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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean-the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen-to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the decipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/003285/bk_tant_003285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Our Ken, Series 2: Classic BBC Radio Comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 426min
Kenneth Horne is joined by Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster in the second series of the classic weekly radio show. Between 1958 and 1964, Beyond Our Ken was one of radio's most popular comedy shows, with a regular audience of 10 million listeners. A hilarious mix of sketches and music, packed with witty wordplay, comic catchphrases and larger-than-life characters, this fabulous forerunner to Round the Horne remains just as funny today. In these 14 episodes, written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took, listen to some extraordinary incidents from Kenneth Horne's week and enjoy special 'Hornerama' investigations into the worlds of show business, communications, the film industry, shipping and many more. Say hello to Rodney and Charles, follow roving reporter Cecil Snaith to the depths of the Red Sea and join Felicity and Ambrose as they are shipwrecked on a desert island. Plus, there's a spoof of Any Questions? featuring Hankie Flowered, Ricky Livid, Fanny Haddock and Arthur Fallowfield and musical interludes from The Fraser Hayes Four and Pat Lancaster. So join urbane host Kenneth Horne and friends for more fun, puns, merriment and madcap humour from the much-loved comedy show. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002469/bk_rhuk_002469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Middle Ages 101: Medieval History and Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 301min
Heralded is one the world’s most compelling Church historians, Chris Bellitto transports you into the heart of a strange and wonderful world - the world of medieval Europe. Explore some of the most powerful theological ideas, economic tensions, and political struggles that shaped Western civilization.This series traces western European civilization - with detours to the East - from the transformation of the Roman Empire to a thousand-year medieval period that started slowly before 1000, flowered for 300 years, and then declined sharply with the Black Death and social revolts until Constantinople fell in 1453 and Columbus sailed in 1492. Explore Charlemagne's renaissance, agricultural and commercial revolutions, new types of religious life introduced by spiritual masters from Benedict to Francis, dynastic wars, and courtly literature. You will treasure this course as a timeless resource for understanding the people and events that have shaped faith, art, medicine, literature, and government. Encounter famous historical and literary figures such as Mohammed, Augustine, Richard the Lionhearted, and King Arthur, in their own historical context. You'll understand how the Middle Ages fit within the broader historical timeline of Europe and the rest of the world. This course promises to delight and amaze you.This course is part of the Learn25 collection and includes a free PDF study guide.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher M. Bellitto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000018/bk_nykm_000018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Coming of Age the Hard Way: An Erotic Forced Feminization Fantasy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 32min, (USK 18)
Her special boy is all grown up, coming of age the hard way with a surprise he can't expect but of which he will grow to love the taste.He's flowered from her deep affection, blossomed into a young man under her doting attention. He adores being her "special one" and knows his loving title can only mean he's in for big surprises on his significant birthday ushering him into adulthood. The surprises begin with gift after gift of dainty, pretty, feminine things, all made to order and sized especially for him. Always eager to earn the affection of the one who bred and raised him and hear her praises, he politely plays what he thinks is all a game. Before her eyes, he changes into his feminine clothes, lavishes her compliments, and listens carefully as he's instructed on the meticulous details of wearing makeup...all to please the mysterious "others" that await him downstairs. The real party begins when the first stranger is introduced: a man with hunger in his eyes and something rigid in his pants. But she is there to praise and cajole him, instruct him through every step of his introduction into his new life: one of being her special little girl, her pride and joy, the one to carry out his/her purpose of loving many, many men.Her feminine tutelage and control - his first-time sexual encounter - their gift of pleasure and servitude to the hungry needs of countless men. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liam Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129988/bk_acx0_129988_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Thomas Merton on the Great Monks, Hörbuch, Digital, 172min
Recorded by a monk and mystic who changed the world, these newly remastered lectures showcase Thomas Merton's brilliant teaching. Originally delivered at the Abbey of Gethsemani to his fellow monks, Thomas Merton's talks invite you on a journey through monastic and contemplative history. Under his guidance, you will encounter the great figures of the Christian monastic tradition: St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Benedict, John Cassian, Basil, and Charlemagne. As you will discover, the history of monasticism is deeply intertwined with the greater history of Europe and the Christian contemplative tradition. You can take no better guide for this journey than Thomas Merton, who discovered a radical spirituality in his cloistered life. After a spiritual awakening, Merton joined the Trappist Order at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where he sought to interact with the world on a deeper, more contemplative level. As you listen Merton's powerful voice, you will look at the emergence of the Cistercians, the order to which he belonged. Founded by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the Cistercian Order sought to return to the tradition of contemplation, prayer, and simplicity that had flowered under St. Benedict. By studying the Cistercians and the early monastic tradition, you will discover how all contemplative persons - whether lay or religious - share in God's divine light through lives of prayer. As you listen to Merton's voice, you will gain great insights into contemplative spirituality, history, and the spiritual life. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Merton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000300/bk_nykm_000300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mrs. Tim of the Regiment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 818min
Tenth May, 1934. At this moment I look up and see the Man Who Lives Next Door standing on his doorstep watching my antics, and disapproving (I feel sure) of my flowered silk dressing gown. Probably his own wife wears one of red flannel, and most certainly has never been seen leaning out of the window in it - The Awful Carrying On of Those Army People - he is thinking. Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living amidst the other army wives, she is always moving flat-out to remember groceries, rule lively children, side-step village gossip and placate her husband with bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade. Left alone for months at a time whilst her husband is with his regiment, Mrs Tim resolves to keep a diary of events large and small in her family life. Once pen is set to paper no affairs of the head or heart are overlooked. When a move to a new regiment in Scotland uproots the Christie family, Mrs Tim is hurled into a whole new drama of dilemmas; from settling in with a new set whilst her husband is away, to disentangling a dear friend from an unsuitable match. Against the wild landscape of surging rivers, sheer rocks and rolling mists, who should stride into Mrs Tim's life one day but the dashing Major Morley, hell-bent on pursuit of our charming heroine. And Hester will soon find that life holds unexpected crossroads.... Mrs Tim of the Regiment is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early 20th-century chosen by readers for readers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Rendel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009689/bk_adbl_009689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Uncompahgre - Where Water Turns Rock Red: Threads West - An American Saga, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
