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    India in the Persian World of Letters (eBook, ePUB)
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio-political ramifications. The most influential Indo-Persian philologist of the eighteenth-century was Siraj al-Din 'Ali Khan, (d. 1756), whose pen-name was Arzu. Besides being a respected poet, Arzu was a rigorous theoretician of language whose Intellectual legacy was side-lined by colonialism. His conception of language accounted for literary innovation and historical change in part to theorize the tazah-go'i [literally, "fresh-speaking"] movement in Persian literary culture. Although later scholarship has tended to frame this debate in anachronistically nationalist terms (Iranian native-speakers versus Indian imitators), the primary sources show that contemporary concerns had less to do with geography than with the question of how to assess innovative "fresh-speaking" poetry, a situation analogous to the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in early modern Europe. Arzu used historical reasoning to argue that as a cosmopolitan language Persian could not be the property of one nation or be subject to one narrow kind of interpretation. Arzu also shaped attitudes about re¿htah, the Persianized form of vernacular poetry that would later be renamed and reconceptualized as Urdu, helping the vernacular to gain acceptance in elite literary circles in northern India. This study puts to rest the persistent misconception that Indians started writing the vernacular because they were ashamed of their poor grasp of Persian at the twilight of the Mughal Empire.
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    India in the Persian World of Letters (eBook, PDF)
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio-political ramifications. The most influential Indo-Persian philologist of the eighteenth-century was Siraj al-Din 'Ali Khan, (d. 1756), whose pen-name was Arzu. Besides being a respected poet, Arzu was a rigorous theoretician of language whose Intellectual legacy was side-lined by colonialism. His conception of language accounted for literary innovation and historical change in part to theorize the tazah-go'i [literally, "fresh-speaking"] movement in Persian literary culture. Although later scholarship has tended to frame this debate in anachronistically nationalist terms (Iranian native-speakers versus Indian imitators), the primary sources show that contemporary concerns had less to do with geography than with the question of how to assess innovative "fresh-speaking" poetry, a situation analogous to the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in early modern Europe. Arzu used historical reasoning to argue that as a cosmopolitan language Persian could not be the property of one nation or be subject to one narrow kind of interpretation. Arzu also shaped attitudes about re¿htah, the Persianized form of vernacular poetry that would later be renamed and reconceptualized as Urdu, helping the vernacular to gain acceptance in elite literary circles in northern India. This study puts to rest the persistent misconception that Indians started writing the vernacular because they were ashamed of their poor grasp of Persian at the twilight of the Mughal Empire.
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    Avant-Gardism and Magical Thinking: Studies in World Art, Book 112 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
    The tendency for art to detach itself from any duty to reflect observed reality manifested itself in avant-garde art production almost from the beginnings of the Modern Movement in art. It is already present in pure form in Malevich’s drastically reductive Black Square, which consists of exactly that, a black square on a white ground. It is interesting to note the way in which this work was exhibited when it was first put before the public. Shown in St. Petersburg, newly renamed Petrograd, in December 1915 in the Last Exhibition of Futurist Painting 0.10, it was hung high up in the corner of the room, across a corner. For a Russian audience, it was immediately apparent that it had been placed in the sacred spot that an icon of a saint would occupy in a traditional Russian home. In other words, it was an emanation of the sacred. It is also interesting, however, to note further that recent technical research into the primary version of Malevich’s painting has revealed a handwritten caption on the white border surrounding the square. It seems - rather surprisingly - to read, "Negroes battling in a cave." This, researchers say, may be a reference to an 1882 all-black painting with a similar title by the French dramatist and poet, Paul Bilhaud (1854-1933), which was exhibited in 1882 at the Paris Salon des Artistes Incohérents - a forum for satirical writers and artists. The image gained a wider circulation when it was appropriated in 1887 by another 19th century French humorist, Alphonse Allais (1854-1905), and published as one of a whole series of blankly monochrome images in a satirical illustrated book entitled Album primo-avrilesque (April Fool-ish Album). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wynters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105549/bk_acx0_105549_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 738min
    No American president has been more enthusiastic in appreciating the wilderness and in conserving our nation’s natural treasures than Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). And no other president wrote more about nature and his explorations of it than T. R., in scattered books, such as African Wilderness, and in his countless letters, including those collected in The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt). Roosevelt the Explorer, by historian and Roosevelt biographer H. Paul Jeffers, is the only book to offer a comprehensive, lifelong chronicle of the consummate adventurer’s exploits and expeditions, which compelled him to traverse some of our planet’s most difficult terrains. Within these lively pages, Roosevelt collects more than 100 bird specimens in Egypt at age 14; hunts grizzlies and other game in the wilds of the Dakota territory; founds the Boon and Crockett Club, the nation’s first conservation group; and inspires the first Teddy Bear. Jeffers describes T. R.’s efforts as president, against fierce opposition, to establish an unprecedented system of national parks and to ensure the safety of America’s vast federal forests and wetlands from rampant development. In the words of Roosevelt himself, the adventures unfold T. R.’s 1909-1910, 11-month, Smithsonian-inspired safari across Africa, from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Khartoum in Egypt, which followed his two terms as president; and his 1913-1914 danger-drenched expedition to map South America’s 950-mile River of Doubt (a previously unexplored tributary to the Amazon River later renamed Rio Roosevelt in his honor). During the trip, one man drowned, another was murdered, and the culprit went insane, fleeing into the jungle. Roosevelt was lucky to escape alive, nearly drowning and plagued by jungle fever, dysentery, an ulcerated leg, blood poisoning, and malaria. