123 Results for : tortures
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An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
Born in 1933, Philip Zimbardo is a renowned and controversial American social psychologist who is fascinated by why people can sometimes behave in awful ways. Some psychologists believe people who commit cruelty are innately evil. Zimbardo disagrees. In his 2007 book, The Lucifer Effect, he argued that it is the power of situations around us that can cause otherwise good people to commit "evil", citing many historical examples to illustrate his point. Despite being published more than 35 years after the event, The Lucifer Effect details Zimbardo's own 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), where ordinary volunteers playing guards in a mock prison rapidly became abusive. But he also describes the tortures committed by US Army personnel in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 - and how he himself testified in defense of one guard. The text has gained a lot of attention but has also caused much controversy over the ethics and methodology of the SPE as well as the truth or otherwise of Zimbardo's claims. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063877/bk_acx0_063877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Once Bitten: A Novel of Haven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min
Kita Nekai, on the run and the smallest of her shifter clan-a calico cat among lions and tigers-is being hunted. She was expected to accept her role as her father's successor whether or not her cat was up to the task of leading the clan. She disagreed. Now she's less than a step ahead of the hunters, bone-tired, cold, and living hand-to-mouth in the city of Haven. And that's the high point of her day. She's also drugged, "accidentally" turned into a vampire, and sentenced to death for recklessly creating a rogue shifter who tortures its human prey. She's got 72 hours to find the rogue, evade a city full of hunters, prove she's not responsible for the rogue, and keep the vampire council from killing her. All while sorting out an apprentice mage, a married ex-boyfriend shifter-hunter, and the vampire who made her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Piper Goodeve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003229/bk_adbl_003229_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Demented , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 601min
Abigail Van Der Veer is living a life of torture, trauma, and fear. After the questionable death of her father, FBI informant, Abby, finally returns home. As she begins to question her father's death, her ex-boyfriend, who is now one of the town killers, is threatening Abby. The town she once lived in has changed and everyone is now fearful. Facing numerous difficulties, Abby finds herself in a psych ward where she undergoes reality testing using drugs, hypnosis, and shock and trauma treatment, to make her appear insane. Despite all this confusion and distress, Abby remains hopeful. What happens when Abby finds out that she is being used as a plant for a terrorist operation? How will she escape from all this torture? Will Abby finally live the life that she was deprived of? Will she be able to finally resurrect from the tortures of her living hell? Read through this suspense drama and find out! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Ghiradella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059710/bk_acx0_059710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This Is Not the End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 630min
James Salley is turning 16, and it's not going well. His family's too busy to care, the local bully creates new tortures daily, someone appears to be following him, and he's just learned that he's the Antichrist. All James ever wanted out of life was for Dorian Delaney - the operatically trained and suicidal girl of his dreams - to fall as in love with him as he is with her. But once he's told of his bloody destiny, he finds himself fighting between who he thought he was and who he's supposed to be. With the school librarian pushing him to begin the Apocalypse, an irritable homunculus watching his back, and a murderous cabal of Catholics following him everywhere, James must discover how to navigate a world in which everything he's ever believed is wrong - and if it's possible to be the hero of a story when you've already been cast as the villain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Halstead. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008997/bk_blak_008997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Creeper, Hörbuch, Digital, 228min
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a Polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night. And underneath the words: "I'm watching over you". Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just beginning. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan of the Major Incident Squad has a killer to hunt. A killer who stalks young women, insinuates himself into their lives, and ultimately tortures and murders them in the most shocking way possible. But the more Phil investigates, the more he delves into the twisted psychology of his quarry, Phil realises that it isn't just a serial killer he's hunting but something - or someone - infinitely more calculating and horrific. And much closer to home than he realised…. Language: English. Narrator: Martyn Waites. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000586/bk_twuk_000586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Scattershot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min
