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Christianity and the Social Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

INTRODUCTION Western civilization is passing through a social revolution unparalleled in history for scope and power. Its coming was inevitable. The religious, political, and intellectual revolutions of the past five centuries, which together created the modern world, necessarily had to culminate in an economic and social revolution such as is now upon us. By universal consent, this social crisis is the overshadowing problem of our generation. The industrial and commercial life of the advanced nations are in the throes of it. In politics all issues and methods are undergoing upheaval and re-alignment as the social movement advances. In the world of thought all the young and serious minds are absorbed in the solution of the social problems. Even literature and art point like compass-needles to this magnetic pole of all our thought. The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them. We have now arrived, and all the characteristic conditions of American life will henceforth combine to make the social struggle here more intense than anywhere else. The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him. It is realized by friend and foe that religion can play, and must play, a momentous part in this irrepressible conflict. The Church, the organized expression of the religious life of the past, is one of the most potent institutions and forces in Western civilization. Its favor and moral influence are wooed by all parties. It cannot help throwing its immense weight on one side or the other. If it tries not to act, it thereby acts; and in any case its choice will be decisive for its own future.

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Ladies Always Shoot First , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min

Ladies Always Shoot First - four-book set. A lady in love keeps a loaded pistol. Book one - Captured by a Duke Freedom is within her grasp...if she truly desires escape. When Lady Annabel sets out to introduce herself to her fiancé the day before their wedding, she doesn't count on being waylaid by highwaymen. Kidnapped but not without recourse, Annabel shoots her abductor and escapes. Too late, she discovers she might not want her freedom. Book two - To Save a Lord A woman in love will risk anything for true love's kiss. Kitty Brightly's reputation is in tatters, and not even her friend, the Duchess of Southwood's influence is enough to invite suitors. When, at long last, one appears where Kitty least expects him, her boldness threatens to ruin everything. Yet, that same boldness might be the one thing that saves them both. Book three - One Shot for a Gentleman What's a woman to do when love turns into double the trouble? After a night of romance and a declaration of love, Dalilah Cartwell is devastated to learn that her best friend, Lydia, is engaged to the same gentleman who wooed her. Dissuading their brothers' attempts to defend their honor, the two meet the rogue at dawn, only to discover that trouble comes in twos. Book four - Anything for a Lord Some mysteries are better left unsolved. Free, at last, after the death of her controlling father, Victoria Kirkland must immediately find a husband or risk a forced marriage to her cousin. When he tries to compromise her, she turns to a brave, handsome stranger for help. Discovering a love so strong she doesn't care to ask questions, she eagerly weds her savior, but soon learns that some mysteries are better off solved before you say I do. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keely Beresford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111300/bk_acx0_111300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min

Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine. Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project. He captivated scientists with his almost religious fervor for the new biology enabled by the machines. Hood's brilliance, rebellion, enthusiasm, and ego earned him detractors as well as admirers. His management style, once described as "creative anarchy", alienated many. Some of his collaborators seethed, claiming he took too much credit. Fellow Caltech biologists charged that his empire building was out of control and ousted him as their chairman. A fraud in his lab made him consider, for a moment, quitting science. Wooed by money from Bill Gates, Hood started over at the University of Washington, creating the world's first Department of Molecular Biotechnology. Seven years later, his impatience for rules drove him to depart. He left at age 61 to start his own Institute for Systems Biology. Would he finally achieve the ultimate application of the genome project - personalized medicine? In Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age, journalist Luke Timmerman zeroes in on a charismatic, controversial personality. Never-before-reported details are drawn from the scientist's confidential files, public records, and more than 150 interviews with Hood and his family, friends, collaborators, and detractors. The result is not just a revealing portrait of one of the most influential biologists of our time but a deeply human look at science itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xe Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pprs/000008/bk_pprs_000008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Redeeming the Amazon: Den of Sin, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min

Most come to The Beaudelaire Hotel a select few times a year merely to indulge in sexual fantasy, but the stakes are higher for Karen Freeman and Paul Beaudelaire this New Year's weekend. Karen is nine years post-op from a double mastectomy, and her vain ex-husband hadn't agreed with her decision to remove her remaining good breast or to eschew reconstruction. In the end, that decision cost her. She lost her marriage, but she's certain the move has prolonged her life. Returning to a normal dating and sex life has been difficult. She hasn't made love fully unclothed since the demise of her marriage, and her most significant relationship occurred right after her surgery. When she was still recuperating, she had an affair of the heart with a Marine amputee who'd also been her Ph.D. classmate. Paul Beaudelaire once led a charmed life as a ladies' man who had his pick of women in the upper echelons of New Orleans society. He'd been satisfied to continue in that vein, until a Marine recruiter wooed him from LSU with tales of valor, courage, and commitment. His career in the corps cut short by the loss of his left leg, Paul returned to New Orleans with the best prosthesis Johns Hopkins orthopedics experts could fit him with. The problem was, he'd left his heart in Baltimore with a beautiful former model, whose crippled marriage was the only deterrent to his waning honor. Will this fantasy weekend at his Uncle Henri's hotel give him a second chance with his contemporary Amazon, or will her fear of rejection be a barrier to their reconnection?Other Den of Sin titles:Shamelessly Taken: A Den of Sin Vignette by Mel BlueTwo Strikes: A Den of Sin Vignette by Holley TrentForbidden Rendezvous by Mel BlueMénage à Troys: Book 2 by Holley TrentWicked Surrender: Book 3 by Ambrielle Kirk ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marie Hélène. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016956/bk_acx0_016956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Shooting Genji , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min

