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Memoirs and Political Observations of a Midwestern W.A.S.P.
Memoirs and Political Observations of a Midwestern W.A.S.P. ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: A View from Flyover Country. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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In Plain View , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 712min
SFX: Ker-flush "That's the sound of my career going down the toilet. Three months ago, I was the freelance reporter to call for full-color images of an international crisis. Now? I'm stationed at the far edge of the Chicago flyover as a disappointing mother-sub to my eight-year-old niece and the babysitter for a newsroom College Boy. Camera still: a man in Amish clothing hanging from a tree. Dead. "One photo of the lifeless man was all I needed to see - there's more to this story than anyone wants to admit. Especially Sheriff Jack Curzon, with his death-ray eyes watching my every move. I have a feeling that man wants more than my cooperation. Quick-cut, pan, tilt and - run. "Someone is hiding, just out of sight. And I'll do whatever it takes to protect my new family. Seeing the truth can be dangerous... when evil is In Plain View." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Delaine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harl/000528/bk_harl_000528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Memoirs and Political Observations of a Midwestern W.A.S.P.
Memoirs and Political Observations of a Midwestern W.A.S.P. ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: A View from Flyover Country. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Memoirs and Political Observations of a Midwestern W.A.S.P.: A View from Flyover Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
The memoir portion of the book covers my Christian upbringing (first to eighth grades at St John’s Lutheran), my military experience, being stationed in three European countries where I learned two additional languages, travels to more than 25 countries in more than three continents, 60 years of study and training as a martial artist - which included completion in the US and Germany - nearly 48 years as a career police officer, and nearly 15 years as an associate professor of political science. The rest of the book discusses and evaluates politicians and political parties by Christian/biblical values. Listeners should evaluate the politicians and parties they support by putting them against the Christian yardstick. If they fail to measure up or violate biblical teachings and/or the Ten Commandments, they should seriously consider a change. Continuing to support these politicians make the supporter complicit in their sinful nature and conduct. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Borys. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/237984/bk_acx0_237984_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Philosophy for Passengers (eBook, ePUB)
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses. While there are entire bookstore sections-and even entire bookstores-devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface and introduction) through a series of stops and detours (reflections on topics including time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses) to destination and disembarking (conclusion). Marder finds that the experience of passengers in the twenty-first century is experience itself, stretching well beyond railroad tracks and airplane flight patterns. On his journey through passengerhood, he considers, among many other things, passenger togetherness, which goes hand in hand with passenger loneliness; flyover country and the idea of placeness; and Descartes in an airplane seat. He tells us that the word metaphor means transport in Greek and discusses the gray area between literalness and metaphoricity; explains the connection between reading and riding; and ponders the difference between destination and destiny. Finally, a Beckettian disembarking: you might not be able to disembark, yet you must disembark. After the voyage in the world ends, the journey of understanding begins.- Shop: buecher
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Philosophy for Passengers
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.While there are entire bookstore sections and even entire bookstores devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering a philosophical guide to passengerhood. He takes readers from ticketing and preboarding (preface and introduction) through a series of stops and detours (reflections on topics including time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses) to destination and disembarking (conclusion). Marder finds that the experience of passengers in the twenty-first century is experience itself, stretching well beyond railroad tracks and airplane flight patterns. On his journey through passengerhood, he considers, among many other things, passenger togetherness, which goes hand in hand with passenger loneliness; flyover country and the idea of placeness; and Descartes in an airplane seat. He tells us that the word metaphor means transport in Greek and discusses the gray area between literalness and metaphoricity; explains the connection between reading and riding; and ponders the difference between destination and destiny. Finally, a Beckettian disembarking: you might not be able to disembark, yet you must disembark. After the voyage in the world ends, the journey of understanding begins.- Shop: buecher
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Interior States: Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 462min
Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." (Lorrie Moore)A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere.What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country". She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still", and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the 15 superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture ("Hell"), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design ("Species of Origin"), the paradoxes of Christian Rock ("Sniffing Glue"), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages ("Midwest World"), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity ("Ghosts in the Cloud"). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a wholehearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006410/bk_rand_006410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
