51 Results for : foreshadows
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Tom Horn in Life and Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1184min
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his 43rd birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career.Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early 20s. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on US soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a 14-year-old boy. Horn’s guilt is still debated.As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Horn’s reputation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Lukas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144557/bk_acx0_144557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tactical Reload: Strategy Shifts for Emerging Leaders in Law Enforcement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 252min
Featuring interviews with Tim Kennedy, Mark Divine. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, Sheriff Joe Lombardo of Las Vegas, Atlanta Chief Erika Shields, and former US representative Dave Reichert.Tactical Reload offers a road map for police professionals eager to succeed as America transitions from unrest to a new age of social enlightenment.Through honest personal stories and interviews with top police chiefs and thought leaders, Wilson thoroughly explores the present crisis of law enforcement and foreshadows a safer future.Adam Wilson speaks to the tremendous potential for all law enforcement officers including rookies and those coming up the ranks. His personal experiences illuminate the dangers and ironies of protecting community while offering insights for improving the fight against crime.Tactical Reload explores a wide range of topics that shatter assumptions and suggest police may enjoy more respect now than ever before - if they continue to upgrade their mind-set.Embrace “embarrassment school” as an important rite of passage.Respect people who commit crimes as a humane strategy for building trust.Reject millennial entitlement and impatience or jeopardize rank promotions.Win department and community accolades by behaving well in or out of the uniform.Discover why authentic cops don’t need to prove they are tough, but they had better heed mental fitness advice from a retired Navy SEAL.Learn how mandatory psychological tests for cops could remove the shame of vulnerability and decrease suicides.Build character and improve advancement by blending new academic credentials with street smarts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Wilson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152897/bk_acx0_152897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 604min
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor—and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party. In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs' career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a private college in Cambridge to monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government". When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance. To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei—the Nazi Party—in Britain. As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, this pivotal chapter in the life of Maisie Dobbs foreshadows new challenges and powerful enemies facing the psychologist and investigator—and will engage new listeners and loyal fans of this "outstanding" series (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002445/bk_harp_002445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Joseph's Journey: A Study of Joseph , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min
As a young foreigner in Egypt, Joseph succeeded against overwhelming odds. Uprooted from his family in Canaan and sold as a slave in Egypt, he made the best of unpromising situations. Sold to Potiphar as a field hand, he worked diligently and soon became overseer of Potiphar's entire estate. Though innocent of any wrongdoing, Potiphar's wife accused him of attempted rape, and Potiphar threw him into a prison house. Joseph acted wisely and discreetly in prison! When Joseph accurately interpreted Pharaoh's dreams, Pharaoh appointed him ruler of all Egypt. Joseph stands as a splendid example of how God blesses and rewards righteous behavior. In scores of ways, Joseph's life foreshadows the life of Jesus our Lord. After his crucifixion, many thought his influence ended. Yet Jesus rose from the dead and became author of eternal salvation to those who trust in him. About the "Biblical Studies 101" Courses: Bible scholar and teacher Dr. John R. Hargrove has designed a wonderful, year-long course for the individual Bible student and for the classroom. Spread over 12 courses, each book is a wonderful and insightful introduction to the Word of God. From Genesis to Revelation, Dr. Hargrove hopes to help you grow in the Lord and to understand his word at a deeper, more profound level. An intimate level. Ideal for small group study and for the individual, the Biblical Studies 101 program is, we think, ideal for you, too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Grothe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061377/bk_acx0_061377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Famous Dystopias: 1984 George Orwell, We Yevgeny Zamyatin. Essays on 1984 (George Orwell) and Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) by Lukas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1126min
