28 Results for : leveller
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The Incurable Romantic: And Other Unsettling Revelations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love's madness. But the experience of obsessive love is no trivial matter. In the course of his career, psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual patients, whose stories have lessons for all of us. A barristers' clerk becomes convinced that her dentist has fallen in love with her and they are destined to be together for eternity; a widow is visited by the ghost of her dead husband; an academic is besotted with his own reflection; a beautiful woman searches jealously for a rival who isn't there; and a night porter is possessed by a lascivious demon. These are just some of the people whom we meet in an extraordinary and original book that explores the conditions of longing and desire - true accounts of psychotherapy that take the reader on a journey through the darker realms of the amorous mind. Drawing on the latest scientific research into the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying romance and emotional attachment, The Incurable Romantic demonstrates that ultimately love dissolves the divide between what we judge to be normal and abnormal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Shepherd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001522/bk_twuk_001522_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Triumph of Liberty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1596min
Of humankind's great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny's iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this, our most inspiring story, through 65 biographical portraits. From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made freedom possible, Jim Powell has chosen a few talented, courageous individuals, and by weaving together their moving life stories, he tells brilliantly the saga of liberty as a whole. Some of these men and women, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr., remain famous. Others, like John Lilburne, a seventeenth-century "Leveller" who spent most of his adult life in prison battling England's infamous Star Chamber, are almost unknown. Some of Powell's choices, Erasmus, Cicero, Locke, Wollstonecraft, and Frederick Douglass, have often before been praised by those who love liberty. Others, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Read, and Louis L'Amour, may be surprising. Others still, like Milton Friedman or Margaret Thatcher, are controversial. Any one of these life stories, based on biographies, letters, diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and interviews with leading scholars, could make a book. Taken together, they form a saga of epic proportions. Here, are the greatest achievements of humankind and the first-ever full story of the triumph of liberty. For more than 30 years, Jim Powell has gathered material for The Triumph of Liberty. He has interviewed scholars, pursued research in major libraries, and visited booksellers, museums, and historic sites around the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001345/bk_blak_001345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Autobiography in Essays
'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt''Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day'An absolute jewel of a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen FryA dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.I love stories. I have mostly told other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss, fortitude, and fortune: being human.When I look at my life from the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two, happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost never the end.This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth talking about.So, this is a collection of stories about how things not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.I really hope you enjoy it.Love, Minnie x- Shop: buecher
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Tod, wo ist dein Stachel?
Niemand kann ihm entkommen, dem großen Gleichmacher Tod. »Leben ist gefährlich. Wer lebt, stirbt«, schrieb der polnische Aphoristiker Stanislaw Jerzy Lec mit schwarzem Humor. »Tod ist ... je der meine«, pointierte Martin Heidegger diese situative Radikalität. Und für den Literaturnobelpreisträger Elias Canetti war der Tod ähnlich wie für sein Vorbild Johann Wolfgang Goethe nichts als ein Hassobjekt. In auffälligem Kontrast dazu bekennt das Christentum mit dem Apostel Paulus: »Der Tod ist verschlungen in den Sieg. Tod, wo ist dein Stachel? Hölle, wo ist dein Sieg?