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Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating

In Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Read by Bernie Hogan


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Facebook: The Strength of Weak Ties

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by Bernie Hogan and Veronica Sartore


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rain (Version 2)

Read by Linda Hogan


W. Somerset Maugham


Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

Canadian Wonder Tales

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Cyrus Macmillan


This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Stephen Leacock


This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill U…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Sir Wilfred Grenfell


This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Le Petit Nord

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Anne Maclanahan Grenfell


A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Bliss Carman


This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sound…

Episode 6, Chapter 6 part 1

In The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2

Read by Heather Hogan


Giacomo Casanova


Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…

Dyer D. Lum

In Selected Essays

Read by Heather Hogan


Voltairine de Cleyre and Voltairine De Cleyre


Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

11 - Book 17, Ch 09

In The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 4

Read by Linda Hogan


Flavius Josephus


Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the …

Sections 115 to 129

In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Read by Heather Hogan


George Berkeley


A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 …

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