34 Results for : abysses
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The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Adventure of Prof. Geo , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 203min
What would you do if you had discovered that the planet was about to be engulfed in a belt of poisonous "ether" from outer space? Professor Challenger invites a hand-picked crew of adventurers and scientists to his home outside London, which has been fortified with several hours' worth of oxygen. Challenger & Co. assemble in front of a picture window to witness the end of all life on the planet. As birds plummet from the sky, trains crash, and men and women topple over before their horrified gaze, they debate everything from the possibilities of the universe to the "abysses that lie upon either side of our material existence". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gildart Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/000305/bk_drms_000305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson
Janusz Korczak and Yitzhak Katzenelson ab 82.99 € als epub eBook: Two Educators in the Abysses of History. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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America-An Integral Weave
America-An Integral Weave ab 29.49 € als epub eBook: Transversality Borders and Abysses in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Culture. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Philosophie,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Most Notorious Talker Runs the World's Greatest Clan (Manga) Vol. 1
A cunning, ruthless boy does whatever it takes to leave his mark on the world in this swords-and-sorcery tale! (And don't miss the light novels, also from Seven Seas!) Young Noel is the grandson of the empire's mightiest hero, and promised his dying grandfather to become the world's greatest adventurer. But Noel has been assigned to the weakest class of adventurers: a Talker, whose only skill is to enhance the abilities of other heroes. How can he possibly find glory with only support skills? By being ruthless with them! Good, evil, it's all the same to Noel as he manipulates his allies, controls his friends, and outfoxes endless monsters from the deepest Abysses. Noel will stop at nothing to grow strong enough to save the world-and dominate it!- Shop: buecher
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Iron Mountain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min
One of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse was described by the Poetry Canada Review as providing" a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry." Divided into two sections, one inspired by ancient Chinese art, the other limning the ambiguities and incongruities of the contemporary human condition, Frutkin's new volume of poetry, Iron Mountain, often presents human beings wandering in the wilderness between two abysses while still appreciating the smell of pines, the softness of the rain, the brilliance of the stars, the hum of the computer, and the jostle of the crowd on the bus. These are poems of translucent delicacy, harboring hard truths where "A Taoist priest gulps the elixir/of immortality and blows away/in the dust,/a young Chinese girl/bumps me in the crowd/prompting a shiver/like a startled phoenix/dressed in my skin." In Frutkin's vision the entire world is a written landscape that speaks to us of time, of change, of immutability, and of radiant emptiness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David DeSantos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014936/bk_adbl_014936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 281min
Laura, a 40-something journalist with a fertile imagination, tries to escape her mother's influence and shuns all contact with her. She receives a call one morning from a spiritual center where her mother had been a regular. She had not called in four days. As Laura enters her mother’s apartment she finds her lying on the floor, completely famished. In the hospital she is diagnosed with a fatal cancer. With great reluctance, Laura is now forced to take care of her mother. In order to distance herself, Laura decides to write down her personal story, thereby reinventing her own persona. The boundaries between the real and fictive Laura, between reality and fiction become blurred. The mother too is given the opportunity to voice her own version. Everyday life is depicted with a dreamlike focus. Reality is punctured by fantastic elements and leaves behind a nightmarish aftertaste. With great insight and dark humor, Laura reveals the dishonesty of her fellow people as well as the abysses in a seemingly ideal world. The resulting novel offers a highly relatable psychological thriller that begins with the mother's near-death and charges on at a breathtaking pace, leaving no emotional stone unturned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joyce Bean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006613/bk_brll_006613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alfred Kubin. Confessions of a Tortured Soul
The art of the great draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin, appears more current today than ever before: for it was violence, wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters, the manipulation of the masses and other abysses of human existence that pervaded his highly narrational works. The oeuvre of this fantastical creator confronts us with pessimistic visions which delineate "the worst of all possible worlds". The catalogue is the first to attempt an exploration of Kubin's oneiric worlds - which all too often enter nightmarish-somber spheres - in terms of their relation to the unconscious and the deep dimensions of the psyche. In this interpretation attempt, the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs will orient himself on works by Kubin selected by curator Hans-Peter Wipplinger with specific thematic emphases in mind. Kubin's works are placed into a dialogue with works by artists of the 19th century and of Classical Modernism from which Kubin derived inspiration for his oeuvre. Kubin's dystopian visualizations, which carry on from Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered precursors to French Surrealism, are composed of actual and imaginary reality: an ingenious synthesis, in which the uncanniness of these pessimistic realms is often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration. Text: Hans-Peter Wipplinger, August Ruhs, Burghart Schmidt, Annegret Hoberg, Lena Scholz.- Shop: buecher
