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Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 260min
American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging volume, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance. Thinkers as diverse as Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia, Professor John Hart Ely, Judges Robert Bork and Richard Posner, have all produced seminal interpretations of our Founding document, but ones that promise to imbue courts with unprecedented powers. While crediting the theorists for the sparkling quality of their thoughts, Judge Wilkinson argues they will slowly erode the role of representative institutions in America and leave our children bereft of democratic liberty. The loser in all the theoretical fireworks is the old and honorable tradition of judicial restraint. The judicial modesty once practiced by Learned Hand, John Harlan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes has given way to competing schools of liberal and conservative activism seeking sanctuary in Living Constitutionalism, Originalism, Process Theory, or the supposedly anti-theoretical creed of Pragmatism. Each of these seemingly disparate theories promises their followers an intellectually respectable route to congenial political outcomes from the bench. Judge Wilkinson calls for a plainer, simpler, self-disciplined commitment to judicial restraint and democratic governance, a course that alas may be impossible so long as the cosmic constitutionalists so dominate contemporary legal thought. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011554/bk_adbl_011554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The History of White People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 849min
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively. Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of “whiteness” for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. Our story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave others. Not until the eighteenth century did an obsession with whiteness flourish, with the German invention of the notion of Caucasian beauty. This theory made northern Europeans into “Saxons,” “Anglo-Saxons,” and “Teutons,” envisioned as uniquely handsome natural rulers. Here was a worldview congenial to northern Europeans bent on empire. There followed an explosion of theories of race, now focusing on racial temperament as well as skin color. Spread by such intellectuals as Madame de Stael and Thomas Carlyle, white race theory soon reached North America with a vengeance. Its chief spokesman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, did the most to label Anglo-Saxons—icons of beauty and virtue—as the only true Americans. It was an ideal that excluded not only blacks but also all ethnic groups not of Protestant, northern European background. The Irish and Native Americans were out and, later, so were the Chinese, Jews, Italians, Slavs, and Greeks—all deemed racially alien. Did immigrations threaten the very existence of America? Americans were assumed to be white, but who among poor immigrants could become truly American? A ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012370/bk_adbl_012370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 749min
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess - lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years - or final days - in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci - or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It’s a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007493/bk_harp_007493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Athlete's Poems Poems of Congenial Sportsmanship
Athlete's Poems Poems of Congenial Sportsmanship: ab 6.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Twentieth Century Flute
Ervin Monroe is one of America's most distinguished flutists. Born in the rural south, Ervin was largely self taught. By age sixteen he was driving fifty miles each week to play Principal Flute in the Pensacola Florida Symphony. His dedicated musical efforts eventually won him full scholarships for flute performance study at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. At age nineteen he studied in Austria and toured as a member of Salzburg's Mozarteum Orchestra, but decided to complete his musical studies in the states and vie for a position with an American symphony. While working on a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music, Monroe was hired to play Principal Flute for the American tours of the world's most prestigious ballet companies, inluding the Bolshoi, Royal Danish and Royal English Ballets. At age twenty-three he was the youngest wind player selected to play in the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia and record chamber music for RCA Red Label Classics. Just two years later he was appointed Principal Flute of the Detroit Symphony, a position he held for 40 years until his retirement in 2008. One of the 20th century's most recorded Flutist's, Mr. Monroe can be heard on over 100 great Symphonic recordings with legendary conductors such as Antal Dorati & Neemi Jarvi, in addition to extensive discography of solo, duo and holiday CD's. Monroe is a musician of great versatility. Flutist, composer, arranger and conductor, he is one of the most published flutists today. Ervin is a frequent lecturer and recitalist throughout the Americas and abroad. His congenial teaching style and his warm, expressive performance approach are transferred to his articles and periodicals that have appeared in leading music publications worldwide.- Shop: odax
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Level 7
The second release from The Robin Cox Ensemble. These tracks are a reflection of the ensemble's very unique instrumentation of percussion and strings as well as the provocative individuality of the contemporary classical influenced music the group regularly performs live in concert. The CD includes first recordings by Cox, Joseph Koykkar, Leslie Hogan, HyeKyung Lee, and a recording of Evan Ziporyn's What She Saw There in it's original instrumentation. Reviews: 'The Robin Cox Ensemble may very well be predisposed to monopolize the esoteric niche of string and percussion quartets, and judging from their new CD Level 7, why shouldn't they? Owing in part to a nicely taut performance by the ensemble, Joseph Koykkar's Music for Mallets and Strings showcases the surprisingly homogeneous qualities shared by the disparate instrumentation. In the case of Evan Ziporyn's What She Saw There, the solo cello often cuts against the ostinatos established by the marimbas, creating a congenial tension. The most unique handling of the group appears in Quickly Casual, a spunky piece full of odd motifs and evocative instrumental color. Pieces by the ensemble's founder and violinist-yes, Robin Cox-as well as Leslie Hogan complete this enjoyable collection.' ,-Randy Nordschow, NewMusicBox 'The Robin Cox Ensemble is a unique new music group that combines violin, cello, percussion, and live electronics to create vivid performances of new music. ...including on this--the group's second CD--the marvelous Evan Ziporyn.' ,-Sequenza 21 Magazine's 'Editor's Pick' TRACKS: (with notes from the composers) 1. Escher by Robin Cox  ,5:00 ...imagine Thelonious Monk walking around in one of the 'Relativity' series of artworks by MC Escher. 2. What She Saw There by Evan Ziporyn , ,14:21 ...I wrote it in a bamboo hut in Bali on a miniature Casio keyboard. I was there on a Fulbright, and I was thinking quite a lot about cross-cultural influences, about this strange phenomenon of being able to listen to and enjoy music that one didn't necessarily understand. I was thinking story-songs in unknown languages, where one can feel the drama and the course of the narrative, even if one doesn't know what's going on. I also was interested in finding links between the musical languages I did understand, so the melodies straddle a line between jazz, Balinese music, classical rhetoric, etc. 3. For Mallets and Strings by Joseph Koykkar , ,3:32 ...an interplay between sections featuring unison tutti passages and those of a more contrapuntal nature. A rhythmically driving mode of performance is demanded of the players. The composition is structured on the movement I to IV in relation to the tonic and subdominant notes of the scale, not by utilizing any traditional type of functional harmony or key modulation, but by providing a focus for pitch direction akin to a type of 'new tonality' which I have been exploring in my music over the past twenty years. 4. Thirty-Five by Leslie Hogan , ,5:00 ...inspired by driving the stretch of Interstate 35 between Dallas and Austin, Texas, on a bright, hot, and windy July day in 1999. The drive was pretty much like watching paint dry, the composer started to think about music for cruising. 5. Quickly Casual by HyeKyung Lee , ,9:18 ...designed to get back to, or out of, the notes C and D flat, this was my attempt to arrive at a more oriental sound (using C, D flat and G, F sharp, instead of a pentatonic scale). This music reflects an interest in combining colors of both my western education and of my Korean heritage within a personal style and sound. 6. Volt by Robin Cox , ,5:00 ...in an ensemble consisting of two very different instruments types, it is easy to find one's writing engaged in the duality of long, sweeping string gestures against the quick attack and beat oriented nature of percussion. Volt is a conscious attempt to avoid that 'role-playing' by presenting violin and cello with distinctly percussive tasks. I have also engaged in my increasingly common practice of, both in harmony and rhythm, juxtapositions between the highly consonant and highly dissonant.- Shop: odax
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