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    The Headhunters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
    Tom Christian is on the trail of revenge and a fortune in gold. Square-jawed and rugged, Tom is headed deep into the jungles of the Solomon Islands to find Punjo Charlie—the ruthless criminal who killed his partner.But these jungles are thick with danger ... as greed, temptation and sudden violence threaten to draw Tom into the heart of darkness. There’s a pile of gold.... There’s a beautiful blonde.... And there’s a bloodthirsty tribe of headhunters who have fallen under the spell of Punjo Charlie.The trap has been set. The question is: will Tom fall into it? Will he lose his way and lose his head ... or will he get his revenge, get the gold and get the girl? The answer lies buried in the rain forest ... and in Tom’s heart. And as he’s about to discover, there’s only one way out of the jungle: all-out war.The sounds you are about to hear will take you deep into a jungle of danger, fear and suspense as the audio version of The Headhunters gets into your head. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, Brooke Bloom, Thomas Silcott, Jim Meskimen, Fred Tatasciore, Josh R. Thompson, Max Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000052/bk_gala_000052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Woman Who Split the Atom
    Bestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fissionAs a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers.Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made a discovery that rocked the world: the splitting of the atom. While her male lab partner was awarded a Nobel Prize for the achievement, the committee refused to give her any credit.Suddenly, the race to build the atomic bomb was on-although Meitner was horrified to be associated with such a weapon. "A physicist who never lost her humanity," Meitner wanted only to figure out how the world works, and advocated for pacifism while others called for war.The book includes an afterword, author's note, timeline, select terms of physics, glossary of scientists mentioned, endnotes, select bibliography, index, and Marissa Moss' celebrated drawings throughout. The Woman Who Split the Atom is a fascinating look at Meitner's fierce passion, integrity, and her life-long struggle to have her contributions to physics recognized.
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    Feminism and War (eBook, PDF)
    Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war.The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists and activists who examine the questions raised by ongoing American military initiatives, such as:What are the implications of an imperial nation/state laying claim to women's liberation?What is the relation between this claim and resulting American foreign policy and military action?Did American intervention and invasion in fact result in liberation for women in Afghanistan and Iraq?What multiple concepts are embedded in the phrase "women's liberation"?How are these connected to the specifics of religion, culture, history, economics, and nation within current conflicts?What is the relation between the lives of Afghan and Iraqi women before and after invasion, and that of women living in the US?How do women who define themselves as feminists resist or acquiesce to this nation/state claim in current theory and organizing?Feminism and War reveals and critically analyzes the complicated ways in which America uses gender, race, class, nationalism, imperialism to justify, legitimate, and continue war. Each chapter builds on the next to develop an anti-racist, feminist politics that places imperialist power, and forms of resistance to it, central to its comprehensive analysis.
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    Blurred Red Lines: The Carrera Cartel, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    A top 100 international Amazon best sellerFrom USA Today best-selling Author Cora Kenborn comes a steamy captive to lovers romance full of unstoppable action, intense rivalry, and heart-pounding twists.Obsession is the deadliest vice.Carrera.A word whispered in fear and respect. A name to avoid at all costs. Until I see something I shouldn't and come face to face with it.Abducted. Held against my will. A prisoner of a war I know nothing about.But my kidnapping is more than a case of mistaken identity, and my captor is more than a stranger.He's the heir to the devil.A ruthless cartel prince who takes everything and promises nothing. I should hate him, but the deeper Valentin Carrera drags me into his corrupt world, the harder it becomes to resist either one.He's determined to take more than my freedom.He wants to own my soul.I'm at his mercy. A plea that means nothing to a man whose hands are stained with blood.Until that stain?That blood?It becomes mine.And I'm no longer a prisoner of war.I am the war.The Carrera Cartel books are all stand-alones and can be listened to out of sequence. However, if you prefer to avoid spoilers, it's highly recommended that you listen to them in order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Pallino, Sarah Puckett, Alan Carlson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222177/bk_acx0_222177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Killing Is My Business: A Supernatural Action Adventure Opera (Protected by the Damned) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min
    Katie Maddison never wanted to learn how to kick a demon's ass, but now that she knows how, she is going to give it her all.Now, she isn't the newbie on the team, but rather one of the teachers. She is a demon hunter, a demon fighter...known as one of the Damned. But to stay in control, she has to work out her truce with Pandora, who is constantly testing her patience.This time, Katie's desire to help others helps her find a valuable asset: a young blacksmith whose family might have the secret to weapons that can help change the war.The only problem? The government might want what she has if they learn about it.Before Katie can do much, the team is informed of a major operation planned for the Western US, an incursion about which even Pandora is stressed.Join Katie and Pandora as hell learns what it has unleashed.Scroll back to the top, click “Buy Now”, and kick back for a fun, action-packed supernatural adventure that will have you yelling for the good guys and laughing at the arguments between Katie and...her.Note: This audiobook contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, I don't suggest listening to this audiobook. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Beresford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122356/bk_acx0_122356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Arnhem , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1006min