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True Crime USA: Real Crime Cases from the United States, Hörbuch, Digital, 207min
Cold blooded murders, fatal family dramas, and a spectacular robbery.It's no secret that "True Crime" is not for the faint-of-heart. These true and authentic criminal cases tell the stories of people known to us - friendly neighbours, devoted parents and/or loving partners. This book is about the people behind their bourgeois façade, where unspeakably deep human abysses exist that nobody, not even those closest to them, would have thought was possible.In his second book "TRUE CRIME USA"", one of Germany's bestselling true crime authors, Adrian Langenscheid once again documents the real crimes from real neighbourhoods. This time, the tales originate from the United States of America. Crimes that actually happened - you will be captivated and shocked, amazed and moved to tears. Shaken to the core, you will question everything you think you know about human nature.Even investigators, judges, defense lawyers and public prosecutors are not immune to the fact that these defendants are on trial for particularly horrific acts. The heartbreaking fates of the victims and their relatives are gradually exposed. In an ideal world, the final verdict ensures the just punishment of the perpetrators - but what punishment is truly-just in the face of such cruel reality?In fourteen true crime short stories, you will get to know some of the most-spectacular American true crime cases of the last few decades.The well-known German crime podcast, "Wahre Verbrechen", features two additional, spectacular cases.Crimes such as murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, abuse, fraud, treason and robbery often involve "people like you and me" whose lives have suddenly and completely changed from one day to the next due to tragic circumstances.Was it greed, the lust for murder, a perverse sexual inclination or a blackout, that made the serial killer act so ruthlessly? Does the perpetrator hide his true motive? Does he suffer from a psychologica Language: English. Narrator: Brian Pawlowski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/015219/bk_edel_015219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The La Brea Tar Pits: The History and Legacy of One of the World’s Most Famous Fossil Sites , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
Even at a distance, the acrid stench of asphalt and sulfur singes the hairs of people’s nostrils, and when the blustering winds subside, the potent miasma lingers in the air. To the untrained eye, the La Brea Tar Pits seem to be nothing more than simply pools of thick, viscous black sludge, its obsidian-like surface bestrewn with an assortment of autumn leaves and dirt. Gooey methane bubbles spurt up periodically, shattering the glassy veneer of the grease-black lakes, and the shiny bubbles swell to varying sizes and wiggle from side to side before popping, the sticky collapse almost reminiscent of cracking open a chocolate molten lava cake.This black sludge might seem rather unremarkable after a few moments, as it appears to just sit there in its idle state, but in fact, the seemingly innocuous bubbles are symptomatic of the treacly dark substance lurking on the bottom of the pit. The pit’s contents have spelled the doom for a countless number of creatures both large and small, from legions of insects to mighty mastodons, mammoths, and snarling saber-toothed cats from the Pleistocene Era. Of course, this is what makes the area a natural landmark in the first place, and today the La Brea Tar Pits are considered by many scientists to be among the greatest finds in modern history. Technically, these lustrous lakes of ink-black, while branded “tar,” are in actuality pools of asphalt seeps that have remained in place for several millennia, gushing forth from a natural subterranean petroleum spring underneath the city of Los Angeles known as the “Salt Lake Oil Field.” Needless to say, the tar pits are a far cry from the glittering, crystalline ponds cooled by the shade of surrounding palm trees found throughout the City of Angels. Indeed, the pungent reek of asphalt, pulsing methane bubbles, and their hauntingly black surfaces, making it impossible to gauge the true depth of the asphalt abysses, should have seemingly served as clear deterrents to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179828/bk_acx0_179828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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True Crime Canada (MP3-Download)
» Morbid, whimsical, tragic ... Goosebumps! « – Leonie-Rachel Soyel (Podcast "Couchgeflüster") » Langenscheid's books are exciting, from the first page to the last! « – True Crime Podcast "Darf's ein bisserl Mord sein?" In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction. Free of any sensationalism, thirteen True Crime short stories retell some of the most spectacular Canadian criminal cases of recent decades. A gripping collection of accounts of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, abuse, fraud, betrayal, and theft that take the reader to the limits of the bearable. These are crimes involving "people like you and me"; people whose lives, due to tragic circumstances, are no longer what they were before. With expertise and excellent head-spinning narration, the true crime expert, in collaboration with the well-known true crime podcasts "Eyes in the Dark," "Murder Whispers," and "Crime Overdose," summarizes the most important findings from court hearings, case files, psychological reports, interrogations, and investigative protocols in his eventful tales. Captivated, stunned, amazed, and moved to tears, you will question everything you thought you knew about human nature. True crime cases, true crimes, and thus the full force of reality will strike you in thirteen detailed case histories, both well-known and undiscovered! Click "BUY NOW" and discover Canada's darker side. » Langenscheid writes matter-of-factly, focused and detailed stories reflecting on the darkest aspects of our existence. Relentless entertainment that makes your blood run cold. « – Dave Grunewald (Musician / Influencer)- Shop: buecher
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