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Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
With the end of the Cold War came not the end ofhistory, but the end of America's sense of its strategic purpose in the world.Then, after a decade of drift, the United States was violently dragged back intointernational conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently, but itsleaders' objectives were substantially flawed. We fought the wrong war - twice - forreasons that were opaque, and few American citizens understood the cause forwhich their sons and daughters were fighting and dying. War is a poor substitute for strategic vision, an decisions made in the heat of imminent conflict are often limited by theemotions of the moment. In Don't Wait forthe Next War, Wesley K. Clark, a retired four-star general of the US Armyand former Democratic candidate for president, presents a compelling argumentfor continued American global leadership and the basis on which it cansucceed: a new American strategy. America needs both new power and deeperperspective. The platform for American leadership is to use America's energyresources to spark sustainable economic growth, building new strength to dealwith pressing domestic issues like the deficit as well as the longer termchallenges to US security - terrorism, cyber threats, the next financial crisis,China's rising power, and climate change. Such a strategy is not only achievable butessential, and it is urgently needed. This is the true test of American leadership for the next two decades, but it must start now so America has thepower and vision to deal with the acute crises that will inevitably come - in theMiddle East, Europe, or Asia. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006974/bk_blak_006974_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
A brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Leslie Klinger put forth the question: What happens when great writers/creators who are not known as Sherlock Holmes devotees admit to being inspired by Conan Doyle stories? While some are highly regarded mystery writers, others are best known for their work in the fields of fantasy or science fiction. All of these talented authors, however, share a great admiration for Arthur Conan Doyle and his greatest creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. To the editors' great delight, these stories go in many directions. Some explore the spirit of Holmes himself; others tell of detectives inspired by Holmes' adventures or methods. A young boy becomes a detective; a young woman sharpens her investigative skills; an aging actress and a housemaid each find that they have unexpected talents. Other characters from the Holmes stories are explored, and even non-Holmesian tales by Conan Doyle are echoed. The variations are endless! Although not a formal collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, some entries do fit that mold, while others were inspired by the Conan Doyle canon. The results are breathtaking, for fans of Holmes and Watson as well as listeners new to Doyle's writing. Full cast of narrators includes Marguerite Gavin, Mirron Willis, Ralph Lister, Saskia Maarleveld, Sarah Nichols, Tim Gerard Reynolds, and Traber Burns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Larkin, Clive Chafer, Derek Perkins, Donald Corren, Anne Flosnik, Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009210/bk_blak_009210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Texas Flat , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 415min
Texas Flat In this duo's title story, 28-year-old Dave Bradford is close to achieving his dreams. In an effort to expand his cattle ranch and marry Sirral Drury, Bradford plans to sell 400 of his cattle in Wichita. But JJ Farman, owner of the biggest ranch in the basin, calls a meeting and warns Bradford he best not try to take the cattle across Texas Flat, even though it's open range. Going around Texas Flat would add two hundred miles to the cattle drive, another 10-12 days to the journey. Bradford knows that if he caves to Farman, who is backed by his hired gunmen, Farman will not only control Texas Flat, but all the ranchers in the basin. Can Bradford make it to Wichita without being caught? And what will happen if the drive is stopped? Rinnegar Although Cole Rinnegar can little afford to leave his ranch in Black Canon, New Mexico, he decides to make the 10-day trip to Rock Springs after receiving a summons from his brother Harvey, who he hasn't seen in five years. Cole is supposed to look up a woman by the name of Mattie Foster, who he figures to be a saloon girl. Instead he meets a respectable businesswoman who runs a local bakery. Mattie has been hiding Harvey, who robbed the local bank and was shot. His dying wish is to return the money to the bank, but Cole discovers there are plenty in Rock Springs who do not want that to happen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011615/bk_blak_011615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. "During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. There isn't today.... Inequality is really unprecedented. In terms of total inequality, it's like the worst periods in American history. But if you refine it more closely, the inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1 percent.... Not only is it extremely unjust in itself, inequality has highly negative consequences on the society as a whole because the very fact of inequality has a corrosive, harmful effect on democracy."(Noam Chomsky, in Requiem for the American Dream) Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness. It will go down as one of his greatest and most lasting contributions. Requiem for the American Dream is being produced in tandem with the film of the same name that was recently released in selected theaters to rave reviews and standing ovations. It will be on Netflix and touring colleges prior to the book's release. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009971/bk_reco_009971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Blue Hour: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways. The housecleaner rediscovering her sexual appetite, the farrier who must take in his traumatized niece, the grocer and her daughter, the therapist and the teacher reaching out to the world in new and surprising ways, and the ragged couple trapped in a cycle of addiction and violence. They will all rise and converge upon the blue hour - the l'heure bleu - the hour of twilight, a time of desire, lust, honesty. The strong, spirited people of Blue Moon Mountain must learn to navigate the line between violence and sex, tenderness and the hard edge of yearning, and the often confusing paths of mourning and lust. Writing with passion for rural lives and the natural world, Laura Pritchett, who has been called "one of the most accomplished writers of the American West", graces the land of desire in vivid prose, exploring the lengths these moving, deeply felt characters - some of whom we've met in Pritchett's previous work - will traverse to protect their own. Full cast of narrators includes Suzanne Toren, Emily Sutton-Smith, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Andrew Eiden, Traber Burns, Tanya Eby, Elisabeth Rodgers, Emily Woo Zeller, P. J. Ochlan, and Mark Bramhall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass, Nicol Zanzarella, Carol Monda, Richard Powers, Amy Landon, Donald Corren, P. J. Ochlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009683/bk_blak_009683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Billion Ways to Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min
Arthur Cathcart and Natsumi Fitzgerald wanted to believe they were free of the nearly invisible, malignant forces they had pursued, and been pursued by, across continents and oceans. The slightly brain-damaged tech-freak researcher and the blackjack-dealing psychologist had convinced themselves that life aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean, incognito and in love, could be a lasting refuge. The death of that illusion was as brutal as it was abrupt. Even people who knew how to dodge ruthless outlaws and relentless law enforcement learned there were powers from which no one could ever hide - not in the 21st century, not if you wanted more than to simply exist. To truly live in the world, you had to have a world that allows you to live. Soldiers fighting in Vietnam had a saying when pinned down under enemy fire: The only way out is through. And so it is that Arthur and Natsumi take to the fight, where the full expanse of both the virtual and material worlds is the field of engagement, nearly blind to the threats that surround them yet searching for that impossible path back to the ordinary lives they'd been forced to abandon. Wiser, stronger, and more experienced in the art of clandestine combat than they ever imagined they'd be, Arthur and Natsumi understand what makes you strong can also get you killed in a hurry - that the reserves of resilience and determination aren't limitless, that the power of intellect and craft dwindles in the face of a pitiless and resolute foe, that there are a billion ways to die but only one way to live. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007082/bk_blak_007082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Detective Fiction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
A serial killer is on the loose in Naples, Florida, an enclave of wealth and privilege on the Southwest Gulf Coast. The murders have been disguised as accidents, but when Police Chief Wade Hansen becomes suspicious, Mayor Charles Beaumont orders him to apprehend the killer before the truth becomes public knowledge. Hansen reaches out to retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey. Starkey, who has been shot three times - twice on the job and once in the army - is enjoying every cop's retirement dream. But at the same time, he misses the thrill of the hunt, so he accepts the job. As the bodies stack up like cordwood, Starkey searches for anything that the victims might have in common. He decides to go undercover as a member of the Naples elite in an attempt to get himself noticed by the killer, drawing the attention of Count Vasily Petrovich, who operates a hedge fund named for the Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. When Starkey discovers that all of the victims so far had been investors in that fund, and that the count is actually a member of the Russian Mafia, he suspects that the Atocha Fund might have a substantial penalty for early withdrawal. Meanwhile, William Stevens, a Chicago Tribune police reporter, has been writing a series of best-selling crime novels based on his pal Starkey's career. Starkey's alter ego is Chicago homicide detective Jack Stoney. Things are not what they seem, plot twists abound, and the bullets begin to fly. Starkey, in desperation, reaches out to the fictional Stoney to help him catch the killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008599/bk_blak_008599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Drop Dead Punk: A Coleridge Taylor Mystery, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of New York City in 1975. