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As a young child, Herman Lehmann was captured by a band of plundering Apache Indians and remained with them for nine years. This is his dramatic and unique story. His memoir, fast-paced and compelling, tells of his arduous initial years with the Apache as he underwent a sometimes torturous initiation into Indian life. Peppered with various escape attempts, Lehmann's recollections are fresh and exciting in spite of the years past.

Schwerverletzt wird Nova vom legendären Technikhehler Albrecht gefunden. Der arbeitet an einer Superwaffe, die entscheidend sein könnte im Kampf gegen die KIs. Doch das unberechenbare Technik-Genie verfolgt eigene Ziele und wird für Nova zur Bedrohung. Als dann noch GAN-Geheimagentin Thea auftaucht, um Albrechts Waffe zu zerstören, eskaliert die Situation.

He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague", with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second-in-command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac.

A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza⏤formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza⏤quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those ideas prove so scandalous to his own Jewish community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their communal life. The scandal shows no sign of waning as his ideas spread throughout Europe. At the center of the storm, he lives the simplest of lives, quietly devoted to his work as a lens grinder and to his steadfast search for truth, striving to embody a philosophy of tolerance and benevolence.

In a real-life version of Little Big Man comes Indian captive narrative of Herman Lehmann. He was captured as a boy in 1870 and lived for nine years among the Apaches and Comanches. Long considered one of the best captivity stories from the period, Lehmann came to love the people and the life. Only through the gentle persuasion of famed Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, was Lehmann convinced to remain with his white family once he was returned to them.

The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.

Robert Marc Lehmann ist auf einer Mission: "Mission Erde" - gewidmet dem Erhalt unserer Erde mit ihrer einzigartigen Natur und Tierwelt. Der Meeresbiologe, Fotograf und Umweltschützer ist weltweit in Einsätzen zur Rettung von Wildtieren und im Kampf gegen Umweltkriminalität unterwegs. Er nimmt uns mit auf sehr emotionale Wal-Rettungen, gefährliche Schildkröten- und Schuppentier-Befreiungen im Dschungel oder teils lebensgefährliche Missionen, bei denen er versucht, den Menschen, die unsere Erde zerstören, das Handwerk zu legen.

Drangar Ralgon survived death… twice! He has no idea how, nor is he any closer to unearthing why his beloved had to die. Drowning in questions, Drangar receives aid from the unlikeliest of sources. The Chosen Kildanor, immortal warrior of a shunned god, has taken a liking to the mercenary. With his path to answers blocked by a besieging army, Drangar must do his part in defeating the enemy.

Olivia Curtis wakes to her seventeenth birthday and her presents: a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress, a diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, and a ten shilling note. Safe within the bosom of a family at once lovingly familiar yet curiously remote, she stands poised on the brink of womanhood, anticipating her first dance with tremulous uncertainty and excitement - the greatest, yet most terrifying, event in her restricted social life.

This is Judith Earle's story - her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with passion and disillusionment, and her travels abroad with her elegant, socialite mother. Above all, this novel is about Judith's consuming relationship with the Fyfe family, who each fall in love with Judith, transforming her young womanhood.

If one looks too long into the abyss, the abyss looks back. Drangar Ralgon has been avoiding the abyss's gaze for far too long and now he turns to face it. For 100 years the young kingdom of Danastaer has thrived in peace. Now their northern neighbor, mighty Chanastardh, has begun a cunning invasion. Thrust into events far beyond his control, the mercenary Drangar Ralgon flees his solitary life as a shepherd to evade the coming war and take responsibility for his crimes. In Dunthiochagh, Danastaer's oldest city, the holy warrior Kildanor uncovers the enemy's plans for invasion.

Avocat d'affaires à Wall Street, amateur de fêtes et de drogues, Jonathan plaque tout du jour au lendemain pour partir à la recherche du bonheur. En novembre 2016, il s'envole vers l'Inde pour vivre une expérience radicale : "Vipassana", ou dix heures de méditation par jour, pendant dix jours. Dans un silence total. "Journal intime d'un touriste du bonheur" est le récit de cette retraite et des trois mois de périple qui ont suivi. Dans ce carnet de voyage déjanté, Jonathan nous raconte ses tribulations à travers l'Inde.

It's never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one's rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one owns. There's so much of it. And personal possessions are just the beginning. You must keep a gimlet eye, too, on the myriad people and institutions that safeguard your gilded status.

Traditional family structures are adapting to make room for children conceived in previously unimaginable ways. Whole industries and internet-enabled communities are being built around reproductive technologies. And there's more change coming as science continues to move forward. Combining intimate personal stories with cutting-edge research, Reconceptions invites listeners to reconsider their own ideas about parenthood and embrace a new vision of the meaning of family.

Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this way we could become a society that knows the difference between truth and falsehood, and find what makes a life worthwhile.

Gerade aus dem Hochsicherheits-Gefängnis entkommen, muss Nova Bassmann eine perfide Mordserie stoppen. Dazu braucht sie die Hilfe ihres Ex-Freunds – Hacker-Genie Rediet "Red" Echuwona. Doch sie gerät in die Gewalt eines misstrauischen Trios, das seit Beginn der weltweiten KI-Herrschaft im Untergrund Widerstand leistet. Auf einem verfallenen Werftgelände entbrennt ein Kampf gegen KI-gesteuerte Maschinen…

Hacktivistin Nova wird seit einem Jahr unschuldig in einem vollautomatisierten Hochsee-Gefängnis gefangen gehalten. Um auszubrechen, muss sie eine Wächter-KI überlisten. Unerwartete Hilfe kommt von einem Gegner aus der Vergangenheit, doch der Preis ist hoch: Novas Leben steht auf dem Spiel, so wie das zahlloser Menschen.

We charge our cell phone. We plug in the toaster and the hair dryer. Let us also plug our life in first. Step one in the process of truly deciding to make changes in our life and begin living by design starts with the understanding that we are connected to the greatest power source there is - God. Let us consciously connect first and harness this power. Once we are connected, our life starts to flow. Connect to the Light provides ways to maintain our connection to light energy and to live by conscious design. Let us be heavenly minded, yet of earthly use.

We’ve got your back! Yes, Cancer is one of life’s most challenging and overwhelming experiences, but The Call of Cancer explores the outrageous possibility that it can also be one of the most healing.

Wenn du dich nach einer Trennung verloren fühlst oder wenn du dich nach zu vielen Nächten allein einsam fühlst, dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für dich. Loslassen ist kein selbstverständlicher Prozess. In einer Welt, die uns lehrt, das festzuhalten, was wir lieben, gibt es auch eine Kunst, die uns lehrt, weiterzumachen – dies ist eine Kunst, die wir immer wieder neu lernen müssen.