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Survival Self Defense: Essential Tips, Facts and Techniques to Save Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 44min

This audiobook is based on three primary concepts that could save your life: Situational awareness - that is, awareness and evaluation of your immediate situation. The ability to control fear - science states that we cannot, nor would we want to, eliminate fear. But through mental training that anyone can master, fear can be channeled into effective responses to threats. Knowledge of self-defense techniques - specific self-defense techniques that, when applied with intention, will disable an attacker long enough for you to escape. Through scenarios described from both the victim and muggers points of view, you will understand how and why situational awareness, channeling fear, and learning specific self-defense techniques work. In your journey to remain safe and to become empowered you will need specifics. Survival Self-Defense includes detailed explanation of the 5 body weapons and how they can be used to attack key vulnerable body targets. You will also learn the 5 most prevalent self-defense myths and why they do not work. Written by a martial arts and self-defense instructor of over 40 years, this audiobook is not about violence or paranoia, it is about the cultivation of empowerment for the purpose of personal safety. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Korbid Thompson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020042/bk_acx0_020042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Macbeth: A Summary of the Play by William Shakespeare, Hörbuch, Digital, 23min

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. James was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, "Macbeth" most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign. "Macbeth" is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and death. This is a detailed summary of the play, retold in today's language. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/001571/bk_cids_001571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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My Mental Madness Memoir: The Provocative True Journey through My Struggles with Mental Illness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min

This chilling, shocking, interesting, and intriguing true story takes you deep into the mind of the author who suffers from several severe mental illnesses. The author describes in detail all the insanity, disturbing behaviors, oppressive symptoms, and various feeling associated with the mental battles within her own mind. The author suffers from clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She struggles with suicidal thoughts and attempts, self-mutilating behaviors, mania, paranoia, anxiety, and psychosis with intense hallucinations of all five of her senses, and multiple delusions, including the belief that she is the "second-coming of Christ". Take this journey with the author as her life takes rapid turns for the very worst.... But after years of being extremely mentally unstable, she acquires the courage, strength, hope, and faith she needs to understand, accept, and live with her illnesses. Only then is she able to turn her once miserable and fearful life around. This book offers hope and inspiration to others as it proves that recovery from mental illness is possible. "Having a mental illness is like a roller coaster ride. You don't jump off while it's still moving. You have to continue to ride until it comes to a complete stop and you can get off safely". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lorri Heneveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104606/bk_acx0_104606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Killing Season: Fear University Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min

In the far Alaskan north, there are places the winter sun cannot reach. Places where light won't shine for months. These are the places we hunt the monsters who feed on fear. So begins the Killing Season. For the next 65 days, we will face the darkness. Some will hunt the aswangs in the ever-night, but I, Ollie Andrews, am here for one purpose: to search for answers to my past. They told us to fear the arctic tundra and the monsters hiding in the deep, dark shadows. But, locked inside a base known for driving even the best hunters mad, I fear it's not the outside we should worry about, but the deepest, darkest parts of ourselves. The real monsters are within. When a brutal murder brings with it the secrets of Fear University - and the threat of an unknown killer on the loose - we all must fight to stay alive. But with madness and paranoia setting in during a whiteout snowstorm, all we can do is hope we don't destroy ourselves before the sun finally rises again. Because no matter how hard we fight, reality will always threaten to tear us apart. And when faced with the most terrible of truths, even the strongest break. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lidia Dornet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007298/bk_tant_007298_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Who? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min

Set against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, this futuristic novel about identity and technology is "one of the unrecognized classics of SF" (Locus).East and West have fused into separate superstates known as the Allied National Government (ANG) and the Soviet International Bloc (SIB). As the Cold War rages, brilliant scientist Lucas Martino works on a top-secret project known only as K-Eighty-eight that could alter the balance of world power. The project goes horribly awry at an Allied research facility near the Soviet border, and Martino is abducted.After several months of tense negotiations, he returns severely injured from the lab explosion, and under pressure from America, he undergoes extensive reconstructive surgery. He has a mechanical arm. His polished metal skull - a kind of craniofacial prosthesis - contains few discernible features. Several of his internal organs are artificial. While his fingerprints are identified as belonging to Lucas Martino, they could be the result of transplant. Is he the real Martino? Or a technologically altered impostor sent by America's enemies for the purpose of spying and infiltration? Tasked with uncovering the truth, ANG Security Chief Shawn Rogers makes some shocking discoveries.Narrated in chapters alternating between Rogers and Martino, Who? poses existential questions about the human condition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012782/bk_blak_012782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Red Star over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 619min

Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare and how it victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh tell for the first time the “backstory” behind this myth. They show how the Soviet Comintern targeted the film capital in the late 1920s, taking us inside the cells and discussion groups that Communist Party members formed, the guilds and unions they tried to take over, and the studios they aimed to influence.The authors demonstrate that many of the screenwriters who later became part of the Hollywood Ten in fact succeeded in using film as a propaganda medium on behalf of the Soviet cause. While others were lionizing them as blameless victims of American nativism and paranoia, the Hollywood Reds themselves were beset by doubts and disagreements about their disloyalty to America and their own treatment by the Communist Party. Abandoned by their old CP allies, they faced the black list alone.Getting behind the denial and apologetics, Ronald and Allis Radosh tell the real story of one of the most discussed but least understood episodes in our political history, whose long half-life continues to influence the equally turbulent cultural politics of today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003873/bk_blak_003873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Journey to the Edge of Reason

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life. Stephen Budiansky's Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Gödel's voluminous letters and writings-including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts-to explore Gödel's profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gödel's and Jewish intellectuals' flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Gödel and Einstein both worked. Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel's revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man's place in the cosmos.

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Widespread Panic

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den ... You'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge ... You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.

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At the Edge of the Woods (eBook, ePUB)

"Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision...Ono continues to captivate.” —Bryan Washington, author of MemorialIn an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling into a house at the edge of the woods. But something is off. A sound, at first like coughing and then like laughter, emanates from the nearby forest. Fantastical creatures, it is said, live out there in a castle where feudal lords reigned and Resistance fighters fell. When the mother, fearing another miscarriage, returns to her family's home to give birth to a second child, father and son are left to their own devices in rural isolation. Haunted by the ever-present woods, they look on as the TV flashes with floods and processions of refugees. The boy brings a mysterious half-naked old woman home, but before the father can make sense of her presence, she disappears. A mail carrier with gnashing teeth visits to deliver nothing but gossip of violence. A tree stump in the yard refuses to die, no matter how generously the poison is applied. An allegory for alienation and climate catastrophe unlike any other, At the Edge of the Woods is a psychological tale where myth and fantasy are not the dominion of childhood innocence but the poison fruit borne of the paranoia and violence of contemporary life.

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Ground Zero - Der 13. Handyman Jack Thriller (eBook, ePUB)

Der 13. Handyman Jack Thriller. Jacks alte Freundin Weezy steckt in Schwierigkeiten. Sie hat bei der Recherche über die Verschwörungstheorien zum Anschlag auf das World Trade Center etwas Erschreckendes aufgedeckt. Wird sie nun von jemandem verfolgt? Oder ist das nur ein Ausdruck ihrer Paranoia? Eigentlich hilft Jack ihr nur um der alten Zeiten willen. Aber dann geraten die Dinge immer mehr aus dem Ruder und er muss erkennen - 9/11 war nur der Anfang. Die wahre Bedrohung kommt erst noch ... Martin Compart: 'Wilson ist ein Meister des Crossover-Thrillers, wie er etwa von Dean R. Koontz kultiviert wurde. Er mixt alle möglichen Genres - Horror, Detektivroman und Science Fiction - zu originellen Thrillern, die ihre Herkunft aus den Pulps und alten Horrorfilmen nicht verleugnen.' New York Daily News: 'st der Abfluss verstopft, ruft man den Installateur, wurde man überfallen, ruft man die Polizei, aber wenn die Du-weißt-schon-was am Dampfen ist, wird es Zeit Handyman Jack zu rufen.' David Morrell: 'Handyman Jack ist eine moderne Ikone. Falls Du ihn nicht kennst, bist Du wirklich von gestern.' Francis Paul Wilson ist preisgekrönter Autor mehrerer Bestseller. Er ist praktizierender Arzt und lebt in New Jersey, USA. Sein erster Roman erschien 1976. Wilsons bekannteste Romanfigur ist der Anti-Held Repairman-Jack (dt. Handyman Jack). Stephen King hat sich selbst zum Präsidenten des Handyman-Jack-Fanclubs ernannt.

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