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    Philosophers: Their Lives and Works (eBook, PDF)
    From Confucius and Plato to Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, this ebook brings together more than 100 illustrated biographies of the world's great philosophers.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, each profile traces the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the world's greatest thinkers and influenced their work, offering revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life, and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of philosophers, their homes, friends, studies, and their personal belongings, together with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and correspondence, this ebook introduces the key ideas, themes, and working methods of each featured individual, setting their ideas within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of ideas across the centuries in both the East and West, from ancient Chinese philosophy to the work of contemporary thinkers, Philosophers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives, loves, and influences of the great philosophers as they probed into life's "big ideas".
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    Philosophers: Their Lives and Works (eBook, ePUB)
    From Confucius and Plato to Karl Marx and Noam Chomsky, this ebook brings together more than 100 illustrated biographies of the world's great philosophers.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, each profile traces the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the world's greatest thinkers and influenced their work, offering revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life, and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of philosophers, their homes, friends, studies, and their personal belongings, together with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and correspondence, this ebook introduces the key ideas, themes, and working methods of each featured individual, setting their ideas within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of ideas across the centuries in both the East and West, from ancient Chinese philosophy to the work of contemporary thinkers, Philosophers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives, loves, and influences of the great philosophers as they probed into life's "big ideas".
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    Japan Story (eBook, ePUB)
    This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan.
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    American Detective: Behind the Scenes of Famous Criminal Investigations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min
    From the Roaring '20s to the 1970s, detectives reigned supreme in police departments across the country. In this tightly woven slice of true crime reportage, Thomas A. Reppetto offers a behind-the-scenes look into some of the most notable investigations to occur during the golden age of the detective in American criminal justice.From William Burns, who during his heyday was known as America’s Sherlock Holmes, to Thad Brown, who probed the notorious Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles, to Elliott Ness, who cleaned up the Cleveland police but failed to capture the “Mad Butcher” who decapitated at least a dozen victims, American Detective offers an indelible portrait of the famous sleuths and investigators who played a major role in cracking some of the most notorious criminal cases in US history. Along the way Reppetto takes us deep inside the detective bureaus that were once the nerve centers behind crime-fighting on the streets of America’s great cities, including the FBI itself, under the direction of America’s “top cop”, J. Edgar Hoover.The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Flavell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125129/bk_acx0_125129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Abducted!: Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space - Astonishing Accounts of Humans Captured by UFOs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
    Patty Price reports that they "took her thoughts".   Calvin Parker remembers being grabbed by a creature with pincerlike "hands" and "floated" into a spaceship.   Carl Higdon was kidnapped by a bowlegged being who supplied him with food pills.   In this startling and engrossing audiobook, experienced researchers Coral and Jim Lorenzen, directors of APRO (the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), have pieced together the bizarre evidence and moving testimony of humans who have actually been taken aboard UFOs.   Reports of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized US sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of UFO reports have since been made worldwide. Many sightings - and especially abductions - remain unreported due to fear of public ridicule. Social stigma still surrounds the subject of UFOs because most nations lack any officially sanctioned authority to receive and evaluate UFO reports.   The Lorenzens have questioned the victims, probed their claims, tested them by hypnosis, and verified their statements by numerous polygraph tests.   Where does the evidence point? For the whole strange and unnerving report, delve within this audiobook. The answers are here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sangita Chauhan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117992/bk_acx0_117992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
    World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.  As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.  Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules - these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues - and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them - and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare's work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/011946/bk_reco_011946_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mindset and Psychology of Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 46min
    When I was a young writer, only beginning, something happened that changed my entire life. I had been obsessed with knowing how folks deal with failures, and I chose to examine it by observing how students grapple with challenging issues. I brought kids one at a time into some space in their college, made them more comfortable, then gave them a set of puzzles to solve. The initial ones were rather simple, but the upcoming ones were tough. As the pupils grunted, perspired, and so forth, I saw their plans and probed exactly what they were feeling and thinking. I expected differences between kids in the way they dealt with the problem, but I found something that I never anticipated. Confronted with all the puzzles that are hard, one 10-year-old boy pulled his chair up, rubbed his palms together, smacked, his lips and shouted out, "I really like a challenge!" Still another, perspiring away on those puzzles, appeared with a happy expression and stated with power, "You understand, I had been hoping this could be enlightening!" What is wrong with them? I wondered. I thought you dealt with disappointment or you did not deal with failure. I never believed anyone adored failure. Were those alien kids or were they something else? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222810/bk_acx0_222810_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob, Hörbuch, Digital, 382min
    Sammy Davis Jr. lived a storied life. Adored by millions over a six-decade-long career, he was considered an entertainment icon and a national treasure. But despite lifetime earnings that topped $50 million, Sammy died in 1990 near bankruptcy. His estate was declared insolvent, and there was no possibility of it ever using Sammy's name or likeness again. It was as if Sammy had never existed. Years later his wife, Altovise, a once-vivacious woman and heir to one of the greatest entertainment legacies of the 20th century, was living in poverty, and with nowhere else to go, she turned to a former federal prosecutor, Albert "Sonny" Murray, to make one last attempt to resolve Sammy's debts, restore his estate, and revive his legacy. For seven years Sonny probed Sammy's life to understand how someone of great notoriety and wealth could have lost everything, and in the process he came to understand Sammy as a man whose complexity makes for a riveting work of celebrity biography as cultural history. Matt Birkbeck's serious work of investigative journalism unveils the extraordinary story of an international celebrity at the center of a confluence of entertainment, politics, and organized crime, and shows how even Sammy's outsized talent couldn't save him from himself. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001699/bk_harp_001699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Tooth Tattoo: Peter Diamond, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 750min
    Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, where his favourite film, The Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the concert platform. The chance of joining a once-famous string quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University is too tempting for Mel to refuse. Then a body is found in the city canal, and the only clue to the dead woman's identity is the tattoo of a music note on one of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever. Three mysterious deaths need to be probed while his own personal life is in free fall.... Peter Lovesey has been hailed by the critics as "superlative", "a master of the genre", "never puts a foot wrong" and the Peter Diamond series as "one of the most enjoyable police series around". This new case for the much-loved detective will bring new praise and much satisfaction for his legions of fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000692/bk_twuk_000692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 727min
    A treasure of a book. (David McCullough) The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from The New York Times best-selling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his best-selling In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen - the US Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to reveal why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has - until now - been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000415/bk_peng_000415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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