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How Divorce Affects Offspring
A Research Approach
2019
EN
In Qur experience, there is bias and inconsistency in much of what is written about the effects of divorce on offspring. When interested students have asked for appropriate resources, we have been hard-pressed to respond without providing a long list of contradictory sources. Much of what is currently available reflects the cultural bias that parental divorce is one of the worst things that can happen to offspring. This book has grown out of our desire to provide a comprehensive, accessibl...
- Narrated by
- Michael Troy
Unabridged
2 hours 13 min
2020
EN
A chance encounter in a Parisian café leads to a series of unfortunate misunderstandings that threaten to bring to a premature and irreconcilable end the envisioned marriage between a pair of young lovers. When eligible bachelor Dick Naseby meets the lovely young Esther Van Tromp - a woman estranged from her cherished father, a talented artist whose success takes him around the world - he is too well-bred and smitten with her to confess the truth: he knows her father well. He wrongly belie...
- Narrated by
- Michael Page
Unabridged
7 hours 42 min
2015
EN
Tensions run deep, survival runs deeper.Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Kidnapped (1886) is a gripping narrative told by David Balfour, a young Whig and Lowlander, who is tracked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap and shipwreck and, in the company of Alan Breck, a Jacobite, escapes through the Highlands.Kidnapped is an adventure story in which the tensions run deep, not only between pursuer and ...
- Narrated by
- Michael Prichard
Unabridged
7 hours 17 min
2008
EN
Young Jim Hawkins lives a quiet life as the son of an innkeeper. This all changes when an ancient sailor takes up lodging at the inn. Jim is both horrified and fascinated by the captain's bloody stories. But when the old man dies without paying his bill, Jim must search the sailor's one possession, a large sea chest, for payment. In doing so, he unknowingly pockets an old map from the chest. But Jim is not the only one interested in the sea chest, and he has to flee when a group of cutthro...
Hedda Gabler
Directed by John Tydeman
Unabridged
2 hours 11 min
2002
EN
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois. Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an academic post. After a drunken orgy, the manuscript of Lovb...
Civil War Writing
New Perspectives on Iconic Texts
2019
EN
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations and include histories, memoirs, journals, novels, and one literary falsehood posing as an autobiographical narrative. Several of the...
Building a Special Relationship
Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61
2024
EN
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Building a Special Relationship offers thoughtful insight into Canadian and American foreign relations during the 1950s, when Canada and the United States found new diplomatic footing as allies in the shadow of the Cold War. This book shows how the Eisenhower years were crucial in forming the bilateral relationship that currently exists between Canada and the United States. Under President Eisenhower and Prime Ministers St. Laurent and Diefenbaker, policy makers on both sides of t...
- Narrated by
- Michael York
Abridged
1 hour 34 min
1996
EN
Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey, the squire charters a schooner carrying a band of pirates led by Long John Silver. Excitement and heroic action await Jim Hawkins as he seeks to fo...
- Narrated by
- Michael Ward
Unabridged
2 hours 41 min
2020
EN
This timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson of man's struggle with his dual nature is brought to life in this audiobook edition.
- Narrated by
- Michael Ward
Unabridged
6 hours 28 min
2018
EN
When a mysterious sailor enters his fathers inn looking for lodgings and rum, young Jack Hawkins finds himself involved in a high seas adventure full of pirates, maroons, distant islands and treasure. But just who is the one legged man that the sailors were so afraid of?This widely loved classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883, is one of the most dramatised in literature and is credited with forming much of the public perception of pirates and adventures on the h...
Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
- by
- J. Michael AdamsDame Glynis BreakwellAngelo CarfagnaInwon ChoueRamu DamodaranElizabeth Davis-RussellEmmet DennisHassan B. DiabSheldon DruckerAllan E. GoodmanAndrew HamiltonNeal KingFernando León-GarcíaJames Alexander McWhaBrendan O'MalleyAlvaro RomoToyoshi SatowJason A. ScorzaKakha ShengeliaMichael StevensonIchiro TaniokaUroyoán R. Walker-RamosJohn WoodNicholas BaldwinH.E. Ban Ki-moonYong-seung (Stephen) ParkRev. Emma PercyNigel Thrift
2016
EN
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.The highlight of the 50th Anniversary Meeting was an academic conference at Oxford University on the theme of “Higher Education in 2065.” Participants ...
Peter Pan
Brought to life by magical storytellers
Unabridged
2 hours 12 min
2020
EN
When Peter Pan flies through the Darling Children's nursery window one night, he is nearly captured and makes a hasty escape, leaving behind his shadow. Returning with the fairy Tinker Bell to reclaim it, he wakes up Wendy, John and Michael, and whisks them away to the magical shores of Neverland.There they meet the Lost Boys, befriend Tiger Lily and her Braves, swim with the mermaids in the lagoon and have a host of wonderful adventures. But danger awaits too, for the terrible Cap...











