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Small House Living: How to Improve Your Finances, Declutter Your Life and Be Happier by Living in a Small House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min
Looking to downsize your home, save money, and live a life of freedom? People often think that when you live in a small house, it's because you don't have the means to live in a larger home. In most cases this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that small house living typically equates to a much more fulfilling life. Through the process of downsizing your life in regards to material possessions, clutter, and the size of your dwelling, you come to understand a new ideal in which freedom is the name of the game. The freedom comes from a more condensed life in which only the possessions and needs which are truly important are permitted to remain in your or your family's life. Discover how you can gain freedom by downsizing your home and living a small house lifestyle. Also, you'll discover... How to break out of the mindset that comes with living in a consumer based society. The methods for having a smooth transition from a large home to a small one. A step by step guide on how to build your first small house. And much more! Table of Contents When Did This Movement Begin? Learn about the history of small house living and when it all started. The Basics of a Small House Lifestyle In this chapter find out what a tiny lifestyle entails and all of its wonderful benefits. Breaking Free From the Standards of Society Gain an understanding of how you can deprogram your mind and start appreciating more with less. The First Step in Small House Living Learn the first actions to take in order to start your new journey. Steps in Creating Your Small Home A step by step guide to creating your tiny home. Implementing All You've Learned How you can take what you've learned in this book and put into action. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roberto Scarlato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028594/bk_acx0_028594_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut shrewdly operated the levers of power to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh. Hatshepsut successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt's most prolific building periods. Scholars have long speculated as to why her monuments were destroyed within a few decades of her death, all but erasing evidence of her unprecedented rule. Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power - and why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kara Cooney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003995/bk_rand_003995_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Origin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 63min, (USK 18)
Coming of age as the son of the man all call Father comes with divine obligations and procreative consequences. In a small community called Origin, life for young Silas is simple, peaceful, and so wrapped up in secrets that he isn't even aware that he is the only one - the last one - to learn of the monumental events in store for him. Every man, woman, and child eagerly anticipates Silas's coming of age, the precise moment when he is destined to perform his all-important birthright: the very continuation of the town itself. Silas is the son of the man all call Father, the sole leader of the small, the man whose commands no one disregards, whose love and favor all live to earn. One evening, Silas drops to his knees as ordered, dutifully recites all of Father's commandments, and remains completely unaware of what will soon be asked of him, demanded of him: the loss of his own innocence and the loss of young Joanne's, the first of countless, untouched female members of the community Father will designate and direct his son to use in fulfilling his divine, singular purpose. Always striving for Father's praise and approval, young Silas desperately struggles to understand what is asked of him and just how to carry it out. Time and again, Silas considers no choice but to fulfill his purpose and obey Father, only to blame himself as the cause of each woman's subsequent disappearance. For Silas, fear mingles with physical desire, reluctance couples with denial, pleasure equates harm, and he learns the ways of intimacy under the most guarded, convoluted conditions - all under Father's watchful, judgmental eye. When the full story and Silas' destiny are finally revealed, the truth is so shocking that Silas' once idyllic, innocent life is turned completely upside down as he realizes the full extent and meaning of family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Me. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023248/bk_acx0_023248_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Need Your Love, Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
In Loving What Is, best-selling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love, Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection. The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills: how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren't. This approach doesn't work. It leaves millions of walking wounded, those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.I Need Your Love, Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most; the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover's tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you've based your whole life on, and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love - seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000474/bk_bkot_000474_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Roman Gaul: The History of Gaul as a Province of the Ancient Roman Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 132min
In the minds of most people today, Gaul equates to modern France. However, the vast geographical area that Caesar named Gaul, in fact, was made up of a number of very distinct regions and covered, in addition to modern-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, parts of the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Northern Italy. The Romans called the northern area of the Italian peninsula, which is now part of modern Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, or Gaul on this side of the Alps. Early Romans did not even consider this region as part of Italy and repeated incursions southwards, and the sacking of Rome itself in 390 BCE, resulted in Rome taking full control of the area in 221 BCE and thoroughly Romanizing it to the extent that even the Celtic language totally disappeared and was replaced by Latin. The region was initially a province but by the beginning of the first century BCE, it had become fully integrated into the Roman heartland and became an administrative region of Italy rather than a province. Ironically, the Roman Republic’s development from a city state into a world power that controlled large swathes of modern Italy, Gaul and Spain, as well as other parts of Europe is seen by many as being the direct result of Roman fear of the “Celtic Threat.” The sacking of Rome by the Gauls in 386 BCE became indelibly imprinted into the Roman psyche, and with this fear came a desire to put as much distance as possible between the city of Rome and any potential enemy. The result was the gradual acquisition of buffer zones that became provinces of an empire that grew without any particular thought or deliberate strategy of expansion.The Gallic Wars, the series of campaigns waged by Caesar on behalf of the Roman Senate between 58-50 BCE, were among the defining conflicts of the Roman era. Not only was the expansion of the Republic’s domains unprecedented (especially when considering it was undertaken under the auspices of a single general), it had a profound cultural impact ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127158/bk_acx0_127158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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School Yourself into Shape: A Fascinating Guide into Quickly Improving Your Health, Physique and Way of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min
School Yourself into Shape is a fascinating guide that will teach you how to quickly improve your health, physique, and way of life. In the title of the audiobook, the word "S.C.H.O.O.L." represents Structure, Consistency, Habits, Overcoming Obstacles, and Lifestyle. The author, Kevin White, created this acronym for listeners to easily remember the key components needed to quickly get in shape, and preserving it. The book eliminates the over-thinking involved in trying to get in shape, and replaces it with a simple formula for success. You will come to realize that there is a reason they're called fad diets and workouts, and in most cases they produce temporary results, regardless of who has endorsed them. In addition, you'll learn that it takes less than 2000 hours to get in shape and revitalize your spirit. That's right 2000 hours! That equates to 83 days, or about 12 weeks to revive your body, mind, and way of life. Moreover, the book teaches you how easy it is to stay fit forever. So if you're reading this, take a stroll over to the nearest mirror, look at yourself, and think of every possible reason why you want to improve your health, figure, and lifestyle. I don't care if you think some of the reasons might be stupid, pointless, or even absurd, go write them down. If they came to mind while you were standing in front of that mirror, then to you, they must have some type of significance. Then write down all the things that you are accountable for in your life. Think hard, maybe it's your spouse, children, job, or school. Once you've done that, find the consequences that you avoid by remaining accountable to these particulars. For example, not committing to your job could lead to unemployment, and not committing to your partner might lead to the single life. It's these types of repercussions that raise awareness and accountability, and remind us that we might ultimately have to answer to our boss or partner ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beverly Oliver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033008/bk_acx0_033008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Head to Toe Healing from Autism and Other Neuroimmune Disorders - A Book of 31 Scriptural Prayers for Your Child (Jesus Took Autism Autism Book Series) (eBook, ePUB)
