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Scary Stories for Teenagers

Classic stories that are the original form of horror movies

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, H P Lovecraft, W W Jacobs, Saki, E F Benson, M R James, W F Harvey, John Willaim Polidori ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, William Dufris, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

In that extraordinary time between childhood and adulthood are those years that most parents dread; The Teenage Years. Hormones rage, personalities can become belligerent, lives are lived in partial secrecy as their brains undergo re-wiring and their bodies shoot out in all sorts of places.How then to find stories they can engage with? There’s an easy answer. The same way we as adults engage. ... Read more

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In that extraordinary time between childhood and adulthood are those years that most parents dread; The Teenage Years. Hormones rage, personalities can become belligerent, lives are lived in partial secrecy as their brains undergo re-wiring and their bodies shoot out in all sorts of places.How then to find stories they can engage with? There’s an easy answer. The same way we as adults engage.
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3 Stories - Set During Pandemics

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Edgar Allan Poe, Fred M White, Jack London ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, William Dufris ...

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
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The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

by Renee Richmond Huntley Ormsbee, Thomas H. Ormsbee, Will Levington Comfort, G. J. Whyte-Melville, Edward Eggleston, Berthold Auerbach, S. R. Crockett, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Harriet S. Caswell, Archibald Marshall, Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr, Charles Battell Loomis, M. E. Francis, Arthur Christopher Benson, George Walter Fiske, Randolph Caldecott, Martha Foote Crow, William Howitt, David Grayson, Dallas Lore Sharp, Warren H. Wilson, W. J. Dawson, Tickner Edwardes, Ernest R. Groves, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, George Manville Fenn, Charlotte M. Vaile, Mary Grant Bruce, Edward Payson Roe, William O. Stoddard, Amy Walton, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Brooks, Laura Lee Hope, Johanna Spyri, Elizabeth Gordon, Clara Ingram Judson, Josephine Franklin, Sophie Fox Sea, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, L. T. Meade, Albert Bigelow Paine, Jacob Abbott, William John Hopkins, Howard Roger Garis ...

The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

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The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of
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Darwinian Hedonism and the Epidemic of Unhealthy Behavior

by David M. Williams ...

Psychological hedonism - the idea that people tend to act in ways that maximize pleasure and minimize displeasure - has a decidedly poor reputation among academics who study human behavior. Opinions range from outright rejection to those who believe it to be intuitively obvious, but untestable and therefore unhelpful. In this book, the author introduces an empirically testable and useful theory of ... Read more

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Psychological hedonism - the idea that people tend to act in ways that maximize pleasure and minimize displeasure - has a decidedly poor reputation among academics who study human behavior. Opinions range from outright rejection to those who believe it to be intuitively obvious, but untestable and therefore unhelpful. In this book, the author introduces an empirically testable and useful theory of
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Quality as an Organizational Strategy

by Clifford L. Norman, Lloyd P. Provost, David M. Williams ...

From the authors of The Improvement Guide, The Health Care Data Guide, Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation, and Transforming Health Care Leadership.Quality as an Organizational Strategy describes an approach to leading organizations based on W. Edwards Deming's charge that leaders need a new theory of management and a strategy built on quality. The book defines quality as a ... Read more

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From the authors of The Improvement Guide, The Health Care Data Guide, Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation, and Transforming Health Care Leadership.Quality as an Organizational Strategy describes an approach to leading organizations based on W. Edwards Deming's charge that leaders need a new theory of management and a strategy built on quality. The book defines quality as a
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The New Taxonomy

A Science Reimagined

Edited by David M. Williams, Quentin D. Wheeler ...

Today molecular data is part of many biological studies, including taxonomic works. Such data is embraced by taxonomists for good reasons. When combined with comparative morphology, palaeontology, and embryology, it creates a rich, integrated overview of the history of life. This book is intended as a clear articulation of the mission, goals, and needs of fundamental taxonomists and a planetary ... Read more

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Today molecular data is part of many biological studies, including taxonomic works. Such data is embraced by taxonomists for good reasons. When combined with comparative morphology, palaeontology, and embryology, it creates a rich, integrated overview of the history of life. This book is intended as a clear articulation of the mission, goals, and needs of fundamental taxonomists and a planetary
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Cladistics

A Guide to Biological Classification

by David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach ...

Series Book 88 - Systematics Association Special Volume Series
This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a comprehensive account of the past fifty years of discussion on the relationship between classification, phylogeny and evolution. It covers cladistics in the era of molecular data, detailing new advances and ideas that have emerged over the last twenty-five ... Read more

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This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a comprehensive account of the past fifty years of discussion on the relationship between classification, phylogeny and evolution. It covers cladistics in the era of molecular data, detailing new advances and ideas that have emerged over the last twenty-five
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A Paul Meehl Reader

Essays on the Practice of Scientific Psychology

Edited by Niels G. Waller, Leslie J. Yonce, William M. Grove, David Faust, Mark F. Lenzenweger ...

