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International Accumulation And The Contradictions For Nation States

by Dick Bryan ...

Over the last 20 years — and especially over the last decade — the international expansion of money and commodities and the international relocation of production have grown tremendously. As a result, there now exists a real contradiction in accumulation: Although global in orientation, it remains structured by the nation state. Conventional economic literature generally explains the international ... Read more

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Over the last 20 years — and especially over the last decade — the international expansion of money and commodities and the international relocation of production have grown tremendously. As a result, there now exists a real contradiction in accumulation: Although global in orientation, it remains structured by the nation state. Conventional economic literature generally explains the international
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Risking Together

How Finance Is Dominating Everyday Life in Australia

by Emeritus Professor Dick Bryan, Michael Rafferty ...

Series series Public and Social Policy Series
Australia is in the midst of a major social and economic experiment that centres on financial risks being shifted onto ordinary people. We are being asked to manage ourselves as if we are businesses, and these businesses are being squeezed tighter and tighter.Households are taking on more risk and financial stress, implicitly accepting demands that they be stable, secure payers. What is driving ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Australia is in the midst of a major social and economic experiment that centres on financial risks being shifted onto ordinary people. We are being asked to manage ourselves as if we are businesses, and these businesses are being squeezed tighter and tighter.Households are taking on more risk and financial stress, implicitly accepting demands that they be stable, secure payers. What is driving
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The Way of All Flesh

by Ambrose Parry ...

Narrated by Louise Brealey, Bryan Dick ...

Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson
Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, cowritten by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa HaetzmanEdinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.As bodies begin to appear ... Read more

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A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, cowritten by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa HaetzmanEdinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.As bodies begin to appear
... Read more

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The Place of Tides

by James Rebanks ...

Narrated by Bryan Dick ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

A National Bestseller“A modern classic, one we very much need right now.” –George SaundersFrom the acclaimed author of The Shepherd’s Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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A National Bestseller“A modern classic, one we very much need right now.” –George SaundersFrom the acclaimed author of The Shepherd’s Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest
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A Corruption of Blood

by Ambrose Parry ...

Narrated by Bryan Dick, Cathleen McCarron ...

Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson
Unabridged

12 hours 6 min

Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh—the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah FisherEdinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh—the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah FisherEdinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is
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Voices of the Dead

by Ambrose Parry ...

Narrated by Bryan Dick, Cathleen McCarron ...

Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson
Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery seriesEdinburgh, 1853.In a city of science, discovery can be deadly …In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery, the public’s appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena.Dr Will Raven is wary of the shadowlands that lie between progress and quackery, but Sarah ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery seriesEdinburgh, 1853.In a city of science, discovery can be deadly …In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery, the public’s appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena.Dr Will Raven is wary of the shadowlands that lie between progress and quackery, but Sarah
... Read more

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The Art of Dying

by Ambrose Parry ...

Narrated by Louise Brealey, Bryan Dick, Jayne Mckenna ...

Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson
Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century EdinburghEdinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century EdinburghEdinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
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Shardlake: The Complete BBC Radio Collection

Six BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

by CJ Sansom ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Jason Watkins, Justin Salinger, Bryan Dick, Mark Bonnar, Robert Glenister, Sam Dale, Sean Baker, Emily Wachter, Jessica Hardwick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 32 min

The complete collected dramatisations of C. J. Sansom's historical mystery seriesSet during the reign of Henry VIII, these six stunning dramas follow the adventures of hunchbacked lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake as he navigates the dangerous world of Tudor England, solving crimes and seeking out murderers.Dissolution - Winter, 1537. When a King's Commissioner is brutally murdered at Scarnsea ... Read more

$21.99 USD

The complete collected dramatisations of C. J. Sansom's historical mystery seriesSet during the reign of Henry VIII, these six stunning dramas follow the adventures of hunchbacked lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake as he navigates the dangerous world of Tudor England, solving crimes and seeking out murderers.Dissolution - Winter, 1537. When a King's Commissioner is brutally murdered at Scarnsea
... Read more
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The Shepherd's Life

Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

by James Rebanks ...

Narrated by Bryan Dick ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

The New York Times bestseller and I****nternational PhenomenonOne of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times."It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling.... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The New York Times bestseller and I****nternational PhenomenonOne of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times."It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling....
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
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Yeartides: Beltane, Samhain, Imbolc, Lughnasadh

Four Pagan Celtic BBC Radio Dramas

by Ben Lewis ...

Narrated by Neve McIntosh, Bryan Dick, Charithra Chandran, Chloe Pirrie, Emun Elliott ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

Soulful dramas weaving folk lore, pagan rituals and love storiesSoulful drama series infused with fact, lore and song, exploring nature and the climate via contemporary Paganism and its festive calendar. Modern Pagans have eight major festivals marking the turning of the seasons, collectively known as The Wheel of the Year. The Summer and Winter Solstices and the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes are ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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Soulful dramas weaving folk lore, pagan rituals and love storiesSoulful drama series infused with fact, lore and song, exploring nature and the climate via contemporary Paganism and its festive calendar. Modern Pagans have eight major festivals marking the turning of the seasons, collectively known as The Wheel of the Year. The Summer and Winter Solstices and the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes are
... Read more
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Dangerous Visions

Ten Full-Cast BBC Dystopian Dramas

by Kevin Core, Philip Palmer, Ed Harris, Val McDermid, Jon Canter, Gary Owen, Joseph Wilde, Anita Sullivan ...

Narrated by Meera Syal, Tony Robinson, Gina McKee, Oliver Chris, Harriet Walter, Pippa Haywood, Andrew Gowers, Claudie Blakley, Joseph Kloska, Bryan Dick, Alice Lowe, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

9 hours

Be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future…Enter ten darkly compelling futures in this stunning collection of full-cast radio dramas from some of the UK’s best writers, including Val McDermid, Anita Sullivan and Ed Harris. Starring Meera Syal, Tony Robinson, Gina McKee, Oliver Chris, Harriet Walter and more.From AI-controlled healthcare and genetic engineering ... Read more

$18.79 USD

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Be disturbed, as you see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future…Enter ten darkly compelling futures in this stunning collection of full-cast radio dramas from some of the UK’s best writers, including Val McDermid, Anita Sullivan and Ed Harris. Starring Meera Syal, Tony Robinson, Gina McKee, Oliver Chris, Harriet Walter and more.From AI-controlled healthcare and genetic engineering
... Read more
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The Great American Classics

22 Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

by Mark Twain, Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, Kate Chopin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Harriet Jacobs, Walter White ...

Narrated by Andrew Scott, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Karl Johnson, Andrew Buchan, Deborah Findley, Maureen Lipman, Lorelei King, Bryan Dick, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

30 hours 30 min

A large collection of full-cast dramatisations of classic American novels that helped define American LiteratureThis is an exciting offering of novels dramatized by the BBC of American classic and legendary novels. A real eclectic mix of writers and authors showing the breadth of American life and culture. From Willa Cather’s amazing ghost stories; to Harriet Jacobs first hand account of escaping ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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A large collection of full-cast dramatisations of classic American novels that helped define American LiteratureThis is an exciting offering of novels dramatized by the BBC of American classic and legendary novels. A real eclectic mix of writers and authors showing the breadth of American life and culture. From Willa Cather’s amazing ghost stories; to Harriet Jacobs first hand account of escaping
... Read more