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Crafting in the World

Materiality in the Making

Edited by Clare Burke, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to reproduce ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to reproduce
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Pamela

by Samuel Richardson, Clare Corbett, Neville Jason, Tom Burke, David Shaw-Parker, Joe Marsh0, Georgina Sutton2 ...

Narrated by Clare Corbett, Neville Jason, Tom Burke, David Shaw-Parker, Joe Marsh, Georgina Sutton1 ...

Unabridged

21 hours 50 min

Pamela, Samuel Richardson’s tale of a beautiful teenage servant-girl protecting her virtue from the amorous advances of her master, created a furore on its publication in 1740. The reading public was split into two factions: those who accepted the story as an encouragement to virtuous behaviour, and those who saw it as disguised pornography. Written in the form of a series of letters from Pamela ... Read more

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Pamela, Samuel Richardson’s tale of a beautiful teenage servant-girl protecting her virtue from the amorous advances of her master, created a furore on its publication in 1740. The reading public was split into two factions: those who accepted the story as an encouragement to virtuous behaviour, and those who saw it as disguised pornography. Written in the form of a series of letters from Pamela
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Shamela

by Henry Fielding ...

Narrated by Clare Corbett, Neville Jason, Tom Burke, David Shaw-Parker, Joe Marsh, Georgina Sutton ...

Unabridged

1 hour 30 min

Shamela is a bawdy, spirited and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson’s hugely popular 1740 novel, Pamela. In this pointed satire, Shamela (which transpires to be the real name of Richardson’s Pamela) reveals the ulterior motives behind the events that took place in Pamela. Shamela is unlike the virtuous young lady portrayed in Richardson’s novel and she takes command of her master, Squire ... Read more

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Shamela is a bawdy, spirited and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson’s hugely popular 1740 novel, Pamela. In this pointed satire, Shamela (which transpires to be the real name of Richardson’s Pamela) reveals the ulterior motives behind the events that took place in Pamela. Shamela is unlike the virtuous young lady portrayed in Richardson’s novel and she takes command of her master, Squire
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Young Children at School in the Inner City

by Barbara Tizard, Peter Blatchford, Jessica Burke, Clare Farquhar, Ian Plewis ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children’s skills on ... Read more

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First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations not only in schools but also interviews with children and parents, the children’s skills on
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Venus & Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by David Burke, Eve Best, Clare Corbett, Benjamin Soames, Oliver Le Sueur, Ruth Sillers, Hugh Dickson, Daniel Philpott, David Timson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 18 min

These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman take of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences. These ... Read more

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These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman take of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences. These
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Clarissa Harlowe -or- The History of a Young Lady Volume 1

by Samuel Richardson ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1748) by Samuel Richardson is a monumental epistolary novel that tells the tragic story of Clarissa Harlowe, a virtuous and intelligent young woman trapped between family pressure and social expectations in 18th-century England.Told entirely through letters, the novel follows Clarissa as her ambitious family ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1748) by Samuel Richardson is a monumental epistolary novel that tells the tragic story of Clarissa Harlowe, a virtuous and intelligent young woman trapped between family pressure and social expectations in 18th-century England.Told entirely through letters, the novel follows Clarissa as her ambitious family
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Beasts And Super-Beasts

by Hector Hugh Munro ...

Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

A glittering collection of 36 short stories by Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki". Beasts And Super-Beasts includes many of Saki's best loved tales, exemplifying his witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing the habits and morals of British society of his day. "The She-Wolf", "Laura", "The Boar Pig", "The Brogue", "The Hen", "The Open Window", "The ... Read more

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A glittering collection of 36 short stories by Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki". Beasts And Super-Beasts includes many of Saki's best loved tales, exemplifying his witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing the habits and morals of British society of his day. "The She-Wolf", "Laura", "The Boar Pig", "The Brogue", "The Hen", "The Open Window", "The
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Joseph Andrews

by Henry Fielding, John Telfer ...

Narrated by John Telfer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 32 min

In one of the first novels in the English language, we follow the picaresque adventures of Joseph Andrews, a virtuous young man who is keen to maintain his innocence, despite being coerced into bed by nearly every woman he encounters. The episodic journey sees him head home to London with his tutor, Parson Adams, with the aim of finding his sweetheart, Fanny. Much mayhem ensues along the way as ... Read more

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In one of the first novels in the English language, we follow the picaresque adventures of Joseph Andrews, a virtuous young man who is keen to maintain his innocence, despite being coerced into bed by nearly every woman he encounters. The episodic journey sees him head home to London with his tutor, Parson Adams, with the aim of finding his sweetheart, Fanny. Much mayhem ensues along the way as
... Read more

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Black Heart and White Heart

by H. Rider Haggard ...

Narrated by Aplicazona Estudios ...

Unabridged

2 hours 22 min

Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. ... Read more

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Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.
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A Sentimental Journey

by Laurence Sterne ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

Unabridged

4 hours 8 min

Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne’s lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by the (apparently) innocent Parson Yorick, who appeared in Sterne’s other masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, it is full of anecdote and incident ... Read more

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Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Sterne’s lightly fictionalised account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by the (apparently) innocent Parson Yorick, who appeared in Sterne’s other masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, it is full of anecdote and incident
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Imaginary Invalid, The

by Molière, John Wood (translator), Beth Milles (adapted by) ...

Narrated by Molly Bryant, Tom Fitzpatrick, Laurence O'Keefe, Dan Parker, Evie Peck, Dina Platias, Steven M. Porter, Michael Rivkin, Dean Robinson, Patti Tippo, Chris Wells ...

Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.Directed by Beth MillesProducing Director: Susan ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

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France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.Directed by Beth MillesProducing Director: Susan
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Sea Hawk, The

by Rafael Sabatini ...

Narrated by Austin Woods ...

Unabridged

11 hours 43 min

Oliver Tressilian was a distinguished gentleman hailing from Cornwall, renowned for his pivotal role in aiding the English forces during the monumental conflict against the Spanish Armada. His gallant deeds, however, were overshadowed by treachery, as he fell victim to the ruthless machinations of his half-brother, who betrayed him in a bid for power and wealth.Fleeing the dangers of his homeland ... Read more

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Oliver Tressilian was a distinguished gentleman hailing from Cornwall, renowned for his pivotal role in aiding the English forces during the monumental conflict against the Spanish Armada. His gallant deeds, however, were overshadowed by treachery, as he fell victim to the ruthless machinations of his half-brother, who betrayed him in a bid for power and wealth.Fleeing the dangers of his homeland
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