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily News so aptly puts it, "drop dead". Taylor's situation is nearly as desperate. His home is a borrowed dry-docked houseboat, his newspaper may also be on the way out, and his drunk father keeps getting arrested. A source sends Taylor down to Alphabet City, where he finds two dead bodies: a punk named Johnny Mort and a cop named Robert Dodd. Each looks too messed up to have killed the other, so Taylor starts asking around. The punk was a good kid, the peace-loving guardian angel of the neighborhood's stray dogs. What led him to mug a woman at gunpoint? And why is officer Samantha Callahan being accused of leaving her partner to die, even though she insists the police radio misled her? It's hard enough being a female in the NYPD only five years after women were assigned to patrol, and now the department wants to throw her to the wolves. That's not going to happen - not if Taylor can help it. As he falls for Samantha - a beautiful, dedicated second-generation cop - he realizes he's too close to his story. Officer Callahan is a target, and Taylor is standing between her and some mighty big guns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009412/bk_blak_009412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Existo, para vivir (eBook, ePUB)
Existo, para vivir combina la novela negra con la reflexión filosófica. Tal ensamblaje se hace posible gracias a una labor narrativa hilada con esmero e intensidad, en la que la trama da lugar a disquisiciones sobre problemas de indudable actualidad avaladas por filósofos y literatos, cuyas citas textuales aparecen integradas con naturalidad en la narración (por ello el lector cuenta al final de la novela con un índice de citas). Aventurar los desafíos existenciales y dramáticos con los se enfrentarán los personajes principales podría desvelar los giros argumentales que hacen de esta obra una intrigante singladura, por la que sobrevuelan cuestiones como el género, la neurociencia, la irreconciliable identidad de lo humano, el forcejeo entre nuestras creencias y pasiones más arraigadas y la liquidez de los tiempos que corren. De esta forma, la autora ahonda en las profundidades del abismo abierto entre el hecho de existir y la dificultad de convertir esta determinación en vida. "Me senté en el sillón alumbrado por una luz halógena, tras poner un vinilo de los Conciertos de Brandemburgo de Bach (1-6). Necesitaba calmar e inyectar algo de luz en mi interior, y no esa luminosidad que procede del pensar que es tan efímera, sino la que se instala en el estar y en el ser, que sin poder dar cuenta de ella nos aferra a la solidez, la cual, ciertamente, tampoco sabemos de dónde procede. Así, en un ambiente inmejorable, después del indeseable inicio de la noche, cogí un libro y me perdí entre los conciertos de Bach y las palabras escritas. Hundido en un cierto sopor, se me infiltró nuevamente una frase que, para bien o para mal, acabaría funcionando, como ya era habitual en mí, de periscopio vital: aunque tan solo sea para que si en algún escondrijo te hallaras, sepas qué hago aquí y a qué he venido Constituía una resonancia de lo acontecido, mediante la que fluía ese deseo de ser alguien importante para Ceci".- Shop: buecher
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Alexander the Great , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries growing up including having Aristotle as his private tutor. After his father was assassinated, he took over the throne and inherited a formidable army which he would put to tremendous use. Alexander was just in his early 20s when he embarked on an ambitious expansion of his territories. Despite his youth, he proved to be a capable military strategist and captured nearly all the kingdoms in his path, often leading the battles himself. Even the mighty Persians who had terrorized the Greek states for centuries had been defeated by his army. He also conquered Egypt, took the title of Pharaoh, and founded the city of Alexandria. His campaigns reached as far as India and could have gone farther if not for his men's refusal to march on due to homesickness. Despite this premature turnaround back to Macedon, he was able to consolidate most of the known world under his rule - a feat never before achieved. He caught a vicious illness on the way back and died at the age of 32 far away from his home. This book is part of a biography series by brothers Jacob and John Abbott first published in 1876 with a few updates and revisions. It continues to be one of the best books written on Alexander the Great, his incredible conquests, his eventual downfall, and the aftermath of his death. It is filled with fascinating details and deep insights into that period in history. Alexander's military tactics are still taught the world over and his influence lingers even after thousands of years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Corren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011307/bk_blak_011307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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