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Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min
Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascades of ice crystals falling along its brilliantly white surface. That's what it's like to stand in the eye of a hurricane. In Divine Wind, Kerry Emanuel, one of the world's leading authorities on hurricanes, gives us an engaging account of these awe-inspiring meteorological events, revealing how hurricanes and typhoons have literally altered human history, thwarting military incursions and changing the course of explorations. Offering an account of the physics of the tropical atmosphere, the author explains how such benign climates give rise to the most powerful storms in the world and tells what modern science has learned about them. Interwoven with this scientific account are descriptions of some of the most important hurricanes in history and relevant works of art and literature. For instance, he describes the 17th-century hurricane that likely inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest and that led to the British colonization of Bermuda. We also listen about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, by far the worst natural calamity in U.S. history, with a death toll between 8,000 and 12,000 that exceeded the San Francisco earthquake, the Johnstown Flood, and the Okeechobee Hurricane. Divine Wind captures the profound effects that hurricanes have had on humanity. It's fascinating blend of history, science, and art will appeal to weather junkies, science buffs, and everyone who read Isaac's Storm. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Paul Guimont. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015497/bk_adbl_015497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Across the Spectrum , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1115min
Book View Cafe celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life's hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Table of Contents: "Shapeshifter Finals", by Jeffrey A. Carver; "Feef's House", by Doranna Durgin; "Ukaliq and the Great Hunt", by David D. Levine Parsley; "Space, Rosemary, and Time", by Katharine Kerr; "Monsoon Day", by Mary Anne Mohanraj; "The Fiddler's Price", by Sarah Zettel; "Solstice" by Jennifer Stevenson; "Cuckoo" by Madeleine E. Robins; "Nine White Horses", by Judith Tarr; "Handing on the Goggles", by Brenda W. Clough; "Litany of Hope" by Irene Radford; "By the Sea" by Shannon Page; "Climbing to the Moon", by Ursula K. Le Guin; "The Cornfield" by P.G. Nagle; "Ducks" by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel; "Short-Timer" by Dave Smeds; "Terminal" by Chaz Brenchley; "Suraki" by Dave Trowbridge; "The Honor of the Ferrocarril" by Sylvia Kelso; "Transfusion" by Deborah J. Ross; "Survival Skills" by Nancy Jane Moore; "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre; "The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe" by Marie Brennan; "Lady Invisible" by Patricia Rice; "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" by Sherwood Smith; "Perfect Stranger" by Amy Sterling Casil; "The Alzheimer's Book Club" by Jill Zeller; "Betrayal" by Mindy Klasky; "Art & Science" by Sue Lange; and "Genuine Old Master" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Read by Aaron Abano, Tess Van Horn, Paula Hoffman, Christopher Price, J. Paul Guimont, Corey Gagne, Eric Pollins, Kymberly Dakin, Marguerite Vine, Christine Marshall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano, Tess Van Horn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019480/bk_adbl_019480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
At the start of the 21st century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all evangelicals now." Steven P. Miller offers a dramatically different perspective: The Bush years, he argues, did not mark the pinnacle of evangelical influence, but rather the beginning of its decline. The Age of Evangelicalism chronicles the place and meaning of evangelical Christianity in America since 1970, a period Miller defines as America's "born-again years". This was a time of evangelical scares, born-again spectacles, and battles over faith in the public square. From the Jesus chic of the 1970s to the satanism panic of the 1980s, the culture wars of the 1990s, and the faith-based vogue of the early 2000s, evangelicalism expanded beyond churches and entered the mainstream in ways both subtly and obviously influential. Born-again Christianity permeated nearly every area of American life. It was broad enough to encompass Hal Lindsey's doomsday prophecies and Marabel Morgan's sex advice, Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Carter. It made an unlikely convert of Bob Dylan and an unlikely president of a divorced Hollywood actor. As Miller shows, evangelicalism influenced not only its devotees but its many detractors: religious conservatives, secular liberals, and just about everyone in between. The Age of Evangelicalism contained multitudes: it was the age of Christian hippies and the "silent majority," of Footloose and The Passion of the Christ, of Tammy Faye Bakker the disgraced televangelist and Tammy Faye Messner the gay icon. Barack Obama was as much a part of it as Billy Graham. The Age of Evangelicalism tells the captivating story of how born-again Christianity shaped the cultural and political climate in which milli ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Paul Guimont. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018758/bk_adbl_018758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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