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Stories Of Alpine Adventure

Read by Steve C


Frank Mundell


Mont Blanc is the Monarch of the Mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. (Byr…

Stories Of Balloon Adventure

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Frank Mundell


In the following pages will be found brief narratives of some of the more famous incidents and exciting episodes which mark the history of b…

Stories of the Fire Brigade

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Frank Mundell


The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents responded to by various fire brigades with examples from bot…

Stories of the Royal Humane Society

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Frank Mundell


Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning,…

An Idler In The Wilds

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Tickner Edwardes


Although he was well known around the South Downs in West Sussex as 'The Bee-man of Burpham', Tickner Edwardes also had a great affinity for…

Stories of the Coal Mine

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Frank Mundell


Men, women and children (who could until 1842 be as young as four years old and from 1900 had to be over thirteen years of age) worked in th…

The Burston Rebellion

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Thomas George Higdon


The early 20th century in Great Britain saw a seismic shift in political awareness especially amongst the working classes. This led to a sig…

Rough Talks by a Padre

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Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy


Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC was an ordained Anglican priest, who in the early stages of World War I volunteered for duty as a chap…

Human Nature And Conduct - Part 1, The Place of Habit in Conduct

Read by William Allan Jones


John Dewey


John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …

Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct

Read by William Allan Jones


John Dewey


John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…

Human Nature and Conduct - Part 2, The Place of Impulse In Conduct

Read by William Allan Jones


John Dewey


Part 2 describes Dewey's concept of IMPULSES. They encompass the interaction of one's self with the environment. When the environment encoun…

Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4, Conclusion

Read by William Allan Jones


John Dewey


John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist. This project encompasses Part 4 of 4 of his book…

Atala

Read by William Allan Jones


François-René de Chateaubriand


What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of unt…

Elmer Gantry

Read by William Allan Jones


Sinclair Lewis


This novel tells the story of a young, charismatic, and morally corrupt salesman who becomes involved in evangelism. Gantry's involvement in…

Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

Clarence Darrow, Selected Works: 1893-1917

Read by William Allan Jones


Clarence Darrow


This is a collection of 8 works by Clarence Darrow written between 1893 and 1917. Clarence Darrow was most noted in his time as an enormousl…

The Story of London

Read by Paul Lawley-Jones


Henry B. Wheatley


A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

The Quest of the Golden Girl

Read by William Allan Jones


Richard Le Gallienne


The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God mea…

Food-Free at Last: How I Learned to Eat Air

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Dr. Robert Jones MD PhD DDS ODD


Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you …

Practices of Criminals i

In Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

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Hans Gross


Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

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