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LANIAKEA The Organization (eBook, ePUB)
The LANIAKEA series chronicles the origin and blossoming of a great love story between Kate and Ethan. There comes a time when these two lovers must choose between a radical change in their lives or the end of a wonderful adventure. The outcome of a hard-fought merger between two companies results in the emergence of an agency whose mission will evolve into helping people in underdeveloped countries. After laying the agency groundwork, Ethan helps several countries, where he will unexpectedly be offered a vast territory, but one not quite suited for living. The Universe bestows upon the couple the opportunity to ride a technological wave whose growth fosters the creation of an evolved world that will ensure a promising future for the entire planet. The purification of the planet Earth is a gateway to the United Planets Council (UPC), which is comprised of representatives from all advanced civilizations living on the astral continent Laniakea, home to Earth. These Ambassadors resolve to establish the Laniakea Coalition Council (LCC), whose primary goal is to protect and safeguard the people of Earth, thereby protecting the unique technological discovery of non-temporal space travel. The couple is then immersed in a paradoxical reality where one of them must advocate for peace, while the other must prepare for war. The LCC, now an extensive intergalactic military body, will obliterate a sadistic and bloodthirsty invader from the astral continent Perseus-Pisces. Book 5 "The Organization" follows Ethan's fortune rise subsequent to the merger between the two financial investment companies. Ethan then sets out to create the Organization to Support the Least Developed Countries (OSLDC). The couple works together to develop a business case that covers all organization aspects. This book describes their marvelous trip through Europe. Ethan rejoices in the renewed sense of youthful amazement that Kate displays as she discovers so much beauty. Kate indulges in an almost limitless sense of discovery during her time in Amsterdam's Red Light District. It is here that she joyfully discovers what Ethan means when he says: "making love", "making tenderness" and "making sex". This romantic trip is briefly interrupted to include a few meetings with the leader of a South African country, soon to be the first recipient of assistance from the newly-created OSLDC. More information can be found on the website: www.laniakea-continent.com- Shop: buecher
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LANIAKEA The Shift (eBook, ePUB)
The LANIAKEA series chronicles the origin and blossoming of a great love story between Kate and Ethan. There comes a time when these two lovers must choose between a radical change in their lives or the end of a wonderful adventure. The outcome of a hard-fought merger between two companies results in the emergence of an agency whose mission will evolve into helping people in underdeveloped countries. After laying the agency groundwork, Ethan helps several countries, where he will unexpectedly be offered a vast territory, but one not quite suited for living. The Universe bestows upon the couple the opportunity to ride a technological wave whose growth fosters the creation of an evolved world that will ensure a promising future for the entire planet. The purification of the planet Earth is a gateway to the United Planets Council (UPC), which is comprised of representatives from all advanced civilizations living on the astral continent Laniakea, home to Earth. These Ambassadors resolve to establish the Laniakea Coalition Council (LCC), whose primary goal is to protect and safeguard the people of Earth, thereby protecting the unique technological discovery of non-temporal space travel. The couple is then immersed in a paradoxical reality where one of them must advocate for peace, while the other must prepare for war. The LCC, now an extensive intergalactic military body, will obliterate a sadistic and bloodthirsty invader from the astral continent Perseus-Pisces. Book 2 "The Shift" follows intense moments when Ethan and Kate must each consider a brand new life with no other foundation but their love. The consequences of their decision then become quite clear. Trips between the city of Quebec and Montreal are quite frequent. On one such trip, they face the rigors of a harsh Quebec winter storm. On their last Saturday in Quebec City, as the lovers have a romantic supper planned, an unexpected figure from Ethan's past arrives suddenly and clouds their evening. We follow them in their daily lives, witness their intimate games and are there during that unforgettable evening, outside a jazz bar, when their very lives are threatened. This entire time, Ethan promptly joins the top tier of a vast Canadian financial investment company. He then lays the groundwork for a merger proposal, which, among other things, sheds light on several minor instances of fraud taking place in the American company. Visit the website: www.laniakea-continent.com- Shop: buecher
