AuthorJeremy Paxman
NarratorChristopher Oxford
Duration10h 30m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, General Non Fiction, History
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
What is it about the English? Not the British, Scots, Irish or Welsh, but the English? Why do they seem so unsure of who they are? As Jeremy Paxman remarks, being English used to be so easy. Now, with the Empire gone, with devolution, with an ever closer Europe, the English seem to have entered a collective crisis of national identity.
Author: Walter Isaacson
Author Walter Isaacson
Narrator Nelson Runger
Duration 24h 10m
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative th...
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Author Ibram X. Kendi
Narrator Ibram X. Kendi
Duration 10h 44m
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts...
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Author Blake Snyder
Narrator George Newbern
Duration 5h 25m
Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, others include t...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Levitin
Author Daniel Levitin
Narrator Daniel Levitin
Duration 11h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our spec...
View BookHow To Make Fabric Accessories
Author: Khyria Cepe
Author Khyria Cepe
Narrator Courtney Lucien
Duration 47m
Wanting to have those beautiful earrings and charming necklaces that you see on magazines and online stores, but you don't have the budget? Read through this guide and find out how you can start making fabric accessories on your own.
View BookAuthor: Catherine Bailey
Author Catherine Bailey
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 15h 27m
Brought to you by Penguin. Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German Resistance, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In response to the attack, Himmler, leader of the SS, orders the arrest of all the families of the plotters. In a remote castle in Italy, von H...
View BookSo You Want To Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Author Ijeoma Oluo
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 44m
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor-at-Large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in...
View BookAuthor: John Hammer
Author John Hammer
Narrator Jim Johnston
Duration 1h 42m
Start Your Journey Towards Woodworking Today With This Handy Guide That Will Teach You The Techniques And Skills You Need As A Beginner To Master This Craft Woodworking Is A Hobby That People Have Been Enjoying For Years. While In The Past It Was Used More As A Way To Make Furniture And Other Things That You Needed In The Home, It Is Now Something...
View BookAuthor: Darla Singer
Author Darla Singer
Narrator The Yuw
Duration 7m
Do you enjoy knitting or would like to learn how? Learn how to create beautiful patterns in no time at all! Whether you are on the road, at home, or anywhere else you can knit in your spare time, anywhere you want. - Make patterns in just a few hours. - Learn how to knit. - Learn stitch patterns. - Create hats, sweaters, socks, gifts, items for you...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Paxman
Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Jeremy Paxman
Duration 11h 56m
Jeremy Paxman is Britain's bravest, most incisive political interviewer. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Paxman is a supreme inquisitor, a master at skewering mammoth egos with his relentless grilling. Few figures in public life have escaped. From John Major to Theresa May, from Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, Paxman had them quaking in their boo...
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