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    SUM: Prism (Jarvis Cocker) / Search (Kerry Fox), Hörbuch, Digital, 9min
    Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. In 'Prism', read by Jarvis Cocker, in the afterlife you are split into your multiple selves at all possible ages. In 'Search', read by Kerry Fox, in the moment of transition between life and death your thousand trillion trillion atoms begin to blend into the earth around you, so that you're not gone but taking on different forms. In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination. This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter. Language: English. Narrator: Jarvis Cocker, Kerry Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000028/bk_cnon_000028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Russia (eBook, ePUB)
    Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.
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    Hyperion's Fracture: Mark Thurman Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 723min
    Tragedy strikes America’s darling three-year-old Thoroughbred, Hyperion, when he’s injured in a Kentucky Derby qualifying race. Doctors Mark Thurman and Claire Hodgson are asked to treat his broken limb using their revolutionary fracture-healing methods, but when former experimental subjects begin developing a life-threatening form of cancer, the rescue plan is halted. Then, a serendipitous discovery suggests a new drug made from a rare plant source might be a cure. A flicker of hope is kindled for Hyperion and the stricken patients.Claire decides to visit the remote jungle laboratory where the breakthrough was made. She flies to Panama and meets with an acquaintance from her past, the pharmacist who made the discovery, Meera Jindal. When the formula is stolen and the two scientists vanish, Mark calls on his old friend, John Bristow, who assembles a rescue team that races to pick up their trail. A pharmaceutical company CEO and a cartel drug lord aim to stop them and ensure Hyperion never gets his chance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Linda Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192409/bk_acx0_192409_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    So Fight I: Echoes of War, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min
    Colonel David Cohen risks everything in an all-or-nothing battle to turn the tide of galactic war.Coalition intelligence has discovered the League’s center of gravity - a deep space logistics base that supplies the enemy's entire war effort. The CDF assembles its largest fleet ever for a decisive attack. For the first time since the war began, the Terran Coalition and their Saurian allies have the means to drive the League from their home turf.Until they dive head first into the League of Sol buzz saw.The fleet is forced to retreat after a disastrous engagement to assess their wounds and honor the dead. As the names are read and prayers recited, David can no longer avoid the ultimate question in the face of triumphant evil - why?However, his internal battle must take a backseat to a war that waits for no one. The crew of the warship Lion of Judah develop a risky plan in a last-ditch offensive to take out the League station.Or die trying.In the battle between good and evil, is victory at all costs worth the price? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199800/bk_acx0_199800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    TFS Theseus: The Terran Fleet Command Saga, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    Welcome to the Pelaran Alliance.... With those simple words, the Guardian spacecraft openly revealed itself to humanity, heralding a new chapter in its 500-year-long mission to cultivate our world. Earth's population must now make its first planet-wide decision - join the most powerful alliance in our galaxy or chart our own course, deciding for ourselves which civilizations are worthy of our trust. Will we be the first world to decline the Pelarans' invitation, or does their offer come with an implied threat? Aboard Terran Fleet Command's flagship, TFS Navajo, Admiral Kevin Patterson assembles his formidable but untested forces in hopes of defending the Earth. Knowing that an attack is imminent, he must risk everything in hopes of finding his enemy and taking the initiative. Returning from TFC's first battle, Captain Tom Prescott learns that his frigate, TFS Ingenuity, is more heavily damaged than expected. Now he must race against time to prepare a new ship, then execute a daring mission to save Earth's last and best hope of avoiding full-scale interstellar war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000261/bk_podm_000261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Story of the Tour de France - Volume 1: 1903-1975: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 860min
    At the dawn of the 20th century, French newspapers used bicycle races as promotions to build readership. Until 1903 these were one-day events. Looking to deliver a coup de grâce in a vicious circulation war, Henri Desgrange - editor of the Parisian sports magazine L’Auto - took the suggestion of one of his writers to organize a race that would last several days longer than anything else, like the six-day races on the track, but on the road.That’s exactly what happened. For almost three weeks, the riders in the first Tour de France rode over dirt roads and cobblestones in a grand circumnavigation of France. The race was an electrifying success. Held annually (suspended only during the two World Wars), the Tour grew longer and more complex. Desgrange kept tinkering with an ever-changing set of rules for the Tour, looking for the perfect formula for his race.Each year a new cast of riders assembles to contest what has now become the greatest sporting event in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David L. Stanley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228778/bk_acx0_228778_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
    Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only 18. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering "the cause of generation and life" and "bestowing animation upon lifeless matter", Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts. However, upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein. Frankenstein, an instant best seller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science-fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? And how far can we go in tampering with Nature? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000605/bk_tant_000605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Zoo in My Luggage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    A Zoo in My Luggage is the colorful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals - including a female baboon called Georgina, who later runs amok in a department store; a black-eared squirrel, who tries to bury nuts in his ear; and a gentlemanly chimpanzee named Chumly, who greets him with an outstretched hand. Aided by the Fon of Bafut, who houses the collection (and hosts many long and lively parties), Durrell amasses more than 250 animals. He struggles to find a home for the animals back in England, until a stroke of luck leads him to Jersey, and the eventual founding of Durrell Wildlife Park (now Jersey Zoo).PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rupert Degas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001953/bk_naxo_001953_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deadly Rich: Vince Cardozo, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1384min
    Homicide cop Vince Cardozo returns in another unstoppable thriller by the bestselling author of Privileged Lives. For alcoholic former actress Leigh Baker, the moment will always be suspended in time: Seeing her daughter plunge to her death from the terrace of a sixth-floor apartment. Months later, the man responsible is convicted by a jury of his peers. Four years after that, he is out on parole. And one by one, those whose testimony helped put James Delancey away meet violent ends. Manhattan doyenne Oona Aldridge is the first. She is found in the dressing room of a trendy Manhattan boutique, her throat slashed. As more grisly murders follow, NYPD cop Vince Cardozo assembles a task force to stop the serial killer dubbed the “Society Son of Sam.” Is Delancey himself the culprit? With the city in a panic and Cardozo's attraction to Leigh threatening to undermine the investigation, he follows a twisting trail that exposes the sins and excesses of the rich and infamous…and a vendetta more chilling than anyone can imagine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017605/bk_adbl_017605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
    A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of cutting-edge experimental work by the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.  Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Here, Michael Tomasello proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. Building on the seminal ideas of Vygotsky, his data-driven model explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child's life.  Tomasello assembles nearly three decades of experimental work with chimpanzees, bonobos, and human children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that starkly differentiate humans from their closest primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity.   Becoming Human places human sociocultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory and shows how biology creates the conditions under which culture does its work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Constant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/014083/bk_tant_014083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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