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  What Is the AIDS Crisis?

  Learn how incredible activists made the public aware of AIDS and spurred medical breakthroughs. In the early 1980s, the first cases of a devastating and fatal new disease appeared, a disease that at first struck only gay men and was later identified as HIV/AIDS. It was the beginning of what became a worldwide health crisis that the US government ignored for years and that unfairly heightened prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community. To this day, the AIDS Crisis continues to disproportionately affect both the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. Nico Medina has written an accurate and affecting history of a terrible time, spotlighting the heroic efforts of AIDS activists who fought for medical research and new medicines, for proper health care for patients, and for compassionate recognition of people with AIDS. Series Overview: A natural expansion of the exceptional Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.

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  The Family Grace: An Extraordinary History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 789min

  From a leading new pulp author comes the the first family of adventure! Barry Reese, creator of The Rook, Lazarus Gray, and more, brings together the classic early adventures of a cast of characters that are truly a family. The Family Grace: An Extraordinary History collects the hair-raising, action-packed tales of Eobard Grace and his family of adventurers, always on the edge of Hell ready to save the world! Featuring stories that have never appeared in one volume, The Family Grace is an omnibus spotlighting Barry's creativity and skill at universe building, and features his seminal creation, The Rook! The Family Grace: An Extraordinary History by Barry Reese is the first in a series of new pulp omnibuses from Pro Se Press. This volume is also the first omnibus under Barry's own imprint, Reese Unlimited! Featuring stunning cover and logo work by George Sellas and fantastic design by Sean Ali, The Family Grace: An Extraordinary History is full of all the best action, adventure, chills, and thrills new pulp has to offer! From Reese Unlimited and Pro Se Press - puttin' the monthly back into pulp! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Conder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103792/bk_acx0_103792_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  True Crime from Texas Monthly , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 266min

  In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles spotlighting true crime are now available in a bundle as an audio download: "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz, read by Pam Dougherty "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth, read by Bruce DuBose "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell and Karissa Vacker "The Talented Mr. Khater" by Francesca Mari, read by Mallorie Rodak "Just Desserts" by Katy Vine, read by Lydia Mackay "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz features a woman who went to extreme, murderous lengths to ensure her daughter's spot on the cheerleading squad. "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth profiles the mysterious Peggy Jo Tallas who, disguised as a man, robbed banks and confounded police for years. "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff revisits the case of Betty Williams, a high school student who begged her ex to kill her. "The Talented Mr. Khater" by Francesca Mari investigates the ongoing exploits of international con artist and psychopath Youssef Khater. "Just Desserts" by Katy Vine is the story of a man who turned "keeping up with the Joneses" into the perfect crime.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Staci Snell, Karissa Vacker, Lydia Mackay, Pam Dougherty, Mallorie Rodak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005478/bk_rand_005478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mandalay (eBook, PDF)

  Mandalay, whose construction began in 1857 as the capital of Upper Burma north of the British colonial border, became home to King Mindon's splendid court two years later. With its lively urban economic-industrial trading and development activities, the city came to symbolise the revolt by the last Burmese Buddhist rulers against colonialism. The investigation of the little-researched city of Mandalay proved, like the onslaught of the apocalyptic horsemen bringing war and pestilence in their wake, to be ill-fated by the double star of the coronavirus pandemic and the military coup. The observations in this essay therefore focus predominantly on the city's early period, ultimately posing the question of whether royal Mandalay might serve as a guideline for understanding present-day politics in Myanmar. Mandalay: Bulwark against Colonialism follows on the heels of an account of Yangon (2017) and an approach to Naypyitaw (2018, 2019) - a trilogy spotlighting the three capitals on the territory of Myanmar as urban figures in which historical epochs of upheaval and the political-economic regimes of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries played out.

