This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.More americans died in the civil war than in wwi, wwii, and vietnam combined. The war not only put americans against americans but family against family, neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend.The conflict between the union and the confederacy still runs deep in some parts of the united states. Indeed, the fundamental questions of the civil war—questions about racial (in)equality, the rights of citizen...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Most people have heard of voodoo before, but if you think it only has to do with sticking pins into cursed dolls for the purpose of inflicting pain onto your enemies, you couldn’t be further from the truth.Voodoo, or 'vodou' as it is traditionally referred to, is a modern-day take on an ancient haitian religion developed by african-caribbean slave workers on island plantations during the period of french slavery...

Based in NYC, a detective named Michael Reyes (Mike for short) solves gruesome murder cases with his partner Morgan Westfield. They've only been partnered for two years but their success rate in closing cases is the highest of any detective duo in the force. Mike is a legend and Morgan has risen through the ranks quickly to become the youngest detective, female or male, in the history of the NYPD. Mike is married to a gorgeous doctor named Gisselle whom he loves dearly. Morgan is single wi...

Ein Boot wird für eine geplante Reise gebucht und kurz darauf nennt man auf wundersame Weise ein anderes Boot sein Eigen. Lag es am Kleingedruckten, das nicht ausreichend studiert wurde oder wie kam das nun zustande? Kommen Sie an Bord und erfahren Sie diese aufregende Geschichte aus erster Hand. Erleben Sie die ersten Tage an Bord und kommen Sie mit auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, die Sie entlang des Canal de Bourgogne im Herzen Frankreichs führt und lernen Sie dabei ein wenig Land und Leu...

Zum ersten Mal im Leben wird ein Boot gemietet, um damit eine Ferienwoche zu erleben. Unsere Wahl fiel auf den Canal du Midi im Süden Frankreichs, der das Mittelmeer mit dem Atlantik verbindet. Aus einer Auswahl von Booten wurde ein entsprechendes Wasserfahrzeug ausgewählt, in der Hoffnung, uns nicht vor zu große nautische Anforderungen zu stellen. Als alte Segler hatten wir keinerlei Erfahrung mit motorbetriebenen Schiffen. Umso erstaunter waren wir, als wir nach kurzer Zeit so eins wurde...

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily lifeWhat might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns and their subjects? How did the police come to understand themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as things—and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a newly eme...

Most people have heard of voodoo before, but if you think it only has to do with sticking pins into cursed dolls for the purpose of inflicting pain onto your enemies, you couldn’t be further from the truth.Voodoo, or 'vodou' as it is traditionally referred to, is a modern-day take on an ancient haitian religion developed by african-caribbean slave workers on island plantations during the period of french slavery. Apart from simply being just a religion, voodoo is a...

Endlich Urlaub und dann kein Plan, wohin die Reise mit der INGRINE gehen soll. Nachdem die ersten Tage mit Einräumen überstanden sind geht es endlich auf Fahrt, zuerst zum Auftanken und dann weiter und weiter bis man sich plötzlich in Lyon wiederfindet. Unterwegs lernt man in anderen Häfen neue Bootsfreunde kennen, die das selbe Reiseziel haben und mit denen diese gemeinsame Fahrt zu einem kleinen Abenteuer wird, an das man sich gerne zurück erinnert, auch wenn sich die Wege am Zielort tre...

Hannah discovers how to become rich and how God speaks to people by applying what she learned in Sunday school.

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

Most people have heard of voodoo before, but if you think it only has to do with sticking pins into cursed dolls for the purpose of inflicting pain onto your enemies, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Voodoo, or 'vodou' as it is traditionally referred to, is a modern-day take on an ancient haitian religion developed by african-caribbean slave workers on island plantations during the period of french slavery. Apart from simply being just a religion, voodoo is actually an entire way of...

In part 1 of I'm About to be Rich, one of Dr. Micah's Sunday school students interprets a sentence from the Bible to mean they will get rich. This interpretation inspires Dr. Micah to assign an assignment leading the students to research ways to get rich according to the Bible.