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    The Russian Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the February and October Revolutions and the Rise of the Soviet Union Led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
    If you want to learn about the Russian Revolution but don't feel like reading or listening to a boring textbook, then keep reading....The Russian Revolution was the most important and progressive political event of the 20th century. There is a lot to learn from these explosive political episodes and many remarkable stories to discover. But despite this, many people are reluctant to learn about the Russian Revolution because it can require one to go through heavy and, sometimes, overly analytical texts. But that is about to change. This new captivating history audiobook is designed to be a simple yet educational guide, so you can learn the most crucial events of the Russian Revolution while hopefully enjoying yourself. The Russian Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the February and October Revolutions and the Rise of the Soviet Union Led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks includes topics such as: Twilight of the tsarsThe midnight trainDual powerReturn from exileThe July daysThe abortive coupTen days that shook the worldPeace, land, and breadDefending the revolutionListen to this audiobook now to learn more about the Russian Revolution! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Burke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124098/bk_acx0_124098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Madame Bovary of the Suburbs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min
    The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle classes have grown accustomed to. But she's bored. She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic housecleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocused and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is nondescript, flat, horizontal. Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind listeners of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it - and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000357/bk_qpuk_000357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Buckley's Hope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min
    This is a historical novel, based on the true story of a young English convict named William Buckley who, on Boxing Day 1803, escaped from Victoria’s abortive first settlement at Sorrento and then survived in the wilderness for thirty-two years, mainly because he was adopted and helped by local aboriginal tribes. In 1835 Buckley emerged with his tribal friends to meet Melbourne’s founders, and quickly became an important guide and interpreter in the crucial first years of the European conquest of the Port Phillip region. Suddenly, trapped in the rapidly ensuing conflict between two vastly different societies, Buckley found himself mistrusted by his former black friends and by his white compatriots. He was so harshly reviled that his reputation has suffered to this day. With great sensitivity, and based on meticulous research, Craig Robertson has recreated the fateful encounter between Australia’s ‘wild white man’ and the original inhabitants of the continent. Remarkably, through Buckley’s eyes we can see how much was at stake and how much was lost when two worlds collided. The enthralling story of William Buckley’s odyssey continues to haunt and challenge us all. Buckley’s Hope was originally published by Scribe in 1980, and has never been out of print. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Millar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021270/bk_adbl_021270_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pierre et Jean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    A vague jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers or sisters and slowly ripen till they burst, on the occasion of a marriage perhaps, or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them on the alert in a sort of brotherly and non-aggressive animosity. They were fond of each other, it is true, but they watched each other. Pierre, five years old when Jean was born, had looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly come to lie in his father's and mother's arms and to be loved and fondled by them. Jean, from his birth, had always been a pattern of sweetness, gentleness, and good temper, and Pierre had by degrees begun to chafe at ever-lastingly hearing the praises of this great lad, whose sweetness in his eyes was indolence, whose gentleness was stupidity, and whose kindliness was blindness. His parents, whose dream for their sons was some respectable and undistinguished calling, blamed him for so often changing his mind, for his fits of enthusiasm, his abortive beginnings, and all his ineffectual impulses towards generous ideas and the liberal professions. Since he had grown to manhood they no longer said in so many words: "Look at Jean and follow his example," but every time he heard them say "Jean did this - Jean does that," he understood their meaning and the hint the words conveyed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McDonough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/007075/bk_reco_007075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Missile Attack: Heroes of Vietnam, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min
