151 Results for : inventiveness
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Dawn on a Distant Shore: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1202min
Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New-York wilderness in the winter of 1794. But soon after Elizabeth gives birth to healthy twins, Nathaniel learns that his father has been arrested in British Canada. Forced to leave Hidden Wolf Mountain to help his father in Montreal, Nathaniel himself is imprisoned and in danger of being hanged as a spy. In a desperate bid to save her husband, Elizabeth bundles her infants and sets out through the snowy wilderness and across treacherous waterways on the dangerous trek to Canada. But she soon discovers that freeing her husband will take every ounce of her courage and inventiveness - and will threaten her with the loss of what she loves most: her children. Torn apart, the Bonners must embark on yet another perilous voyage, this time all the way across the ocean to the heart of Scotland, where a destiny they could never have imagined awaits them.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001919/bk_rand_001919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tex Avery: Hollywood's Master of Screwball Cartoons (Legends of Animation) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min
Tex Avery, considered the father of screwball animation, was one of the most influential animators of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Creator of such classic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Droopy, he directed many cartoons for Warner Bros., MGM, and Walter Lantz Productions and was nominated for six Academy Awards. Avery did much of his groundbreaking work in Hollywood, running the famous "Termite Terrace" animation studio. There, with a team that included fellow innovators Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, Avery developed an animation style based on the idea that the artist could do anything in a cartoon and didn't need to base it in reality. Although Avery was blind in one eye, he did not let it hold him back. Known for his inventiveness and comic timing, he forged a legacy that influences animators today. Tex Avery: Hollywood's Master of Screwball Cartoons illustrates this animation pioneer's life, his inspiration, and his lasting effect on the animation world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott O'Neill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009665/bk_acx0_009665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from academics to eccentrics. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunker-like basement room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air", "foregone conclusion", "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's: the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Bryson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001554/bk_harp_001554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd Heinrich explores his local woods, where he delights in the seemingly infinite feats of animal inventiveness he discovers there. Because winter drastically affects the most elemental component of all life---water---radical changes in a creature's physiology and behavior must take place to match the demands of the environment. Some creatures survive by developing antifreeze; others must remain in constant motion to maintain their high body temperatures. Even if animals can avoid freezing to death, they must still manage to find food in a time of scarcity or store if from a time of plenty. Infused by the author's inexhaustible enchantment with nature, Winter World awakens the wonders and mysteries by which nature sustains herself through winter's harsh, cruel exigencies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mel Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001037/bk_tant_001037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Misanthrope, Hörbuch, Digital, 110min
This timeless comedy of manners is considered one of Molière's most probing and mature works. While it's still an exemplar of 17th century farce, Molière went beyond his usual comic inventiveness to create a world of rich, complex characters, especially in the cynical title character Alceste, played here by the Tony Award-winning actor Brian Bedford.Includes an interview with Larry F. Norman author of The Public Mirror: Molière and the Social Commerce of Depiction.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2012.Lead funding for this production was made possible with support by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Brian Bedford as AlcesteJD Cullum as ClitandreSarah Drew as ElianteMartin Jarvis as PhilinteDarren Richardson as Basque, Du BoisSusan Sullivan as ArsinoeNick Toren as OronteMatt Wolf as Acaste, GuardBellamy Young as CelimeneAssociate Producer: Christina Montaño. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Stage Manager, Michael Rhea. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Bedford, J. D. Cullum, Sarah Drew, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson, Susan Sullivan, Nick Toren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000357/pf_latw_000357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Trilogy of Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min
A Time Magazine top 10 children's book of 2015.“The Trilogy of Two is full of inventiveness, with a world that’s constructed ingeniously and characters who are vivid and attractive.” (Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials)Identical twins Sonja and Charlotte are musical prodigies with extraordinary powers. Born on All Hallows' Eve, the girls could play music before they could walk. They were found one night by Tatty, the Tattooed Lady of the circus, in a pail on her doorstep with only a note and a heart-shaped locket. They've been with Tatty ever since, roaming the Outskirts in the circus caravans, moving from place to place. But lately, curious things have started to happen when they play their instruments. During one of their performances, the girls accidentally levitate their entire audience, drawing too much unwanted attention. Soon, ominous Enforcers come after them, and Charlotte and Sonja must embark on a perilous journey through enchanted lands in hopes of unlocking the secrets of their mysterious past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jayne Entwistle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001938/bk_lili_001938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jefferson's Garden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min
You say you want a Revolution? The story of this country's struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness. As Thomas Jefferson struggles to find the right words to frame a nation, a young Quaker must weigh his desire to participate in the struggle against his pacifist beliefs.Recorded before an audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in March 2017.Directed by Martin JarvisProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergRosalind Ayres as Martha/Nelly RoseNate Corddry as ChristianEllis Greer as BettyGregory Harrison as Carl/Thomas JeffersonLovensky Jean-Baptiste as James HemmingsIfan Meredith as Harry/Jim MadisonDarren Richardson as Daniel/George Mason/M. PerraultEmily Swallow as Louisa/ImogenInger Tudor as Susannah/SallyAdditional chorus roles performed by the castAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Jonathan Kells Phillips. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalind Ayres, Nate Corddry, Ellis Greer, Gregory Harrison, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Ifan Meredith, Darren Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000447/pf_latw_000447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bridging Heaven & Earth: Heart Awakening: The Inner Connection to All Existence, Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
Featuring Ilizabeth Fortune and Abigail, this beautiful program will give you a warm feeling deep inside. Ilizabeth facilitates the Flower of Life Experience, as well as human interaction with dolphins, whales, the ocean, and nature for the purpose of playfully opening the heart to experience the inter-connectedness of all life with all species. This show introduces sacred geometry; Ilizabeth also presents a meditative journey that truly awakens the heart. She brings many pictures and shares numerous stories of her interactions and friendships with dolphins and whales.A recent TV special called Abigail a "singing enchantress." Abigail could be described as an 18-year-old visionary singer/songwriter with beautifully haunting harmonies, multi-leveled lyrics, and a beingness that embodies innocence, knowingness, and her angelic presence. Her songs contain a signature of youthfulness and lively inventiveness textured with transcendental agelessness. The combination is a power that has to be experienced. For that reason, Bridging Heaven & Earth has invited her many times to grace the show with her unique purity of expression. Language: English. Narrator: Allan Silberhartz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/real/000136/bk_real_000136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fata Morgana , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world. Suddenly stranded with the final outcasts of a desolated world, Captain Farley navigates a maze of treachery and wonderand finds a love seemingly decreed by fate—as his bomber becomes a pawn in a centuries-old conflict between remnants of advanced but decaying civilizations. Caught among these bitter enemies, a vast power that has brought them here for its own purposes, and a terrifying living weapon bent on their destruction, the crew must use every bit of their formidable inventiveness and courage to survive. Fata Morgana—the epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macleod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009687/bk_blak_009687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Germany: Memories of a Nation, Audio-CD
A major new series from the makers of A History Of The World In 100 Objects, exploring the fascinating and complex history of Germany from the origins of the Holy Roman Empire right up to the present day. Written and presented by Neil MacGregor, it is produced by BBC Radio 4, in partnership with the British Museum. Whilst Germany's past is too often seen through the prism of the two World Wars, this series investigates a wider 600-year-old history of the nation through its objects. It examines the key moments that have defined Germany's past - its great, world-changing achievements and its devastating tragedies - and it explores the profound influence that Germany's history, culture and inventiveness have had across Europe. The objects featured in the radio series range from large sculptures to small individual artefacts and items that are prosaic, iconic and symbolic. Each has a story to tell, a memory to invoke.- Shop: buecher
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