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The Gospel of Intelligence

Robert Ingersoll on Religion and Politics

by Robert Ingersoll ...

A powerful collection on religion, politics, and justice from one of America’s most pivotal free thinkers, challenging faulty logic and superstitions about our nation’s founding that persist today.Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion ... Read more

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A powerful collection on religion, politics, and justice from one of America’s most pivotal free thinkers, challenging faulty logic and superstitions about our nation’s founding that persist today.Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion
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Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's

by Tim Page ...

An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man.In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminating.” Three years later, at the age of 45, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome–an autistic disorder ... Read more

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An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn’t know he had Asperger’s syndrome until he became a man.In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminating.” Three years later, at the age of 45, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome–an autistic disorder
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What's God Got to Do With It?

Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State

by Robert Ingersoll ...

Robert Ingersoll (1833—1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century with his lectures on ... Read more

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Robert Ingersoll (1833—1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century with his lectures on
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Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258)

by Virgil Thomson ...

Series Book 1 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composerFor fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide ... Read more

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Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composerFor fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide
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Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings (LOA #277)

by Virgil Thomson ...

Series Book 2 - Library of America Virgil Thomson Edition
A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil ThomsonFollowing on the critically acclaimed edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other literary and critical ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic presents an unprecedented collection of the writings of the great composer-critic and father of American classical music, Virgil ThomsonFollowing on the critically acclaimed edition of Virgil Thomson’s collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other literary and critical
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Fast Talking PI & Other Poems

by Selina Tusitala Marsh ...

Narrated by Tim Page ...

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2 hours 23 min

A selection of Selina Tusitala Marsh' s most beloved poems, set to music and performed by the poet herself.' She blows in like a song carried on a powerful current: a wild-haired woman, larger than life, carrying a tall carved stick. She loses things in that hair, she says; finds pens in there days after they went missing.'— from ' Never Piss Off a Poet' , The GuardianSelina Tusitala Marsh is a ... Read more

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A selection of Selina Tusitala Marsh' s most beloved poems, set to music and performed by the poet herself.' She blows in like a song carried on a powerful current: a wild-haired woman, larger than life, carrying a tall carved stick. She loses things in that hair, she says; finds pens in there days after they went missing.'— from ' Never Piss Off a Poet' , The GuardianSelina Tusitala Marsh is a
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Becoming Tangata Tiriti

Working with Maori, Honouring the Treaty

by Avril Bell, Tim Page ...

Narrated by Avril Bell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 6 min

Avril Bell's celebrated account of non-Māori New Zealanders navigating a changing Aotearoa – now available as an audiobook.Becoming Tangata Tiriti brings together twelve non-Māori voices – dedicated professionals, activists and everyday individuals – who have engaged with te ao Māori and have attempted to bring te Tiriti to life in their work. In stories of missteps, hard-earned victories and ... Read more

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Avril Bell's celebrated account of non-Māori New Zealanders navigating a changing Aotearoa – now available as an audiobook.Becoming Tangata Tiriti brings together twelve non-Māori voices – dedicated professionals, activists and everyday individuals – who have engaged with te ao Māori and have attempted to bring te Tiriti to life in their work. In stories of missteps, hard-earned victories and
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A Fire in the Belly of Hineamaru

A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tupuna

by Melinda Webber, Te Kapua O'Connor, Tim Page ...

Narrated by Melinda Webber, Te Kapua O'Connor ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

'E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu.Time will not dim the memory of the special class of rangatira of the past who braved the wide expanse of ocean and land. Their sacred footprints are scattered over the ... Read more

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'E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu.Time will not dim the memory of the special class of rangatira of the past who braved the wide expanse of ocean and land. Their sacred footprints are scattered over the
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The Gospel of Intelligence

Robert Ingersoll on Religion and Politics

by Robert Ingersoll ...

Narrated by Calvin Sweers ...

Unabridged

3 hours 11 min

A powerful collection on religion, politics, and justice from one of America’s most pivotal free thinkers, challenging faulty logic and superstitions about our nation’s founding that persist today.Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion ... Read more

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A powerful collection on religion, politics, and justice from one of America’s most pivotal free thinkers, challenging faulty logic and superstitions about our nation’s founding that persist today.Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion
... Read more

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Undeniable

Evolution and the Science of Creation

by Bill Nye ...

The popular scientist explains the marvels and mysteries of evolution in this "fun to read and easy to absorb" New York Times bestseller ( The Washington Post).Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as ... Read more

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The popular scientist explains the marvels and mysteries of evolution in this "fun to read and easy to absorb" New York Times bestseller ( The Washington Post).Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as
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The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

Richard Wagner, his Work and his World

by Barry Millington ...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of ... Read more

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of
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Bach in Berlin

Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"

by Celia Applegate ...

Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. ... Read more

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Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables.
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