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    The Fallon Blood: Fallon Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1102min
    From phenomenally successful fantasy author Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time) comes The Fallon Blood, a splendid story of the American Revolution, now for the first time in audiobook format. In 1765, Michael Fallon, an Irishman on the run from brutal English overlords, makes his way to Charleston, South Carolina, as an indentured servant. Bound over to Thomas Carver, a successful merchant, he quickly shows a knack for trade - and a disturbing attraction to Carver's beautiful, sensual daughter, Elizabeth. With luck and intelligence - and not without bloodshed - he rises into the rice-planting aristocracy of the Carolina Lowcountry, where a frontier spirit pulses beneath the superficial trappings of an agrarian society that is heading rapidly toward revolution.  Michael Fallon hopes for peace. But the winds of war are rising, and the planter must become a privateer....And the early dalliance with Elizabeth leaves a bitter aftertaste....  This audiobook follows the less familiar Southern course of the war, including the battles of Cowpens, King's Mountain, and Eutaw Springs (the bloodiest battle on the continent until Shiloh); and brings onto center stage such notables as Ben Franklin, Cornwallis, the Swamp Fox Francis Marion, the British Colonel "Butcher" tarleton, Colonel William Moultrie, the Marquis de Lafayette - and a true cast of thousands! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Raphael Corkhill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003622/bk_aren_003622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Plaguicidas y organismos no objetivo
    Los invertebrados del suelo desempeñan un papel fundamental en los procesos de descomposición y ciclaje de nutrientes que son muy importantes para mantener un suelo sano. Las lombrices de tierra son ingenieros del ecosistema y uno de los invertebrados del suelo más notables que se utilizan como bioindicadores de la contaminación ambiental. Estos anélidos son verdaderos animales terrestres y no requieren agua líquida, sino que dependen de una alta humedad. Por tanto, los estudios sobre su capacidad para eliminar xenobióticos tendrán un interés teórico general. Las lombrices de tierra pueden captar fácilmente los tóxicos a través de su suave piel húmeda, pero probablemente puedan excretar eficazmente las sustancias no deseadas a través de sus nefridios, sus glándulas mucosas, sus poros celómicos o su tracto intestinal. Es posible que pocos estudios hayan evaluado el impacto nocivo de las aplicaciones de plaguicidas sobre las poblaciones de lombrices de tierra. Por esta razón, es importante evaluar adecuadamente los riesgos de los plaguicidas para la comunidad del suelo, y dicha evaluación debería formar parte del sistema de agricultura sostenible. Aunque para el registro de plaguicidas deberían utilizarse protocolos internacionalmente aceptados para determinar el destino y los efectos secundarios en la biota de los suelos tropicales.
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    A Voyage to Arcturus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min
    A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, which critic Colin Wilson called the "greatest novel of the 20th century". A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled audiences for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. In a sort of agnostic's Pilgrim's Progress, he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, encountering a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation. Influential on such fantasy notables as C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman, A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (1878–1945), and it remains one of the most revered cornerstones of science fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Greenhill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229828/bk_acx0_229828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 801min
    Nathaniel West: novelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsman, was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Seventy years later, The Day of the Locust remains the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. Eileen McKenney: accidental muse, literary heroine was the inspiration for her sister Ruth's humorous stories, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. She grew up in Cleveland and moved to Manhattan at 21 in search of romance and adventure. She and her sister lived in a basement apartment in the Village with a street-level window into which men frequently peered. Husband and wife were intimate with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Katharine White, S.J. Perelman, Bennett Cerf, and many of the literary, theatrical, and movie notables of their era.With Lonelyhearts, biographer Marion Meade, whose Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin earned accolades from the Washington Post Book World ("Wonderful") to the San Francisco Chronicle ("Like looking at a photo album while listening to a witty insider reminisce about the images"), restores West and McKenney to their rightful places in the rich cultural tapestry of interwar America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001909/bk_adbl_001909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lists of Armenians
    Lists of Armenians ab 18.49 € als Taschenbuch: Armenian notables deported from Constantinople in 1915 List of Armenians List of Armenian consorts List of Armenian Americans List of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh List of Armenian businesspeople. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The Illuminated Brain: Great Thinkers in Consciousness Studies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min