"I am so glad I found your book. Your book is amazing. Thank you Thank you thank you. My mother and I are about to pray night and day. Thank you for making it easier." - Sandy from the United States (used with permission) Jesus says in John 5:6, "Do you want to be made well?" Beloved of God, if the answer is "YES!" for your child, then this prayer book is for you. God equates Himself with His Word (John 1:1;14), is Living Water, and His Word is life and health to our bodies. Thus, these prayers were written to cover your child from head-to-toe in healing, Word-drenched prayers. The Lord calls His people to be in this world, but not of this world. This includes regarding our thinking and dealings with sicknesses, diseases, and disorders like autism, PANDAS, and other neuroimmune disorders. As His covenant children, we are called to say what God says about sickness, define it as He does, and deal with it how He tells us to. In addition to the powerful, head-to-toe, prayers, this book also includes teachings and revelations on faith and healing that make it clear it's God's will to heal YOUR child and that healing was paid for by Jesus' stripes in full for him/her. The inspiration for this book being titled with HEAD TO TOE is based on Joshua 1:3 which says, "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses." And true to its title, this prayer book contains 31 head to toe targeted prayers of petition paired with 31 prayers of authority to "tread upon" the land of your child's body for total healing from autism and other similar neuroimmune disorders like PANDAS, etc. Excerpt from book: "For far too long, the enemy has successfully deceived many into redefining sickness into something contrary to the Word of God. Thus, even His own people have been affected and brought under confusion by the enemy's lies. Consequently, they've settled for sickness in their bodies. As God's children, we are called to only say what He says about sickness, only define it as He does, and only do with it what He tells us to...There are many believers who are merely expressing their opinions about sickness, disease, and healing that are not based on the Word of God, so we must know His Word and will for ourselves to keep from being deceived." Jesus Took Autism Book Series: Book 1: Autism Is Not God's Will for Your Child (Nor You!): Scriptural Proof This Disorder Exalts Itself Against the Will of God, So You May Take Authority Over Autism in Jesus' Name Book 2: Head to Toe Healing from Autism and Other Neuroimmune Disorders - A Book of 31 Scriptural Prayers for Your Child (Jesus Took Autism Book 3: No! God Didn't Give You a Child with Autism: He Gave You Victory Over Autism Through the Power of the Word- Shop: buecher
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Voodoo Fire & Other Works by Derek Strahan
'VOODOO FIRE & OTHER WORKS BY DEREK STRAHAN RDS 006 Total duration: 73.42 Program notes by composer for 'VOODOO FIRE', 'CHINA SPRING'. SOLOCELLO SUITE #1, 'ATLANTIS' and 'CLARINET CONCERTO #1, 3rd Movement. See end for composer's biography 'VOODOO FIRE' (1996) for Clarinet, Percussion and Keyboard. Performance by Alan Vivian, clarinet, Michael Askill, percussion, Susanne Powell, keyboards. LIVE RECORDING OF PREMIER PERFORMANCE AT CANBERRA SCHOOL OF MUSIC 21/04/1996. Duration 16.18 The work was commissioned by the Canberra School of Music for performance by clarinetist Alan Vivian and colleagues, as the result of discussions between Alan and myself over a number of years, following from Alan's splendid work recording my Clarinet Quintet No. 1 in D ('The Princess') in 1981. 15 years passed before the opportunity arose for me to write a piece especially for Alan. When he suggested I write a Trio for clarinet, percussion and keyboards, this gave me the opportunity to advance a particular interest of mine - the fusion of Western melodic counterpoint with African rhythmic counterpoint. In an arc stretching from Brazil to the Caribbean, the animist religious beliefs of Africa remain alive in South and Central America and in the deep south of the USA. The Haitian version of this religion is the best known probably because it inspired the only successful slave revolt in the world, and also because of it's supposed link with black magic. However, as in most religions, there are two clear paths which can be taken, that of the common good, and that of manipulative individual will. Central to Voodoo practice is the belief that, through ceremony and ritual the gods will possess participants and speak through them. Music and dance induce a trance state so that possession will occur. Specific dances and rites invoke specific gods. African music is distinguished by it's use of polyrhythms in drumming. A complex 'engine' of interacting rhythms produces a basis for unison chant. When Western music absorbed African influence to produce 'jazz' the following process seems to have occurred. 1) The polyrhythmic component was rejected, because it was alien to the Western harmonic system. In this, 'harmony' is achieved by vertical alignment of tones in a uni-rhythmic music where the coincidence of tones produces 'chords'. 'Jazz' as it has evolved requires performers to follow a 'chord sequence'. 