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“ernest freeberg”

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  • The Age of Edison

    Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

    by Ernest Freeberg ...
    A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern AmericaThe late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Traitor to His Species

    Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

    by Ernest Freeberg ...
    From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry ... Read more

    Was $22.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Democracy’s Prisoner

    Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

    by Ernest Freeberg ...
    In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War I. Though many called Debs a traitor, others praised him as a prisoner of conscience, a martyr to the cause of free speech. Nearly a million Americans agreed, voting for a man whom the government had branded an enemy to his country.In a beautifully crafted ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Cas Walker

    Stories on His Life and Legend

    by Ernest Frithiof Freeberg ...
    Businessman, politician, broadcasting personality, and newspaper publisher, Cas Walker (1902–1998) was, by his own estimation, a “living legend” in Knoxville for much of the twentieth century. Renowned for his gravelly voice and country-boy persona, he rose from blue-collar beginnings to make a fortune as a grocer whose chain of supermarkets extended from East Tennessee into Virginia and Kentucky. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Age Edison

    Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

    by Ernest Freeberg ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Billion Dollar Spy

    A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

    by David E. Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

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    From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Titan

    The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

    by Ron Chernow ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

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    John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award–winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich ... Read more

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    Poland

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    by James A. Michener ...
    Narrated by Larry McKeever ...

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    In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically divided. With an inspiring tradition of resistance to brutal invaders, from the barbarians to the Nazis, and a heritage of pride that burns ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Stuff Matters

    The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

    by Prof. Mark Miodownik ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman ...

    Unabridged

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    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, read by Daniel Weyman.A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientistsEverything is made of something...From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the inner workings of the man-made world, ... Read more

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    The World Until Yesterday

    What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    by Jared Diamond ...
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    Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies ... Read more

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    The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough ...
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    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

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