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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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(4,75 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)

“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” According to children's book author James Baldwin (1841-1925), book reading was the key to success in life (Read and You Shall Know). Several vol. 083 selections tackle the thorny questions of how to foster open-mindedness, creativity, and compassion in the child and adult: (The Road to Success; Young People and Insurance; William Paley on Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy; Letter from Françoise d'Aubigné; Looking Ahead for Democracy (1919): How Five Notable Women Were Educated; Winter Talk; and the Fantastic Imagination). Even Rural Free Mail delivery, new in 1900, is seen as effecting a “social revolution.” Invention and science are celebrated in Eratosthenes; Who is Browning?; and Light House Illumination. Heroism in wartime is honored in The Death of the Lusitania and Murder at Sea; while the evils of warfare are made plain in Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt; Bull Run; and Comanche of Custer’s Command. Rounding off the collection are the Decline of Drama; and Brendan, the search for a mythical island. Summary by Sue Anderson (5 hr 39 min)

Chapters

Brendan

3:31

Read by Piotr Nater

Bull Run

10:23

Read by Tatiana Chichilla

Comanche of Custer's Command

3:19

Read by Dale Grothmann

The Death of the Lusitania

30:47

Read by Availle

Decline of Drama

14:48

Read by Penny Witt

Eratosthenes (c.176-c.194 B.C.)

3:58

Read by Piotr Nater

The Fantastic Imagination

17:35

Read by Devorah Allen

Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt: Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets

1:03:49

Read by Tatiana Chichilla

How Five Notable Women Were Educated

17:23

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Letter from Françoise d'Aubigné To Mme. de Fontaine April 20, 1713

3:56

Read by Craig Campbell

Light House Illumination - The Electric Light

24:57

Read by Michele Fry

Looking Ahead For Democracy (1919)

2:44

Read by Dale Grothmann

Murder at Sea

51:24

Read by KevinS

The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy 1785, Excerpt

46:14

Read by Craig Campbell

Read, And You Will Know

2:39

Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton

The Road to Success

4:19

Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton

Rural Free Delivery of Mail (1900)

23:56

Read by Mary in Arkansas

Who Is Browning?

3:38

Read by Dale Grothmann

Winter Talk (1859)

5:54

Read by Sue Anderson

Young People and Life Insurance

4:30

Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton

Bewertungen

crazy cool and interesting

(4,5 Sterne)

Unfortunately it is also raycyst due to the fact it depicts events and peoples existing before 1992. That is the year Bill Clinton freed Black people. If you don't mind listening to history and experiencing phalogocentric oppression firsthand, you might enjoy this. But if you do, you racist homophobe.