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Fresh Air, Charles Lewis and Lt. Col. Gene Pollack, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
Investigative researcher Charles Lewis and Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Lt. Col. Gene Pollack on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Lewis is the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C., similar to an investigative journalism outfit but without time and space constraints. Its mission is to expose corruption and power abuse by governments, corporations and individuals. Lewis will talk about the ties between members of the Bush Administration and the defense industry, and questions of conflict of interest regarding lucrative contracts to rebuild Iraq. For eleven years, Lewis was an investigative reporter at ABC news, and also worked at CBS on 60 Minutes. Lt. Col. Gene Pollack responds to concerns about conflict of interest in awarding army contracts to private companies. Pollack explains how the Army Corps of Engineers gave contracts to put out oil fires in Iraq to Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton after he left his job as Secretary of Defense and before he became VP. (Broadcast Date: June 17, 2003) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/030617/rt_whyy_030617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 791min
In the closing days of the 30-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to UN estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand spit, dubbed "The Cage". Gordon Weiss, a journalist and UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka during the final years of the war, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, The Cage is a harrowing portrait of an island paradise torn apart by war and the root causes and catastrophic consequences of a revolutionary uprising caught in the crossfire of international power jockeying. Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including Bosnia, Afghanistan, Darfur, Pakistan, Congo, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over 12 years, Weiss is now a writer, speaker, and analyst of international affairs as well as a founding advisor to the International Crimes Evidence Project, currently investigating war crimes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017832/bk_adbl_017832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Brunette Ambition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 198min
The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in a book that’s part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide. Lea Michele is one of the hardest-working performers in show business. Whether she’s starring as Rachel Berry on Glee, rocking a glamorous look on the red carpet, recording her solo album, or acting as the spokesperson for L’Oreal, Lea is the ultimate multi-tasker. She knows better than anyone that it is difficult to be your best self and keep things in perspective when your to-do list is overflowing and you are faced with challenges, so she’s developed a foolproof system for remaining healthy and centered. In Brunette Ambition, she reveals the lessons and advice that have worked for her - from beauty and fashion secrets to fitness tips, and career insights. Supplemented with never-before-seen photos and revealing anecdotes, it’s the book Lea wishes she’d had in her teens and early 20s: A practical and inspirational guide to harnessing tenacity and passion and living the fullest life, no matter what obstacles life puts in your way. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lea Michele. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003839/bk_rand_003839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 312min
On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris' Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as the voice of a generation - a status he had achieved with dizzying speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existentialism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intellectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after accepting the Nobel Prize, he was killed in a car accident. In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus' development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. The book was published by Cornell University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Galvez II. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044840/bk_acx0_044840_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Barreled Over: Trinity Distillery #1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min, (USK 18)
Ready for another round? Ava Grace Landy's music career is humming along, until a shakeup at her label jeopardizes her recording contract and curses her with the world's worst boss. Determined to satisfy him, she partners with Trinity Distillery to access a larger male audience. To her surprise, she's the one who's satisfied - by none other than Jonah Beck, the gorgeous yet gruff man behind the bourbon. No doubt about it, bourbon runs in Beck's blood. But it's audacious Ava Grace who makes it run hot. When she signs on as the spokesperson for his craft distillery, he doesn't plan on hoisting her onto an oak barrel and rocking the rick-house. Though he's convinced their lives don't mix - like a terrible cocktail - he can't keep his hands off the alluring country star. Ava Grace and Beck try to keep their intoxicating relationship private, but the glare of her fame is too bright, revealing secrets they both want to remain hidden. With a spotlight shining on his tumultuous past, their future is at risk. Now they must decide if being together is worth sacrificing the career she loves and the company he's poured his heart and soul into. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ava Lucas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109383/bk_acx0_109383_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Repeater Book of Heroism
In these impactful first-person essays, a selection of Repeater authors come together to write about what heroism means to them, trying to imagine a new kind of hero figure for the twenty-first century. "I don't have any heroes, they're all useless", opined John Lydon in 1976. As a spokesperson of sorts for the punk generation, Lydon was giving voice to a nihilistic, deconstructive impulse which, for better or worse, would go on to dominate the next half-century or so of intellectual, cultural and political life. But isn't one of the problems with the modern world that we no longer have any real sense of what heroism is? What if we recovered heroism from the hands of the fascists and the neoliberal ideologues, and proclaimed that - despite everything - a hero can and should be something to be? In these personal, provocative essays, the authors behind the uncompromising project that is Repeater Books come together to redefine the idea of the hero for a twenty-first-century public which desperately needs something to believe in. From Eric Cantona to Wile E Coyote, Bruno Latour to Paula Rego, forgotten legends and anonymous family members, this compendium of extraordinary human behaviour is essential reading for anyone who has ever thought that, despite what Jean-Paul Sartre said, heaven is other people.- Shop: buecher
