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UK Climate Projections: User Interface

In UK Climate Impacts Programme

Read by Peter Walton and Anna Steynor


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Psychology of Alcoholism

Read by Curt Walton


George Barton Cutten


After presenting an overview of alcoholism and its affect on society, Dr. Cutten dives into the effects of chronic alcoholism on physiology,…

The Psychology of Religion

Read by Curt Walton


Edwin Diller Starbuck


“The present volume is an excursus into individual psychology, and represents only one of several aspects of the psychology... “It is a pur…

A Study in the Psychology of Religious Phenomena

Read by Curt Walton


James H. Leuba


"The present essay when complete will contain three parts. Of the two parts now published, the first is an analysis of the conversion p…

On chronic alcoholic intoxication : with an inquiry into the influence of the a…

Read by Curt Walton


William Marcet


Physician William Marcet treated numerous cases of acute alcoholism (delirium tremens) and chronic alcoholism. He suggests gastrointestinal …

Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms th…

Read by Curt Walton


Thomas Doner


He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling i…

A Treatise of Modern Falconry

Read by Curt Walton


James Campbell


The 18th century book A Treatise on Modern Falconry is still one of the most quoted books in today's falconry community. The preface was pos…

Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told

Read by Curt Walton


Jerry Mcauley


Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others…

Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking

Read by Curt Walton


Edmund Bert


An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good …

The Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks

Read by Curt Walton


Philip Ilott Roberts


After an introduction to the Ole Jerry McAuley Mission in the year 1912, many wonderful stories of destitute alcoholics and addicts making a…

Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

Read by Anna Simon


Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

The Return of Alfred

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…

Anarchy

Read by Anna Simon


Errico Malatesta


Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

The Rain-Girl

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…