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Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub

Writing During World War II

de John R. Carpenter ...

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Leer más

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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human
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Bearing Witness

How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

de John R. Carpenter ...

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Leer más

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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human
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Bearing Witness

How Writers Brought the Brutality of World War II to Light

de John R. Carpenter ...

Narrado por Joel Richards ...

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9 hora 55 minutos

It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Leer más

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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human
... Leer más

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Selfie Generation, The

How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture

de Alicia Eler ...

Narrado por Teri Schnaubelt ...

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8 hora 32 minutos

Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Digital native Alicia Eler’s The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, ... Leer más

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Whether it’s Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?Digital native Alicia Eler’s The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media,
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The Clock Mirage

Our Myth of Measured Time

de Joseph Mazur ...

Narrado por Keith Sellon-Wright ...

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8 hora 52 minutos

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years.Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by ... Leer más

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What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years.Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by
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The Berlin Airlift

The Cold War Mission to Save a City

de John Tusa, Ann Tusa ...

Narrado por Michael Page ...

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18 hora 3 minutos

"A detailed dramatic narrative . . . Vivid." —Times (London) Literary Supplement. How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade.In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin stood as the lone Western outpost in a sea of Communist occupation. Then the Soviets ... Leer más

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"A detailed dramatic narrative . . . Vivid." —Times (London) Literary Supplement. How the Allies kept the population of West Berlin alive in the face of a Russian blockade.In the summer of1948, the Russians occupied all of Eastern Europe. Behind Russian lines, the Allied-controlled part of the great city of Berlin stood as the lone Western outpost in a sea of Communist occupation. Then the Soviets
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What Remains?

Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

de Rupert Callender ...

Narrado por Rupert Callender ...

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10 hora 22 minutos

When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. This book is his brilliant, unforgettable story—the life and work of the world’s ﬁrst punk undertaker—but it's also about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion, to say goodbye to the people we love in our own way.In becoming the world’s first ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. This book is his brilliant, unforgettable story—the life and work of the world’s ﬁrst punk undertaker—but it's also about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion, to say goodbye to the people we love in our own way.In becoming the world’s first
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American Ulysses

A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

de Ronald C. White ...

Narrado por Arthur Morey ...

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27 hora 35 minutos

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsFinalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in ... Leer más

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsFinalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander–turned–commander-in
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The War of Words

How America’s GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II

de Molly Guptill Manning ...

Narrado por Elisabeth Rodgers ...

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6 hora 28 minutos

From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper ... Leer más

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From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper
... Leer más

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Partisan Song

A Holocaust Story of Resilience, Resistance, and Revenge

de James A. Grymes ...

The inspiring, previously untold tale of survival, defiance, heroism, and an unlikely hero – the Jewish civil engineer and musician who led the extraordinarily successful guerilla war to liberate Ukraine from Nazi occupation during World War II. Written by the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Violins of Hope, this is a riveting window into a little-known aspect of WWII for history ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

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The inspiring, previously untold tale of survival, defiance, heroism, and an unlikely hero – the Jewish civil engineer and musician who led the extraordinarily successful guerilla war to liberate Ukraine from Nazi occupation during World War II. Written by the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Violins of Hope, this is a riveting window into a little-known aspect of WWII for history
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History

The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

de Jeanne Theoharis ...

Narrado por Kim Staunton ...

Completo

11 hora 18 minutos

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes
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Brainscapes

The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain-and How They Guide You

de Rebecca Schwarzlose ...

Narrado por Rebecca Schwarzlose ...

Completo

9 hora 5 minutos

A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began discovering these ... Leer más

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A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind.Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Although scientists began discovering these
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