    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Arnhem by Antony Beevor, read by Sean Barrett.On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power.Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel and lasted until the end of the war.The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001625/bk_pauk_001625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Republic, Hörbuch, Digital, 676min
    The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athenians and foreigners about the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man. They consider the natures of existing regimes and then propose a series of different, hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις), a city-state ruled by a philosopher king. They also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the role of the philosopher and of poetry in society. The dialogue's setting seems to be during the Peloponnesian War.The Republic is generally placed in the middle period of Plato's dialogues - that is, it is believed to be written after the early period dialogues but before the late period dialogues. However, the distinction of this group from the early dialogues is not as clear as the distinction of the late dialogues from all the others. Nonetheless, Ritter, Arnim, and Baron - with their separate methodologies - all agreed that the Republic was well distinguished, along with Parmenides, Phaedrus and Theaetetus. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Coates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/014416/bk_edel_014416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mind of Christ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 126min
    And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceive the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:7-9)Satan was cast out of heaven into the earth, where the battles are now fought in the minds of humans. Whether we like it or not, we are all involved in this war.The place of the battle is the human mind, because that is where we choose between right or wrong. Right choices bring love, faith, health, and confidence - resulting in a happy, fulfilled life. Wrong choices wreak havoc with fear, stress, sickness, and confusion - leading to an unfulfilled life. In this spiritual war, we as humans are no match for Satan's spiritual attacks. We must fight this spiritual war with spiritual weapons. Let us go to God's word to access the Mind of Christ in order to recognize the enemy, and put on the impenetrable full Armor of God. We must defeat Satan in every situation, as we are Christian soldiers in His victorious army. The Mind of Christ brings the peace that passes all understanding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Milligan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152126/bk_acx0_152126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
    This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that Northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-1856 and the birth of a sectionalized party system. More invested in egalitarianism and personal competency than in capitalism, small farmers in the North operated under a free-labor ideology that emphasized the ideals of independence and mastery over oneself. The ideology of the plantation, by contrast, reflected the conservative ethos of the British aristocracy, which was the product of immense landed inequality and the assertion of mastery over others.Economic interests pitted the plantation South against the small-farm North. The Northern shift toward Republicanism depended on farmers, not industrialists: While Democrats won the majority of Northern farm congressional districts from 1842 to 1853, they suffered a major defection of these districts from 1854 to 1856 to the antislavery organizations that would soon coalesce into the Republican Party. Utilizing extensive historical research and close examination of the voting patterns in congressional districts across the country, James Huston provides a remarkable new context for the origins of the Civil War.The audiobook is published by Louisiana State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Bott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144567/bk_acx0_144567_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min
    No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the US senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861-1862. In fighting numerous skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns, and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri.This first book-length study of the “jayhawkers”, as the men of Lane’s brigade were known, takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety. Bryce Benedict draws on a wealth of previously unexploited sources, including letters by brigade members, to dramatically re-create the violence along the Kansas-Missouri border and challenge some of the time-honored depictions of Lane’s unit as bloodthirsty and indiscriminately violent.Bringing to life an era of guerillas, bushwhackers, and slave stealers, Jayhawkers also describes how Lane’s brigade was organized and equipped and provides details regarding staff and casualties. Assessing the extent to which the jayhawkers followed accepted rules of warfare, Benedict argues that Lane set a precedent for the Union Army’s eventual adoption of “hard” tactics toward civilians.An entertaining story rich in detail, Jayhawkers will captivate scholars and history enthusiasts as it sheds new light on the unfettered violence on this western fringe of the Civil War.The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Hanko. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108849/bk_acx0_108849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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