28 Results for : nobly
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American Legends: The Life of Joseph Smith , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 79min
Explains Joseph Smith's life and the founding of the Mormon Church. "Our missionaries are going forth to different nations, and in Germany, Palestine, New Holland, the East Indies, and other places, the standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done." (Joseph Smith) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among all the various figures in 19th-century America who left controversial legacies, it is hard to find one as influential as Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormonism, and the Latter Day Saint movement. Revered as a prophet on the level of Moses by some, reviled as a perpetrator of large-scale fraud by others, what everyone can agree on is that Joseph Smith founded a religious movement that played a crucial role in the settlement of the West, especially in Utah. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035440/bk_acx0_035440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur - and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Executive. A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat - cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands - from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved by Winston Churchill, who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with the Germans' wartime missions, and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucald withstood months of torture without cracking and escaped his own death - not once but twice. The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun's habit - one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him. More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006330/bk_harp_006330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Saboteur: True Adventures of the Gentleman Spy Who Took on the Nazis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breath-taking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistance fighter. A scion of one of the most aristocratic families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucauld escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat - cracking safes, planting bombs and killing with his bare hands - from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies beloved by Winston Churchill who altered the war in Europe with tactics that earned it notoriety as the 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'. With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organised resistance cells, blew up fortified compounds and munitions factories, interfered with Germans' wartime missions and executed Nazi officers. Caught by the Germans, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking and escaped his own death not once but twice. The Saboteur recounts La Rochefoucauld's enthralling adventures, from jumping from a moving truck on his way to his execution to stealing Nazi limos to dressing up in a nun's habit - one of his many disguises and impersonations. Whatever the mission, whatever the dire circumstance, de La Rochefoucauld acquitted himself nobly, with the straight-back aplomb of a man of aristocratic breeding: James Bond before Ian Fleming conjured him. More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely working to change the course of histo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003192/bk_hcuk_003192_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lord Byron: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Romantic Poet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
“I am such a strange mélange of good and evil that it would be difficult to describe me.” (Lord Byron)“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” (Lady Caroline Lamb’s description of Lord Byron)Lord Byron’s very name conjures up visions of the Romantic movement and outlandishly dressed bohemians, for if Alfred, Lord Tennyson was the poetic darling of the masses, Byron was the hero of the hedonists. While the traditional English literary hero was a nobleman rescuing a damsel in distress, Byron created the antihero, a man plagued by self-doubt and hidden sorrow. At the same time, his hero was also capable of facing reality once he had wrestled through his own angst, and even of occasionally acting nobly in the great tradition of the author’s Puritan forebears.Whereas poets like Wordsworth and Browning were easy to love, Lord Byron inspired a certain amount of fear among the upper classes, and pious mothers were reluctant to let their daughters read his work. In a manner more appropriate to the 21st century than the 19th, Lord Byron was a man true to his own beliefs, supporting the rights of the oppressed even while enjoying all the benefits offered to him as a member of the British aristocracy.If Byron himself was eclectic in his tastes and character, his poetry was even more so, for he could feature satiric pieces poking fun at the status quo and historical renditions of ancient battles fought with nobility and valor, all in the same volume. Like so many other writers, he used poetry to explore his own most deeply guarded secrets, in one poem playing in first person the dramatic hero and in another the troubled penitent. He was sometimes funny, sometimes lyrical, and sometimes verbose, but he was always interesting, and that is what allowed him to become one of the most famous writers of all time, almost against his own will, and despite his premature death.Lord Byron: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Romantic Poet chronicles ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124067/bk_acx0_124067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cleopatra (eBook, PDF)
Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom. Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius--the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom--were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. "Roller tells his tale smoothly and accessibly....The resulting portrait is that of a complex, many-sided figure, a potent Hellenistic ruler who could move the tillers of power as skillfully as any man, and one far and nobly removed from the 'constructed icon' of popular imagination." --The New York Times Book Review "A rich account of late Ptolemaic culture." --The New Yorker "Offers a superb panorama of the society and culture of late Ptolemaic Egypt, with vivid sketches of the (remarkably vigorous) intellectual life of Cleopatra's Alexandria and the structural instabilities of the late Ptolemaic state." --Times Literary Supplement "Besides providing a compelling story and breathing fresh air into a heretofore two-dimensional caricature from history, Roller's 'Cleopatra' provides an interesting commentary on the attitudes still prevalent towards women who rule." --Christian Science Monitor "Compulsively readable." --Bookslut "A definitive account of a queen of remarkable strength." --Publishers Weekly- Shop: buecher
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Duty Nobly Done
Duty Nobly Done - An extraordinary account of 11 family members in the Great War: ab 5.66 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Healing By Beauty-Popular Classical Music for Recreation
Dear music lovers, we are very glad to introduce for you a new music album: 'Healing by Beauty - popular classic music for recreation' from Irina Miroshnik. This unique project stretches a curve of the demanding classical music up to new popular music. Irina was born and generated as the pianist in the city of Kharkov (Ukraine). She taught at musical school in the city of Kharkov. Irina Miroshnik is a graduate of the Kharkiv Institute of Arts (piano), where had lessons with professor Regina Horowitz (elder sister of legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz). Irina possesses the secret of a singing tone, which enable her to interpret classical music with extraordinary intimacy for music lovers. However, Irina does not belong to a category of the pianists considering scenic, variety success by execution of all desires. Music for Miroshnik is a creative laboratory in which secrets of human soul and the Personality reveal. After the Kharkiv Institute of Arts she worked some years as the teacher at musical school, received the Post Graduate Diploma, PhD (Psychology of a Personality) in Psychological Institute, Moscow (1990). Worked as the psychologist and leading research worker in the Psychosomatic Department of Sklifosofsky Scientific Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in Moscow (1992-94). Has created (with E.Gavrilin) a methods and systems of the Personality-Oriented Computerized (POC) Psychotherapy and the Synergic interactive music-color therapy. In 1995 Miroshnik, Gavrilin and others under the order of the American company developed the multimedia program for the personality oriented psychotherapy, which successfully was on sale in the market of USA and Canada. The invention and multimedia CD-ROM is awarded in the World salon of innovations "Brussels Eureka'98". Irina has created the system of healing music interpretation and recorded a CD "Synergic music" for professional music therapy (1998). She has published the monograph and line of scientific articles for psychology and music therapy. She is the full member of F.I.M. (Federazione Italiana Musicoterapeuti, Bergamo). Now, Irina Miroshnik is the head of the Center for POC-Therapy and the Synergic Musical Therapy. She carries out author's sessions and trainings in the recreation zones of Ukraine. Especially for healing and recreation Irina Miroshnik created a new synergic style in which the instrument sings nobly and beautifully, and embodies a new sound world. Saint-Saens' s "Swan" (track 17), Schubert's AVE MARIA (track 15), Liszt's Consolations, No 3 (track 12) and other pieces are a superb examples of the elevated sonorous synergic music, that Miroshnik created for healing and recreation. The new style 'Synergic Music' shows one of the probably most interesting new phenomena in the area of modern piano music in the international music scene and offers space for limitless development. Now music by Irina Miroshnik's performance is successfully applied to healing and improvement of adults, children and teenagers in large sanatoria and hotel SPA-complexes located on resorts of Ukraine. The music for this Album recorded in a concert hall, Kharkov, 1998. CD 'Healing by Beauty - popular classic music for recreation' was mastering in 2010. Album "Healing by Beauty" is a special collection of most popular and healing music pieces. Each piece has it's own unique interpretation ideas, but the soundscape of the CD develops from piece to piece, creating a magical recreation space. Recreation music is more than Relaxation music! Take Power and Drive of New Synergic Style Piano classical music.- Shop: odax
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Requiem K 626
"This is a grandly scaled, nobly contoured reading, by turns monumental and ferociously dramatic. With biting choral attack, searing, spitting strings and scything trumpets, the Dies Irae has a terrifying intensity I have rarely heard equalled." (Gramophone)- Shop: odax
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