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LANIAKEA The Expansion (eBook, ePUB)
The LANIAKEA series chronicles the origin and blossoming of a great love story between Kate and Ethan. There comes a time when these two lovers must choose between a radical change in their lives or the end of a wonderful adventure. The outcome of a hard-fought merger between two companies results in the emergence of an agency whose mission will evolve into helping people in underdeveloped countries. After laying the agency groundwork, Ethan helps several countries, where he will unexpectedly be offered a vast territory, but one not quite suited for living. The Universe bestows upon the couple the opportunity to ride a technological wave whose growth fosters the creation of an evolved world that will ensure a promising future for the entire planet. The purification of the planet Earth is a gateway to the United Planets Council (UPC), which is comprised of representatives from all advanced civilizations living on the astral continent Laniakea, home to Earth. These Ambassadors resolve to establish the Laniakea Coalition Council (LCC), whose primary goal is to protect and safeguard the people of Earth, thereby protecting the unique technological discovery of non-temporal space travel. The couple is then immersed in a paradoxical reality where one of them must advocate for peace, while the other must prepare for war. The LCC, now an extensive intergalactic military body, will obliterate a sadistic and bloodthirsty invader from the astral continent Perseus-Pisces. Book 6 "The Expansion" describes projects to bring aid to the very first country in need and to its two bordering neighbours. It also relates the circumstances of two other countries who require assistance, one in order to improve its tourism industry and the other to rebuild its coastal regions following the devastation brought on by a tsunami. The OSLDC's values and philosophy attract the interest of ten extremely wealthy individuals who come from different corners of the world. During a startling first meeting, Ethan is inspired to offer them key roles in running his charitable organization, In turn, they approach Kate with an offer to serve on this new Board of Directors. Naturally, this new alliance means that the OSLDC will now unquestionably need to grow. Ethan will have to focus his efforts on structuring the Support Services and necessary Funding. All this time, work continues to go well in the countries receiving aid. See the website: www.laniakea-continent.com.- Shop: buecher
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Six Plays (eBook, ePUB)
This anthology features six plays by celebrated Chicago playwright Mickle Maher, who has been described by the Houston Chronicle as "one of the most original voices in American theater today," and by the Chicago Reader as "a master at creating complex, paradoxical works that encompass their own contradictions." Maher's plays engage classic literature as a jumping off point for seriously unusual comedic dramas, often dealing with the absurdity, difficulties, and rewards of artistic endeavor. His work has been influenced by or compared to Eugène Ionesco, Maria Irene Fornes, Kenneth Koch, and Edward Albee, among others. This edition is designed to be useful for schools and other organizations that wish to mount productions of Maher's plays, which generally feature small casts and simple scenery and stagings, and thus can be easy to produce. The anthology includes: An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening On the night Faustus concludes his bargain with Mephistopheles, he apologizes to a group of random people for his failure to keep a diary of his fabulous life. The Hunchback Variations Ludwig von Beethoven and Quasimodo present a panel discussion on their failure to create an impossible sound called for in a stage direction in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Song About Himself In a dystopian future, a woman made extraordinary by her ability to speak relatively clearly tries to connect with others on a mysterious social media site created by a rogue artificial intelligence. There Is a Happiness That Morning Is Having engaged the evening before in a highly inappropriate display of public affection on the main lawn of their rural New England campus, two lecturers on the poems of William Blake must now, in class, either apologize for their behavior or effectively justify it to keep their jobs. It Is Magic Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there's a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of the Scottish play that's going on upstairs, is making things difficult. Then, Liz shows up and throws the whole room into (further) chaos. It Is Magic reveals the deep, ancient evil at the heart of the community theater audition process. Spirits to Enforce Twelve telefundraisers with secret identities work to raise money for a superheroic production of The Tempest in a bid to save Fathomtown from Professor Cannibal and his band of evil doers.- Shop: buecher
