102 Results for : campaigner
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Blood Money : The Dark Yorkshire Crime Thrillers, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
The fourth stunning book in the bestselling Dark Yorkshire series. Discover the latest explosive, unmissable chapter.A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly.... DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation. A rebuilt reputation is now facing ruin....As the extremes of nationalist hate descend upon York, a refugee is tortured to death while a straightforward case of a bankrupt’s suicide proves to be anything but simple. How does an enigmatic campaigner with a secret to keep link these two disparate worlds? Shining a light onto corporate finance draws Caslin to those who prefer to live in the shadows. Making money, concealing wealth, protecting what you have...comes at a price. Your enemies - your friends - may find the true cost is underwritten in blood....Gripping, fast-paced, and full of suspense, Blood Money is the fourth novel released in the number one international bestselling Dark Yorkshire crime series by J M Dalgliesh. Enjoyable as a standalone thriller or as the latest in the series. Discover the writer who listeners are describing as unmissable. Buy it today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Patmore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158129/bk_acx0_158129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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McLevy: The Collected Editions: Series 7 & 8: 8 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 crime drama series, Hörbuch, Digital, 350min
Eight episodes of the BBC Radio 4 detective series set in Victorian Edinburgh, starring Brian Cox. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of one of Scotland's first policemen, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh, bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulholland. 'The Firebrand': a women's rights campaigner is kidnapped, and it's up to McLevy to investigate. 'Dead Reckoning': a strange case of grave robbing has McLevy puzzled. 'Prince of Darkness': one of Jean Brash's old lovers is back from the dead - and out for revenge. 'A Distant Death': McLevy's nightmares of death by drowning seem about to come true.... 'The Blue Gown': with the help of Jean Brash, McLevy investigates the death of a seamstress. 'Flesh and Blood': a student is accused when a tavern brawl ends in murder. 'A Fine Deception': suspicion falls on a stage magician after a jewel robbery at Edinburgh Castle. 'The Last Illusion': McLevy must prove his theory that a celebrated conjurer is a thief. Brian Cox stars as Inspector McLevy, with Siobhán Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Constable Mulholland. Duration: six hours approx. Language: English. Narrator: Siobhan Redmond, Brian Cox, Michael Perceval-Maxwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002371/bk_rhuk_002371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Screaming in Silence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min
Tony McNally is a Falklands War veteran and the author of Still Watching Men Burn. A tireless campaigner for better understanding and treatment of servicemen and women suffering from mental health problems like PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). After leaving the forces he was diagnosed with PTSD by a civilian doctor and was at first unable to talk about his wartime experiences, he was told to go home and try and write down his thoughts and feelings. He soon realized that writing was therapeutic and began to write poetry and short stories, Screaming in Silence is his first book of poetry and a short story about the First World War. Written from the heart this is a powerful collection of works that can only be written by someone that has experienced the brutality of war and man's inhumanity, which is apparent with his colorful and brutal and then at times beautiful, poignant, and gentle words. He covers a wide range of subject matter, Politics, murder, homelessness, divorce, Religion and obviously War, McNally hits the listeners with the ferocity of an exploding grenade then the gentleness of a poppy petal blowing gracefully in the summer breeze. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Stubbs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096675/bk_acx0_096675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Brief Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches, Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the 20th century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and revalued while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to be far more than just their achievements.Further afield, W. F. Deedes ruminates on the chaotic and shady world of Imelda Marcos, the dignity and determination of anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman and the controversial leadership of Ian Smith in Rhodesia. But there are lighter portraits, too. Noel Coward, with his useful advice on trains, Mary Whitehouse’s inadvertent demonstration of pornography and Malcolm Muggeridge’s half-hearted suicide attempt all feature in this delightful compendium.Finally there is an engaging and funny look at Deedes’ great friend Denis Thatcher. In an elegiac essay, we see the man rather than the husband of a famous woman. Stories abound, particularly when on holiday in Spain.... Like his previous books, Dear Bill and At War wth Waugh, Brief Lives is an affectionate, perceptive and anecdotal book, bursting with life, humour and wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001959/bk_macm_001959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 761min
Medicine in the early 1800s was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. It was said of one surgeon, 'His surgical acquirements were very small, his operations generally very badly performed and accompanied with much bungling, if not worse.' It was lucky, for the doctor at least, that his deafness made him immune to his patients' dying groans. Into this milieu came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a medieval hodgepodge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new Lancet magazine and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice. Then, in the summer of 1837, a French visitor - the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet - arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea: mesmerism. It was a trend that would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder, throwing into sharp focus fundamental questions about the line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Piers Hampton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001085/bk_orio_001085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beautiful Ever After , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