1984, by George Orwell, was touted as a savage satire of communist regimes for the first half-century after its publication. However, in today's decommunized world, the details of 1984 increasingly reflect our present realities. Modern man now finds himself surrounded by the then-fantastical situations depicted by Orwell, i.e., dependence on global corporations, the prevalence and influence of social networks, video surveillance, and media propaganda. In London alone, more than 600,000 CCTV cameras film the movements of passersby over 300 times per day. A classic in dystopian literature, 1984 eerily foreshadows our current world. Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote We in 1920 and thus, became the forerunner of dystopian literature, a genre that would grow to include authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and Ayn Rand. His visionary novel is set in the 25th-century city of OneState: a city enclosed with glass and constructed with rigid geometric conformity. The all-powerful Benefactor holds the city under a totalitarian rule that strips the passion and creativity from the populace until a mathematician, called D-503, one day discovers that he has an individual soul.Bonus Feature: Included with the text is a short biography of George Orwell and Ray Bradbury and listeners' notes for 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 that summarize each story's plots, main ideas, and characters. A further critical essay explores the impact of each book on later authors and the development of dystopian literature. These essays have been compiled especially for students and lovers of literature who wish to gain a fuller understanding of the stories they love or the texts they are compelled to study. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bowen, Trevor O'Hare, Mary Kay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/236556/bk_acx0_236556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Day of the Dragonking: The Last American Wizard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 631min
Mystically powered terrorists unleash volatile magic on the world, turning Washington, D.C., into a politically-charged fantasyland ripe for human sacrifice. A trio of suicide attackers with magical abilities bring down a 747 by summoning a dragon to rip it from the sky, using the hundreds of lives lost as a sacrifice to initiate the Change. The country morphs into a new landscape of swords and sorcery. Now computers and other machines are coming to life, and regular people have started to turn into mythical creatures and forgotten deities, creating a chaotic world easily seized by whoever - or whatever - set this shift into motion. Hope appears in the nation's capital where, along with transforming Democrats into potbellied elves, Republicans into cantankerous dwarves, and Tea Party members into trolls, the Change has granted struggling freelance journalist Steve Rowan the abilities of the Tarot Arcana's Fool card, making him a powerful, yet unreliable, wizard. Realizing his potential, he is hired" by the trivia-obsessed sentient computer Barnaby and coupled with the attractive, no-nonsense female Navy SEAL Ace Morningstar to uncover the puppet masters behind the plane crash. Irving (Courier, 2014, etc.), a producer of Emmy Award-winning news television and a journalist well-acquainted with the Beltway, makes good use of clichéd Washington stereotypes by mashing them together with fantasy tropes, breathing new life into political satire. ...Like many first books in a genre series, the novel foreshadows a greater enemy behind all this madness while barely hinting at its identity, offering a wonderfully bizarre consolation prize as its denouement. A clever, humorous fantasy...." (Kirkus Reviews) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065083/bk_acx0_065083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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La Vita Nuova (The New Life) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min
A translation into English by A. S. Kline, narrated by Jack Wynters. Composed around 1294 in Italian, the Vita Nuova tells the story of Dante's encounters with and love for Beatrice, culminating in her early death and its effect upon him. Utilizing and developing the conventions of courtly love, in a mixture of prose and verse, Dante deepens the emotional content of the genre, while pointing the way towards the intellectual and spiritual journey of the Divine Comedy. Indeed the final section of the Vita Nuova contains his commitment to the writing of the greater work, in which Beatrice comes to represent divine philosophy, guiding the poet through paradise towards ultimate truth, and embodying in her earthly and transcendental form the beauty and love which emanate from it. In the Vita Nuova, Dante's own emotional reactions are made the inner subject of the work, in a groundbreaking manner which foreshadows the Commedia's intensity, and the personal nature of the poet's quest, not merely to seek for meaning but to attain it spiritually. About the author: Born in 1265 in Florence, from which he was banished in 1302, dying in Ravenna in 1321, Dante set the Divine Comedy in the year 1300, when he was 35 years old and "in the middle of our mortal life". The setting allows him to utilize the past symbolically, exploit the present politically, and anticipate the future in simulated prophecy. The Commedia throughout reflects his love for "Beatrice" whom he first saw at a young age in a church in Florence, and who came to represent for him intellectual and spiritual beauty. The story of his love for her, her early death, and his inspiration to write the Commedia are told in his prose work La Vita Nuova, or The New Life, of 1294. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Wynters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078808/bk_acx0_078808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Imperatrix Inferni-votive Antiphons & Ritual Music
