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    Galaxy Diaries: The Adventures of the Starcruiser Galaxy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min
    This collection of short stories is based on exhilarating personal logs recorded by the starcruiser Galaxy's valiant crew, including: "Trip to Proteus" - When a crewmember forms a lively bond with strangers on a space station, his new friends bring a few unwelcome surprises back to the Galaxy. "No Access" - A security system mishap locks the crew out of their own ship, and suspicious "clients" attempt to neutralize the objects of their paranoid skepticisms. "Racing Libido" - The overactive libido of a crewmember forces the Galaxy to employ a unique strategy while participating in the famous Grali'k Nebulae Race. "Hit and Run" - When the crew is framed for a crime they didn't commit, they must find a way to overcome ambitious law enforcement officers and clear their names. "Captive Sentience" - Sentient androids are enslaved by a ruthless cartel, and it's up to the crew of the Galaxy to free them without sacrificing the potential profits from a lucrative mission. "Explosive Fanaticism" - The crew is forced to choose either a healthy payday or rescuing a miner under attack by their overzealous employer. "Backstabbing Doppelganger" - A seemingly humble merchant uses Captain Mintax's DNA for purposes other than payment account verification. "Double Date" - A night out on the town for two crewmembers turns into an opportunity for their dates to enjoy much more than their pleasant company. "Hot Girl" - Attracting someone special at a club proves to be a monumental challenge for a crewmember when an aggressive competitor has a significant advantage. "Hack Off" - The infamous Hackers group invites a crewmember to participate in an annual Cyber Intrusion Contest with potentially deadly consequences. "Slimeball Merchant" - The lustful desires of a corrupt merchant threatens to transform a leisurely shopping trip for one crewmember into her last. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rod Spurgeon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021710/bk_acx0_021710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crossover: Cassandra Kresnov, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 972min
    Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design - more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life. Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation. Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra?s history, inevitably, catches up with her. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dina Pearlman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007898/bk_adbl_007898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Speciesism: Why it Is Wrong and the Implications of Rejecting It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 149min
    The aim of this book is to examine our speciesism. This examination consists of two separate parts, where the first part shows why speciesism is unjustifiable, and hence why it must be rejected, while the second part examines the practical implications of this rejection. This latter examination is bound to be far from exhaustive, yet by merely pointing out the most basic and most important implications of the rejection of speciesism, we see more than a few ways in which our behavior and attitudes should change, and change profoundly. "Humans hurt, harm, and kill billions of sentient beings. We routinely treat nonhuman animals in ways that would earn the perpetrators a life sentence in prison if the victims were humans of comparable sentience. Speciesism: Why it Is Wrong and The Implications of Rejecting It makes disturbing listening. Magnus Vinding makes a compelling case for a moral revolution in human behavior toward nonhuman individuals. Highly recommended." (David Pearce, co-founder of world transhumanist association and author of The Hedonistic Imperative) "Most people agree that discriminating against someone on the basis of gender, sex, or skin color is morally objectionable, but what about species membership? Speciesism: Why it Is Wrong and The Implications of Rejecting It makes a compelling case that this form of discrimination has no justification either, and addresses the most significant implications. These include both the rejection of animal exploitation and the rejection of the idea that we have no reason to help nonhuman animals in need of aid, including when they are suffering in the wild for natural reasons. This book is likely to challenge many of our assumptions, and will encourage us to think deeper about the moral consideration of nonhuman animals." (Oscar Horta, professor of moral philosophy at University of Santiago de Compostela, co-founder of animal ethics, author of Un paso adelante ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Theis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161549/bk_acx0_161549_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spirit of the Stones , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 816min
    Spirit of the Stones is a true story about crossing the borderlands of “reality” into the deeper recesses of Earth Wisdom. Award-winning poet, author, adventuress, shaman and naturopath doctor, Amalia Camateros, invites you on a remarkable shamanic journey ‘into’ the sacred sanctuaries of the Earth, into a world where the rocks and mineral kingdom talk and reveal their higher purpose. Accompanied by spirit keepers, Amalia, an Alexandrian Greek, from Melbourne, Australia, is reawakened to the powerful, knowing sentience of an ancient mission that relates with urgency a new revelation calling upon us to be true stewards of our planet. Real understanding of Nature’s plan in the Ascension Process, and the Mineral Kingdom’s role, is disclosed with vivid clarity. The time is NOW, the stones say! A series of omens, dreams and visions bring our author face-to-face, with an increasingly persistent call to leave all that she knew, her family, her successful career as naturopathic doctor and therapist to Australia’s INXS rock band to journey the shamanic path, fulfilling a prior lifetime’s promise to unlock the ancestral voice of the Earth. Resisting at first, her unexpected encounters with wisdom keepers direct her along, step-by-step, to the most powerful places on Earth…and into a world of the unknown, unseen, and unbelievable. Alone, she finds the courage to bring the pieces of her past initiations together and regain the strength needed for her mission.Journey with our author to Egypt, Greece, Maya Lands, Hawaii, Aboriginal Australia, and the American Southwest as she decodes and retrieves the vital, encrypted spiritual wisdom that had been long forgotten and now catalyzes “consciousness for the great change.” This audiobook will not disappoint all adventure-seekers and mystics of inner and outer planes. Real life drama, suspense, and personal empowerment awaits you in the Spirit of the Stones. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amalia Camateros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130305/bk_acx0_130305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe. Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Far from being a quirk of religious fundamentalism, human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that also infects scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy. He starts with bipedality, which he shows could have arisen entirely by accident, as a by-product of sexual selection, moves on to technology, large brain size, intelligence, language, and, finally, sentience. He reveals each of these attributes to be alive and well throughout the animal world - they are not, indeed, unique to our species. The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what’s missing, but how we’re linked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Dew. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016853/bk_adbl_016853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On the Universal Mobility of Individuality, by Means of Natural Entanglement: The (LINE) Hypothesis: Life Instantiated by Natural Entanglement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min
