34 Results for : insolence

  • Thumbnail
    Consort of War: Queen of Shades, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 224min
    A usurper. A sacrifice. A murderer.After ascending to godhood as Queen of the Underworld, Kigal has at last made her kingdom her own - until an equally powerful deity comes to steal the throne. Inanna, Goddess of Warfare and Lust. In her grasp is the one hostage Kigal would do anything to save, even if it means becoming a monster. And a monster she becomes.For her insolence, the goddess’s life is rightfully Kigal’s to claim, but as the heavens turn on each other and the lands begin to die, she finds herself fighting for a justice that even the gods cannot deliver. When the fallout of her actions threatens to bring humanity to its knees, the Queen of the Underworld is left with one question: How far will she go, and who will she damn, in pursuit of revenge?A retelling of the world’s oldest recorded myth, Consort of War is the second novella in the Mesopotamian fantasy Queen of Shades series. About the Queen of Shades seriesThis fast-paced historical fantasy series is packed with demons, monsters, gods and goddesses, ancient lore, and more. If you enjoy diverse fantasy with intrigue of mythic proportions, struggles for justice, enemies-to-lovers, and a lot of heart - this series is for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eli Hinze. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222491/bk_acx0_222491_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
    A splendid army almost demoralized, millions of public property given up or destroyed, thousands of lives of our best men sacrificed for no purpose. I dare not trust myself to speak of this commander as I feel and believe. Suffice to say...that more insolence, superciliousness, ignorance, and pretentiousness were never combined in one man. (Union II Corps Commander Alpheus Williams) The Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862) was one of the most decisive battles fought during the Civil War, and it was also one of the most unlikely. Less than three months before the battle, Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Northern Virginia had been pushed back nearly all the way to Richmond by George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, so close that Union soldiers could see the church steeples of the Confederate capital. And yet, at the end of Second Manassas, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia found itself in the field unopposed about 20 miles away from the Union capital of Washington D.C. How could such a remarkable reversal of fortunes take place so quickly? After Lee succeeded the wounded Johnston, he pushed McClellan's Army of the Potomac away from Richmond and back up the Peninsula in late June, only to then swing his army north to face a second Union army, John Pope's Army of Virginia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038567/bk_acx0_038567_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Red Lines
    A lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world, featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to Beijing.Why do the powerful feel so threatened by political cartoons? Cartoons don't tell secrets or move markets. Yet, as Cherian George and Sonny Liew show us in Red Lines, cartoonists have been harassed, trolled, sued, fired, jailed, attacked, and assassinated for their insolence. The robustness of political cartooning--one of the most elemental forms of political speech--says something about the health of democracy. In a lively graphic narrative--illustrated by Liew, himself a prize-winning cartoonist--Red Lines crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation under attack.A Syrian cartoonist insults the president and has his hands broken by goons. An Indian cartoonist stands up to misogyny and receives rape threats. An Israeli artist finds his antiracist works censored by social media algorithms. And the New York Times, caught in the crossfire of the culture wars, decides to stop publishing editorial cartoons completely. Red Lines studies thin-skinned tyrants, the invisible hand of market censorship, and demands in the name of social justice to rein in the right to offend. It includes interviews with more than sixty cartoonists and insights from art historians, legal scholars, and political scientists--all presented in graphic form. This engaging account makes it clear that cartoon censorship doesn't just matter to cartoonists and their fans. When the red lines are misapplied, all citizens are potential victims.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 31.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Paul and Thecla: The Church and the Strong-Willed Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 123min
