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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 737min

Instant New York Times best-seller and a New York Times critics' pick.“Thrilling...[told] with gonzo élan.... When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” (Jennifer Senior, The New York Times)Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn’t know much about wine - until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork”. With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the listener inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: What’s the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine - and, perhaps, the way you live - forever.“Think: Eat, Pray, Love meets Somm.” (TheSkimm)“As informative as it is, well, intoxicating.” (Fortune) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bianca Bosker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003083/bk_peng_003083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Aries Rising , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min

Philip Castle, newly separated from an adulterous wife and afflicted by middle-age doldrums, is a professor at the University of Chicago off to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But life is far from restful. His first day on the island he watches a small plane crash, piloted by a man who looks disturbingly like him. He then meets Marie-Celeste - a fabulously beautiful and provocative young woman with whom he makes love - only to find that she is the mistress of the powerful and mysterious Count Raymond de Vaucresson, who with three colleagues has made a fortune in drug-running, arms-smuggling and gambling. He may even be a murderer. They seem ruled by astrology, and have the persuasive charm and élan of the super-rich, so even though he knows they are evil and dangerous, Castle, deeply in love, agrees to board their yacht, the Zodiac, on a trip around the Caribbean. The voyage gives the illusion of the swankiest of pleasure cruises, but the reality is one of danger, crime, and sexual depravity. When Philip discovers their real mission, he vows to stop them, but hasn't the slightest idea how to do it and the answer doesn't lie in the stars. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weitzel, Punch Audio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031152/bk_acx0_031152_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Life of My Own , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 578min

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin, read by Dame Penelope Wilton. As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life. This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. When he was killed on assignment as a war correspondent, she was left to bring up their four children - and at the same time make her own career. She writes of the intense joys of a fascinating progression as she became one of the most successful literary editors in London before discovering her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child. Writing with the élan and insight which characterize her biographies, Claire Tomalin sets her own life in a wider cultural and political context, vividly and frankly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the '50s and '60s and showing 'how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-20th-century England...carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life.' ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dame Penelope Wilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001000/bk_pauk_001000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Queen of Tomorrow: A Stolen Empire Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min

Sophie - now Catherine, Grand Duchess of Russia - had a tough first year at Imperial Court. Married at 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir to the throne, and settled in their own palace, things start to look up. As a new day dawns, Catherine thinks only of securing her future, and the future of their country, during one of the greatest political upheavals of her time. Fighting desperately against forces that try to depose the Empress Elizabeth and put the young Prince Ivan on her throne, Catherine soon finds herself in the middle of a war brewing between her beloved Prussia and her new empire. While navigating the fragile political landscape, she quickly realizes that she has only begun to discover the tangled web of deceit and infidelity woven over the lavish court of Oranienbaum Palace. When a strange and delicate alliance forms between the young couple, Catherine glimpses a future of happiness, only to see it vanish at the hands of those who still seek to end her life - and prevent her reign. Out of favor with the empress and running out of options, Catherine must sacrifice her own innocence on the altar of Russia if she is to save the nation and herself. To survive, she will have to do the unthinkable, betray those closest to her and become something greater and more dangerous than she ever imagined she could be...a queen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Élan O'Connor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049932/bk_acx0_049932_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Schöpferische Evolution

Mit seinem epochemachenden Hauptwerk »L'évolution créatrice«, für das er 1927 den Nobelpreis für Literatur erhielt, greift Bergson unmittelbar in die Diskussion über zeitgenössische Evolutionstheorien ein, die die Biologie um die Jahrhundertwende beherrschten. Gegenüber mechanistischen Konzepten wie dem Neo-Darwinismus, die er - mit großer Sachkenntnis im Detail - als unzureichend für das Verständnis der Komplexität evolutionärer Prozesse kritisiert, versucht Bergson für die Philosophie die Deutungshoheit über den Lebensbegriff zurückzugewinnen.Die Grundfrage des Werks lautet: Gibt es etwas, das alle Lebewesen in ihrer Entwicklung gemeinsam haben und das insofern ein bestimmendes Merkmal des Lebens selbst ist? Bergson findet die Antwort im titelgebenden Begriff der »schöpferischen Evolution«. Nicht nur ist die Evolution als schöpferisch zu denken, sondern zugleich der schöpferische Akt als »evolutiv«. Als treibende Kraft und Ursache aller Veränderungen macht Bergson dabei den ursprünglichen »élan vital« (Lebensimpuls) aus, der zu einem Zentralbegriff seiner Philosophie wurde.Die Kritik am Szientismus seiner Zeit führt Bergson darüber hinaus zu einem neuen Zugang zur Lebenswirklichkeit, den er in der (methodisch präzise bestimmten) »Intuition« entdeckt. So wird die Auseinandersetzung mit der Evolutionstheorie zugleich zu einer großangelegten Neubestimmung der philosophischen Methode.L'évolution créatrice wurde 1912 von Gertrud Kantorowicz zum ersten Mal ins Deutsche übertragen. Ihre in Sprache und Terminologie stark vom George-Kreis geprägte Übersetzung wurde für diese Neuausgabe vollständig überarbeitet und enthält jetzt auch die in der ersten deutschen Ausgabe fehlenden Anmerkungen und Nachweise Bergsons.

