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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots - by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state - in ways still felt today.A masterful reckoning from one of America's preeminent historians, Bomb Power draws a direct line from the Manhattan Project to the usurpations of George W. Bush. The invention of the atomic bomb was a triumph of official secrecy and military discipline - the project was covertly funded at the behest of the president and, despite its massive scale, never discovered by Congress or the press. This concealment was perhaps to be expected in wartime, but Wills persuasively argues that the Manhattan Project then became a model for the covert operations and overt authority that have defined American government in the nuclear era. The wartime emergency put in place during World War II extended into the Cold War and finally the war on terror, leaving us in a state of continuous war alert for 68 years and counting. The bomb forever changed the institution of the presidency since only the president controls "the button" and, by extension, the fate of the world. Wills underscores how radical a break this was from the division of powers established by our founding fathers and how it, in turn, has enfeebled Congress and the courts. The bomb also placed new emphasis on the president's military role, creating a cult around the commander in chief. The tendency of modern presidents to flaunt military airs, Wills points out, is entirely a postbomb phenomenon. Wills recounts how, following World War II, presidential power increased decade by decade until reaching its stunning apogee. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001228/bk_tant_001228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Trenton Makes: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min

A novel of bewitching ingenuity, one whose darkling, melodic mind conceives a world of ruin and awe... (New York Times Book Review)A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American dream by living as a man1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege.In the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman made strong by wartime factory work kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl, disposes of his body, and assumes his identity. As Abe Kunstler, he secures a job in a wire rope factory, buys a car, and successfully woos Inez, an alcoholic dime dancer. He makes a home with her, but for Abe, this is not enough: to complete his transformation, he needs a son.1971: A very different war is underway. The certainties of midcentury triumphalism are a distant, bitter memory, and Trenton's heyday as a factory town is long past. As the sign on the famous bridge says, "Trenton Makes, the World Takes".The family life Abe has so carefully constructed is crumbling under the intolerable pressures of his long ruse. Desperate to hold on to what he has left, Abe searches for solutions in the dying city.Written in brilliantly stylized prose, this gripping narrative is a provocative and incisive exploration of the nature of identity and a disturbing portrait of desperation. Tadzio Koelb has crafted a slim gut shot of a novel that heralds the arrival of a writer of startling talent and imagination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mozhan Marnò. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006078/bk_rand_006078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Companies based in Texas

Companies based in Texas ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: Texaco Dell Exxon Convex Computer Apogee Software Mannatech Money Management International 3D Realms Minute Maid King Ranch Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Bio-Synthesis Inc. Lone Star Airlines EEStor AppleTree Markets. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,

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Video game publishers ab 45.49 € als Taschenbuch: Nintendo Atari Taito Corporation Blizzard Entertainment Capcom Valve Corporation Video game publisher Arxel Tribe Bethesda Softworks Wisdom Tree Apogee Software Electronic Arts Sega List of video game publishers Square Enix. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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This Side of Paradise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min

In This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us Amory Blaine, who, from boyhood through his early 20s, is on a quest for his identity, his philosophy, and his sense of place in a world never quite his own, a world in which he moves with barely concealed ego-fueled disgust and contempt. Fitzgerald's breakthrough novel, written in 1920 when the author was 23, manages to be both a thinly veiled autobiography and a sincere attempt by Fitzgerald to get into the head of the young, privileged personages of his time. This Side of Paradise follows the arc of Amory's life from a shakily moneyed Midwestern childhood through a tortuous tenancy at St. Regis prep school, on to the almost mystical grounds of Princeton, finally arriving in the real world of labor and responsibility. Along the way Amory must come to terms with that great irritant in his life: women. Neither as a boy nor as a young man does Amory come fully to grips with his bipolar reactions to the schoolgirls, starry-eyed debutants, and emotionally off-the-wall women who cross his path so many times throughout the story. Hopeful love turns hopeless, exciting relationships become dull, proximate hearts eventually wander away and fade. It seems that for every emotional or intellectual perigee in Amory's life, there is a soul-punishing apogee waiting in the next minute. Amory's sole companion through much of his journey is Monsignor Darcy, a former pagan from Asheville (as described by Fitzgerald) who, suffering from unfulfilled love for Amory's mother, Beatrice, turned to the Catholic Church with a vengeance. Through richly descriptive narrative, achingly plaintive poetry, and even a theatrically formatted interlude or two, Fitzgerald chronicles the stutter-step journey of a handsome, educated, yet stubbornly socially and emotionally naïve young man blessed with a creative brain but remarkably, frustratingly deficient in human understanding. Amory Blaine strives to comprehend his ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001502/bk_mike_001502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Britannia's Wolf: The Dawlish Chronicles: September 1877-February 1878 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 790min

