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    Bourbon's Backroads: A Journey Through Kentucky's Distilling Landscape (South Limestone) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
    With more than 50 distilleries in the state, bourbon is as synonymous with Kentucky as horses and basketball. As one of the commonwealth's signature industries, bourbon distilling has influenced the landscape and heritage of the region for more than two centuries. Blending several topics including tax revenue, railroads, the mechanics of brewing, geography, landscapes, and architecture, this primer and geographical guide presents a detailed history of the development of Kentucky's distilling industry.Based on extensive archival research that includes private paper collections, newspapers, and period documents, this work places the distilling process in its environmental, geographical, and historical context. Bourbon's Backroads reveals the places where bourbon's heritage was made from old and new distilleries, storage warehouses, railroad yards, and factories where copper fermenting vessels are made and why the industry continues to thrive.The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."This book gives us something to read and relish, ideally with an appropriate tumbler of the subject at hand." (Paul F. Starrs, author of Let the Cowboy Ride)"Geographers, historians, and whiskey aficionados will want to savor this book." (Warren R. Hofstra, Shenandoah University in Virginia)"Insights into our past that only a gifted and seasoned writer like Raitz can impart." (Geoffrey L. Buckley, coeditor of The American Environment Revisited) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/239764/bk_acx0_239764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 274min
    Max Fleischer (1883-1972) was for years considered Walt Disney's only real rival in the world of cartoon animation. The man behind the creation of such legendary characters as Betty Boop and the animation of Popeye the Sailor and Superman, Fleischer asserted himself as a major player in the development of Hollywood entertainment. Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution is a vivid portrait of the life and world of a man who shaped the look of cartoon animation. Also interested in technical innovation, Fleischer invented the rotoscope - a device that helped track live action and allowed his cartoons to revolutionize the way animated characters appeared and moved on-screen. In the 1920s, Fleischer created a series of "Out of the Inkwell" films, which led to a deal with Paramount. Their character Koko the Clown introduced new animation effects by growing out of Fleischer's pen on screen. As the sound revolution hit film, the studio produced shorts featuring the characters interacting with songs and with the now-famous bouncing ball that dances across lyrics projected on the screen. Max Fleischer's story is also one of a creative genius struggling to fit in with the changing culture of Golden Age cinema. Out of the Inkwell captures the twists and turns, the triumphs and disappointments, and most of all, the breathless energy of a life vibrantly lived in the world of animation magic.The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124145/bk_acx0_124145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Running into the Dark: A Blind Man’s Record-Setting Run Across America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
    A man takes on the challenge of a lifetime after hitting rock bottom. He finds himself divorced, unemployed, and in a deep depression when a degenerative eye condition renders him blind with limited light perception.  Feeling a calling to run across America, he dedicated the next two years of his life to prepare for, and ultimately run, more than 3,000 miles from California to New York in less than 60 days, averaging 51.5 miles per day, to log the seventh-fastest transcontinental foot crossing in the history of the world - less than 300 people have crossed America on foot.  It was, and remains, the only transcontinental foot-crossing by a blind person.  This is not just an audiobook about running. This is a story of success and failure, healing and hurting, and loss and love. It is an audiobook about struggling with adversity, learning to not give up or give in, to accept one's self for all that one is, and is not. It is every person's story.  Running into the Dark is a manifesto about how to continue onward. Jason Romero is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for conventions, conferences, and commencements, a US Paralympian who was fourth in the world at the Paralympic World Marathon Championships in 2015, a holder of 13 world records in ultrarunning, the subject of a full-length documentary, and an author. In addition, Jason has been an attorney, an executive at GE, and a CEO of a nonprofit that helps children with autism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117091/bk_acx0_117091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gangland New York: The Places and Faces of Mob History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish "Kosher Nostra" and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city's history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Bill "the Butcher" Poole, Paul Kelly, Monk Eastman, "Lucky" Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Spillane, John Gotti - each held sway over New York neighborhoods that nurtured them and gave them power. As families and factions fought for control, the city became a backdrop for crime scenes, the rackets spreading after World War II to docks, airports, food markets, and garment districts. The streets of Brooklyn, swamps of Staten Island, and vacant lots near LaGuardia Airport hosted assassinations and hasty burials for the unlucky. The bloodlettings, arrests, and trials became front-page fodder for tabloids that thrived on covering Mulberry Street. Chinese, Russian, and Greek mobsters rose to prominence and wrought bloody havoc as well. Each of Gangland New York's five sections - one for each borough - traces criminal activities and area exploits from the 19th century to now. Everyone knows about Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy, but now you can find Scarpato's restaurant in Coney Island, where Joe Masseria was killed by henchmen of Salvatore Maranzano, who in turn died in a Park Avenue office building at the hands of "Lucky" Luciano a few months later. From the Bronx to Brighton Beach, from New Springville to Ozone Park, here is a comprehensive, on-the-ground guide to mob life in the Rotten Apple. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004947/bk_tant_004947_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Business of Sports Agents , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