Much of the music on this recording centres around Taverner's earlier career, including the three surviving large-scale Votive Antiphons. Included, too, is his sumptuous six-part Quemadmodum, which stylistically foreshadows true "Renaissance" composition in England.- Shop: odax
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Psychos In Love (OST)
Super deluxe lo fi 7 grape-colored vinyl housed in DIY low-budget sleeve + I Love my VCR As little Chrismas treat our dear Friends from WRWTFWW label bring you a daf , grape coloured 7 to round up the season. Packed tight with sly homages to and parodies of the work of such cinema legends as Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Roger Corman, Groucho Marx, and Gerard Damiano, Psychos In Love foreshadows the grand guignol culinary delights of Silence of the Lambs, served up with a healthy portion of wry wit and all-American t&a. WRWTFWW Records is thrilled to announce the release of the long anticipated, always delayed, 30-years-in-the-making PSYCHOS IN LOVE Original Soundtrack, available at last and for the first time ever in a super deluxe low fidelity _7 grape-colored vinyl edition, housed in a DIY no-budget sleeve, and loaded with extras, including words from film director Gorman Bechard, lyrics of the theme song, a promotional postcard with a picture of the cast, a poster of a woman attacked in a bathroom, and the infamous as-seen-in-the-movie I LOVE MY VCR bumper sticker! Filled with sleazy funk, macabre synths, homemade electronic kitsch, anti-grape propaganda, and rewind-worthy dialogue excerpts, Psychos In Love is the ultimate lo-fi horror-romcom soundtrack adventure with a theme song so memorable you ll find yourself humming it every morning. In Gorman Bechard s words, For the Psychos In Love theme I purposefully wrote what I hoped were the worst lyrics of all time, giving them to Carmine Capobianco with one note, use them to write the worst song of all time. The movie Psychos In Love (1986) is a trenchant, laugh-out-loud indictment of slasher films, romantic comedies, and grapes (that s right, pal, grapes), a true genre-defying post-modern cult classic that will wind its way into your heart as its characters work _their way through vats of gore. Packed tight with sly homages to and parodies of the work of such cinema legends as Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Roger Corman, Groucho Marx, and Gerard Damiano, Psychos In Love foreshadows the grand guignol culinary delights of Silence of the Lambs, served up with a healthy portion of wry wit and all-American t&a.- Shop: odax
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Remember
The choral selections on this recording cover a wide spectrum in their approach to life and it's inevitable ending. The composers of these pieces have created strong emotional works that can move the listener to tears, but at the same time raise that listener's spirit. Listening to this music is a chance to remember - but that can be experienced in different ways. Five of the compositions are directly related to war. Three of them are based on texts from World War I. Of those, two are set to Laurence Binyon's timeless poem For the Fallen. Canadian composer Eleanor Daley's setting makes evocative use of the trumpet so often associated with military ceremonies. Mike Sammes' composition for male voices is incredibly moving and ends with the piano playing the final notes of The Last Post. It has been sung at every Saskatoon Chamber Singers' Remembrance Day concert as the Act of Remembrance. Many choral compositions have been written to the words of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields. Canadian composer Kirkland Adsett has chosen to use violin and cello to create a melodic and lyrical setting of this famous text. We Remember Them by American composer Donald McCullough (The Holocaust Cantata) has a distinctively sad and melancholy character. The text by Rabbi Sylvan Kamens and Rabbi Jack Riemer is, in many ways, reminiscent of Binyon's poem mentioned above. The text reminds us that we must all remember the terrible things that can happen in the world when hate, prejudice and oppression go unchecked, so we can try to prevent them from happening again. A Soldier's Prayer by Canadian composer Beverly Lewis is set to an anonymous text found by a hospital nurse in the Philippines during World War II. The text begins "Let them in, Peter, for they are very tired" and then goes on to enumerate those things that the dead will never see or do or know. The fallen in war deserve to be given "things they like" and be told that "they are missed." The plaintive sound of the oboe adds to the poignant mood of this piece. Following along the lines of these pieces is Michael Horvit's Even When God Is Silent. The text for this piece was found