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    Limited Edition of One (eBook, ePUB)
    The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do everything wrong but still end up on the front cover of magazines, headlining world tours and achieving Top 5 albums? How did I attract such obsessive and fanatical fans, many of whom take everything I do or say very personally, which is simultaneously flattering but can also be tremendously frustrating? Even this I somehow cultivated without somehow meaning to. My accidental career.Limited Edition of One is unlike any other music book you will ever have read.Part the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson: whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world, before he set out for an even more successful solo career.Part the story of a twenty-first century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream. From Abba to Stockhausen, via a collection of conversations and thought pieces on the art of listening, the rules of collaboration, lists of lists, personal stories, professional adventurism (including food, film, TV, modern art), old school rock stardom, how to negotiate an obsessive fanbase and survive on social media, and dream-fever storytelling.
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    The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 322min
    For years, William Pfaff writes, "there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the successful postwar American policy of patient but firm containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies…has over decades turned into a vast project for ending tyranny in the world. We defend this position by making the claim that the United States possesses an exceptional status among nations that confers upon it special international responsibilities, and exceptional privileges in meeting those responsibilities. This is where the problem lies. It has become somewhat of a national heresy to suggest the U .S. does not have a unique moral status and role to play in the history of nations and therefore in the affairs of the contemporary world. In fact it does not." Cogently, thoughtfully, powerfully, Pfaff lays out the historical roots behind the American exceptionalism that animates our politics and foreign relations - and makes clear why it is flawed and must ultimately fail. Those roots lie in the secularization of western society brought about by the Enlightenment, and in America's effective separation from the common history of the west during the 19th and early parts of the 20th century, during which it failed to gain "the indispensable experience Europeans have acquired of modern ideological folly and national tragedy." We are, thus, hubristic and naïve in our adventurism, and blind to the truth of the threats we face. No mere critic, Pfaff offers insightful observations on how we can and must adapt to Muslim extremism, nuclear competition, and other challenges of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Waldman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009659/bk_adbl_009659_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Burning of the Reichstag: The History of the Controversial Fire That Led to the Rise of Nazi Germany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
    These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side. In their mouse-holes, out of which they now want to come, of course they hear nothing of the cheering of the masses. - Hitler speaking about Communists as the Reichstag burned "I don't care what happens in Russia! I know that the Russians pay with bills, and I should prefer to know that their bills are paid! I care about the Communist Party here in Germany and about Communist crooks who come here to set the Reichstag on fire!" - Hermann Goering The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Empire of Japan began its ultimately fatal adventurism with the invasion of Manchuria, alienating the rest of the world with the atrocities it committed. Around the same time, Gandhi began his drive for the peaceful independence of India through nonviolent protests against the British. It was in Germany, however, that the strongest seeds of future tragedy were sown. The struggling Weimar Republic had become a breeding ground for extremist politics, including two opposed and powerful authoritarian entities: the right-wing National Socialists and the left-wing KPD Communist Party. As the 1930s dawned, these two totalitarian groups held one another in a temporary stalemate, enabling the fragile ghost of democracy to continue a largely illusory survival for a few more years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033277/bk_acx0_033277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Battle of Leipzig: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Battle of the Napoleonic Wars , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
    Though Napoleon Bonaparte's unquenchable thirst for military adventurism eventually cost him both his throne and his freedom during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the French emperor was not easily defeated, even when most of Europe's nations united against him. Two military setbacks, on a scale unprecedented in history, were required before the high tide of Napoleon's success began to ebb towards the final denouement of the Hundred Days and the famous Battle of Waterloo. The incredible losses inflicted on Napoleon's Grand Armee by the ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812 constituted the first setback that switched the Corsican's life journey from the road of success to that of defeat and exile. A huge, veteran, highly experienced force, the French Army of Napoleon perished on the rain-soaked tracks and sun-seared plains of Russia. Napoleon eventually committed over 400,000 men to his Russian project, but at the end of a relatively brief campaign, only about 40,000 men returned to Germany alive, and the Russians took some 100,000 prisoner and largely absorbed them into the Russian military or population. The remainder died, principally from starvation, but also through enemy action and the bitter cold of early winter. The failed Russian invasion set the stage for the second defeat at Leipzig, which essentially sealed the fate of Napoleon's empire. The four-day Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, romantically - but accurately - dubbed the "Battle of the Nations", proved the decisive encounter of the War of the Sixth Coalition and essentially determined the course the Napoleonic Wars took from that moment forward. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phillip J. Mather. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034128/bk_acx0_034128_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Weimar Republic: The History of Germany After World War I Before the Rise of the Nazi Party , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
