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Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min
Gilbert Michlin's sober text thoroughly documents the story of a Jewish immigrant family in France during the war years. Known as the country of enlightenment and human rights, France drew many Jews from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century, including Michlin's parents, who fled the harsh conditions of Poland in the mid-1920s. Michlin's memoir evokes the golden years of his family's life in prewar Paris, where he was born, but also reflects on the difficulties of being Jewish in France. His father learned this when French authorities rejected his request for naturalization on the symbolic pretext that he was "of no interest to the nation." The rise of Nazi Germany, the German occupation of France, and the advent of the Vichy government and its anti-Jewish laws would soon follow, and in 1944 the Michlin family would be deported to Auschwitz. Very little memoir material is available in English detailing either the French Jewish experience during World War II or the experience of immigrants in France in the 1930s. Of No Interest to the Nation is a valuable book for students and scholars of Jewish and European history, the Holocaust, and European immigration during the first half of the twentieth century. The book is published by Wayne State University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirk Winkler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099759/bk_acx0_099759_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Reparation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
John Davys Beresford (1873 - 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. Reparation is a strange short story. Angus, a young engineer returning to England from Cape Town, is offered a first class passage by an ailing acquaintance on the pretext that he needs a secretary during the voyage. Once they set sail it becomes clear that there is in fact no secretarial work to be done and he is puzzled as to why he has been taken on. One evening he is called to his employer's cabin. The old man is dying. On his deathbed, he entrusts Angus with a bag of uncut diamonds and instructions to give them to a young woman, Sarah Browning, who had once been his mistress, and with who he suspects he may have had a child. The old man dies. Angus does his best to find Sarah Browning, but finds that she has already left the address he had been given. But every time he attempts to abandon the quest, strange - and sometimes sinister - events occur which set him back on the track of the elusive woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000992/bk_redd_000992_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Maisie Knew , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child’s capacity for intelligent wonder, James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. In the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled back and forth between her father and mother and their new spouses, all of whom are monstrously self-involved. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie herself becomes a pretext for sexual intrigue when her stepparents become attracted to each other. As Maisie opens her young eyes on this distinctly modern world, the death of her childhood provides Henry James with a vehicle for scathing social satire. HENRY JAMES (1843–1916), American novelist, short-story writer, and man of letters, was born in Washington Place, New York, to a family of distinguished philosophers and theologians. He attended schools in New York, Boston, and throughout Europe, where he later settled. A major figure in the history of the novel, he is celebrated as a master craftsman who brought his great art and impeccable technique to bear in the development of abiding moral themes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorna Raver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004804/bk_blak_004804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie Michelle Klinger draws attention to the fact that the rare earths we rely on most are as common as copper or lead, and this means the implications of their extraction are global. Klinger excavates the rich historical origins and ongoing ramifications of the quest to mine rare earths in ever more impossible places.Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. She demonstrates in human terms how scarcity myths have been conscripted into diverse geopolitical campaigns that use rare-earth mining as a pretext to capture spaces that have historically fallen beyond the grasp of centralized power. These include legally and logistically forbidding locations in the Amazon, Greenland, Afghanistan, and on the moon. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and interview data gathered in local languages and offering possible solutions to the problems it documents, this audiobook examines the production of the rare-earth frontier as a place, a concept, and a zone of contestation, sacrifice, and transformation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Rausch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134222/bk_acx0_134222_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Understanding the War Between the States , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min
Understanding the War Between the States is a supplemental history by 16 writers that enables a more complete and truthful study of American history. Consisting of 40 concise chapters, beginning with the Colonial era of North America, moving to the Revolution and the establishment of the US, it proceeds into westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. But at that point in American history, the Northern cultures and Southern cultures clash in a horrific political sectional contest over how powerful the country's federal government should be. The consequence is political sectionalism in the Northern states, giving rise to the Republican Party and the election of Abraham Lincoln and Republican governors throughout the Northern states. Secession of seven Southern states takes place, and President Lincoln contrives a pretext for launching a war of subjugation and conquest against the non-Republican Southern States. After four years of horrific war, even "total war", the Federals prevail. A process of political reconstruction ensues, a process for the federal government to become all-powerful is launched, and the limited government promised by the American Revolution is lost to memory. State rights declines into a faint memory of days long ago, everywhere, North, South, and West. Our society has produced the most concise, complete, and easily understandable history that has ever been created for the purpose of imparting a truthful understanding of the war between the states. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Izard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136804/bk_acx0_136804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min
An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future. Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two biggest post-war American conflicts, the Korean and Vietnam wars, were not, as has been frequently claimed, about stopping Soviet aggression or even influence, but about maintaining old colonial relationships. Similarly, many lesser interventions and conflicts, such as those in Latin America, were also based upon an alleged Soviet threat, which was greatly overblown or nonexistent. And now the specter of a Russian Menace has been raised again in the wake of Donald Trump's election. The Plot to Scapegoat Russia examines the recent proliferation of stories, usually sourced from American state actors, blaming and manipulating the threat of Russia, and the long history of which this episode is but the latest chapter. It will show listeners two key things: (1) the ways in which the United States has needlessly provoked Russia, especially after the collapse of the USSR, thereby squandering hopes for peace and cooperation; and (2) how Americans have lost out from this missed opportunity, and from decades of conflicts based upon false premises. These revelations, amongst other, make The Plot to Scapegoat Russia one of the timeliest listens of 2017. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Hyde-White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032149/bk_adbl_032149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Couples Self-Help: 25 Skills to Build Deeper Connections + Smart Skills for Smart Couples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min
If you want to improve your relationship in a stable and effective way, avoid situations of chaos and conflict, lack of trust, jealousy, boredom, and second thoughts, then keep reading....No relationship is ever completely free of problems. Life happens, and it can bring all sorts of chaos in your way. The days can be full of arguments and quarrels and it may seem that your partner does everything to make things worse. Every little misunderstanding can become a pretext for quarrel and intimacy seems to have vanished.As if that were not enough, sometimes, the financial situation makes things worse and often working on it may seem impossible.Now you finally have access to all the tips it takes to make your relationship happy and harmonious! This audiobook will teach you the secrets of creating a strong, loving, committed relationship through communication skills that every long-standing couple has learned over time.You’ll enjoy a multitude of ideas for ways to connect, reconnect, and stay connected on a level you’ve never experienced previously.You will also learn to manage the financial situation and discover how correctly organizing money positively affects your relationship.Get this audiobook and learn:Tons of ways to keep your relationship fresh and funNew ways of making your partner feel valued and appreciatedHow to avoid the no-no’s that can kill a relationshipThe best trust-building tips that workHow to safeguard your relationship from problems by setting the right foundationHow the past can dictate handling the present and the futureWays to communicate that go deeper than wordsThe most effective ways to stop conflict right awayHow to get your finances organizedThe basics of setting up a budget that worksHow to start bringing in more money if your budget needs a boostThe biggest financial mistakes that most ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobby Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/156370/bk_acx0_156370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1103min
This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2700 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp some eight miles inland of Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo. For decades after the Second World War, the Australian and British governments would refuse to divulge the truth of what happened here, for fear of traumatising the families of the victims and enraging the people. The prisoners were broken, beaten, worked to death, thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext, starved, and subjected to tortures so hideous that none survived the onslaught with their minds intact, and only an incredibly resilient few managed to withstand the pain without yielding to the hated Kempei-tai, the Japanese military police. But this was only the beginning of the nightmare. In late 1944, Allied aircraft were attacking the coastal towns of Sandakan and Jesselton. To escape the bombardment, the Japanese resolved to abandon the Sandakan prison camp and move 250 miles inland to Ranau, taking the prisoners with them as slave labour, carriers and draught horses. Their journey became known as the Sandakan Death Marches. Of the 2700 prisoners originally sent to Sandakan, only six - all of them Australians - would survive. This important and harrowing book narrates the full story of Sandakan, as told through the experiences of the participants. Paul Ham has interviewed the families of survivors and the deceased, in Australia, Britain, and Borneo, and consulted thousands of court documents in an effort to piece together exactly what happened to the people who suffered and died in British North Borneo, and to determine who was responsible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Meldrum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001439/bk_boli_001439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Born Queen: The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1033min
In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawakened evil. Now, with The Born Queen, Keyes brings his epic to a masterly close, gathering the strands of plot and character into a stunning climax that both completes and transcends all that has gone before.The Briar King is dead, and the world itself follows him to ruin. Aspar White, wounded and tired, must embark on one last quest to save the forest and the people he loves, but he has little hope of success. Anne Dare at last sits on the throne of Crotheny, but for how long? The Church, now led by the corrupt and powerful March Hespero, has declared a holy war against her, giving the king of Hansa the pretext he needs to unleash his vast might on the young queen and her unready army.But Hansa is the least of Annes worries. The Hellrune, war seer of Hansa, strikes at her through vision and prophecy. The Keptlast of the elder Skasloi lords weaves his own dark webs. Annes teacher and ally in the sedos world might also be her worst enemy, and Annes own mounting strength compels her toward madness.Surviving these dangers and mastering her eldritch abilities are merely prelude to the real struggle. There are manysome with power matching or even exceeding Annes own who are willing to kill in order to seize control. For whoever sits upon the throne will have the ultimate command to bring about the worlds salvationor its apocalypse. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Michael. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001833/bk_adbl_001833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cosa Nostra: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Sicilian Mafia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
[T]he term mafia found a class of violent criminals ready and waiting for a name to define them, and, given their special character and importance in Sicilian society, they had the right to a different name from that defining vulgar criminals in other countries. (Leopoldo Franchetti, 1876)It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Sicily has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state, yet the island has always occupied a front-row seat to some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity.Over the course of the 19th century, the people of Sicily found themselves at the center of a struggle for freedom, one that ended up being long and often very bloody. It was during these crucial years of struggle that the Sicilian mafia, La Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), started to take shape. The original word "mafia" was a part of Palermitan slang, and although the origins of the word are not completely certain, some linguistic historians believe it originally meant "flashy". One historian of the mafia, Salvatore Lupo, helpfully suggests that it was used in its earliest iterations to vaguely refer to a "pathological relationship among politics, society, and criminality."In response to the rise of the mafia, the Italian state propagated a doctrine of Sicilian backwardness, which they used to introduce martial law and suspend civil liberties, under the pretext that they were not "ready" for the freedoms enjoyed by other Italian regions. Northerners and foreigners mistakenly (and snobbishly) believed that the mafia was just a relic of the primitive, peasant culture that had dominated the island for centuries, and that it was destined to die out once the island had been properly absorbed into the dominant, mainland culture. Others hypothesized that the corruption ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161967/bk_acx0_161967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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