« (1. Korintherbrief 15,55) Das meint mehr als nur die sokratische Unsterblichkeit der Seele, wie Platon sie im Phaidon entfaltet. Nach Christoph Markschies waren es nicht zuletzt die intensive Seelsorge an den trauernden Schwestern und Brüdern und die Erwartung der Auferstehung, die die schmerzhafte Endgültigkeit des irdischen Lebens keineswegs leugneten und doch durch heitere Gelassenheit dem Tod gegenüber den frühen Christengemeinden rasch Anhänger bescherten.Das anregende, auch existenziell spannende Buch fragt danach, wie der »in den Tod verschlungene« Sieg Christi heute theologisch zu interpretieren ist, angesichts eines exzessiven Materialismus, für den der Tod das möglichst zu verdrängende kalte Schlusswort ist.Mit Essays, praktischen Erfahrungsberichten und literarischen Fundstücken von George Alexander Albrecht, Michael Dorsch, Siegmar Faust, Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Frank Hiddemann, Sebastian Kleinschmidt, Dieter Koch, Christian Lehnert, Martin Luther, Ulrich Schacht, Christine Schirrmacher, Cornelia Seidel, Thomas A. Seidel , Peter Zimmerlind.[O Death, Where is Your Sting? Fear of Death and Love of Life in Christianity]Nobody can escape him, the great leveller, Death. »Life is dangerous. Who lives, dies«, wrote the Polish aphorist Stanislaw Jerzy Lec with black humour. And for Elias Canetti as for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe death was nothing but an object of hate. But in marked contrast to that, Christianity with Paul confesses: »Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?« (1. Corinthians 15:54-55).This means more than the Socratic immortality as developed by Platon in his Phaidon. According to Christoph Markschies it was not least the intense pastoral care for mourning sisters and brothers and the expectation of the resurrection, denying in no way the painful finality of earthly life, which because of its cheerful serenity contributed to the rapid growth of the early Christian communities.This stimulating book asks how the victory of Christ, swallowing up death, is to be interpreted today in view of an excessive materialism that sees death as the cold final word that it tries to repress if possible.- Shop: buecher
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The Religious Foundations of Leveller Democracy
The Religious Foundations of Leveller Democracy: ab 53 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Great Leveller
The Great Leveller - Best Served Cold The Heroes and Red Country: ab 17.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Leveller Revolution
The Leveller Revolution: ab 34.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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RIVEN
Released as a Limited Edition double 180g disc pressing with disc 1 on WHITE vinyl and disc 2 on BLACK for Record Store Day.Released as a Limited Edition double 180g disc pressing with disc 1 on WHITE vinyl and disc 2 on BLACK for Record Store Day. Packaged in heavyweight gatefold sleeve and ful lcolour inner bags. Riven seen on vinyl for the very first time is considered by many as one of Nick most accomplished works. Originally released on CD back in 2013, Nick had had the pleasurable experience of recording stints with such highly acclaimed musicians as Lana Del Rey, Newton Faulkner and Steven Wilson, this brought about the Riven recordings. It's a typically eclectic mix of songs and styles, but with a light and a dark side, split down the middle by the title track. So, up front we have 6 minute songs like 'Juicy Fruit Girl' - a staccato paean to late 20th century popular culture with a witty look at things like Postman's Knock, along with 'Love Is Due' a rambling acoustic love story set around baggage in airports and beyond, to lighter tunes like 'Sunshine' inspired by the birth of Harper's son and that round shiny thing recently a feature in the sky in the UK. On the darker side Harper lurches into a visceral strident attack on Kelvin Mackenzie in 'Plague of Toads' and swings a cynical folky kick in the nuts to Nick Clegg in 'The Incredible Melting Man'. In essence it is the work of an artist given free reign to express himself outside the confines of the 'music business' devoid of compromise and led by artistic whims rather than commercial dictates. With Tchad Blake producing (Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Crowded House, etc.) and Jeremy Stacey on drums (Noel Gallagher, Waterboys, Sheryl Crow etc.) and guest appearances from Jon Leveller (Levellers), Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson,Level 42) Lily Harper (Roy's grand-daughter), the legendary invisible Aussie rock singer Dave Graney and vocal ar-rangements by composer Ben Jones RIVEN has a rich, lush sound throughout, but never loses focus on Nick's trademark soaring vocals and blistering (mainly acoustic) guitar work. TRACKS: Side 1 1. This Is The Beginning 2. Juicy Fruit Girl 3. Love Is Due Side 2 1. Holiday On Earth 2. Pop Fiction: Origins 3. Sunshine 4. There Never Was Side 3 1. Riven 2. Here Comes The Gun 3. X By Your Name 4. Reality Check Side 4 1. The Incredible Melting Man 2. Plague Of Toads 3. The Beginning Is Nigh 4. Start Again- Shop: odax
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