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  Outcasts United , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 781min

  The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town. Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world's war zones, from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston's refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees. Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives and the lives of their families in the face of a series of daunting challenges. This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001833/bk_rand_001833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Whose Names Are Unknown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 525min

  Sanora Babb' s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author' s firsthand experience. This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt' s father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat. Yet buried in the drudgery of their everyday life are aspirations, failed dreams, and fleeting moments of hope. The land is their dream. The Duanne family and the farmers around them fight desperately for the land they love, but the droughts of the thirties force them to abandon their fields. When they join the exodus to the irrigated valleys of California, they discover not the promised land, but an abusive labor system arrayed against destitute immigrants. The system labels all farmers like them as worthless " Okies" and earmarks them for beatings and worse when hardworking men and women, such as Milt and Julia, object to wages so low they can' t possibly feed their children. The informal communal relations these dryland farmers knew on the High Plains gradually coalesce into a shared determination to resist. Realizing that a unified community is their best hope for survival, the Dunnes join with their fellow workers and begin the struggle to improve migrant working conditions through democratic organization and collective protest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/007531/bk_reco_007531_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sex, Drugs, and Yoga: A Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

  A powerful, visceral memoir of a life undone. As she speeds through her twenties, Birdie is oblivious that Saturn is journeying towards its notorious return. She's far too busy searching for a connection in all the wrong places. Amid the chaos, she is unaware that twenty-seven will see her reach an ultimate low and that twenty-nine is going to be her most transformative year. As her mental health deteriorates, masochism and psychedelics become her safe space; a world of destruction in which she rises to the throne. But regardless that life glitters, on the inside she is cold. Entering adulthood in a time before social media's documentation of one's every move, she has a handle on keeping her private life discrete. Just. But the problem with secrets is they always have a way surfacing. Running away from her past takes her far from home; distancing herself from her pain proves more difficult. Ultimately, she must look inwards. Delve deeper than ever before. And practising yoga invites her to do just that. It's more challenging than she thought possible - the stillness, the light. But it sure as hell is better than the dark. Through intimate access to her personal diary, Sex, Drugs, and Yoga shares a decade of Birdie's innermost thoughts as she navigates this period of transition, showing first-hand that even the depths of despair can lead to breakthroughs and to life. A rawness reminiscent of James Frey and glimmers of a poetic brilliance evocative of Rupi Kaur coalesce in this remarkable debut, shining a light on addiction, isolation, and finding inner strength.

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  Drops on the Water

  Drops on the Water is a book about the childhood experiences of a father and son, and their gradual entrance into adulthood. It traces the similarities and differences between distinct generations in their unique geographical environments. From the suburbs and fairgrounds of the United States to the majesty and beauty of the Swiss Alps, from a beach in Nicaragua to a gum plantation in Zululand, these stories jump between Europe and America, east and west coast, and the African continent. They trace the inheritance of World War II, of German nationality, of the shock of a friend's suicide to a classmate's overdose. The anxieties of early love and rural small town life are balanced against changes seen in the familial sphere across generations. Apartheid inequities, corporal punishment in strict prep schools, a friend's illicit affair with an African maid, hitchhiking barefoot, and a scheduled Ping-Pong match with the Prince of Lichtenstein, all coalesce in a book that brings to life the circumstances that bind its authors to history, family, generation, and place. Eric G. Müller is a musician, teacher and writer living in upstate New York. He was born in Durban, South Africa, and studied literature and history at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Müller continued his studies in England and Germany before moving to America. He has published three novels and a collection of poetry. Matthew Zanoni Müller was born in Bochum, Germany and grew up in Eugene, Oregon and Upstate New York. After earning his BA from Emerson College, he received his MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers. He teaches in his local Community College System and currently shuttles between western Mass and upstate New York. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals and this is his first book.