2) One of the superficial effects of polyrhythm was retained - the displaced accent. Coming before the beat, this was called syncopation. In African drumming much of what sounds like syncopation is a side-effect of the concurrence of different rhythms. I have attempted in this piece to apply African rhythmic counterpoint to Western melodic counterpoint. The resulting fusion is not 'program music', nor is it, of course, true music of the Voodoo. However, in order to compose it, I did study music for which I have the greatest respect, accessed through commercially available recordings of authentic Voodoo ceremonies that took place in Haiti. As these recordings were made with the specific permission of Voodoo hougans (priests), it is right that I acknowledge the source of the musical techniques I have attempted to apply (see below). Shango is the Voodoo god of thunder and lightning, consequently also of fire. In writing music dedicated to Shango, I, a European Australian, am expressing my appreciation of the Voodoo attitude to a deity embodying this element. Shango is still worshipped as a very powerful spirit not only in Haiti, and in Brazil (as Xango) but also among the Yoruba of Nigeria, from whom Voodoo (or 'Vodun') is thought to originate. The mythology surrounding Shango is complex and colorful and can be quickly accessed in detail by googling his name on the internet. Derived from an historical figure, posthumously deified, Shango is the son of Aganju, a ferryman and god of fire. He once threw himself into fire to prove his lineage. He also has aspects of a thunder god, and, by analogy, of many Western fire gods, since, through the fire of lightning, Shango reveals "truth that hurts" by illuminating what was hidden. In Western culture gods of fire were also illuminators, who offered humans the fire of Enlightenment and Knowledge. According to our various myths, the chief gods guarded Knowledge and kept it hidden from humans. It fell to the rebellious fire god to share it with us, and he was always punished for his disobedience - demoted to being a demi-god (half-human), or demonized. Some of the names of the fire god in Western culture are: Prometheus, Loke (Loge of Wagner's "Ring") and Lucifer, the latter known also as the Light-Bringer and known also as the Fallen Angel, who was expelled from Paradise. By contrast, neither the fire god, nor any Voodoo gods are thought of as being either good or evil. Voodoo gods may at times behave with malice, since 'they embrace all aspects inherent in their physical and spiritual existence'(*). It is up to humans to induce the gods to act on their behalf, and this is done through ritual which embodies dance. Significantly, Shango is also god of the drums and dance. His power over the elements equates with the caprice and creative experience of human sexuality. Generic Voodoo terms for their gods are the 'lao', gods of earth and the underworld, and the "Orishas' gods of sky and heaven, among whom Shango is prominent. But all Voodoo gods are offspring of the Creator-God Mawu who is 'understood in his entirety' (*). The serpent figures strongly in the Voodoo faith. In it's many spellings "Voodoo" means "spirit and also 'the snake under whose auspices gather all who share the faith". Thus it would seem that the Voodoo attitude to the Creator-God is somewhat similar to the philosophy which underlies the heretical Gnostic version of Christianity. Gnostics view the Wise Serpent of Eden as a benefactor, an intermediary who intercedes to connect humans with the true God, by revealing Hidden Knowledge (Gnosis). No wonder the Gnostics were persecuted as heretics!. Voodoo, as a religion, was banned during the era of slavery, but survived by syncretism within the slave owners' faith, especially within Catholicism. For example, the gate to the 'Laos' is protected by a barrier whose guardian is 'Papa Legba' and who is also indicative of Saint Peter, since Voodoo 'effortlessly incorporates aspects of other religions'. Voodoo, Vodoun, Vudu or Vudun dates from the beginning of human civilization, and is estimated to be over 10,000 years old. On Thursday, April 10, 2003, Voodoo was officially sanctioned as a religion by the government of Haiti. Acknowledgements: 1) Sound recordings collected in Haiti and the island of La Tortue by Maurice Bitter with the agreement of the Hougans (priests) during actual Voodoo ceremonies. As released on LP, 'Voodoo Ceremony in Haiti', Olympic records. 2) Book: 'Voodoo, Africa's Secret Power' by Gert Chesi, published by Perlinger Verlag, 1979. (In 1964 Gert Chesi spent 8 months in Lambarene as the guest of distinguished author and Christian missionary Albert Schweitzer. It was during that time Chesi developed a deep interest in African tribes and their traditions). (*) Indicates quotations from this book. "Voodoo Fire" is written in three sections, played continuously, which correspond to a ritual performance, beginning with Offerings to the god, a Dance leading to Possession by the god and culminating in a prayer to Shango, the melody of which is freely adapted from a genuine Voodoo chant sung by the hougan with operatic fervour against energetic inspirational drumming. Within the work's musical structure there is some mirror imagery, where a passage is later repeated but with it's metre and notation played in reverse, leading to a reprise of the opening passage. The technicalities of this and other cyclic structural elements are described in detail in the educational Music Kit available for this work. 1. Invocation of the Fir- Shop: odax
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