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019343/bk_adbl_019343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It - Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
    Want to become a better investor? Send your spouse on a shopping spree! It's no joke - this book tells you why. Far too many investors fail to get the results they want, because they make some pretty common mistakes. The problem is, the errors don't seem like mistakes—they seem like smart, intuitive, and/or widely recognized investing "wisdom". But much of what's accepted as investing "wisdom" is, instead, bunk. Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It - Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths from legendary money manager, longtime Forbes columnist, and best-selling author Ken Fisher, shows you how to avoid the costly errors many investors make when they rely upon "common sense" thinking, intuition, gut instinct, or clichés - by using debunkery! Debunkery isn’t difficult - it just requires the willingness to flip common investing "wisdom" on its head. Once listeners learn to do that, they can begin seeing the investing world more clearly and stop falling prey to costly bunk. Fisher demonstrates debunkery on 50 of Wall Street’s widely accepted "truths", and details in an easily accessible (and always entertaining) way why: Stop-losses could be renamed stop-gains. High unemployment isn't bad for stocks. Massive trade deficits can be great for stocks. Stocks don't care if the US dollar is strong or weak. Most retirees have a long, long time to invest. You should never listen to your "gut" when it comes to investing. You are almost certainly too terrified of government debt. Consumer confidence doesn't matter. Sending your spouse on a shopping spree could get you better long-term investing results. Debunkery shows you why many Wall Street "truths" are, in reality, money-killing myths. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002343/bk_harp_002343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three's a Charm: Magic and Mayhem, Book Six , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 352min
    What's a witch to do when her magic is on the fritz and there's a huge pile of laundry to be done? Easy. Flood the entire house. Everyone wants a bubbly indoor freakin' swimming pool...right?  Just when everything is right in my life, something has to go wrong - times three. Number one: an unknown evil force wants to steal my power. Now, instead of protecting and healing the whacked-out inhabitants of Assjacket, my power has wonked out on me, and I've blasted ginormous holes all over town. Not to mention Roger the Rabbit is now sporting a pentagon of penii thanks to me and is keen on contacting the Guinness Book of World Records. Unacceptable.  Armed with questionable voodoo skills and seriously frayed nerves, I'm two: gonna do what any partially-sane, potty-mouthed witch would do.... I'm calling in the semi-evil, butt-ugly Bermangoggleshitz to train me. The warlock's penchant for push-ups makes me hate him with the fire of a thousand suns, but if I can't control my dark magic, it will control me.  Way unacceptable.  With Sassy and Cookie Witch by my side, I'll three: get a handle on my dark voodoo - or doodoo, as I've renamed it - so Assjacket won't end up as one massive crater. And I need all the help I can get. An evil like we've never seen is gunning for us - specifically me.  Wildly unacceptable.  We'll be the Three Amigos. The Three Musketeers. The Three Stooges. Whatever. As the saying goes...three's a crowd, three's company, three's a party.  Nope. Three's a charm. And I'm gonna turn it on for all I'm worth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Riggio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117064/bk_acx0_117064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rocky: Stargazer Alien Mail Order Brides, Book 2 (Intergalactic Dating Agency) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min
    Nobody puts Georgia in a corner.... Coolheaded Georgia Taylor dreams of becoming a police officer. But her orderly world goes into a tailspin when she and her friends answer an ad looking for egg donors and she winds up the intended bride of an honest-to-goodness alien. Georgia is convinced she can leave the brave new world behind and get back to her life plan, if she can just keep Rocky at arm's length. If only he weren't so infernally good-looking and thoughtful.... Rocky is on Earth to fill one human female with as much pleasure as she can bear, a mission he's eager to tackle especially after meeting Georgia. His chosen bride is clearly attracted to him, but she doesn't seem to want to give him the time of day, and her every rebuff only makes him more determined to win her. Tasked with using his powers of human seduction to glean what he can about Earth and its inhabitants, Rocky knows that if the planet's resources are worthy and its residents aren't, his days of chasing Georgia will soon be at an end. About the Stargazer Alien Brides series: Known for its famous maple pancakes, the small Pennsylvania town that renamed itself Stargazer has constructed a huge radio transmitter dish that sends messages of welcome into the cosmos. When our otherworldly brothers arrive at last they expect a warm welcome. These gentlemen have been designed just for your pleasure. Consider them a hostess gift to the women of Earth. Come to Stargazer, Pennsylvania for the pancakes. Stay for the boys. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mason Lloyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087116/bk_acx0_087116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Deeds of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 698min