    The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the interwar years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler. Yet, the Weimar era encapsulated a number of trends and fissures within German society, as well as the international community. The Weimar Republic was a prisoner of events and, in the long run, had little power to shape them. Historians are fond of interpreting the past as a tension between human agency, that is to say decision-making, and structural developments that evade individual choices. Both these interpretations are crucial when examining the tumultuous years of Germany’s Weimar Republic. The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Empire of Japan began its ultimately fatal adventurism with the invasion of Manchuria, alienating the rest of the world with the atrocities it committed. Around the same time, Gandhi began his drive for the peaceful independence of India through nonviolent protests against the British. It was in Germany, however, that the strongest seeds of future tragedy were sown. The struggling Weimar Republic had become a breeding ground for extremist politics, including two opposed and powerful authoritarian entities: the right-wing National Socialists and the left-wing KPD Communist Party. As the 1930s dawned, these two totalitarian groups held one another i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106938/bk_acx0_106938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Imperial German Army: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Armed Forces During World War I , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
    World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition that dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine-gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant.Naturally, as one of the main belligerents of the war and arguably the most powerful, Germany led the way in many respects. Between innovation, the scale of manpower, and cutting-edge tactics and technology, the Imperial German Army would inflict devastating losses on the enemy, but the war would also prove to be its undoing, even as the seeds of that conflict would lead to far worse a generation later.The Imperial German Army had developed a formidable reputation decades earlier, almost immediately upon the unification of the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1871. Prussia dominated the new Germany, and with that came a strong military tradition and hierarchy. Not surprisingly, German leaders who had such power at their disposal were more than willing to use it, and when Kaiser Wilhelm II was crowned, a monarch with a thirst for foreign adventurism took control of Germany. In the decades before 1914, German politics became increasingly authoritarian and its society militarized. In conjunction with that, as the German Empire wanted to become a Great Power, it induced distrust among its rivals.The Imperial German Army: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Armed Forces During World War I chronicles the German military in the years afte ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145352/bk_acx0_145352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heart Attack for Gourmets: Wariat's Diary (Diary of a Cranky Man): Elements of Absurdism Adventurism Light Fantasy
    Heart Attack for Gourmets: Wariat's Diary (Diary of a Cranky Man): Elements of Absurdism Adventurism Light Fantasy: ab 2.99 €
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    Yemen Endures
    Yemen Endures - Civil War Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia: ab 44.49 €
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    Glacier
    War Pigeon has dropped "the bomb" on music fans everywhere with their sophomore album, "Glacier." Diverging slightly from the more Soul/Rock feel of their debut CD, "Glacier" takes it's listeners on a fairytale-like musical adventure of Street-Sound, Jazz, and darker Rock, while continuing to pay homage to the creative grooves that helped define their sound. The spirit of "raw musical adventurism" is ever-present on "Glacier", as the group took the creatively liberating, yet daunting approach of recording, mixing, and engineering the project themselves. The result leaves the listener with an un-distorted image of what it's like to spend a week holed up in a cabin in the woods with this band. War Pigeon came together in Seattle circa 2005 with a purpose: to break down the barriers of traditional music formats and create a stew of musical and life influences void of the sterility found in the majority of today's music. In the spirit of the great power trios like Cream, The Police and Medeski, Martin, and Wood, War Pigeon emerged on the scene in full force with upbeat and skillful live performances to fans across the northwest. As 2008 begins, War Pigeon is hot-on-the heels of today's music scene, smattering a cavalcade of fresh inspiration and timeless music that is destined to earn the attention of music fans worldwide. Before the album even reached the hands of fans and disc jockeys, Seattle's own Steve Slaton, music director for the popular classic rock station KZOK chose to play the final track on "Glacier" entitled "d.i.a.d.h" live on the air for his listeners on two different installments of his Friday afternoon drive show called "Stump Slaton."
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