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  Gallows Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min

  1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue.… The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent - but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause and Rider Sandman, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington's army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen's clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Sandman is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails, or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen, or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001804/bk_hcuk_001804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Case of the Brokenhearted Bulldog: The Thousand Islands Doggy Inn Mystery series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

  Suzy and Josie, owners of the Thousand Islands Doggy Inn, are attending an end-of-summer party and are about to receive a sizeable charitable gift from one of their good friends, a local businessman with a love of dogs and a reputation with the ladies.  A newly built yacht about to embark on a trip to Florida via the Inland Waterway is one of the party highlights, but when the engineer is killed, and Jackson, the Clay Bay Chief of Police, ends up in critical condition, the yacht becomes the focal point of the ensuing murder investigation.  In addition to trying to solve the murder, Suzy and Josie are forced to deal with a variety of other problems and distractions. Jackson's bulldog, Sluggo, is despondent and not eating. And as Jackson fights for his life and attempts to recover from the attack, Suzy's mom begins a new relationship she believes has the potential to go the distance. And if that weren't enough, when Chef Claire threatens to take a new job out of state, putting a serious damper on the quality of food served at the house, Suzy and Josie are pushed to their limits.  The Thousand Islands Doggy Inn Mysteries features two of the smartest and funniest lead female protagonists to hit the cozy mystery scene in a very long time, and Suzy and Josie's affection for food and their boundless love and devotion to their dogs puts this new series in the 'Don't Miss' category.  The Case of the Brokenhearted Bulldog is another fast-paced and funny cozy mystery installment in this series that affectionately focuses on dogs, food, and the natural beauty of the Thousand Islands region. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vanessa Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011014/bk_tant_011014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Salafism: The History and Legacy of the Conservative Salafi Branch Within Sunni Islam , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min

  It's very simple. We want sharia. Sharia in economy, in politics, in judiciary, in our borders and our foreign relations. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, the son of Omar Abdel-Rahman, Time. October 8, 2012.Beginning in 2010, much of the Middle East, including Egypt, was swept up by a series of revolutions later referred to as the Arab Spring. The wave of riots and demonstrations — some violent, some not, but all impactful and sizeable — began in Tunisia before spreading like wildfire to neighboring countries in Northern Africa and eventually into the Arabian Peninsula, including Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain. Though it eventually petered out by mid-2012, the Arab Spring led to the toppling of long-reigning monarchs and regimes, free elections, and attempts to build republics based on democratic principles. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests of 2010 and 2011, the world witnessed the rise of political groups in the Middle East who associated themselves with a movement called Salafism, such as the Nour ("Light") Party in Egypt. Prior to these popular uprisings, the Salafis were rather marginalized groups within the spectrum of Islam and, in many cases, did not share a cohesive and agreed upon set of beliefs that clearly differed from what many call "mainstream Islam." Prior to the Arab Spring, different Muslim religious scholars and leaders had emerged and led what they believed to be Salafi movements to return Muslims back to the origins of the religion. The Arab Spring protests did fuel the overthrow of some long-term dictators, start civil war in other nations, and impress upon the world the power of digital communications. Another important outcome of these events was the opening of a space for religiously motivated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086709/bk_acx0_086709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gallows Thief, Hörbuch, Digital, 347min

  Britain, 1820s: After the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue…. The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent – but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause, and Captain Hawke, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job, since justice must be seen to be done - as the accused man's mother is seamstress to the Queen. Robert Hawke, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington's army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen's clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Hawke uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Hawke is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. Language: English. Narrator: James Frain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001117/bk_hcuk_001117_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski: The Lives of the Revolutionary War’s Most Famous Polish Officers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min

  By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizeable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. However, with European nations unceasingly at war, soldiers from one side or the other often found themselves in disfavor, were marked men in exile, or were fleeing from a superior force. To General George Washington’s good fortune, a few found their way to the colonies to join in the cause. Some were adventurers recently cut off from their own borders, while others embraced the American urge for freedom. Nations such as France undoubtedly had an elevating effect on America’s capacity to make formal war, and Lafayette is the most famous foreigner to serve in the Continental Army, but some of the most important individuals who fought for the colonists came from Poland. One of the most important individuals who arrived at Washington’s door was Polish aristocrat Kazimierz Michal Wladyslaw Wiktor Pulaski, known to future generations as the “Father of the American Cavalry.” Few foreign participants in early American events are as widely decorated in non-military society as this Polish cavalry officer driven into exile from his own nation’s fight for independence. Pulaski considered the American urge for resistance against Britain to be an insep ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115979/bk_acx0_115979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  John Wayne: The Life and Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1558min

