhood grocer. But rather than waxing nostalgic for the age of mom-and-pop shops, Ruhlman seeks to understand how our food needs have shifted since the mid-twentieth century, and how these needs mirror our cultural ones. A mix of reportage and rant, personal history and social commentary,Groceryis a landmark book from one of our most insightful food writers. "Anyone who has ever walked into a grocery store or who has ever cooked food from a grocery store or who has ever eaten food from a grocery store must readGrocery. It is food journalism at its best and I'm so freakin' jealous I didn't write it." -Alton Brown, television personality "If you care about why we eat what we eat-and you want to do something about it-you need to read this absorbing, beautifully written book." -Ruth Reichl, New York Times-bestselling author
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    Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
    In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the US Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics....Miller's book arrives at a moment when it appears that part of the Homeland Security apparatus is backpedaling by promising to tone down its tactics, maybe prodded by investigative journalism, maybe by the revelations of NSA leaker Edward Snowden.... Border Patrol is quite possibly the right book at the right time.... (Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times) "At the start of his unsettling and important new book, Border Patrol Nation, Miller observes that these days 'it is common to see the Border Patrol in places - such as Erie, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; or Forks, Washington - where only 15 years ago it would have seemed far-fetched, if not unfathomable.” (Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor) "Miller’s approach in Border Patrol Nation is to offer a glimpse into the secretive operations of the Border Patrol, reporting with a journalist’s objectivity and nose for a good story. Miller’s book is full of facts, and it’s clear he’s outraged, but he gives voices to people on every side of the issue … Miller’s book is a fascinating read...and bring the work of Susan Orlean to mind." (Amanda Eyre Ward, Kirkus Reviews) Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/057518/bk_adbl_057518_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1497min
    Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker - literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M. F. K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink, from every age of its fabled 80-year history. There are memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems - ranging in tone from sweet to sour and in subject from soup to nuts. M. F. K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” while John McPhee valiantly trails an inveterate forager and is rewarded with stewed persimmons and white-pine-needle tea. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet for still more peculiar reasons. Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for, and Calvin Trillin investigates whether people can actually taste the difference between red wine and white. We journey with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba in the story of a single restaurant, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the arcane practices of Japan’s tofu masters. Closer to home, Joseph Mitchell celebrates the old New York tradition of the beefsteak dinner, and Mark Singer shadows the city’s foremost fisherman-chef. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall, Mark Deakens, Susan Denaker, Kimberly Farr, Stephen Hoye, John Lee, Don Leslie, Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/001018/bk_bkot_001018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dogs Rough and Smooth
    Dogs Rough and Smooth - Foreword by Susan Orlean: ab 13.99 €
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