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Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe

In Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

Read by Fred Adams


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Tale of Two Cities (version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

Sidelights on Relativity

Read by Paul Adams


Albert Einstein


Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

The Prince (Version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

Read by Ben Adams


Rupert H. Wheldon


>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

The Autobiography of a Thief

Read by Ben Adams


Hutchins Hapgood


I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several we…

Association Football and How to Play It

Read by Ben Adams


John Cameron


An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most…

The New Freedom

Read by Ben Adams


Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Woodrow Wilson


The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in lar…

The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…

Read by Ben Adams


Sherwood Anderson


“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…

Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

Read by Ben Adams


Ralph Chaplin


Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the…

Untimely Papers

Read by Ben Adams


Randolph Silliman Bourne


This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the…

Just a Few

In Westy Martin on the Santa Fe Trail

Read by fred


Percy Keese Fitzhugh


Mr. Madison C. Wilde, Field Manager of Educational Films, has engaged young Westy Martin, the so-called best scout since Buffalo Bill, to ac…

Chapter VI

In Why We Love Music

Read by fred


Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

Chapter 19

In Ran Away to Sea

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Thomas Mayne Reid


"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Red Hair

In The Tower Treasure

Read by fred


Franklin W. Dixon


A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…

Birds of the Nor’easter

In Wood Wanderings

Read by fred


Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat.…

Chapter 6, UNDER FALSE COLOURS

In Gun Running for Casement

Read by fred


Karl Spindler


Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…