In 1877, the Russo-Turkish War is reaching its climax. A Russian victory will pose a threat for Britain's strategic interests. To protect those interests, an ambitious British naval officer, Nicholas Dawlish, is assigned to the Ottoman Navy to ravage Russian supply lines in the Black Sea. In the depths of a savage winter, as Turkish forces face defeat on all fronts, Dawlish confronts enemy ironclads, Cossack lances, and merciless Kurdish irregulars and finds himself a pawn in the rivalry of the Sultan's half brothers for control of the collapsing empire. And in the midst of this chaos, unwillingly and unexpectedly, Dawlish finds himself drawn to a woman whom he believes he should not love. Not for his own sake, and not for hers.... Britannia's Wolf introduces a naval hero who is more familiar with steam, breechloaders, and torpedoes than with sails, carronades, and broadsides. As a boy Dawlish joined a Royal Navy still commanded by veterans of Trafalgar, but he will help forge the Dreadnought navy of Jutland and the Great War. Further books will accompany Dawlish on that voyage into the future.... The Dawlish Chronicles series, which commences with Britannia's Wolf, is in the great tradition of the Napoleonic-era naval fiction of Forester, Kent, O'Brian, and Pope but is set in the late 19th century, as Britain's empire approached its apogee. In this period old enemies were still threats, new players were joining the ranks of the Great Powers, and the potential for local conflict to escalate into general war - even world war - was never absent. Britain's ability to project force rapidly and decisively on a global scale was assured by a Royal Navy that was in transition as new technologies emerged at an unprecedented rate. But force alone was often inappropriate, and conflicts often had to be resolved by guile and by proxy. It is in this world of change and uncertainty that Nicholas Dawlish, always resourceful, sometimes ru ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Doersch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048612/bk_acx0_048612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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3D Realms games

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*Author's work has appeared in jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Columbia Review, Best American Experimental Poetry, Protean Magazine, Baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, Tagvverk, Bennington Review, American Chordata, Puerto Del Sol, Boaat Journal, Salt Hill Magazine, Apogee Lit, Nashville Review, Muzzle Magazine, Nat Brut, Powder Keg Magazine, Redivider Magazine, TINGE Magazine, Columbia College Literary Review and the Atlas Review *Of interest to those engaged in institutional critique, particularly in the university system, and decolonization work. Since the author's father was a marine corps officer for over twenty years, these poems are propelled by the violence and impacts of the military industrial complex and militarization projects in the Pacific (Hawai'i, Guam). *Of interest to those reading about surviving displacement; singing in order to make a life amidst global antiblackneess; about black queer ontology and how it intersects with the lyric, polyphony and necropastoral. *Poems were written in poetry workshops led by Craig Santos Perez at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and helped the author stop doing drugs. *Author contributes actively to the literary community as a poetry reader at Flypaper Lit, Cleveland Inkubator Festival and editor at Dark Phrases Magazine, Sarah Lawrence Review, Adroit Magazine, Jellyfish Review and Big Lucks. *Author is currently an instructor at Cleveland State University and the Anisfield-Wolf Post-graduate Fellow in Publishing and Writing at The Cleveland State University Poetry Center. *Author serves as a Board Member at VIDA Lit. *Author received a YoungArts Foundation Microgrant (2021) *Author holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, was the AmeriCorps Volunteer In Service To America Instructor at the University of Iowa; and was the recipient of the Maytag Fellowship (2017-2019), the Teaching-Writing fellowship (2018-2019) and the Pflughaupt Fellowship in Poetry (2019) while there. Author also holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. *Author was an Al Young Memorial Scholar and a Summer Tin House Fellow (2021); received the Callaloo Fellowship in Poetry (2014) as well as the Davidson Fellowship in Literature (2012). *Author was the winner of the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Poetry Prize (2015), an endowed prize for an outstanding achievement in playwriting, poetry, the humanities, and human genetics at Sarah Lawrence College.

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