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Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress. This audiobook includes talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glen Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically.

Are you sick and tired of skyrocketing utility bills and depending on an increasingly unstable power grid? Have you tried solar panels and other alternatives but found them too expensive or complicated to maintain? Do you finally want to say goodbye to utility companies and discover a proven system for self-sufficient living that actually works? If so, then you've come to the right place.

Captivating radio dramatisations of seven of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this first digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes seven of his most popular novels.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Three is the third instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Three features 10 essential works that reach further back into early Greek and Italian stories from Dante, Machiavelli, and Homer, as-well as comparatively modern works from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including David Rintoul; Daniel Weyman; Rachel Atkins; and more, this is a chance to expand your listening by going back to some of the earliest pieces of classic literature.

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the pre-emptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!

In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes, placating an unruly ghost, a boy stuck at the bottom of well and an unusual adventure weekend with romantic overtones - are just some of the scenarios from comedy writers Mark Maier and Daniel Maier (a long term collaborator of Charlie Brooker and Harry Hill).

Im Umfeld von Don Dino Margheriti braut sich etwas zusammen. Knapp überlebt er einen Anschlag. Kaum aus dem Hospital entlassen versuchen es seine Gegner erneut, diesmal mit blutigem Erfolg! Pikanterweise gibt es nur einen Überlebenden: Don Dinos Schützling Saverio Loffredo! Keiner glaubt so recht an einen Zufall, dass ausgerechnet der junge Emporkömmling das Massaker kaum verletzt überlebt hat! Auch Commissario Ferro fragt sich, ob Saverio hinter dem feigen Attentat steckt. Es regt sich massiver Widerstand gegen Saverio als Nachfolger, auch wenn dies Don Dinos Wille gewesen ist.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Way We Were by Sinead Moriarty, read by Robert Portal, Rachel Louise Miller, Alison McKenna and Daniel Weyman. Alice and Ben are a couple like any other bound together by love, work, children, familiarity, and a shared sense of purpose. Arguing about the usual things, too - in-laws, whose career is more important, which of them is a soft touch with the children, who hates change and who craves it.

When a Navy vessel comes across a yacht in distress in the middle of the vast Indian Ocean, Captain Danial Tengku orders his ship to rush to its aid. On board the yacht is a British couple: a horribly injured man, Jake, and his traumatized wife, Virginie, who breathlessly confesses, “It’s all my fault. I killed them.” Trembling with fear, she reveals their shocking story to Danial.

Eine spannende Fortsetzung der Reihe "Die weiße Lilie" Die Hörspielserie "Die weisse Lilie" vereint gekonnt die Genres Actionthriller und Politkrimi. Sie überzeugt mit hervorragenden Sprechern, einem eigens komponierten Soundtrack sowie einem unvergleichlich lebendigen Sounddesign. Spannend geschrieben und absolut hörenswert ein wahrer Blockbuster fürs Ohr.

Irene Adler, Oscar Wilde und Sherlock Holmes stehen nach dem Mord an Mycroft Holmes unter Schock. Nur mit Mühe gelingt es ihnen, sich auf die Ermittlungen zu konzentrieren. Während Irene Adler einer neuen Spur im Fall der Grabschändungen folgt, setzen Sherlock Holmes und Oscar Wilde alles daran, den Mord an Mycroft Holmes lückenlos aufzuklären. Erste Hinweise führen die beiden in die unmittelbare Nähe des Königshauses und plötzlich müssen sich die Sonderermittler die Frage stellen, wem sie überhaupt noch vertrauen können.

On the morning of July 12, 2017, the FBI Boston field office receives what appears to be a hoax call: a man rescued from the waters off Massachusetts has claimed that his sailboat was hijacked and used to smuggle weapons and terrorists into the United States. With local agents tasked to prepare for an evening presidential visit to downtown Boston, and with procedures requiring a response to any threat, can Ben, untrained in field work and relying only on his wits and intuition, uncover the deadly plot...in time to stop it?

Der Besuch eines jahrhundertealten Klosters in den österreichischen Alpen wird für Niklas, Linus und Melissa - Mitglieder der Pfadfindergruppe "Pollution Police" - zu einem unvergesslichen Abenteuer. Mysteriöse Ereignisse versetzen die Mönche schon seit geraumer Zeit in Angst und Schrecken.

Die drei Freunde Niklas, Linus und Melissa - Mitglieder der Pfadfindergruppe "Pollution Police" - kommen einer Bande von Schatzräubern auf die Spur, die im Fürstenwald unterirdische Sprengungen durchführen. Die Gauner haben es offenbar auf ein verschollenes Golddepot aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg abgesehen und lassen sich durch nichts von ihrem Vorhaben abbringen. Ein Fall für die "Pollution Police"!

Becoming a Thane - an elite rebel spy trained to deceive, manipulate, and kill - was Timothy’s life. Then, in a moment, he lost everything. Now Timothy fights for survival and revenge in the Huctan death rings. When his recklessness and skill take him all the way to the Huctan capitol, he finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of lies and deception. While his brother leads a last rebellion in Botan, Timothy must rub shoulders with the Huctan princess, match wits with the man who betrayed his country, and navigate the plots and tests of loyalty that could decide the fate of his nation.

On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life. How did Lil come to be in the bomb site – a well-known lovers’ haunt? If she had consensual sex, why was she strangled?

The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegrams will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king.

No one has ever paddled the entire length of the Bronx River--until now. Two underqualified adventurers explore history and disparity when they launch from Westchester's richest neighborhood and come ashore in the nation's poorest, the South Bronx. New York City's only freshwater river coalesces from brooks and streams in Westchester County and dumps itself 23 miles south in the face of Rikers Island. The river is witness to more of our country’s income inequality than its surrounding residents...

"Die Handschuh-Herausforderung": Po bricht auf eine Schlemmerreise durch China auf. Sein erstes Ziel ist Pei-Peis Haus der Fettknödel im Dorf Wankun. Dort befindet sich auch der WuGao-Handschuh, der seinem Besitzer unglaubliche Macht verleiht. Aus diesem Grund haben es Klaus und Veruca, zwei Kriminelle aus England, auf ihn abgesehen. Po versucht vergeblich, die beiden vom Diebstahl des Handschuhs abzuhalten. Zu seinem Vater Mr. Ping zurückgekehrt muss er erfahren, dass der Kaiser ihm der Titel Drachenmeister entzogen hat, nachdem das Dorf Wankun verwüstet wurde.