142 Results for : noting
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How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
The charming, funny successor to the hugely popular Notes to My Mother-in-Law, from the inimitable Phyllida Law. Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed Notes to My Mother-in-Law - which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years - we now have a chronicle of Phyllida’s relationship with her own mother who suffered from dementia. Recently widowed, bringing up her own two daughters (actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson), and working as a successful actress herself, Phyllida went up and down to Scotland to spend as much time with her ailing mother as she could manage. During the period she kept a lively and frank journal noting many of the sad yet funny examples of her mother’s faltering grip on reality. The journal includes reminiscences of her own childhood and the tragic death of her only brother. This book promises to be just as warm and moving as her first. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phyllida Law. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001243/bk_hcuk_001243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
What does life ask of us, and how are we to answer that summons?Are we here just to propagate the species anew?Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die?Does life matter, in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion?What guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies?What hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, animate, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life?In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms - spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries - that move through us through history. He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. From such engagements, a deeper, more thoughtful, more considered life may come. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Conlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130463/bk_acx0_130463_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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America and the Rogue States
America and the Rogue States traces and examines the policies and interaction of the United States with the main adversarial nations in the post-Cold War era. The book concentrates on the three major rogue states-North Korea, Iran, and pre-invasion Iraq. What are termed as lesser rogue nations-Libya, Syria, Cuba, and the Sudan-receive summarized treatment in one chapter together with a brief discussion about why Afghanistan and Venezuela are not rogues. The author makes clear the distinctions among these confrontational regimes, noting that North Korea, Iran, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq aroused much more anxiety in Washington than lesser rogues and other troublesome states. After an opening chapter placing the rogue-nation phenomenon in historical and current context, the manuscript devotes one chapter each to the three major adversarial rogues. A final chapter deals with the less threatening rogue regimes. Each chapter follows a chronological format with description and analysis. The work is intended for a general reader interested in the topic; it also will have appeal as a supplemental text for university classes in international relations covering the period after the Cold War ended.- Shop: buecher
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Ancient Egyptian Myths & Legends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
This book contains retold legends of the gods of ancient Egypt: legends, which were current in the "morning of the world", preserved to the present day engraved on stone and written on papyri. Retold, each in their own way, they strictly adhere to the story, but words and phrases have been rearranged according to the English method; retaining, as much as possible, the expressions and metaphors of the Egyptian. The book is intended entirely for the general public, who are increasingly interested in the religion and civilization of ancient Egypt, but whose only means of obtaining knowledge of that country is apparently through magazine stories in which a mummy is the principal character. It may be worth noting that in these legends of ancient Egypt mummies are not mentioned, except in the Duat, the home of the dead, where one naturally expects to find them. Some of the timeless legends within this book include "The Book of Thoth", "The Scorpions of Isis", "The Battles of Horus", "The Coming of the Great Queen", and more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Logan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121781/bk_acx0_121781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Be a Stress Survivor: Learn How to Manage Your Response to Situations and People and Become Calmer and Feel More in Control, Hörbuch, Digital, 109min
Be a Stress Survivor. Do you feel stressed and worried? Are you finding that you can’t sleep and night? Do you wish you could be more relaxed and feel more in control? This self –help course is designed to help you identify what is triggering your stress response and to help you change what you think and say to yourself. You are guided through different steps, each one building on the last to help you change how you think, behave and feel. The audiobook has some simple hints and tips that you can chose to explore further and six techniques which, after you have practiced and learned, can help you become calmer and more relaxed. Be a Stress Survivor is a comprehensive self-help course that can help you change your attitudes to situations and people, and be able to respond to those situations and people in different, more helpful ways. You will need some way of noting down your thoughts and responses so pen and paper, lap-top or pc will be needed. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Morrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/amor/000009/bk_amor_000009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Little Deaths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York, shimmer in a heat wave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find a bedroom window wide open and her two young children missing. After a desperate search, the police make a horrifying discovery. Noting Ruth's perfectly made-up face and provocative clothing, the empty liquor bottles and love letters that litter her apartment, the detectives leap to convenient conclusions, fuelled by neighbourhood gossip and speculation. Sent to cover the case on his first major assignment, tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same. But the longer he spends watching Ruth, the more he learns about the darker workings of the police and the press. Soon Pete begins to doubt everything he thought he knew. Ruth Malone is enthralling, challenging and secretive - is she really capable of murder? Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Fortgang, Graham Halstead. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001008/bk_macm_001008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Much Ado about Nothing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 121min
Sir Rex Harrison and cast perform together in this wonderful production which is available for the first time on digital download. Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. Benedick and Beatrice are engaged in a "merry war"; they both talk a mile a minute and proclaim their scorn for love, marriage, and each other. In contrast, Claudio and Hero are sweet young people who are rendered practically speechless by their love for one another. By means of "noting" (which sounds the same as "nothing," and which is gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar. However, Dogberry, a Constable who is a master of malapropisms, discovers—unbeknownst to himself—the evil trickery of the villain, the bastard Don John. In the end, Don John is captured and everyone else joins in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rex Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000689/bk_hcuk_000689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars’ harshly negative and dismissive treatment.Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation’s four principal tenets: Homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their landMost homesteaders failed to prove up their claimsThe homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraudHomesteading caused Indian land dispossessionUsing data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the 19th century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth is only partially true. In short, the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed.Homesteading the Plains provides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Barton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131656/bk_acx0_131656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Squirm with Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
Mason Becker is a self-published writer suffering from mild success. After the death of his girlfriend, he quits his job, moves into a tiny apartment in a small town in Ohio, and spends the next several months convincing himself to leave for anything other than food, beer, or cigarettes. He doesn't even really consider himself a writer. He's a guy who cashed in his 401(k) and is quietly biding his time until he has to find another job. On the night he finally forces himself out to a local bar, he comes back to the apartment to find his twin brother, Doug. Doug is searching through Mason's laptop and introduces him to his "hate reader", an Internet troll with the slightly dyslexic name of Dargonslayer. Doug signs them up for a convention taking place in a few weeks, noting that Dargonslayer is going to be there and stoking Mason to seek vengeance, even if that vengeance comes only in the form of punching his hate reader in the dick. They just have to survive the oncoming blur of drinking, awkward sex, nature walks, and moderate vandalism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andersen Prunty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054797/bk_acx0_054797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Degrees of Equality (eBook, ePUB)
The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country's colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex. Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however, color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination against Blacks grew increasingly common by the 1880s.John Frederick Bell's Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications for the progress of racial equality in nineteenth-century America. Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and promotional materials, Bell uses case studies to interrogate how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments illustrates a tragic irony of interracial reform, as the achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites to divest from the project of racial pluralism.- Shop: buecher
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