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Murder Creek: The "Unfortunate Incident" of Annie Jean Barnes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 412min
On a chilly evening in fall of 1966, Annie Jean Barnes left her home in East Brewton, Alabama, to spend time at a secluded fishing camp owned by a local doctor. Less than 48 hours later she was hospitalized - beaten and abused. Within a week, she was dead. And, it would seem, willfully forgotten by the citizens of Brewton - the more prosperous area on the west side of Murder Creek - who soon came to refer to the fate of Jean Barnes as an "unfortunate incident." The 2003 publication of Suzanne Hudson's novel In a Temple of Trees raised the ghost of Annie Jean. Present at Hudson's premiere book signing in Brewton, Joe Formichella met Barnes' surviving children and became moved to tell the story in full. Who was culpable for their mother's death? The town physician who owned the camp? The authorities who mishandled the subsequent investigation? Had there been a cover-up? With so much evidence either contradictory or mysteriously missing, was there now any way to bring anyone to justice? Formichella, in seeking those answers, found instead a larger question: what would justice mean for a community built as though it were a functioning social model for certain principles set down in the deeply flawed Alabama state constitution - a document penned in 1901 by wealthy land-owners and politicians, seeking to keep the riff-raff at bay? Systems of justice, in Alabama, and throughout America, should be designed to protect precisely those citizens too poor to wield any kind of influence. This is the story of a breakdown in that system, a clarion call for its correction, and a ray of hope for those who have waited too long for the answer to the simple question: who beat Annie Barnes? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Formichella, Suzanne Hudson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077130/bk_acx0_077130_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism's longest-running tensions - the conflicts of interest among public-company directors, managers, and shareholders - told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists. Recent disputes between shareholders and major corporations, including Apple and DuPont, have made headlines. But the struggle between management and those who own stock has been going on for nearly a century. Mixing never-before-published and rare, original letters from Wall Street icons - including Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Ross Perot, Carl Icahn, and Daniel Loeb - with masterful scholarship and professional insight, Dear Chairman traces the rise in shareholder activism from the 1920s to today and provides an invaluable and unprecedented perspective on what it means to be a public company, including how they work and who is really in control. Jeff Gramm analyzes different eras and pivotal boardroom battles from the last century to understand the factors that have caused shareholders and management to collide. Throughout, he uses the letters to show how investors interact with directors and managers, how they think about their target companies, and how they plan to profit. Each is a fascinating example of capitalism at work told through the voices of its most colorful, influential participants. A hedge fund manager and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Gramm has spent as much time evaluating CEOs and directors as he has trying to understand and value businesses. He has seen public companies that are poorly run and some that willfully disenfranchise their shareholders. While he pays tribute to the ingenuity of public-company investors, Gramm also exposes examples of shareholder activism at its very worst, when hedge funds engineer stealthy landgrabs at the expense of a company's long-term prospects. Ultimately ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005011/bk_harp_005011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Mind That Found Itself: The Complete Work Plus an Overview, Summary, Analysis and Author Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
The success of an autobiography can be measured by many different aspects. Some works are of merit for entertainment purposes alone. Many Hollywood celebrities find an audience for their life's story due to their willingness to share closely held secrets and peculiarities. We are drawn in because of the salacious promise of a glimpse into a life more glamorous or unusual than our own. There are autobiographies that are written in order to record a person's contributions to fields such as science or politics. Still, more find their way into publication in order to tell an inspiring story, to uplift, to stand as an example to humanity of the limitless potential of the human spirit and our ability to overcome adversity. Clifford Whittingham Beers' A Mind that Found Itself - An Autobiography, fulfills all of these goals and yet achieves a much higher purpose. Beers records his personal journey to a place that few will ever visit, and far fewer will ever return. Beers' personal, detailed account of his descent into insanity, his two-year journey within public and private institutions, and his unusual recovery and mission afterward elevates this to much more than an autobiography. Beers' story invites us to see both the enormous shortcomings of the mental institutions of his time, but also the inner workings of his mind as he lost his grip on reality. Early in his institutional experiences, he vows to explore every ward and record every injustice. Despite Beers' own acknowledgement of his loss of reason, he maintained enough direction to willfully contrive situations that would get him committed to wards with more advanced levels of security for patients deemed violent. He did this deliberately, for the purpose of his research. This autobiography, published when Beers emerged from his institutional life, led to a revolution in an understanding of insanity and the way the insane are treated in the United States. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Beatty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033997/bk_acx0_033997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 948min
Understanding our past is of critical importance to our present. Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically inquired into before they can be taken as historical. For instance, what was the aftermath of the raid on the Somanatha temple? Which of us is Aryan or Dravidian? Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did our patriarchal mindset begin to support a culture of violence against women? Why are the fundamentalists so keen to rewrite history textbooks? The answers to these and similar questions have been disputed and argued about ever since they were first posed. Distinguished historian Romila Thapar has investigated, analyzed and interpreted the history that underlies such questions throughout her career; now, in this book, through a series of incisive essays she argues that it is of critical importance for the past to be carefully and rigorously explained, if the legitimacy of our present, wherever it derives from the past, is to be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is especially pertinent given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious fundamentalists and their ilk to try and misrepresent and willfully manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas. An essential and necessary book at a time when sectarianism, bogus 'nationalism' and the muddying of historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public, private and intellectual lives. Romila Thapar is one of the most important indian academics writing today. Well-researched and thoroughly accessible, this volume is sure to become essential listening for those interested in Indian history and religion. It includes her experience of writing history textbooks for school, analysis of ancient history and interpretations of the epics, and the role history plays in contemporary politics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Manisha Sethi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028633/bk_adbl_028633_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