Series series Multivariate Applications Series
This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting collection is a tour de force illustrating quantitative analysis of life science problems, an examination of the inadequacy of some methods of ... Read more

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This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting collection is a tour de force illustrating quantitative analysis of life science problems, an examination of the inadequacy of some methods of
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Dynamical Astrochemistry

by David A Williams, Thomas W Hartquist, Jonathan M C Rawlings, Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini, Serena Viti ...

Astrochemistry is a well-established interdisciplinary subject and the methods for describing time-dependent chemistry in static or slowly-changing regions of interstellar space have been well-developed over many years. Existing astrochemical books normally describe the subject in terms of chemistry in static or slowly-varying astronomical situations but the most significant astronomical regions ... Read more

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Astrochemistry is a well-established interdisciplinary subject and the methods for describing time-dependent chemistry in static or slowly-changing regions of interstellar space have been well-developed over many years. Existing astrochemical books normally describe the subject in terms of chemistry in static or slowly-varying astronomical situations but the most significant astronomical regions
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Buddhism: The Essential Guide to Enlightenment (Learn the Foundations of Buddhist Practice for Greater Joy, Compassion, and Self-understanding)

by John M. Williams ...

Narrated by David P. Byers ...

Unabridged

3 hours 48 min

Buddhism introduces you to one of the world's most enduring philosophies, offering practical wisdom that can help you navigate stress, uncertainty, and the demands of modern life with greater confidence and compassion. Whether you're exploring buddhism for the first time or seeking to deepen your understanding, this book transforms timeless teachings into simple, actionable lessons you can apply ... Read more

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Buddhism introduces you to one of the world's most enduring philosophies, offering practical wisdom that can help you navigate stress, uncertainty, and the demands of modern life with greater confidence and compassion. Whether you're exploring buddhism for the first time or seeking to deepen your understanding, this book transforms timeless teachings into simple, actionable lessons you can apply
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The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1)

Enriched edition. Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet…

by Walt Whitman, Herman Hesse, George Eliot, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gogol, James Joyce, Henry David Thoreau0, William Shakespeare1, T. S. Eliot2, John Keats3, Charles Baudelaire4, Sir Walter Scott5, Daniel Defoe6, Louisa May Alcott7, Jane Austen8, Charlotte Brontë9, Emily Brontë0, Anne Brontë1, Leo Tolstoy2, Benito Pérez Galdós3, William Makepeace Thackeray4, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos5, R.D. Blackmore6, Alexandre Dumas7, Marcel Proust8, D. H. Lawrence9, Charles Dickens0, Thomas Hardy1, Henry James2, Guy de Maupassant3, Princess Der Ling4, Victor Hugo5, Juan Valera6, Anthony Trollope7, Stephen Crane8, E. M. Forster9, Theodore Dreiser0, Margaret Cavendish1, Upton Sinclair2, Plato3, Apuleius4, Marcus Aurelius5, Sun Tzu6, Voltaire7, Miguel de Cervantes8, Giovanni Boccaccio9, Frederick Douglass0, Sigmund Freud1, H. A. Lorentz2, Wallace D. Wattles3, James Allen4, Agatha Christie5, Arthur Conan Doyle6, Joseph Conrad7, H. P. Lovecraft8, Washington Irving9, Mary Shelley0, H. G. Wells1, Edgar Allan Poe2, Ernest Hemingway3, L. Frank Baum4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Mark Twain6, Selma Lagerlöf7, Jack London8, Jules Verne9, Lewis Carroll0, Frances Hodgson Burnett1, Rudyard Kipling2, Edgar Rice Burroughs3, Hans Christian Andersen4, George Bernard Shaw5, Soseki Natsume6, Johann Wolfgang Goethe7, Hunter Reeves0 ...

The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1) beautifully captures the essence of diversity in thought, style, and expression, spanning centuries and continents. This anthology brings together an eclectic mix of pivotal works that have shaped the literary landscape, orchestrated to illuminate the human condition and the relentless quest for understanding and interpretation. From the ... Read more

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The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1) beautifully captures the essence of diversity in thought, style, and expression, spanning centuries and continents. This anthology brings together an eclectic mix of pivotal works that have shaped the literary landscape, orchestrated to illuminate the human condition and the relentless quest for understanding and interpretation. From the
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The QOS Field Guide

Quality as an Organizational Strategy, #2

by Clifford L. Norman, Lloyd P. Provost, David M. Williams ...

Series Book 2 - Quality as an Organizational Strategy
From the authors of The Improvement Guide, The Health Care Data Guide, Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation, and Transforming Health Care Leadership.More detail into the theory and evidence-base of QOSExamples from organizations in various sectorsTools and methods to support the five activities for leadersExercises to practice and apply the methods in your organizationDetailed QOS ... Read more

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From the authors of The Improvement Guide, The Health Care Data Guide, Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation, and Transforming Health Care Leadership.More detail into the theory and evidence-base of QOSExamples from organizations in various sectorsTools and methods to support the five activities for leadersExercises to practice and apply the methods in your organizationDetailed QOS
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