    Human interest in the nature of consciousness dates far back to our ancestral past. However, it is only in the last century or so that researchers and philosophers have been able to tackle the problem in a more scientific way. This is primarily due to our increasing understanding of human physiology and how our brain functions. With the advent of ever more sophisticated technology - from fMRI scans, functional magnetic resonance imaging, to DARPA’s neural engineering program, understanding neural "dust" - we are now able to not only create vivid simulations of cerebral activity but also to systematically reverse engineer the brain.Whether such empirical observations will unlock the secrets of self-reflective awareness is still open to vigorous debate. Nevertheless, the study of consciousness is now considered to be of elemental importance and has invited a large number of brilliant thinkers - from a wide range of disciplines, including mathematicians, quantum physicists, neuroscientists, and philosophers - to join in the discussions and offer their own contributions.The following essays briefly explore the life and work of pioneers in the field of consciousness studies. Included in this eclectic mix are such notables as Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin), Paul and Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego), Noam Chomsky (MIT), the late Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna, and Jean Pierre Changeux (Collège de France) among others. Each entry is written by a separate author. David Christopher Lane, Professor of Philosophy at Mt. San Antonio College, has selected and edited each essay. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Cesa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/183631/bk_acx0_183631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
    The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda, and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems.In I'm Right and You're an Idiot, author and David Suzuki Foundation chair James Hoggan grapples with this critical issue, conducting interviews with outstanding thinkers from the Himalayas to the House of Lords. Drawing on the wisdom of such notables as Thich Nhat Hanh, Noam Chomsky, and the Dalai Lama, his comprehensive analysis explores:How trust is undermined and misinformation thrives in today's public dialogueWhy facts alone fail - the manipulation of language and the silencing of dissentWhat is the importance of reframing our arguments with empathy and values to create compelling narratives and spur actionOur species' greatest survival strategy has always been foresight and the ability to leverage our intelligence to overcome adversity. For too long now, this capacity has been threatened by the sorry state of our public discourse.Focusing on proven techniques to foster more powerful and effective communication, this audiobook will appeal to listeners looking for both deep insights and practical advice.James Hoggan is president of the Vancouver PR firm Hoggan & Associates, chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board, and founder of the influential website DeSmogBlog. He is author of Climate Cover-Up and Do the Right Thing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Puttonen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208340/bk_acx0_208340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 160min
    Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than 300 letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others.  Before turning to her life of crime - running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI - Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times best seller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she’d received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than 300 letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward - and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. Exquisitely written, Can You Ever Forgive Me? is “a slender, sordid, and pretty damned fabulous book about her misadventures” (The New York Times Book Review). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Curtin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008831/bk_sans_008831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Terapia familiar del abuso y adicción a las drogas (eBook, PDF)
    Este libro cuestiona la teoría y la práctica de muchos programas para drogadictos. En un campo donde la mayoría de los programas se concentran en la responsabilidad individual, la proximidad, la cohesión grupal y la simetría, los autores enfatizan la mutua responsabilidad de los miembros de la familia en el funcionamiento familiar y desarrollan un método terapéutico que se concentra en la reestructuración jerárquica y el distanciamiento. El resultado es una equilibrada mezcla de erudición y practicidad que abarca desde una reseña integral de la literatura especializada hasta una concentración en los detalles de la sesión terapéutica. Se presenta un preciso modelo conceptual que a menudo es alterado y cuestionado por los detalles y refinamientos de los capítulos clínicos: la teoría y la praxis crecen, se desafían y se expanden mutuamente. Se brinda al lector la descripción de la danza terapéutica, la conjunción del ingenio de dos expertos en la manipulación de la realidad: el adicto y el terapeuta. Los terapeutas son notables narradores, pero ni la estética de la terapia ni su narración garantizan procedimientos eficaces de tratamiento. Este trabajo es significativo no sólo por la dedicación de los autores a la curación, sino por la evaluación de los resultados. La combinación de este enfoque triple -formación teórica, procedimiento de tratamiento, metodología para mensurar la eficacia de la intervención- hace de este libro un modelo en la especialidad.
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    A History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century, Hörbuch, Digital, 445min
    The history of the U.S. economy in the 20th century is far too interesting - and far too important to our future - to be dismissed with just a few stock explanations. These 10 fast-paced lectures introduce you to vital economic lessons learned in the last century to provide invaluable guidance for understanding the current economy. Each lecture focuses exclusively on one decade to provide you with a clear understanding of economic developments and outside influences on the U.S. economy. In some cases, you'll examine well-defined events like the creation of the Federal Reserve or the war in Vietnam. In other lectures, you'll explore larger societal shifts, such as the evolving role of women in the economy and changing consumption patterns. This decade-by-decade approach takes you deep inside America's memorable economic milestones. Among these: the U.S. trade surplus during World War I; the rise of the automobile industry in the 1920s; the mismanagement of monetary policy that led to the Great Depression; the Employment Act of 1946, which gave the federal government the responsibility to maintain high employment and economic growth; the strangling inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s; and more. Professor Taylor takes care to ensure that you can follow this course clearly regardless of your knowledge of economics. He uses historical examples and quotes from economists and other notables, and his use of economic reasoning often brings surprising insight. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000154/bk_tcco_000154_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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