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Joseph Meek: The Life and Legacy of the Oregon Territory's Most Influential Politician during the 19th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 135min
At the start of the 1840s, the Oregon Country had no political boundaries or effective government. The only administrative organization in the territory was the Hudson’s Bay Company, which applied only to British subjects, and aside from natives, the region was populated by a handful of independent traders, hunters, and prospectors, as well as those employed in the various company depots. The first to begin showing up in large numbers were missionaries. The native populations were by then diminished by disease and dispirited, which meant they were more receptive to missionary aid and the Christian message. Christianity, of course, was not entirely unknown among the indigenous populations, given that marriages between white men and Indian women created a hybrid of “folk” Christianity that was commonly observed among the Indians. The first wave of missionaries represented the American Methodists, arriving in or around 1834, followed a year or two later by a second series of arrivals, sponsored this time by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The ABCFM was an ecumenical organization founded to promote the general outreach of the Presbyterian and Dutch Reform churches in the United States. Roman Catholics arrived around 1830, bringing missionaries mostly from Canada and Europe.In May 1848, the former mountain man Joseph Meek arrived in St. Louis after an overland journey from Oregon in the dead of winter, announcing himself as the “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Oregon to the Court of the United States”. In fact, Joseph Meek was a representative of the provisional government sent to plead for the establishment of US “Territory” status for Oregon. The essential message that he carried on behalf of the provisional government was that if the United States had attended to its duties earlier, the infamous Whitman Massacre and subsequent violence might never have happened. In time, far more ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168350/bk_acx0_168350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Narcissa Whitman: The Life and Legacy of the Missionary Killed by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
At the start of the 1840s, the Oregon Country had no political boundaries or effective government. The only administrative organization was the Hudson’s Bay Company, which applied only to British subjects, and aside from natives, the region was populated by a handful of independent traders, hunters, and prospectors, as well as those employed in the various company depots.The first to begin showing up in large numbers were missionaries. The native populations were by then diminished by disease and dispirited, which meant they were more receptive to missionary aid and the Christian message. Christianity, of course, was not entirely unknown among the indigenous populations, given that marriages between white men and Indian women created a hybrid of “folk” Christianity that was commonly observed among the Indians. The first wave of missionaries represented the American Methodists, arriving in or around 1834, followed a year or two later by a second series of arrivals, sponsored this time by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The ABCFM was an ecumenical organization founded to promote the general outreach of the Presbyterian and Dutch Reform churches in the United States. Roman Catholics arrived around 1830, bringing missionaries mostly from Canada and Europe.Most wives and children remained in the East while men rolled the dice to seek fortunes in the Pacific region. However, religious movements committed to denominational migrations eventually found their way into the western plains through faintly-established routes, leading to the eventual settling of Utah. Before such western societies took root, the Pacific Northwest remained a dark void in the agendas of missionary organizations. Most were of the general mind that to convert the Nez Percé and Cayuse tribes of the Columbia River Plateau to Christianity was a hopeless venture. However, a few aspiring Protestant missionaries persisted in the belief that conversion of th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159143/bk_acx0_159143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emergence: Foreigner Sequence 7, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
The 19th book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi. Bren Cameron, acting as the representative of the atevi's political leader, Tabini-aiji, as well as translator between humans and atevi, has undertaken a mission to the human enclave of Mospheira. Both his presence on the island and his absence from the continent have stirred old enemies to realize new opportunities. Old hatreds. Old grudges. Old ambitions. The situation has strengthened the determination of power-seekers on both sides of the strait. Bren knows most of them very well, but not all of them well enough. The space station on which the world increasingly relies is desperate to get more supplies up to orbit and to get a critical oversupply of human refugees down to the world below. Rationing is in force on the station, but the overpopulation problem has to be solved quickly - and Bren's mission on Mospheira has expanded to include preparation for that landing. First down will be the three children to whom Tabini's son has a close connection. But following them will be thousands of humans who have never set foot on a planet, humans descended from colonists and officers who split off from Mospheiran humans 200 years before in a bitter parting of the ways. There is no way the atevi, native to the world, will cede any more land to these new arrivals: they will have to share the island. But certain Mospheirans are willing to use force to prevent these refugees from settling among them. Bren's job is as general peacemaker - but old enemies want war. Is Bren's diplomatic acumen enough to prevent a war that both sides are prepared to wage? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Thomas May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032595/bk_adbl_032595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Know Nothing Party: The History and Legacy of America’s Most Notorious Nativist Political Party , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
