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  Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 873min

  A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist, and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Tracing Jefferson's development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination - his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure - "the most blessed of the patriarchs". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Chilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009344/bk_reco_009344_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Phenomenology as Critique (eBook, ePUB)

  Drawing on classical Husserlian resources as well as existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique is largely a question of method. It demonstrates that phenomenological discussions of acute social and political problems draw from a rich tradition of radically critical investigations in epistemology, social ontology, political theory, and ethics. The contributions show that contemporary phenomenological investigations of various forms of oppression and domination develop new critical-analytical tools that complement those of competing theoretical approaches, such as analytics of power, critical theory, and liberal philosophy of justice. More specifically, the chapters pay close attention to the following methodological themes: the conditions for the possibility of phenomenology as critique; critique as radical reflection and free thinking; eidetic analysis and reflection of transcendental facticity and contingency of the self, of others, of the world; phenomenology and immanent critique; the self-reflective dimensions of phenomenology; and phenomenological analysis and self- and world-transformation. All in all, the book explicates the multiple critical resources phenomenology has to offer, precisely in virtue of its distinctive methods and methodological commitments, and thus shows its power in tackling timely issues of social injustice. Phenomenology as Critique will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in phenomenology, Continental philosophy, and critical theory.

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  Phenomenology as Critique (eBook, PDF)

  Drawing on classical Husserlian resources as well as existentialist and hermeneutical approaches, this book argues that critique is largely a question of method. It demonstrates that phenomenological discussions of acute social and political problems draw from a rich tradition of radically critical investigations in epistemology, social ontology, political theory, and ethics. The contributions show that contemporary phenomenological investigations of various forms of oppression and domination develop new critical-analytical tools that complement those of competing theoretical approaches, such as analytics of power, critical theory, and liberal philosophy of justice. More specifically, the chapters pay close attention to the following methodological themes: the conditions for the possibility of phenomenology as critique; critique as radical reflection and free thinking; eidetic analysis and reflection of transcendental facticity and contingency of the self, of others, of the world; phenomenology and immanent critique; the self-reflective dimensions of phenomenology; and phenomenological analysis and self- and world-transformation. All in all, the book explicates the multiple critical resources phenomenology has to offer, precisely in virtue of its distinctive methods and methodological commitments, and thus shows its power in tackling timely issues of social injustice. Phenomenology as Critique will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in phenomenology, Continental philosophy, and critical theory.

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  When the Garden Isn't Eden (eBook, ePUB)

  Stories can explore complicated ideas and bring shared experiences to life. Footage of the Knicks' upset win in the NBA finals triggers a traumatic memory of family tragedy. A young girl starts bullying her best friend after her big sister goes off to sleepaway camp. An adolescent works through her feelings of anger at her father over her parents' divorce after discovering his infidelity. A patient's ugly shoes remind an analyst of her own childhood scars. A daughter recognizes her Holocaust-survivor father's resilience as she comes to terms with his vulnerability after a life-altering accident. Bringing together these narratives and many more, When the Garden Isn't Eden reveals how psychoanalysis sheds light on the troubles of everyday life.Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates key psychodynamic concepts, showing how these ideas inform and deepen our understanding of what makes us human. Blending storytelling and psychotherapy, When the Garden Isn't Eden makes psychodynamic theory vivid and accessible to students, teachers, clinicians, and anyone curious about how therapists work and think.

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  Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts: The Animal Turn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 546min

  Every day, millions of people around the world sit down to a meal that includes meat. This audiobook explores several questions as it examines the use of animals as food: How did the domestication and production of livestock animals emerge and why? How did current modes of raising and slaughtering animals for human consumption develop, and what are their consequences? What can be done to mitigate and even reverse the impacts of animal production? With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holistic picture and explicates the connections in the supply chain that are obscured in the current mode of food production. Bridging the distance in animal agriculture between production, processing, consumption, and their associated impacts, this analysis envisions ways of redressing the negative effects of the use of animals as food. It details how consumption levels and practices have changed as the relationship between production, processing, and consumption has shifted. Due to the wide-ranging questions addressed in this audiobook, the author draws on many fields of inquiry, including sociology, (critical) animal studies, history, economics, law, political science, anthropology, criminology, environmental science, geography, philosophy, and animal science. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clara Delaney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128278/bk_acx0_128278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min

  In Acedia & Me, the acclaimed author Kathleen Norris explicates and demystifies the forgotten but utterly relevant concept of acedia, a term that has often been understood as spiritual sloth, but really signifies the serious malady of being unable to care. With great insight and candor, Norris explores acedia through the geography of her life as a writer, her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness, and her keen interest in the monastic tradition. She writes of her and her husband David's battles with acedia and its clinical cousin, depression, and traces acedia's path through literary and religious history, exposing the damage it does not only to individual lives but also to our culture as a whole, as we are desensitized by ever more intrusive distractions and lose the ability to care about what is truly important. Thus, she finds that the "restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment phobia, and enervating despair" that we struggle with today are "the ancient demon of acedia in modern dress." An examination of acedia in the light of theo logy, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris's own experience, Acedia & Me is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation as well as reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always important. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Norris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001104/bk_peng_001104_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Perfidia: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1687min

