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Another Fantasia
ReBirth, #1
- Book 1 -
- ReBirth
2020
EN
The youngest greatest musician in Earth, Brandon. He died from a illness during the middle of the performance, but reborn with his past memories at a new fantasy world with music.Music with powers like magic, humans can obtain the power from music and grow to become legends with great powers.Find out how Brandon obtain The Power of Music, discover the legends, engage with the fairies.
The Trials of Madame Restell
Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
- Narrated by
- Madeleine Maby
Unabridged
10 hours 45 min
2023
EN
For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in mos...
The Voices of Nature
How and Why Animals Communicate
2023
EN
Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird’s song, a baboon’s bark, an owl’s hoot, or a dolphin’s clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putting readers in the middle of animal soundscapes that range from the steamy heat of the Amazon jungle to the icy terrain of the Arctic, Mathevon reveals the amazing variety o...
An Open Secret
The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
2021
EN
In 1922 Robert Allerton—described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"—met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move:...
Experimental Economics
Method and Applications
2018
EN
Over the past two decades, experimental economics has moved from a fringe activity to become a standard tool for empirical research. With experimental economics now regarded as part of the basic tool-kit for applied economics, this book demonstrates how controlled experiments can be a useful in providing evidence relevant to economic research. Professors Jacquemet and L'Haridon take the standard model in applied econometrics as a basis to the methodology of controlled experiments. Methodol...
Invasion of the Body
Revolutions in Surgery
2011
EN
In 1913, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston admitted its first patient, Mary Agnes Turner, who suffered from varicose veins in her legs. The surgical treatment she received, under ether anesthesia, was the most advanced available at the time. At the same hospital fifty years later, Nicholas Tilney—then a second-year resident—assisted in the repair of a large aortic aneurysm. The cutting-edge diagnostic tools he used to evaluate the patient’s condition would soon be eclipsed by yet m...
To Follow in Their Footsteps
The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
2012
EN
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for th...
2021
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It is 1929 in Los Angeles when Officer Mathieu answers a domestic disturbance call at night in a poor black neighborhood. When no one answers the unlocked door, he enters to find a beautiful, white woman lying naked on the floor, the victim of two fatal gunshot wounds. Soon after, the officer makes a shocking discovery. The woman is the personal secretary to the most powerful man in Los Angeles.The police immediately suspect the black musician who owns the house. But when the woman...
The Trials of Madame Restell
Nineteenth-Century America's Most Infamous "Female Physician" and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
2023
EN
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in Ne...
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Easy to Read Layout
- Translated by
- J.H ConnellyL. Landsberg
2025
EN
"Jesus sojourned six years among the Buddhists, where he found the principle of monotheism still pure." - N. NotovitchFirst published in 1894, "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ" is a work that explores the "lost years" of Jesus in India and Tibet. It claims that during the period between his childhood and the start of his ministry (ages 12 to 30), Jesus traveled to the East, studied Hinduism and Buddhism, and was known as "Issa" among local mystics, contributing therefore to the id...
The Podcaster's Dilemma
Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism
2021
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A fascinating exploration of modern podcasting as a tool for decolonizationIn The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism, Drs. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham III connect contemporary podcasting to the broader history of the use of radio technology in the service of anti-colonial struggle and revolution. By organizing the book’s analysis of decolonization through podcasting via three distinct activities—interroga...
2024
EN
A fairy tale adventure in another world, in another galaxy, set upon the island of Durigh. Where a young girl name luile is in dire need of saving her beloved father, and the only one with the power to save him is a being who is rumored to be of one of blasphemy. Ignoring all waring's, luile heads off with her best friend. Eilis, into a nightmare like no other. A pair of lambs who are later sought out by a ram, and a ewe.











