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    The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    In an era of grand risk, fur moguls vied to command the northwest and China markets, gambling lives and capital on the price of beaver pelts, purchases of ships and trade goods, international commerce laws, and the effects of war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Nevitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/080122/bk_acx0_080122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New California , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 645min
    After New California's founder committed suicide, two men vied to rule the colony. Ashwin George, supported by the colony's elite, and Tián Quán, the Chinese company whose hyperdrive ships and intelligent robots dominated half the settled galaxy. Desmond Park, nanotechnology engineer, armed with a shrewd intellect, the loyalty of the colony's disaffected youth, and the most formidable weapon of all. A single idea. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Brunson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062614/bk_acx0_062614_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Apocalypse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
    Man, in his technological brilliance, has outdone himself. Political wrangling and disparate factions have vied and fought for limited resources, until those were exhausted. Some could be created; many could not. Space and the oceans held some promise, but never yielded sufficient quantities for the swelling hordes. The results were cataclysmic, at first minor skirmishes, later blooming into wholesale destruction. Humanity had lost its way. There was no turning back. Follow Mark and Elyse as they struggle to discover what happened to their world, and how they can survive in this incomprehensible new life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yael Eylat-Tanaka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072455/bk_acx0_072455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 797min
    Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021045/bk_adbl_021045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Baseball in '41 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min
    It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World Series, and that America went to war. In this look at what he calls "the best baseball season ever", Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all these epochal baseball happenings with an informal history of a pivotal period in American life, as well as with his own memories of what it was like to be 18 and a baseball fan when a looming war and the game he loved vied for his attention. For all who love baseball, Baseball in '41 makes it clear why the game is still the purest representation of the American Dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001269/bk_blak_001269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min
    The Roman Empire became Christian in 323 AD; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began to convert. Medieval culture blurred the line between the sacred and the secular. While political and religious hierarchies vied for influence, liberal arts education claimed to seek sacred truths through secular means. But when Aristotle's works were first translated from Arabic, there began a conflict between reason and faith. Franciscan John Duns Scotus was one philosopher who tried to bridge this gap. The World of Philosophy series presents the questions, interests, and worldviews of the world's great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations, in understandable language, give you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lynn Redgrave. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001619/bk_blak_001619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Persians
    The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achaemenid monarchs held court in unparalleled grandeur. From here, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs passed laws, raised armies, and governed their multicultural Empire of enormous cultural diversity.The Achaemenids, however, were one of the great dysfunctional families of history. Brothers fought brothers for power, wives and concubines plotted to promote their sons to the throne, and eunuchs and courtiers vied for influence and prestige. Our understanding of the Persian Empire has traditionally come from the histories of Greek writers such as Herodotus - and as such, over many centuries, our perspective has been skewed by ancient political and cultural agendas. Professor Llewellyn-Jones, however, calls upon original Achaemenid sources, including inscriptions, art, and recent archaeological discoveries in Iran, to create an authentic 'Persian Version' of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity - the Age of the Great Kings. [Wildfire logo]£25.00
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    One Goal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 641min
    In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state - and ultimately national - glory. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school's soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, and their passion began to heal old wounds. Taking listeners behind the tumult of this controversial team - and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding - One Goal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Collyer, Amy Bass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004277/bk_hach_004277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A History of Britain: Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1238min
    Timothy West reads the second volume of Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles. The British wars began on the morning of 23 July 1637, heralding 200 years of battles. Most were driven by religious or political conviction, as Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, and colonialists and natives vied for supremacy. Of the battles not fought on home territory, many took place across Europe, America, India, and also at sea. Schama's examination of this turbulent period reveals how the British people eventually united in imperial enterprise, forming 'Britannia Incorporated'. The story of that change evokes the memory of such enduringly influential people as Oliver Cromwell, as well as lesser known but equally extraordinary individuals. A story of revolution and reaction, progress and catastrophe, this is a vivid account of two centuries which changed Britain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006189/bk_bbcw_006189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Persians (eBook, ePUB)
    THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achaemenid monarchs held court in unparalleled grandeur. From here, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs passed laws, raised armies, and governed their multicultural Empire of enormous diversity.The Achaemenids, however, were one of the great dysfunctional families of history. Brothers fought brothers for power, wives and concubines plotted to promote their sons to the throne, and eunuchs and courtiers vied for influence and prestige.Our understanding of the Persian Empire has traditionally come from the histories of Greek writers such as Herodotus - and as such, over many centuries, our perspective has been skewed by ancient political and cultural agendas. Professor Llewellyn-Jones, however, calls upon original Achaemenid sources, including inscriptions, art, and recent archaeological discoveries in Iran, to create an authentic 'Persian Version' of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity - the Age of the Great Kings.
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    • Price: 8.99 EUR excl. shipping

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