    A story that reads like The Godfather has been crossed with Citizen Kane. The Deeds of My Fathers is the riveting true story of two men, a father and a son, who each started with nothing and built an empire. Generoso Pope, Sr., an Italian immigrant, arrived in New York in 1906 with only pennies in his pocket. He got a job shoveling sand, but through his intelligence, natural leadership, ruthlessness, and ability to woo powerful politicians such as Jimmy Walker and Franklin Roosevelt, he worked his way up to become the biggest provider of cement, just as it was becoming the key building material for New York, vital to landmarks such as Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall. Gene Pope, Jr. was his father’s choice to inherit and run the business, but Gene’s mother and two brothers forced him out, and he found himself penniless and on his own. With a loan from his godfather, mobster Frank Costello, Gene bought the New York Enquirer. He renamed it the National Enquirer and focused on the paranormal, celebrities, and the hopes and fears of Americans. Gene forced the tabloid into the supermarkets and became a powerful media force, peaking with the seven million copies sold of the blockbuster exposé on the death of Elvis. Paul David Pope, businessman, philanthropist, and now author, is a third-generation Italian American who launched an investigation into the controversial lives of his father and grandfather almost ten years ago. His team of reporters and researchers generated more than 50,000 pages of material, conducted 450 interviews, amassed thousands of photographs, and scoured presidential papers as well as FBI and CIA files. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004004/bk_blak_004004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The World's Greatest Cities: The History of Tokyo , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
    Chronicles the history of Tokyo over the last several centuries Includes accounts of what the city was like across the years After a series of conflicts among feudal lords, the new city of Edo became and remained Japan's beating heart, and in the 17th century Edo gave birth to a vibrant, new urban culture marked by woodblock prints, the kabuki theater, and haiku poetry. By the 18th century, with its ranks swelled thanks to a flood of provincial daimyo, along with their households, clients, and retainers, Edo had become the most populous urban area in the world, a title Tokyo still can lay claim to today. In the latter 19th and 20th centuries, after the Tokugawa bakufu was overthrown by a modernizing and reforming central government under the Meiji emperor, Edo was renamed Tokyo and became Japan's new imperial capital. The Meiji emperor wanted Tokyo to be a vibrant, bustling, cosmopolitan city that could be viewed as a meeting ground between the East and West. He also wanted Tokyo to showcase the bunmei kaika (civilization and enlightenment) that the new regime trumpeted, and today Tokyo remains an international center of culture, finance, and media, as well as home to Japan's most prestigious research universities, its most fashionable shopping districts, the headquarters of its wealthiest corporations, and its largest museums. Now covering over 800 square miles, Tokyo's skyline seems endlessly expansive, and it also seems to have taken some of the most noteworthy aspects of other great cities. In Shinjuku ward, Tokyo has skyscrapers that look like they belong in Manhattan, while in Minato, the Tokyo Tower instantly brings to mind the Eiffel Tower. To the west, the ward of Shibuya is full of enough neon lights to make Las Vegas blush, and the National Diet Building in Chiyoda houses Japan's legislature and looks like a capitol building tourists might find across American states. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Glass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038979/bk_acx0_038979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History of Apple iOS , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
    Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone, were the eight words that shook the mobile market on Jan 9, 2007. It was a Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco where Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO first introduce the iPhone to the world. And with the very first iPhone, Apple launched their personalized operating system for their phones, the iOS. On June 29, 2007, iOS, primarily known as iPhone OS, was launched for the first time. Since then in every summer, they have reinvented the mobile operating system and with each update, they blow their consumers' minds with what is possible with their iDevices. And they are still improving. As mentioned before, Apple iOS is a personalized operating system specially designed for all the electronic devices by Apple, like the iPhones, iPad and iPod touch. The iOS was first announced on June 29, 2007 and since then it has come a long way and saw a lot of major changes too. Since the first iPhone OS (renamed as iOS later) the updates being released through iTunes software. And after iOS 5 it started releasing via over-the-air updates. Since then, the consumers never needed to use a USB on iTunes to connect with iOS. They started using iCloud for data synchronization. Every year, a new version of iOS is usually launched with a new iPhone model. In Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), they announce the new major iOS update and release it in September of the same year. The latest stable update of iOS is iOS 12.3.2. This update has been released on June 10, 2019. The most recent Beta version of iOS, the iOS 12.4 Beta 4 has been released on the very next day. And Apple has already announced iOS 13 and some of its special features, such as dark mode on June 3, 2019 in their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracy Tupman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205994/bk_acx0_205994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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