84 Results for : opportunist
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Quarterly Essay 3: The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of of Reaction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
In the third Quarterly Essay of 2001, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror. This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant ideas, his concerted "dreaming" with its emphasis on unity and national identity that reveals him to be the most reactionary PM we have ever had, the only political leader who would allow ideas like those of One Nation to dominate the mainstream of Australian politics in order to improve his political chances. Rundle puts Howard in the context of the economic liberalism he shares with his colleagues and opponents and the conservative social ideology that sets him apart. It is a complex portrait in a radical mirror which relates John Howard to everything from Menzies's "forgotten people" to the inadvertent glamour of the government's antidrug advertising. It is also a plea for right-thinking people of every political persuasion to resist the call to prejudice and reaction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Guy Rundle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001235/bk_boli_001235_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Der Soldat Kurt Tucholsky
Der Soldat Kurt Tucholsky ab 16.99 € als pdf eBook: Realist - Opportunist - Pazifist? Das Erlebnis des Krieges und seine Wirkung. 1. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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Mrs. Kimble , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
In her masterful first novel, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the compelling story of three women who marry the same man, an enigmatic opportunist named Ken Kimble. Birdie. 1961. He was the choir director at a Southern Bible college. At practice she followed his hands with her eyes. She imagined his shoulders bare beneath his shirt, his body long and white. One evening he approached her. Joan. 1969. She met him at a pool party in Florida. His lank dark hair hung to his shoulders; he wore faded jeans and a colorful cotton blouse. No man had touched her in a year. He was engaged to someone else. Dinah. 1979. They met by accident in Washington, D.C. Their paths had intersected once before, when she was a teenager. "You're a beautiful girl," he'd told her, oblivious to the hideous scar on her face. He was old enough to be her father. Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, who struggles to hold herself together after his desertion; his second wife, a lonely heiress shaken by personal tragedy, who sees in Kimble her last chance at happiness; and finally Dinah Whitacre, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age. Woven throughout is the story of Kimble's son, Charlie, whose life is forever affected by a father he barely remembers. Ken Kimble is a chameleon, a man able to become, at least for a while, all things to all women. To each of the three Mrs. Kimbles, he appears as a hero to whom powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached. Only later do they glimpse the truth about this elusive, unknowable man. A captivating exploration of human love, marriage, and the illusions upon which it is founded, Mrs. Kimble presents a fascinating psychological portrait of a mesmerizing opportunist and the women who believe in him. Beautifully wrought, stunningly original, Jennifer Haigh's sparkling debut marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent./p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martha Plimpton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000892/bk_harp_000892_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Perhaps Another Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
1878. Life for textile worker Amanda Levesque is harsh and demoralizing - until she meets and finds herself beguiled by the curious charm of Jesse Randall. Jesse, a stressed-out 21st-century workaholic, has traveled back in time through an intriguing 4-dimensional mural and decides to settle down in Amanda's quiet corner of eternity and be happy for a change. But when Amanda must travel with Jesse to the present for a life-saving vaccine, she discovers a world of excitement and opportunity she has no intention of giving up...until a crazed opportunist wants in on their time-travel action and kidnaps Amanda, the fabric of time is torn - and this may cost her oldest and dearest friend his life. Now comes the true test of Amanda's newfound mettle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Kate. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083066/bk_acx0_083066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Inheritors: John Grimes, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
He was a cunning, ruthless opportunist who paid when he had to and stole when he could - but never when there was the slightest chance of getting caught. That's what had John Grimes worried: Here was Kane directly under the watchful eyes - and guns - of a Federation Survey vessel, openly engaging in kidnapping and trafficking in human flesh! Despite the fact that the beautiful inhabitants of this Lost Colony faced a fate worse than death, a more cautious - or less gallant - officer would do nothing - secure in the knowledge that regardless of appearances there would be some loophole that placed the Law squarely on Kane's side. But Grimes, being Grimes, would have to act - knowing full well that to "interfere with a merchantmen on her lawful occasions" meant a blasted career...and knowing too that Drongo Kane never broke the law.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007745/bk_adbl_007745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1791min
Now a major motion picture, Vanity Fair is one of the greatest of English novels, a vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society and a landmark in the history of realistic fiction. Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Vanity Fair is Thackeray's resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero", it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp, one of literature's most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines, and her foil, the faithful, naive Amelia Sedley. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Thackeray's subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and "dismal roguery" of an avaricious world resonates 150 years later with implications for our own times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frederick Davidson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001454/bk_blak_001454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fury, Hörbuch, Digital, 358min
In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two assistant DAs who tried the case. While the cops and the criminal justice system are under media assault and opportunist political demagoguery, Karp has suspicions that there is corruption within his own office. Against a backdrop of Russian mobsters and corrupt lawyers, Butch and Marlene are on a mission to restore the system's lost dignity and bring the rapists to justice. All the while terrorists are at it again, planning to blow the roof off Times Square on New Year's Eve. Alas, the Karp family finds itself in lethal jeopardy, and to survive, they must team up and fight their greatest battle yet. Language: English. Narrator: Lee Sellars. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000608/bk_sans_000608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Der Soldat Kurt Tucholsky
Der Soldat Kurt Tucholsky ab 24.99 € als Taschenbuch: Realist - Opportunist - Pazifist? Das Erlebnis des Krieges und seine Wirkung. 1. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Deine Wahl / Your Choice - Zweisprachiges E-Book Deutsch / Englisch
Deine Wahl / Your Choice - Zweisprachiges E-Book Deutsch / Englisch ab 12.99 € als epub eBook: Analoger Opportunist oder progressiver Optimist? Eine Einladung am Systemwechsel mitzuwirken. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Opportunist: The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1959
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