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Amos explains how she managed to create meaningful, politically resonant work against patriarchal power structures - and how her proud declarations of feminism and her fight for the marginalised always proved to be her guiding light. Filled with compassionate guidance and actionable advice - and using some of the most powerful, political songs in Amos' canon - this audiobook is for listeners determined to steer the world back in the right direction.

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-September 11 album, Scarlet’s Walk, to her latest album, Native Invader, her work has never shied away from intermingling the personal with the political. Filled with compassionate guidance and actionable advice, this audiobook is for anyone determined to steer the world back in the right direction.

Queimada Grande, die verbotene Insel, birgt ein Geheimnis. Zwei Wissenschaftler stehen nach der Entdeckung eines Buches in der Region Mandalay in Myanmar vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung. Unvorhergesehene Ereignisse durchkreuzen ihren Plan, das Geheimnis vor der Welt zu verbergen. Ein narzisstischer Senator instrumentalisiert einen labilen und korrupten Polizeileutnant, um dem Geheimnis auf den Grund zu gehen. Gier lockt weitere listige Gegner an.

Determination is what made Levy a traveler, but only resistance will lead to new levels. Ancient powers are about to collide. The world is on the verge of changing, and all Levy wants is to start leveling.

Silas is growing into the responsibilities weighing him down. Earth is struggling, but there is hope. The deals that Silas has made have brought resources and trainers to Earth. He's helped some leaders gain an understanding of what they will face. His team has continued to grow but now he finds himself facing the greatest challenge to any Forerunner, the Wild Hunt. He'll be hunted but also have to hunt other Forerunners while forging a shaky alliance with those he can't trust. Even more disturbing, it seems like there might be more than one system to choose from.

Staff Sergeant Eli Vanhorn is injured after a desperate battle with the Orrkasi aliens on Leonis B. He's cut off from the other survivors of the Space Fleet exploration ship Rihla, which was shot down when she entered orbit. And he's going to need every skill he's honed over his long career in the Fleet Marine Corps just to stay alive.

Was wären die großen Momente, Gefühle und Entwicklungen unserer Zeit ohne den passenden Soundtrack? Im uDiscover-Podcast „Sound Of …“ widmen wir uns der Musik, die unzertrennlich verbunden ist mit unserem Leben – nicht nur auf persönlicher, sondern auch auf kollektiver Ebene.In der ersten Staffel „Sound Of Resistance“ konzentrieren wir uns auf die Genres, herausragenden Künstler:innen und Aufnahmen, die sich gegen den Status quo gestellt, gesellschaftlichen Wandel vertont und ganzen Bewegungen auf unterschiedlichste Weise eine Stimme gegeben haben.„Sound Of” ist ein ...

By founder and creator of The Nap Ministry, Rest Is Resistance is a call-to-action for anyone suffering from the toxic urgency of modern-day life. It centres around the systemic issues that cause us to overwork, and ultimately burn out, and offers us liberation through rest. In its simplest form, rest becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy. Slowing down moves us away from trying to operate at machine levels of productivity, to make us all more human.

Could God ever love a half-blood all of society looks upon with such fear and disdain? Jace once believed so, but when a tragic loss shatters the only peace he’s ever known, his faith crumbles as the nagging doubts he’s tried to put behind him descend on his grieving heart. With them come the haunting memories of the bloodstained past he longs to forget but can never escape. Taken from home at a young age and raised to serve the emperor, Kyrin Altair lives every day under a dangerous pretense of loyalty.

"Er kannte das – er hatte Hunderte von Menschen so sitzen sehen, Emigranten, verschlagen in fremdeste Fremde. Eine kleine Insel ungewissen Daseins – so ...

Scientist Emma Miller was the first American infected in the Pandoravirus pandemic, which triggers violent rages and sociopathic homicide. No longer fettered by morality or emotion, she has attracted millions of followers, both infected and uninfected. But is she America's worst nightmare - or its only hope? Emma's twin sister Isabel and brother Noah struggle against the threats posed by rampant infection, deadly civil unrest, and desperate government measures. Their - and humanity's - only chance for a future may lie in an alliance with Emma and her expanding community.

In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap (made worse because of the pandemic), climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, systematic racism, Big Tech, and more.

Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. This form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, Erica Chenoweth explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance.

A chance to gain much needed resources... A group of highly trained, merciless soldiers... A half-completed ship on a trajectory to nowhere... A lone operative on familiar yet dangerous ground... Captain Scott and the crew of the Aurora have a chance to get everything they need to liberate their home world, but they may have to fight someone else's war first.

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.

Um sich auf die gefürchtete Meister-Sommelier-Prüfung vorzubereiten, kehrt Kate, eine Amerikanerin mit französischen Wurzeln, zurück auf das Weingut ihrer Familie im Burgund. Dort verbrachte sie als Studentin die schönste Zeit ihres Lebens, doch ließ sie dort auch ihre große Liebe Jean-Luc zurück. Als sie ihm gleich nach ihrer Ankunft wiederbegegnet, wird klar, dass ihre Gefühle von einst nicht erloschen sind.

Paris, 1943. The scent of fresh baguettes hangs in the air as Coralie unbolts the door to her bakery with trembling fingers. She must get out of the city. Hiding her precious leather recipe book inside her coat, she promises never to let the secret locations of the people she worked tirelessly to save fall into German hands… Present day. Raven is unhappy about being shipped off to the other side of the country for the summer to stay with the mysterious French grandmother she barely knows.

When Levy finds himself transported to an unknown place, discoveries of the past will soon shape the future—but it may not be the future that Levy was planning for. As Levy's connection to the system grows stronger, he learns that he has some sway over the limitations holding him and his fellow sorcerers back from their potential. But as Levy goes down this path, he will learn certain things about the Ancient controlling his homeland that will change the course of everyone's life.

Levy plans to use his undervalued specialization of Enchanting to create an unstoppable force. As Levy gains the wrong kind of attention from the historic sorcerers who have a stake in the system he hopes to exploit, he soon finds his loyalty in question, and a difficult choice must be taken. Before he can know what to do, he needs to find out the truth about those who have power over him. Some answers are lost in the past, but others seem to be within the system itself.

The world they knew continues disintegrating around them, as Josh and Jana put their lives on the line for a crippled nation. They will discover old enemies and new friends in places they couldn’t imagine, as they fight for what they believe. Will their unyielding faith, undying hope, and unending love be enough to help them triumph over all that is to come?