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Unveiled Mysteries
Unveiled Mysteries ab 13.99 € als Taschenbuch: Secrets of The Comte de Saint Germain; Visions Experienced by an Adherent of Theosophy and the Spiritual Occult. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,- Shop: hugendubel
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Note to Self , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed culture. Anna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself, kudzu-like, over her brain, which makes it even more difficult to confront the question of what to do when she is dismissed from her job as a cubicle serf at a midtown law firm. Despite the exhortations of Leslie, her friend and volunteer life coach, Anna seeks refuge in the back alleys of Craigslist, where she connects with Taj, an adherent of a nebulous movement known as Nowism that occupies the most self-absorbed fringes of the art world. Art, Anna decides, is what will provide the meaningful life she’s been searching for and knows she deserves. She joins Taj’s “crew” and is drawn into his grand experimental film project. But making art is hard and microwaving pouch foods is easy. Soon enough Anna finds herself distracted by myriad other quests: remembering to ask Leslie “How are you?,” reducing her intake of caloric drinks, and parrying her mother’s insistence that she attend hairdressing school. But when Anna’s 27-year-old roommate - a terminal intern named Brie - announces her pregnancy, it forces Anna to confront reality, setting off a chain of events that lead to a horrifying climax of betrayal.Alina Simone’s Note to Self is a shrewdly perceptive, hilarious, moving tale about friendship, art, and the search for a meaningful life in an era of rampant narcissism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aimee Castle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013144/bk_adbl_013144_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Louis XIV and the Zenith of the French Monarchy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
Louis XIV, known as the Grand Monarch, or the Sun King, was a sovereign of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years is the longest recorded of any monarch in European history. In the age of absolutism, Louis XIV's France was the leader in the growing centralization of power. Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661, after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from the capital. He sought to eliminate the remnants of feudalism persisting in parts of France and, by compelling many members of the nobility to inhabit his lavish Palace of Versailles, succeeded in pacifying the aristocracy, many members of which had participated in the Fronde rebellion during Louis' minority. By these means Louis XIV became one of the most powerful French monarchs of all time, consolidating a system of absolute monarchical rule that endured until the French Revolution. Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military, and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, and Vauban, as well as dazzling artists like Molière, Racine, Corneille, La Fontaine, Lully, Rameau, Couperin, Marais, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles and Claude Perrault, Lorrain, Poussin, Le Nôtre, and the brilliant mathematician Descartes. During Louis' reign, France was the leading European power, and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. There were also two lesser conflicts: the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions. Warfare defined the foreign policy of Louis XIV, and his personality shaped his approach. Impelled by a mix of commerce, revenge, and pique, Louis sensed that warfare was the idea ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000219/bk_acon_000219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Forty Years In America (eBook, ePUB)
Forty Years in AmericaMemoirs of a Jewish Educatorby Zevi ScharfsteinProfessor, Teachers Institute, Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaTranslated from Hebrew and edited by Daniel M. Chernoff Zevi Scharfstein was born in 1884 in a small town in what is now Ukraine but was then the Pale of Settlement in Imperial Russia. Growing up in the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movement, he became an adherent of Zionism, in particular the movement to change Hebrew from a purely liturgical language to the common secular language of Jews throughout the world. His entire long career was devoted to making Hebrew a living language, in teaching Hebrew to generations of future Hebrew teachers, and in studying the history of Hebrew pedagogy in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Scharfstein and his wife had an unplanned emigration to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, when they found themselves in Switzerland on their honeymoon and unable to return home. Arriving with thirty-nine dollars, several letters of recommendation as a Hebrew teacher, and little else, Scharfstein quickly became an author of Hebrew textbooks for the Jewish Bureau of Education in New York City, then an independent author with his own publishing house (Shilo Publishing) with a prolific number of textbooks and dictionaries for students and teachers of Hebrew. He also interacted with and observed many of the leading lights of Jewish education and Zionism of the day. In the 1950s, Scharfstein wrote two autobiographical works in Hebrew, one detailing his youth up until the time of his emigration to the United States, the second recounting forty years of personal history as an important figure in Hebrew education in the United States. This is an English translation of that second book, Forty Years in America. It is not simply an autobiography, it is also a history of American Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, and includes mini-biographies of famous and less-famous but influential scholars and Zionists with whom Scharfstein had interactions, among them Louis Brandeis, Henrietta Szold, and Chaim Nachman Bialik.- Shop: buecher
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