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Sechs führende Höhlenforscher erzählen von ihrer Faszination an der Unterwelt. Von den chemischen und physikalischen Grundlagen der Höhlenentstehung. Von Windhöhlen in den USA, die auszuatmen scheinen, wenn ein Gewitter naht. Von archäologischen Schädelfunden in den Wasserhöhlen Mexikos. Von Wunderkammern aus Eiszapfen und Stalagmiten in Österreich. Vom Winterschlaf der Fledermäuse. Von jüngst entdeckten Tierarten.

This audiobook is the new translation newly revised by a Committee at the Bahá'í World Centre, copyright 2014. Some Answered Questions includes a wide range of questions and answers compiled from a series of talks given by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1904, 1905, and 1906 while at the supper table. The answers were given in reply to questions posed by visiting pilgrims, especially Laura Clifford Barney.

An inspiring and dramatically paced introduction to the prophet and founder of the Bahá’í Faith, The Story of Bahá’u’lláh presents in a clear narrative style the life of the prophet from his birth into a wealthy and noble family, through his transforming spiritual experience while incarcerated in the infamous subterranean dungeon, the Black Pit of Tehran, followed by decades of harsh and increasingly remote exile ending with incarceration in the prison city of Acre, Palestine (now Israel).

The Bahá'í faith is a recognized independent world religion attracting increasing attention--and followers--in the U.S. and around the globe as people from all walks of life search for practical spiritual direction and meaning in these deeply troubled times. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the Bahá'í Faith is today among the fastest-growing of world religions.

A trail robbery and multiple murders end up as the problem of Ranson Nye, town marshal of Temptation, Texas. This town built in the hopes of taking the last dollars from tired cowboys headed back home after cattle drives to Kansas is becoming more than it ever intended to be. When a newspaper comes to town, almost everything changes for this dusty little spot on the Red River across from The Indian Territory. When Mother Nature intervenes, tragedy brings out secrets and hidden talents. Add a Texas Ranger to the mix and we have Bad News in Temptation.

Widower and rancher Ranson Nye stopped in Temptation, a "wide open" town on the Texas side of the Red River. He was headed to the Oklahoma Indian Territory to find a new wife and mother for his two children. Inside The Red Slipper saloon, he meets a young widow beginning her first day as a prostitute. On the spur of the moment, he asked Genoveve Van Dorn to be his wife with no intimacy involved. In desperation, she accepts his offer to keep from actually becoming a prostitute. However, within moments, there is a shooting in the saloon, and three men are killed — one of them the Town Marshal.

Sixteen-year-old Rowan MacKenzie grew up hearing the stories, but she never thought much of them—until now. When she and her best friends, Eli Blackwood and Jesse Harlan, wander too close to the forbidden site, something shifts. The air grows heavy, the ground seems to pulse beneath their feet, and strange visions creep into their dreams. The hollow holds its breath.

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation.

Clevis Pladstock, a retired guard at the Wyvern Group Home for Boys, is dying. In his final days, Clevis relates the facts, as they were, about that double homicide way back on July the Fourth of 1976. With a humorous nature, Clevis writes about the home as it was, the two dead bodies, and the fact that the investigation got it all wrong. With details presented by a man whose whole focus is on his eventual demise, and the facts of the case that shaped the second part of his life, the story he weaves will draw you in and show you a world that Clevis knew only too well.

Hired by a socialite friend of his editor to track down the truth about her half-breed mother’s parentage, San Francisco reporter Arnold Rednapp embarks upon an odyssey of discovery into the hinterland of the remote Klamath River country of northern California, befriending a number of intriguing characters among the First Nation peoples of the area and discovering things not only about his client’s parentage, but also about himself and the world he has always taken for granted.

Based in northern Louisiana, Terrence Ida (fisherman extraordinaire) invites his new '"best friend" Newby to join him in the upcoming cat fishing tournament on Manassas Brown Bayou. Beatrice (treasure hunter extraordinaire) invites Newby to join her search of F. I. P. (workstation for all, a mid-sized machine shop) for "Hap's Money", a pile of loot he was accused of stealing over 20 years ago.

A university professor goes out for a night on the town with his friends and gets irresponsibly drunk. At the end of the night he attempts to drive home, and is involved in a car crash. He awakes to find himself lying on a hospital bed with a beautiful nurse tending to his wounds. The level of healthcare she provides, however, was definitely not in his insurance policy!

My life has been one of butts: dainty butts, stinky butts, huge butts, soft butts, and even puckered butts. All these have touched my life and depressed my coils. I am a couch, and this is my tale. A Tale of Butts: The Story of a Couch is a novel befitting The Simpsons/Robot Chicken generations. Adult humor marks this tale of a couch and all the butts it intimately comes to know.

A team fractured! Fearing potential repercussions from the international community, the new President ordered Vanguard disbanded following the defeat of the Red Fist. In their place is a new organization: Cerberus, a global peace-keeping agency designed to monitor the specials. With no purpose left, the remnants of Vanguard have returned to their normal lives. But old habits - and enemies - die hard. The world still faces grave dangers from human and special alike.

This audiobook is the most recent edition of the general prayer book published by the US Baha'i Publishing Trust. This book contains prayers revealed by Baha'u'llah, the Bab, and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. The Baha'i Faith is the newest of the world's independent religions. Baha'is view the world's major religions as a part of a single, progressive process through which God reveals His will to humanity. Baha'u'llah (1817-1892) is recognized as the most recent in a line of Divine Messengers that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ, and Muhammad.

Useful for formal students wanting additional instruction and for self-learners alike, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation: Audio Lectures by William Klein, Craig Blomberg, and Robert Hubbard provides an excellent, thorough primer on the discipline of biblical hermeneutics.

One day, the world was normal. The next, people all over the world suddenly developed unexplained superhuman abilities. Now, the world is a more dangerous place because of these new beings, called specials. There is international concern about how to balance civil rights with the unpredictable nature of their powers.

Sarris, an escaped slave, must make his way to safety and avoid the king's men. Falling in with the People of the Wood, he learns that only the legendary Blade of Anslor can save himself and his new friends from the wrath of the king and his evil plans. The sword lies far away and has not been seen for so long that its existence can only be hoped for.

Barry, age 35, moves from a western state to the Midwest after having spent time in jail for being accused of raping an underage girl, who played him for a fool, making him believe she was in her mid-20s. He meets Patsy, who plays on his sympathies as the abused ex-wife of a small-town farmer. He thinks they have a lot in common, and she gets him a job at a retirement home as an assistant director, which is what he studied for while in prison, but Barry and Patsy falsify his records a bit.

A serial killer is on the loose in the city, targeting the clients of elite-level escorts. Detective Carl Crowley catches the case and finds himself falling in love with one of the prostitutes suspected of the crime.