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    Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 8min
    EM Forster's famous dictum "Only connect!" is often quoted out of context but it is a resoundingly emotive phrase which might also be taken as the motto for the first major excursion by the National Gallery, London, into the history, portent and meaning of photography as a medium. Before Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, the National Gallery has only exhibited the work of a contemporary photographer on one occasion. Peter Blake, an artist famous for using many found sources including photographs in his work, much of which is based on elaborate collage and montage, was an artist-in-residence at the gallery in 1994-1996. But even the most tolerant observer would characterize the National Gallery's handling of contemporary art and/or photography as patchy, if not downright wobbly. This reviewer's experience has been that most of the gallery's interventions, however laudable in intent, have, with exceptions, diminished the contemporary and obscured the historic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Brewer Harris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094850/bk_acx0_094850_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min
    The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the Rangers, Bob Alexander tells the story of one of the six companies of the Frontier Battalion, Company D. Beginning with their start as Indian fighters against the Comanches and Kiowas, Alexander explores the history of Company D as they rounded up numerous Texas outlaws and cattle thieves, engaged in border skirmishes along the Rio Grande, and participated in notable episodes such as the fence cutter wars. Winchester Warriors is an evenhanded and impartial assessment of Company D and its colorful cadre of Texas Rangers. Their laudable deeds are explored in detail, but by the same token their shameful misadventures are not whitewashed. These Texas Rangers were simply people, good and bad - and sometimes indifferent. This new study, extensively researched in both primary and secondary sources, will appeal to scholars and aficionados of the Texas Rangers and western history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Theo Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070181/bk_acx0_070181_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Port Starbird: Storm Ketchum Adventures, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    In this quirky low-key murder mystery, Storm Ketchum, a damaged emigre to the coastal town of Avon on North Carolina's Outer Banks, likes to mind his own business and isn't any kind of detective - until he's forced to become one by extraordinary circumstances. On the verge of losing his modest waterfront home to an unscrupulous developer, Ketch stumbles onto the scene of a crime that might expose the perpetrator of an unsolved murder and enable him to save not only his own home, but also the similarly threatened bohemian boatyard community he's inexorably drawn into. And in case Plan A fails, he's hard at work on a Plan B that's both laudable and pitiable - if he can't stop them from seizing his property and ruining what's left of his historic town, he's hell-bent on turning the event into a political statement. Together with his loyal dog, a salty charter boat captain, the sketchy denizens of the boatyard, and an alluring scuba diving instructor who may or may not have a hidden agenda, Ketch struggles to make sense of his new reality, while trying to save some of the things that really matter along the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: DJ Holte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032271/bk_acx0_032271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ghost Dagger: The Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
    In the fourth Alice MacDonald Greer mystery, the feisty Texas lawyer finds herself in unfamiliar territory on the Scottish coast.Alice is in Scotland to visit Gran, the mother of her late husband, Jordie. After his death, the two women found solace in each other, and Alice unequivocally considers herself part of Gran’s family. But that family is threatened when the death of a local man is pinned on Robbie, Gran’s daughter and Alice’s sister-in-law. Robbie had carried on an affair with the murder victim Angus McBride, the stubborn land manager for a prominent local family. Alice, sure that Robbie had nothing to do with the crime, tries to prove it to the skeptical local police force. But she’s a long way from Texas, and the town police inspector strongly dislikes her interference. The hunt for the true killer entangles Alice with a ruthless group of night-hawkers - treasure hunters who use metal detectors to find ancient loot to sell on the black market. The town buzzes with rumors of a Viking hoard hidden in the cliffs, and someone is desperate to find it. "An outstanding mystery series." (Midwest Book Review) “A lively and laudable protagonist.” (Kirkus Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Helen Currie Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/165826/bk_acx0_165826_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebellion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
    Twenty-two years after the close of the American Civil War, General William T. Sherman shared his thoughts and insights on the "grand strategy" of the war. He wrote: "We veterans believe that in 1861-5 we fought a holy war, with absolute right on our side, with pure patriotism, with reasonable skill, and that we achieved a result which enabled the United States of America to resume her glorious career in the interest of all mankind, after an interruption of four years by as needless a war as ever afflicted a people. "The causes which led up to that war have been well described...innumerable volumes have been published, and nearly all the leading magazines of our country have added most interesting narratives of events.... Editors...applied long ago to have me assist them in their laudable purpose. I declined, but the pendulum of time seems to have swung too far in the wrong direction: One is likely to receive the impression that the Civil War was only a scramble for power by mobs and not a war of high principle, guided by men of great intelligence according to the best light they possessed. Discovering that one branch of the history of that war, 'grand strategy,' has been overlooked or slighted by writers, I have undertaken to discuss it." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Bell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/059409/bk_acx0_059409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sanjay Dutt: One Man, Many Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 312min
    What the world knows about Sanjay Dutt is only half truths.  Best-selling author, film producer and renowned journalist Ram Kamal Mukherjee unravels the enigma and stigma surrounding Sanju Baba.  There can be no last word on Sanjay Dutt. Ever. Even as he walks a free man after more than three decades of prison terms and controversies, Dutt remains a classic case study in all that defines the ‘star’ system in Bollywood - an industry known for its deep-rooted sense of entitlement. However, there is one question that dominates: who is the real Sanjay Dutt?  Is he a man who has been ‘wronged by the media’, as his friend and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani wants everyone to believe? Is he a son who could never recover from his mother’s death? Is he a son whose father’s political leanings made him an easy target? Or is he a myth, created by a consortium of film journalists, industry insiders, political fiends and adversaries?  Delving deep into both the man and his circumstances, Sanjay Dutt: One Man, Many Lives tells the uncut, untold and uncensored story of Sanjay Balraj Dutt. What emerges is an account - as much about one man’s laudable efforts to keep reinventing himself, as it is about his privileges.  Privileges that were seldom earned and always taken for granted. This is the closest anyone can ever come to understanding Sanju Baba. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mishal Varma. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053660/bk_adbl_053660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fall of Singapore: The Undefeatable British Fortress Conquered , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min
    The fall of Singapore is the greatest defeat of the British empire in the Pacific. On February 15, 1942, the British surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army and handed over Singapore and surrounding Malaya countries. The conflict began on December 8, 1941, when Japanese forces bombed Singapore and continued to make their way through the treacherous Malayan jungle. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated during the attack, “the worst disaster and the largest capitulation in British history”. Singaporeans were immediately ordered to come in for questioning after the Imperial Japanese Army took over. During the interview, their homes were looted and destroyed by the Kempeitai, the secret Japanese police.  During the occupation, there were many tragedies. An example is the Sook Ching Massacre. Sook Ching Massacre, literally meaning “purge through cleansing”, began on February 21, 1942. The mass murder of Singapore residents ages 18 to 50, was targeted at eradicating anti-Japanese sentiments. Victims of the massacre were either Chinese, suspected of being pro-Chinese, anti-Japanese, or Communist. Men and women were questioned and if found guilty, they were taken to one of Singapore’s beaches and murdered. The death toll shows less than 5,000 according to the official Japanese record, while Singaporean officials claim the number of victims was at least 50,000. "Fall of Singapore makes a laudable effort to shine a spotlight on the gruesome details of the Japanese military conquest of British Singapore in 1942 and the ensuing atrocities against the local Chinese population. It makes captivating use of survivor memoirs that bear witness to unspeakable suffering." (Dr. Franziska Seraphim, Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies, Boston College) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Doddy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100074/bk_acx0_100074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    Why They Stay explores the reasoning and motivation of wives who stay with their politician-husbands after they cheat. Hillary Clinton couldn't have known in 1998 how her husband's high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to run for president on a major party ticket. Looking back on the path chosen by the nine political wives profiled in this book, we have the evidence to see a pattern as old as the dynastic maneuverings of England's medieval queens. The women married to the "royalty" of our times, politicians, make similar cold calculations in order to hold onto their "thrones" and their family's history-making potential. After covering politicians for decades, acclaimed columnist Anne Michaud switched her gaze to the women behind the cheating men. Drawing from multiple sources that span the Roosevelts' marriage to the more recent scandal involving Hillary Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin (wife of sexter Anthony Weiner), Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives argues that when it comes to the "power behind the throne", women in the limelight weigh the risks and rewards. They remain loyal to their men, because of complex, often unconscious forces. From mapping a path to power to laudable notions of holding the family together, Michaud examines the uniquely challenging Faustian bargains that political wives grapple with, even as the public spotlight illuminates their every move. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Morsey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094577/bk_acx0_094577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Boko Haram: The History of Africa's Most Notorious Terrorist Group , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 79min
    Profiles leaders of the group and explains its history of attacks Includes footnotes for further reading Includes a table of contents "Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops. Given the present state of affairs, it is absolutely impossible for us to defeat Boko Haram." - Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno On the morning of April 15, 2004, the world woke up to the extraordinary news of the kidnap in a little known hamlet of Nigeria of some 276, primarily Christian schoolgirls, by the radical militant Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram. Almost overnight, the group, which had resided somewhat on the fringes of global consciousness up until that point, found itself at the forefront as international public outrage, culminating in a social media campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama, demanded the immediate return of the kidnapped girls. Those demands, while laudable, simply served to project a hitherto local and regional jihadist movement, operating in the gray hinterland of the African Sahel region, into an organization with an international profile and a place in the pantheon of globally recognized terror organizations. If anything, the headlines have probably imbued Boko Haram with more punch than it can practically wield, for in reality the organization, at least for the time being, it remains less a jihadist movement that a localized terror insurgency with very locally defined objectives. If Boko Haram does indeed nurture international ambitions, which increasingly it appears to, then these perhaps are a fringe expression of a movement that appears in on the whole, again at least for the time being, to be too haphazard, and chaotic in its administration and leadership to really find a home amongst the larger and better known international organizations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wanda J. Dixon McKnight. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034389/bk_acx0_034389_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Write a Book and Publish on Amazon: Make Money with Amazon Kindle, CreateSpace and Audiobooks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
    Writing and self-publishing on Amazon can sound like a dream, but it's much simpler than you think. With the publishing tools Amazon has available - Kindle, CreateSpace, ACX - it would be easy to get overwhelmed, though. Still, self-publishing is an easy way to get your content out to the most listeners as quickly as possible on a globally distributed platform in various digital, paperback, hard cover, audio CD, and downloadable audiobook formats. However, you really must take the time to write quality content before you are ready to publish. Take a moment and consider why you want to publish on your topic. Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it to educate the masses? Is it to share with the world an idea previously unwritten? These are all laudable reasons for wanting to publish. In fact, there are hundreds of reasons to want to publish, and there's no reason why you can't self-publish through Amazon and get your work out to the world. Self-publishing is simple and does not require rejection from publisher after publisher. Get your book out in the world! Create your content and publish on the Amazon platform of your choice using this handy guide. We will walk you through, minute by minute, how to publish via Kindle Direct Publishing, CreateSpace, and the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX). With just this one guide, you will have the keys to publishing on three high-volume platforms and getting your work out to the masses. These platforms are excellent ways to leverage both your writing and your time. Don't wait. Download this audiobook to learn how to write and publish on Amazon Kindle, CreateSpace, and ACX. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Blake. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035433/bk_acx0_035433_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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