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The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, Hörbuch, Digital, 360min

Steven Gaines takes us from New York's most expensive condominiums and co-ops to the offices of its most powerful real estate brokers to reveal the outlandish displays of ego, bad behavior, and status hunger that come into play when the best addresses in the city are on the line. With his signature élan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities: From Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna. Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: Why diplomats and pretty divorcées are frowned upon, what not to wear to a board interview, and which of the biggest celebrities and CEOs have been turned away from the elite buildings of Fifth and Park Avenues. He introduces the carriage-trade brokers who never have to advertise for clients and gives us finely etched portraits of a few of the discreet, elderly society ladies who decide who gets into the so-called Good Buildings. Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of blackballing undesirable neighbors. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Gaines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000397/bk_time_000397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Philosophie der Dauer

Gilles Deleuze hat sich schon früh mit dem Werk Henri Bergsons beschäftigt, der die überragende Gestalt der französischen Philosophie vor Sartre war. Seine Monographie »Le bergsonisme« (1966 erschienen), die zentrale Begriffe bei Bergson erschließt und dessen kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Erkenntnisanspruch der exakten Wissenschaften weiterführt, gilt in Frankreich bis heute als Standardwerk.Bereits 1957 stellte Deleuze einen Band mit Textauszügen aus allen wichtigen Werken Bergsons zusammen, der hier unter dem Titel »Philosophie der Dauer« zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch erscheint. Er bildet gleichsam die Materialsammlung zum »Bergsonisme«, und mit diesem Band begann die Wiederentdeckung Bergsons in Frankreich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.Deleuze' kongeniale Aneinanderreihung von Textpassagen aus »Zeit und Freiheit«, aus »Materie und Gedächtnis« und der »Schöpferischen Evolution«, aber auch aus den Aufsatzbänden und dem Spätwerk bietet einen guten Überblick über das Bergson'scheDenken. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es neben der Intuition als Methode, dem Gedächtnis als Medium zeitlicher Erfahrung und dem Lebensschwung (élan vital) als Ursache aller Veränderung vor allem die Dauer ist, die begrifflich im Mittelpunkt von Bergsons Philosophie steht. Mit Dauer (durée) ist dabei (anders als in der umgangssprachlichen Bedeutung des Wortes) nicht die starre zeitliche Abfolge von Unveränderlichem gemeint, sondern der kontinuierliche Wandel: Dauer ist das übergreifende begriffliche Konzept, mit dem die Philosophie, im Gegensatz zu den experimentellen Wissenschaften, das »immerwährende Fließen der Dinge« zu erfassen vermag.Sämtliche Texte wurden von Margarethe Drewsen einheitlich neu übersetzt; der Band lässt sich wie eine kompakte Einführung in Bergsons Denken lesen.

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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 868min

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers' now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not'". Rogers' little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers' was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the "facts" and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. With élan and erudition - and with winning enthusiasm - Henry Louis Gates Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogers' work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African American history in question-and-answer format. Among the 100 questions: Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was history's wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which black man made many of our favorite household products better? Here is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievous - all the while highly instructive and entertaining - compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being "Negro" in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005382/bk_rand_005382_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min

Often compared to Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, Caroline of Ansbach is the great queen Britain forgot it had - a thinker, politician, schemer, patroness and matriarch. This brilliant book offers a remarkable portrait of a woman of great political astuteness and ambition, a radical icon of female power. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband, George II, Caroline is credited with bringing the Enlightenment to Britain through her sponsorship of red-hot debates about science, religion, philosophy and the nature of the universe. Encouraged by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, she championed inoculation; inspired by her friend Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, she mugged up on Newtonian physics; she embraced a salon culture which promoted developments in music, literature and garden design; and she was a regular theatregoer who loved the opera, gambling and dancing. Her intimates marvelled at the breadth of her interests. She was, said Lord Egmont, 'curious in everything'. Caroline acted as Regent four times whilst her husband returned to Hanover, and during those periods she possessed power over all domestic matters. No subsequent royal woman has exercised power on such a scale. So why has history forgotten this extraordinary queen? In this magnificent biography, the first for over 70 years, Matthew Dennison seeks to reverse this neglect. The First Iron Lady uncovers the complexities of Caroline's multifaceted life from the child of a minor German princeling who, through intelligence, determination and a dash of sex appeal, rose to occupy one of the great positions of the world - and did so with distinction, élan and a degree of cynical realism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clare Corbett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003130/bk_hcuk_003130_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min

Delving into the long, extraordinary life of renowned French fashion designer Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo has written a new kind of book, exploring Chanel’s philosophy on a range of universal themes—from style to passion, from money and success to femininity and living life on your own terms. Chanel is credited not simply with giving us the little black dress and boxy jackets, but with popularizing pants for women and easy, practical clothes that allowed women a chic freedom they’d never known before. In her strong-headed, elegant, opinionated, passionate, entirely French way, Coco Chanel helped bring women into the modern era, and because of this she was the only person in fashion to be named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century. Karen Karbo weaves Chanel’s life story into chapter themes that subtly convey life lessons and leave the reader utterly entranced with Chanel’s amazing individuality, confidence, and determination. The story of the designer’s extraordinary life and rise to unprecedented success is both compelling and admirable. And while the great Coco may have launched her singular empire a hundred years ago, her methods, attitude, and élan are as relevant and modern as ever, and perhaps more appealing. Chanel was a self-made girl who knew how to make do with less until she had more, discover and stay true to her own style, problem solve using the tools at hand, and do it all with seemingly effortless flair. The Gospel According to Coco Chanel is a captivating, offbeat look at style, celebrity, and self-invention—all held together with Karbo’s droll Chanel-style commentary and culled from an examination of Chanel’s difficult childhood and triumphant adulthood, passionate love affairs, career choices, habits, eccentricities, and personal philosophies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004064/bk_blak_004064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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