From the moment she upset a heavily favored incumbent in the primary for the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden, Christine O’Donnell made headlines. Though she didn't win the general election, O’Donnell did win the designation of 2010’s Most Covered Candidate. And what people were talking about wasn't just gossip: they responded to a fresh, unencumbered voice that appealed to voter frustration with politics—and politicians—as usual. America’s strength lies in its government “by the people, for the people”, but too many of those people feel they are now just labeled featureless residents of "flyover country", told what to think and what they can and cannot do by an entrenched, reigning class of elites. O’Donnell’s candidacy gave hope that the voices of real people—the people—not only can be heard but can also become a force. Part of this hope is invested in the nascent Tea Party, but most of it is invested in individual voters who are willing to work hard and make sacrifices for what they believe in, not what backroom dealing and a bloated federal government has mandated is good for them. Troublemaker is about where O’Donnell comes from—the Philadelphia suburbs, with five kids to a room—and what she weathered in the 2010 election. But the core of the book is a clear, straightforward discussion of an America that yearns to embrace freedom and opportunity through personal responsibility, and how it is hamstrung and stymied by excessive regulation, taxation, and the sanctimony of a "nanny state". And Troublemaker will deliver an important, rousing message about what we do with the quiet anger in America today: where we can go and how strong we can be, from here. Warning readers that challenging the status quo makes the political establishment push back, O'Donnell wants to build a movement that will continue to goad it. It's practical, too, since O'Donnell believes in power through participation - ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine O'Donnell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001295/bk_aren_001295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again, Hörbuch, Digital, 387min
From the moment she upset a heavily-favored incumbent in the primary for the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden, Christine O’Donnell made headlines. Though she didn't win the general election, O’Donnell did win the designation of 2010’s Most Covered Candidate. And what people were talking about wasn't just gossip: they responded to a fresh, unencumbered voice that appealed to voter frustration with politics—and politicians—as usual. America’s strength lies in its government “by the people, for the people”, but too many of those people feel they are now just labeled featureless residents of “flyover country”, told what to think and what they can and cannot do by an entrenched, reigning class of elites. O’Donnell’s candidacy gave hope that the voices of real people—the people—not only can be heard but can also become a force. Part of this hope is invested in the nascent Tea Party, but most of it is invested in individual voters who are willing to work hard and make sacrifices for what they believe in, not what backroom dealing and a bloated federal government has mandated is good for them. Troublemaker is about where O’Donnell comes from—the Philadelphia suburbs with five kids to a room—and what she weathered in the 2010 election. But the core of the book is a clear, straightforward discussion of an America that yearns to embrace freedom and opportunity through personal responsibility, and how it is hamstrung and stymied by excessive regulation, taxation, and the sanctimony of a “nanny state.” And Troublemaker will deliver an important, rousing message about what we do with the quiet anger in America today: where we can go, and how strong we can be, from here. Warning readers that challenging the status quo makes the political establishment push back, O'Donnell wants to build a movement that will continue to goad it. It's practical, too, since O'Donnell believes in power through participation: it's not enough Language: English. Narrator: Christine O'Donnell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001272/bk_aren_001272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Truth Hurts, Hörbuch, Digital, 40min, (USK 18)
Travis Simmons, aka The Big Funny, is working to change the world one joke at a time. Some people hug trees; others run for political office. Travis Simmons is dedicated to comedy for the sake of people. He makes them laugh by being honest, telling the truth, and sprinkling in an impression or two. "If you have reason not to share on this planet when we're really just stuck here together, I'm making fun of you. If you think someone else should be limited in their rights because of their ethnicity, gender, or sexuality, then I'm going to make fun of you and your ideas." He takes his time and works meticulously on the construction of each joke he writes, ensuring that his material is crisp, compelling, and authentic. He is highly regarded and widely applauded for his brilliant observations, amazing impressions, and astute political commentary. He has performed up and down the West Coast as well as in some of the flyover states. He won second place at the 2013 Big Sky Comedy Competition and was second runner-up in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. He is currently in postproduction on his first documentary, Weed Is Safer than Alcohol. He has over three million video plays on YouTube, he teaches a comedy class, and he runs a marathon daily podcast where he digs deep with other comics on antiracist and progressive ideas. Travis Simmons is always performing. "I tell jokes in grocery stores and gas stations. Sometimes I pop into a karaoke bar...where I'll sing 'What a Wonderful World'. While the audience is stunned by my Louis Armstrong impression, I'm able to tell like five to ten minutes of jokes. Once I see what worked there, I'll take off, stop at Dicks, and do another ten minutes for everyone waiting in line." Travis Simmons, a big man with veteran chops and a booming voice that he uses to tame even the wildest road crowds, is truly a force to be reckoned with in the comedy world. Language: English. Narrator: Travis The Big Funny Simmons. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/roar/000172/pf_roar_000172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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