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Recovered Not Cured , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min

Edinburgh, 1994.I am crouching in an alleyway. They can't see me here, so for the moment, I am safe. There must be hundreds of loudspeakers projecting secret messages at me and umpteen video cameras tracking every move I make. They will tie me up, soak my feet in water, and have goats lick my feet down to the bone. Melbourne, 2003.Nowadays, I say I am recovered, not cured. I have a job, I have my band, and I have my friend and my family. I pay my taxes and do the dishes; I'm independent. A couple of pills a day keep me slightly lethargic yet sane. I can live with that.Mental illness is common and often devastating. In this day and age, it is a treatable condition, yet many are left untreated, misunderstood. Richard McLean is one of the lucky ones. His words and pictures give us a unique and poignant insight into a hidden, internal world."This is a powerful, quirky, and important book. Powerful because it goes straight to the heart of battling a psychotic illness. Quirky because of the author s abundant creativity and the delight of his illustrations. Important because it outstrips anything else I have read about schizophrenia for its insight into the nature of psychotic thinking and behaviour. McLean writes with a bold simplicity and deftly avoids melodrama and bathos." (Anne Deveson) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Mclean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144169/bk_acx0_144169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hearts and Mines: With the Marines in al Anbar - A Story of Psychological Warfare in Iraq , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed from and inspired by the author's personal wartime journal, it is a story of introspection. It relates how the feelings of eagerness and uncertainty in a young man unfamiliar with war were replaced with the dread knowledge that, buried within his soul, beneath a facade of goodwill and morality, lurked the capacity to kill his fellow men. There are scenes of battle retold in Hearts and Mines. There are descriptions of the feelings of seeing once-familiar human bodies destroyed beyond recognition. Some days are described as being full of hope and appreciation for the beauty of the world, others with despair for the omnipresent cruelty and destruction which has a habit of consuming men when they feel unaccountable for their actions. It captures the sensory experience of living in a singular environment full of strange plants and animals, friends true and false, and determined enemies, encapsulating the existential fear of mortar and rocket attacks, and the ever-present threat of IEDs, as well as the ridiculousness of military bureaucracy, such as was demonstrated by a sergeant major's decision to punish graffiti artists by removing the doors of all the camp's toilets. In late 2001 Russell Snyder joined the United States Army as a psychological operations specialist. As a member of the 9th PSYOP Battalion, the army's only active-duty, tactical psychological operations unit he deployed to Iraq, the experience that inspired him to write Hearts and Mines. Subsequently he was deployed twice ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Allen Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010086/bk_adbl_010086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1366min

From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth - the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."He lived in the present tense - in the camera’s lens. There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace - radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones, and loudspeakers - Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen". Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh - business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit - Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom.His was a life of journeys and itineraries - from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases.After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927 - a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season - he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Leavy, Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007812/bk_harp_007812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: The History and Legacy of NASA's Most Notorious Tragedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 124min

In the decades after the Apollo program, American space shuttles flew over 130 missions and successfully completed over 98 percent of them, but unfortunately, the two most famous missions were the ones that ended tragically aboard the Challenger and Columbia. The Space Shuttle Challenger was the most heavily used space shuttle in the three years it was operational, carrying the first minority astronaut and woman astronaut into space. Challenger was also the first space shuttle to complete a landing at night. On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L. Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission. On this mission, the Challenger was carrying a satellite for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites system, which was to be deployed in orbit. The crew included Ronald McNair, who had already been the second African-American in space, and Ellison Onizuka, who had already been the first Asian-American astronaut in space. But the highlight of the mission was to be the "NASA Teacher in Space Project," in which a civilian teacher would give teaching lessons to his or her class while onboard the space shuttle. The winner of the competition was Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire, who wrote a winning essay and had to undergo a year of astronaut training before that fateful day. That morning, many spectators came to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch. Several news networks were carrying live broadcasts of the launch, including live shots of McAuliffe's parents as they watched the Challenger liftoff. Mission Control's transmissions to the Challenger were being blared over loudspeakers to give spectators a play-by-play of the shuttle's ascent. Ascent seemed to be going normally during the first minute, but about 75 seconds into ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085662/bk_acx0_085662_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Binaural Beats: Activation of Pineal Gland - Stress Reduction - Meditation - Brainwave Entrainment - Deep Relaxation, Hörbuch, Digital, 313min

Binaural beats help you enter a meditative state quickly and easily, allowing you to use meditation as a tool for personal growth, relaxation, and spiritual practices.How do binaural beats work?Binaural beats are a psychoacoustic phenomenon that arises in the brain when the right and left ears are exposed to different tones with a constant amplitude. These tones have slightly different frequencies and create a third frequency that we perceive in the center of our brain. This generates a pleasant, gentle, and very comforting sensation.The method is based on groundbreaking research conducted by the German physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Dove discovered that the effect of binaural tones on our brainwaves can put us into a state of deep relaxation. Some find the effect so pleasant that they fall asleep. Others experience lucid images because of the close correlation with the distinctive brainwave pattern that emerges in REM sleep. As EEG recordings have demonstrated, the same pattern arises in states of deep relaxation and hypnosis.With this premium audio book, you'll experience six binaural soundscapes of various lengths, and with overlapping effects on the frequency bands in the brain:Delta, 0.5-3 Hz,Theta, 4-7 Hz,and Alpha, 8-13 Hz.These frequency bands are associated with relaxation and contemplation. Research has shown that binaural soundscapes can be very helpful for unwinding, meditating, and drifting off to sleep.Simply listen to the tracks and find the ones that work best for you. You will generally know within a few seconds which of the six soundscapes has the best effect on your well-being at any given moment.Please note: Laptop loudspeakers are generally too small to capture the excellent sound spectrum in this premium audiobook. For maximum impact, we strongly recommend that you use good headphones. This will enable you to fully enjoy the intended effect of these gentl Language: English. Narrator: Ian Brannan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/021154/bk_edel_021154_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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