    The next fertile undiscovered frontier of science is the study of how the individual (you) naturally inhabit this universe. This topic speaks to the really interesting question of how any living individual came to be where you are in the form that you are. Consciousness, self-awareness, and sentience are evolved attributes had by very few forms of life in earth's ecosystem, yet all are just as alive in nature. Such attributes cannot be relevant to either nature's fundamental implementation of life, to being alive, or to experience. These attributes may enhance experience as they evolve in more complex hosts or species, but the phenomena that establish an instance of life likely brings no experience at all. The universal mobility of individuality is made evident by recent discoveries that describe a cosmos with an abundance of planetary solar systems, of which Earth's solar system is but one. The LINE hypothesis is a groundbreaking complement to Darwin's seminal insights and builds upon existing scientific principles and leverages logic, reason, and evidence to describe the natural mechanisms by which nature implements and distributes life and individuality throughout nature.The only life that has ever existed on earth is the single living cell, in all of its forms. For the past decade, I have committed my mind, my time, and my treasure to revealing the actual natural empirical answers to the age-old questions sought by both science and religion: What is individuality? What is life? What constitutes a living being and the empirical defining underpinnings of life and of every living entity that has and will inhabit this space-time?Individuality is abstracted from any physical form that may play host to a living being. Individuality is the aspect of life that is far more interesting, and eventually, we will discover, is just as natural, real, mobile, quantifiable, and open to scientific inquiry as is one's genetics. Nature did not ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek W. Shetterly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140141/bk_acx0_140141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dreaming with the Lord: A Christian Key to Understanding Dreams , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    In her intimate autobiographical account Lucid Dreams and the Holy Spirit, Maria Isabel Pita shared how she was led home to Christ through her dreams. From the very first night she began lucid dreaming, she encountered a male dream figure with a presence and sentience unlike any other. The dreams in which he came to her were intensely special, and following the clues over several years, she finally dared to ask herself if this person could be Christ's gift to us of the Holy Spirit; God himself. Dream by dream, her soul was guided along a path in keeping with Christian mystical tradition. But it was only the beginning.  In the writings of the early Church, numerous references are made to people who became Christians as a result of waking visions as well as dreams of the night. According to the third century theologian Origen of Alexandria, dreams, waking visions, and divine inspiration are all essentially the same thing - a way God reveals himself to us and gives us a symbolic knowledge of the nature of the spiritual world; of heaven. The Church calls such dreams a charisma - any good gift that flows down to us from God's love.  Maria has logged hundreds of dreams, many of which she could not fully understand until they came to pass and until she began educating herself on the truths of the faith they inspired her to embrace. That proved the master key to understanding, working, and living with her dreams. This audiobook will take you on an enthralling journey rich with examples and advice on how to make the most of our dreams as an inspiring part of our life in Christ.  Table of contents: "Dreams and Christianity" "Body and Soul" "Reading the Night's Messages""The Theory of Reincarnation" "Demons on Our Doorstep" "Angels of God" "Meeting in Dreams" "Dreaming of the Dead and Purgatory" "Dreams of Jesus" "Time an ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maria Isabel Pita. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/135310/bk_acx0_135310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Memory Librarian (eBook, ePUB)
    In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberationqueerness, race, gender plurality, and lovebecome tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.Whoever controls our memories controls the future.Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughtsas a means of self-conceptioncould be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free.Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian existence...and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the traditions of speculative writers such as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okoraforand filled with the artistic genius and powerful themes that have made Monáe a worldwide icon in the first placeThe Memory Librarian serves readers tales grounded in the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, but also reaching through to the worlds of memory and time within, and the stakes and power that exists there.
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    The Memory Librarian
    In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation-queerness, race, gender plurality, and love-become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.Whoever controls our memories controls the future.Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free.Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian existence...and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the traditions of speculative writers such as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor-and filled with the artistic genius and powerful themes that have made Monáe a worldwide icon in the first place-The Memory Librarian serves readers tales grounded in the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, but also reaching through to the worlds of memory and time within, and the stakes and power that exists there.
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    Machinehood
    Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this "clever…gritty" (Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings) science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy—from Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya. Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's, 2095 and people don't usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process. All that changes when Welga's client is killed by The Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group that has simultaneously attacked several major pill funders. The Machinehood operatives seem to be part human, part machine, something the world has never seen. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production in one week. Global panic ensues as pill production slows and many become ill. Thousands destroy their bots in fear of a strong AI takeover. But the US government believes the Machinehood is a cover for an old enemy. One that Welga is uniquely qualified to fight. Welga, determined to take down the Machinehood, is pulled back into intelligence work by the government that betrayed her. But who are the Machinehood, and what do they really want? A "fantastic, big-idea thriller" (Malka Older, Hugo Award finalist for The Centenal Cycle series) that asks: if we won't see machines as human, will we instead see humans as machines?
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