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Spaces of Global Knowledge

Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire

by Diarmid A. Finnegan, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright ...

Series series Studies in Historical Geography
’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with ... Read more

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’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with
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HowExpert Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games

101 Tips to Start, Play, and Succeed in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

by HowExpert, Jeffrey Wright ...

Narrated by Jeromey Lloyd ...

Unabridged

3 hours 43 min

Take a deep dive into the art of making and playing unforgettable characters in your favorite tabletop roleplaying game! For decades, TTRPGs have been bringing friends together to tell stories of adventure and intrigue. Now the genre has become more popular than ever with appearances in movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more!But what if you want to add even more immersion to your game? The answer is ... Read more

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Take a deep dive into the art of making and playing unforgettable characters in your favorite tabletop roleplaying game! For decades, TTRPGs have been bringing friends together to tell stories of adventure and intrigue. Now the genre has become more popular than ever with appearances in movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more!But what if you want to add even more immersion to your game? The answer is
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Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947

Edited by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright ...

Series series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American ... Read more

$116.09 USD

This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American
... Read more
HowExpert Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games

101 Tips to Start, Play, and Succeed in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

by HowExpert, Jeffrey Wright ...

Take a deep dive into the art of making and playing unforgettable characters in your favorite tabletop roleplaying game! For decades, TTRPGs have been bringing friends together to tell stories of adventure and intrigue. Now the genre has become more popular than ever with appearances in movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more!But what if you want to add even more immersion to your game? The answer is ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Take a deep dive into the art of making and playing unforgettable characters in your favorite tabletop roleplaying game! For decades, TTRPGs have been bringing friends together to tell stories of adventure and intrigue. Now the genre has become more popular than ever with appearances in movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more!But what if you want to add even more immersion to your game? The answer is
... Read more

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The Philosophy of Modern Song

by Bob Dylan ...

Narrated by Bob Dylan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in ... Read more

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The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in
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Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: New Testament

by Zondervan ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Yolanda Adams, Erika Alexander, Tatyana Ali, Tichina Arnold, Essence Atkins, James Avery, Angela Bassett, Bill Bellamy, A.R. Bernard, Charles Blake, John Boyd, James Brown, Wren Brown, LeVar Burton, Juanita Bynum, Shirley Caesar, Vanessa Calloway, Common Common, Terry Crews, Billy Davis, Loretta Devine, Gary Dourdan, Charles Dutton, Idris Elba, Faith Evans, Kim Fields, Kirk Franklin, Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, Anthony Hamilton, Hill Harper, Taraji Henson, Dule Hill, Donald Hilliard, Billy Ingram, Samuel Jackson, T. D. Jakes, Cheryl James, Star Jones, Boris Kodjoe, Nikki Kodjoe, Eriq LaSalle, Harry Lennix, Dawnn Lewis, Tommy Lister, Victor Love, Derek Luke, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Greg Mathis, Clarence McClendon, Donnie McClurkin, MC Lyte, Mo'nique Mo'nique, Garrett Morris, Phil Morris, Mya Mya, Dwight Myers, Keke Palmer, CCH Pounder, Lawrence Powell, Daphne Reid, Tim Reid, Latanya Richardson, Richie Righteous, Wendy Robinson, John Salley, Kenneth Ulmer, Blair Underwood, Iyanla Vanzant, Joseph Walker, Denzel Washington, Marvin Winans, Alfre Woodard, Charlayne Woodard, Jeffrey Wright ...

Unabridged

20 hours 29 min

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios.
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The Vale to You, To Me the Heights (Unabridged)

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by Victor HUGO ...

Narrated by Quinn Martin, Marjorie Schneider, Stephanie Tolbert, Jeffrey Wright ...

Unabridged

16 min

In a world divided by landscape, two voices emerge. The Vale, nestled in peace and contentment, sings of tranquility and simple joys. Yet, a yearning whispers from the Heights, a call for ambition and the vastness of the unknown. Victor Hugo's "The Vale to You, To Me the Heights" is a lyrical exploration of contrasting desires. Will the Vale find solace in its familiar beauty, or will the call of ... Read more

$4.99 USD

In a world divided by landscape, two voices emerge. The Vale, nestled in peace and contentment, sings of tranquility and simple joys. Yet, a yearning whispers from the Heights, a call for ambition and the vastness of the unknown. Victor Hugo's "The Vale to You, To Me the Heights" is a lyrical exploration of contrasting desires. Will the Vale find solace in its familiar beauty, or will the call of
... Read more

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Yesterday Will Make You Cry

by Chester Himes ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

11 hours 39 min

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite itJimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in "the hole," where inmates' sense of reality slips ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite itJimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in "the hole," where inmates' sense of reality slips
... Read more
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Magus

The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

by Anthony Grafton ...

Narrated by Nick Pearse ...

Unabridged

8 hours 55 min

In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both
... Read more

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The Discomfort Zone

A Personal History

by Jonathan Franzen ...

Narrated by Jonathan Franzen ...

Unabridged

6 hours 9 min

Daring, honest, and written with the comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that marks Franzen's fiction, The Discomfort Zone tells of the formation of one young mind in the crucible of an everyday American family. ... Read more

$20.97 USD

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Daring, honest, and written with the comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that marks Franzen's fiction, The Discomfort Zone tells of the formation of one young mind in the crucible of an everyday American family.
... Read more

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Adventures in Democracy

The Turbulent World of People Power

by Erica Benner ...

Narrated by Louise Brealey ...

Unabridged

8 hours 36 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In a hyper-competitive world obsessed with rankings, super-wealth and greatness, how can we live up to democratic ideals of equality?Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about these questions from different angles in different countries - from post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to post-communist Poland, with sudden gaps of wealth and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.In a hyper-competitive world obsessed with rankings, super-wealth and greatness, how can we live up to democratic ideals of equality?Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about these questions from different angles in different countries - from post-war Japan, where democracy was imposed on a defeated country, to post-communist Poland, with sudden gaps of wealth and
... Read more

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168 Songs of Hatred and Failure

A History of Manic Street Preachers

by Keith Cameron ...

Narrated by Jude Rogers, Huw Stephens ...

Unabridged

15 hours 55 min

'A forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them . . . completely definitive' MOJO ★★★★★The story of Manic Street Preachers is unique in pop. Raging out of the stricken mining communities of south Wales in the late 80s, they were seemingly condemned to mere cult status by a cruel juncture of artistic triumph, commercial failure and ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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'A forensic exploration of their compositions and recordings, and everything that has been poured into them . . . completely definitive' MOJO ★★★★★The story of Manic Street Preachers is unique in pop. Raging out of the stricken mining communities of south Wales in the late 80s, they were seemingly condemned to mere cult status by a cruel juncture of artistic triumph, commercial failure and
... Read more

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