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The Red Badge of Courage: The World of Henry Fleming , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 276min
The Red Badge of Courage was Stephen Crane's best known novel. It was one of his two great ones, the other being the underrated Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which was also a ground-breaking work, taking up the subject of women's plights in industrial society as Red Badge takes up men's plight in wartime. The story is a cerebral one, about what the protagonist, new recruit Henry Fleming, an 18-year-old Yankee, thinks. As in most Crane writing, most characters remain nameless, such as the Tall Soldier. The story starts with all the enthusiasm of newbies going to war. Then Fleming faces the boredom of military camp. As a writer famously said, 99% of the time is boredom, 1% terror. Crane introduces us to that subject through this novel. In the first battle, Henry runs, but he is covered by the confusion and gets to return and reunite with his fellows. He picks up a fake injury to justify this by being bonked on the head by another retreating soldier. In the last section, Fleming steps up as the flag carrier, fights well, and survives for another day. A later Crane short story, "The Veteran", features Fleming as an older man, so presumably he survived the Civil War. But this is all left open ended in the novel, which only covers a few weeks time in the four-year war. Listen to "The Veteran" to see how it all turned out and was remembered. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deaver Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000082/bk_smag_000082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, Hollywood Legends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min
Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon, Linda Darnell, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, and most important of all, Gene Tierney, with whom he did five films. Retrospectives of his work often elicit high praise for an underrated actor, a master of the minimalist style. His image personified the "male mask" of the 1940s in classic films such as Laura, Fallen Angel, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, in which he played the "masculine ideal of steely impassivity." No comprehensive discussion of film noir can neglect his performances. He was an "actor's actor." Here at last is the complete story of a great actor, his difficult struggle to overcome alcoholism while enjoying the accolades of his contemporaries, a successful term as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the love of family and friends that never deserted him. Based on diaries, letters, home movies, and other documents, this biography explores the mystery of a poor boy from Texas who made his Hollywood dream come true even as he sought a life apart from the limelight and the backbiting of contemporaries jockeying for prizes and prestige. Called "one of nature's noblemen" by his fellow actor Norman Lloyd, Dana Andrews emerges from Hollywood Enigma as an admirable American success story, fighting his inner demons and ultimately winning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Stamper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/026679/bk_acx0_026679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Death in the Long Grass (eBook, ePUB)
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick's Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it-leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.Based on Capstick's own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush-not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world-underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.- Shop: buecher
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The Secret Manual to Dividend Investing: The Guaranteed Stock Market Formula for Making Passive Income with a Proven Strategy for Attaining Financial Freedom and Early Retirement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 222min
Do you want to discover an infallible way to create passive wealth in the stock market and boost your investment returns while taking less risk? If yes, then you need to pay attention...If you're reading this, you're probably a newbie to the stock market who’s finally ready to get into the world of investing but stuck in the research phase and tired of the constant volatility of the stock market.If this sounds like you, then dividend investing might just be what you need.Dividend investing is one of the most reliable and massively underrated ways to generate passive income for years. In this guide, you're going to completely understand how dividend investing works using time-tested, conservative strategies to help you minimize risk.Here's what you're going to discover in The Secret Manual to Dividend Investing:Four ways to get the inherent value out of a dividend stockFive foolproof tips that smart dividend investors use to find winning stocksThe top 10 investment mistakes you should avoid like the plague that will tank your portfolio performanceThe best strategies to help you grow your dividend income by leaps and boundsThe ugly side of dividend growth investment strategies that most "experts" are unwilling to tell youFive little-known yet effective ways to protect your earnings from taxesAnd much more!Even if you're a complete beginner to the world of investing and have no knowledge of how the stock market works and are on a limited budget, this guide will equip you with the tools you need to reach your financial goals.If you're ready to uncover a time-tested way to build wealth, then scroll to the top of the page and click the "buy now" button to get started today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Greco. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175166/bk_acx0_175166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Superior Sleep Hypnosis Bundle: Enjoy Quality Sleep Whenever You Need it, with Hypnosis, Hörbuch, Digital, 162min
The Superior Sleep Hypnosis Bundle - Enjoy Quality Sleep Whenever you need it, with hypnosisSleep is one of the most underrated components of a healthy regime. It boosts your immune system, helps you lose weight and look younger, and supports your mental abilities. Without the proper amount of sleep, everything else becomes that much harder. But sleep can be elusive when you lead a busy lifestyle.You can take total control of your sleeping habits in just a matter of hours - with help from hypnosis.Close Your Eyes & Simply Drift AwayThe four soothing sessions in the Superior Sleep Hypnosis Bundle will help you develop new routines that will encourage relaxation, lower your anxiety, eliminate stress, and let you sleep when the need arises - at any time of the day or night.Hypnosis Session 1: Great Night's Sleep Every NightUse hypnosis to help you instantly and effortlessly relax and drift off to dreamland. Learn to doze off on command by resetting your circadian rhythms and banning distractions at bedtime. Enjoy the luxury of a full night's sleep and develop the skills to relax at will, whenever you need to.Sleep soundly every single night!Dissolve your anxieties and slumber peacefullyEnjoy extra energy after a restful, refreshing night's sleepHypnosis Session 2: Complete RelaxationOvercome feelings of anxiety and stress, banish tension from your body, and easily fall into deep sleep. Let the day's distractions simply drift away, as you learn to relax your entire mind and body. Overcome tension, fear, and other negative emotions - so your brain can fully switch off and help you enjoy deep, invigorating peace and relaxation.Truly, deeply relax - right here, right now!Overcome stress, and dissolve tension and anxietyFeel healthier and more chilled out every single dayHypnosis Session 3: Overcome Insomnia/p Language: English. Narrator: Hypnosis Live. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ispr/000161/bk_ispr_000161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Requirements for Riches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min
The richest man in modern history, John D. Rockefeller, once boasted, “I have ways of making money that you know nothing of”. Rockefeller made us to understand that until we uncover the right method and apply it, our lives would go on like this indefinitely. His statement simply shows that there are things we must know and do before we can function at a higher level and accumulate riches in great abundance. For success to be manifested in your life you must apply facts, because success is the application of facts. Our book, The Requirements for Riches, is designed to create awareness in you to excel beyond all measures. It contains the secret that has made fortunes for men and women such as Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, and Bill Gates, to mention but a few. Last year, you underrated many ladders that would have taken you to the utmost top. Don't start with that attitude this year if you want to experience success. Remember, anytime you give up or refuse to take action, you have just said to success, “Go to hell. I don't want you." It will go away, and you will find yourself in hell. Find out what Rockefeller was boasting about in this informative, entertaining, and life-transforming book. Take action, and rank yourself among great achievers. I challenge you to get a copy of this book and experience unprecedented success. Take a moment to meditate on the words of the great American poet and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Some books leave us free, and some books make us free.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Beretta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109151/bk_acx0_109151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Emotional Intelligence: A Psychologist’s Guide to Mastering Social Skills, Improving Your Relationships and Raising Your EQ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
Would you like to master the art of personal magnetism and building meaningful relationships with people in your personal and professional life? If yes, then pay attention....In today's highly competitive and confrontational world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to have worthwhile conversations, connect with other people, or disagree with differing opinions without flaring up in emotional outbursts that often accomplish nothing and only estrange you further from the goal you are trying to achieve.Being emotionally intelligent in today's world is more important than ever, and if you're looking for effective tools and strategies to help you develop your emotional intelligence, then you've come to the right place.An individual who knows how to effectively defuse stressful situations, communicate effectively and bring other people to their side will always be ahead of the pack.In Emotional Intelligence, Alex C. Wolf pulls back the curtain on why the emotional quotient (EQ) might even be a better predictor of success than its well-known counterpart and help you discover how you can get emotions to work for you instead of against you.In this guide, you're going to uncover: The nine-point checklist to find out if you're emotionally intelligentTen foolproof ways to improve your emotional intelligenceThe five main components of emotional intelligenceEleven powerful steps to recognize your emotions and get it under controlThe underrated power of delayed gratification and how to master itFail-safe steps to develop solid self-awarenessFour effective tips to help you understand othersFifteen questions to help you determine your status in the workplaceThe simple five-step method for quickly de-escalating and resolving conflictsAnd much, much more!Thoughtfully written and filled with persuasive case s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Frick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146563/bk_acx0_146563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Self-Discipline: How to Create Habits for Atomic Success in Health, Finance and Overall Effectiveness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
Do you want to make changes in your life that last a lifetime? Have you always fallen short of the big goals you set in your life? Do you want to finally make that one change that will transform everything for you?Most people think you just need to set a goal with a deadline, get motivated to do the work, and your life changes overnight. Or they think that the super achievers in the world were born with some special gift that they don’t have. I’m here to tell you that both of these are wrong. Not only are they wrong, they’re the complete opposite of the truth. Anyone can succeed and create the life they want, all they’re missing is the correct recipe. The simple to follow actions that lead to incredible results.Inside:The most underrated skill required to build self-discipline and master any skillHow to avoid self-sabotageThe one thing you need to add to your goal setting to guarantee your goal is achievedThe key attitude towards failure that will decide your futureWhy the number of goals you set matters a lot more than you thinkHow to correctly use momentum to sky rocket your successThe most important factor in making the right choice when faced with difficult decisions Even if you’ve continually failed to achieve what you’ve wanted to achieve in the past.No matter what area of your life you’re looking to improve, be it your health, your career, your relationships, your finances, anything....If you want to finally achieve everything you’ve also dreamed of achieving but always fallen short, get this audiobook today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hadrian Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151198/bk_acx0_151198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bending the Bow of Ulysses: Wade Hampton's Southern Cavalry (Traditional American History Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 269min
The purpose of this selection is to document the military career of Wade Hampton III. Six feet tall and sturdily built, Hampton was no armchair warrior. Noted for his patriarchal and caring manner, Hampton would give all of his own personal fortune for the Confederate cause before the Civil War was over. Wounded five times in battle (severely at Gettysburg), at 42 years of age Hampton was described as the idealized statue of a mounted warrior. Despite his lack of military experience and his relatively advanced age, Hampton was a natural cavalryman - brave, audacious, dedicated, and a superb horseman. While Hampton was in command of the Confederate Cavalry Corps through to the end of the war, he never lost a single fight. In fact, it is the thesis of this selection that Hampton was always a significant, but underrated, force in the CSA cavalry. His victories, especially when outnumbered and out-resourced, would be unparalleled. By any measure the choice of Wade Hampton as Stuart's replacement was inspired. As Stuart was very nearly the perfect leader in the days of attack, so Hampton was almost perfectly fitted to command in the days of defense. Hampton was among the most frequent and successful of hand-to-hand combatants among all the general officers in American history. He would lose his brother and his youngest son, both killed in action, and would literally see his eldest son, Wade Hampton IV, critically wounded. After J.E.B. Stuart's death, Hampton became the commander of Southern Cavalry and proved to be a stalwart leader and able tactician. He won the open devotion of his men, the respect of his adversaries, but never the public adulation that his predecessor commanded. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Orders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029346/bk_acx0_029346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Truman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most underrated presidents of the 20th century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and was in office at the time when the multiplicity of hopes which arose at the end of the Second World War were inevitably disappointed. Nothing could be further from Roy Jenkins' view of him. This is the first biography of Truman to be written by an author with anything approaching the subject's own range of political experience, and Roy Jenkins brings to this book a quality of appreciation of Truman's political skills which has not been seen before. It is also the first biography to be written by a British author, giving it a new objectivity on the international affairs which occupied so much of Truman's presidency and by which he must be judged. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (1920- 2003) served in several major posts in Harold Wilsons First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as chancellor of the University of Oxford, following the latter's death, a position he held until his death. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith, and Lloyd George. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Howard Ellison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009198/bk_adbl_009198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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