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    Medicine Words , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 247min
    Master acupuncturist Dianne Connelly has written a paean to healthy living. But the book is less about health than about wisdom. With her own definitions and explications of essential words to live by, with poetry such as filled her previous book, All Sickness Is Homesickness, and with personal stories from her own life and the lives of those she has treated, Dianne points the way to a life of spirit and courage. (Guy Hollyday, environmentalist and acupuncturist) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dianne M. Connelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115736/bk_acx0_115736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Don Fernando , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Velazquez, and the creator of Don Juan. This vibrant assessment of a great people at their greatest hour is full of happy surprises, curious facts, and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong enchantment with the landscape and people of Spain. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crispin Redman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010459/bk_adbl_010459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min
    At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the 21st century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark and lead us to profound and effective political engagement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tanya Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000198/bk_cnon_000198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Overstory
    The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
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    Framers
    'Wonderfully stimulating... will teach you to see around corners' -- Tim Harford'A paean to cognitive agility and the elasticity of the imagination' -- The Economist'A tightly written prescription for smart thinking' -- Financial TimesThe power of mental models to make better decisionsWe're always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are actually good at decisions because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don't depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That's framing. It's a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future -- to meet our moment of economic upheaval, social tensions and existential threats. Framers shows how.
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    Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min
    In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, the place where souls go after the death of the physical body. Religious leaders have toiled to make sense of this place that a surprising 74 percent of Americans believe exists but from which no one has ever returned to report what it is really like. Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and what we can do in the here and now, whether or not there is a hereafter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sher/000013/bk_sher_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day: One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
    Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path...When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the mix his mother's much- documented grand tour through Europe in the late 1960s, and the result is a funny and fascinating journey into a new (old) world, and a disarming look at the ways the classic tourist experience has changed- and has not-in the last generation.After a whirlwind adventure spanning eight countries-and costing way more than five dollars a day-Mack's endearing account is part time travel, part paean to Arthur Frommer's much-loved guide, and a celebration of the modern traveler's grand (and not-so-grand) tour. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Skeist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004978/bk_adbl_004978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
    From the best-selling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer - and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his listeners to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These 52 essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colum McCann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004982/bk_rand_004982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Milkshakes and Morphine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min
    This is a singular memoir: an excavation of mother love, a candid account of the agonies and absurdities of the cancer experience and a doggedly optimistic paean to life. When Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock and fancy hair. I can't have cancer, she thinks. I've done my hair. But there is another reason she can't countenance cancer. Genevieve was orphaned to it at the age of nine. Genevieve's story weaves together past and present as she recalls her rackety, unconventional childhood while also facing the spectre of being lost to her young boys. Yet she confronts her treatment with the same sassy survival instinct that characterised her childhood misadventures. Through an extraordinary alchemy, Genevieve takes life's precariousness and turns it on its head. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Atkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033705/bk_adbl_033705_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spy Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
    Thrust into the savagery of the U.S. Civil War, a Chinese immigrant fighting for the Union Army, a nurse turned spy, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined. Johnny Tom, a Chinese immigrant, is promised American citizenship if he serves with the Union Army. But first he must survive the carnage of battles and rampant racism among the ranks. Desperate to find him, his daughter, Era, becomes a Union spy while nursing soldiers in Confederate camps. She falls in love with Warren, a one-armed cavalryman, and her loyalties become divided between her beloved father in the North and the man who sustains her in the South. An extraordinary novel that will stand as a defining work on the Chinese immigrant experience, The Spy Lover is a paean to the transcendence of love and the resilience of the human spirit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Haberkorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004095/bk_brll_004095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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