Katie Piper's extraordinary story of strength and recovery after a brutal rape and acid attack has captivated Britain. In this powerful sequel to her bestselling memoir, Katie tells the remarkable story of what's happened in the years since she bravely left the safety of her parents' home. With her trademark honesty, humour and heartfelt emotion, Katie shares the highs and lows she has faced as her life changed in ways she never thought possible. She reveals the dark thoughts and genuine fears she continues to overcome behind closed doors, and the realities, both physical and emotional, of her ongoing, painful recovery. Katie is now a successful charity campaigner, TV presenter and inspirational speaker, but her career highs have often brought her face-to-face with her biggest demons. Her story is still dark at times, but it will also delight and surprise; despite fears of a life alone, she has found her Prince Charming, and Katie reveals both the wonder and anxiety of becoming a mother. This is the no-holds-barred, witty and utterly engaging next chapter in the life of a remarkable young woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sally Orrock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000156/bk_qpuk_000156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Notting Hill Mystery (eBook, ePUB)
'The Nottinghill Mystery' is one of the few detective novels not written from the perspective of a detective. One of its main appeals is that it was written through extracts and court case depositions, and not one long narrative; making the reading feel like they are almost one of the jury delivering their final verdict. Set in the 1840s, insurance broker Ralph Henderson must collect evidence against a local professor who is suspected of a number of murders of women over the years. It was first published as an eight-part serial in a magazine but you will struggle not to read it from start to finish in one sitting. Charles Warren Adams originally published 'The Nottinghill Murders' under the pseudonym Charles Felix leaving readers guessing over it's author. The English lawyer and author became involved in bailing out publishing firms after their proprietor died and then went on to publish at least two of his own works under Charles Felix. Born in 1883, he was a prominent anti-vivisection campaigner and was secretary of their society. His first wife died in 1880, and he remarried again five years later.- Shop: buecher
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All That Matters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
Birth. It is, alongside death, the most universal of all human experiences. One way or another - whether we are parents, offspring, or both - we are all affected by childbirth. But for an event so fundamental to all of us, it has a huge variety of cultural, medical, legal, and social meanings. So complicated is the field, and so little discussed - especially compared to the immediate before and after of pregnancy and child-rearing - that the person whose body is on the line throughout, the mother-in-the-making, is often readily overlooked in place of other concerns. Rebecca Schiller's All That Matters shines a light on the subject of women's rights in childbirth in a whole new fashion, setting birth in context amid the struggle for reproductive rights across the world. Frank and forthright, it is full of both powerful argument and her own rich personal experiences as mother, doula, campaigner, and researcher. As a mirror to society, childbirth, the attitudes to it, practices around it, and experiences of women going through it reflect the progress that has been made in advancing women's rights. This reflection also shows us that there's still a long road ahead. Ten percent of royalties go to Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Pickup. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025056/bk_adbl_025056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Headscarves and Hymens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 337min
Written and read by the author. In November 2011, Mona Eltahawy came to worldwide attention when she was assaulted by police during the Egyptian Revolution. She responded by writing a groundbreaking piece in foreign policy entitled Why Do They Hate Us?; 'They' being Muslim men, 'Us' being women. It sparked huge controversy. In Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy takes her argument further. Drawing on her years as a campaigner and commentator on women's issues in the Middle East, she explains that, since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women as second-class citizens in countries from Yemen and Saudi Arabia to Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. Eltahawy has travelled across the Middle East and North Africa, meeting with women and listening to their stories. Her book is a plea for outrage and action on their behalf, confronting the "toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend." A manifesto motivated by hope and fury in equal measure, Headscarves and Hymens is as illuminating as it is incendiary. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mona Eltahawy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/000833/bk_orio_000833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min
Discover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the world.By 2050, $50 trillion will change hands in North America in the largest generational wealth transfer ever. It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history. "Business as usual", founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over.Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on edge. Meanwhile innovations are shifting the economic ground, and an entire generation is pounding the table for real change.Capitalism is evolving into a force that can restore the planet, transform the global economy, and bring justice to people. Joel Solomon, impact investor and change agent, lays it on the line. The Clean Money Revolution is part memoir of an inspiring thought leader's journey from presidential campaigner to pioneering investor, part insider's guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a new vision of profit, power, and purpose.Meet some of the people behind this massive shift and discover the role you can play in the $50 trillion movement toward true prosperity. A must-listen for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future.The clean money revolution is on. Join it! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Solomon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193574/bk_acx0_193574_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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