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Sources and Methods in African History

Spoken Written Unearthed

by Dennis Cordell, Edwin Wilmsen, Gerard Chouin, James Denbow, James Giblin, Jamie Monson, Jan Jansen, Kevin Roberts, Kristin Mann, Laura J. Mitchell0, Christian Jennings2, Matt Childs3, Meredith McKittrick4, Paul Lovejoy5, Russell Lohse6, Steven Steven Salm7, Thomas Spear8, Akin Ogundiran9, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch0, Christopher DeCorse1, Constanze Weise2, Cynthia Brantley3, David Henige4 ...

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of ... Read more

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Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of
... Read more
Tourism in Development: Reflective Essays

by Brian E M King, Richard Sharpley, David Airey, Thomas Baum, Richard Butler, Donna Chambers, Dora Dongzhi Chen, Erik Cohen0, Larry Dwyer1, Afamefuna Paul Eyisi2, Alison M. Gill3, Ulrike Gretzel4, Joan Henderson5, Carson Jenkins6, Louisa Yee-Sum Lee7, Shaun Mann8, Shelagh Mooney9, Alastair M. Morrison0, Nneoma Grace Ololo1, Philip Pearce2, Hanqin Qiu3, Terry Stevens4, Sienny Thio5, Geoffrey Wall6, Stephen Wanhill7, Allan Williams8, Roy Wood9 ...

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now ... Read more

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Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now
... Read more
Political Communication

The Manship School Guide

by Robert Mann, Monica Ancu, Robert H. Binstock, Charlie Cook, Louis Day, Thomas Edmonds, Malcom P. Ehrhardt, William B. Fletcher, John Franzen0, Ronald Garay1, Kirby Goidel2, Paul Harang3, Bud Jackson4, Lynda L. Kaid5, Katie Knobloch6, David D. Kurpius7, Lisa Lundy8, Melissa Michelson9, Trevor Parry-Giles0, Sean Reilly1, David Schultz2, Dane Strother3, Gerry Tyson4, Darrell West5, Michael Xenos6, Wayne Parent7 ...

Series series Media and Public Affairs
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter, contributors discuss technological changes in the context of studies and techniques that ... Read more

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A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter, contributors discuss technological changes in the context of studies and techniques that
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Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain

Three BBC Radio full-cast dramas

by Thomas Mann ...

Narrated by Paul Scofield, Full Cast, Harriet Walter, Clive Francis, Peter England, James Laurenson, Timothy Spall, Terence Edmond ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

Dramatisations of Thomas Mann’s three bestselling novels'"his collection of radio plays is a wonderful way to explore the world of Thomas Mann and comes strongly recommended." - Entertainment FocusOne of Germany’s greatest and most revered writers, Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. A vocal critic of Nazism, he had to leave his homeland when Hitler came to power, and lived in ... Read more

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Dramatisations of Thomas Mann’s three bestselling novels'"his collection of radio plays is a wonderful way to explore the world of Thomas Mann and comes strongly recommended." - Entertainment FocusOne of Germany’s greatest and most revered writers, Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. A vocal critic of Nazism, he had to leave his homeland when Hitler came to power, and lived in
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Death in Venice and Other Tales

by Thomas Mann ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

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Unabridged

12 hours 54 min

Joachim Neugroschel’s brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before. By using creative, contemporary language, Neugroschel reinterprets Mann for modern English-speaking readers. The author’s superb literary craftsmanship, his psychological insight, and the deeply erotic content of his work shine forth in this definitive English-language version of ... Read more

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Joachim Neugroschel’s brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before. By using creative, contemporary language, Neugroschel reinterprets Mann for modern English-speaking readers. The author’s superb literary craftsmanship, his psychological insight, and the deeply erotic content of his work shine forth in this definitive English-language version of
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All Quiet on the Western Front

A BBC Radio Drama

by Erich Maria Remarque ...

Narrated by Carolyn Pickles, Chris Pavlo, Dan Starkey, Donnla Hughes, Gunnar Cauthary, Inam Mirza, Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Joseph Arkley, Lloyd Thomas, Luke Walker, Malcolm Tierney, Manjeet Mann, Nick Sayce, Paul Rider, Robert Lonsdale, Simon Trinder, Stephen Critchlow, Stuart McLoughlin, Tim Treloar ...

Unabridged

1 hour 29 min

A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul Bäumer enlists in the German Army. He is deployed to ... Read more

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A full-cast dramatisation of one of the greatest war novels of all time.First published as a novel in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of young German soldiers who are enduring, and then coming to terms with, the realities of the First World War.At the age of 19, following the outbreak of the First World War, Paul Bäumer enlists in the German Army. He is deployed to
... Read more

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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway ...

Narrated by John Slattery ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A ... Read more

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The definitive edition of the classic World War I romance novel, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A
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Paris 1919

Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan ...

Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

Unabridged

25 hours 47 min

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were dissolved, and for six months, Paris was the center of the ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were dissolved, and for six months, Paris was the center of the
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As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner ...

Narrated by Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver, Jesmyn Ward ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

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 ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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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
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Parade's End

by Ford Madox Ford ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

38 hours 13 min

Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war.Christopher Tietjens is an officer ... Read more

$39.99 USD

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Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war.Christopher Tietjens is an officer
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The War That Ended Peace

The Road to 1914

by Margaret MacMillan ...

Narrated by Richard Burnip ...

Unabridged

31 hours 58 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had
... Read more

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Rabbit, Run

by John Updike ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Rabbit
Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

**“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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**“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son.
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