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  The Birthday Present 2050 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 78min

  Like the classics of dystopian literature - think Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, and more recently, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Birthday Present 2050 is a dystopian play that takes a dark look at a disturbing contemporary trend and magnifies it under future totalitarian conditions. The Birthday Present 2050 takes place in a society in which only people and things considered productive are assured existence. It posits a future society perfect and brutal, where citizens must choose each year between extending the life of an aging loved parent, or accumulating more comfort for themselves based on an earned point system. The story begs the listener: What would you choose? What makes The Birthday Present 2050 so unique and chilling is the play is set around the family dinner table, a quaint anachronism in the ordered, unsentimental future of 2050. The Birthday Present 2050 is a drama, a distilled vision of a disturbing world that goes to the heart of what we value as humans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Sanger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/011505/bk_acx0_011505_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tonal Music (eBook, ePUB)

  This book is about the aesthetics of the tonal music. It therefore deals with sound forms such as consonance, dissonance, tonality, bar, counterpoint or motif. Thereby, it shows that all harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic sound figures are essentially relations in which similar sound components go well together. The whole secret of the musical aesthetics lies in this abstract determination. In this sense, the musical sound forms are systematically built on each other and form an ensemble of eight aesthetic principles, to each of which a chapter of this book is dedicated. The logical progression of these chapters reveals the inner connection between harmony, rhythm, and melody. Musical phenomena that have so far been interpreted differently and controversially are explained and derived in a comprehensible way in this context. The theoretical results of this book are, at the same time, a critique of previously common dogmas in musicology. For example, the prejudice that the difference between consonance and dissonance cannot be objectively grasped clearly contradicts the results of a rational music theory. Nor will the reader find the usual talk about the supposed anachronism or the transience of the tonal music in this book - for good reasons.

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  Beautiful Dreamer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 535min

  Nevada is home to Hope Gardener; its rugged, majestic beauty a balm for the aches of her heart and spirit. But the cattle ranch she owns and loves is dying, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen. Hope needs a miracle or she will lose the land that has been in her family for generations. And then, the miracle appears on horseback. Rio is the stranger who rides into the Valley of the Sun. A loner, a gentler of horses, a cowboy out of time, an anachronism in the modern-day West, he brings with him a tantalizing promise of salvation: a reputation for finding water in any desert. As a woman alone in a harsh and unforgiving place, Hope knows the dangers of trusting such a free spirit. But she has no choice. A man who makes dreams real, who is as wild and unpredictable as the wind that propels him across the vast and open western landscape, Rio has never had a dream of his own to follow. Yet he finds something in this extraordinary lady whose passion tempts him to defy his own rules and stay. Suddenly, two independent souls must confront the perils and the truths that reside in the deepest, most closely guarded corners of their hearts...as in the midst of adversity they search for a beautiful dream big enough to hold them both. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000533/bk_brll_000533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Time

  Time ab 35.49 € als Taschenbuch: Anno Domini Time travel Year Twin paradox Greenwich Mean Time Lorentz transformation Simultaneity Anachronism Universal Time Eternalism Duration Time immemorial Watch Prime time Origin Patience Caesium standard. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,

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  Medieval reenactment

  Medieval reenactment ab 17.99 € als Taschenbuch: Society for Creative Anachronism Eglinton Tournament of 1839 Jousting SCA fencing Tewkesbury Medieval Festival Adrian Empire Kingdom of Calontir SCA heavy combat Kingdom of the Outlands Kingdom of Lochac Pennsic War. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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  To the Best of Our Knowledge: It's All in the Game, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

  Video games used to be for kids and geeks. Today, just try to find someone who doesn't play at least one electronic game. Electronic games began as entertainment, but they're fast becoming much, much more. Already we use games to teach kids and to train doctors, to meet friends, and to wage war. Today, how games could transform the world. British writer and game theorist Tom Chatfield is the author of Fun, Inc: Why Gaming Will Dominate the 21st Century. He tells Jim Fleming he believes games also have the potential to revolutionize a field that could use a dose of fun – education. Imagine a game the lets you blast imaginary cancer cells – except they're from a real cancer patient, and your game you play may help save her life. Anne Strainchamps got professors Susan Millar and Kurt Squire to show her a game. Next, if you've ever played one of the big online multi-player fantasy games - like World of Warcraft - you know that in the beginning, there's a certain amount of drudge work. But you can cheat and get someone else to do it for you. Cory Doctorow has written a novel about it, called For the Win, and tells Anne Strainchamps about gold-farming, and why people do it. Commentator Aubrey Ralph understands the pleasure of it. He explains his enthusiasm for the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA. Ethan Gilsdorf also understands. He is the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks and tells Steve Paulson it began for him when he was 12. Finally, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says the writing's on the wall: in the future, you can either make the software... or you can BE the software. Rushkoff has a new book – Program or Be Programmed. It opens with a story he told Anne Strainchamps about a recent visit to an Air Force general. [Broadcast date: February 16, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110216/rt_tbon_110216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  To the Best of Our Knowledge: Gaming, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min

