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  Dissension: Chronicles of the Uprising, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min

  The great cataclysm wiped almost all life from the face of planet Earth, but tiny pockets of survivors crawled from the ashes, with only one thought: survival, at any cost. But not all survivors were human. In the dark, militant society that has risen in the aftermath, vampires, once thought to be mythical, have been assimilated and enslaved. Used for blood sport their lives are allowed to continue only for the entertainment of the masses. Reviled as savages, they are destined to serve out their immortal lives in the arena, as gladiators. And there is no greater gladiator than Mira: undefeated, uncompromising... and seemingly unbreakable. When an escape attempt leads Mira into the path of Lucian Stavros, the city's Regent, her destiny is changed forever. Lucian, raised in a culture which both reviles and celebrates the savagery and inhumanity of vampires, finds Mira as intriguing as she is brash. An impulsive decision - to become Mira's patron changes more than just Lucian's perception about vampire kind. The course of his life is altered in ways he could never have predicted - a life that is suddenly as expendable as hers. Can Mira prove to Lucian that all is not as it seems? Can Lucian escape centuries of lies, bloodshed, and propaganda to see the truth? Or will the supreme power of the human overlords destroy them both? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meghan Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/028869/bk_acx0_028869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 632min

  Thirty years ago, "mindfulness" was a Buddhist principle mostly obscure to the west. Today, it is a popular cure-all for Americans' daily problems. A massive and lucrative industry promotes mindfulness in every aspect of life, however mundane or unlikely: Americans of various faiths (or none at all) practice mindful eating, mindful sex, mindful parenting, mindfulness in the office, mindful sports, mindfulness-based stress relief and addiction recovery, and hire mindful divorce lawyers. Mindfulness is touted by members of Congress, CEOs, and Silicon Valley tech gurus, and is even being taught in public schools, hospitals, and the military. Focusing on such processes as the marketing, medicalization, and professionalization of meditation, Jeff Wilson reveals how Buddhism shed its countercultural image and was assimilated into mainstream American culture. The rise of mindfulness in America, Wilson argues, is a perfect example of how Buddhism enters new cultures and is domesticated: in each case, the new cultures take from Buddhism what they believe will relieve their specific distresses and concerns, and in the process create new forms of Buddhism adapted to their needs. Wilson also tackles the economics of the mindfulness movement, examining commercial programs, therapeutic services, and products such as books, films, CDs, and even smartphone applications. Mindful America is the first in-depth study of this phenomenon - invaluable for understanding how mindfulness came to be applied to such a vast array of non-religious concerns and how it can be reconciled with traditional Buddhism in America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Pile. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019797/bk_adbl_019797_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min

  The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities" - peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values - in the middle decades of the 20th century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018240/bk_adbl_018240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 727min

  Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Cofounder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with no known scruples”. Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of 15, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a powerful family, only to escape to New York City after less than a year. After being recaptured, he defected from a raiding party to the Dutch and crossed the Atlantic to Holland - thus beginning a lifetime of seized opportunities and frustrated ambitions.A guest among First Nations communities, French fur traders, and royal courts; witness to London’s Great Plague and Great Fire; and unwitting agent of the Jesuits’ corporate espionage, Radisson double-crossed the English, French, Dutch, and his adoptive Mohawk family alike, found himself marooned by pirates in Spain, and lived through shipwreck on the reefs of Venezuela. His most lasting venture as an Arctic fur trader led to the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which operates today, 350 years later, as North America’s oldest corporation. Sourced from Radisson’s journals, which are the best firsthand accounts of 17th-century Canada, Bush Runner tells the extraordinary true story of this protean 17th-century figure, a man more trading partner than colonizer, a peddler of goods and not worldview - and with it offers a fresh perspective on the world in which he lived. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Burling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054455/bk_adbl_054455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Jailbird , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 524min

  Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed, after which he (like Howard Campbell in Mother Night) works on his memoirs. Starbuck is innocent (his office was used as a base for the Watergate shenanigans, of which he had no knowledge), and yet he is not innocent (he has collaborated with power unquestioningly and served societal order all his life). In that sense, Starbuck is a generic Vonnegut protagonist, an individual compromised by the essential lack of an interior. Jailbird (1979) uses the format of the memoir to retrospectively trace Starbuck's uneven, centerless, and purposeless odyssey in or out of the offices of power. He represents another Vonnegut Everyman caught amongst forces he neither understands nor can defend. Written in the aftermath of Watergate, Jailbird is, of course, an attempt to order those catastrophic events and to find some rationale or meaningful outcome, and, as is usually the case with Vonnegut's pyrotechnics, there is no easy answer, or perhaps there is no answer at all. Starbuck (his name an Americanized version of his long, foreign birth name), in his profound ambiguity and ambivalence, may himself constitute an explanation for Watergate, a series of whose consequences have not, decades later, been fully assimilated or understood. The Nixon who passes across the panorama of Jailbird is no more or less ambiguous than Starbuck himself - a man without qualities whose overwhelming quality is one of imposition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021249/bk_adbl_021249_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Stranded Brain: Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming: How to Stop Overthinking, Quit Procrastination Mood, Start Positive Inclinations, and Gain the Self-Esteem to Say "Yes"! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min

