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25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other

by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anton Chekhov, David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herbert George Wells, William Wymark Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Alexander Pushkin, Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...

Narrated by Paul Gibson, David Miles, Michael Goodrick, Frank Bailey, Sharon Plummer, Jeremy Albret, John Lingua, Mark Bowen, Richard Williams, Joe Phoenix, Mike Hogan, Peter Coates, Martina Mercer-Hall, Jim Girard, Joanne Thompson, David McCord, Judy Kriz, Jason Dettrey ...

Unabridged

29 hours 8 min

Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of... ... Read more

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Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of...
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After the Rain

by John Bowen ...

First published in 1958 After the Rain was described by Angus Wilson as a 'cataclysmic novel . . . as exciting as any deluge you can hope to find; but if you think deluges are too trivial, John Bowen has a surprise for you: his novel turns out to be satire of the first order.'Beginning in the basement of Foyle's bookshop in the Charing Cross Road in London and moving to rainmaking in Texas, love ... Read more

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First published in 1958 After the Rain was described by Angus Wilson as a 'cataclysmic novel . . . as exciting as any deluge you can hope to find; but if you think deluges are too trivial, John Bowen has a surprise for you: his novel turns out to be satire of the first order.'Beginning in the basement of Foyle's bookshop in the Charing Cross Road in London and moving to rainmaking in Texas, love
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The Girls

A Story of Village Life

by John Bowen ...

A wry, macape tale of simple country living, putal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal).In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they ... Read more

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A wry, macape tale of simple country living, putal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our “most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist” (Gore Vidal).In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop specializing in the work of local artisans and farmers, they
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European States and their Muslim Citizens

The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries

Edited by John R. Bowen, Christophe Bertossi, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Mona Lena Krook ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. ... Read more

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This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims.
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Britain's Oceanic Empire

Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550–1850

Edited by H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, John G. Reid ...

This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe ... Read more

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This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe
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Change and Development in the Middle East (Routledge Revivals)

Essays in honour of W.B. Fisher

Edited by Bowen-Jones Howard, Clarke John ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title’s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Much modern development has been spatially polarized, ... Read more

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The Middle East is a region of great traditional diversity, which has been characterized by immense political, social and economic changes, still developing over thirty years after the title’s original publication. A group of oil-rich countries have achieved great political significance and some of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Much modern development has been spatially polarized,
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Green Shoots out of Dry Ground

Growing a New Future for the Church in Canada

Edited by John P. Bowen ...

All over Canada, from coast to coast, there is new life in the Christian church. In spite of declining numbers, every Christian tradition has stories to tell of new ministries, fledgling Christian communities, and fresh expressions of church springing up, sometimes in unlikely places. Here, seventeen authors with experience in areas such as church revitalization, innovative ministry, evangelism, ... Read more

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All over Canada, from coast to coast, there is new life in the Christian church. In spite of declining numbers, every Christian tradition has stories to tell of new ministries, fledgling Christian communities, and fresh expressions of church springing up, sometimes in unlikely places. Here, seventeen authors with experience in areas such as church revitalization, innovative ministry, evangelism,
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Tales from Another Mother Runner

Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road

Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Sarah Bowen Shea ...

The authors of Run Like a Mother share a collection of inspiring and insightful stories from women who discovered their own power through running.Every mother runner has a tale to tell. A story about how she discovered the fierce and confident athlete inside her. Maybe it's about setting a seemingly impossible goal—and then exceeding it. Maybe it's about finding friends who are also allies, ... Read more

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The authors of Run Like a Mother share a collection of inspiring and insightful stories from women who discovered their own power through running.Every mother runner has a tale to tell. A story about how she discovered the fierce and confident athlete inside her. Maybe it's about setting a seemingly impossible goal—and then exceeding it. Maybe it's about finding friends who are also allies,
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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Pragmatic Inquiry

Critical Concepts for Social Sciences

Edited by John R. Bowen, Nicolas Dodier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Anita Hardon ...

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry," reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory.Taking a transnational and transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration and a ... Read more

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This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry," reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory.Taking a transnational and transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration and a
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2017

Edited by Shadia Ikhmayies, Bowen Li, John S. Carpenter, JIan Li, Jiann-Yang Hwang, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Donato Firrao, Mingming Zhang, Zhiwei Peng, Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz, Chenguang Bai, Yunus Eren Kalay, Ramasis Goswami, Jeongguk Kim ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research and development of materials characterization and processing. Coverage is well-rounded from minerals, metals, and materials characterization and developments in extraction to the fabrication and performance of materials. In addition, topics as varied as structural steels to electronic materials to plant-based composites are ... Read more

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This collection gives broad and up-to-date results in the research and development of materials characterization and processing. Coverage is well-rounded from minerals, metals, and materials characterization and developments in extraction to the fabrication and performance of materials. In addition, topics as varied as structural steels to electronic materials to plant-based composites are
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The Missionary Letters of Vincent Donovan

1957–1973

Edited by John P. Bowen ...

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978). This new book contains the monthly letters he wrote home from Tanzania between 1957 and 1973. These letters give us previously unknown stories: how Donovan met Julius Nyerere, first prime minister of Tanzania; how a group of Protestants attempted to kill him; of his early disastrous attempt ... Read more

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Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978). This new book contains the monthly letters he wrote home from Tanzania between 1957 and 1973. These letters give us previously unknown stories: how Donovan met Julius Nyerere, first prime minister of Tanzania; how a group of Protestants attempted to kill him; of his early disastrous attempt
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