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Meditations on the Mat: Practices for Living from the Heart, Hörbuch, Digital, 284min
Journey to the heart of yoga with acclaimed teacher Rolf Gates. Are you looking for deeper meaning in your yoga practice? In Meditations on the Mat, popular yoga teacher and trainer Rolf Gates shares a four-part audio program to bring you in touch with the heart of yoga. Through guided meditations, skillful exercises, and down-to-earth teachings, Gates will help you attune to the spiritual dimensions of yoga - on the cushion, on the mat, and throughout everyday life. Meditations on the fundamental skills of being, from the mat and into the world Drawing from over 20 years as a yoga and meditation teacher, Gates has identified four fundamental skills that can easily and effectively be learned through meditation and expanded into our daily experiences: Wise effort - Set the stage for all other skills as you come into connection with the present moment Wise concentration - Release tension in the body and tune into the subtler aspects of your experience Wise mindfulness - Bring awareness to how consistent practice infuses your way of being the world Self-forgiveness - Cultivate an open heart with a series of healing meditations "When we can rest in the felt experience of these skills during our meditation and yoga practices," teaches Gates, "we are better able to bring them into the more complex circumstances of our everyday lives." For practitioners of all levels and from all traditions, these meditations are the perfect complement to any yoga or mindfulness practice. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Rolf Gates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/001004/sp_true_001004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Capture the Castle, Hörbuch, Digital, 292min
The head of the Mortmain family is Cassandra Mortmain’s father, a writer suffering from writer's block who has not published anything since his first book, a hit entitled Jacob Wresstling. Ten years before the story begins, he took out a 40-year lease on a dilapidated but beautiful castle, hoping to find either inspiration or isolation there; now, his family is selling off the furniture to buy food. Mortmain's second wife, Topaz, is an exotically beautiful artist's model who enjoys communing with nature, sometimes wearing nothing but hip boots. Rose, the elder daughter, is a classic English beauty longing for a chance to meet some eligible (and preferably rich) young men. Cassandra, the younger daughter and the story's narrator, has literary ambitions and spends a lot of time developing her writing talent by "capturing" everything around her in her journal. Stephen, a handsome, loyal, live-in son of the Mortmain's late cook, and Thomas, the youngest Mortmain child, round off the cast of household characters. Stephen, a noble soul, is in love with Cassandra, which she finds touching, but a bit awkward; Thomas, a schoolboy, is, like Cassandra, considered "tolerably bright". Things begin to happen when the Cottons, a wealthy American family, inherit nearby Scoatney and become the Mortmains' new landlords. Cassandra and Rose soon become intrigued by the unmarried sons, Simon and Neil, and the inevitable relationships commence. As the journal advances, the relationships Cassandra depicts become subtler and more problematic, and she concludes her narrative on a bittersweet note. Cassandra, despite being saddened by her first disappointment in love, can still reflect with satisfaction on the Mortmain family's improved fortunes, and looks forward to the future. I Capture the Castle is a classic coming-of-age novel which stands the test of time and will endure for as long as boy-girl relationships endure. Language: English. Narrator: Emilia Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000200/bk_csaw_000200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pox: An American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 848min
The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the 20th century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In Pox, award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century. At the dawn of the activist Progressive era and during a moment of great optimism about modern medicine, the government responded to the deadly epidemic by calling for universal compulsory vaccination. To enforce the law, public health authorities relied on quarantines, pesthouses, and "virus squads": corps of doctors and club-wielding police. Though these measures eventually contained the disease, they also sparked a wave of popular resistance among Americans who perceived them as a threat to their health and to their rights. At the time, anti-vaccinationists were often dismissed as misguided cranks, but Willrich argues that they belonged to a wider legacy of American dissent that attended the rise of an increasingly powerful government. While a well-organized anti-vaccination movement sprang up during these years, many Americans resisted in subtler ways - by concealing sick family members or forging immunization certificates. Pox introduces us to memorable characters on both sides of the debate, from Henning Jacobson, a Swedish Lutheran minister whose battle against vaccination went all the way to the Supreme Court, to C. P. Wertenbaker, a federal surgeon who saw himself as a medical missionary combating a deadly - and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: K. Todd Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/001683/bk_peng_001683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
Excerpt from the introduction: Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of extreme stories, the hardcore stuff that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos, the transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). We staked out our territory and nailed this to the wall to guide us: Year's Best Hardest Horror Not your mama's best-of horror annual. This stuff comes from the edge of the abyss, stories you read at your own risk because you feel the abyss looking right back into you through the tainted lens of each twisted tale. Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, sex, and depravities, while others may contain only one shocking moment of brutality. In others, the hardcore aspect may be less graphic and subtler than you might expect. Some of these quieter tales offer the listener some time to recover from the more disturbing ones preceding. Most of the stories collected here are from small and specialty press anthologies, with a few from periodicals, like the prestigious Splatterpunk Zine in the UK and Thuglit here in the US. Bizarro is also represented with a couple of tales from the unlikely anthology Blood for You: A Literary Tribute to GG Allin from Weirdpunk Books. (If you're not familiar with the late GG Allin, you can find snippets from some of his outrageous and obscene punk shows online, which will increase your appreciation of those two tales.) So for now, forget about that neighbor you suspect is a serial killer, don't worry about the drunk driver that could take you out on your next trip to the store, push those troubling news stories to the back of your mind, and immerse yourself in the imaginary horrors at hand. But don't be surprised if you sense something dark staring back at you from between the lines. That is to be expected when you enter these forbiddi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063703/bk_acx0_063703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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RECOVERY 2.0 (eBook, ePUB)
"The feeling was electric-energy humming through my body. I felt like blood was pouring into areas of my tissues that it had not been able to reach for some time. It was relieving and healing, subtler than the feeling from getting off on drugs, but it was detectable and lovely, and of course, there was no hangover, just a feeling of more ease than I could remember. I felt a warmth come over me similar to what I felt when I had done heroin, but far from the darkness of that insanity, this was pure light-a way through." - Tommy Rosen, on his first yoga experience Most of us deal with addiction in some form. While you may not be a fall-down drunk, anorexic, or a gambling addict, you likely struggle with addiction in other ways. Workaholism, overeating, and compulsively engaging with technology like video games, texting, and Facebook are also highly common examples. And if you don't suffer from addiction, chances are you know someone who does. Through more than 20 years of recovery and in working professionally with others, Tommy Rosen has uncovered core elements of recovery and healing, what he refers to as Recovery 2.0. In the book, he shares his own past struggles with addiction, and powerful, tested tools for breaking free from the obstacles that stand in the way of a holistic and lasting recovery. Building off the key tenets of the 12-Step program, he has developed an innovative approach that includes • Looking at the roots of addiction; your family history and "Addiction Story" • Daily breathing practices, meditation, yoga, and body awareness • A healthy, alkaline-based diet to aid with detox, boost immunity, increase vitality, support your entire recovery, and help prevent relapse • Discovering your mission, living on purpose, and being of service to others Recovery 2.0 will help readers not only release their addictions, but thrive in their recovery.- Shop: buecher
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School Of Brilliant Things
The group have more than managed to outlast the short-lived nu-metal genre and become pioneers of a subtler, more sophisticated sound. Latest album, Saturday Night Wrist, is a perfect example of this, and finds them taking risks, with a new producer and more of the trip hop and DJ-oriented music they love bleeding into their sound than ever before. This documentary goes behind the music to discover what it took for the group to capture the imagination of a generation, and serves as a fitting tri- Shop: odax
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Jumpin' on the Bandwagon
'...We're not trying to push back any frontiers...' - part of the lyrics from 'Jumpin' on the Bandwagon' which express the band's intentions for this album. '...we try to use the familiarity and durability of past classics as a springboard to express our own feelings about life in the new millennium', says bandleader Kit Packham in his sleeve notes. He goes on to say a few words about each track which draw on a wide variety of musical genres within a broad jazz and blues spectrum. You may hear Louis Jordan, Ian Dury, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Chuck Berry, Viv Stanshall, Louis Prima, Noel Coward, Mose Allison... or none of these! What you will hear is some great songs played by a great band. R E V I E W S Humorous blues lyrics don't come any better - cleverer or funnier - nowadays than those from Kit Packham's pen, and there are two or three new examples here which are as good as anything I've heard from him before. 