    The Acts of Paul and Thecla was written around 150 CE when there was a growing body of work attributed to the apostle Paul. Owing to the abrupt beginning of the work, it is thought The Acts of Paul and Thecla was part of a larger texts and was extracted to form a stand-alone work. Reasons given for its omission from the Bible are numerous. It was thought to have been written after the apostolic age; it gives high and powerful position to women in the faith; it urges women to withhold sex from their husbands and live chaste lives. Within its storyline Thecla seems to eclipse Paul in her courage and commitment to the spread of the Gospel. The text presents an unwavering stance on the virtue of celibacy preached by Paul and amplified by Thecla. In addition, Thecla is presented as a strong willed woman who took it upon herself to preach, teach, heal, and baptize, all without permission or oversight from a man. In the age when canon was being decided, women in positions of leadership within the church was an anomaly, and the idea that a wife could decide her own fate, and even withhold sex from her husband, was looked on as heresy and insolence. These were social constraints which tainted the interpretation of scripture, both then and now. We will examine the true place of women in the Bible and how translators diminished the place and accomplishments of women by mistranslating words and phrases. We will look at the true meaning of many Bible verses, as well as the complete text of Paul and Thecla, with an eye toward how women were a driving force in religion and family in the early church. In the end, a more true and just vision of women of the Bible and of ancient times will be revealed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Prodehl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137166/bk_acx0_137166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Saint vs. the Scholar: The Fight Between Faith and Reason, Hörbuch, Digital, 306min
    The year is 1140. Inside an imposing cathedral in France's Champagne region, two of the most recognized men in the world are about to face each other in a contest of wills and a test of faith. On one side is Bernard of Clairvaux, a counselor and selector of popes who will be called "Saint" even before his death. The other is Peter Abelard, widely agreed to be the era's most brilliant thinker, a medieval rock star among students in the universities of Europe and on the Paris social scene. Bernard has accused Peter of heresy and insolence before God, a charge for which Bernard has the power to order Peter executed. This intense, emotional and partisan clash between two men, the ways in which the scholar provokes the saint's outrage, and the final outcome of the battle will change the course of history - and frame the conflict between reason and faith that continues to inflame passions to this day. Jon M. Sweeney, author of The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation and Inventing Hell, makes the case that Christians cannot understand who we are today or how we balance what we believe with what we say without shining a light on what might otherwise pass completely unnoticed: this small but significant episode in our history. And there is, in fact, hope to be gleaned from the study of these two giants of medieval thought. How much, it turns out, Bernard and Peter actually shared in common! Sweeney points out delicacies of their spiritualities that actually link them in ways they never would have appreciated during their lifetimes. It is these delicacies, as well as what prevented the two men from recognizing them, that provide insights into exactly how we modern Christians might still recover from this regrettable - and avoidable - conflict that has reverberated through the ages. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sant/000234/bk_sant_000234_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Master Self-Discipline and Willpower: Guided Meditation and Hypnosis: Mental Toughness of a BAMF, Hörbuch, Digital, 189min
    This audiobook is to strengthen your mind.Are you trying to strengthen your faculties for self-discipline but are having a hard time find any methodologies or practices that work effectively for you? Then Master Self-discipline and Willpower: Guided Meditation and Hypnosis - Mental Toughness of a BAMF is the right audiobook for you.With several meditations for fostering self-discipline featured here, this audiobook will give you all of the tools that you need to better yourself and become a much harder worker. You cannot expect to get as far in whatever it is that you do without a certain degree of self-discipline, so using the tools laid out here is highly advisable if you want any greater success in life. When you consider all of the greatest things that you could