    The war in Vietnam has taken a new and deadly turn. The Communists have acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, courtesy of their Russian allies. American aircraft are going down, victim to missile batteries hidden deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, and they bring in an Air Force expert, Colonel Dan Carter, to analyze the defenses and devise a strategy to destroy them. Yet, the Vietcong gets wind of the colonel’s arrival, and plan to murder him.Joe Cooper, Air Cav, returns from an abortive mission to grab an important and high-ranking North Vietnamese. A mission gives MACV an idea to protect their expert. Colonel Dan Mitchell is about to fly in the back seat of a Phantom F-4 to reconnoiter the Communist air defenses. If the enemy discover he is flying the mission, they will put everything they have - MiGs and AA missiles - to bring down the colonel’s aircraft.MACV devises a plan to spoof the enemy and keep their man safe. To send a man who resembles the colonel in a different direction and draw the enemy fire. To a place he will not be safe. The man who most resembled Colonel Carter is Joe Cooper, and they are sending him to his death.Missile Attack, book six of Heroes of Vietnam, is a short fiction set during the Vietnam War. The book is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the best-selling author of more than 50 war novels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heath Douglass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230968/bk_acx0_230968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560
    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560 ab 61.49 € als pdf eBook: Documents to illustrate the nature and scope of Portuguese enterprise in West Africa the abortive attempt of Castilians to create an empire there and the early English voyages to Barbary and Guinea. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560
    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560 ab 38.49 € als pdf eBook: Documents to illustrate the nature and scope of Portuguese enterprise in West Africa the abortive attempt of Castilians to create an empire there and the early English voyages to Barbary and Guinea. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560
    Europeans in West Africa 1540-1560 ab 38.49 € als epub eBook: Documents to illustrate the nature and scope of Portuguese enterprise in West Africa the abortive attempt of Castilians to create an empire there and the early English voyages to Barbary and Guinea. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Accumulation of Capital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1047min
    Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) was one of the most able and remarkable female figures in the fight for socialism and the demolition of capitalism from the last decade of the 19th century to her death just after World War One. Born in Zamosc, a small town in Russian Poland, she rose to become a highly educated and highly principled economist and activist, working with leading figures of the left, including Lenin. And she died for her principles. After spending most of the war in prison for her activism and uncompromising left-wing views, she became, on release, active in the political turmoil in Germany, her country of adoption, working fearlessly for her cause. Following her involvement in the abortive Berlin uprising in January 1919, she was on her way to incarceration again when she was beaten to death by soldiers belonging to the extreme right. Her body was thrown into a canal. But her writings - and in particular her important critique of Marxist economics, The Accumulation of Capital - have ensured the survival of her memory and influence into the 21st century. The Accumulation of Capital was published in 1913. In it, she set out to take the views of Karl Marx further by arguing that capitalism can only exist when there are non-capitalist economies to exploit. She postulates that capitalism would stagnate were there no non-capitalist countries with economic resources to assimilate by a cruel exploitative process of destabilising natural and peasant economies. Her aim was to overcome the status quo which allowed such exploitation. Luxemburg wrote the book in a fever of excitement, but her academic training - she won a doctorate in law and economics in Zurich - encouraged her, in fact enabled her, not just to produce a polemic but to step back and survey the wide field of economics. In pursuing this undertaking, she considers the writings of Karl Marx in a respectful, even admiring manner but criticises the flaws an ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Louise Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000269/bk_dhrm_000269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Silver Medallion: A Crystal Moore Suspense, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    New York Times best-selling author Bobbi Smith said, "A Silver Medallion is a gripping, action-packed adventure from talented author James Callan. Crystal Moore is a tough and savvy heroine."Young, bright, unadventurous Crystal Moore comes face-to-face with slavery in today’s Dallas, Texas, in 2015. A woman is held, not by chains, but by threats to her two small children left behind in Mexico. Should she escape, or even tell anybody of her situation, her children will be killed.Crystal would like to walk away and forget she ever heard this. But her conscience won’t let her. Her parents were killed when she was just seven. She knows the heartache these children suffer. She can’t sleep without hearing the cries of the two young girls and their mother.Crystal knows the woman will never try to escape as long as her children are held hostage. Crystal realizes the only way to free her is to go to Mexico and rescue the girls first, for only if they are safe will the mother ever be free.Crystal goes to Mexico and secures the help of the mysterious Juan Grande. After several abortive attempts, they rescue the children and spirit them to safety. Crystal returns to Dallas and is now able to help the mother escape. Soon, the mother and children are reunited.But now, two powerful and ruthless men want Crystal dead. It will be up to Crystal and her 76-year-old feisty grandmother to deal with the killers."A Silver Medallion, the second title in the Crystal Moore Suspense series, reads like a gold-medal thriller from page one.... Crystal emerges as a compelling heroine with a big heart and bold personality..." (Critic's report, BookLife Prize in Fiction)A Silver Medallion was named a winner in the international Readers' Favorite competition. The Passion Readers Book Club named A Silver Medallion the best mystery book for 2016. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tyhra Thorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233097/bk_acx0_233097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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