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King Xerxes I: The Life and Legacy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire's Most Notorious Ruler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
One of the Persian Empire’s most famous figures is King Xerxes I, if only because he led the Second Persian War against the Greeks. Thanks to legendary clashes at Thermopylae and Salamis, the Persian leader has remained legendary, and the war was a veritable clash of civilizations. Had the Persians triumphed, the Golden Age of Athens would have been snuffed out, and Greece would never have formed the backbone of Roman and Western culture. Simply put, the West as it is today might never have existed.Not surprisingly, the majority of surviving sources regarding Xerxes are the product of Greek writers, so it was inevitable that the Persian king has been depicted in unflattering terms for thousands of years. The details of his invasion of Greece cast him as the villain in the dramatic Greek retelling of the tragic 300 Spartans holding the pass at Thermopylae, and focus on the loss at Salamis that solidified his reputation as a failure despite another 15 years of successful rule after withdrawing from the Greek mainland. Although Herodotus’s Histories offer a less biased account than some later sources, he still depicted Xerxes as a figure of tragic failings, listening too often to the wrong councilors and eventually collapsing on the weight of his own hubris. This classic appearance as a tragic hero figure gives some pause for doubt, as the literary stereotype is almost too perfect and suggests a lack of depth and nuance that characterizes all accurate investigations of historical individuals. These early images were only exacerbated by Alexander the Great and his biographers, who maintained a fiery hatred toward Xerxes for his burning of Athens. They targeted many of his building projects after their capture of Persepolis, and they pushed an even bleaker picture of the king, one of an idle, indolent, cowardly, and corrupt ruler. The continuation of this can be traced throughout the passing centuries - Plato considered Xerxes to be a poor reflection of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166461/bk_acx0_166461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam's Capital and the End of the Vietnam War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min
The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard-pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese president Diem’s regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy’s administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam.Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the demilitarized zone between the north and the south, and bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself. In public, American military officials and members of the Johnson administration stressed their tactical successes and offered rosy predictions. Speaking before the National Press Club in November 1967, General Westmoreland claimed, “I have never been more encouraged in the four years that ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Bernard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171158/bk_acx0_171158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 204min
Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost philosophers challenges this lost generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dewey. How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities - from slavery to the slaughter of Native Americans, from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? Achieving Our Country traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in the Left as well as the harm it does to its proponents and to the country. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during the Vietnam War era. Richard Rorty describes how the paradoxical victory of the antiwar movement, ushering in the Nixon years, encouraged a disillusioned generation of intellectuals to pursue "High Theory" at the expense of considering the place of ideas in our common life. In this turn to theory, Rorty sees a retreat from the secularism and pragmatism championed by Dewey and Whitman, and he decries the tendency of the heirs of the New Left to theorize about the United States from a distance instead of participating in the civic work of shaping our national future. In the absence of a vibrant, active Left, the views of intellectuals on the American Right have come to dominate the public sphere. This galvanizing book, adapted from Rorty's Massey Lectures of 1997, takes the first step toward redressing the imbalance in American cultural life by rallying those on the Left to the civic engagement and inspiration needed for "achieving our country". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Patrick Cronin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030201/bk_adbl_030201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Tet Offensive: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Military Campaign of the Vietnam War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese president Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination new president Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, to combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the Demilitarized Zone between north and south, and to bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself. In public American military officials and members of the Johnson administration stressed their tactical successes and offered rosy predictions; speaking before the National Press Club in November 1967, General Westmoreland claimed, "I have never been more encouraged in the four years that I have been in Vietnam. We are making real progress...I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." (New York Times, November 22, 1967). Early in 1968 a massive coordinated Viet Cong operation - the Tet Offensive - briefly paralyzed American and South Vietnamese forces across the country, threatening even the American embassy compound in Saigon. With this the smiling mask slipped even further, inflaming the burgeoning antiwar movement. Although American sol ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072261/bk_acx0_072261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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It Was All About Prayers in Two Families Affairs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