  Video games used to be for kids and geeks. Today, just try to find someone who doesn't play at least one electronic game. Electronic games began as entertainment, but they're fast becoming much, much more. Already we use games to teach kids and to train doctors, to meet friends, and to wage war. Today, how games could transform the world. British writer and game theorist Tom Chatfield is the author of Fun, Inc: Why Gaming Will Dominate the 21st Century. He tells Jim Fleming he believes games also have the potential to revolutionize a field that could use a dose of fun – education. Imagine a game the lets you blast imaginary cancer cells – except they're from a real cancer patient, and your game you play may help save her life. Anne Strainchamps got professors Susan Millar and Kurt Squire to show her a game. Next, if you've ever played one of the big online multi-player fantasy games - like World of Warcraft - you know that in the beginning, there's a certain amount of drudge work. But you can cheat and get someone else to do it for you. Cory Doctorow has written a novel about it, called For the Win and tells Anne Strainchamps about gold-farming, and why people do it. Commentator Aubrey Ralph understands the pleasure of it. He explains his enthusiasm for the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA. Ethan Gilsdorf also understands. He is the author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks and tells Steve Paulson it began for him when he was 12. Finally, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says the writing's on the wall: in the future, you can either make the software... or you can BE the software. Rushkoff has a new book – Program or Be Programmed. It opens with a story he told Anne Strainchamps about a recent visit to an Air Force general. [Broadcast date: March 28, 2012] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120328/rt_tbon_120328_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  New and Old Wars

  Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say, war between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violence - is becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized violence or 'new wars', which could be described as a mixture of war, organized crime and massive violations of human rights. The actors are both global and local, public and private. The wars are fought for particularistic political goals using tactics of terror and destabilization that are theoretically outlawed by the rules of modern warfare. Kaldor's analysis offers a basis for a cosmopolitan political response to these wars, in which the monopoly of legitimate organized violence is reconstructed on a transnational basis and international peacekeeping is reconceptualized as cosmopolitan law enforcement. This approach also has implications for the reconstruction of civil society, political institutions, and economic and social relations. This third edition has been fully revised and updated. Kaldor has added an afterword answering the critics of the New Wars argument and, in a new chapter, Kaldor shows how old war thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq greatly exacerbated what turned out to be, in many ways, archetypal new wars - characterised by identity politics, a criminalised war economy and civilians as the main victims. Like its predecessors, the third edition of New and Old Wars will be essential reading for students of international relations, politics and conflict studies as well as to all those interested in the changing nature and prospect of warfare.

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  Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2342min

  Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Arthur Herman delivers a powerhouse biography that peels back the layers of myth - both good and bad - and exposes the marrow of the man beneath. MacArthur's life spans the emergence of the United States Army as a global fighting force. Its history is to a great degree his story. The son of a Civil War hero, he led American troops in three monumental conflicts - World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Born four years after Little Big Horn, he died just as American forces began deploying in Vietnam. Herman's magisterial book spans the full arc of MacArthur's journey, from his elevation to major general at 38 through his tenure as superintendent of West Point, field marshal of the Philippines, supreme ruler of postwar Japan, and beyond. More than any previous biographer, Herman shows how MacArthur's strategic vision helped shape several decades of US foreign policy. Alone among his peers, he foresaw the shift away from Europe, becoming the prophet of America's destiny in the Pacific Rim. Here, too, is a vivid portrait of a man whose grandiose vision of his own destiny won him enemies as well as acolytes. MacArthur was one of the first military heroes to cultivate his own public persona - the swashbuckling commander outfitted with Ray-Ban sunglasses, riding crop, and corncob pipe. Repeatedly spared from being killed in battle - his soldiers nicknamed him "Bullet Proof" - he had a strong sense of divine mission. "Mac" was a man possessed, in the words of one of his contemp ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Strozier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009577/bk_reco_009577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Medieval Fantasy as Performance

  Medieval Fantasy as Performance - The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages: ab 67.99 €

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