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  • 100 Great Operas And Their Stories

    Act-By-Act Synopses

    by Henry W. Simon ...
    An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written.From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past

    by Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, L. M. Montgomery, Henry Van Dyke ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble, Joyce Bean ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's popular tale of yuletide redemption, "A Christmas Carol," ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tom Jones

    by Henry Fielding ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. This carefully modernized ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Transforming U.S. Intelligence

    by Jennifer E. Sims, Burton Gerber, Ernest May, Amy Sands, John MacGaffin, James R. Gosler, Douglas MacEachin, Donald C. F. Daniel, James Simon0, Henry A. Crumpton1, Mark M. Lowenthal2, Britt Snider3 ...
    Series series Georgetown Center for Security Studies
    The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Math Library: 23 Must-Have Books

    Classic Puzzles, Higher Dimensions, Logic, Cosmology, and the History of Mathematical Ideas

    by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Henry Ernest Dudeney, Bertrand Russell, Henry Pemberton, Robert T. Browne, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Greg Fee, David Slowinski, Charles Howard Hinton, John Scott, Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, Henry Stevens, Bernhard Marks, James Clerk Maxwell, W. Stanley, Lewis Carroll, Jerry T. Bonnell, Robert J. Nemiroff, Florian Cajori, René Descartes ...
    The Ultimate Math Library: 23 Must-Have Books assembles a capacious canon of mathematical writing in which proof, puzzle, philosophical speculation, scientific exposition, and imaginative fiction meet. Ranging from foundational reflections on method and probability to geometrical fantasy, recreational problems, and investigations of form in nature, the volume reveals mathematics as both a rigorous ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of the Bastille

    by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, Jim Chevallier ...
    The Bastille is most known for being destroyed - it has endured as a symbol of absolute power that fell to popular anger. But few people, even in France, know anything about the actual prison, notably what it was like inside and the details of how the prisoners were really treated.As it happens, Linguet, once quite famous as a lawyer and journalist, was not only in it, but wrote about the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orbit: The Sixties

    by Lewis Helfand, Henry Simon ...
    In the 1960s, millions of young men and women were searching for a way to express their deepest desires and fears. And they found that in rock and roll as a host of musicians armed with nothing more than poetic lyrics and electric guitar riffs became the voice of a generation. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Modern Sons of the Pharaohs

    by Simon Henry Leeder ...
    This interesting study of the Copts deserves attention. The Copts are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians, though many of them show a strain of Syrian or Jewish blood, and the Coptic church preserves in a somewhat debased form the primitive Christianity of the fourth century when it parted from Rome and Constantinople. Through the ages the Copts have preserved their faith and their customs; ... Read more

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  • Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam

    by Simon Henry Leeder ...
    This Western apologist for Islam claims that no writings on Mohammedanism are "more misleading than those of missionaries," especially those published in recent years. Their writings are said to be cruel and relentless attacks on Islam. This book is a sympathetic study and appreciation of the high ideals and motives of Mohammed and his followers, and consists of four parts: a description of Moslem ... Read more

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    The Portrait of a Lady

    Penguin Classics

    by Henry James ...
    Narrated by Simon Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Harrison, best known for his roles in Everest, Transformers: The Last Knight and London Has Fallen. This definitive edition includes an Introduction by Philip Horne.When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved ... Read more

    $21.48 USD

  • Tom Jones

    by Henry Fielding ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Settlement Cook Book 1903

    by Simon Kander, Henry Schoenfeld ...
    This book created for newly arrived immigrants, filled with authentic historical recipes and household tips, offers a trip to a bygone America.Calling to mind the warmth and fragrance of a crackling, old-fashioned hearth, The Settlement Cookbook takes you back in time to the cozy, wood-fired kitchens of freshly immigrated families settling into their new home. First devised in 1903 by social ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus