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    Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 905min
    For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showmen are laid bare. When Freddie Mercury died in 1991, aged just 45, the world was rocked by the vibrant and flamboyant star's tragic secret that he had been battling AIDS. That Mercury had even been diagnosed came as a shock to his millions of fans, with his announcement coming less than 24 hours before his death. In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave Freddie Mercury's incredible pursuit of musical greatness with Queen, his upbringing and his endless search for love with the story of a terrible disease that swept across the world in the 1980s, as medical treatment fought to catch up with it despite underfunding, social ignorance and homophobia. With brand-new perspectives from Mercury's closest friends and fellow musicians, this unique and deeply moving tribute casts a very different light on both his death and the origins of AIDS itself. An intimate listen, like Freddie and his art, it will stay with you for a long time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Bruce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003191/bk_boli_003191_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
    From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation has lain wherever people have been working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson's storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey, from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows. Johnson compellingly argues that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues in novel amusements. You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002914/bk_peng_002914_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Worse Than He Says He Is: White Girls Don't Bounce: My Walk on the Wild Side with Dennis Rodman, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    By the age of 20, Anicka Bakes was earning her living as a model in the fashion capitals of the world - Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and New York. Beautiful, wealthy, but still innocent in the ways of the heart, she met a sensitive and talented athlete on the rise named Dennis Rodman. The two fell in love. In seven tumultuous years, their daughter Alexis was born, Anicka suffered from a tragic car accident ending her modeling career, Dennis and Anicka married, and the two engaged in many vicious private and some very public fights. Dennis Rodman, as the money and fame poured in, was revealed as immature, manipulative, dishonest, and abusive to his wife and child. Instead of living in a happy family with a loving man, Anicka went through seven years of living hell. In Worse than He Says He Is, you'll hear Anicka's story about the young man from the ghettos of Dallas who became one of the world's greatest professional athletes, master showmen, and outrageous cultural icons. Language: English. Narrator: Anicka Rodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000287/bk_pnix_000287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
    What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps you hold in your hand help tell the story of humanity itself? In his brilliant new work on the history of innovation, international best seller Steven Johnson argues that the pursuit of novelty and wonder has always been a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. He finds that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson's storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colourful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows. Johnson compellingly argues that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues in novel amusements. You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001020/bk_macm_001020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sun and the Moon
    The Sun and the Moon ab 4.49 € als epub eBook: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers Showmen Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteen. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    The Sun and the Moon: Hoaxers, Showmen, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th-Century New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 742min
    The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. It quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era.Told in richly novelistic detail, The Sun and the Moon brings the raucous world of 1830s New York City vividly to life, including such larger-than-life personages as Richard Adams Locke, who authored the moon series but who never intended it to be a hoax; fledgling showman P. T. Barnum, who had just brought his own hoax to town; and a young Edgar Allan Poe, convinced that the series was a plagiarism of his own work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002906/bk_blak_002906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
    Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system. Since the 1920s, politicians and professional showmen have developed relationships and built organizations institutionalizing Hollywood styles, structures, and personalities in the American political process. Brownell explores how similarities developed between operating a studio, planning a successful electoral campaign, and ultimately running an administration. Using their business and public relations know-how, figures such as Louis B. Mayer, Bette Davis, Jack Warner, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, and members of the Rat Pack made Hollywood connections an asset in apolitical world being quickly transformed by the media. Brownell takes listeners behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders and presidential candidates from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, analyzing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to raise money, win votes, and secure success for all those involved. She demonstrates how Hollywood contributed to the rise of mass-mediated politics, making the twentieth century not just the age of the political consultant but also the age of showbiz politics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007121/bk_blak_007121_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hanover Girls Book 4 (eBook, ePUB)
    The band is ready. The families are ready. The Hanovers and the Masons think they know what they are getting into as the Hanover Girls and Spectre, along with the parents, embark on a spring break trip they will never forget. Deirdre, however, is not so sure. As the coordinator of the trip and Sarah's new employee, Deirdre's concerns reach a peak crisis regarding Cara. Desperate to find a resolution, she reaches out to Andrea for help. In the meantime, the band finds a mentor at the school that will mold them into shape and become true performers and showmen. The day finally arrives for the concert performance, and it is as emotional as it is exciting. Ingrid's plea to a long, lost love is given, as well as her tribute to an angel. The band members are galvanized as they execute the performance with everything they have. In the aftermath of the concert, the students at the International School For Children see the band members differently. An unexpected reverence arises for two of the band members that will change all of their lives. Cara's talents and abilities are explored and discovered, leading to a startling conclusion for her future. And two unplanned reunions bring the growing family closer than ever.
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    The Hanover Girls Book 4
    The band is ready. The families are ready. The Hanovers and the Masons think they know what they are getting into as the Hanover Girls and Spectre, along with the parents, embark on a spring break trip they will never forget. Deirdre, however, is not so sure. As the coordinator of the trip and Sarah's new employee, Deirdre's concerns reach a peak crisis regarding Cara. Desperate to find a resolution, she reaches out to Andrea for help. In the meantime, the band finds a mentor at the school that will mold them into shape and become true performers and showmen. The day finally arrives for the concert performance, and it is as emotional as it is exciting. Ingrid's plea to a long, lost love is given, as well as her tribute to an angel. The band members are galvanized as they execute the performance with everything they have. In the aftermath of the concert, the students at the International School For Children see the band members differently. An unexpected reverence arises for two of the band members that will change all of their lives. Cara's talents and abilities are explored and discovered, leading to a startling conclusion for her future. And two unplanned reunions bring the growing family closer than ever.
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    The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
    The Wonders is a radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgotten and extraordinary freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define an era.  On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the 19th century - the age of the freak was born.  Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of astonishing spectacle - of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins and swaggering showmen - and one that has since inspired countless novels, films and musicals. But the real stories (human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage) of the performing men, women and children have been forgotten or marginalised in the histories of the very people who exploited them.  In this richly evocative account, Dr John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities.And through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, of 'alternative facts'; while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation and our fascination with 'otherness'. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gavin Osborn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052918/bk_adbl_052918_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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