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The Mexican-American War: The History of the Controversial War That Resulted in the Annexation of the Southwest and California , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min

The policy of manifest destiny increased tensions with Mexico in the 1840s. Mexico's northern half formed the western border of the territory bought in the Louisiana Purchase. Naturally, notions of the United States expanding to the Pacific Ocean alarmed Mexico, which held what is today the west coast of the United States. However, Mexico first came to regard American expansion as a serious problem with the immigration of Americans into its northeastern territory. These Americans declared independence from Mexico and created a nation in the Mexican province of Texas. After winning independence in 1836, Texas became an independent republic. Texas formally asked to be annexed by the United States in 1845. This annexation angered the Mexican government, which still considered Texas to be part of its territory. Mexico had previously warned that the annexation of Texas would cause Mexico to declare war on the United States. When the annexation bill was passed by Congress, it included an additional provocation to Mexico: it claimed that the southern border of Texas was the Rio Grande. The actual territory controlled by the Republic of Texas did not extend nearly to the Rio Grande, and this border would represent a further loss of territory to the United States. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082817/bk_acx0_082817_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles". Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest, who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam - and hiding in plain sight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005232/bk_rand_005232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min

One doctor’s surprising answer to the epidemic of autoimmunity and chronic disease. Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded: Currently, one in two-and-a-half American children has an allergy; one in 11 has asthma; one in 13 has severe food allergies; and one in 36 has autism. While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive - approximately 70 vaccine doses by age 18. The goal of these vaccines is precisely what we’re now seeing in such abundance among our chronically ill children: the provocation of immune response. Dr. Cowan looks at emerging evidence that certain childhood illnesses are actually protective of disease later in life; examines the role of fever, the gut, and cellular fluid in immune health; argues that vaccination is an ineffective (and harmful) attempt to shortcut a complex immune response; and asserts that the medical establishment has engaged in an authoritarian argument that robs parents of informed consent. His ultimate question, from the point of view of a doctor who has decades of experience treating countless children, is what we are really doing to children when we vaccinate them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madison Niederhauser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127480/bk_acx0_127480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 238min

Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it’s the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design, says that in the fourth industrial revolution a creativity leap is needed to bridge the gap that exists between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation.Nixon says that since humans are hardwired to be creative, it is a competency anyone can develop. She shows that it balances wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail), and that inquiry, improvisation, and intuition are the key practices that increase those capacities. Drawing on interviews with56 people from diverse backgrounds - farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, medicine, education, technology, and more - she offers illuminating examples of how creativity manifests in every kind of work. Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this audiobook is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. It offers a more dynamic and integrative way to adapt and innovate, one that allows us the freedom to access our full human selves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Natalie Nixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195837/bk_acx0_195837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mike: Exitium Mundi, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 119min, (USK 18)

Michael Sebastián Garcia is a reforming bad boy, a loving father, and a chaotic soul. He is also dangerously close to literally losing his humanity....Mike is a man on the edge. He can’t seem to shake the trauma of the school shooting several weeks prior, an event that catalyzed his relationship with his now-girlfriend April, and the flashbacks are attacking him with increasing realism and frequency. Nothing seems to ease his haunting, not even April - who has become quiet and distant herself.The recent death of his former girlfriend Sera and his increasingly complex (and erotic) relationship with the mother of his child Jamie are only serving to throw him further down the hole of madness.Lyriq is dead.Aahil is, too.Life is becoming too much for the already troubled young man, and all the above are only the tip of the iceberg. There is also an intense, supernatural cold that seems to be growing within him, consuming him, causing him to become irrationally angry and hostile with only the slightest of provocation. And the strength, the energy he gains during those times...is both alluring and hypnotic.The more he gives in to this gift, this curse, the more his sanity slips.What happens when it is gone entirely?This is the fifth book in the seven-part Exitium Mundi series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amaya Fay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225742/bk_acx0_225742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ruin: Birth of a Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min

You follow a young warrior, Ruin, who is exiled from his homeland after a bloody provocation. With the naivety of youth, he believes he is well prepared for the wider world until he is shipwrecked on the shores of Elohim. You will discover the world of Mareta through Ruin's eyes as he continues to blunder into difficult situations and in doing so makes some powerful enemies. His selfish outlook is broadened when he is forced to team up with the proud warrior woman, Efferial. With the addition of a third member, the apprentice sorcerer Kail, an unsure, self-doubting personality is added to the mix. The group forges ahead on an impossible quest leaving a mixed trail of friends and bodies in their wake. Ruin's naivety quickly evaporates as he learns his lessons from the harsh world around him. Humour adds to the often brutal action as the trio seek to elude two accomplished leaders. Ruin eventually learns to ask for help as the tale winds to a frantic conclusion. The world of Ruin is unique, as are the characters and creatures that populate it. Although firmly planted in the fantasy genre the environment is realistic and something to which listeners can relate. Although a fantasy, there is a very human story that underpins the blood and gore. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lesa Thurman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000589/bk_bigh_000589_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blackmail , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 632min

The US aircraft carrier patrolling the Western Pacific Ocean is severely damaged by a surprise salvo of cruise missiles. While the Russian government officially apologizes, claiming it was the result of fire control accident during a training exercise, it was instead a calculated provocation. With the US Pacific fleet already severely under strength, the Russian president decides that the US response is a clear indication of their weakness, militarily and politically, and initiates a bold plan. Political unrest is spreading through the Eastern European states. The Russian Northern Fleet moves swiftly in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian army is moving west to the border, and Russian Baltic and Black Sea Fleets are mobilized. In one bold strike, the Russian army moves to reoccupy a large number of the industrialized areas of the former USSR while blockading the vital sea passages through which the world's oil and natural gas transit. To make matters worse, Russia's Special Forces have wired every major oil and natural gas pipeline with explosives. If the US makes one move to thwart Russia, they'll destroy them all. The US is risking disaster if it acts, but the alternative is quite possibly worse. Torn between the unthinkable and the impossible, the only possible move - to launch an attack on all fronts, simultaneously. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Kramer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002587/bk_aren_002587_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Shifted Soul: The Wolves of Forest Grove, Book Two , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min

I’m not just Allie Grace anymore. A beast slumbers beneath the surface of my skin.I have new urges and impulses. Not to mention a hot temper that flares up at the slightest provocation. But that’s not all - apparently, I’m also mated.It’s like a part of my soul has been sucked out, cleaved in two, and deposited into Jared and Clay. The strange otherworldly force tying us together is all but impossible to ignore.I try my best, though. At least until other packs catch wind of the new wolf in Forest Grove. The one who has not yet chosen her pack. The one with two tails and a will strong enough to challenge one of the strongest alphas in the state.To some, I’m a prize to be claimed. A trophy wolf that should be studied and admired. But to others, I’m dangerous. An unknown variable that could pose a threat to an entire race.With no other option, I’ll have to trust in my newfound animal instinct, and in the two shifters who’ve each claimed a piece of my soul.Shifted Soul is the second book in Elena Lawson’s number one best-selling wolf shifter series, The Wolves of Forest Grove. It’s a full-length paranormal romance you won’t want to miss about two swoon-worthy shifters and the feisty heroine caught between them.Buy this audiobook to get your copy of this thrilling new young adult shifter romance today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heather Costa. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198679/bk_acx0_198679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Archangel's Shadows: Guild Hunter Series, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 733min

Return to the sensual and painfully beautiful Guild Hunter world, with a new novel about sacrifice, loyalty and the choices of love that can shatter the heart. In the wake of a brutal war, the archangel Raphael and his hunter consort, Elena, are dealing with the treacherously shifting tides of archangelic politics and the people of a battered but not broken city. The last thing their city needs is more death, especially not a death that bears the eerie signature of an insane enemy archangel who cannot - should not - be walking the streets. This hunt must be undertaken with stealth and without alerting their people. It must be handled by those who can become shadows themselves.... Ash is a gifted tracker and a woman cursed with the ability to sense the secrets of anyone she touches. But there's one man she knows all too well without a single instant of skin contact: Janvier, the dangerously sexy Cajun vampire who has fascinated and infuriated her for years. Now, as they track down a merciless killer, their cat-and-mouse game of flirtation and provocation has turned into a profound one of the heart. And this time it is Ash's secret, dark and terrible, which threatens to destroy them both. Nalini Singh, the New York Times best-selling 'alpha author of paranormal romance' (Booklist), returns to her stunning world as it braces itself for destruction. Read by Justine Eyre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001053/bk_orio_001053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature, Hörbuch, Digital, 720min

What is the dynamic relationship between our culture's written and unwritten laws and its literature? How is that relationship evolving? How do law and literature influence or reflect one other? And what lessons might we draw from their symbiotic relationship? This 24-lecture series from a much-honored teacher approaches these questions with provocation and passion as it explores the rhetorical and philosophical connections that link these two disciplines, moving through ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, England's experience of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on individual works of literature where law - implicit or explicit - is a central theme, as well as on the overall relationship between law and literature in society, Professor Heinzelman shows how that relationship gradually transformed, from the astoundingly intricate cross-connections between law and literature still present during the time of Shakespeare, to a point in the mid-18th century when the two disciplines separated more clearly into the distinct realms we recognize today. The crucial period from the late 17th to the 19th century - during which that separation evolved and solidified - draws her sharpest focus, with the literature of the time, including some of the most famous and influential works ever put to paper, offering a profound perspective on that era's structures and values as well as an enduring impact we still feel today. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Sage Heinzelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000254/bk_tcco_000254_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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