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Onassis
- An Extravagant Life
- Auteur(s): Frank Brady
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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Aristotle Onassis was a born orator, and Jackie Kennedy would sit and listen to him spin off tales and stories - often racy - by the hour. A speaker of seven languages, he could keep a dinner party of some of the world's most sophisticated conversationalists spellbound. Even Jackie couldn't help but drop her reserve and laugh with him. America's First Lady simply never knew anyone quite as free or exotic as Aristotle Onassis, a paradoxical blend of raconteur and ruffian.
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Riveting
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-03-24
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Onassis
- An Extravagant Life
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2017-11-07
- Langue: Anglais
- Aristotle Onassis was a born orator, and Jackie Kennedy would sit and listen to him spin off tales and stories - often racy - by the hour. A speaker of seven languages....
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I Had to Survive
- How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
- Auteur(s): Dr. Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci
- Narrateur(s): full cast, Thom Rivera, Traber Burns, Autres
- Durée: 8 h et 31 min
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On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team - and many of their friends and family members - crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing, brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists.
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I am the same age as the author. I Remember the incident!
- Écrit par Sandy Lisk le 2024-07-07
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I Had to Survive
- How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
- Narrateur(s): full cast, Thom Rivera, Traber Burns, Elijah Alexander, Neil Shah, Hillary Huber, Kyla Garcia, Tavia Gilbert, Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 8 h et 31 min
- Date de publication: 2016-03-01
- Langue: Anglais
- On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the Old Christians rugby team - and many of their friends and family members - crashed into the Andes Mountains....
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales
- The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
- Auteur(s): William R. Maples PhD, Michael Browning
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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From a skeleton, a skull, or a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales
- The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bel Davies
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
- From a skeleton, a skull, or a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim and much more....
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We Are All Stardust
- Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
- Auteur(s): Stefan Klein
- Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Autres
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, "First and foremost, curiosity." In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates), Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover - and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab.
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Yes we are all stardust
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-03-02
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We Are All Stardust
- Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
- Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Sean Runnette
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2015-11-03
- Langue: Anglais
- A sterling roster of natural and social scientists in conversation with top-flight journalist Stefan Klein - shedding new light on their work, their lives, and what they still hope to discover....
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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Auteur(s): Stephon Alexander
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.
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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2016-05-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 40 min
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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Poor analysis
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-03-17
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2007-07-05
- Langue: Anglais
- During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment....
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My Years with General Motors
- Auteur(s): Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 21 h et 1 min
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My Years with General Motors became an instant best seller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tell - a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.
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My Years with General Motors
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 21 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-19
- Langue: Anglais
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My Years with General Motors became an instant best seller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it....
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Cracked, Not Broken
- Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt
- Auteur(s): Kevin Hines, Dr. Daniel J. Reidenberg - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Hines
- Durée: 6 h et 27 min
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The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At 19-years-old, Kevin attempted to take his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge - a distance which took four seconds to fall. Recently diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, Kevin had begun to hear voices telling him he had to die, and days before his attempt, he began to believe them. The fall would break his body, but not his spirit.
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Cracked, Not Broken
- Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Hines
- Durée: 6 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2018-12-18
- Langue: Anglais
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Kevin Hines's story chronicles the extraordinary will of the author to live mentally well in the face of his mental illness: bipolar disorder with psychotic features. With each mental breakdown, however, the author's desire to live mentally well pulls him from the depths of his condition....
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Nurse, Come You Here!
- More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
- Auteur(s): Mary J. MacLeod
- Narrateur(s): Jill Tanner
- Durée: 10 h et 58 min
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Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late '60s, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a "small acre" of land, and Mary J. (also known as Julia) became the district nurse.
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A thoroughly enjoyable read
- Écrit par Brenda le 2022-04-08
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Nurse, Come You Here!
- More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
- Narrateur(s): Jill Tanner
- Durée: 10 h et 58 min
- Date de publication: 2015-06-23
- Langue: Anglais
- Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late '60s, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides....
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The New Tycoons
- Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
- Auteur(s): Jason Kelly
- Narrateur(s): Brett Barry
- Durée: 8 h et 2 min
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The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the listener behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions that led a group of clever bankers from small shops operating in a corner of Wall Street into powerhouse titans of capital. This is the story of the money and the men who handle it.
