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  Never Say Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min

  Since the dawn of time, humans have been obsessed with the promise of eternal life - and we've done everything imaginable to find it: from bathing in the blood of virgins and injecting ourselves with strange serums, to freezing our brains and bodies in the hope of some future miracle.But now a generation of scientists is trying to claim the field of gerontology back from the fringes. Armed with vast studies of "super-agers" and huge volumes of genetic data, these researchers are cutting through the contradictory messages about human aging and pinning down the unique elements that make some people live far longer than others. In a fascinating article that grapples with the tidal wave of confusing age research we see each day, award-winning science writer Megan Scudellari goes inside the race to build drugs that stave off old age - and uncovers the deep-seated fears that drive its pioneers on. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pilar Uribe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009224/bk_acx0_009224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Widow for One Year: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1444min

  Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character — a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice", but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her in the summer of 1958 on Long Island, Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a 41-year-old widow and mother — and about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000970/bk_rand_000970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  First Person: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 688min

  Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he’s finally caught a break when he’s offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried “Ziggy” Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book.   But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running “business concerns” - which Kif worries may involve hiring hit men from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir or if Ziggy is rewriting him - his life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.   By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Linski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006093/bk_rand_006093_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The New Health Rules: Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-Body Wellness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min

  Dr. Frank Lipman is at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care (O, The Oprah Magazine). A leading expert in the field of functional medicine, he focuses on the root causes of illness and guides his patients to the deepest, most lasting sources of wellness. In this audiobook, he and co-author Danielle Claro make life-changing health advice available to all. They wade through the often contradictory information that bombards us daily and deliver more than one hundred actionable tips that will improve every aspect of our health - body, mind, and soul. Listeners will learn simple rules for getting a good night's sleep, why a daily dose of sunlight is crucial, and which toxic cosmetics and kitchen products should be tossed. Here, Lipman and Claro teach us which foods help prevent Alzheimer's, why sugar is so destructive, and how to bring good bacteria into the digestive system - providing an arsenal of easy-to-process tips and guidelines to make us stronger, healthier, and happier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003441/bk_drms_003441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Alt Right: From 4Chan to White House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min, (USK 18)

  Warning: Contains some explicit language.This audiobook is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, anti-feminist, far-right movement that rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States. It looks at the support for this reactionary network, arguing that while Trump is in office and the far-right grows across Europe, we need to gain a deeper understanding of the movement's philosophy, history and role in politics today.While the movement appears to have burst out of nowhere, Mike Wendling has been tracking the Alt-Right for years. He reveals the role of technological utopians, reactionary philosophers, the notorious 4chan and 8chan bulletin boards, and a range of bloggers, vloggers and tweeters, along with the extreme ideas which underpin the movement's thought.Including exclusive interviews with members of the movement and evidence linking extremists with terror attacks and hate crimes. It is clear that despite its high-profile support, the movement's lack of a coherent base and its contradictory tendencies have already started to lead to its downfall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Wendling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051292/bk_adbl_051292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Under the Looking Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min

  Maura Reyes survived an almost unbearable trauma - the loss of her family in a home invasion. Two years later, she's still consumed by grief and acute insomnia, hiding inside her elegant, empty Los Angeles home. No amount of therapy or medication can restore what Maura lost. When her therapist suggests a change of scenery, Maura reluctantly agrees to go on a cruise. But once aboard the luxury liner, she finds herself in a bizarre and terrifying wonderland. On the strange ship Cockaigne, Maura discovers an artist's homage to Alice in Wonderland, complete with Dormouse, Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. All that's missing is Alice herself - and Maura, a pretty blond widow, suits the artist's vision perfectly. Soon, Maura finds herself sliding between past and present, reliving that deadly night in bizarre and contradictory ways. Desperate for sleep, she first questions her memory, then her sanity. Is someone trying to drive her insane? Or is the truth darker and more twisted than she can possibly imagine? A Red Adept Select for outstanding book in its genre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crystal Sershen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008851/bk_acx0_008851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Woman Named Drown: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min

  Hailed by Time as an “extravagantly comic” novel, A Woman Named Drown is a wild and strange journey through America’s South that follows a young PhD dropout who falls in with an amateur actress-cum–pool shark. On the brink of earning his doctorate in chemistry, the unnamed narrator decides to chuck it all away in favor of real life. So begins an odd pilgrimage through the American South. In Tennessee, our hero is bewitched by an older, gin-swilling, pool-playing sometimes-actress who claims to have recently starred in a theatrical production about a “woman named Drown.” He moves in with her and just as quickly begins encountering her strange compatriots. Before he knows it, they’re heading farther south together - to Florida - where the data that the dropout scientist is collecting from life’s laboratory are about to get quite contradictory. Richly influenced by offbeat literary giant Donald Barthelme, Padgett Powell’s A Woman Named Drown offers readers a smorgasbord of literary strangeness - a surreal series of adventures in which nothing much - and yet everything - happens at once. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A.T. Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015884/bk_adbl_015884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sir Ralph Richardson, Hörbuch, Digital, 157min

  Ralph Richardson was a contradictory genius who remains a legendary power and presence. He dominated stage and screen for over 50 years. Richardson eschewed most of the romantic heroes that made his two friends, Olivier and Gielgud, famous; he was the only one of the three thought capable of playing the ordinary man. In his search for the man behind the actor's make-up, the author has talked to Ralph Richardson's friends and colleagues. From their memories and Richardson's own words, John Miller has woven a portrait that shows Richardson in all his complexity and reveals the inner drive which took him, against the odds, to the heights of public and critical acclaim. John Miller also disentangles the real from the apocryphal stories of the eccentricity that contributed to the Richardson legend, discovering most to be true and finding new ones. Sir Ralph believed in keeping the secrets of his art from the public, but those secrets he did show to his fellow players are now told in this biography. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Jarvis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000315/bk_macm_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rome, Hörbuch, Digital, 696min

  Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and Remus to Fascism, Fellini and beyond. For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Rome's cultural predominance was assured, artists and tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens and Bernini. Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a monument both to human glory and human error. Language: English. Narrator: David Timson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000468/bk_orio_000468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min

  War is no way to resolve our most problematic group, community, and societal issues, but neither is a peace that simply sweeps our problems under the rug. To create lasting change, we have to learn to work fluidly with two distinct, fundamental drives that are in tension: power - the single-minded desire to achieve one's solitary purpose - and love - the drive toward unity.... They are seemingly contradictory but in fact complimentary. As Martin Luther King put it, "Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." Using revealing stories from complex situations he has been involved in all over the world - the Middle East, South Africa, Europe, India, Guatemala, the Philippines, Australia, Canada, and the United States - Kahane reveals how to dynamically balance these two forces. Just as when we are toddlers we learn to shift from one foot to the other to move ourselves forward, so we can learn to shift back and forth between power and love in order to move society forward. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004430/bk_acx0_004430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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