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The giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (The modern scholar)

By Liza Knapp. 2006

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

The galleys at Lepanto

By Jack Beeching. 1982

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Adventure and exploration, History, European history, War
Human-narrated audio
Popular history focuses on the events leading up to the battle of Lepanto in 1571 when galleys from Christian Europe defeated the Turkish grand fleet. 1983, c1982.

The ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war

By Carol Off. 2004

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, European history, Police and military, War
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…

In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.

The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church

By Margaret Visser. 2000

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Canadian non-fiction, History, European history
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

This book features the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome as its subject. The author takes readers on…

a journey through time and space, beginning with the modern church and the community that uses it. She discusses the history, theology, art history and technology, hagiography, folklore and iconography expressed in this 7th century building. 2000.

The fleece era

By Joanna Lilley. 2014

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Literature, Poetry
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Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems is a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various…

relationships. From the shattered pieces of our environmental puzzles to the labyrinth of family dynamics, Lilley makes these dilemmas come alive. Chillingly sparse, attractively odd and refreshingly frank, these poems embrace the complexities of human life with an unsettling mix of the sardonic and the compassionate. c2014.

The fragile lights of earth: articles and memories, 1942-1970

By Alan Brown, Gabrielle Roy. 1982

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Serious and literary fiction, Short storiesCanadian non-fiction, Anthologies, Essays
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A collection of Roy's articles, stories, and essays written over a period of 30 years. Translation of "Fragiles lumieres de la terre." 1982. Uniform title: Fragiles lumières de la terre.

The frock-coated communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels

By Tristram Hunt. 2009

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Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, European history, Politics and government
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Friedrich Engels was a textile magnate and fox-hunter, a raffish, high-living, heavy drinking devotee of the good things in life.…

But Engels was also the man behind Karl Marx who for forty years funded him, looked after his children, soothed his furies, and provided one-half of history's most celebrated ideological partnership. He was co-author of The Manifesto of the Communist Party and co-founder of what would come to be known as Marxism. Interpreted and misinterpreted, quoted and misquoted, Friedrich Engels became one of the central architects of modern global socialism. 2009.

The first man in my life: daughters write about their fathers

By Sandra Martin, Ed Martin Sandra. 2007

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Family biography, Canadian non-fiction, Essays
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In twenty-two original narratives, some of Canada's most acclaimed writers share stories, memories, insights, and revelations - from the comic…

to the tragic - about the first man in their lives. These complex stories will open a fresh and intense conversation with daughters everywhere about the men they've observed since childhood: their fathers. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.

The foundations of modern Wales: Wales 1642-1780 (The History of Wales #4)

By Geraint H Jenkins. 1993

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History, European history
Human-narrated audio

This study deals with the history of Wales from the civil war to the industrial revolution. It analyses the powerful…

social forces which took an impoverished, downtrodden nation to the threshold of unprecedented social, economic and political change. 1993.

The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history

By Stephen Jay Gould. 1985

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Essays, Nature, Science and technology
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These essays cover a wide variety of subjects: extinction of the dinosaurs, nuclear war, evolutionary biology, and the decline in batting average in major league baseball. 1985.

The description of the world

By Johanna Skibsrud. 2016

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In this collection of poems, the author asks: is our world really what it appears to be? How do we…

shape it through language? And if language can create our world, can it also transform or destroy it? She brings us to the edges of dreams and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. 2016.

The dream of Gerontius

By John Henry Newman. 2009

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Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
This poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgement seat of God. First published in 1865, 2009.

The dinosaur hunters: a true story of scientific rivalry and the discovery of the prehistoric world

By Deborah Cadbury. 2000

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European history, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

The text tells the story of the bitter feud between Gideon Mantell, who uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry…

and became obsessed with the ancient past and Richard Owen, patronised by royalty, the Prime Minister and the aristocracy, who scooped the credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. Their struggle was to create a new science that would change man's perception of his place in the universe. 2000.

The enemy at the gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

By Alex Wheatle. 2009

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History, European history
Human-narrated audio

In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to…

face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. 2009.

The Enlightenment: reason, tolerance, and humanity (The modern scholar)

By James Schmidt. 2005

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History, European history
Human-narrated audio

In this course, Boston University professor James Schmidt offers a balanced assessment of the Enlightenment, considering both its achievements and…

its shortcomings and focusing not only on its most important intellectual achievements but also on the strange and often colourful characters that populated it. 2005.

The English and the Norman conquest

By Ann Williams. 1995

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History, European history
Human-narrated audio

This text escapes the traditional view of the Norman Conquest by examining the more truly representative experience of the lesser…

lords and landowners among the English, who survived the Conquest and settlement, adapted to foreign customs and preserved much of the native tradition and culture. 1995.

The end of Hong Kong: the secret diplomacy of imperial retreat

By Robert Cottrell. 1993

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History, Asian history, European history, Politics and government
Human-narrated audio

On June 30, 1997, Britain ended its colonial rule over Hong Kong, the wealthy city state with six million people.…

The terms of the handover to China were to be those set out in a Joint Declaration initialled by Britain and China in 1984. This is an account of the diplomacy behind that settlement, and the prospects that lay ahead for Hong Kong. 1993.

The face of the Third Reich (Pelican Ser.)

By Joachim C Fest, Michael Bullock. 1972

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History, European history
Human-narrated audio

This text is a psychological profile of both individual Nazi leaders and various sections of German society at the time.…

Through this approach though, the main causes of the rise of Hitler and the Nazis are explained. Among other things, Fest illustrates the essential nihilism of the Nazi movement, whose ideology was based on the acquisition of power as an end rather than a means. The vacuous adoration of and devotion to Hitler was in itself a cornerstone of Nazi philosophy, the Fuhrer cult providing the basis for Fest's religious analogies. He also discusses how initially vague assertions of Aryan superiority and Semitic evil were later focused after the seizure of power, developed and expanded on by Himmler and the SS. 1972. Uniform title: Das Gesicht des Dritten Reiches.

The European dictatorships 1918-1945

By Stephen J Lee. 1987

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History, European history
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"European Dictatorships 1918–1945" surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe’s states…

to dictatorships between the first and the second World Wars. It describes the course of dictatorship in Europe before and during the Second World War, and examines the phenomenon of dictatorship itself and the widely different forms it can take. 1987.

The essential Rumi

By Coleman Barks, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi. 1995

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Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…

a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Includes sex. 1995. Uniform title: Selections.

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