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Interesting listen
- Écrit par mickbaker le 2023-06-07
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The New Tycoons
- Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
- Narrateur(s): Brett Barry
- Durée: 8 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-09
- Langue: Anglais
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The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the listener behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions....
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Trespassing Across America
- One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
- Auteur(s): Ken Ilgunas
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Eiden
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
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Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man's remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves - both physically and mentally.
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Interesting achievement and story
- Écrit par Christine.Marcoux le 2024-07-18
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Trespassing Across America
- One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Eiden
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2016-04-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man's remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change....
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Cable Cowboy
- John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
- Auteur(s): Mark Robichaux
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 12 h et 50 min
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John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy. For more than 25 years, Malone has dominated the cable television industry, shaping the world of entertainment and communications, first with his cable company, TCI, and later with Liberty Media. Written with Malone's unprecedented cooperation, the engaging narrative brings this controversial capitalist and businessman to life.
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Cable Cowboy
- John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 12 h et 50 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-22
- Langue: Anglais
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John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy....
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A Shape in the Dark
- Living and Dying with Brown Bears
- Auteur(s): Bjorn Dihle
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
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Wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears - from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition to frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal's place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change.
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A Shape in the Dark
- Living and Dying with Brown Bears
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2021-04-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears....
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A Personal Odyssey
- Auteur(s): Thomas Sowell
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 10 h et 54 min
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.
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A Personal Odyssey
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 10 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2006-11-17
- Langue: Anglais
- Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 26 min
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Narrateur(s): Robert Whitfield
- Durée: 1 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2004-04-13
- Langue: Anglais
- Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense....
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Monkey Mind
- A Memoir of Anxiety
- Auteur(s): Daniel Smith
- Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
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In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety - America’s most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like - it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one - but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. Yet no popular memoir has been written about that experience - until now.
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Monkey Mind
- A Memoir of Anxiety
- Narrateur(s): Richard Powers
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2012-07-03
- Langue: Anglais
- In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety - America’s most common psychological complaint....
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Leadership at the Executive Level
- Academic Strategic Leadership and Integration
- Auteur(s): Arya Warner
- Narrateur(s): Sohel Rana
- Durée: 3 h et 26 min
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In today's world, when toxic work environments and disengaged employees are all too typical, it is imperative that leaders adopt a leadership strategy that is transformative. The visionary business coach, entrepreneur, and podcast presenter Lyndsay Dowd is on a quest to revolutionize the landscape of leadership. She is also a podcast presenter. Talk to her. In light of the fact that the period of intimidation and aggressiveness has come to an end, Lyndsay is a proponent of the key components of successful leadership, which are psychological safety, connection, and cooperation.
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Leadership at the Executive Level
- Academic Strategic Leadership and Integration
- Narrateur(s): Sohel Rana
- Durée: 3 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2024-08-19
- Langue: Anglais
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In today's world, when toxic work environments and disengaged employees are all too typical, it is imperative that leaders adopt a leadership strategy that is transformative.
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Galileo
- Auteur(s): James Reston Jr.
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 12 h et 48 min
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The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. In this biography, James Reston Jr. provides a lively, vivid portrait of Galileo, taking the listener to the heart of this passionate, embattled, arrogant, and brilliant man.
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An excellent book!
- Écrit par daniel lebel le 2023-10-29
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Galileo
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 12 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 1999-12-15
- Langue: Anglais
- The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- Auteur(s): Shaun Bythell
- Narrateur(s): Robin Laing
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books - both lost classics and new discoveries - introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.
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Love love love
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2021-10-23
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- Narrateur(s): Robin Laing
- Série: The Diary of a Bookseller, Livre 1
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-04
- Langue: Anglais
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In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade. He recommends books - both lost classics and new discoveries - introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the charms of small-town life....
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Stylish Academic Writing
- Auteur(s): Helen Sword
- Narrateur(s): Virginia Wolf
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
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Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.
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Stylish Academic Writing
- Narrateur(s): Virginia Wolf
- Durée: 6 h et 24 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-14
- Langue: Anglais
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Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, and close with examples of transferable techniques....
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