The streets of Redwood, California, are being stalked by a brutal serial killer known as The Scattershot Slayer - a tall, lanky man who kidnaps and tortures his victims before creating grotesque pieces of public art with their mutilated bodies. Viola Santoro, a freelance journalist, is tracking Scattershot for her independent investigation in hopes of writing an exposé. After she unwittingly captures the serial killer's attention, she receives the scoop of a lifetime. Scattershot kidnaps Viola, straps her to an iron chair in his dungeon, and forces her to watch his acts of torture - over and over. He doesn't harm her, though. Instead, he gives her what she wants: his motives, his dreams, his life story.Jon Athan, the provocative author of The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic, invites you into the broken mind of a disturbed serial killer.WARNING: This book contains scenes of graphic violence. This book is not intended for those easily offended or appalled. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebekah Nemethy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143449/bk_acx0_143449_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Creeper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min
Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a Polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her sleeping self, taken during the night. And underneath the words: "I'm watching over you". Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just beginning. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan of the Major Incident Squad has a killer to hunt. A killer who stalks young women, insinuates himself into their lives, and ultimately tortures and murders them in the most shocking way possible. But the more Phil investigates, the more he delves into the twisted psychology of his quarry, Phil realises that it isn't just a serial killer he's hunting but something - or someone - infinitely more calculating and horrific. And much closer to home than he realised… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martyn Waites. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000588/bk_twuk_000588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Asylum Daughter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 297min
Born in the dark horrors of the Victorian Bedlam, Beth Thursday was a no one. An inconsequential inconvenience. After eight years of dreaming of an unknown mother rescuing her from the workhouse, Beth is unexpectedly liberated to become an apprentice in Mr Whitaker's tailor's shop. Against all the odds, Mrs Whitaker becomes a maternal figure to the young girl who shows all the signs of a gifted seamstress. But fate's cruel hand had not finished denying Beth the comforts of a family. Lady Caroline comes into Beth's life as a godsend. A wealthy patron in need of beautiful dresses to be made. But there is more to her appearing at the tailor's shop at first apparent. Two lives from different classes become intertwined in the worst of conditions. Is having a family worth such suffering? Should the women deny each other and be relieved of the tortures beset upon them in the name of greed and a family name? Was the madness real? Would the answers be found along the unforgiving corridors of the asylum? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sonya Cullingford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205414/bk_acx0_205414_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Could God Be This Good?: The Best News You Have Ever Heard in Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 235min
This book represents my attempt and my exhortation to others to step back from the trees in order to see the forest. I believe we human beings were built to win. I believe we were fashioned in eternity, complete with built-in corrections for the flaws that would develop in the time realm because of the free radical of free will.I believe, therefore, that the flaws and sins of humankind have been accounted for and provided for from before the foundation of the world. All sins and their consequences — from serial murder to self-murder; from heinous tortures, rapes, racism, and wars to all diseases and every sickness, whether physical, mental, or religious — were laid on Jesus and borne away. The most important phrases Jesus uttered from the cross were, “Father, forgive them,” and “It is finished”. He spoke those words as he died the most horrible, unfair, and undeserved death any man could suffer. He was holy, just, and good. He died for us — the unholy, the unjust, and the un-good — and yet he said, “Father, forgive them”. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Salge. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222987/bk_acx0_222987_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Star , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 109min
After widowed Indie author Kurtis Ward channels his grief into self-publishing his horror novel, an Internet troll decides to skewer his work so viciously that it triggers something deep within Ward - something far fouler than human rage. When Ward tracks down, kidnaps, and tortures his critic, he begins to recognize that the events of his book bear far too many similarities to the world around him. Is this lurker within his mind a product of his grief, or something far worse - could Akko Soggathoth, the horrific beast of Ward’s fiction, be more than a product of his imagination? Can Ward somehow regain control of his descent into madness? If it’s even possible…does he really want to?In Stephen King’s Misery a crazy fan kidnapped an author. Today, things have changed and the author has kidnapped his reader.This story takes place between books 1 and 2 in the Wolves of the Tesseract series. The events are noted in the novels, but familiarity with those stories is not necessary and One Star can stand alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Boozell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130094/bk_acx0_130094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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