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Scientific Facts for 7th Graders

Remarkable Insights into Science, History and Nature

by Aldous Williams ...

Narrated by Amy Alexander ...

Unabridged

34 min

Join us on a mind-expanding journey through the most fascinating phenomena our universe has to offer! This captivating audiobook collection brings together over 150 verified scientific wonders that will challenge your imagination and transform how you see the world around you.Did you know there are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy? Or that honey discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs is ... Read more

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Join us on a mind-expanding journey through the most fascinating phenomena our universe has to offer! This captivating audiobook collection brings together over 150 verified scientific wonders that will challenge your imagination and transform how you see the world around you.Did you know there are more trees on Earth than stars in our galaxy? Or that honey discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs is
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Suicide

The top ten short stories of all time that deal with suicide and suicidal characters

by Franz Kafka, Guy de Maupassant, Alexander Kuprin, Amy Levy, Honoré de Balzac, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Victor Hugo, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

6 hours 3 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

The Role of Gender Values and Norms

by Amy C. Alexander, Gefjon Off ...

Series series Elements in Gender and Politics
This Element focuses on how individuals' gender values and populations' gender norms influence their attitudes toward political authoritarianism in economically advanced democracies. First, it theorizes that individuals' higher support for gender equality and freedom of sexuality (GEFS) decreases their support of political authoritarianism. This operates directly through the development of a ... Read more

$20.99 USD

This Element focuses on how individuals' gender values and populations' gender norms influence their attitudes toward political authoritarianism in economically advanced democracies. First, it theorizes that individuals' higher support for gender equality and freedom of sexuality (GEFS) decreases their support of political authoritarianism. This operates directly through the development of a
... Read more
Uncovering Race

A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention

by Amy Alexander ...

From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race and class stories of the modern era in American journalism. Beginning in the ... Read more

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From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape.From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race and class stories of the modern era in American journalism. Beginning in the
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Theoretically Straight

Theoretically Straight, Book 1

by Amy Bailey, Alexander C. Eberhart ...

Narrated by Mark Sanderlin, Jacob Bell ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Theoretically Straight
Unabridged

11 hours 37 min

Theo Briggs is a rule follower.He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed… and maybe create a viral video in the process.Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and ... Read more

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Theo Briggs is a rule follower.He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed… and maybe create a viral video in the process.Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and
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Theoretically Perfect

Theoretically Straight, Book 2

by Amy Bailey, Alexander C. Eberhart ...

Narrated by Mark Sanderlin, Jacob Bell ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Theoretically Straight
Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

Theo Briggs just wants to be perfect. The perfect son. The perfect friend. The perfect boyfriend.But the harder he tries to keep up appearances, the more difficult juggling all of those expectations becomes. Where Theo usually turns to his faith for comfort, he now finds confusion and apathy.Caleb Raynard finally has the boyfriend of his dreams. His and Theo's relationship may have gotten off to a ... Read more

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Theo Briggs just wants to be perfect. The perfect son. The perfect friend. The perfect boyfriend.But the harder he tries to keep up appearances, the more difficult juggling all of those expectations becomes. Where Theo usually turns to his faith for comfort, he now finds confusion and apathy.Caleb Raynard finally has the boyfriend of his dreams. His and Theo's relationship may have gotten off to a
... Read more
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Looking For You

by Alexander McCall Smith ...

Narrated by Amy Alexander ...

Series series Perfect Passion Company
Unabridged

8 hours 55 min

In this latest installment of The Perfect Passion Company**, our favorite matchmaker, Katie Donald, continues her unwavering endeavor to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh find love.**After facilitating a handful of successful romances, Katie Donald is eager to continue helping the lovelorn citizens of Edinburgh find connection. Word of her expertise spreads quickly, and more people than ever are ... Read more

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In this latest installment of The Perfect Passion Company**, our favorite matchmaker, Katie Donald, continues her unwavering endeavor to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh find love.**After facilitating a handful of successful romances, Katie Donald is eager to continue helping the lovelorn citizens of Edinburgh find connection. Word of her expertise spreads quickly, and more people than ever are
... Read more
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Summer in the Orchard

by Fay Keenan, Fay Keenan ...

Narrated by Amy Alexander ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Little Somerby
Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

Sophie Henderson loves her job at Carter's Cider in the picturesque Somerset village of Little Somerby, but with summer dawning before yet another picking and pressing season, and her boss David showing no signs of wanting to hang up his cider jug, perhaps it is time to move on.She's all set to hand in her notice when Alex Fraser, an intern from Vancouver, comes to Little Somerby to learn ... Read more

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Sophie Henderson loves her job at Carter's Cider in the picturesque Somerset village of Little Somerby, but with summer dawning before yet another picking and pressing season, and her boss David showing no signs of wanting to hang up his cider jug, perhaps it is time to move on.She's all set to hand in her notice when Alex Fraser, an intern from Vancouver, comes to Little Somerby to learn
... Read more
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The Perfect Passion Company

by Alexander McCall Smith ...

Narrated by Amy Alexander ...

Series series Perfect Passion Company
Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

As the new manager of the Perfect Passion Company, Katie’s mission is to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh. With the assistance of her amiable and handsome office neighbor, William, she finds herself using a personal touch to find matches for the city’s lovelorn citizens. When an airline pilot comes to her looking for a woman to take care of him, Katie sends him to cooking school. The case of a ... Read more

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As the new manager of the Perfect Passion Company, Katie’s mission is to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh. With the assistance of her amiable and handsome office neighbor, William, she finds herself using a personal touch to find matches for the city’s lovelorn citizens. When an airline pilot comes to her looking for a woman to take care of him, Katie sends him to cooking school. The case of a
... Read more

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What Have They Done to Liza McLean?

by Amy Doak ...

Narrated by Alexander Sansón, Nathalie Morris ...

Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

Meg McLean is a scholarship student at the ultra-elite Douglas College. Meg's younger sister, Liza, is along for the ride, and everything Liza has done since they arrived at the school seems to be putting their chances of success at risk.Until one day, when Liza's behaviour is so at odds with her usual temperament that Meg knows something is very, very wrong.Benedict Hargreaves (the 4th) is ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Meg McLean is a scholarship student at the ultra-elite Douglas College. Meg's younger sister, Liza, is along for the ride, and everything Liza has done since they arrived at the school seems to be putting their chances of success at risk.Until one day, when Liza's behaviour is so at odds with her usual temperament that Meg knows something is very, very wrong.Benedict Hargreaves (the 4th) is
... Read more

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Empire and Education

Edited by Alexander J. Means, Amy N. Sojot, Yuko Ida, Manca Sustarsic ...

Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism, ecological instability, racism and ethnic conflict, geopolitical tensions, and specters of war all haunt the global order. Education preforms a key role in producing the subjective capacities that nourish Empire within its current neoliberal form. Simultaneously, education and pedagogy contain ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Empire is in a state of emergency. A global pandemic and an ongoing secular crisis of capitalism, ecological instability, racism and ethnic conflict, geopolitical tensions, and specters of war all haunt the global order. Education preforms a key role in producing the subjective capacities that nourish Empire within its current neoliberal form. Simultaneously, education and pedagogy contain
... Read more
Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe

Strategies, Challenges and Future Research

Edited by Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai, Amy C. Alexander ...

Series series Gender and Politics
This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's
... Read more

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