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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

Shamanic Wisdom Meets the Western Mind provides a synthesis of realms of knowledge that hitherto were either blinded out from human consciousness or that were seen from a disparaging perspective that is in turn the result of a fragmented perception.

On the level of the collective unconscious, this study shows, the historical transition from matriarchy to patriarchy has not taken place. On the contrary, it appears that the intrinsic symbolism of the soul level, the content of the unconscious, the level of spiritual visions, is one of the matriarchal gods and cosmic energy holders, such as the mythic or lunar bull, and the serpent.

Bad Axe is the story of a woman accused of murdering her husband at a military outpost in the Old West. Did hostile Indians force her to scalp him as revenge for his brutality, or did she kill him out of frustration with her plight as a soldier’s wife? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring John Castellanos, Harry Hamlin, Amy Irving, Peter Jacobs, and Jessica Walter. Recorded before a live audience.

Globi sitzt gemütlich vor einem Café. Da plötzlich knallt es fürchterlich, und es fliegen Steine und Glas durch die Luft! Was ist denn bloß passiert? Schon hört man das Tatütata der Einsatzwagen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass eine Bank überfallen wurde. Was fehlt? Globi, nicht scheu, schließt sich den Polizisten an, und schon ist er mitten im Geschehen und hört: Es wurden eine Menge Goldbarren gestohlen. Im Laufe der Jagd nach den Räubern taucht Globi auch in die Arbeit der Polizei ein, er lernt interessante Fachleute kennen, die ihm vieles zeigen und ihn oft auch mitnehmen.

Nach dem Tod seines Großonkels Iggie Ephrussi erbt Edmund de Waal eine Sammlung japanischer Miniaturschnitzereien – so genannte Netsuke. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Herkunft und jenen Menschen, die sie einst besaßen, begibt er sich auf die Reise nach Paris, Wien, Odessa und Tokio. Dabei lernt er die bewegende Geschichte seiner Vorfahren kennen und erzählt sie. Die Ephrussi gehören im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zu den einflußreichsten und wohlhabendsten jüdischen Bankiersfamilien. In den Zeiten des aufkeimenden Antisemitismus wird der Familie ihre Herkunft zum Verhängnis. Sowohl Einfluß als auch Reichtum schwinden schnell – ein Existenzkampf beginnt.

Walter’s Career Guide: Why Getting a Job is Not Enough presents a fresh approach to brainsmart effective learning and career design, for young audiences. The book doesn’t offer quick fixes for developing your career. It presents an approach to raise the awareness level of the whole of the person. The author contends that true self-help must encourage the reader to be critical in the first place, and develop their self-thinking abilities, which is one quality of several when designing a first-hand life and becoming truly responsible for your destiny.

Creative Prayer: The Miracle Road: Scholarly Articles, Volume 5 is a self-help audio essay representing a witness report of a prayer technique the author has used successfully for more than 20 years. The method was first outlined in basically two essays by the spiritualist James Allen and his son, Abel L. Allen. James Allen published "As a Man Thinketh" in 1902, and Abel Allen wrote "The Message of New Thought" in 1914.

The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a separation not forced by external powers but by the constant pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive. An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they drift into a relation where heart meets heart, the breaking of which causes the deepest pain.

"The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H.G. Wells. In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the notion that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Indeed, such object is a luminous celestial body, whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo.

"Das obszöne Werk", 1972 erstmals auf Deutsch erschienen, apostrophierte Susan Sontag als "Kammermusik der pornographischen Literatur". Die erotische Erfahrung ist für Bataille eine zweifache: die des Tabus und die seiner Überschreitung; erst die Überschreitung des Tabus ermöglicht den Personen Batailles - Sartre nannte ihn einen "neuen Mystiker" - auch die Transzendierung des Ich.

Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection of three short stories and two novellas written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1897 and 1898. It was first published by Doubleday & McClure Co. in 1899. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories.

The Roots of Violence: Why Humans Are Not by Nature Violent (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 10, 2018) is an analytical and policy study that presents abundant evidence that human beings are not by nature violent and that violence therefore is a conditioned response. The scientific disciplines examined are anthropology, biology, neurology, pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Siamo lieti di comunicarvi che dopo alcuni anni di lavoro abbiamo completato il nostro Corso Intermedio - Situational English. Il Corso è interamente registrato in audio. Corso Intermedio, Situational English consiste di 50 lezioni di Inglese Situazionale, 24 brani per il perfezionamento della pronuncia, e una serie di brani divertenti per imparare Phrasal Verbs and Idioms. Troverete anche “British and American English”, “Common Mistakes", e “Homophones”. Le lezioni contengono 50 temi di inglese situazionale, presentati sotto forma di dialoghi.

Discovering Psalms as Prayer takes the listener on a journey through the problems and practicalities of prayer, and the difficulties of different types of Psalms. Andy Roland describes how his travels in southern India opened up the Psalms in a new way for him. Psalms are then suggested for each period of the day: waking up in the morning, pausing at lunchtime, offering up the night-time. Psalms for early evening take us through the history of Israel and Judah, and the rich treasury of Hebrew wisdom.

This audiobook is for aspiring new and experienced leaders of teams. It doesn’t matter if you lead a team of two or two hundred; it’s likely you’ve been or will be frustrated at times with problems the team has caused you. So why do so many leaders and managers struggle with and live with troublesome, poor performing teams? It’s tiring, draining, demotivating, and leads to many a good manager questioning their desire to continue in their role.

This audiobook is a systematic road map for inner child recovery, healing, and artwork. It is a self-help guide and provides many examples and sample dialogues. The content has been structured to provide some "meat" for all tastes. Each of the main chapters is different in style and addresses issues that speak to a different inner self.

The Better Life is a self-help audiobook that teaches you the use of your subconscious mind to steer your life in alignment with your higher purpose and how to adjust your thinking process so as to attract harmonious conditions, success, and wealth.

Tony und Mr. Silver folgen weiter den Spuren von Jubilees verschollenem Vater Rian Xavier Goddard, der sie weiter in den Amazonas führt. Auf einer Krankenstation taucht ein Eingeborener auf, der in Panik davon erzählt von Monstern verfolgt worden zu sein. Und tatsächlich, schon bald taucht das erste Monster auf, doch dabei soll es nicht bleiben und so spitzt sich die Situation mehr und mehr zu.

Die Sicherheit Europas scheint in Gefahr, weil ein wichtiges Staats-Dokument verschwunden ist. Der englische Premierminister sitzt persönlich auf Sherlock Holmes' Sofa, um ihn mit dem Fall zu betrauen. Im Verlauf seiner Ermittlungen stößt Holmes auf einen ermordeten Spion, eine eingeschüchterte Ehefrau und schlussendlich auf den gesuchten Brief.