potentially produce in life, odds are that the only thing nested between yourself and these things, prohibiting you from possessing them, is some amount of self-discipline. This is why it is so important to urge and continue to urge yourself to work. Without work, there will never be any product, and without any product, life may lose some of its meaning.Negative behavioral patterns or other sorts besides insolence are also covered here. Any negative behaviors need to be examined at their roots and replaced with positive ones, which is a process that this audiobook also covers. We are creatures of deep habit, so when we have bad habits within our daily rosters these can act as plaque in the veins of our personal growth and success. These patterns are often formulated early on in life and can be very troublesome to eliminate later on. Extra effort needs to be put into curtailing their negative effects if they are not dealt with early on in life, as these effects have a tendency to compound over time, growing to great sums in terms of detriments over the years. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Ison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150224/bk_acx0_150224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Tamed by the Highlander , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 254min, (USK 18)
    When raiders fall upon Urquhart Castle, Elisabeth Grant, the daughter of the castle's lord - a highlander by birth but educated in the lowlands - is left defenseless when her cowardly father abandons her. At the last moment, her life and her maidenhead are saved from the raiders by Angus MacGregor, the proud highlander she had only hours earlier ordered locked in the pillory for his insolence toward her. Vowing that she will see her home rise from the ruins after the attack, Elisabeth resolves to stay as close to the castle as possible. With her father and his soldiers gone, however, she has nowhere to turn for protection except to the highlander who so recently rescued her. When Angus informs her that he has no interest in a ward or a servant, she impetuously offers to wed the uncouth yet undeniably brave and handsome highlander, whose firm words and strong arms both terrify and excite her. Angus agrees to marry Elisabeth on one condition: She will serve and obey him as a proper wife should, and if she fails in her duties she will be soundly spanked. She agrees to his condition, but when she surrenders to his touch one moment and defies him the next, his desire for her only grows fiercer. Though it quickly becomes clear she will not yield without a fight - and a taste of his leather strap upon her bare bottom - he soon discovers she is like no woman he has ever known, as being chastised until she is writhing and begging only increases her lust for him. But when her father returns to rebuild the ruins of Urquhart even as the threat of another assault on the castle looms, Angus wonders whether Elisabeth will abandon him and return to the life of a noble lady. Even if she stays by his side, will their newly forged bond be shattered in the heat of battle, or will their love and courage be enough to withstand the swords of the marauders? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter B. Brooke. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032402/bk_acx0_032402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Fall - Tod in Belfast - Staffel 1-3
    -> Staffel 1:Nach ihrer Beförderung zum Detective Superintendent wird Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) von London in Nordirlands Hauptstadt Belfast versetzt. Dort werden seit einiger Zeit brutale Morde an Frauen verübt. Die erfahrene Ermittlerin soll die Mordserie aufklären, bei der ihre Kollegen an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Gibson erkennt sofort, dass es sich bei dem Mörder immer um die gleiche Person handelt - ein Serienkiller. Schnell gerät der Therapeut Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) unter Verdacht. Der liebende Familienvater führt scheinbar ein ganz normales Leben mit einer Frau und zwei Kindern. Niemand ahnt zunächst, dass Spector nachts zum Frauenmörder wird. Er scheint der Polizei bei seinen Verbrechen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein. Gibson weiß aber wie sich Serienkiller verhalten, im Verborgenen bleiben und wo man nach ihnen suchen muss. Und tatsächlich stößt sie bald auf eine heiße Spur. Doch je näher sie Spector kommt, desto mehr fixiert sich der Killer auf seine Verfolgerin, von der er allmählich immer besessener wird ...Ep. 1 Dark DescentEp. 2 Darkness VisibleEp. 3 Insolence & WineEp. 4 My Adventurous SongEp. 