42 Results for : brahmins
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Hindu biography Introduction
Hindu biography Introduction ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: Swami Brahmananda Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras Pillai Lokacharya Swami Atmananda Bikram Choudhury Kannada Brahmins Swami Shivananda Matsyendranath Yadunandana Swami Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi Swami Gahanananda. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 998min
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers - right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald's Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts "gateway to nowhere" housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world's toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation's oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America's - and the world's - financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001903/bk_rand_001903_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Dante Club , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 858min
Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club, poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields, are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions onto American bookshelves will prove as corrupting as the immigrants living in Boston Harbor. As they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's torturous punishments. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicolas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever could have imagined. The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on the imagination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Siedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000696/bk_sans_000696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Given Day , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1427min
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families: one black, one white, swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power. Beat cop Danny Coughlin, the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains, joins a burgeoning union movement and the hunt for violent radicals. Luther Laurence, on the run after a deadly confrontation with a crime boss in Tulsa, works for the Coughlin family and tries desperately to find his way home to his pregnant wife. Here, too, are some of the most influential figures of the era: Babe Ruth; Eugene O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events of the time, including the Spanish Influenza pandemic and culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day explores the crippling violence and irrepressible exuberance of a country at war with, and in the thrall of, itself. As Danny, Luther, and those around them struggle to define themselves in increasingly turbulent times, they gradually find family in one another and, together, ride a rising storm of hardship, deprivation, and hope that will change all their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Boatman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001761/bk_harp_001761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min
Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the 20th century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them. Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Henri, Edgar Hewett and Charles Lummis, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopi, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo. Their journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly, and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners, to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons is also the tale of Boston's Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe's art and literary colony. Ladies of the Canyons is the story of New Women stepping boldly into the New World of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the Modern Age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010149/bk_tant_010149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 840min
Named one of the “100 Notable Books of the Year” by the New York Times Book Review.From the widely celebrated New York Times best-selling author of Last Call - this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist).A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers - many of them progressives - who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than 40 years.Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of Southern and Eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensibl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Okrent. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/009235/bk_sans_009235_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Konkani
Konkani ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: Kannada script Mangalorean Catholics Daivadnya Goan Catholics Konkani language Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins Kanara Konkani Konkani phonology Goud Saraswat Brahmin Konkani script List of people from Goa Konkani people. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Social groups of Rajasthan
Social groups of Rajasthan ab 47.49 € als Taschenbuch: Gurjar Ahirs Chauhan Khanzada Tomara dynasty Mughal Gurkha Rajput Jat people Vishwakarma Meo Rajpurohit Paramara Meghwal Mudiraju Charan Nagar Brahmins Agrawal Rathore Meenas Anglo-Indian Mers Mathur Vaishya Sisodia. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,- Shop: hugendubel
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Social groups of Uttar Pradesh
Social groups of Uttar Pradesh ab 53.99 € als Taschenbuch: Gurjar Ahirs Yadav Tomara dynasty Ror Mughal Jat people Kayastha Ranghar Meo Bhumihar Bais Rajput Kamboj Muslim Kamboh Rohilla Nagar Brahmins Khanzada Agrawal Anglo-Indian Lohar Khatri Pathans of Uttar Pradesh. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Beef Brahmins and Broken Men
Beef Brahmins and Broken Men - An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables: ab 29.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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