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2015

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Leaders often work under heavy pressure. While the demands of ministry can threaten to overwhelm us, Lift Up Your Eyes reminds leaders of the vital need to focus on the Lord for daily strength. It is essential that we quiet our hearts, lifting our eyes to the One who can empower and equip us to accomplish His work. Lift Up Your Eyes has been written with the following principle in mind: The kind of life we live when no one is watching will significantly impact our public ministry. The priv...

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First Class

The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat

2021

EN

Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it."With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letting it shine in the 21st century."—John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and author of Coronavirus Criminals and...

Smilodon

The Iconic Sabertooth

2018

EN

The consummate guide to the ultimate sabertooth.Few animals spark the imagination as much as the sabertooth cat Smilodon. With their incredibly long canines, which hung like fangs past their jaws, these ferocious predators were first encountered by humans when our species entered the Americas. We can only imagine what ice age humans felt when they were confronted by a wild cat larger than a Siberian tiger.Because Smilodon skeletons are per...

Price€77.59

2018

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Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen: zebras mean many things to many people. The extraordinary beauty of their striped coats makes them one of the world’s most recognizable animals. They have been immortalized in paint by artists including George Stubbs and Lucian Freud, and zebra-print designs permeate contemporary society – on beanbags and bikinis, car seats and pencil cases. Zebras even have a road crossing named after them. But the natural and cultural histo...

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Unabridged

11 hours 20 min

2025

EN

In a world called Dennere, in the cursed land of the Nightshawl, where eternal darkness reigns, hope is a rare commodity. For Kai, a young Rune Runner who defies the witches’ curse, survival means braving the shadows to uncover ancient secrets. When Kai unlocks the chest to a rare crystal dagger—rumored to hold the power to undo the witches’ dark legacy—he becomes a central figure in a perilous game of pursuit and power. Hunted by void-born creatures and by Velthera, the most ruthless of t...

3 Stories About - Identity

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

Unabridged

42 min

2024

EN

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

3 Stories - Set During Pandemics

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

2024

EN

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Stories About Star-Crossed Lovers That AREN'T Romeo and Juliet

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

2025

EN

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature.01 - Stories About Star-Crossed Lovers That...

3 Stories About - Poverty & Struggle

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

Unabridged

1 hour 22 min

2024

EN

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Devil Knows Best, The - A Short Story Collection

The Devil offers many things and in return takes everything.

Unabridged

3 hours 14 min

2023

EN

Ok, so here’s the deal. You would like untold riches, power, fame and flesh. I can give you that for the rest of your earthly life. But I would like a little something in return. Of course, nothing so coarse as to hamper your rampant greed for the rest of your life. No, merely your soul for eternity. Is it a bargain we both agree? Splendid. Let us begin.Greed and desire are all things in small measure that we sometimes pursue but in the hands of authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne,...

Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection

Stories about the end of the world

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min

2023

EN

‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, in these more modern days, with increasing frequency and extremes.In this volum...

Top 10 Short Stories, The - Horror

The top ten horror short stories of all time.

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

2021

EN

The top 10 horror short stories of all time.Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions ...