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Summary of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson: The Origins of Our Discontents , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
Note to listeners: This is an unofficial summary of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, designed to enrich your listening experience. Caste is the “foundation of our divisions," Isabel Wilkerson states in Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Standing resembles the bones of an old house, "the studs and joists that we can't find in the physical structures we call home." It is additionally similar to our bones, the auxiliary honesty of our innards generally kept imperceptible without X-beams. Caste or position or rank in this narrative resembles a nitty-gritty clinical history. "Station is a sickness." It is a languid toxic substance, "an intravenous trickle to the psyche," supporting a "safe framework" that is likewise powerless against its "poisons." It is cell, "atomic," "neurological," "cardiovascular." Like subduction-zone action underneath the Earth's surface, rank is "the inconspicuous stirrings of the human heart." Caste isn't, in any case, about "emotions or profound quality;" however, it does live on the hearts and propensities. Standing is a show, "a phase of incredible scale" with unremovable outfits and unforeseeable content. Rank is in front of an audience, "an exhibition," and standing is, likewise, by one way or another, "the silent attendant in an obscured theater." It is an enchantment "spell." An enterprise. A Sith Lord. A tall structure with an overwhelmed cellar. Like in The Matrix, "an inconspicuous power of man-made reasoning has overwhelmed the human species." It is a stepping stool, and we exist on its rungs. "Position is structure," whatever that implies correctly. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Debbie Shocair. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223268/bk_acx0_223268_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Making Words, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, Patricia O'Conner is a former editor at The New York Times Book Review and the author of Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English. She tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development. Next, Roy Blount Jr. is a humorist, word maven and the author of Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. He tells Anne Strainchamps about the title of this program.Then, Dan Everett went to the Amazon as a young Christian missionary and became captivated by the Indian people he'd come to convert and their totally unknown language. He describes his time with them in a book called Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, and talks with Steve Paulson about the Piraha culture. After that, Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logian Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language. She tries her Klingon out on Jim Fleming and explains why people make up languages. And finally, Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex. She's chronicled their relationship in a book: Alex & Me: How A Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence – and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process. Pepperberg talks about her work with Alex with Steve Paulson, and we hear recordings of them at work. [Broadcast Date: August 6, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100806/rt_tbon_100806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alphabet Juice
Alphabet Juice ab 9.99 € als epub eBook: The Energies Gists and Spirits of Letters Words and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots Bones Innards Piths Pips and Secret Parts Tinctures Tonics and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaften,- Shop: hugendubel
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Heartwood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 722min
Set in north-central Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century, Heartwood is an inspiring and heart-rending novel that traces the intertwined lives of two men with common roots in the rugged timbering industry, but whose destinies and love for Cassandra Erhart, daughter of an industrialist, turn them against each other. Heartwood is a loving and careful preservation of a precious part of American history that has all but vanished.This story of place and a man’s search for significance amidst clashing worlds of humans and nature is more than the tragedy and triumph of Tobias Meier’s passage from woodsman to ostracized heir. His leaving a landscape he knows and to which he is connected spiritually, moving on in pursuit of false opportunity, illuminates the larger-scale sacrifices tolled on an increasingly transient America. Heartwood contemplates what is lost as civilization expands, natural places disappear, and technology renders steadfast traditions obsolete.The scenes of Heartwood, which Jack Driscoll, author of How Like An Angel, calls cinematic, take place in logging camps and the sooty innards of an arc light factory, in the homes of lumber tycoons and the drafty bedrooms of company houses, during a bear hunt and in a parlor room in 1913’s finest New York hotel.The story of Tobias is intertwined with the rise of an empire and the ones who built it, one of the multi-faceted ventures that farmed the region’s natural resources to build the little industrial towns of Pennsylvania. As was true with many of these family operations, the empire follows the economic cycles of the new century and it impacts most every life in the town it occupies. Tobias and the protagonist will choose paths that follow the tide of this empire, and one will get swept into it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203746/bk_acx0_203746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ten Doors Down (eBook, ePUB)
Ari has broken her phone again, and Mum's not replacing it this time. It's Ari's worst nightmare. No phone, no life. Her few friends don't visit, not even Beth, hilarious queen of the bitches. Mum finds her a job. Ten doors down the street: The Mad House. Crazy Crossman lives there, a bristly and reclusive woman. She's violent towards kids, they say. There's strange noises at all hours of the day, they say. It starts as bad as Ari expects - Crossman cannot stand the youth and has just about a million rules - and gets worse. The job is a messy, splattery clean-up in one part of the house - it's a disgusting mix of what looks like thick, multi-coloured paint and plasticine innards. Each day this mess is in another room, and Ari's curiosity skyrockets. It's like the aftermath of a mad fight between strange creatures from some Other Place. But that's crazy. There are no Other Places, and Miss Crossman is just some stiff old lady with odd thoughts about how to live. A confrontation with Mr. Ribbles, the curtain-twitcher from across the street, leads to Crossman defending Ari and bringing her inside. They very nearly start bonding over tea and biscuits, but when Ari is left to let herself out, she hears the noise upstairs. She gets a snapshot-glimpse of Crossman's bedroom before the door slams shut. She sees the impossible. No opposite wall, only a sweeping hill under impossibly blue skies. Another world. Ari vows never to return to the Mad House... This is a story of friendship across generations, of a lone woman's unknown power and sacrifice, and of responsibility without recognition. How far would you go to protect those who don't even care that you exist?- Shop: buecher
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Alphabet Juice
Alphabet Juice - The Energies Gists and Spirits of Letters Words and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots Bones Innards Piths Pips and Secret Parts Tinctures Tonics and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory: ab 9.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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