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  DRAWN

  Verschmelzen von Zeichnung und Grafik Christian Schwarzwalds künstlerisches Medium (geb. 1971 in Salzburg; lebt und arbeitet in Wien und Berlin) ist die Zeichnung. Er verwendet verschiedenste Techniken und Bildquellen und nutzt Aspekte der Reproduzierbarkeit, der Irritation durch eingebaute Fehler und der Illusion von Dreidimensionalität. Schwarzwalds Arbeit verkörpert dabei einen erweiterten Begriff von Grafik: Skizzen, Notizen, Editionen und Malereien werden im Raum zu Ensembles. Das Einzelblatt - als Zeichen - wird so zur Komponente eines komplexen Zeichensystems von Bildwelten. Mit analytischer Herangehensweise erschafft Schwarzwald eine enzyklopädische Welt der Zeichnung.Der umfangreiche Bildband DRAWN zeigt neben einem künstlerischen Teil eine Chronologie von über 100 Projekten. Die im Duplexdruckverfahren hergestellte Publikation greift durch den Zweifarbdruck ein zentrales Stilmittel Schwarzwalds in Buchform auf. Die Texte schrieben Elsy Lahner, Ann Cotten, Sebastian Egenhofer und Marcus Steinweg.Fusing Drawing and Graphic ArtThe drawing is the medium of Christian Schwarzwald's (b. Salzburg, Austria, 1971; lives and works in Vienna and Berlin) art. Employing a wide range of techniques, he draws on diverse image sources and harnesses aspects of reproducibility, the irritation provoked by built-in defects, and the illusion of three dimensions. Schwarzwald's work embodies an expanded conception of graphic art: sketches, notes, artist's editions, and paintings coalesce in ensembles in space; the individual sheet-as a signifier-is transmuted into a component of a complex semiotic system charting visual realms. Pursuing an analytical approach, Schwarzwald thus creates an encyclopedic world of drawing.The extensive and richly illustrated volume DRAWN includes an image section as well as a chronological overview of more than 100 projects. Produced using the duplex printing process, the publication's two-color printed pages reprise a central stylistic device of Schwarzwald's art in the book medium. With essays by Elsy Lahner, Ann Cotten, Sebastian Egenhofer, and Marcus Steinweg.

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  Inside Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min

  Valgolia, a planet in the Epsilon Eridani star system, conquered Earth generations ago, but their conquest was incomplete. While Valgolians made possible greater prosperity, universal health, and interstellar trade for all Earthlings, the factional frictions of Earth - race against race, religion against religion, culture against culture - continue to bedevil the Valgolian's vision of a peaceable world for all mankind. A world which, once brought around to the idea of equality for all Earthlings, will be ready to join the larger community of the galaxy. In Inside Earth, first published in 1951, master science fiction author Poul Anderson laid out a vision of America and the world struggling centuries later with the ancient animosities that no war ever seems to vanquish. This exciting short story hints at a unique solution to that never-ending cycle of social, economic, political, and religious discontent. Could a genuine global peace among all mankind be promoted by conquistadors from another world? Conquerors whose philosophy is not divide to conquer, but conquer to unite? That is not how the men and women of Earth see it. Earthlings see only copper-skinned, black-crest-headed rulers in their Valgolian masters, and only rebellion will reboot the world to its former self. Rebel forces seeking to overthrow the Valgolians have begun to coalesce and promote insurgencies around the globe, insurgencies capable of retaking Earth by launching an attack on Valgolia itself from a covert base far out in space. The Valgolians are well-aware of the pending rebellion; in fact, they are secretly promoting it, with the help of one of their own...a Valgolian military officer named Conru. Surgically-modified to remove all traces of his home planet physiology and made to look as much an Earthing as possible, Conru travels across North America as Conrad Haugen, a Norwegian-American playing the role of a discontented wanderer anxious to join the rebellion's Legi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001685/bk_mike_001685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1303min

  Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects - and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Gardiner's background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach's personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner's aim is "to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music." It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Antony Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019787/bk_adbl_019787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 503min

  The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe. The collider is now crashing protons at record energy levels never created by scientists before, and it will reach even higher levels by 2013. Its superconducting magnets guide two beams of protons in opposite directions around the track. After accelerating the beams to 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light, it collides the protons head-on, annihilating them in a flash of energy sufficient to coalesce into a shower of particles and phenomena that have not existed since the first moments of creation. Within the LHC’s detectors, scientists hope to see empirical confirmation of key theories in physics and cosmology. In telling the story of what is perhaps the most anticipated experiment in the history of science, Amir D. Aczel takes us inside the control rooms at CERN at key moments when an international team of top researchers begins to discover whether this multibillion-euro investment will fulfill its spectacular promise. Through the eyes and words of the men and women who conceived and built CERN and the LHC, Aczel enriches all of us with a firm grounding in the scientific concepts we will need to appreciate the discoveries that will almost certainly spring forth when the full power of this great machine is finally unleashed. With Present at the Creation, we can all follow the progress of an experiment that promises to greatly satisfy the curiosity of anyone who ever concurred with Einstein when he said, “I want to know God’s thoughts - the rest is details.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Byron Wagner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002415/bk_rand_002415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Learn German: Step by Step Guide for Learning the Basics of the German Language , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min

  Learning German made easy.Anyone looking to break the monolingual mold that so many native English speakers find themselves enclosed in will invariably find this audiobook to be helpful. Here, we have a plethora of tips and techniques for learning German, as well as virtually any other language the listener can name. If you are in search for an audiobook on the subject of learning German, this would be the first for you to consider.Some of the numerous topics covered in this audiobook are as follows:What it means to learn standard GermanHigh German and low GermanFinding your passion for learning GermanTurning a chore into inspirationLearning German by immersing yourself deeply within German cultureFinding native speakers to improve your overall understanding of the language and its cultureHow to beat the most difficult part of learning the German languageLearning German in a more formal class environmentAnd much moreThis is just a general outline though; this audiobook more specifically covers study techniques applicable to any field, the culture of Germany as well as the rest of German-speaking Europe, some of the history of the language and its various dialects, steps for beginning the study of the language, and learning German inside (and outside) of formal class settings.All these topics covered should coalesce into something of value to the listener that can be carried over and utilized by him or her in the future. The overarching purpose of this audiobook is not to teach German, as that would be impossible within this program here, but more so to give the listener some tools for independent study in the future and help him or her to become a great solver of the problems that come with learning a new language.Don’t wait another moment to enjoy from this information - get your copy right away! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129964/bk_acx0_129964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min

  “The Journey of Not Knowing beautifully breaks the business book mold and should be required reading for leaders…It uses a cleverly constructed parable to demonstrate how to navigate business uncertainty. In modern business, one of the most significant challenges leaders face is moving an organization forward even when the answers to critical questions may be unknown. Coping with “not knowing” is the theme of Benezet’s expertly written book.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews  “Benezet offers a management handbook geared toward the unconventional in the modern business world...[She] makes crystalline sense; for example, she writes relatively early on that it’s more important than ever for managers to know themselves—to know...“who you are and for what you stand” in a world of shifting expectations and constantly looming unknowns. This idea is related to the “core drivers” of her book, concentrated in the “core four” components...that deal with “the relationship between leadership and the unknown.”...In her explorations of these components, Benezet is at her most authoritative. A largely involving story-oriented breakdown of how to chart a steady managerial course in uncharted territory.” —Kirkus Reviews  “…This book contains many jewels on how one deals with making decisions based on uncertain information. Despite the ubiquitous reliance on data collection and analysis, many business decisions are still based on a form of intuition...The most important thing is to have the courage to act on those beliefs rather than playing it safe and eventually sorry.” —Charles Ashbacher “Ms. Benezet’s background in psychology, anthropology, the law, and her business experience coalesce into a single, multi-dimensional book that also shows off her gift of storytelling...The description of the Journey of Not Knowing model...was a remarkable compendium of basic truths about working within complex organizations...” —Ken Majer, Midwest Bo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010425/bk_blak_010425_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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