In Uncompahgre, the number one best-selling, multiple award winning, third novel of the Threads West Series, the time nears when the first of the next generation of Threads West characters will be born of the brave men and courageous women of different origins who have come so far and risked all. The men and women of the saga, having reached their initial destination, pre-Denver, Cherry Creek, are each faced with life-altering decisions. Some must decide to pursue or abandon torrid love affairs that have flowered on the dangerous journey from Europe and across America. Their lives shaken by events they could not foresee and convergence with souls they could never image, they begin to build a nation whose essence is in transition. They have neither country nor culture in common but their dreams and survival demand a tension-filled alliance stitched by fate and history. The Oglala Sioux family struggles to cope with the inevitable change casting shadows upon their lands, culture and scared traditions. The elderly slave couple, and the renegade and his young, traumatized captive introduced in Maps of Fate, are bound ever more tightly to the arc of the story - their tragedy and triumph-filed tales weaving into the fabric of a collective destiny, the black-hearted captor unknowingly catapulted by his tortured past into possible redemption. Mormons stream west in the Great Exodus escaping persecution and searching for Zion. Driven north by the Texas Rangers, an outlaw vaquero with royal blood quests for a new sense of self and place. You will recognize the characters who live in these words. They are the ancestors of your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, and your family. They are you. They are us. This is not only their story. It is our story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Bair. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055014/bk_acx0_055014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Qi=MC2 Science: Qualium Leap in Evolution (Qi=MC2 Planetary Initiation into a Qualium Leap in Evolution Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
The human brain acquired its present genetic capacity, which flowered in language, a thousand centuries ago. Our brains evolved from this technique of mapping meaning to symbolic sounds, which has made our species dominant over all others on Earth - culture. However, culture is a two-edged sword that can defy natural selection when the childlike literal thinking from a forgotten symbolic understanding of traditional culture prevents the change in our way of life, urgently required by our environment for our species to survive. In the past 50 centuries of recorded history, learning to use this brain capacity has accelerated. Civilization has risen time and again to the energetic level to make a qualitative leap in awareness and has instead fallen back into a dark age, to rise again with a different mix of culture. Since the Age of Enlightenment, two major technological shifts have changed our way of living to bring about the massive increase in humanity that has taken over the environment. While the promise of technology to bring about a moneyless society by producing enough of everything for everybody seems more distant than ever, the massive production is threatening the web of life of our planet with pollution and climate change. Addiction to consumerism and infotainment distracts us from the wisdom to use this leap in technology for a qualitative civilization. We need a civilization that affords everyone the opportunity to make the full use of their talent and abilities so that what we produce is the best use of our planet's resources. The two world wars were major rehearsals to organize a socioeconomic system, which can create, as effectively as it was used in the last century to destroy, a way of life that reclaims our environment to sustain people in their homelands and wildlife in their habitats. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Christides. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037014/bk_acx0_037014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Two Lives, Hörbuch, Digital, 469min
This is a heartrending new book, the story of a marriage and the story of two lives, from the author of the international best-selling novel A Suitable Boy. Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He was brought up in India in the apparently vigorous but dying Raj and was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin, though he could not speak a word of German, to study medicine and dentistry. It was here, before he migrated to Britain, that Shanti's path first crossed that of his future wife. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family, cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Hitler's Germany for England just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their astonishing story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India, the teenage student Vikram Seth. The result is an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain. Two Lives is both a history of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage, and abiding yet complex love. Part biography, part memoir, part meditation on our times, this is the true tale of two remarkable lives, a masterful telling from one of our greatest living writers. Language: English. Narrator: Vikram Seth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001176/bk_harp_001176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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They Found Their Way to Heaven: Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 26, Hörbuch, Digital, 256min
Lady Elvina, theal and in love. Any day now Captain Andreaw Broadmoor would propose to her. But then she overheard him saying that he did not love her and would only marry her for her money. Elvina fled, travelling to Cumberland, where she had heard that the Duke of Castleforde was looking for a governess for his unruly sister, Violet. Concealing her true identity, she presented herself as plain Mrs. Winters and in Violet, Elvina found a troubled, rebellious young girl who needed her help. She began to grow close to the Duke, but as their love flowered she realized that his duty to his great house came first. And that duty forbade him to marry a mere governess. It would have been simple to tell him the truth that she was the daughter of an Earl, but pride prevented her. If he would not marry her for herself alone, then she would have none of him. How they resolved their problems and found their way to Heaven is all told in this compelling romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND. If you like "Downton Abbey" you will love Barbara Cartland. Barbara Cartland was the world's most prolific novelist who wrote an amazing 723 books in her lifetime, of which no less than 644 were romantic novels with worldwide sales of over 1 billion copies and her books were translated into 36 different languages. As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, theatrical plays and books of advice on life, love, vitamins and cookery. She wrote her first book at the age of 21 and it was called "Jigsaw". It became an immediate bestseller and sold 100,000 copies in hardback in England and all over Europe in translation. Between the ages of 77 and 97 she increased her output and wrote an incredible 400 romances as the demand for her romances was so strong all over the world. She wrote her last book at the age of 97 and it was entitled perhaps prophetically "The Way to Heaven". Her books have always bee Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Wren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lind/001598/bk_lind_001598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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