    In The Business of Sports Agents, Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, and N. Jeremi Duru, experts in the fields of sports business and law, examine the history of the sports agent business and the rules and laws developed to regulate the profession. They also consider recommendations for reform, including uniform laws that would apply to all agents, redefining amateurism in college sports, and stiffening requirements for licensing agents. This revised and expanded third edition brings the volume up to date on recent changes in the industry, including the emergence and dominance of companies such as Creative Artists Agency and Wasserman Media Group; high-profile cases of agent misconduct, principally Josh Luchs, whose agent certification was revoked by the NFLPA; legal challenges against the NCAA that may fundamentally change the definition of amateurism; changes to agent regulations resulting from new collective bargaining agreements in all of the major professional sports; evaluation of the effectiveness of the Uniform Athlete Agents Act (2000) to regulate agent conduct; issues faced by the increasing number of agents representing athletes who work abroad as well as athletes from abroad who work in the United States. Whether aspiring sports agent, lawyer, athlete seeking an agent, or simply interested in understanding the world of sports representation, the listener will find in The Business of Sports Agents the most comprehensive overview of the industry as well as a straightforward analysis of its problems and proposed solutions. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095185/bk_acx0_095185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Todesfalle Sanruhn: Cungerlan. Erweiterte Neuausgabe 4
    Irgendwo, in den Tiefen des Alls, findest Du einen einsamen, grauen Planeten. Eine Welt namens... Cungerlan! Nachdem verblendete Fanatiker des Serhildan unter Führung des jungen Shrill-Itzu-Schülers Bor Toth (gesprochen von Jo Weil) durch einen hinterhältigen Anschlag auf die Zollstation von 'Galone' die Pläne zur Sanierung des Staatshaushaltes verzögert haben, herrscht in allen Königreichen Cungerlans tiefe Besorgnis und Verunsicherung. Fester denn je entschlossen, Sicherheit und Ordnung umgehend wieder herzustellen, hat der gütige Ayir-Kaiser Erzeboon II. seine fähigsten und charaktervollsten Befehlshaber zu einer Zusammenkunft in den Stählernen Palast von Sanruhn gerufen. Aber die Fanatiker sind ihnen bereits auf den Fersen...'CUNGERLAN: Todesfalle Sanruhn' ist der neue 4. Teil der aufwändig produzierten Science-Fiction Hörspielserie von Jerry Marcs und setzt die Abenteuer um Bor Toth und seine Gefährten fort. Dieses vollkommen neue Abenteuer überrascht mit einer alternativen Sichtweise auf das bisherige Geschehen. Doch nicht alles ist wirklich so wie es scheint.In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.
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    Die Geburt der Revolution: Cungerlan 0
    Um auch die letzten freien Handelswege besteuern zu können, hat der grausame Ayir-Kaiser Erzeboon II. an der Straße von Galone eine mächtige Luftfestung errichten lassen. Damit droht allen Völkern Cungerlans eine nie gekannte Zeit der Unterdrückung und Knechtschaft...1. Teil der aufwendig produzierten Hörspielserie von Ohrland nach den Figuren und Geschichten von Jerry Marcs. Mit seinem skurrilen Humor nimmt der in Wales lebende Autor Klischees aus Fantasy-, Science-Fiction-, Kriegs- und Actionfilmen aufs Korn und teilt Seitenhiebe auf Politik, Gesellschaft, Religion und menschliche Schwächen aus. Cungerlan ist eine bizarre, satirische, mit viel Wortwitz, Situationskomik und Ironie getränkte Geschichte. Ein wenig atmet das ganze auch den Geist von Monty Python. Gleichzeitig ist es aber trotz aller Komik auch eine spannende Geschichte mit viel Action und einer kleinen Portion Romantik. Science-Fiction-Freunde dürfen gespannt sein.Die Sprecher in diesem Hörspiel:Volker Wolf, Bernd Rumpf, Dustin Semmelrogge, Heiko Obermöller, Jo Weil, Josef Tratnik, Nicole Engeln, Oliver Krietsch-Matzura, Peer Augustinski und Peter Nottmeier. Erstausgabe
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    The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned, in part, by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League who bolted, not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams.Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their start-up costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement and, in many ways, challenged by organized labor to be "by and for the people".In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes."Makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the early days of the business of baseball." (New York Journal of Books)"This text is outstanding." (New York Labor History)“You will absolutely love this book." (Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160497/bk_acx0_160497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Republican Character: From Nixon to Reagan: Haney Foundation Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    Politics makes for strange bedfellows, the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners as self-serving and without principle or conviction.Because of these perspectives, the scholarly and popular narrative of American politics has come to focus on ideology over all else. But as Donald T. Critchlow demonstrates in his riveting new book, this obsession obscures the important role of temperament, character, and leadership ability in political success. Critchlow looks at four leading Republican presidential contenders - Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan - to show that, behind the scenes, ideology mattered less than principled pragmatism and the ability to build coalitions toward electoral and legislative victory.Drawing on new archival material, Critchlow lifts the curtain on the lives of these political rivals and what went on behind the scenes of their campaigns. He reveals unusual relationships between these men: Nixon making deals with Rockefeller, while Rockefeller courted Goldwater and Reagan, who themselves became political rivals despite their shared conservatism. The result is a book sure to fascinate anyone wondering what it takes to win the presidency of the United States - and to govern effectively.The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."A compact and illuminating history...." (The American Prospect)"This readable history offers shrewd insights into the disposition of national leaders then and now." (Publishers Weekly) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Galone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132861/bk_acx0_132861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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