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  Nightlife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 920min

  From the primeval rain forest comes an uncontrolled substance never intended for consumption by the civilized mind.... To the warrior shamans of the Venezuelan forest people, the drug is a sacred substance: part pain, part pleasure, all power. Skullflush is pure psychic whiplash...an exhilarating gateway to an advanced consciousness beyond time and species.  Deep in the Amazon, the primitive tribe has kept its secret safe from civilization - until a rising drug lord ends up with a stolen six-kilo stash and begins to peddle his prize in the nightclubs of Florida.  Tampa’s thrill seekers are eager to sample the pale green powder. But generations of urbanized decadence have left them jaded, shallow, and weak...too weak to handle the drug’s mystic high. The ancient rain-forest chemistry warps bone, muscle, and sinew in their city-soft bodies, setting free the ferocious power of man’s basic nature.  On the rebound from a life in ruins, Justin Gray is the sole witness who can connect the fearsome power of skullflush with the carnage left in its wake. A marked man, with a new love and an unlikely ally from the heart of the rain forest, he's forced to learn the ways of the urban jungle, where everyone is both hunter and hunted. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Mahony. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119676/bk_acx0_119676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Urban Ecology and Global Climate Change

  Urban Ecology and Global Climate ChangeUrban Ecology and Global Climate Change contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of the emerging issues in urban ecological studies. The authors highlight some of the major challenges currently impeding ecological restoration goals in urbanized regions across the globe. It is sobering that the majority of sustainable development projects are being defeated by the increasing pace of two particular phenomena - namely climate change and urbanization. This book includes coverage of the major threats to biodiversity conservation and the most significant contributors to the deterioration of urban ecosystems.In addition, various case studies that reflect the anthropogenic interventions on ecological restoration are included. The book looks at evolving growth and urbanization concepts, monitoring of urbanization trends, land-use land cover (LULC) changes in urban and non-urban cities based on the use of open access data, urbanization affecting rural ecology, soil carbon emissions, urban development, human well-being and case studies of sustainable smart cities.Urban Ecology and Global Climate Change will find an appreciative audience amongst students of urban ecology and environmental policy, as well as policymakers, scientists and industrialists. The book provides an excellent introduction to the principles of smart city planning and urban sustainability with a view to maintaining ecological and conservation status of urban environments.

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  Storming the City: US Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min

  In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when advanced weapons are used in a close-range urban fight with an abundance of cover? Storming the City explores these issues by analyzing the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-20th century (Aachen 1944, Manila 1945, Seoul 1950, and Hue 1968). Alec Wahlman assesses each battle using a similar framework of capability categories, and separate chapters address urban warfare in American military thought. In the four battles, across a wide range of conditions, American forces were ultimately successful in capturing each city because of two factors: transferable competence and battlefield adaptation. The preparations US forces made for warfare writ large proved generally applicable to urban warfare. Battlefield adaptation, a strong suit of American forces, filled in where those overall preparations for combat needed fine tuning. From World War II to Vietnam, however, there was a gradual reduction in tactical performance in the four battles. The book is published by University of North Texas Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert J. Eckrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084781/bk_acx0_084781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Brief History of the World, Hörbuch, Digital, 1142min

  The construction of the great pyramids of Egypt, the development of democracy in ancient Greece, the glories of ancient Rome - these stories are familiar to students of history. But what about the rest of the world? How do the histories of China and Japan, or Russia, India, and the remote territories of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America fit in with commonly known accounts of Western traditions? Learn the rest of the story with these 36 riveting lectures that survey the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. From the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era to the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century, you'll apprehend "the big picture" of world history. You'll examine and compare the peoples, cultures, and nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas to understand how, throughout history, peoples all over the world have connected and interacted, traded goods and technology, and conquered and learned from each other. As you travel around the world and through time, Professor Stearns provides surprising insights that will overturn many of your assumptions about history. For instance, you'll see how the invention of agriculture brought with it a number of drawbacks, such as a new inequality between men and women and greater exposure to epidemic diseases. Fascinating episodes like these will give you a deep appreciation for the human experience as it was lived throughout the centuries. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Peter N. Stearns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000007/bk_tcco_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bushcraft: A Guide to Surviving in Dangerous Situations, Essential Tools, and Skills for Emergencies, Plus How to Elude Pursuers and Evade Capture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 196min

  The best outdoor survival tips everyone should know to find shelter in the woods without professional gear and prior knowledge.What does it take to survive in the wilderness if you run into an emergency or if you have an accident?Should you eat raw meat, Bear Grylls-style? Should you follow flying birds to get to water? Or, maybe, build a fire inside a cave to keep you warm?These are just three of the wilderness survival myths that can easily get you killed.To survive, you need practical bushcraft skills passed from one generation onto the next. You need to know how to protect yourself from the elements, how to keep predators away, where to seek food and water. You need to be nature-savvy, identifying the plants that can feed you and the ones that can hurt you. You need to know how to get around, how to build a shelter and conserve your resources.Surprisingly, young people lack all the essential skills required to survive in the wild. Our urbanized, detached lifestyles have made us forget basics like tying knots, starting a fire, and distilling water to keep us safe.You never know when the need to get into survival mode is going to kick in. Even a peaceful walk in nature can be transformed into a something a lot grimmer when you’re at the wrong place in the wrong time.Anyone can benefit from the basic bushcraft skills and experiences to survive a disaster or an emergency.If you want to optimize your chances of survival in every possible situation, scroll up and click the “buy now” button now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Belvill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210729/bk_acx0_210729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The History of Ancient Rome, Hörbuch, Digital, 1360min