“Immigration during the first five years of the 1850s reached a level five times greater than a decade earlier. Most of the new arrivals were poor Catholic peasants or laborers from Ireland and Germany who crowded into the tenements of large cities. Crime and welfare costs soared. Cincinnati's crime rate, for example, tripled between 1846 and 1853, and its murder rate increased sevenfold. Boston's expenditures for poor relief rose threefold during the same period.” (James McPherson)It is not uncommon that a failed movement or group from the past might be cited as a “cautionary” example for the world today. In the wake of contemporary debates over immigration, the “Know Nothings” have been regularly cited as an example of how dangerous nativist attitudes can become and, indeed, have proven to be in America’s history.Several columnists, for instance, have striven to make comparisons between the Know Nothings of antebellum America and President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, helping, in part, to generate modern interest in a political party that many Americans have heard of, but tend to know little about.The Know Nothing movement can actually be tied to a number of violent episodes and ethnically charged riots that occurred during the last 1850s. The debate over immigration in the 1850s was more than a clash of worldviews - it touched upon the core of America’s values.While nativists, like the Know Nothings, believed that immigrants who embraced politics from their native lands represented a threat to America’s values, those who opposed them argued that it was precisely America’s values that made immigration a necessity and a valuable component of American life.As the Republicans and Know Nothings spread from the ashes of the Whig Party, the Republicans, led by President Lincoln, rejected nativism and embraced a kind of American exceptionalism. Lincoln did not believe that America was “better” or even more “moral” than other ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly McGee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194164/bk_acx0_194164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Making of a Dream: How a Group of Young Undocumented Immigrants Helped Change What It Means to Be American , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min
A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights - the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration. They are called the DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children and who have lived for years in America without legal status. Growing up, they often worked hard in school, planned for college, only to learn they were, in the eyes of the United States government and many citizens, "illegal aliens". Determined to take fate into their own hands, a group of these young undocumented immigrants risked their safety to "come out" about their status - sparking a transformative movement, engineering a seismic shift in public opinion on immigration, and inspiring other social movements across the country. Their quest for permanent legal protection under the so-called "Dream Act" stalled. But in 2012 the Obama administration issued a landmark new immigration policy: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which has since protected more than half a million young immigrants from deportation even as efforts to install more expansive protections remain elusive. The Making of a Dream begins at the turn of the millennium, with the first of a series of "Dream Act" proposals; follows the efforts of policy makers, activists, and undocumented immigrants themselves; and concludes with the 2016 presidential election and the first months of the Trump presidency. The immigrants' coming of age stories intersect with the watershed political and economic events of the last two decades: 9/11, the recession, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama presidency, and the rebirth of the anti-immigrant right. In telling their story, Laura Wides-Muñoz forces us to rethink our definition of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Almarie Guerra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006479/bk_harp_006479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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London for Travelers: The Total Guide: The Comprehensive Traveling Guide for All Your Traveling Needs. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 213min
The best and most unique London travel guide.The capital city of both England and the UK is the world's most visited city as measured by international arrivals. And how could it not be? London is a city of ideas and imagination, bringing constant innovations of art and culture. London’s diverse cultural dynamism makes it quite possibly the world’s most international city, while still being somehow intrinsically British. With more than 300 spoken languages, no wonder it’s considered as one of the world's leading "global cities". Let this audiobook guide you to the many places you must see in London to not let your once-in-a-lifetime trip go to waste. This audiobook is filled with suggested places to stay, from budget to luxurious, places to visit, local cuisines to try, and places to shop. All these suggested itineraries have been experienced firsthand and are all highly recommended to tourists. Experience a whole new world when you come and visit London. In this total guide you will find: Areas covered: history lessons/best museums/surfing/adventure/off-road trips/wildlife spotting/London neighborhood/medical tourism/learn English in London/cooking and drinking/accommodation/staying safe/music/festivities General information of each area Area transportation (how to get around, i.e. car, bus, taxi, train, bicycle, rickshaw, etc., and how much it would cost) Sightseeing (best sights to see, off the beaten path) Best shopping (where are the major shopping districts and what they are known for) Bargain alternatives (where the locals shop are to avoid the high-tourist crowds) Things to do (recreation: outdoor, indoor, events, and festivals) Local food specialties Farmer's and fish (meat) markets (locations, dates, and times of various markets) Language, political, and etiquette considerations (what the average tourist should know and how to ge ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashley Coull. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139179/bk_acx0_139179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Soul Shifts: Transformative Wisdom for Creating a Life of Authentic Awakening, Emotional Freedom & Practical Spirituality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 777min
