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"Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) war Soldat und wurde in jungen Jahren geprägt durch die Kriege Napoleons und die Befreiungskriege (1813 - 1815). Er war aber auch Philosoph und Psychologe. Seine Abhandlung 'Vom Kriege' macht ihn zum eigentlichen Begründer der modernen Kriegslehre. Er definierte Taktik und Strategie und formulierte das Verhältnis von Politik und Krieg. ('Der Krieg ist die Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln'.) Die Thesen in diesem Werk können auf viele Bereiche übertragen werden: klare Zielformulierungen am Anfang, Festschreiben der Strategie zum Erreichen der Ziele sind aktuelle Vorgehensweisen z. B. im Wirtschaftsleben. Das Originalwerk wurde von den Clausewitz-Kennern Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm. Wofgang Pickert gab das Werk 1963 stark verdichtet als Rowohlt Taschenbuch heraus. 2006 hat er dieses Taschenbuch nochmals an einigen Stellen gekürzt und die Anmerkungen der Herausgeber überarbeitet, um es als Hörbuch vorzustellen."

Carl Von Clausewitz (Author), Achim Höppner, Anja Buczkowsky, Uwe Kosubek (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Fürst

"Entschlossenheit, Großmut, Klugheit und Gerechtigkeit - das sind die Eigenschaften, deren Zusammenklang sich Machiavelli für seine Herrschergestalt wünscht. Hinzu kam seine Beurteilung aus Geschichte und eigener Erfahrung, dass die Interessen des Staates und seine Sicherheit in der Politik den Vorrang vor allen ethnischen Erwägungen haben müssen. Machiavellis Traktat 'Il Principe' ist unter den Titeln 'Der Fürst', 'Le Prince' und 'The Prince' Weltliteratur und über Jahrhunderte politische Richtschnur geworden."

Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Achim Höppner, Anja Buczkowsky (Narrator)

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First Love

"'A few paces from me on a lawn flanked by green rasperry canes stood a tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress with a white kerchief on her head. Four young men clustered round her, and she was tapping them one by one on the forehead with those small grey flowers.' At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For Vladimir Petrovich it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida; and the cruelty and betrayal that followed. (c) Penguin Books In 1970 Maximilian Schell directed and starred in a version of Ivan Turgenev`s novella. Former leading-actor John Moulder-Brown reads the love story for publisher NoaNoa."

Ivan Turgenev (Author), John Moulder-Brown (Narrator)

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As I Lay Dying

"A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. "I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." -William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk. Cover photograph: © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner."

William Faulkner (Author), Jesmyn Ward, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver, Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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A Sudden Country: A Novel

"A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. In the grip of a profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. Convinced that he is the key to her family’s safe passage, she persuades her husband to employ him. As their hidden stories and obsessions unfold, and pasts and cultures collide, both Lucy and MacLaren must confront the people they have truly been, are, and may become. Alive with incident and insight, presenting with rare scope and intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans, A Sudden Country is, above all, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding."

Karen Fisher (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

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Match Me If You Can

"You met quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed. Annabelle's endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement . . . even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City's hottest bachelor as her client, and she'll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town. Why does the wealthy, driven, and gorgeous sports agent Heath Champion need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she's entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of success -- the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right? Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, and a very big question: When the determined matchmaker promised she'd do anything to keep her star client happy . . . did she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town."

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Author), Anna Fields (Narrator)

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[German] - Die Bergwerke zu Falun

"Der Stoff geht auf eine reale Begebenheit zurück: Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts wird in einem schwedischen Bergwerk die Leiche eines 50 Jahre zuvor auf rätselhafte Weise verschollenen jungen Bergmanns gefunden - völlig unversehrt. Hoffmann schildert die Umstände dieses Geschehens aus seiner Sicht: Der labile Elis Fröbom, ehemals Seemann, fühlt sich von der geheimnisvollen, jenseitigen Welt des Bergwerkinneren angezogen. Am Morgen seines Hochzeitstages begibt er sich in die Tiefe des Berges, um seiner Braut einen 'kirschrot funkelnden Almandin' zu holen ... n nJan Koester war als Schauspieler an verschiedenen Theatern engagiert, u. a. auch an den Münchner Kammerspielen. Darüber hinaus arbeitet er regelmäßig bei Film, TV, Hörfunk und Synchron. Seit 1997 leitet Jan Koester zusammen mit Ernie Wilhelmi die NOA NOA Hör-Buchedition."

E.T.A. Hoffmann (Author), Jan Koester (Narrator)

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The Sound and the Fury

"NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. • The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." -from The Sound and the Fury Cover photograph: © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner."

William Faulkner (Author), Gabra Zackman, Grover Gardner (Narrator)

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No Country for Old Men

"Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power."

Cormac McCarthy (Author), Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)

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The Interruption of Everything

"'Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian.... An accountant, a banker, and on occasion, a broker. I've been a beautician. A map. A psychic. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. The T.V. Guide. A movie reviewer. An angel. God....For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How to Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a Ph.D. in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. But I do mind.' Since Terry McMillan's breakout novel Waiting to Exhale surged onto the bestseller lists, critics and readers alike have been captivated by her irreverent, hilarious, pitch-perfect tales of women's lives and contemporary issues. With The Interruption of Everything, her sixth novel, McMillan takes on the fault lines of midlife and family life, reminds us once again of the redeeming power of friendship, and turns her eye toward the dilemma of how a woman starts to put her own needs higher on the to-do list while not shortchanging everyone else. Marilyn Grimes, wife and mother of three, has made a career of deferring her dreams to build a suburban California home and lifestyle with her husband, Leon. She troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares for her live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine (and elderly poodle, Snuffy); keeps tabs on her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster sister-all the while holding down a part-time job. But at forty-four, Marilyn's got too much on her plate and nothing to feed her passion. She feels like she's about ready to jump. She's just not sure where. Highly entertaining, deeply human, a page-turner full of heart and soul, The Interruption of Everything is vintage Terry McMillan-and a triumphant testament to the fact that the detour is the path, and living life 'by the numbers' never quite adds up."

Terry McMillan (Author), Desiree Taylor (Narrator)

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Broken Ground: A Novel

"Kaethe Shalk faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West. Having lived in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth. Her journey from America to the broken ground of contemporary Germany becomes an act of recovery: of the lives intertwined by politics and passion, of memory and the invented self, and of Kaethe's search for a daughter lost to her, now grown and living in isolation from her mother's past and present, somewhere in vast, resurgent Berlin."

Kai Maristed (Author), Johanna Ward (Narrator)

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The Cigar Roller

"Amadeo Terra, former cigar-factory worker, is confined in a Florida hospital after a stroke has left him paralyzed. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive, as is his ruthless and audacious wit. His only human contact is with the callous nurse who constantly scolds him, the orderly who barely acknowledges him, and the nun who prays for Amadeo's salvation while he fantasizes about what's beneath her habit. One day Nurse feeds him mango from a baby-food jar, a departure from the usual bland mush, and the taste of it on his tongue brings memories flooding back of his life in Havana. Once a master cigar roller in Cuba and an imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now confronts the long-buried facts of his previously unexamined life. The Cigar Roller is a hypnotic portrayal of a man compelled to relive his worst failures in order to conjure his fairest memories."

Pablo Medina (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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