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  Humor ab 26.49 € als Taschenbuch: Satire Humour Church of the SubGenius Toilet humour Joke Spoonerism Mondegreen Oxymoron Knock-knock joke Shaggy dog story The Dozens Scherzo Why did the chicken cross the road? Détournement Irony Burlesque. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,

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  An Interview with Jesus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min

  Is it an oxymoron to use the phrase "serious humor"? In An Interview with Jesus, E. Hyland Maze explores the otherwise untouchable realm of verifying the biblical expressions attributed to Jesus, straight from the horse’s mouth, if you will. This is a new adventure that might be called an abridged Red-Letter Edition of the words that Jesus spoke more than 2,000 years ago, but with a new twist. What if he decided to open up and hold a press conference to clear up all the misunderstandings of his kingdom? What would Jesus talk about if he wanted to say something to those who live in these days? What if Jesus has a sense of humor? What if Jesus didn't worry about everything as much as his believers worry about everything? What if he were to say that “You are the way, the truth, and the life”, not just him? If he could get you, or me, or the church, to get our heads out of the clouds of religion, would it be much easier to follow him? Well, he refuses to do a press conference. No one can blame him. He sees how the press beats up our president. He did, however, agree to a private interview with this author. This book contains hours of wonderful insights, revelations, and, yes, new commandments that were shared during the interview. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. Hyland Maze, Dana R. Ramirez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214366/bk_acx0_214366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min

  The instant New York Times best seller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (best-selling author of The Book with No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny - it's everything a book for kids should be".Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash, and Lear, Harris' hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight of hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from best-selling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, best-selling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven!"Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged - and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" (Judith Viorst, best-selling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Petkoff, Chris Harris, Cassandra Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004272/bk_hach_004272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min

  Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis, which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative process of high importance in American history, but they understand it in a different way. Where Turner studied the westward movement in terms of its destination, Fischer and Kelly approach it in terms of its origins. Virginia's long history enables them to provide a rich portrait of migration and expansion as a dynamic process that preserved strong cultural continuities. They suggest that the oxymoron "bound away" - from the folk song "Shenandoah" - captures a vital truth about American history. As people moved west, they built new societies from old materials, in a double-acting process that made America what it is today. Fischer and Kelly believe that the westward movement was a broad cultural process, which is best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites, but also through the physical artifacts and folkways of ordinary people. The wealth of anecdotes in this volume offer a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser known gentry, yeomen, servants, and slaves who were all "bound away" to an old new world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000081/bk_redw_000081_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  God at the Speed of Light: The Melding of Science and Spirituality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min

  Respected television producer Barbara Hall cited God at the Speed of Light as one of the inspirations for her creation of the CBS TV series Joan of Arcadia (2003-05). The unique and supernatural characteristics of light that influenced Hall have equally served to inspire the likes of Copernicus, Ole Romer, Michelson/Morley, Sir Edwin Hubble, and Albert Einstein. Einstein, for instance, frequently envisioned what it would be like to ride on the back of a photon as it sped across the universe at the speed of light - a speed at which he calculated that time ceased to exist. Since Einstein first entertained his special theory, science has repeatedly verified the cessation of time at this singular velocity. The term light speed has paradoxically become the ultimate oxymoron: a velocity of 186,000 miles per second in a setting where time doesn't exist. The ramifications are profound and are the topic of this book - ramifications so profound, in fact, as to convince this author, an ultimate skeptic, that an eternal intelligent power must exist. Once Lee Baumann came to accept fully these scientifically proven yet supernatural qualities of light, his further research only solidified the truly metaphysical nature of this ubiquitous form of universal energy. Suddenly descriptions of "the light" in the near-death experience and the Earth's sacred texts (e.g., "I am the light of the world") required no further explanation. God shares an intimate relationship with light. Baumann's God at the Speed of Light will complement and strengthen the spiritual foundation of any religious view. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. Lee Baumann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/031600/bk_acx0_031600_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Nazi Conscience , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 670min

  The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar anti-Semitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. From 1933 to 1939, Nazi public culture was saturated with a blend of racial fear and ethnic pride that Koonz calls ethnic fundamentalism. Ordinary Germans were prepared for wartime atrocities by racial concepts widely disseminated in media not perceived as political: Academic research, documentary films, mass-market magazines, racial hygiene and art exhibits, slide lectures, textbooks, and humor. By showing how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust. The Nazi Conscience chronicles the chilling saga of a modern state so powerful that it extinguished neighborliness, respect, and, ultimately, compassion for all those banished from the ethnic majority. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Pollock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010635/bk_adbl_010635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min