'We Don't Normally Work This Cheap' in particular is exceptionally witty, and actually had me laughing out loud the first time I heard it. 'Cleaning Up My Act' too, is as amusing a piece of 1920s-style-jazz-vaudeville as you'll hear this side of the Bonzos. Anyone expecting this surfeit of good humour to equate with a lack of musical seriousness would be wildly mistaken, since Packham's comedy sits upon a bedrock of real jump'n'jive know-how and instrumental earnestness - this is a band, after all, which even gives a 'beats-per-minute' reading beside each track title. Personnel-wise, the band is not greatly changed from that which appeared on 1999's From Top to Toe, with Billy Jenkins again displaying the subtler side of his guitar range and tastefully producing throughout. Also worthy of mention here are the keyboard skills of Perry White, Simon Da Silva's trumpet work, and the fine rhythm backline of Chris Rodel (double bass) and Kenrick Rowe (drums). Sax duties are shared between Tracey Mendham and Kit himself. The songs, all originals this time, display a wide range of influences, not just the blues, jazz and jive tunes Packham praises in his amusingly honest sleeve note, but also Caribbean and Latin American music. The band switch styles and tempos with ease, and although Kit is not the greatest singer on the block, he plays the "personality vocalist" card with some aplomb. All things considered it's a very impressive set. Rating: 8 - Paul Lewis (copyright 2001 Blueprint magazine) S S S S S S S S S S S S I confess that I haven't checked, but with this CD, I'm pretty sure I now have the first reference to David Beckham's haircut in my collection! Singer and saxophonist Kit Packham inhabits a nightmare world where clouds follow him around just to rain on him, his cat disappears under mountains of junk mail, maniac truckers rule the roads and only leave the cab "for diesel, the toilet or a doner kebab", his mobile phone never works and, when he does get to play a gig, he finds that "a big screen above us plays an old cup final, the dressing room doubles as the men's urinal" - welcome to the third millennium! As you may have guessed then, all the material is original - very original at times - if occasionally just a little too wordy (but these songs do stay in your head long after the album has ended). Much of the music is jump or jive, owing a lot to the likes of Louis (take your pick - Jordan, Prima, even a snatch of Satch) but often with it's own little musical twists, most often provided by guitarist Billy Jenkins, a well-known innovator on the UK jazz and blues scenes, whose solos and fills are kind of, er, Jimi Hendrix plays Tiny Grimes as imagined by Vernon Reid of Living Color. Drummer Kenrick Rowe also deserves a mention for being totally on the ball, though there are no slackers here. There are a couple of Caribbean styled pieces in "Fried Bananas" (cod Louis Jordan plays cod calypso) and the mellow "Simple Things In Life", "Junk Mail" is almost Little Richard style, "Rough and Ready Blues" is virtually that, and the final number is a lyrically very clever and up to the minute song with a twenties jazz accompaniment and delivery. Oh, and "Big Swinging Dick" is about "a long-legged sleuth with a sideline in syncopation" - why, what did you think it was? Yeah, this is nice. If you like your jump-jivers note for note from old 78s, avoid this like the plague, otherwise, if what you have read here has piqued your interest, check it out by all means.... And by the way, don't take the title too literally. Kit has been purveying this brand of music around South London and environs for well over twenty years now. Norman Darwen (copyright 2001 Blues & Rhythm) S S S S S S S S S S S S This is Packham's best album to date. All originals from the leader with help from guitarist Billy Jenkins and arranged within a framework of jump, jive and boogie. The band (One Jump Ahead) play like a well-oiled machine but not like clockwork. There's loose rhythmic feel and the vibrant happy sound of people enjoying themselves. Packham and Jenkins supply some quality tunes including a number that will strike a chord with many bands (We Don't Normally Work This Cheap). The lyrics cover all the deflating experiences of a struggling band and even established ones no doubt. The Big Swinging Dick is obviously about a private eye with rhythm and is a good rousing number to boot! A good mixture of serious blues and tongue-in-cheek numbers that could make a party swing. David Lands (copyright 2001 Jazz Journal International) S S S S S S S S S S S S ........Once again Kit Packham and One Jump Ahead have come up with a highly entertaining album..... As always, the music from this big swinging outfit is superb and such is the range - everything from Chicago blues to boogie-woogie, jumpin' jive and and good time singalong - that this CD is a complete show in itself....... Chris Woodford (copyright 2001 Now Dig This)- Shop: odax
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Crime [Evergreen Colored Vinyl]
Limited evergreen colored vinyl. Easily one of the most prolific film composers of all time, Ennio Morricone enjoys a revered status in the world of eccentric music lovers second to no other. While he is probably best known for his unmistakable music in Sergio Leone's Man with No Name trilogy, much of his work has been of a subtler and somewhat less broadly accessible variety. Because of this, his oeuvre represents a treasure trove for film music lovers, and now, with Crime Klimt label have made available some of the quirkier gems from among a diverse catalog.- Shop: odax
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