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Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of 27, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences. For the rest of his life, he would be trapped in the moment. But Molaison’s tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. The amazing specificity of his impairment shed new light on the functions and structures of the human brain, revolutionizing neuroscience. Today, the case of H. M. stands as one of the most consequential and widely referenced in this fast-expanding field. Renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin worked with Molaison for nearly five decades. In Permanent Present Tense, she tells the full story of his life and legacy, leading her listener to the cutting edge of neuroscience with great clarity, sensitivity, and grace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000753/bk_high_000753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 588min

In 1966, just as the American military buildup in Vietnam was going into overdrive, a working-class 22-year-old from Chicago was drafted into the army. Larry Heinemann served one year of combat duty with the 25th Infantry Division, most of it in the vicinity of Cu Chi. It was the most horrific and consequential year of his life, and it served as the raw material for his two classic war novels, Close Quarters and Paco's Story.The memoir chronicles a 1992 railway journey Heinemann took from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City as the guest of the Vietnam Writers' Association. Along the way, he encounters Vietnamese war veterans and views sites that trigger powerful memories. His journey ends with a crawl through the tunnels of Cu Chi and a climb up the sacred mountain that is this book's namesake. A work of mourning and an act of reconciliation, Black Virgin Mountain considers the psychic costs of a war that is still taking its toll. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Larry Heinemann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000316/bk_high_000316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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World War II: 1941: One Hour World War II History Books, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min

In this one-hour history book, discover why 1941 was such a pivotal year as we uncover the main events of that year during World War II, the most lethal war of all times.It was a watershed year for conflict. Many of the most tumultuous and consequential events of World War II occurred in 1941.In this year alone, Russia was invaded, the United States was bombed at Pearl Harbor, and Ethiopia was liberated from Italian troops. To demonstrate how crucial it was, in January, many military planners assumed that Britain would follow France to defeat before the year was out. By the end of December, even Axis strategists were quietly acknowledging that the war was all but lost for Germany, Italy, and Japan. This book contains a concise telling of the rapid-fire events that led to this stunning turnabout in the exact order in which they occurred.In this short one-hour book, you will know everything you need to know about what happened in 1941 during World War II.Scroll back up, and click the "buy now" button. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rory Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161703/bk_acx0_161703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as The Economist and Time magazine, unravels Turkey's complexities. He sets the complications and transformations of present-day Turkey against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Atatürk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Atatürk's legacy. Finkel reveals a nation full of surprises. Where else but in Turkey, Finkel writes, would secularist liberals have supported a prime minister who was once jailed for promoting religious extremism? From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this unique, and uniquely consequential, country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Maxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011612/bk_adbl_011612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Hörbuch, Digital, 361min

The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World. The final voyage of Christopher Columbus was by far his most dangerous, unexpected, exhilarating, and consequential. It was, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Samuel Eliot Morison put it, "a story of adventure which imagination could hardly invent; a struggle between man and the elements, in which the most splendid manifestations of devotion, loyalty and courage are mingled with the vilest human passions." Shockingly, no book has been written about this fateful final journey until now. Martin Dugard finally brings to light this saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, telling the story of how Columbus's quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril. Here we meet Christopher Columbus, the determined, and sometimes desperate, elder adventurer, a far cry from the shrouded hero/villain of legend. THE LAST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS offers up the long-lost last chapter in the life of a man whose story we only thought we knew. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000396/bk_time_000396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min

The number-one New York Times best seller, now with a new preface! In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as US attorney for the Southern District of New York and the US deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance and overseeing the Hillary Clinton email investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Comey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002723/bk_aren_002723_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1037min

From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times - Ronald Reagan. Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev. Along with Soviet dissidents, illegal arms traders, and antinuclear activists, the novel's memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with whom the president long ago appeared on screen. Several figures - including a humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens; and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan - become the eyes through which listeners see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a clash of ideologies, and a political revolution. At the center of it all - but forever out of reach - is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates, his children, and the citizens who elected him. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008006/bk_blak_008006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other. Revolutionary Summer tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003530/bk_rand_003530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min

A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership. American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty while abroad, the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. In an astonishing account ranging from Washington, DC, to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea in the years since 9/11, acclaimed journalist and former diplomat Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. His firsthand experience in the State Department affords a personal look at some of the last standard-bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan. Farrow's narrative is richly informed by interviews with whistle-blowers, policymakers, and a warlord, from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice - but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronan Farrow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033910/bk_adbl_033910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min

Are we on the verge of an all-out war between the West and 1.3 billion Muslims? When the media searches for an answer to that question, they usually overlook the actual views of the world's Muslims. Who Speaks for Islam? is about this silenced majority. This book is the product of the Gallup World Poll's massive multiyear research study. As part of this groundbreaking project, Gallup conducted tens of thousands of interviews with residents of more than 35 nations that are predominantly Muslim or have significant Muslim populations. Gallup posed questions that are on the minds of millions: Is Islam to blame for terrorism? Why is there so much anti-Americanism in the Muslim world? Who are the extremists? Where are the moderates? What do Muslim women really want? Grounded in Gallup World Poll data, not in contentious rhetoric, Who Speaks for Islam? brings data-driven evidence - the voices of a billion Muslims, not those of individual "experts" or "extremists" - to one of the most heated and consequential debates of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008602/bk_brll_008602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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