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    History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Julius Caesar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 27min
    In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar". Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world. The ultimate conqueror, statesman, dictator, visionary, and opportunist, during his time in power Caesar expanded the borders of Rome to almost twice their previous size, revolutionized the infrastructure of the Roman state, and destroyed the Roman Republic for good, leaving a line of emperors in its place. His legacy is so strong that his name has become, in many languages, synonymous with power: the Emperors of Austria and Germany bore the title Kaiser, and the Czars of Russia also owe the etymology of their title to Caesar. His name also crept further eastward out of Europe, even cropping up in Hindi and Urdu, where the term for "emperor" is Kaiser. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094724/bk_acx0_094724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Warum euch Guardians of the Galaxy überraschen wird! | Game Talk
    Nach dem eher mäßigen MARVEL‘S AVENGERS veröffentlicht SQUARE ENIX nun GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Viet hat sich den Titel angeschaut und ist begeistert. Ebenso positiv angetan ist Esther von EASTWARD, das sie neben INSCRYPTION als Geheimtipp mitgebracht hat, während Sandro zuletzt zwar eher wenig gespielt hat, dafür aber HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED mitgebracht hat. Darüber hinaus sprechen die drei über die Next-Gen-Verschiebung von CYBERPUNK 2077 und THE WITCHER 3. Zu guter Letzt schauen sie sich gemeinsam mit euch die neuen Trailer zu HALO INFINITE und GTA: TRILOGY REMASTER - DEFINITIVE EDITION an. Diese Sendung wird unterstützt von Bitburger.
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    The Light that Failed
    *Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only in the East but also back in the heartland of the West.In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orbán's Hungary into models for the United States.Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
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    Surrender to the Will of the Night: The Instrumentalities of the Night, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1327min
    Piper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knowshow to win wars Piper Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation put him in danger - from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade against his old coreligionists the Praman. Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The wintersare growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere, keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world. As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling lies in his common touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003918/bk_adbl_003918_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rescue After Dark: Gansett Island Series, Book 22 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    Rescue After Dark is the next heart-stopping novel in Marie’s Gansett Island series, featuring Gansett Island Fire Chief Mason Johns and Jordan Stokes. They’ve both been unlucky in love. Is their luck about to change?Reality TV star Jordan Stokes is taking time to figure out her next move - tucked away from prying eyes in her grandmother’s home on Gansett Island with her identical twin sister, Nikki. Eastward Look is the perfect place to heal and regroup. It’s not lost on her that her sister was busy falling in love with Riley McCarthy while Jordan’s world and marriage were falling apart in front of an audience of millions.Fire Chief Mason Johns might put out flames for a living, but the fitness buff firefighter with a god-like body sure knows how to heat things up. When he locks lips with the island’s newest resident during a rescue, he feels an undeniable spark that he can’t ignore - no matter how hard he tries. The recovering alcoholic has had his fair share of bad relationships, but Jordan could be a game changer.He saved her life...but she just might rescue him right back.The summer is heating up as we take the ferry back to Gansett Island for another story about love and redemption and second chances. Catch up with series favorites, including Blaine, Mallory and Quinn, Luke and Sydney, and of course, Mac and Maddie McCarthy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Deleware. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203722/bk_acx0_203722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bag of Meat on Ball of Dirt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min
    Every day hundreds of human beings board long-haul flights to India on extended breaks from their everyday lives, in search of something seemingly easy to find: themselves. That quixotic quest for understanding has drawn much of the world's population eastward ever since Buddha first assumed the lotus position, and writer Mara Altman needed to know why. So she flew around the world in search of an answer not only to that mystery but also to the deeper questions that plague all who yearn to define the meaning of life. What Altman found in her wild, comic 18-day reporting trek across India - a journey that took her on a laborious 37-hour cross-country train trip, onto a mystical flat rock by the ocean in Pondicherry, and eventually into the emergency room of a cut-rate Bangalore hospital - will make you laugh, learn, and ponder. By the end of her epic odyssey, it will also take you unexpectedly and thrillingly close to the pulsing heart of human existence. After graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Mara Altman worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice. In 2009 HarperCollins published Altman's first book, Thanks for Coming: A Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm, which was optioned as a comedy series by HBO. She has published seven best-selling Kindle Singles, including the number-one best seller Bearded Lady, and has written for New York Magazine and The New York Times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mara Altman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027953/bk_adbl_027953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Economic Integration of Europe
    The clearest and most up-to-date account of the achievements--and setbacks--of the European Union since 1945. Europe has been transformed since the Second World War. No longer a checkerboard of entirely sovereign states, the continent has become the largest single-market area in the world, with most of its members ceding certain economic and political powers to the central government of the European Union. This shift is the product of world-historical change, but the process is not well understood. The changes came in fits and starts. There was no single blueprint for reform; rather, the EU is the result of endless political turmoil and dazzling bureaucratic gymnastics. As Brexit demonstrates, there are occasional steps backward, too. Cutting through the complexity, Richard Pomfret presents a uniquely clear and comprehensive analysis of an incredible achievement in economic cooperation. The Economic Integration of Europe follows all the major steps in the creation of the single market since the postwar establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community. Pomfret identifies four stages of development: the creation of a customs union, the deepening of economic union with the Single Market, the years of monetary union and eastward expansion, and, finally, problems of consolidation. Throughout, he details the economic benefits, costs, and controversies associated with each step in the evolution of the EU. What lies ahead? Pomfret concludes that, for all its problems, Europe has grown more prosperous from integration and is likely to increase its power on the global stage.