  John Wayne was one of Hollywood's most famous and most successful actors, but he was more than that. He became a symbol of America itself. He epitomized the Western film, which for many people epitomized America. He identified with conservative political causes from the early 1930s to his death in 1979, making him a hero to one generation of Americans and a villain to another. But unlike fellow actor Ronald Reagan, Wayne had no interest in politics as a career. Like many stars, he altered his life story, claiming to have become an actor almost by accident when in fact he had studied drama and aspired to act for most of his youth. He married three times, all to Latina women, and conducted a lengthy affair with Marlene Dietrich, as unlikely a romantic partner as one could imagine for the Duke. Wayne projected dignity, integrity, and strength in all his films, even when his characters were flawed, and whatever character he played was always prepared to confront injustice in his own way. More than thirty years after his death, he remains the standard by which male stars are judged and an actor whose morally unambiguous films continue to attract sizeable audiences. Scott Eyman interviewed Wayne, as well as many family members, and he has drawn on previously unpublished reminiscences from friends and associates of the Duke in this biography, as well as documents from his production company that shed light on Wayne's business affairs. He traces Wayne from his childhood to his stardom in Stagecoach and dozens of films after that. Eyman perceptively analyzes Wayne's relationship with John Ford, the director with whom he's most associated and who made some of Wayne's greatest films. Wayne was self-aware. He once said, "I’ve played the kind of man I’d like to have been." It's that man and the real John Wayne who are brilliantly profiled in Scott Eyman's insightful biography of a true American legend. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019781/bk_adbl_019781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Epicurus of Samos: His Philosophy and Life: All the Principal Source Texts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min

  Epicurus of Samos (341-270 BCE) was the founder of the philosophical system to which he gave his name: Epicureanism. It is a label that is often misused and misunderstood today, with ‘a life of pleasure’ as the key aim misinterpreted as a life of indulgence. In fact, the philosophy of Epicurus demonstrated also by his life, was anything but! He established a school in Athens called The Garden, underpinned by his system of ethics.He promoted, by his own example, a simple, ordered, calm and reflective life.A life of true pleasure, he proposed, is only possible when unharnessed desire for wealth, position, luxury and power has been dissolved and instead steady living and friendship are the watchwords. It is against this background that the understanding and acceptance of the vicissitudes of life, and the inevitability of death, are the rules by which to live. This was in contrast to Platonism on the one hand and the Cynics on the other. The second major facet of Epicurus’ philosophy was his physics, in which he adopted and furthered the theory of atomism introduced by Democritus (460-370 BCE): there was no ‘first mover’, no creation myth, no afterlife. Atoms underpinned all existence. Epicurus was a prodigious author, producing many books - yet very few survive. Diogenes Laertius, the third-century Greek biographer, in his sizeable Lives of Eminent Philosophers, devotes Book X, the final book, to Epicurus. In it he gives an account of the life of the philosopher and including three letters from Epicurus to friends, to Herodotus, Pythocles and Menoeceus. The biography concludes with the concise The Principal Doctrines of Epicurus. Then there are various fragments which have come down to us: The Vatican Sayings (a collection found in the Vatican Library, originally compiled in the 14th century and rediscovered in the 19th century); Epicurean Fragments collected in the 19th century from many classical autho ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Gillies, Jonathan Booth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000270/bk_dhrm_000270_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Future of the Action Figure Industry, How Emerging Technologies Will Revolutionize the Action Figure Industry, and the Benefits of Leveraging Robots in the Action Figure Industry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 123min

  This essay sheds light on the future of the action figure industry and explicates how emerging technologies will revolutionize the action figure industry. Moreover, the benefits of leveraging robots in the action figure industry are demystified in this essay. Furthermore, how to earn substantial money online so that you can afford to procure your own action figure collection is expounded upon in this essay.The future of the action figure industry will not only be characterized by dynamism as it continues to metaphorically evolve, but will also be eminently auspicious for toy designers, supply chain members, retailers, and customers. Technological advancements are profoundly changing the action figure industry and are rendering it all the more technology driven. The behemoth action figure industry shows no signs of decelerating anytime in the imminent future. The behemoth action figure industry is subsumed under the sizeable global toy industry. The expansion of the global toy industry will be attributed to the rising demand for action figures as well as an increasing demand for other types of toys. “The global toys market is projected to reach revenues of more than $120,000,000 by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate of around four percent during 2017-2023” (“The global toys,” 2018). “In 2019, retail sales of action figures and accessories in the United States alone amounted to approximately $1,710,000,000” (O'Connell, 2020).While the action figure market may not be the utmost largest market segment of the behemoth global toy market, its latent potential to grow to an unprecedented size should not be underestimated. As fictional intellectual properties, such as Marvel and Star Wars, become ever more popular worldwide, more adults and children will commence dabbling into action figure collecting. People love to procure action figures based on their favorite media franchises and customers deem action figures to be highly appealing pro ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew R Gargano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223669/bk_acx0_223669_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Future of the Global Book Industry, How Emerging Technologies Will Revolutionize the Book Industry, Why Traditional Bookstores Are Closing Down in the Digital Era, and How to Earn Money Online , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min

  This essay sheds light on the future of the book industry and explicates how emerging technologies will revolutionize the book industry. Moreover, why traditional bookstores are closing down in the digital era demystified in this essay. Furthermore, how to earn substantial money online so that you can afford to procure your own book collection is expounded upon in this essay. The future of the global book industry will not only be characterized by dynamism as it continues to metaphorically evolve, but will also be eminently auspicious for book industry competitors, supply chain members, and customers. Technological advancements are profoundly changing the global book industry and are rendering it all the more technology driven. The global book industry shows no signs of decelerating anytime in the imminent future. Book industry competitors are poised to have prosperous, lucrative, and auspicious futures as disposable incomes rise among customers and as the desire to own more book products builds traction worldwide among customers. The global book industry of the digital era has become a far cry from the book industry of past decades. In the digital era, book sales are no longer limited to sales of paperback books. The future of the global book industry will be robust. More authors will release their books in multiple formats. This means that customers will have the autonomy to buy newly released books as audiobooks, paperback books, or electronic books. Publishing books in multiple formats contributes to the growth of the behemoth global book market. When books are published in multiple formats, they not only become more enticing products, but are also able to reach a more sizeable readership. Authors will be able to more easily grow their readerships by consistently publishing their books in multiple formats. The future of the global book industry will also feature more book subscription services. Book subscription services can allow custome ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Shypkowski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225031/bk_acx0_225031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Nia's Return: A Nia Freeman Novel, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min

  A year after a devastating experience in Haiti, Nia Freeman has decided to leave Washington, D.C., with the resolve to live life on her own terms and to prepare for the peak oil crisis. She needs to get away from nightmares of earthquakes, evacuations, clogged streets, rowdy mobs, and crumbling buildings. Nia quits her job and crushes her grandfather's hope that she would join the family business. She moves into her childhood home in Augusta, Georgia, with plans of finding her true self and preparing for a future without oil. She hires her buddy, John Coles, to help renovate the ancestral home so that her grandfather would let her have it. She sets about stockpiling emergency supplies and making the house safe. But her plans take a detour when the attractive Thandi Kapencher, an African history professor, asks for Nia's help to find her brother, Karabo, a young footloose, social activist. Karabo volunteers at a local group called Freegans for the People that Thandi fears is involved in criminal activities. The group considers themselves to be modern-day Robin Hoods, and they'll stop at nothing to maintain their cover. Thandi feels Nia's background might give her credibility with local charity groups to find out about her brother's whereabouts. Thandi offers a sizeable payment for her time. Nia needs the money for the renovation so she visits the back streets of Augusta getting to know the homeless and Karabo's dubious coworkers. She tries to enlist the help of Karabo's pregnant ex-girlfriend, Lana Harrison, but the young woman is murdered soon after. Nia realizes that she is caught up in a situation more dangerous than she had anticipated. Her feelings for Thandi and her need to do right propel her to find Karabo, locate Lana Harrison's murderer, and find a sustainable way of life without oil. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anjali A Sarkar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/046165/bk_acx0_046165_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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