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The Book Of Skulls

by Robert Silverberg ...

Narrated by Will Watt, Samuel Eldritch, Colt Garrett, Harden Chase ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite.To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to ... Read more

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Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite.To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to
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The Pleasures of Memory

Enriched edition. An Ode to Memory: Reflecting on Emotion and Time in 18th Century Poetry

by Samuel Rogers, Samantha Watts ...

In "The Pleasures of Memory," Samuel Rogers crafts a reflective poem that deftly intertwines personal reminiscence with universal themes of nostalgia and the lasting impact of memory. Written in the elegant and polished style characteristic of the early 19th century, the poem employs rich imagery and lyrical cadences to explore the intersection of past experiences and their emotional ... Read more

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In "The Pleasures of Memory," Samuel Rogers crafts a reflective poem that deftly intertwines personal reminiscence with universal themes of nostalgia and the lasting impact of memory. Written in the elegant and polished style characteristic of the early 19th century, the poem employs rich imagery and lyrical cadences to explore the intersection of past experiences and their emotional
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Producing Legal Knowledge

Comparative Methods, Models and Schemes

by Horatia Muir Watt, Geoffrey Samuel ...

This thought-provoking book opens up a distinctive and original framework of analysis of the relationship between legal methodologies and the social and human sciences. Rich in implications both for comparative legal theory and for the understanding of legal reasoning in practice, it adopts a critical epistemological perspective by enlarging the focus of comparative legal studies and allowing for ... Read more

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This thought-provoking book opens up a distinctive and original framework of analysis of the relationship between legal methodologies and the social and human sciences. Rich in implications both for comparative legal theory and for the understanding of legal reasoning in practice, it adopts a critical epistemological perspective by enlarging the focus of comparative legal studies and allowing for
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The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, Associate Professor of History, Daryl A. Carter, Beau D. Cleland, Emmanuel Dabney, Adam H. Domby, Myisha S. Eatmon, Barbara Gannon, Scott Hancock, William Horne, LeeAnna Keith, Jonathan Lande, Anne Marshall, Jaime Amanda Martinez, Nicole Turner, Samuel Watts ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries ... Read more

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Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries
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Freedoms Gained and Lost

Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later

by Adam H. Domby, Simon Lewis, Bruce E. Baker, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Ethan Kytle, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler0, Shannon Smith1, Felicity Turner2, Samuel Watts3, Hilary N. Green4 ...

Series series Reconstructing America
Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these ... Read more

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Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these
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Poems Every Child Should Know

by Henry W. Longfellow, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Macdonald, Susan Coolidge, William Miller, Edward Lear, Eugene Field, Isaac Watts, Samuel T. Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Felicia Hemans, James T. Fields, Alfred Tennyson, Jane Taylor, William Wordsworth, Clement Clarke Moore, Francis Scott Key, Lewis Carroll, William Cowper ...

ContentsThe Arrow and the Song HENRY W. LONGFELLOWThe Babie JEREMIAH EAMES RANKINLet Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite ISAAC WATTSLittle Things EBENEZER COBHAM BREWERHe Prayeth Best SAMUEL T. COLERIDGETwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ANONYMOUSPippa ROBERT BROWNINGThe Days of the Month AN OLD SONGTrue Royalty RUDYARD KIPLINGPlaying Robinson Crusoe RUDYARD KIPLINGMy Shadow ROBERT LOUI... ... Read more

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ContentsThe Arrow and the Song HENRY W. LONGFELLOWThe Babie JEREMIAH EAMES RANKINLet Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite ISAAC WATTSLittle Things EBENEZER COBHAM BREWERHe Prayeth Best SAMUEL T. COLERIDGETwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ANONYMOUSPippa ROBERT BROWNINGThe Days of the Month AN OLD SONGTrue Royalty RUDYARD KIPLINGPlaying Robinson Crusoe RUDYARD KIPLINGMy Shadow ROBERT LOUI...
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Thorns

by Robert Silverberg, Gabrielle de Cuir ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

6 hours 20 min

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people’s pain. He feeds off it and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveler whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again—differently. Burris’ pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by ... Read more

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Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people’s pain. He feeds off it and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveler whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again—differently. Burris’ pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by
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Ascendancies

The Best of Bruce Sterling

by Bruce Sterling ...

Narrated by Pavi Proczko, Brian Nishii, Brian Holden, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Mikael Naramore ...

Unabridged

Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display ... Read more

$46.99 USD

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Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.”Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display
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Malacia Tapestry

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

Narrated by J.S. Arquin ...

Unabridged

12 hours 25 min

In a grand medieval city where all change has been outlawed, a roguish young actor tempts fate and dinosaurs, all in the name of loveBy law, nothing can change in Malacia—a teeming, eternal city of dukes, players, wizards, merchants, beggars, ape-men, lizard-boys, and courtesans—but that is of no great consequence to Perian de Chirolo. An out-of-work actor and unabashed rogue, he is well satisfied ... Read more

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In a grand medieval city where all change has been outlawed, a roguish young actor tempts fate and dinosaurs, all in the name of loveBy law, nothing can change in Malacia—a teeming, eternal city of dukes, players, wizards, merchants, beggars, ape-men, lizard-boys, and courtesans—but that is of no great consequence to Perian de Chirolo. An out-of-work actor and unabashed rogue, he is well satisfied
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Dinner at Deviant's Palace

by Tim Powers ...

Narrated by Justin Price ...

Unabridged

9 hours 51 min

A Philip K. Dick Award Winner from "a brilliant writer": In a ravaged California, a man tries to rescue his lost love from a soul-devouring religious cult (William Gibson).In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost ... Read more

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A Philip K. Dick Award Winner from "a brilliant writer": In a ravaged California, a man tries to rescue his lost love from a soul-devouring religious cult (William Gibson).In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost
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Earth for Inspiration

And Other Stories

by Clifford D. Simak ...

Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies ...

Series series Complete Short Fiction Of Clifford D. Simak
Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

The twentieth century's so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers, yet none is greater than Clifford D. Simak, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His bold visions of and ingenious speculations about humankind's future, always enriched with empathy and a deep understanding of human strengths, foibles, and failings, have stood the test of time, ... Read more

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The twentieth century's so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers, yet none is greater than Clifford D. Simak, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His bold visions of and ingenious speculations about humankind's future, always enriched with empathy and a deep understanding of human strengths, foibles, and failings, have stood the test of time,
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Report On Probability A

by Brian W. Aldiss ...

Narrated by Keith Brown ...

Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitionersMr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them ... Read more

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An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking "antinovel" by one of science fiction's greatest practitionersMr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage points as they go about their mundane home lives. G, the former gardener, watches them from a garden shed. Mr. Mary's dismissed secretary, S, watches them
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