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To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window (Unabridged)

by Adelaide Crapsey ...

Narrated by Mark Perkins, Harry Macauley, Michael Ballard ...

Unabridged

48 min

In the tranquil embrace of a moonlit graveyard, a solitary soul embarks on a poignant journey through the realm of the departed. Adelaide Crapsey's "To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window" is a haunting and evocative collection of poems that explores the ethereal connection between the living and the dead. With each verse, Crapsey's words paint a vivid tapestry of loss, longing, and the ... Read more

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In the tranquil embrace of a moonlit graveyard, a solitary soul embarks on a poignant journey through the realm of the departed. Adelaide Crapsey's "To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window" is a haunting and evocative collection of poems that explores the ethereal connection between the living and the dead. With each verse, Crapsey's words paint a vivid tapestry of loss, longing, and the
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The Red Sea Scrolls

How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids

by Mark Lehner, Pierre Tallet ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls—the world's oldest surviving written documents—in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Pierre Tallet's discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls—the world's oldest surviving written documents—in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, and combined with Mark Lehner's research, changed what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.Here, for the first time, the world-renowned Egyptologists
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Using R for Introductory Statistics in Social Sciences

by Mark A. Perkins ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book teaches R programming for fundamental statistical and data analysis skills, specifically tailored to social scientists and others new to quantitative research. Traditionally, this audience has relied on costly software packages such as SPSS, STATA, and SAS. However, R is a free, open-source alternative that, with proper guidance, is accessible and powerful for their needs. Many existing ... Read more

$107.99 USD

This book teaches R programming for fundamental statistical and data analysis skills, specifically tailored to social scientists and others new to quantitative research. Traditionally, this audience has relied on costly software packages such as SPSS, STATA, and SAS. However, R is a free, open-source alternative that, with proper guidance, is accessible and powerful for their needs. Many existing
... Read more
Making Thinking Visible

How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners

by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison ...

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilitiesVisible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, ... Read more

$19.00 USD

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilitiesVisible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices,
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Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories

65 Short-Short Stories

Edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, Mark Budman ...

A unique collection. The only anthology of short-short stories to focus on youth.In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American authors spotlight crucial moments of change during coming-of-age. Their young protagonists face matters of great consequence, such as the death of a parent, unwanted pregnancy, and bullying, as well as lighter, if perplexing circumstances: ... Read more

$10.99 USD

A unique collection. The only anthology of short-short stories to focus on youth.In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American authors spotlight crucial moments of change during coming-of-age. Their young protagonists face matters of great consequence, such as the death of a parent, unwanted pregnancy, and bullying, as well as lighter, if perplexing circumstances:
... Read more
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Smashing the Liquor Machine

A Global History of Prohibition

by Mark Lawrence Schrad ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

29 hours 16 min

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history.Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: ... Read more

$34.99 USD

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When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history.Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason:
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SIFT-MS

From Method Concept to Routine Analysis

by Vaughan S Langford, Mark J Perkins ...

Series series
Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is a chromatography-free, direct-analysis technique that is ideally suited to real-time, quantitative analysis of volatile compounds in air at trace concentrations. SIFT-MS utilises highly controlled, soft chemical ionisation – in the form of gas-phase ion–molecule reactions – coupled with mass spectrometry detection to provide both broad-spectrum ... Read more

$44.09 USD

Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is a chromatography-free, direct-analysis technique that is ideally suited to real-time, quantitative analysis of volatile compounds in air at trace concentrations. SIFT-MS utilises highly controlled, soft chemical ionisation – in the form of gas-phase ion–molecule reactions – coupled with mass spectrometry detection to provide both broad-spectrum
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Stories From The Shadows – The Americans

Embrace the darkness

by Jack London, Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fredric Brown, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Edward Page Mitchell, H P Lovecraft, Elia W Peattie, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Katherine Rickford, Tod Robbins ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Michael Lyons ...

Unabridged

16 hours 53 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
Sharing the Crust

A Communion of Saints in a Baltimore Neighborhood

by Mark R. Gornik, Peter B. Price ...

In Sharing the Crust, Mark Gornik tells the story of an unbreakable love through the life and witness of Allan Tibbels and a communion of saints in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore. Sharing the Crust is about the power of small changes, "the little way,"; and the hard work of peacemaking in a divided world. It is about the meaning of companionship in this life and the life to come, of who we ... Read more

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In Sharing the Crust, Mark Gornik tells the story of an unbreakable love through the life and witness of Allan Tibbels and a communion of saints in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore. Sharing the Crust is about the power of small changes, "the little way,"; and the hard work of peacemaking in a divided world. It is about the meaning of companionship in this life and the life to come, of who we
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When I Was a Witch

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen ...

Unabridged

28 min

What happens when a woman dares to imagine power in a world that denies her even autonomy?In this sharp, sly, and subversive tale, one of America's most original feminist voices turns the tables on society with cool precision and a dash of irony. Written at a time when women were expected to remain silent and self-sacrificing, this short work pulses with quiet rebellion and razor-edged wit.The ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

What happens when a woman dares to imagine power in a world that denies her even autonomy?In this sharp, sly, and subversive tale, one of America's most original feminist voices turns the tables on society with cool precision and a dash of irony. Written at a time when women were expected to remain silent and self-sacrificing, this short work pulses with quiet rebellion and razor-edged wit.The
... Read more
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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 7 (Humour, Satire and Tall Tales)

The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki, Johann Peter Hebel, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Voltaire ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen, Jim Gerard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 29 min

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.Contents:The Cop and the Anthem by O. HenryThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryWhat Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark TwainThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainThe Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.Contents:The Cop and the Anthem by O. HenryThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryWhat Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark TwainThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainThe Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter
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My Journey Back to Oneness

by Mark Allen Perkins ...

We spend a great deal of our lives, both awake and asleep, wondering about the great mysteries of our lives. Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Why me? Is there a God?Many of these questions are unanswerable at this point in our path of enlightenment as humans. Many can be answered, if we allow ourselves to learn our lessons and Reconnect with the Divine Source!Through My Journey Back to ... Read more

$8.99 USD

We spend a great deal of our lives, both awake and asleep, wondering about the great mysteries of our lives. Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Why me? Is there a God?Many of these questions are unanswerable at this point in our path of enlightenment as humans. Many can be answered, if we allow ourselves to learn our lessons and Reconnect with the Divine Source!Through My Journey Back to
... Read more