Set in Jazz-Age New York and Hollywood in the Thirties, Shooting Genji is a noir thriller seen from the unusual perspective of a young man named Jean-Yves LeFouet. As a teenager, Jean-Yves falls off a ladder, after being distracted by the sight of his girlfriend kissing another guy, and the accident leaves him hollow-hearted and almost blinded by daylight. On the other hand, his night vision becomes extremely good. He soon discovers he's well suited to any number of shady jobs. His first dimly lit career path opens up one night when bootleggers hijack him and his truck. After he drives them white-knuckled in the dark - with no headlights - they realize he's just the wheelman they need. They recommend his talents to the Wall Street broker laundering their money, who introduces Jean-Yves to one of the dark arts of Wall Street - front running. The Bull Market and wild nights end abruptly with the Crash of '29, when the tough customers are not amused, and Jean-Yves has to skip town. Why not try Los Angeles? The dancer he wooed in New York, whom he let slip through his fingers, is trying to break into the talkies. He finds work there as a chauffeur, delivering scripts at night for a hyphenate-scoundrel, a British director intent on making an erotic film based on the world's first novel - written 1,000 years ago by a woman - The Tale of Genji. Jean-Yves finds himself increasingly hard-pressed to navigate the hairpin turns in Hollywood, including his girlfriend's reappearance, especially after having met the lovely bookseller who supplies his employer with copies of Genji, the Japanese classic. Lively and literate, this lady from Shanghai may prove to be his undoing... or his salvation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Voorhees. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022756/bk_acx0_022756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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How to Get Any Man You Want: Key Secrets to Not Get Played and Catch a Man Worth Keeping , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min

How to start a relationship with the man you want and how to avoid the bad eggs.When looking for a serious and passion-filled relationship, the key factors that men look for in a woman is her ability to be self-sufficient, confident, and driven; in other words, they want to be faced with a high-quality woman.When certain men come across high-quality women, they would treat her with the utmost respect, and they give her their time and attention to the fullest. These are what’s known as high-quality men. When a woman shows this type of confident behavior, it becomes much easier for men to realize that she is not just a one-night stand. It is this type of unique attitude that high-quality men go crazy with desire for, the kind of desire that encourages men to become committed to the woman and take the relationship to the next level.How to keep him interested and sustain his desire.Whether you are in a relationship or not, you shouldn't put your life on hold. That means that you shouldn't be available all the time. A man might end up thinking it’s too easy for him to get what he wants from you, which will set a strong foundation for negative behavior in the future.Don’t allow yourself to be taken for granted, be seen as a pushover or have decisions made for you and about you without being consulted. You don’t want to give the impression that you do not have a social life outside of the man you're dating.If you have a long-standing appointment with yourself, don't be shy to say no. This should intrigue him further and intensify his efforts to worm his way to the top of your to-do list. After all, time apart gives him a chance to miss you.How to keep the romance alive in a relationship.Romance is one of the few things that differentiate a sexual relationship from other types of close relationships. It is that feeling that you get in your tummy that makes you feel wooed, special, and lov ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Wheeler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221241/bk_acx0_221241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Becoming Mr. October: The Revealing Story of Reggie Jackson and the World Champion New York Yankees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min

A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years - 1977 and 1978 - when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A's dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn't won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees, "I didn't know what alone meant." His manager, the mercurial, alcoholic, and pugilistic Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie - and the rest of the team - know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York's tabloid culture, Reggie hadn't realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines - especially for a black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Sickened by Martin's anti-Semitism, his rages, and his quite public disparagement of his new star, ostracized by his teammates, and despairing of how he was stereotyped in the press, Reggie had long talks with his father about quitting. Things hit bottom when Martin plotted to humiliate him during a nationally televised game against the Red Sox. It seemed as if a glorious career had been derailed. But then: Reggie vowed to persevere; his pride, work ethic, and talent would overcome Martin's nearly sociopathic hatred. Gradually, he would win over the fans, then his teammates, as the Yankees surged to the pennant. And one magical autumn evening, he became "Mr. October" in a World Series performance for the ages. He thought his travails were over - until the next season when the insanity began again. Becoming Mr. October i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Reggie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003642/bk_rand_003642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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