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    One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 861min
    Worshiped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries. It is an existential quest that extends to today, as millions of investors remain entranced by the metal and as right-wing presidential candidates present it as the antidote to our economic woes. Acclaimed author James Ledbetter traces the origins of our national obsession, revealing how gold's sacred status dates from precolonial days when conquistadors fanatically searched the New World for the gilded city of El Dorado. From William Jennings Bryan's legendary Cross of Gold speech of 1896 to FDR's ban on private gold ownership to Nixon's 1971 decision to float the dollar and detach it from gold, Ledbetter's "really superb treatment" (Julian Zelizer) expertly explores the controversies around this hallowed metal, investigating for the first time what our centuries-long fixation ultimately reveals about the American identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Yen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001307/bk_high_001307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Psychology of the Emotions (eBook, ePUB)
    The psychology of states of feelings, it is generally recognised, is still in a confused and backward condition. Although it has benefited in some measure by the contemporary allurement of psychological research, it must be acknowledged that it has only exerted a moderate seduction upon workers; the preference has been given to other studies, such as those of perception, of memory, of images, of movement, of attention. If any proof is necessary we may find it in the bibliographies, now published in Germany, America, and France, which give the psychological inventory of each year; of the whole number of books, memoirs, and articles which appear, less than the twentieth part, on an average, relates to the feelings and emotions. It is a very small part compared to the part played by the emotions and passions in human life, and this region of psychology is not deserving of such neglect. It is true that in recent years W. James and Lange seem to have brought this state of stagnation to an end. Their thesis, paradoxical in appearance, has aroused, especially in America, many discussions, criticisms, defences, and, what is of more value, observations and researches.
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    Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min
    The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country - all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent or flatly deny demonstrable scientific reality to protect their nonscientific ideology, their power, or their bottom line. To shed light on this darkness, Donald R. Prothero explains the scientific process and why society has come to rely on science not only to provide a better life but also to reach verifiable truths no other method can obtain. He describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by the entire scientific community (evolution, anthropogenic global warming, vaccination, the HIV cause of AIDS, and others) have been attacked with totally unscientific arguments and methods. Prothero argues that science deniers pose a serious threat to society, as their attempts to subvert the truth have resulted in widespread scientific ignorance, increased risk of global catastrophes, and deaths due to the spread of diseases that could have been prevented. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darren Stephens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019787/bk_acx0_019787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3071min
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams. His writings on aesthetics, language, truth, morality, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, and the meaning of existence have exerted a vast influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history. The Friedrich Nietzsche collection includes the following works: “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is”, “The Antichrist”, “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirit”, "The Future of Our Educational Institutions", “The Joyful Wisdom”, “We Philologists , ‘Twilight of the Idols”, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”, “Untimely Meditations”, “Homer and Classical Philosophy”, “The Wanderer and his Shadow”, “On the Genealogy of Morals”, “The Case of Wagner”, “Nietzsche Contra Wagner”, “Selected Aphorisms from Nietzsche’s Retrospect of His Years of Friendship with Wagner”, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims”, “Dionysus Dithyrambs”, “The Birth of Tragedy”, “The Will to Power “, and “The Dawn of Day”. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellis Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001760/bk_yurt_001760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    West Point 1915: Eisenhower, Bradley, and the Class the Stars Fell On , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min
    West Point's class of 1915 is the academy's most important in history. The cadets of the United States Military Academy, West Point, are intimately twined with the country's history. The graduating class of 1915, the class the stars fell on, was particularly noteworthy. Of the 164 graduates that year, 59 (36 percent) attained the rank of general, the most of any class. Although Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, both five-star generals, are the most recognizable, other class members contributed significantly to the Allied victory in World War I and World War II. They also played key roles either in the postwar US military establishment or in business and industry after World War II, especially in the Korean War and the formation of NATO. For more than half a century, these men exerted tremendous influence on the shaping of modern America, which remains substantial to this day. Individually, the stories of these military and political leaders are noteworthy. Collectively, they are astonishing. West Point 1915 explores the achievements of this remarkable group. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Zingarelli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007951/bk_tant_007951_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 814min
    A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.  As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over 30, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe.   Yet for all their apparent obedience, her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fueled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Victoria's matchmaking plans were further complicated by the tumultuous international upheavals of the time: revolution and war were in the air, and kings and queens, princes and princesses were vulnerable targets.   Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering, decadent palaces of Europe from London to Saint Petersburg, weaving in scandals, political machinations, and family tensions to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of a royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the marriages the Queen arranged. At the heart of it all is Victoria herself: doting grandmother one moment, determined Queen Empress the next. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlotte Strevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004511/bk_hach_004511_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    Siroccos, Santa Anas, chinooks, monsoons...the wind has as many names as moods. Few other forces have so universally shaped the lands and waters of the earth, plants and animals, the patterns of exploration, settlement, and civilization. Few other phenomena have exerted such a profound influence on the history and psyche of humankind. Wind touches all of us every day, yet remarkably little has been written about it, except as a component of the weather. In Wind, Jan DeBlieu brings a poet's voice and a scientist's eye to this remarkable natural force, showing how the bumping of a few molecules can lead to the creation of religions, the discovery of continents, and the destruction of empires.DeBlieu visits the water observatory at the summit of Mount Washington, where some of the highest wind speeds in the world have been recorded. She talks to survivors of a deadly tornado in Iowa, tries hang gliding over North Carolina's Outer Banks, and climbs sand dunes in Oregon and slickrock formations in Utah - everywhere exploring the effects, subtle and brutal, comforting and terrifying, of the wind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Woods. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001948/bk_blak_001948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary, Analysis & Review of Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's Killing the Rising Sun by Instaread , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    Killing the Rising Sun relates episodes from the Pacific theater of World War II, including the controversial US decision to develop and utilize atomic weapons. Fueled by confidence in their racial superiority, the Japanese exerted great effort to expand their empire throughout East Asia. Once Prime Minister Hideki Tojo convinced Emperor Hirohito to attack Pearl Harbor, war with the United States and the other Allied forces was inevitable. Although Japan had agreed to previous Geneva Conventions, they violated those agreements throughout their war effort. From their pre-World War II invasion of China until after the emperor agreed to surrender, Japanese soldiers committed unspeakable acts, including rape, murder, mutilation of corpses, and enslavement of civilians. The apparent determination of the Japanese emperor to fight an Allied land invasion to the death further escalated the dilemma within the Roosevelt and Truman administrations over whether to use the recently invented atomic bomb. PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dwight Equitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071742/bk_acx0_071742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
    Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their super-natural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. Late in the 4th century Irish pirates captured a young, British citizen named Patricius from his parents' Roman villa. The boy was sold into slavery and sent to tend sheep in Ireland. After walking nearly 200 miles across bogs and mountains to the coast, he managed to escape on a ship full of pagan sailors and returned home to the astonishment of his family. Patrick was destined for the privileged life of nobility but, when he experienced a profound religious awakening, he decided to become a priest and return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. The Patrick who emerges is even more extraordinary than the patron saint of legend, a passionate, courageous, and very human figure who exerted an incalculable impact on the course of Irish history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Sklar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000086/bk_tant_000086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flax Culture
    Flax Culture ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: An Outline Of The History And Present Condition Of The Flax Industry In The United States And A Consideration Of The Influence Exerted On It By Legislation (1888). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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