There are pivotal moments in the lives of all seekers when we realize that we've been traveling on our path of growth toward happiness and fulfillment, but, simply put, we want to go faster. How we have been living, working, and loving just isn't enough or even acceptable anymore. We know we're being called to something more significant and expanded - we can feel it. At these times what's needed is not simply more change or an adjustment in our outer life but profound transformation. We don't just want to rearrange the pieces of ourselves so they look better temporarily. We want nothing less than rebirth. We are ready for Soul Shifts. Soul Shifts is the groundbreaking new audiobook from New York Times best-selling author and renowned transformational teacher Barbara De Angelis, PhD Now, in her most powerful offering yet - and the culmination of her life's work - Dr. De Angelis offers a practical handbook for awakening and a brilliant revisioning of the journey of personal and spiritual transformation that will inspire and enlighten longtime seekers as well as new arrivals to the path of growth. Soul Shifts are radical, vibrational internal shifts that spontaneously and inevitably transform the way you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world. For transformation to be real and lasting, it must originate from the inside out so that instead of trying constantly to micromanage everything, you operate from true mastery at the deepest level of who you are - the soul level. When you learn how to make these Soul Shifts on the inside, everything on the outside of your life shifts. Places where you've felt stuck or confused become illuminated with new clarity and understanding. Obstacles turn into possibilities, dead ends transform into doorways, and challenges convert into astonishing maps, leading you to exciting new territories...all because you have made a Soul Shift. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Barbara De Angelis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hayh/000318/bk_hayh_000318_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, May-June 2003, Hörbuch, Digital, 397min
The June 2003 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a tribute to SF great Barry M. Malzberg, and so it's appropriate that Audible's May/June composite audio issue is bracketed by Malzbergiana, opening with Barry's own "A Short Religious Novel," a seeker tale reminiscent of the best of both Franz Kafka and Arthur C. Clarke, and ending with John Kessel's "Of New Arrivals, Old Encounters, and the Music of the Spheres," chronicling Barry's first night in Writer's Heaven. "The Retriever" by Harvey Jacobs is a noirish-toned piece of fantasy, depicting the ultimate gumshoe, who retrieves much more than the usual lost objects of desire. The ingredients for "Basement Magic" are available in every home, but this powerful story of a trod-upon stepchild, written by Ellen Klages, is anything but mundane. In "The Refuge Elsewhere," Robert Sheckley takes us inside the FBI's witness protection program and beyond - from upstate New York to a world we've mostly all heard of, but few have visited. Jack Cady's "The Twenty-Pound Canary" is a romp through a carnival of science experiments set in an idyllic Midwestern town. "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" by David D. Levine is a miniature epic space opera in the grand tradition, while Paulo Bacigalupi's "The Fluted Girl" is an equally classic evocation of a complex future society, complete with its own unique class structures, social mores, and political intrigues. Both these stories benefit from highly individualized characterizations and art forms far beyond most of our wildest dreams. And finally, give up all pretense of knowing what's real and what's not on television by dialing "555." This Hollywood story by Robert Reed takes us inside an alternative world where soap opera is played for keeps. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Amanda Karr, Gabrielle de Cuir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000014/bk_adbl_000014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1177min
The number-one New York Times best-selling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within.... It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, US Navy Commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant. Hagan is shot, but he manages to fight off the attacker. Though severely wounded, the gunman reveals he is a Russian whose brother was killed when his submarine was destroyed by Commander Hagan's ship. Hagan demands to know how the would-be assassin knew his exact location, but the man dies before he says more. In the international arrivals section of Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport, a Canadian businessman puts his fingerprint on a reader while chatting pleasantly with the customs official. Seconds later he is shuffled off to interrogation. He is actually an American CIA operative who has made this trip into Iran more than a dozen times, but now the Iranians have his fingerprints and know who he is. He is now a prisoner of the Iranians. As more deadly events involving American military and intelligence personnel follow, all over the globe, it becomes clear that there has been some kind of massive information breach and that a wide array of America's most dangerous enemies have made a weapon of the stolen data. With US intelligence agencies potentially compromised, it's up to John Clark and the rest of The Campus to track the leak to its source. Their investigation uncovers an unholy threat that has wormed its way into the heart of our nation. A danger that has set a clock ticking and can be stopped by only one man...President Jack Ryan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004720/bk_rand_004720_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Dragon's Rebellious Sacrifice (The Last Dragons, #4) (eBook, ePUB)
In a world where she had no autonomy over her body, she refused to bend. But when she is sacrificed to a dragon, she'll become eager to submit. When Rose Bishop and her twin sister go on the latest in an endless line of casting calls, neither dreams their next role will be that of real-life damsels in distress. Kidnapped and taken to another realm, they come face to face with men who turn into dragons. Dragon shifter Ilia has called dibs on the last couple of women that have come beyond the Veil. Unfortunately, none of his brothers have respected his dibs. When the latest arrivals are delivered, Ilia's certain he's finally found the perfect match. So why does his future mate's sister make his beast feel consumed with a fiery heat of desire? When one of the shifters claims Rose's sister is his mate, Rose is prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect her and her twin. But safeguarding her heart won't be quite so easy when her new brother-to-be can't seem to take his golden gaze, or his hands, off Rose? Though she can't seem to form the words to give Ilia explicit consent, she also can't seem to get enough of his delicious kisses and seductive touches. It takes Ilia only one encounter to realize the sister he truly wants is Rose. But why can't she admit the fact of her desire for him as well? Lucky for Rose, Ilia is fluent in the language of safewords and knows exactly how to push her limits to get her to admit what she truly wants. Just when Ilia has everything he's ever dreamed of within his grasp, a menace from his past threatens his chance at love as well as his humanity. If you love alpha male shifters, fated mates, and steamy romance with a touch of 80's nostalgia, then you don't want to miss The Last Dragons series!- Shop: buecher
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