. Why is science so powerful? . Why did it take so long-two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics-for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. "With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style" (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science's history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational-and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.- Shop: buecher
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Robert Frost: The Life and Legacy of the Famous 20th Century American Poet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 79min
“I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate willfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,And climb black branches up a snow-white trunkToward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,But dipped its top and set me down again.That would be good both going and coming back.One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.” (Robert Frost, Birches)Of all the authors and poets American schoolchildren may be exposed to over the course of their education, Robert Frost is often one of the first, and on rare occasions that he is not, it is still a near certainty that some of his most famous poems will be discussed at some point. Many will have memorized Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening before finishing grade school or will instantly recall the end of The Road Not Taken.Frost may not be as remembered or influential as other American literary giants, or even poets such as Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, but his career was historic in terms of its length and breadth of accomplishments. Over the course of several decades, Frost became the first to win four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, and he also earned such recognitions as a Congressional Medal of Honor before being made the poet laureate of Vermont shortly before the end of his life. The many works he put out and the various styles of prose all greatly influenced his contemporaries and future generations of writers, even as he ably described a rural America of a seemingly bygone era and managed to instill universal ideas and teachings therein. Poet Amy Lowell may have described his abilities best early on in Frost’s career, writing of him, “He tells you what he has seen exactly as he has seen it. And in the wor ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/167528/bk_acx0_167528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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White Women Behaving Racistly: Why Feminism is Deadlier than the Ku Klux Klan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 328min
Just as with the Civil Rights movement, the feminist movement once stood for upward mobility and equality for citizens. Today that mobility movement has morphed into a downward spiral of antagonism and personal attacks. In its efforts to inspire new blood in its ranks, the feminist agenda has turned to generation-Z with a radicalized recruiting campaign that is as hell-bent on restricting personal liberties of the American male as strongly as the Jihadist of Afghanistan. This effort not only seeks to attack the freedoms of man and child but minority women and the country as a whole.The racist radical feminist enjoys the protections of government officials that benefit from the votes of women who hate men as much as senators such as Strom Thurmond detested blacks. Today we are witnessing unwavering support of the radical racist feminist in as high up a position as, speaker of the house of representatives. The radical feminist movement even garnered support from the first female presidential nominee who in her own pro-female, anti-male speeches sounded more racist than George Wallace. Yes, the Radical Feminism movement in Mrs. Clinton had found its voice, and its voice said, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"But how did this happen? How does a so-called democratically elected government willfully send five generations of our boy’s off to wars to fight for freedoms they intend to deny him? How did this new form of feminism morph into a new form of Apartheid of the sexes? For sure, it didn't happen all at once; it became so insidious in its growth that it changed the matrix of democracy in the world as a whole. It allowed racist feminist to hide in the shadows. It allowed them to change what you and I felt about racism, and the word feminist.The word feminist no longer carried the meaning it once did after achieving most of its financial aims and benefits for the top one percent of its leaders. Today's American radic ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erika Cockerham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154554/bk_acx0_154554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ten Commandments: Life Application of the Ten Commandments with Additional Chapters on Sin, Salvation, Prayer, and More , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 849min
Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19)Every one of the Ten Commandments is relevant today. Some think of these commandments as the Law of Moses, now replaced by God's grace and mercy, but a closer look reveals that we can't willfully break a single one of the commandments and live. Every one of the commandments wholeheartedly obeyed will produce fruit of righteousness, peace, and spiritual prosperity. Society says "do whatever you want", but a careful study and application of this set of "life principles" will provide boundless fruit for the righteous.Originally written in the 1600s, Thomas Watson's commentary on the Ten Commandments is as relevant today as it was then, if not more so. The text was carefully updated for modern readers and listeners, with much care taken to convey the truth in Watson's writings in such a way that people today can more easily understand his writing, and as such, more easily apply the truth to their own lives.May the Lord God of heaven and earth bless you richly as you listen to this book and obey! About the authorThomas Watson (c.1620 - 1686) was an English Nonconformist Puritan pastor and author. He earned his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1646, Watson was employed at St. Stephen Walbrook Church in London, where he remained for the next 16 years.Thomas married Abigail Beadle in about 1647, and they had at least seven children, although four of the children died when young. During the English Civil War (1642-1649), Watson leaned toward Presbyterian views, and he sided with the Presbyterians in opposition to the death of King Charles I. Watson was imprisoned in 1651 for his part in a plot to bring back Charles II.In ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saethon Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213421/bk_acx0_213421_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dialogue Between Feminine Wisdom & Masculine Uncer
Sometime collaborator with Tara Jane O'Neil, The Naysayer, and The Double U -- and sticksman with San Fran pop insurgents Fuck -- Geoff Soule is also a solo noise connoisseur whose current work is a laconic frolic amid daily minutiae and universal concerns, underpinned by improvised arias, miniature wig-outs and Spartan psalms. - Plan B Magazine A charmingly minimalist collection of hauntingly beautiful little ditties -- willfully veering between contemplatively stark folk and odd little jazzy improvisations. Singer-songwriters can be interesting. - The Leeds Guide ... dark as a woodland copse, but liberally spotted with patches of sunlight. ... jazzy melancholia at it's most quirkily American. The songs are minimal constructions of sweet melodies, simple rhymes with a solid folk heart. So even if the title leads you to expect a pretentious concept album, the bare boned guitar, piano and string inevitably draw you in - and soon disabuse you of any idea that this pretty record means anything but business. - Bearded Magazine.- Shop: odax
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