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Books narrated by David Frey

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  • Failure to Pursue

    How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War

    by David Frey ...
    Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and South had anticipated a brief conflict but despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive conclusion. For most of the war, these battles followed a pattern: the victors claimed the field and the vanquished retreated to rest, ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary

    The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944

    by David Frey ...
    Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity. ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Economic Ideas You Should Forget

    Edited by Bruno S. Frey, David Iselin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge.By discussing problematic theoretical ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Scots Of The Riverina (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

    27 min

    In the rugged and unforgiving Riverina region of Australia, a group of Scottish immigrants struggle to carve out a life for themselves. Led by the indomitable Lachlan Macquarie, they face adversity with courage and determination. But as the years pass, their dreams are tested by drought, floods, and the harsh realities of the Australian bush. Through their trials and tribulations, the Scots of the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Mathematica

    A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

    by David Bessis ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from René Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case. Like Albert Einstein, who famously claimed to have "no special talent," they said that they had accomplished what they did ... Read more

    Was $34.99 CAD Now $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Film and Faith

    Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe

    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

    A Reader

    Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Equality

    More or Less

    Series series Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point
    The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Play in the Age of Goethe

    Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800

    Series series New Studies in the Age of Goethe
    We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Vulnerable Observer

    Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

    by Ruth Behar ...
    The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn’t exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their workIn a new epilogue to this classic work, renowned ethnographer and storyteller Ruth Behar reflects on the groundbreaking impact The Vulnerable Observer has had on anthropology, sociology, and psychology and on scholarly ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Henry Lawson’s Works

    by Henry Lawson ...
    Henry Lawson’s Works contained 5 works written by Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist ... Read more

    $1.03 CAD

  • Traveling Heavy

    A Memoir in between Journeys

    by Ruth Behar ...
    Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD