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Shangpa Kagyu: The Tradition of Khyungpo Naljor (eBook, ePUB)
A compilation of teachings and practices of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by one of Tibet's greatest Buddhist masters. The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet's greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet. Volumes in this series may be engaged as practice manuals while also preserving ancient teachings significant to the literature and history of world religions. Volume 11 of the series, Shangpa Kagyu, is the first of two volumes that present teachings and practices from the Shangpa Kagyu practice lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This tradition derives from the female celestial beings, or dakinis, Niguma and Sukhasiddhi and their disciple, the eleventh-century Tibetan yogi Khyungpo Naljor Tsultrim Gönpo of the Shang region of Tibet. The scriptural source material for this practice tradition is twofold: the yogic teachings of the Six Dharmas of Niguma and the nature of mind instructions from the cycle of teachings Amulet Box Mahamudra. The tantric basis of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition is the five principal deities of the new translation (sarma) traditions and in particular the Five-Deity Cakrasamvara practice. The six parts of this sizable volume include source scriptures, liturgies, supplications, empowerment texts, instructions, and practice manuals composed by Niguma, Virupa, Taranatha, the compiler Jamgön Kongtrul, and others.- Shop: buecher
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The Hard Times: The First 40 Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.The Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times, the Internet’s favorite music satire site. Often referred to as “The Onion for punk rock”, the site has developed a sizable, devoted following for its razor-sharp takes on underground music and alternative culture. And with headlines like “Man Magically Transforms into Music Historian While Talking to Women” and “Pretentious Friend Only Listens to Podcasts on Vinyl”, you don’t have to be a punk rock die-hard to appreciate their hilarious commentary.Now, in this ’zine-style “historical retrospective”, the writers behind the site document its development alongside the rise of punk rock, with original articles from their "archives" commenting upon ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s punk, and site-specific fan favorites from the aughts-onward. With its unique aesthetic and laugh-out-loud humor, The Hard Times will be the perfect gift audiobook for music nerds and pop culture devotees everywhere. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Krissy Howard, Matt Saincome, Bill Conway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168322/bk_acx0_168322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Trollope: An Autobiography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 634min
Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century.Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Mayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000452/bk_blak_000452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min
In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America's constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable - and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy, or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic? The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004970/bk_rand_004970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Warrior of Woden: The Bernicia Chronicles, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 795min
AD 642. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the fifth instalment in the Bernicia Chronicles. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Oswald has reigned over Northumbria for eight years, and Beobrand has led the king to ever greater victories. Rewarded for his fealty and prowess in battle, Beobrand is now a wealthy warlord, with a sizable warband. Tales of Beobrand's fearsome black-shielded warriors and the great treasure he has amassed are told throughout the halls of the land. Many are the kings who bow to Oswald. And yet there are those who look upon his realm with a covetous eye. And there is one ruler who will never kneel before him. When Penda of Mercia, the great killer of kings, invades Northumbria, Beobrand is once more called upon to stand in an epic battle where the blood of many will be shed in defence of the kingdom. But in this climactic clash between the pagan Penda and the Christian Oswald, there is much more at stake than sovereignty. This is a battle for the very souls of the people of Albion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034059/bk_adbl_034059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Screwed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
I have one rule: Don't shit where you eat. Several of the women in the condo complex I own would love some one-on-one playtime, and why wouldn't they? I'm young, fit, attractive, and loaded. Not to mention, I'm packing a sizable bulge below the belt. It's a combination that drops panties on a regular basis. Yay, me, right? But my cock, troublemaker that he is, has been confined to my trousers by my business partner. A concession I agreed to, and one that's never been hard to enforce until Emery moves in across the hall. She's smart, young, determined, and sexy as hell. I want a taste. I won't stop until I'm buried deep inside the succulent new-in-town brunette. After being warned about my past, she does her best to steer clear, but I'm about to show her that underneath it all, I'm a guy with a heart of gold and a cock of steel. My name is Hayden Oliver, and this is my story. Screwed is standalone romantic comedy by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author Kendall Ryan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ava Erickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045577/bk_acx0_045577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cursed & Cherished: The Duke's Wilful Wife: Love's Second Chance Series: Tales of Lords & Ladies, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 491min