5 The Vast Abyss-> Staffel 2:Zehn Tage sind vergangen, seit der Serienmörder Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson), angerufen hat, um ihr mitzuteilen, dass sie ihm niemals auf die Spur kommen wird. Zehn Tage, in denen Gibson fieberhaft nach einem neuen Weg sucht, ihn aufzuspüren. Nun glaubt sie, einen solchen gefunden zu haben: Das erste Opfer Spectors, Rose Stagg, hat den Angriff des Serienmörders überlebt. Doch noch ehe Gibson Rose überzeugen kann, ihren Peiniger zu identifizieren, wird diese von Spector entführt. Als kurz darauf die Leiche einer Frau gefunden wird, deutet alles darauf hin, dass es sich um Rose handelt. Spector wird festgenommen. Der Täter und seine Verfolgerin stehen sich zum ersten Mal seit Beginn der Ermittlungen von Angesicht zu Angesicht gegenüber. Ein Augenblick, der das Leben der beiden für immer verändern wird ...-> Staffel 3:Nach der spektakulären Befreiungsaktion von Rose Stagg wird Serienmörder Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) schwer verletzt ins Belfast General Hospital eingeliefert, wo er zunächst im Koma liegt. Die leitende Beamtin Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) ist internen Ermittlungen ausgesetzt und muss sich vor ihrem Kollegen Tom Anderson rechtfertigen, warum sie Spectors Leben angeblich dringender retten wollte als seines. Sally-Ann Spector ist fassungslos, dass ihr Mann der gefürchtete Würger von Belfast ist und trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung. Nachdem die Polizei Spectors Identität in den Medien veröffentlicht hat, erhält sie den Hinweis auf eine von ihm angemietete Garage. Dort entdecken sie seine Tagebücher, die auf weitere Opfer schließen lassen. Als Spectors Zustand sich stabilisiert, wecken die Ärzte ihn auf, doch seine Erinnerungen an die letzten sechs Jahre scheinen verschwunden. Und somit auch die Erinnerungen an die ihm vorgeworfenen Taten. Stella Gibson muss jetzt noch dringender weiteres Beweismaterial gegen Spector finden, um den Killer für seine Verbrechen verantwortlich machen zu können.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 25.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Fall - Tod in Belfast - Staffel 1-3 Gesamtedition
    -> Staffel 1:Nach ihrer Beförderung zum Detective Superintendent wird Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) von London in Nordirlands Hauptstadt Belfast versetzt. Dort werden seit einiger Zeit brutale Morde an Frauen verübt. Die erfahrene Ermittlerin soll die Mordserie aufklären, bei der ihre Kollegen an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Gibson erkennt sofort, dass es sich bei dem Mörder immer um die gleiche Person handelt - ein Serienkiller. Schnell gerät der Therapeut Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) unter Verdacht. Der liebende Familienvater führt scheinbar ein ganz normales Leben mit einer Frau und zwei Kindern. Niemand ahnt zunächst, dass Spector nachts zum Frauenmörder wird. Er scheint der Polizei bei seinen Verbrechen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein. Gibson weiß aber wie sich Serienkiller verhalten, im Verborgenen bleiben und wo man nach ihnen suchen muss. Und tatsächlich stößt sie bald auf eine heiße Spur. Doch je näher sie Spector kommt, desto mehr fixiert sich der Killer auf seine Verfolgerin, von der er allmählich immer besessener wird ...Ep. 1 Dark DescentEp. 2 Darkness VisibleEp. 3 Insolence & WineEp. 4 My Adventurous SongEp. 5 The Vast Abyss-> Staffel 2:Zehn Tage sind vergangen, seit der Serienmörder Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson), angerufen hat, um ihr mitzuteilen, dass sie ihm niemals auf die Spur kommen wird. Zehn Tage, in denen Gibson fieberhaft nach einem neuen Weg sucht, ihn aufzuspüren. Nun glaubt sie, einen solchen gefunden zu haben: Das erste Opfer Spectors, Rose Stagg, hat den Angriff des Serienmörders überlebt. Doch noch ehe Gibson Rose überzeugen kann, ihren Peiniger zu identifizieren, wird diese von Spector entführt. Als kurz darauf die Leiche einer Frau gefunden wird, deutet alles darauf hin, dass es sich um Rose handelt. Spector wird festgenommen. Der Täter und seine Verfolgerin stehen sich zum ersten Mal seit Beginn der Ermittlungen von Angesicht zu Angesicht gegenüber. Ein Augenblick, der das Leben der beiden für immer verändern wird ...-> Staffel 3:Nach der spektakulären Befreiungsaktion von Rose Stagg wird Serienmörder Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) schwer verletzt ins Belfast General Hospital eingeliefert, wo er zunächst im Koma liegt. Die leitende Beamtin Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) ist internen Ermittlungen ausgesetzt und muss sich vor ihrem Kollegen Tom Anderson rechtfertigen, warum sie Spectors Leben angeblich dringender retten wollte als seines. Sally-Ann Spector ist fassungslos, dass ihr Mann der gefürchtete Würger von Belfast ist und trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung. Nachdem die Polizei Spectors Identität in den Medien veröffentlicht hat, erhält sie den Hinweis auf eine von ihm angemietete Garage. Dort entdecken sie seine Tagebücher, die auf weitere Opfer schließen lassen. Als Spectors Zustand sich stabilisiert, wecken die Ärzte ihn auf, doch seine Erinnerungen an die letzten sechs Jahre scheinen verschwunden. Und somit auch die Erinnerungen an die ihm vorgeworfenen Taten. Stella Gibson muss jetzt noch dringender weiteres Beweismaterial gegen Spector finden, um den Killer für seine Verbrechen verantwortlich machen zu können.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 25.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Trapped in a Corrupt School District (eBook, ePUB)
