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    The Open Window , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 8min
    Considered a master of the short story, Saki was best known for his witty and mischievous stories that satirized the culture and society of Edwardian England. In "The Open Window" his best-known vignette, a teenage girl regales the tale of an eerie family tragedy to a high-strung visitor, who receives something of a shock. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005722/bk_blak_005722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lost Sanjak , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
    Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. 'The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he came to be condemned to hang for the murder of...himself! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001020/bk_redd_001020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Mort Sahl, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
    Comedian Mort Sahl on this edition of Fresh Air. Before The Onion, Weekend Update and The Daily Show, Sahl's shtick satirized the news of the day. It's the 50th anniversary of Sahl's first appearance at The Hungry Nightclub in San Francisco. Sahl revolutionized stand-up comedy. Before Sahl, tuxedo-clad borscht belt comedians made tame jokes about your mother-in-law. After Sahl came the dark, satirical wit of comedians like Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. (Broadcast Date: December 23, 2003) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/031223/rt_whyy_031223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Penance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 14min
    Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The Penance is an edgy and at times horrifying tale about a normally amiable man who has killed the cat belonging to his neighbour's children, on the grounds that he suspected it of attacking his chickens. His efforts to make up for this awful deed are met with hostility, and the children take the opportunity to plan a dire revenge. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001011/bk_redd_001011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Byzantine Omelette , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 11min
    Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage. When the Duke of Serbia does her the honour of joining her house party, despite her left-wing leanings, Sophie is determined to make a good impression. So she hires an emergency chef who is an expert in making Byzantine omelettes. Within a very short time the entire household is thrown into disarray.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001028/bk_redd_001028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
    The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their successors Rush, Styx, and Asia. With inside access to all the key figures, Washington Post national reporter David Weigel tells the story with the gusto and insight prog rock's fans (and its haters) will relish. Along the way he explains exactly what was "progressive" about prog rock, how it arose from psychedelia and heavy metal, why it dominated the pop charts but then became so despised that it was satirized in This Is Spinal Tap, and what fuels its resurgent popularity today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rudy Sanda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001300/bk_high_001300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dilbert 2022 Wall Calendar
    Mind-numbing meetings, clueless colleagues, idiotic innovation-they're all part of the hilarious cubicle culture satirized in Dilbert, the most shared comic strip in the world.Dilbert, Wally, Alice, and the rest of the dysfunctional gang return for another year of corporate inanity in this all-new Dilbert calendar featuring a full year's worth of strips from the iconic workplace cartoon skewering the funniest absurdities of office life. Each monthly spread of the Dilbert 2022 wall calendar features a bright, graphic image of a favorite Dilbert character and a stand-alone quote, plus the strip where the quote appeared. A bonus Dogbert file folder is included with the calendar.Generous grids with space to add appointments and remindersOpens to 12 inches x 24 inchesPlanning spread for September-December 2021Widely celebrated and nationally recognized holidays and observancesPrinted on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink
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    Voltaire Collection: Micromegas, Candide, and Zadig , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min
    Voltaire Collection includes three of Voltaire's most notable works: Micromegas, Candide, and Zadig.François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity - especially the Roman Catholic Church - as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Rowan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221394/bk_acx0_221394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kipps , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 847min
    This wonderful comedy about orphan and innocent Arthur Kipps was the means by which Wells satirized what he saw as a gross stupidity and blight upon English society: the pretensions of and obsession with class. Humble drapers' assistant Arthur unexpectedly inherits his grandfather's fortune and is instantly propelled into a higher social stratum with the subsequent problems of attaining the required behaviour of a 'gentleman'. Wells gets much comic mileage from Arthur's desperate attempts to win the approval of his 'betters' and the hand of his goddess, the ambitious, would-be London bohemian Helen, but there is pathos in his inevitable fall from grace and reunion with Ann, his childhood sweetheart. Wells, the revolutionary, makes some serious political comment and with great foresight predicts the world's citizens as 'one body', in the words of the jaundiced socialist Masterman. A joyous, thought-provoking tale with an ingenious twist in the final moments. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000078/bk_assm_000078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    America's Assembly Line , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
    The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts - first created and then serving an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of "lean manufacturing." American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Moriarty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092035/bk_acx0_092035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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