A dashing duke. A headstrong heroine. And a battle of wills.Edmond Dunsworth, Duke of Cromwell, is bankrupt. The solution to his problem: a wife with a sizable dowry.Not worried in the least, Edmond takes his pick. After all, what woman could resist his charms?However, when his choice lands on fiery Anna, he realizes he may not be able to conquer his wife's heart with a charming smile alone. Anna Hanford, a merchant's daughter, is faced with a difficult choice: allow her sister to marry the duke and see her happiness shattered...or marry the duke herself.Determined to ensure her sister's future, Anna makes her choice. After all, isn't marriage just a minor inconvenience in life?Unfortunately, her new husband proves to be more than an inconvenience...but an enticement instead.Will Anna be able to resist him? Or will Edmond manage to conquer her heart after all?This tale by a USA Today best-selling author will make you smile and chuckle at Edmond's different attempts to entice his wife while making you wish to hit stubborn Anna over the head for resisting his charms. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Parker-Naples. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/009079/bk_tant_009079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alternative Treatment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min, (USK 18)
Nolan Daniels will have those 100 hours of community service nailed, just as soon as he nails the handsome Dr Mark Harrison, who controls Nolan's time served. His sizable ego takes a hit when the doctor rejects his advances in no uncertain terms. What did Nolan expect from a man of privilege? Dr Mark Harrison is the good boy who always plays by the rules, always does what's expected of him...and secretly chafes at the restrictions of his straitlaced life. Now he's faced with the leather-jacketed bad boy who arouses the closeted doctor more than he wants to admit. A man he can't resist. A man who helps him realize other things about his not-so-perfect life. It's time to take a stand. Time to burst the protective bubble each has built around himself in his own way. Little do they realize that moving forward could also cause them to lose each other and the feeling of love that has taken hold of them for the first time in both of their lives. Warning: hot, delicious male/male erotic romance. Danger: explicit m/m sex. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/marz/000064/bk_marz_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were left behind in Germany, a nation in ruins. British and American soldiers attempted to repatriate the refugees, but more than a million displaced persons remained in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to. Most would eventually be resettled in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages, but no nation, including the United States, was willing to accept more than a handful of the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. When in June, 1948, the United States Congress passed legislation permitting the immigration of displaced persons, visas were granted to sizable numbers of war criminals and Nazi collaborators, but denied to 90% of the Jewish displaced persons. A masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw, The Last Million tells the gripping but until now hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness and of the Last Million, as they crossed from a broken past into an unknowable future, carrying with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and shows us how it is our history as well.- Shop: buecher
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An Unlikely Match , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
It isn't every day an impoverished young gentleman inherits a sizable fortune and an estate. Nickolas Pritchard, not only impoverished and young, but a gentleman as well, felt his luck acutely the day just such a remarkable inheritance fell upon him. The future has never looked brighter for once penniless Nickolas Pritchard. Now in possession of an unforeseen legacy from a distant cousin, he can finally woo the exquisite Miss Castleton, belle of the London Season. What better setting for matchmaking than Ty Mynydd, his ancestral home nestled in the untamed hills of Wales? Ideal, indeed...except for the ghost. For nearly 400 years, Gwen has walked the halls of the home in which she lived - and died a mysterious death. But despite centuries as the reigning force within her ancient residence, nothing prepares her for the charm and unexpected appeal of Englishman Nickolas. A deep and abiding affection grows between the two, tempered by the unbreakable barrier that separates them. They cannot possibly hope for a happily ever after. There can be no future between a man yet living and a woman long dead. But how can Nickolas possibly give Gwen up? And how can Gwen face an eternity without Nickolas? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aubrey Warner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dsrt/000082/bk_dsrt_000082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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