by Allied troops in Cologne, Germany, written on a basement wall by someone who had been hiding from the Gestapo. It was commissioned by Congregation Emanu-El on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht. In Ose Shalom, John Leavitt uses clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano to accompany the choir in this moving plea for God to create not only peace in the heavens, but also peace for the Jewish people. Four of the selections are more traditionally sung as hymns. There are two settings of O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Paul Christiansen uses chorale-like arrangements of the familiar tune "St. Anne" for verses one, three, and five. The first and fifth are for male voices and the third for mixed voices. Each of these verses is joined by a contrasting verse that creates a sense of tension and despair. Alan Hovhaness wrote his own tune and accompaniment and set only three verses of the text. The first and third are homophonic in nature, the second has the voices entering one after the other, and all are accompanied by organ. Stephen Hatfield's Amazing Grace is a wonderful and innovative setting of this very familiar tune. The actual hymn tune is heard only in the solo oboe, accompanied throughout by a very beautiful counter melody for the choir. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need was arranged by our accompanist, Rod Epp. He has taken the traditional tune associated with this text and created a wonderfully tender and melodic piece. Both British composer William Walton and Canadian composer Jeff Enns have set Phineas Fletcher's poem "Litany" to music. Although Walton seldom wrote church music, A Litany, composed when he was only fourteen, already foreshadows his distinctive style. Jeff Enns' Litany, inspired by Walton's version, is a composition that is both heartfelt and uplifting and full of beautiful melodies and rich harmonies. The text begins "Drop, drop, slow tears." The shedding of tears is a natural part of the grieving and remembering process. Three of the compositions on this recording are better known for their text than the music to which they have been set. Australian composer Graeme Morton chose Tennyson's timeless poem Crossing the Bar, in which the final stages of life are paralleled with the sailor's evening return to port at journey's end. Christina Rossetti's poem Remember is the text used by Canadian composer Stephen Chatman. The sentiments of this poem reflect much of what we are asked to do when we remember: never should we let the pain of memory take away the joy of living. Chatman's piece is reminiscent of chant in that the character and movement of the piece are reliant on the ebb and flow of the words of the text. Canada's senior composer, Healey Willan, has written a sublime piece to a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, How They So Softly Rest. One of Willan's early works, it hints of Russian church music with it's rich chords for both male and female choirs and is typical of his soaring melodic lines. Canadian composer Allan Bevan has written a truly beautiful arrangement of Ave Maria for two soprano soloists and women's voices. This piece won first prize in the equal voices category in the 1999-2000 Association of Canadian Choral Communities' choral composition competition. The beautiful melody and harmonies unite to create a piece that soars majestically to it's conclusion. Another Canadian composer, Stephanie Martin, set to music comforting words from the Eastern Byzantine rite (circa 842). Kontakion, although homophonic in nature and sung with a feeling of chant, creates a sense of peace now that death has come and a sense of jubilation about what is yet to come. The words of the faithfully departed ask that they be given rest with the saints in a place where there is no longer pain, sorrow, or sighing, but only life everlasting. Cellist Pablo Casals composed O Vos Omnes to a short text from Lamentations. At first Casals sets the male voices against the female voices, but soon they come together as one to reflect a united sorrow. I'm Stillen Friedhof by Hugo Wolf is one of his early compositions and was probably written for the Ritterbund, a close group of friends who came together on a weekly basis for music and good company. The sombre mood first set by the opening chords of the piano gives way to a rhapsodic melody that is sung in turn by the four voices before once again returning to the same sombre mood of the opening. The piece asks us to consider the speed with which the body within a grave can be forgotten, since life seems to continue unaffected. Canadian composer Pierre Mercure wrote Cantate pour une joie in 1955. It is a remarkable work of seven movements, six of which depict the horror and savagery and sadness of war and the state of the world. The cantata concludes, however, with a joyous A Cry of Joy in which the opening piano introduction imitates the pealing of bells on some auspicious occasion, and this sense of festivity and celebration continues throughout the piece. Mercure was concerned with the yearning for joy rather than the concept of joy itself. Jeff Enns' God Be in My Head serves as a suitable conclusion or benediction for this CD. Sung in unison, it's simplicity of melody and text calls us back together to do what the title of the CD first asked us to do - Remember.- Shop: odax
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