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  A New Birth of Marriage (eBook, ePUB)

  A New Birth of Marriage provides a history of the changes to marriage throughout the American experience and a theoretical argument for the goodness of the traditional American family in fostering private happiness and the public good.A New Birth of Marriage argues that the American Founders placed marriage as the cornerstone of republican liberty. The Founders' vision of marriage relied on a liberalized form of marital unity that honored human equality, rights, and the beauty of intimate marital love. This vision of marriage remained largely healthy in the culture until the Progressive Era and persisted in law until the 1960s. A New Birth of Marriage vindicates the Founders' understanding of marriage and argues that a prudential return toward this understanding is vital to America's political health and Americans' private happiness.Brandon Dabling argues that Founders at the state and national level shaped marriage law to reflect five vital components of marital unity: the equality and complementarity of the sexes, consent and permanence in marriage, exclusivity in marriage, marital love, and a union oriented toward procreation and childrearing. Devoting a chapter to each of these principles, A New Birth of Marriage gives a thorough account of how each tenet has been challenged and stands now vindicated in American political thought. The book provides a philosophical and political case for the beauty and vitality of each of these components to the nature of marriage and will appeal to students and scholars of marriage, family, the American founding, democracy, and liberalism.

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  Dys-Conception , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min

  The year is 2102. Due to widespread use of sex robots, men and women live solitary lives of sterile pleasure. In this new world, people's bodies and minds are tightly regulated. Babies are conceived from eggs and sperm that are prescreened for all known genetic disorders. Furthermore, infectious disease is virtually eradicated. Hormones are manipulated starting from childhood. As part of the population-control agenda, everything from opera to Led Zeppelin is illegal - no reminders of love or human lust. Scientists and engineers can re-create everybody part and internal organ - except the elusive womb, at least, not yet. Women are still required for procreation, but motherhood is also tightly regulated, a privilege and not a right.Hannah is a "natural", as in a naturally conceived human being; all her life, she has been a social outcast. She is 20 years old, just starting her career as a nurse; she and her nostalgic mother deeply desire a baby. Hannah is willing to go through the humiliating tests and painful procedures and to pay unexpected costs. She unwittingly involves herself in gruesome experiments and secret government programs. To protect herself and her child, Hannah becomes a victim as well as an accomplice. Yet, it's too late when she realizes just how much she had to sacrifice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Criman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166491/bk_acx0_166491_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The World Inside , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

  Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the 1,000 stories of this building are home to over 800,000 people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over 75 billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity’s salvation. Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god’s plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment—even being sent “down the chute” to be recycled as fertilizer. Jason Quevedo, a historian, searches records of the 20th century hoping to find the root of his discontent with the perfection of Urbmon life. Siegmund Kluver, a young and ambitious administrator, strives to reach the top levels of the Urbmon’s government and discovers the civilization’s dark truths. Michael Statler, a computer engineer, harbors a forbidden desire. He dreams of leaving the building—of walking in the open air and visiting the far-off sea. This is a dream he must keep secret. If anyone were to find out, he’d face the worst punishment imaginable. The World Inside is a fascinating exploration of society and what makes us human, told by a master of speculative fiction. The World Inside is a 1971 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Boehmer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003806/bk_adbl_003806_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  An Irish Country Cottage: An Irish Country Novel, Book 13 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 745min

  An Irish Country Cottage is a charming audiobook in Patrick Taylor's beloved New York Times and internationally best-selling Irish Country series. The New Year brings challenges and changes to the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. The Christmas holidays have barely passed before a fire engulfs the humble thatched cottage housing of Donal Donnally and his family. Although the family escapes the blaze more or less unsinged, Donal, his wife, their three small children, and their beloved dog find themselves with nothing left but the clothes on their back.   Good thing Doctors O’Reilly and Laverty are on hand to rally the good people of Ballybucklebo to come to their aid. Rebuilding the cottage won’t be quick or easy, but good neighbors from all walks of life will see to it that the Donallys get back on their feet again, no matter what it takes.   Meanwhile, matters of procreation occupy the doctors and their patients. Young Barry Laverty and his wife, Sue, frustrated in their efforts to start a family, turn to modern medicine for answers. O’Reilly must tread carefully as he advises a married patient on how to avoid another dangerous pregnancy.   As a new and tumultuous decade approaches, sectarian division threaten to bring unrest to Ulster, but in Ballybucklebo at least, peace still reigns and neighbors look after neighbors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003711/bk_aren_003711_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dating Tips: How to Attract the Other Sex While Being You Own Creative Self , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min