  Are you always stuck in every decision you have to take? Do you feel negative thoughts get the better of you? If so, you have to know that there is a solution, and it is even easier you might think.Overthinking is a psychological habit that the human brain has developed to be sure it takes the best decision provided certain circumstances. It is not necessarily bad, as otherwise, the irrational brain might take completely wrong decisions.Unfortunately, in such a complicated and connected world like the one we live in, the brain is not always able to identify the outcome of its decisions, and therefore, it gets stuck in the uncertainty. If we also consider all the toxic habits and ways of thinking assimilated from the outside world during our lifetime, it's easy to see how everybody can easily fall into a negative trend that leads to procrastination and negative thoughts.Stranded Brain: Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming is a straightforward and informative guide designed to help people of all ages and lifestyles find the most effective steps to identify their most important goals and the easiest ways to get them. Throughout listening to this book, you will not only figure out how all the bad habits and thoughts can incredibly decrease your productivity but you will also learn:How to definitely quit from the procrastination mood you fell in without even knowing whyHow to start thinking positive and develop the correct mind-set to build new positive habits How to gain the self-esteem to say “yes” and get to your goalsStart now this great journey inside your mind and go toward the life you were meant to have! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Holzem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171978/bk_acx0_171978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Neuro Linguistic Programming and Dark Psychology: Learn Manipulation Techniques for Your Social Skills and Relationships with Proven Body Language and Persuasion Methods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 246min

  Knowledge is regarded as the state of knowing facts and information acquired with the help of experience and reading or listening to books. Progressive evolution of civilization over the years is due to increase in the knowledge base of the humans. A fascinating fact about knowledge is that in spite of being shared among many people, it increases. Advancement in modern science is only possible by developing rational thinking through the use of knowledge gained, assimilated, and applied over the centuries.If you intend to acquire the skills of reading people, manipulation, and mind control, then this book can assist you in gaining the knowledge of influential technologies and how to use them to stop being manipulated.Meditate on it. At some point in our lives, all of us were manipulated, overly influenced, and psychologically intimidated. This should never be viewed as embarrassing and sad. It is part of what you need to grow through in order to grow well.With adequate knowledge, however, you can prevent such manipulation and psychological intimidation forever. In this audiobook, you have all the information that will ever need on dark psychology, mind control, and manipulation techniques.This book illustrates and explain the concept of persuasion. It will help you around the various ways people try to persuade and manipulate others, including subconscious communication, while effectively preventing others from doing so.This book will be your teacher, mentor, and guardian, helping you to turn yourself into a person who is confident and decisive - not only a person who reads, but someone with the capacity to detect subtle manipulation and oppressive mental strategies from a mile away.Some of the chapters covered in the audiobook are:The Art of Mind ControlBrainwashingSteps Used in Brainwashing Brainwashing as DefenseCommon Tactics Used in BrainwashingHy ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Perez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185276/bk_acx0_185276_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mughal Empire: A History from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min

  Discover the remarkable history of the Mughal Empire...For more than 200 years, the Mughal Empire dominated the Indian subcontinent. It became one of the largest empires on the planet, with an army of almost one million men at arms and an economy that was stronger than any other at the time.The Mughal Empire developed new art and architecture, and some of the things created during this empire are still regarded as iconic representations of India. Although most of its conquests were achieved through the application of military power, this was also a relatively liberal, pluralist empire which successfully assimilated people from varied cultural and religious background into a total population of over 150 million. Perhaps, that is surprising given that this empire originated with an invasion by nomadic Mongols from the north; the very first Mughal emperor was a direct descendant of both Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.Then, just when the Mughal Empire seemed to have become invincible, it disintegrated in an astonishingly short space of time. This book tells the story of how the Mughal Empire was able to achieve almost unimaginable power and wealth and how within the nature of that success were the elements which eventually tore the empire apart.This is the complex, exciting story of the rapid rise and even more rapid collapse of the mighty, colorful, vibrant, and complex Mughal Empire.Discover a plethora of chapters, such as:The Emergence of BaburThe Reign of Akbar the GreatConsolidation and GloryArt, Architecture and Science in the Mughal EmpireDecline of the Mughal EmpireIndia Falls under British ControlAnd much more!So, if you want a concise and informative book on the Mughal Empire, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208179/bk_acx0_208179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min

  You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year-old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: In March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals. Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later. Banished is the first look inside the organization, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance. Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved. Banished is the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lauren Drain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/001182/bk_hach_001182_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mysteries of the South: Ghosts, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena in Dixie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min

  The American South has given birth to many of the nation's great stories and legends. From the earliest Colonial times, it's been a place of mystery, replete with disappearing colonies and strange apparitions in the woods, but the South's long and proud history has always had a darker, and stranger, side to it. One of America's most famous mysteries was its first. Despite the fact he had left over 100 colonists at the island of Roanoke in 1587, John White returned to literally nothing, with all traces of the settlement gone and no evidence of fighting or anything else that might have explained the disappearance of the inhabitants. White found the word "Croatoan" carved on a tree nearby, which he figured might mean the colonists moved to a nearby island, but he was unable to conduct a search expedition there. The Spanish also searched for the colony in hopes of wiping it out themselves, but none of the Europeans could find Roanoke's colonists or explain what happened to the "lost" colony. The fate of Roanoke has fascinated people for over 400 years, and there is no shortage of theories regarding the disappearance of the colony. In addition to the possibility that the settlers moved to Croatoan Island, most theories speculate that they were either wiped out by nearby Native Americans or assimilated among a tribe. Future settlements in the area would survive and start to flourish, and that would bring more mystery and unexplained phenomena. Tales of monsters and ghosts lurking in its woods and old houses, and strange monuments that may be from a forgotten civilization, puzzle local investigators. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077864/bk_acx0_077864_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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