Thomas Oexlley, son of a well-respected Christian family, chose to be a gambler and was always in trouble with his finances, causing much stress to his father. As time went by, he influenced Irwin Franella, the only son of a bed and breakfast owner, in the same bad habit. Mr. and Mrs. Franella began to experience the same problem the Oexlleys were experiencing with Thomas.One night, Irwin tried to rob his parents' bed and breakfast Inn at gunpoint and almost killed his father. He was arrested and sent to jail to serve time. During his time in jail, he met with the chaplain of the prison and after several meetings gave his life to Christ.Two days before Thomas Oexlley’s sister’s wedding, Thomas stole his father’s bank slips and forged his signature, withdrawing a large sum of money from the family account. When his father was called to the bank, he collapsed and was taken to the nearby hospital, where he died hours later. Before passing, he told his wife to have Thomas arrested at his funeral and put in jail for embezzlement of funds and his death. While serving time in prison, Thomas was visited by Irwin who begged him to see the chaplain. For a while, he refused and became very hard-hearted but when the news of his mother’s death reached him, Thomas lost all hope in life and decided to see the chaplain. He confessed that he had destroyed two families and did not know how to make it right. A few years later, his sister converted the home into a large bed and breakfast inn and while receiving her guests at a convention, she saw Thomas among the guest and, with much tears, greeted him. He had been born again and, like Irwin, began to live a life encouraging people wherever he went.Thomas, his sister Petra, and Thomas’s wife and children along with Irwin were all united again and were proud to say to each other that it was all about prayers that changed the families affairs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Boyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174467/bk_acx0_174467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Passive Income Guide for the Retiree: Super Easy Tips for an Early and Happy Retirement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
Have you made any concrete plans with regards to your retirement?You see, there is so much to be done with life. Sadly, we spend most of our time working for money without being able to do the things we should have done. How does this come in?Well, in retirement, people get so much time to do the things they have always wanted. Some do, while others find them being a wish until they die. This does not mean that they wouldn't; it means that they did not have enough money to finance their dreams.You see, retirement planning is a multistep process that evolves over time. A fun, secure, and comfortable retirement requires a financial cushion, and building this cushion does take some time. The fun part is why it makes sense to pay attention to the serious and, perhaps, boring part: planning how you’ll get there.You start planning for your retirement by setting goals, thinking about them, as well as assessing how long it will take you to meet these goals. Then, you have to consider the type of retirement accounts that can help you fund your retirement. You don’t only have to save the money, but also invest it so that it can grow.Then comes the taxes. If your tax has been deducted over the years for the contributions you have made toward your retirement, a huge tax bill awaits when you start withdrawing those savings. Of course, you can minimize these taxes while you save for the future - and to continue the process when the retirement day actually arrives. So, how can you have a wonderful retirement? Well, the answers you seek are in this guide. It isn’t a bulky book, frankly, but it contains important things you should know about passive income, suggests the best options, and guides you on how to be successful and happy in retirement.So, why not click the "buy now" button, and start working toward a happy retirement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Bogart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227287/bk_acx0_227287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Maggies Double Shift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 29min, (USK 18)
Being the new girl is never easy and it just seems to get worse when you’re the new girl at a workplace. I’ve never been the most popular girl anyway so I usually wind up withdrawing from social circles. That goes double for social circles at work. I figure I got the job because I could do the job not because people like to shoot the breeze with me. My latest new job included the need to work with two guys who just refused to let me withdraw however. Things had already started to get flirty before we all had to work a double shift one night recently. I can't believe what I did that night but I will also never forget it. Warning: This ebook contains very explicit sex including First-Time Threesome, Oral Sex, Sex at the Office, Hard Sex, MFM Threesome, double penetration sex, and more. Only mature adults who won’t find graphic sexual content offensive should read this story.Here is a preview:“I’d like to work a double shift with that body of yours,” he said with a smile, “A night of sex with you would be like a fucking dream come true.”As soon as he said it Marcus’ eyes went wide, but he kept a smile, “Dude, I cannot believe you just said that out loud. You haven’t had that much to drink unless you’re turning into a lightweight.”I glanced at Marcus, “You can’t believe he said it out loud? Is this something you two talk about between yourselves often?” I asked it with a smirk as if I was halfway joking and in a way, I was. Marcus picked up on the intent.“Nah, not too often,” he smiled.Trent, on the other hand, said, “Fuck yes, we trade stories about how we want to get in your pants all the damn time. You’re so damn sexy! We’ve wanted that since day one!”All three of us fell silent for a bit after those statements. Marcus glanced at me then looked away, and Trent suddenly seemed to become aware of wha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Concha di Pastoro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090748/bk_acx0_090748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Let Them Go Free
Let Them Go Free - A Guide to Withdrawing Life Support: ab 9.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Withdrawing Under Fire
Withdrawing Under Fire - Lessons Learned from Islamist Insurgencies: ab 39.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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