  How do you attract the other sex? How should you behave? How do you flirt effectively? Do not despair, my attractive friend. You can be just as successful as some of your married, happy friends. You can find the right partner, but to increase your chances, you have to know how to play it. And trust me when I’m telling you this: So many people get it wrong, because they don’t understand the basic human nature when it comes to the procreative instincts. Learn how to be most attractive as a man or a woman by playing into the primal needs of the other sex. Find out how the risks of getting pregnant and procreation lies at the origin of everything we find attractive in each other, and how you can use it to your advantage. Figure out the best ways to improve your looks, your attitude, and your sexual attraction factor. Learn about the people that don’t get it and keep getting frustrated over the fact that nobody is interested in them. Begin to understand how you can stand out and approach the partner of your dreams without turning them off. On top of this all, there are 50 fun dating tips added at the back of the audiobook to help you come up with creative ideas. This audiobook is a hidden gem of secrets to attract the other gender.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Rooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134166/bk_acx0_134166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Heretic: Beyond the Wall Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 322min

  Earth is gone. Centuries have passed since life ended on the blue planet. Humanity's survivors are now dispersed among distant colonies, thousands of light years from the barren, frozen rock that was once their home. At a time when power means everything, the ultimate power, the imperium, rests with the Consulate Magistratus. In return for its protection, citizens must concede their rights absolutely. The Magistratus controls interstellar travel, access to technology, even procreation. Every citizen is implanted with a device to monitor their location, health and emotions. Freedom, religion and self-determination are anachronisms. Humanity's true history survives only in whispers of a secret archive. Yet there are those who preach a new religion and who want to be free. In the cold of a winter's night, a small village is the subject of a brutal attack. A 14-year-old boy, Jordi, sees armed men approaching and manages to wake his family. He and a handful of survivors flee into the frozen, snow-covered forest to wait for the preacher who told them their way of life was based on lies. Shepherd, a freighter-tramp and smuggler, is commissioned to deliver illicit medical supplies to a hostile border planet near the Wall. He is dragged into a fight he does not believe in and a desperate struggle to protect his ship, his way of life and the lives of the persecuted few who seek only freedom. A revolution is coming.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042787/bk_acx0_042787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mayor of PØmpington: Contesting Aliens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min

  Both women were wearing alluring dresses. Both women had pleasant perfumes on. But, they were quite different from each other. The Mayor, in the middle, was inhaling both at the same time. That had a peculiar effect. The Mayor always thought that the perfume worn by a woman either complimented or ruined the scent of her natural pheromones. When the perfume and the pheromones are well-matched, the results can prove to be devastating for the man inhaling the combination. He can become irretrievably hooked on the woman.  The reverse of the process can make a man break Olympic speed records running away. The pheromones have always been the primary love potion designed by Mother Nature. Yes, men have it too, in abundance. That scent always attracted men and women to each other. That attraction always led to sex and procreation. That is, until some entrepreneurs began bottling flowers in alcohol and selling those bottles to women with the promise the concoction will spellbind men.Now the Mayor was deeply engaged in comparing the pheromones of both women. It was not easy, as their natural scents were being masked by flowers in alcohol. Yet somehow he was able to distinguish the two from each other. Next, he was almost compelled to decide which one he liked better. That surprised the Mayor as he did his utmost not to judge anyone or anything, but accept the values displayed. Those values belonged to someone or something else. He did not need to enforce his own onto something else. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saethon Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208824/bk_acx0_208824_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Complete Poetry: Sonnets and Narrative Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min