    Born and mostly educated in Italy, at a young age I immigrated to Quebec, Canada, where I taught Latin to French speaking high school students. Then, I earned a Ph.D. degree in French and Latin at the University of Ontario. My dream came true when in 1967 I entered the USA as French instructor at a college in central Kansas and later at the University of Tennessee. Alas, due to the declining enrollment in the foreign languages at the University, three years later I lost my untenured job. Next, being just a part-time French instructor in a catholic college, I took a full-time teaching job in the public school district of Fairview, a medium-sized town in the Appalachian Plateau. I taught French and Latin to high school freshmen. There I was appreciated by everybody and three years later I was granted tenure. With the advent of a new school superintendent, Tom Jones, in 1980 the tide suddenly turned. He advocated that the school district did not need a teacher with a Ph.D. degree and, most of all, that as a "European" I was unqualified to teach in his American schools. He decided that I had to go. Unable to find a legitimate reason to get rid of me, he started building a termination case for "gross inefficiency". For that purpose, Jones replaced my honest principal with Frank Grossman, an awkward and loyal bootlicker who had no knowledge of French and Latin. For four years Grossman made my life extremely miserable. He sat in my classroom almost fifty times and, if so to speak I taught that planet Earth is round, he documented that I said it is square. Yet, nothing could justify my dismissal. In spring 1982, Jones indefinitely laid off 67 untenured teachers for alleged financial problems. I was the only tenured teacher among them. Later, the school board ordered to rehire all 67 teachers, because the lay-off was unjustified. Yet, Jones refused to rehire me. Finally, he made me ransom my tenured job by making me drop a couple of pending grievances. Exasperated by his repeated failures to get rid of me, Jones announced in the local news that I was "the poorest teacher in the school district" and that he had no choice but to let me go. To achieve his resolve, he had Grossman triple the efforts to fabricate as much negative documentation as possible. Grossman even used a few teachers, students, parents, and substitute teachers to support his efforts. To further mortify and disgrace me, he had me sit in other teachers' classroom to learn how to teach French and Latin in America. He ordered me to take additional college classes to qualify to teach those languages at the first year level. Two school administrators and three outsiders were hired to sit in my classes and prepare negative reports. None of them knew French and Latin. I became a laughing stock in the entire school district. The maltreatment became so callous that my doctor placed me on sick leave for 30 days, because of an "acute anxiety syndrome". After four years of relentless and undignified torment, in March 1984, Supt. Jones had his rubber stamp school board fire me for alleged "inability" to teach French and Latin even at the first year level. Even my foreign "accent" and my alleged "European way of teaching" were given as termination grounds. Yes, my sick leave was also used to claim that I was "physically unable to teach". Since previously I had been a successful teacher in catholic schools, Jones had the insolence to advise that I should seek employment in catholic schools, as if those were inferior. This book describes the incredible, despicable, and appalling persecution, mistreatment, and humiliation I endured in that school district run by a corrupt superintendent and his accomplices. It is a shocking case of ignorance, bigotry and malice. ___________________________________________________________Notice: Although the events described in this book took place decades ago, they are still etched in my memory. I decided to recount them in this book as a personal healing and to warn teachers that such things can truly happen.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 8.95 EUR excl. shipping

Similar searches: