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The Final Freedom - Reflections of a Master Student , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 401min
Almost a “Karate Kid” story, but this one began in 1982, when a young maintenance mechanic apprentice met an older Chinese man (Mr. Kim) in a billiard café. While 17-year old Ralph was struggling with the balls, two parties were making a bet in the background. When another customer opined that the boy had no talent at all and would come to nothing, Mr. Kim proposed a wager, betting that he could make a great player out of Ralph! The story unfolded....Along with technical instruction from Mr. Kim, which Ralph has already covered in his training manuals, there were also quite general instructions about winning and losing, about smiling and poker faces, about good and bad habits, about freedom and fame without money. Ralph is sharing these instructions in collected form for the first time in this book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Toby Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154613/bk_acx0_154613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 673min
An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation. A companion to Pancake's study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two books constitute a complete history of the Revolutionary War. Pancake tells a gripping story of the southern campaign, the scene of a grim and deadly guerilla war. In the savage internecine struggle, Americans fought Americans with a fierceness that appalled even a veteran like General Nathanael Greene. "Utilizing extensive manuscript collections, John Pancake explains not why the colonists won the War of Independence, but rather why the British lost. Yorktown, he argues, was not the result of a momentary oversight by the British navy, but the final consequence of the longstanding failure of British military and political leadership." So said the Journal of Southern History when This Destructive War was first published in 1985. The Florida Historical Quarterly further opined, "Pancake has given us a well-researched and beautifully - and tightly - written book." General audiences as well as scholars and students of the American Revolution will welcome anew this classic, definitive study of the campaign in the Carolinas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081153/bk_acx0_081153_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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Codependency Cure: How to Save Your Relationships, Stop Controlling Others and Be Codependent No More , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
Discover the Codependency Cure.... Is it really dangerous to be codependent? What are the limits of dependence in a relationship? What are the warning flags? Are these questions on your mind? Or do you suspect that you might have fallen into the dungeon that is codependence? Do you seem rationally unable to prioritize your needs and find yourselves consistently worried about other people than your own welfare? I have written this audiobook solely for you. Most codependent people do not even realize they are codependent. They are not even aware that they have subjugated their own desires to care for another person. It is for you and all the people in the various stages of codependence that this book has been written. It is a complete blueprint for detecting codependence and an adept guide for escaping from its clutches. Make no mistakes about the power of your mind to affect virtually all spheres of your life. It could be dangerous to overlook the dangers of codependent relationships. Listen and identify how to get rid of codependence. But do not just listen; act today to get rid of your codependence. As Pablo Picasso, master Italian artist opined; “Action is the fundamental key to success”. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... Demystifying codependency How codependency starts The habits of codependent people Are you codependent? Why you should not be codependent How to get out of codependency and become rationally independent Download your copy today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roland Purdy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111234/bk_acx0_111234_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Doubting Catholic: Joseph McCabe's Twelve Years in a Monastery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
This a new edition of a classic critique by Joseph McCabe first published under the singular title, Twelve Years in a Monastery.From the new introduction: Joseph McCabe was a remarkably courageous thinker and writer, who was not shy from pointing out the numerous errors he found in the monastic lifestyle which he eventually felt distracted human beings away from an unvarnished and more honest approach to understanding the cosmos around us and how to live within in it.I realize that some Catholics may be offended by Mr. McCabe’s unyielding skepticism, but I think we are helped (not hindered) in our spiritual pilgrimages by allowing our doubts to be fully vocalized and not suppressed in fear that our God is so puny that she will strike vengeance on anyone who thinks logically and coherently and wisely. I often remark to my philosophy students at Mt. San Antonio College that we are puny creatures and there is nothing wrong with asking the hardest questions possible. Truth doesn’t evaporate because of our uncertainty, just as the sun doesn’t shine any less brightly because we occasionally spit at it.The problem with Roman Catholicism, as Joseph McCabe will illustrate throughout his text, is that it is too concerned with its own survival as a worldwide organization and less as school for open and unabashed inquiry.Yes, Joseph McCabe can rightly be regarded as an agnostic and a non-believer. But as the distinguished sociologist, Peter Berger, insightfully opined in 1979, we must all become heretics if we wish to scale beyond the walls of our own myopic indoctrinations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. Paul Faulkner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211652/bk_acx0_211652_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of Walter Cronkite , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
And that's the way it is. - Walter Cronkite A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The rise of cable media in the 21st century has seen news programming become more opinionated and partisan than ever before. It has led many nostalgic Americans to yearn for the news programs of earlier times, with the seemingly objective anchor just giving viewers the facts. While that bygone era is no doubt idealized and romanticized to a certain degree beyond what it actually was, nobody epitomizes that era like Walter Cronkite, America's most famous news anchor. Still a household name today, decades after he went off air, Cronkite is still remembered as the kind of trustworthy broadcaster whose reports could be taken as truth. His outsized influence on the American viewing public is best remembered in one of the more memorable anecdotes of Cronkite's career, which came during the Vietnam War when he opined near the end of one broadcast, "But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles McKibben. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035477/bk_acx0_035477_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lord Dunsany's Tales of Wonder: Stories from a Magical World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min
No wonder art and music have held such a deep and abiding fascination for us, regardless of our economic station in life. As Nietzsche opined, "Without music, life would be a mistake". To which I would add literature, sport, or any diversion that provides us with a moment of unexpected bliss. We have been engaged far too long in moments of pain and suffering, and anything that can offer us a glimpse of solace, of hope, of entertainment, is to be welcomed with open arms and open hearts. It is for this very reason that I am happy to announce that the MSAC Philosophy Group has decided to republish Lord Dunsany's remarkable book Tales of Wonder, which, in this edition, has the newly added subtitle, Stories from a Magical World. Lord Dunsany was Edward Plunkett's pen name, and he was a very successful author of numerous books, plays, and short stories. He possessed a remarkable imagination and created fantastical landscapes peopled with unique characters. To listen to his short stories is to be transported to another time and to another place and, in the midst of it all, to be enthralled by the marvel of it all. His creative method perhaps gives us a glimpse into this unusual man: Dunsany's writing habits were considered peculiar by some. Lady Beatrice said that "he always sat on a crumpled old hat while composing his tales". (The hat was eventually stolen by a visitor to Dunsany Castle.) Dunsany almost never rewrote anything; everything he ever published was a first draft. Much of his work was penned with quill pens, which he made himself; Lady Beatrice was usually the first to see the writings and would help type them. It has been said that Lord Dunsany would sometimes conceive stories while hunting and would return to the castle and draw in his family and servants to reenact his visions before he set them on paper. It is our hope that this new edition will serve as an introduction for new listeners to enjoy the timeles ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Yount. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084692/bk_acx0_084692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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