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Malcolm’s Biography: A History of the Revolutionary Life of Malcolm X , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
Malcolm X was a minister, human rights activist, and a prominent Black Nationalist leader who served as a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and 1960s. Malcolm X was an articulate orator who stood against racial inequality and police brutality against Black people with his favorite quote “by any means necessary”. Although he and his family were subjected to incessant harassment from white supremacist groups, he wasn’t deterred.He faced racism before he was even born. "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, 'a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home,'" Malcolm later remembered. "Brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out."To protect his family, Earl Little moved them from Omaha to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1926 and then to Lansing, Michigan, in 1928, when he was four years old. After a racist mob set their house ablaze, Malcolm revealed that the White police and firemen stood around watching and refusing to do anything as the house completely burned to the ground in 1929.Until his 1965 assassination, he vigorously supported Black Nationalism. This book gives a detailed review into the exceptional biography of the revolutionary life of the legend Malcolm X, whose fight for the Black nation will continue to be remembered even in death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Levi Shrader. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210698/bk_acx0_210698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Case for Hillary Clinton, Hörbuch, Digital, 357min
With the Bush administration now in its final years, all eyes are turning to the 2008 political season, especially those of Democratic voters, who are casting about for a galvanizing leader to help them win back the White House. And in that role, argues longtime political strategist Susan Estrich, no candidate even approaches the power and promise of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Senator from New York. She is, by far, not only the most popular Democratic leader in the country, but also one of its most popular and admired politicians, period. Both a passionate spokesperson for progressive values and a strong advocate for our troops overseas, she has used her time in the Senate to establish herself successfully as a genuine political powerhouse. There is no candidate whose election would bring such vitality and lasting change into the White House. And she offers Americans a once-in-a-lifetime chance to break the world's most prominent glass ceiling and elect a female President of the United States. In an atmosphere where conservative Hillary-bashing is still as virulent as ever, Estrich demonstrates all the reasons that this principled leader still blows away any other potential contender in the early polls for 2008. And, with arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed, America and the world would be changed forever and for the better. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Estrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001180/bk_harp_001180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Standing Our Ground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives.Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed Black men unjustly gunned down.Standing Our Ground is McBath’s memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she transformed her pain into activism. After 17-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a man who thought the music playing on his car stereo was too loud, the nation grieved yet again for the unnecessary loss of life. Here, McBath goes beyond the timeline and the assailant’s defense - Stand Your Ground - to present an emotional account of her fervent fight for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the rest of her days.But more than McBath’s story or that of her son, Standing Our Ground keenly observes the social and political evolution of America’s gun culture. A must-listen for anyone concerned with gun safety in America, it harkens back to such best sellers as The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace and Nobody. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucia Kay McBath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008843/bk_sans_008843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Time of Your Life: Choosing a Vibrant, Joyful Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min
In this candid and engaging book, Margaret Trudeau, author of the number-one best-selling memoir Changing My Mind, offers women an inspirational and practical approach to creating a healthy, happy, secure, and satisfying future life. From dating and online romance, to health practices and financial planning, The Time of Your Life explores the fundamentals needed for the best future by discussing cornerstone issues such as housing, money, sex, friendship, and children. Always a rebel at heart, Margaret looks at what the experts have to say and weaves through her own point of view, culling insightful and funny anecdotes from her early marriage to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when she was a 22-year-old hippie from the west coast of Canada, to her life as a single mom raising three young boys in the often hostile glare of the media spotlight. Margaret's mental health challenges; her decision to leave her second marriage; the devastating losses of her son, Michel, and first husband, Pierre; and her reinvention as a coveted spokesperson and fundraiser make her uniquely qualified to offer her own perspective on the choices women face in their 50s and beyond. Practical, straightforward, and filled with tips and ideas for living a rich life, The Time of Your Life is the perfect book for women of all ages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Winton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038178/bk_acx0_038178_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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