  It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls - comrades, rivals, lovers, history's pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Wasson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003956/bk_rand_003956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Economic Effects of a Virus Pandemic: How a Virus Pandemic Can Reshape the Economy, How a Virus Pandemic Can Cause a Workforce to Become More Efficient, and How to Prevent Viruses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min

  This essay sheds light on the economic effects of a virus pandemic, elucidates how a virus pandemic can reshape the economy, and explicates how a virus pandemic can render a workforce more efficient. Moreover, what is a virus is delineated and how to prevent viruses is posited in this essay. Furthermore, the plethora of deadly disease causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are identified and how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting severe chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, heart healthy, brain healthy, kidney healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. The economic effects of a virus pandemic can unequivocally be profound and can pervade every facet of the economy. Due to social distancing becoming the norm during a virus pandemic, industries that do not innately limit social distancing are prone to succumb to multibillion-dollar revenue losses. Some of the industries that will experience the unbridled economic brunt of a virus pandemic encompass the airline industry, hotel industry, restaurant industry, automotive manufacturing industry, electronic manufacturing industry, retail industry, sports industry, the casino gaming industry, movie theater industry, cruise industry, film industry, theme park industry, higher education industry, and gym industry. Industries that innately encourage social gathering or that require an in-person workforce to be present to furnish services to customers are most vulnerable to experiencing the economic ramifications of a virus pandemic. As per the airline industry, a virus pandemic can result in travel restrictions being enacted in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. Moreover, fewer passengers per flight results in less revenue for the airline industry which inevitably leads to layoffs of airline employees. Passengers are ret ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208196/bk_acx0_208196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Dangers of Consuming Mucus Producing Foods, Mucus Forming Foods That You Should Avoid Eating, and How to Minimize Mucus Production and Discharge Mucus from the Body , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 162min

  This essay sheds light on the dangers of consuming mucus-producing foods, demystifies mucus-forming foods that you should avoid eating, explicates how to minimize mucus production, and delineates how to discharge mucus from the body. Moreover, the surfeit of simple-to-prepare and palatable, healthy food recipes for longevity are identified ,and the various deadly disease-causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are revealed in this essay. Furthermore, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting severe chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, wholesome, heart-healthy, brain-healthy, kidney-healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient-dense, alkaline, antioxidant-rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. The dangers of consuming mucus-producing foods are multitudinous and can be of dire consequence to your health. While mucus may help your body ward off “allergens, irritants, bacteria, viruses, dust” (“Mucus: The Good”, n.d.) and pathogens from entering the body's respiratory system, the overproduction of mucus can denote grave health issues. Mucus can help stave off infections and can be overly produced by consuming mucus-inducing foods or by being in an insalubrious environment that is tainted with “airborne pollutants, allergens, irritants” (“Mucus: The Good”, n.d.) and pathogens that pervade the air. Allergic reactions, viruses, and infections can also trigger excess mucus production. Having excess mucus accumulate in the airways of your respiratory system can be of dire consequence to your health. This not only creates a haven for bacteria to thrive, but it also preempts the cilia from discharging bacteria out of the body. Excess mucus production can render you more vulnerable to succumbing to “chest congestion, excessive congestion, respiratory tract infections, wet cough, frequent throat-clearing, strong cough, or chesty cough” (“Mucus: The Good"). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chas Mandala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209611/bk_acx0_209611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Dangers of Eating Energy Bars: Why People Mistakenly Believe that Energy Bars Are Healthy to Eat, Why You Should Not Eat Energy Bars, and the Plethora of Simple to Prepare Healthy Food Recipes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min

  This essay sheds light on the dangers of eating energy bars, elucidates why people mistakenly believe that energy bars are healthy to eat, and explicates why you should never eat energy bars. Moreover, the plethora of simple to prepare and palatable healthy food recipes for longevity are demystified and the surfeit of deadly disease causing foods that you should always desist from ever considering devouring are revealed in this essay. Furthermore, how to substantially mitigate risks for succumbing to contracting deleterious chronic diseases by embracing a salubrious, wholesome, heart healthy, brain healthy, kidney healthy, anticancer, antidiabetic, nutrient dense, alkaline, antioxidant rich, anti-inflammatory, raw fruitarian diet is expounded upon in this essay. Unsurprisingly, the consumption of energy bars is not without its deleterious ramifications against your overall health. Energy bars are an unhealthy, oxidized, acidic, non-alkaline, synthetic, bastardized man made product are are laced with added “sugars, artificial ingredients, partially hydrogenated oils” (“Energy Bar Ingredients”, n.d.), and a host of other noxious ingredients. Energy bars may also contain pathogens, endocrine distributors, neurotoxins, “genetically modified ingredients” (Painter, 2009), and carcinogens. Some of the ample noxious ingredients that energy bars can be comprised of encompass “high-fructose corn syrup, soy protein isolate, inulin, agave syrup, brown rice syrup, sucralose, fractionated palm kernel oil, and sugar alcohols” (Young, 2016). Energy bars are a motley of deleterious ingredients that can cause digestive distress and other health issues. “The process of ‘isolating’ the soy protein to produce soy protein isolate for instance can leave behind traces of the neurotoxins hexane and aluminum and can even cause digestive woes due to higher concentrations of trypsin inhibitors that could block the digestion of plant protein. Moreover, around 90% of all soy is ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Francis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222435/bk_acx0_222435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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