  In reviewing the best new books of 2012, one commonly recognized title was the self-help book Quiet, by Susan Cain. Ms. Cain's work graced a variety of national top-10 lists including those by the magazines People, Inc, and O (Oprah) among others. She summarizes five years of research and argues that our society has ignored a veritable powder-keg of untapped talent. Susan Cain studied at Princeton and Harvard Law School, and she practiced corporate law for seven years representing a variety of large, multinational corporations including Goldman-Sachs, and General Electric. In her profession she learned that solitude can be a catalyst for innovation and that quiet leadership is not an oxymoron. Her primary message is that society has greatly overlooked the intellectual gifts of the introverted, and this claim is strongly supported throughout her book. Brainy Book Reviews: Designed for smart people whose desire to improve their businesses and themselves exceeds the available time they have to do so, Brainy Book Reviews gives listeners an efficient way to quickly go through and digest famous and well-loved titles. Offering easy-to-read and comprehensive synopses of every chapter of best-selling books, each Brainy Book Review highlights the key ideas behind critically acclaimed titles, helping readers swiftly get the most out of a book. Today, with hundreds of millions of different books on the market, time-efficiency is more important than ever for those who want to get the most out of their reading; Brainy Book Reviews give you an opinion and review of some of the most popular books on the market. These reviews are not intended to replace these titles; they are recommended to be used in addition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennine Craig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007686/bk_acx0_007686_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  How Violent Video Games Prevent Violence in Real Life, What Causes Violent Behaviors, the Benefits of Playing Video Games, and How an Average Gamer Can Earn a Living Playing MMORPG Video Games , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min

  This essay sheds light on how violent video games prevent violence in real life and elucidates what causes violent behaviors. Moreover, the benefits of playing video games are demystified and how an average gamer can earn a living playing video games is expounded upon in this essay.While it may seem to be an oxymoron, it stands to preponderantly reason that violent video games can preempt violence in real life or at the very least eminently reduce acts of violence. Violent transgressions enacted by humans are always unwarranted and needless including the slaughtering of animals for insalubrious food products that humans as frugivores should never consume under any circumstance. As frugivores with long intestines and high PH levels, human beings will not be able to efficaciously digest these deadly disease causing animal products without it being of dire consequence to their overall health. As frugivores with long intestines, high PH levels, and flat teeth, it is incumbent that our species only devours foods from foods groups that we have the anatomy to efficaciously digest, such as fruits and vegetables. It is unwise to devour animal carcasses, animal secretions, synthetic products, oils, refined grains, whole grains, seeds, legumes, and oxidized products if the individual is keen on optimizing their health, minimizing inflammation, prolonging their life, and mitigating as many deleterious health risks as possible.We currently cannot modify our innate genetic code and should ideally resort to following a diet of only consuming nutrient dense, alkaline fruits, and vegetables that optimize our health and maximize our longevity rate. Fruits and vegetables are replete with vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, phytonutrients, antioxidants, fiber, and other salubrious compounds that we need to be able to thrive, prosper, and flourish. The health benefits reaped and the nutrient profiles will vary per nutrient dense fruit or vegetable, with some foods being fa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derrick Magolski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182320/bk_acx0_182320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  HeartMath Method: Five Steps to Total Calm, Confidence and Creativity, Hörbuch, Digital, 453min

  The HeartMath Method helps people focus the power of their heart at home and in the workplace, and its simple, easy to learn, effective methods have brought energy and joy to young and old alike. The term HeartMath may sound like an oxymoron - who would ever put the words heart and math together? But herein lies the secret. Most people have an understanding of the qualities that have long been associated with the "heart", like intuition, wisdom, love, and compassion. The word "math", in this case, refers to the psychological equations, the nuts and bolts or stepping stones, if you will, that allow us to unfold these qualities with consistency in our daily lives - hence, HeartMath. By using HeartMath's powerful tools such as Freeze-Frame and Heart Lock-In, you will discover how to reduce mental, emotional and physical stress, increase feelings of love, improve communication, and enhance creativity and productivity. Used by Fortune 500 Companies worldwide, The HeartMath Method will also help you to increase your business sense as you learn to trust the guiding powers that lie in your heart. Unlock intuition and more intelligent understanding in your life. As we explore these feelings associated with heart, we understand why all the great teachers asked people to develop their heart's wisdom. Heart understanding is a major shift past ordinary thinking. It gives a wider understanding than is possible with just the deductive process of linear thinking. You draw more heart intelligence into your awareness as you relax the mind and listen to your inner heart. This process can give you high-speed answers for your big and small choices of life. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Howard Martin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000224/bk_ntgl_000224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min

  Best-selling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way. The US tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest provisions, it works for no one - except tax lawyers, accountants, and corporations, that is - certainly not me and you. Not for the first time, we have to tear it up and start over. That happened in 1922, and again in 1954, and again in 1986. There's a pattern here; we reach this point every 32 years. Which means the next complete re-write of the tax code is due in 2018. Can we write a new tax code that is fair and simple? Can we cut tax rates and still bring in the revenue required? In fact, we can - by learning from the world's other democracies. Around the world, wealthy democracies, from Estonia to New Zealand to the UK, have all reformed their tax codes, while the US has languished. With his penchant for making complex subjects accessible and even fun, T. R. Reid travels the world in order to find out what makes for good taxation (if that's not an oxymoron!) and brings that knowledge home. So byzantine are the current statutes that by the government's own estimates, Americans spend six billion hours and 10 billion dollars every year preparing and filing their taxes. In the Netherlands it takes 15 minutes! Brilliantly successful American companies like Apple, Caterpillar, and Google pay effectively no tax at all because of loopholes which allow them to move profits offshore. Indeed, the dysfunctional tax system has become so easy to dodge that it is a major cause of economic inequality, as Warren Buffet and Thomas Piketty have pointed out. But it doesn't have to be this way, the ever-intrepid Reid proves, crisscrossing the globe, from the Czech Republic to Mexico. Doing our taxes may never be America's favorite pastime, but it can and should be so much easi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T.R. Reid. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003064/bk_peng_003064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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