  Even today, the influence of Ancient Rome is indelible, with Europe and the world owing this extraordinary empire a huge cultural debt in almost every important category of human endeavor, including art, architecture, engineering, language, literature, law, and religion. At the peak of its power, Rome's span was vast. In the regional, restless, and shifting history of continental Europe, the Roman Empire stands as a towering monument to scale and stability, unified in politics and law, stretching from the sands of Syria to the moors of Scotland. And it stood for almost 700 years. In this series of 48 spirited lectures, you'll see how a small village of shepherds and farmers rose to tower over the civilized world of its day and left a permanent mark on history. In telling Rome's riveting story, Professor Fagan draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, including recent historical and archaeological scholarship, to introduce the fascinating tale of Rome's rise and decline, including the famous events and personalities that have become so familiar: Horatius at the bridge; Hannibal crossing the Alps during Rome's life-or-death war with Carthage; Caesar being assassinated before a statue of his archrival Pompey; The doomed lovers Antony and Cleopatra; the mad and venal emperors Nero and Caligula; the conversion of Constantine. The course also addresses one of history's greatest questions: Why did the Roman Empire fall? And you'll learn why most modern scholars believe that the empire did not "fall" at all, but, rather, changed into something very different - the less urbanized, more rural, early medieval world. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Garrett G. Fagan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000299/bk_tcco_000299_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min

  When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate", he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor, such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections between the socially marginalized and refuse. Ethnic "purity" was tied to pure cleanliness, and hygiene became a central aspect of white identity. Carl A. Zimring here draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism. The material consequences of these attitudes endured and expanded through the 20th century, shaping waste management systems and environmental inequalities that endure into the 21st century. Today, the bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty" remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities in the age of Obama. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093662/bk_acx0_093662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 987min

  It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative and sweeping audiobook, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse across the 20th century, examining how the ideas born of it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today. Beginning in the booming industrial cities of the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th century, where debate surrounding these questions first arose, Conn examines the progression of anti-urban movements. He describes the decentralist movement of the 1930s, the attempt to revive the American small town in the mid-century, the anti-urban basis of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, and the Nixon administration's program of building new towns as a response to the urban crisis, illustrating how, by the middle of the 20th century, anti-urbanism was at the center of the politics of the New Right. Concluding with an exploration of the New Urbanist experiments at the turn of the 21st century, Conn demonstrates the full breadth of the anti-urban impulse, from its inception to the present day. Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and forcefully argued, Americans Against the City is important for anyone who cares not just about the history of our cities, but about their future as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019798/bk_adbl_019798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ancient Near East: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Including Regions Such as Mesopotamia, Ancient Iran, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min

  If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Near East, then pay attention....Where did the first signs of civilization appear in the ancient world? When did people start to transition from the nomadic life of hunters and gatherers to living in the first urbanized settlements? Who was the first emperor in history? Which empire was the strongest and mightiest, and for how long? Where did the title “King of the Universe” come from, and who was the “True King?” All these answers are hidden in the ancient history of the Fertile Crescent, and now, they are unveiled to you in our comprehensive and captivating guide to the ancient civilizations of the Near East. In Ancient Near East: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Including Regions Such as Mesopotamia, Ancient Iran, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant, you will discover topics such as:Mesopotamia: The Birth of the First CivilizationEgypt: The Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and the Birth of the PharaohsAncient Iran: From Early Urban Settlements to the Rise of the ElamitesAnatolia: The Bridge Between Asia and Europe and the Rise of the Hittite Old KingdomThe Levant: The Kingdom of Ebla and the Cultures of the Ancient LevantThe Rise of the Assyrian Empire and Babylon from the Ashes of AkkadThe Old and New Kingdom of Egypt: Dynastic Egypt and the Rise of Power in the Banks of NileThe Middle and New Kingdoms of the Hittite: The Dark Ages and the Glory of the Hittite EmpireBeyond the Wars and Thrones: The Everyday Life of Common People in the Ancient Near EastThe Birth of Religions in the Ancient Near East: The Cradle of Civilization and the GodsAnd much, much more!So if you want to learn more about the ancient Near East, scroll up and click "Buy Now"! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226168/bk_acx0_226168_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Enemy Inside The Gates: Snipers In Support Of Military Operations In Urbanized Terrain

  Enemy Inside The Gates: Snipers In Support Of Military Operations In Urbanized Terrain: ab 1.49 €

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