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    The Hired Man

    Narrated by Mark Ledbetter ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer' s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders. Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive and uncompromising chroniclers of war and the way it reverberates, sometimes imperceptibly, in the daily lives of ... Read more

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  • Language and Globalization: The History of Us All

    Language and Globalization is a combination of my two interests, linguistics and history. Linguistics contains some intriguing hints about the entirety of the human journey, hints which have been confirmed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century by genetics. How do history, linguistics, and genetics connect? I hope this short book will open the door to the answer. I hope also it will ... Read more

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  • Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries

    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities. With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of literary studies, visual studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and digital culture, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to “aesthetic imaginaries,” which tests the conceptual potential from ... Read more

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  • America's Forgotten History: Part Three: A Progressive Empire

    America’s Forgotten History, #3

    Series Book 3 - America’s Forgotten History
    Part Three of America's Forgotten History takes us from the end of the Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurection. We look at Reconstruction, the Indian Wars in the West, the land grant railroads of the West, the labor and farmer movements, the rise of Populism and Progressivism, Jim Crow laws and the freedmen after Reconstruction, the Social Gospel and Christian ... Read more

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  • America's Forgotten History, Part Two: Rupture

    America’s Forgotten History, #2

    Series Book 2 - America’s Forgotten History
    From its small government, non-aggressive, republican beginnings, America has become a garrison state devoted to remaking the world in its own image. While Republicans and Democrats quibble over the details of policing the world and running a nanny state, Ledbetter looks at another way, a forgotten way, the way invented during a tiny window of opportunity by the Enlightenment philosophers who ... Read more

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  • America's Forgotten History: Part One: Foundations

    America’s Forgotten History, #1

    Series Book 1 - America’s Forgotten History
    History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point of view.This, the first of five volumes, looks at the English Civil War, fought between Puritans ... Read more

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  • America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises

    America’s Forgotten History, #4

    Series Book 4 - America’s Forgotten History
    The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project ... Read more

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    A Swarming of Bees

    Narrated by Danielle Cohen ...
    Series series Fridgyth The Herb-Wife

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    "A herbwife on a mule may go where warriors cannot—she may see what warriors cannot see and hear what warriors cannot hear!”The Monastery at Whitby is ruled over by the powerful and independent Abbess Hild. But when she needs someone to confide in, she turns to the honest warmth of her friend Fridgyth, the half-pagan herb-wife.A divisive and life-altering decision taken at the Great Synod is ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection

    A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow

    New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** CenturyThe tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent historians of our time—featuring a new afterword from the author.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo s... ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Nonzero

    The Logic of Human Destiny

    by Robert Wright ...
    In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The End of Protest

    A New Playbook for Revolution

    by Micah White ...
    Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests in human history. Yet these mass mobilizations no longer change society. Now activism is at a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD