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The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past.
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In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created the ‘Foxfire’ magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with community members. These oral histories quickly became the focal point of the magazine and, eventually, the material that generated the multivolume Foxfire...
3) Spanish 1
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Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid with your pronunciation. Includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance the audio experience.
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OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES
Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the...
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Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice-often the only choice-for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era.
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These 12 lectures by Professors Cook and Herzman will give you a rounded, fully informed introduction to the luminous Francis of Assisi and will tell the intellectually and spiritually rewarding story of how his influence has glowed across the centuries. Just who was Assisi? Despite his continuing influence and the fairly ample writings about him that date from his own time, Francis remains somewhat elusive in history. It is not easy to meet the man...
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The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! This course includes Lesson 1-5 from the German Level 1 Program, featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation....
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The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Korean Level 1 program, featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation....
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¿Le gusta descubrir a los autores a través de sus propias palabras, y llegar al núcleo de sus ideas de la manera más eficiente? Aquí hay una selección de citas de los más grandes pensadores que han caminado por la Tierra: Einstein, Platón, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Dostoievski, Cicerón, Confucio, Sócrates, Nietzsche, Kant, Buda, Laozi, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Marco Aurelio, Martín Lutero Rey, Shakespeare, Proust, Jane Austen, Ana Frank,...
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The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the English for Chinese (Mandarin) Speakers Level 1 30-Lesson Program, featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand...
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The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the English for Hindi Speakers Level 1 30-Lesson Program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures....
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The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Russian Level 1 Program, featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation....
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Aquí hay una cuidadosa selección de las citas más inspiradoras, para impulsar su espíritu emprendedor, liderazgo y creatividad con la ayuda de la sabiduría oriental y la filosofía occidental, y expandir su mente descubriendo varios autores entre los más influyentes de las diferentes culturas del mundo. Una gran cita puede encapsular una gran red de ideas, pensamientos, reflexiones, emociones en pocas palabras. Una excelente cita requiere que...
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Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audiobook, old-time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old-time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s the Golden Age of Radio. The...
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OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES
Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the...
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Gane poder, sabiduría y claridad a través de estas 300 citas de mujeres inspiradoras: Ana Frank, Jane Austen y la Madre Teresa. Son diversas, perturbadoras, iluminadas y poderosas figuras feministas: Ana Frank, una judía víctima del Holocausto, escribió una de las más cándidas y bien escritas representaciones de los pensamientos íntimos de una joven mujer durante la ocupación nazi de los Países Bajos. Jane Austen es una aguda crítica de...
18) A World of Noise
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All sound effects are available, royalty free, for download and duplication. Sound effects include: Store alarm, Ambulance, Bomb exploding, Broadcast emergency, Car alarm, Chainsaw, Church bell, Dead car battery, Dentist drill, Doorbell, Door slamming, Power drill, drum roll, Fingers on a chalkboard, Gong, Gun shot, Hammer on metal, Jackhammer, Passing gas, Police siren, Railroad crossing, Power saw, School bell, Shotgun, Air raid siren, Sleigh bells,...
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From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.
Victoria Blanco relates...
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The long-running radio anthology The Screen Guild Players helped raise money for the Motion Picture Relief Fund, a country home and hospital for retired, ill, indigent or destitute Motion Picture Industry artists. Hollywood actors were only too happy to donate their fees to the fund for appearing on the prestigious radio program.
A 1940 magazine article noted that The Screen Guild Players was "the only sponsored program on the air which gives all...