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    Hospital at War: The 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 282min
    During World War II, the army established 107 evacuation hospitals to care for the wounded and sick in theaters around the world. An evacuation hospital was a forward hospital accepting patients from the battlefield. It was where the wounded first received definitive care. Formed at Camp Breckenridge, the 95th Evac arrived in Casablanca in April 1943, with 7,000 troops, 30 doctors, and 40 nurses. First pitching their tents at Oujda, they moved eastward toward Algeria before making a D-Day landing on the beaches of Salerno, Italy, on September 9, 1939. Shortly thereafter, they entered Naples and then set up shop at Anzio before moving on to become the first American hospital to penetrate Nazi-occupied Europe. After the guns were silent, records show that these doctors and nurses had treated more than 42,000 Americans in almost all the critical battles of the European theater: Salerno, Monetcassino, Anzio, Southern France, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland, and finally, the invasion into Germany.Hospital at War is the story of the 95th Evac Hospital as told by Zachary Friedenberg, a young surgeon at the time, fresh out of his internship. He tells the story of how the men and women of the 95th survived the war. He describes how they solved problems and learned to treat the war-wounded in the extreme heat of North Africa and during the frigid winters of the Rhineland. He tells how they endured shelling and a bombing of the hospital and how they adjusted to the people and the countries in which they worked.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Chappell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132653/bk_acx0_132653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heroes Road: Volume Two (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Heroes Road, Book 2, Part 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 385min
    “I have looked across the arc of my dreams and seen Coel’s death in all three hundred and sixty degrees of it. The circle of his destiny shall tighten like a noose upon him in less than one of your years....”Coel’s journey eastward with the sorcerer Reza Walladid earned him the wrath of the Hobgoblin Hordes and the Lord of the Assassins. The terrible secret he discovered there could turn humanity against him, yet now it must be revealed. Now nation after nation falls before the Horde’s inexorable march west, either slaughtered and eaten in battle or accepting the Horde’s terrifying terms of surrender. In every shadow, Assassin daggers lurk.Once again Coel must ride east, into the teeth of the invasion with a band of heroes upon a suicide mission. They are a gesture, unsanctioned by church or king. With no chance of victory, there is one forlorn gift they might give the failing west. The most terrifying thing of all: hope.Surrounded by enemies on all sides, once again Coel finds his only refuge is honor. Once again Coel finds there is only one path to follow: the hero's road.Performed by Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Andy Clemence, Colleen Delany, Michael Glenn, Kimberly Gilbert, Andy Brownstein, James Konicek, Thomas Keegan, Karen Novack, Jeff Allin, Terence Aselford, Amanda Forstrom, Todd Scofield, James Lewis, Dawn Ursula, KenYatta Rogers, Scott McCormick, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Zeke Alton, Yasmin Tuazon, Drew Kopas, Nick DePinto, Duyen Washington, Peter Holdway, Nanette Savard, Carolyn Kashner, Dylan Lynch, Michael John Casey, Lily Beacon, Siobhan Casey, Omar Carter Smith. Language: English. Narrator: full cast, Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Andy Clemence, Colleen Delany, Michael Glenn, Kimberly Gilbert, Andy Brownstein, James Konicek, Thomas Keegan, Karen Novack, Jeff Allin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/grph/002876/bk_grph_002876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History for Kids: The Illustrated Lives of Julius Caesar & Cleopatra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min
    Her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it. There was sweetness also in the tones of her voice; and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased. (Plutarch) Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar". Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world. The ultimate conqueror, statesman, dictator, visionary, and opportunist, during his time in power Caesar expanded the borders of Rome to almost twice their previous size, revolutionized the infrastructure of the Roman state, and destroyed the Roman Republic for good, leaving a line of emperors in its place. His legacy is so strong that his name has become, in many languages, synonymous with power: the Emperors of Austria and Germany bore the title Kaiser, and the Czars of Russia also owe the etymology of their title to Caesar. His name also crept further eastward out of Europe, even cropping up in Hindi and Urdu, where the term for "Emperor" is Kaiser. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094888/bk_acx0_094888_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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