  The sonnets are a collection numbering 154 poems dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. They were probably written over a long period of Shakespeare's life up until 1609, when they were first printed. The first 17 poems, traditionally referred to as the "procreation sonnets", are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it on to his descendants. The other sonnets: express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; appear to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguity toward the speaker's mistress; and make a pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical recreations of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid. Shakespeare's sonnets were strongly influenced by the Latin poet Horace. In 1593 and 1594 the London theaters were closed because of plague. Shakespeare turned to poetry and published two narrative poems on erotic themes, "Venus and Adonis", and "The Rape of Lucrece". In "Venus and Adonis", a youthful Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; but in "The Rape of Lucrece", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lascivious Tarquin. Inspired by Ovid's The Metamorphoses, the poems show the guilt and moral confusion resulting from uncontrolled lust. A third narrative poem, "A Lover's Complaint", presents a young woman who laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor. "The Phoenix and the Turtle" mourns the deaths of the legendary phoenix and his lover, the faithful turtle dove. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000151/bk_acon_000151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 761min

  4-H, the iconic rural youth program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has enrolled more than 70 million Americans over the last century. As the first comprehensive history of the organization, The 4-H Harvest tracks 4-H from its origins in turn-of-the-century agricultural modernization efforts, through its role in the administration of federal programs during the New Deal and World War II, to its status as an instrument of international development in Cold War battlegrounds like Vietnam and Latin America.Organizers believed the clubs would bypass backward patriarchs reluctant to embrace modern farming techniques. In their place, 4-H would cultivate efficient, capital-intensive farms and convince rural people to trust federal expertise.Gabriel N. Rosenberg provocatively argues that public acceptance of the political economy of agribusiness hinged on federal efforts to establish a modern rural society through effective farming technology and techniques as well as through carefully managed gender roles, procreation, and sexuality. The 4-H Harvest shows how 4-H, like the countryside it often symbolizes, is the product of the modernist ambition to efficiently govern rural economies, landscapes, and populations. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press."Original, surprising, deeply-sourced, convincing, and a delightful read." (James C. Scott, Yale University)"This beautifully crafted study offers a braided history of the state, the body, and the countryside… The 4-H Harvest is an absorbing and utterly original read." (Margot Canaday, Princeton University)"Gabriel N. Rosenberg's masterful history of 4-H is the first in-depth study of an institution that every historian of agriculture, not to mention every rural American, recognizes as an essential component of the modern rural landscape." (Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Carrico. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090118/bk_acx0_090118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sex: The World's Favorite Pastime Fully Revealed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1313min, (USK 18)

  Sex: The World's Favorite Pastime Fully Revealed discusses in lively narrative the history and psychology of sex, telling its story throughout the millennia. Scientific information on the laws of attraction and how hormones, pheromones, and evolution have influenced human sexuality is complemented by practical information on contraception, health, and extensive, hands-on how-to advice.The book takes an international view, exploring sex rights around the world, the sex business, and religion. It also discusses fantasy, beer goggle sex, transvestism, St. Teresa of Avila, faking it, Kosher sex, Viagra, and much more.Complete with illustrations, diagrams, graphic novel-style cartoons and quotes.Sex offers real knowledge and understanding of the subject, and is not limited to the anatomy lessons of health class or naughty sex tips purveyed by the sexperts.With the hope that sex will be seen as an integral part of every well-rounded individual's life, the book shows that being skilled at sex is crucial to being a whole person and that we must be educated about sex like we are about everything else that is important and wonderful about life.Table of contents:Laws of attraction (love and desire; attraction; sexuality)Bodies (his; hers; adornment and modification; sex and gender)How to do it (touching and kissing; masturbation; oral sex; intercourse; anal sex; toys)Orgasm (what, where, how and why; orgasm described; clitoris versus vagina; improving orgasm; orgasm and health)Sex/Life (infancy; puberty; menstruation; virginity; coming out; procreation; parenthood; sex and ageing)Contraception (condoms; from the Pill to the Patch; diaphragms etc.; IUDs; sterilization; abortion)Sexual health (infections and parasites; HIV and AIDS; dysfunctions and disorders)Sex and religion (holy sex; sex cults; sex gods and goddesses; regulating desire)li ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Schooler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224160/bk_acx0_224160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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