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The Resilient Garden

Simple, Cheap & Organic Tips on Home and Community Gardening in Poor Soil and Extreme Conditions from South Africa

by Charles Featherstone ...

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought ... Read more

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Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought
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Selections from the Writing of Lord Dunsany

by Lord Dunsany ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

58 min

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was the eldest scion of a family that had lived in the oldest castle in Ireland since its construction in 1180 CE, and became the 18th Baron Dunsany in 1899 at the age of 21, when his father passed away. He was a soldier, lord, military trainer, propaganda writer, activist, and invented Dunsany’s Chess, in which ... Read more

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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was the eldest scion of a family that had lived in the oldest castle in Ireland since its construction in 1180 CE, and became the 18th Baron Dunsany in 1899 at the age of 21, when his father passed away. He was a soldier, lord, military trainer, propaganda writer, activist, and invented Dunsany’s Chess, in which
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Lord Dunsany's Early Collections

Includes 12 pieces by Lord Dunsany from The Gods of Pegana, The Sword of Welleran and Time and the Gods to Nowadays, Tales of War and Unhappy Far-Off Things

by Lord Dunsany ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

34 hours 47 min

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was the eldest scion of a family that had lived in the oldest castle in Ireland since its construction in 1180 CE, he became the 18th Baron Dunsany in 1899 at the age of 21, when his father passed away. He was a soldier, lord, military trainer, propaganda writer, activist, and invented Dunsany’s Chess, in which ... Read more

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Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was the eldest scion of a family that had lived in the oldest castle in Ireland since its construction in 1180 CE, he became the 18th Baron Dunsany in 1899 at the age of 21, when his father passed away. He was a soldier, lord, military trainer, propaganda writer, activist, and invented Dunsany’s Chess, in which
... Read more
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The Rise of Socialism

1884-1918

by William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein, Edward Carpenter, Eugene Debs ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 7 - History's Great Speeches
Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and ... Read more

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The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and
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Emperor Norton I

His 1820 Settler years in South Africa as a farmer, trader, frontiersman, and failure

by Charles Featherstone ...

Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into ... Read more

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Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into
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Guarantee A Passing Grade

Simple Tips That Ensure The Worst Grade You'll Get Is A Pass

by Charles Featherstone ...

Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that ... Read more

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Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that
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Zǔ & The Suryan Harmonic

A dystopian near-future history of AI, mysticism, biomodification, and squid

by Charles Featherstone ...

The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that ... Read more

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The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that
... Read more
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Essentials of Daoism

Including: The Sayings of Lao Tzu, The Dao De Jing, Zhuangzi, Lieh Tzu, and Sun Tzu on the Art of War

by James Legge, Lionel Giles, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu, Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Sun Wu, Lie Yukou, Liezi ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

24 hours 10 min

This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators ... Read more

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This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators
... Read more
A Weaponised Field Guide to Schopenhauer's Art of Being Right

Learn to win against dirty tricks and bad faith, with analysis, defences, practical applications, and the original German

by Charles Featherstone, Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Bailey Saunders ...

Being right doesn't mean you're going to win. This is why.You've been here before. You make a solid point, logically sound, only to watch the conversation get hijacked. Suddenly, you're defending against a ridiculous exaggeration, a personal jab, or some clever-sounding nonsense that has nothing to do with what you actually said. You get frustrated, derailed, and defeated-even though you know you ... Read more

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Being right doesn't mean you're going to win. This is why.You've been here before. You make a solid point, logically sound, only to watch the conversation get hijacked. Suddenly, you're defending against a ridiculous exaggeration, a personal jab, or some clever-sounding nonsense that has nothing to do with what you actually said. You get frustrated, derailed, and defeated-even though you know you
... Read more
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Oathsworn Brothers Rise

R3K: Legends of the Broken Throne (三国演义, Sānguó yanyì, or The Romance Of the Three Kingdoms Ch.1-20))

by 罗贯中, Luo Guanzhong ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 1 - R3K: Legends of the Broken Throne
Unabridged

10 hours 52 min

Before Game of Thrones… Before Dynasty Warriors…This was the original saga of thrones forged in blood.A modern edition of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, featuring essential summaries & Hanyu Pinyin names and pronunciationThe mighty Hàn Dynasty crumbles. Corruption rots the court. Celestial omens blaze across the sky. China shatters, plunging into an era of unthinkable chaos where history ... Read more

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Before Game of Thrones… Before Dynasty Warriors…This was the original saga of thrones forged in blood.A modern edition of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, featuring essential summaries & Hanyu Pinyin names and pronunciationThe mighty Hàn Dynasty crumbles. Corruption rots the court. Celestial omens blaze across the sky. China shatters, plunging into an era of unthinkable chaos where history
... Read more
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First Men in the Moon, The

by H. G. Wells ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

7 hours 12 min

London businessman Mr. Bedford is broke. He retreats to a beautifully mundane area of the British countryside to focus on writing a play, which he hopes will bring him financial success. By a stroke of luck, Mr. Bedford quickly reaches new heights…just not in the way he anticipated.Mr. Bedford’s countryside retreat is interrupted by a peculiar physicist named Mr. Cavor, who is developing an anti ... Read more

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London businessman Mr. Bedford is broke. He retreats to a beautifully mundane area of the British countryside to focus on writing a play, which he hopes will bring him financial success. By a stroke of luck, Mr. Bedford quickly reaches new heights…just not in the way he anticipated.Mr. Bedford’s countryside retreat is interrupted by a peculiar physicist named Mr. Cavor, who is developing an anti
... Read more

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From The Britons to the Battle Of Hastings

prehistory to 1066

by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Comic History of England
Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

A captivating, uproarious and informative journey through the beginnings of British history.Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the great journalists of his time, being a descendant of Thomas Becket who edited Figaro, was a founder member of Punch, and wrote for The Times, The Morning Herald, and The Illustrated London News.He also wrote around fifty plays, as well as two operas, and is best known ... Read more

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A captivating, uproarious and informative journey through the beginnings of British history.Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the great journalists of his time, being a descendant of Thomas Becket who edited Figaro, was a founder member of Punch, and wrote for The Times, The Morning Herald, and The Illustrated London News.He also wrote around fifty plays, as well as two operas, and is best known
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