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The Transgressionists and Other Disquieting Works: Five Tales of Weird Fiction
"A disturbing, unsettling novel . . . if it had been published in English soon after its first appearance in Italian (1968), the name of Giorgio De Maria would be well-known, his novels and stories mentioned in the context of J.G. Ballard, Anna Kavan, Shirley Jackson or Robert Aickman."-Lisa Tuttle, Nebula Award winner and author of Gabriel, Windhaven, and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross. Before an untimely mental breakdown cut short his two-decade career, Giorgio De Maria distinguished himself as one of Italy's most unique and eccentric weird fiction masters. With a background in the post-war literary culture of Turin -- Italy's urbane but eerie "city of black magic" -- De Maria drew inspiration from the Turinese underbelly of occultism, secret societies and radical politics. His writing coincided with the decade of terrorist violence known to Italians as the Years of Lead; the outcome was a weird fiction suffused with panic, rage, trauma, paranoia and meditations on antisocial hubris. In 1978, he told an interviewer: "...I think that the dimension of the fantastic, as much as this may seem paradoxical, is the most fitting one to express a reality as complex as ours today." De Maria's debut novel, The Transgressionists (1968) portrays a cell of malicious telepaths who meet in the cafés and jazz clubs of 1960s Turin to plot world domination. After experiencing the worst of their power, an embittered office clerk resolves to join them and prove himself worthy to share in their villainy. He cultivates twisted mindfulness techniques to awaken his inner sociopath. He fights off predatory phantoms that seem maddeningly drawn to him. He prepares for the dangerous "Great Leap" which will make him into a fully-fledged Transgressionist. But could his megalomania strain relations with his fiancee? Will he sacrifice love in his quest for omnipotence? The other works in this volume are no less surreal and startling. The Secret Death of Joseph Dzhugashvili (1976) gives us a nightmarish fantasy Soviet Union, where a dissident poet finds himself trapped in a psychological experiment conducted by Stalin himself. In "The End of Everydayism," a group of futuristic artists begin using corpses as a medium -- with violent, unforeseen results. The antihero of "General Trebisonda" is a possibly insane commander who prepares for a war crime in an eerily deserted fortress. Available in English for the first time, this collection contains two novellas, two short stories and a dystopian teleplay, The Appeal, which the post-cyberpunk novelist Andrea Vaccaro has lauded as "worthy of the best episodes of Black Mirror." Meanwhile, an introduction by translator Ramon Glazov offers a detailed account of De Maria's background, creative context and thoroughly unusual life.- Shop: buecher
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The Transgressionists and Other Disquieting Works (eBook, ePUB)
"A disturbing, unsettling novel . . . if it had been published in English soon after its first appearance in Italian (1968), the name of Giorgio De Maria would be well-known, his novels and stories mentioned in the context of J.G. Ballard, Anna Kavan, Shirley Jackson or Robert Aickman."-Lisa Tuttle, Nebula Award winner and author of Gabriel, Windhaven, and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross. Before an untimely mental breakdown cut short his two-decade career, Giorgio De Maria distinguished himself as one of Italy's most unique and eccentric weird fiction masters. With a background in the post-war literary culture of Turin -- Italy's urbane but eerie "city of black magic" -- De Maria drew inspiration from the Turinese underbelly of occultism, secret societies and radical politics. His writing coincided with the decade of terrorist violence known to Italians as the Years of Lead; the outcome was a weird fiction suffused with panic, rage, trauma, paranoia and meditations on antisocial hubris. In 1978, he told an interviewer: "...I think that the dimension of the fantastic, as much as this may seem paradoxical, is the most fitting one to express a reality as complex as ours today." De Maria's debut novel, The Transgressionists (1968) portrays a cell of malicious telepaths who meet in the cafés and jazz clubs of 1960s Turin to plot world domination. After experiencing the worst of their power, an embittered office clerk resolves to join them and prove himself worthy to share in their villainy. He cultivates twisted mindfulness techniques to awaken his inner sociopath. He fights off predatory phantoms that seem maddeningly drawn to him. He prepares for the dangerous "Great Leap" which will make him into a fully-fledged Transgressionist. But could his megalomania strain relations with his fiancee? Will he sacrifice love in his quest for omnipotence? The other works in this volume are no less surreal and startling. The Secret Death of Joseph Dzhugashvili (1976) gives us a nightmarish fantasy Soviet Union, where a dissident poet finds himself trapped in a psychological experiment conducted by Stalin himself. In "The End of Everydayism," a group of futuristic artists begin using corpses as a medium -- with violent, unforeseen results. The antihero of "General Trebisonda" is a possibly insane commander who prepares for a war crime in an eerily deserted fortress. Available in English for the first time, this collection contains two novellas, two short stories and a dystopian teleplay, The Appeal, which the post-cyberpunk novelist Andrea Vaccaro has lauded as "worthy of the best episodes of Black Mirror." Meanwhile, an introduction by translator Ramon Glazov offers a detailed account of De Maria's background, creative context and thoroughly unusual life.- Shop: buecher
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Everything You Need to Know About The Communist Manifesto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” - Karl MarxIt would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence The Communist Manifesto and its principal author, Karl Marx, has had upon the world in the last 150 years. Marx was an influential historian, journalist, and economist who is widely considered one of the first social scientists, but he is best remembered for advocating socialism, particularly the brand that would take his name. As the father of Marxism, Marx predicted that capitalistic societies, ruled by a “dictatorship of the bourgeoise,” would eventually give way via class struggles to a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and eventually to a more stateless form of communism. Marx certainly wasn’t the first to espouse these kinds of political views, but nobody before or since had as much influence in actually bringing about the implementation of their ideas. Working with Friedrich Engels and others, Marx went about authoring a series of works, most notably The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867-1894), championing his ideas. The Communist Manifesto is in several respects a paradoxical document. A product of the Western European political struggles that culminated in the pan-European Revolutions of 1848, its greatest historical impact was nevertheless not felt until the following century, in countries far from Western Europe (Russia and China) that Marx and Engels would never have viewed as ripe for revolutionary activity. The Manifesto was written as a diagnosis of the ills of what is often called high industrial capitalism, yet in many ways the world it describes, in which “all that is solid melts into air,” sounds more like a prediction of a globalized capitalist world of political flux, virtual life, and accelerated time than a description of Marx’s era, in which monarchies and established churches still wielded immense UNKNOWN N N ©2014 Charles River Editors;(P)2018 Charles River Editors http://www.audible.de/pd/B07GBGPV2G?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07GBGPV2G?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true With Every Breath (Unabridged) 25.95 AVAILABLE With Every Breath (Unabridged) With Every Breath (Unabridged) Elizabeth Camden Despite her misgivings, Kate agrees to Trevor's risky proposal to join him in his work to find a cure for tuberculosis. However, a shadowy enemy lies in wait, and Trevor's closely guarded secrets are darker than she ever suspected.... Alice Anne English Two Words Publishing LLC 2018-08-10 19:45:00 686 B07GC7V16B English - Romance English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/124837de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124837/bk_acx0_124837_sample.mp3 Camden takes readers on a breathless ride..." (RT Book Reviews)In the shadow of the nation's capital, Kate Livingston's respectable life as a government worker is disrupted by an encounter with the insufferable Trevor McDonough, the one man she'd hoped never to see again. A Harvard-trained physician, Trevor never showed the tiniest flicker of interest in Kate, and business is the only reason he has sought her out now. Despite her misgivings, Kate agrees to Trevor's risky proposal to join him in his work to find a cure for tuberculosis. As Kate begins to unlock the mysteries of Trevor's past, his hidden depths fascinate her. However, a shadowy enemy lies in wait, and Trevor's closely guarded secrets are darker than she ever suspected.As revelations from the past threaten to destroy their careers, their dreams, and even their lives, Trevor and Kate find themselves in a painfully impossible situation. With everything to lose, they must find the strength to trust that hope and love can prevail over all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124704/bk_acx0_124704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Paradoxical Optimist
The Paradoxical Optimist: ab 5.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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