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  Brooklyn's Most Wanted: The Top 100 Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min

  Brooklyn's Most Wanted parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the borough's most notorious, ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians, pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers - this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering, Ponzi scheming, hijacking, murder, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling and money laundering? Fugetaboutit! Take this guided tour through gangland that rips open the underbelly of Brooklyn - the broken land - to see what spills from the South Brooklyn Boys to the Soviet thugs of Brighton Beach's Little Odessa. Want to know what Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth and the Son of Sam all have in common? Brooklyn. Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Paul Vario, Roy DeMeo and so many more malicious malcontents and maniacs stalk this audiobook, as author Craig McGuire ranks a rogues' gallery of the best of the worst from Brooklyn's crime-ridden past and present. This includes more than a century of screaming crime blotter headlines, spotlighting epic cases, like the Brooklyn Godmother, the Sex Killer of Brooklyn, the Nurse Girl Murder, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, the Thrill Kills Gang, and many more. From "Son of Sam" to "Son of Sal", "Little Lepke" to "Big Paulie", "The Butcher of Brooklyn", "The Vampire of Brooklyn", "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight", even "The Man Who Murdered Brooklyn Baseball" - they're all here. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregg Rizzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095775/bk_acx0_095775_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Seeing the Grocery Store Through Seinfeld Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min

  Do you enjoy watching Seinfeld? Have you ever been to the grocery store? Giddy up! Let the insanity begin.This fun new humor book celebrates Seinfeld's 30th anniversary and takes love of the sitcom to a new level. Best-selling humor author R. Scott Murphy believes Seinfeld is far more than a TV show; it's a state of mind. In fact, he's watched all 180 episodes so many times that he often sees the world through Seinfeld's eyes. The place where his Seinfeld eyes see the craziest things is the grocery store.That's why Murphy spent more than a year secretly observing people shopping, logging their peculiar activities in his diary, and commenting about those actions in his mind using the voices of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer. You won't believe what he saw. Meet the cart shamers, the fruit fondlers, the superhero of savings, the grocery store Mary Tyler Moores, the shirt shockers, and many more.You get 30 diary entries to help celebrate 30 years of Seinfeld. The fun doesn't stop there. Murphy continues celebrating the comedy of Seinfeld by spotlighting madcap characters, catchphrases, and all-round wackiness. Try your hand at Seinfeld trivia, grab a Seinfeld fan grocery list, and laugh all over again at the show's best moments.If you like TV's most successful sitcom, you'll love R. Scott Murphy's crack-up-worthy Seeing the Grocery Store Through Seinfeld Eyes. Sweet fancy Moses, this book is an absolute must-have for any Seinfeld fan. Get it now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dane Petersen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199060/bk_acx0_199060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 622min

  An unabridged audio collection spotlighting the “best of the best” hard science-fiction stories published in 2017 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster, as narrated by Tom Dheere and Nancy Linari. In “Shadows of Eternity” by Gregory Benford, a student investigates enigmatic SETI recordings from probes sent to nearby stars despite her teachers’ admonishments to stick to the curriculum. As war and pollution ravage the last survivors on Earth, an alien robot descends to help save the planet in “The Chatter of Monkeys” by Bond Elam. In “Acadie” by Dave Hutchinson, the first humans still, even after 500 years, hunt across the stars for their augmented children who have left Earth in search of paradise. The crew of an exploratory starship finds an icy moon that might harbor life in “Canoe” by Nancy Kress. In “The Use of Things” by Ramez Naam, an astronaut struggles to survive after being jolted free from an asteroid while on a solitary prospecting mission. A problem with the local birds threatens the rebuilding of Bikini Island as sea-levels rise due to global warming in “The Proving Ground” by Alec Nevala-Lee. In “Holdfast” by Alastair Reynolds, a genmod human soldier faces off with an alien warrior in the inhospitable terrain of a superjovian planet. A Russian astronaut, gathering debris in near-Earth space, must make tough moral choices when asked to carry out a special mission in “Vanguard 2.0” by Carter Scholz. And finally, after a terrorist attack, a technically dead fish farmer gets a new body and second chance at life as an experimental super soldier, in “ZeroS” by Peter Watts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/atxt/000547/bk_atxt_000547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min

  Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet entrepreneur, and number-one New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress. In July 2012 President Obama infamously proclaimed, "If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Malkin wholeheartedly disagrees. Who Built That is a rousing tribute to the hidden American capitalists who pioneered everyday inventions. They're the little big things we take for granted: bottle caps and glassware, door hinges and staples, tissue paper, flashlights, railroad signals, rotary printing presses, bridge cables, and more. Malkin takes listeners on an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting awe-inspiring and little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. You'll learn how Paul Revere became America's first tech titan; how famous patent holders Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain championed the nation's unique system of intellectual property rights; how glass-manufacturing mavericks Edward Libbey and Mike Owens defied naysayers to revolutionize food, beverage, and pharmaceutical packaging; how penniless Croatian immigrant Anthony Maglica started his $400 million Maglite flashlight business in a rented garage; and many more riveting stories that explain our country's fertile climate for scientific advancement and entrepreneurship. To understand who we are as people, we need first to understand what motivates America's ordinary and extraordinary makers and risk takers. Driven by her own experience as a second-generation beneficiary of the American dream, Malkin skillfully and passionately rebuts collectivist orthodoxy to celebrate the engineers, mechanics, designers, artisans, and relentless tink ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Malkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007066/bk_sans_007066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mental Health, Inc.: How Corruption, Lax Oversight, and Failed Reforms Endanger Our Most Vulnerable Citizens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 745min

  Prizewinning investigative journalist Art Levine offers a no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America's broken mental health system. The mental health system in America is hardly a front-burner issue, despite lip service about reform after a tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential commission reported was in "shambles". By some measures, about 20 percent of Americans have some sort of mental health condition, including the most vulnerable among us - veterans, children, the elderly, prisoners, and the homeless. With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans. Levine provides narrative portraits of victims and people who won unexpected victories against their illnesses by getting smart, personalized help, as well as snapshots of corrupt Big Pharma executives and researchers who created fraudulent marketing schemes. Levine also tells the dramatic David vs. Goliath stories of a few brave reformers, including Harvard-trained psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, who has acted as a whistle-blower in numerous cases, leading to major federal and state settlements, as well as spotlighting pioneering clinicians challenging outmoded, drug-and-sedate practices that leave 90 percent of people with serious mental illness too disabled to work. By taking a comprehensive look at mental health abuses and dangerous, ineffective practices as well as pointing toward solutions for creating a system for effective, proven, and compassionate care, Art Levine's essential Mental Health, Inc. is a call to action for politicians and citizens alike. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010155/bk_blak_010155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  MERIAN Thüringen

  Small country with great mindsLuther, Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Liszt and the Bauhaus pioneer Walter Gropius: over the centuries, Thuringia has provided decisive impulses that have shaped German history, literature, music and architecture. The "green heart" of Germany is now spotlighting its strengths: the venerable town of Weimar, for example, is still home to a young, creative scene. On the occasion of the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, Martin Luther's heritage is being enthusiastically preserved and celebrated. Visitors touring the state in Luther's footsteps will not only experience historical sites like Wartburg Castle towering high above Eisenach but also magnificent landscapes. Whether it is the spectacular Dragon's Gorge or the vast Thuringian Forest: the state is an ideal travel destination for culture enthusiasts and nature lovers alike.Our main topics: Reformation Martin Luther brought new freedom to the people with his translation of the Bible: a 28-page dossier focuses on his life, his works and his spiritual companionsWeimar Goethe, Schiller and the talents of today. The author Karen Köhler writes about a city where culture is still the name of the gameNational Park High above Hainich, a canopy walkway leads through the treetops of Thuringia's primeval forestBauhaus What is it like living in one of Walter Gropius' architectural icons? We paid a visit to the owners of Haus Auerbach in JenaHiking Experience nature on the Rennsteig, Germany's most beautiful ridge walk

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