This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.

"Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries.From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and numerous mechanical breakdowns, to climbing Wayna Picc...

In The 40-Knot Sailboat, visionary engineer Bernard Smith revolutionizes the way we think about sailing. Blending scientific precision with the passion of a lifelong sailor, Smith challenges centuries of nautical tradition in pursuit of one audacious goal — a sailboat capable of exceeding forty knots. First published at the height of postwar innovation, this groundbreaking work explores the aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and engineering principles behind high-speed sailing, setting ...

Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He takes Mico with him. What does the dog know? What is he afraid of? Is it, perhaps, the mountain behind the town?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You have probably saved the same photograph more times than you care to admit, a bright corner with pale wood, one wool blanket, two ceramic mugs, and a window full of soft daylight, a room that contains almost nothing and yet promises everything. You have tried to keep up with that image, and you have sensed that something was missing from the instructions, because the furniture is easy enough to find and the candles are easy enough to light, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You have done this before. You bought the organizing bins, cleared the kitchen counters on a Sunday, filled the donation bags, and felt the lightness when a room finally breathes again. Then, in the following months, the counters filled once more, and the room slowly returned to its familiar state of quiet chaos. This is not a failure of character and it is not a lack of discipline. It is the predictable result of treating decluttering as a one ti...

Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's greatest art historian and one of the most important humanist thinkers internationally on ideas concerning cultural contact. His European Vision and the South Pacific, first published in 1960, showed how the ideas of the Enlightenment and the empirical structuring of scientific and geographical knowledge during the great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery affected notions of identity-both for Europeans and the Indigenous peop...

(re-printed in November 2007 with an impressive Names and Subjects index)The author's personal website ,which is devoted entirely to his book, is accesible at:www.theinformationstory.com."A topical review of the book, by SIX OF ONE (the prisoner appreciation society), is given under Preview. Other reviews of the book as well as more background to the book, may be reached at the author's blog:

Cathy Birchall has been blind since she was in her mid 20s. Following the death of her husband of 19 years and finding herself blind and alone she put herself through college and became a Further Education Lecturer. Within this role she met Bernard Smith, and then took a year off from her job with Action for Blind People to go on this journey. Bernard, a motorcyclist for over 30 years, and a former teacher then working for the RNIB, had an ambition to circle the world. On their return from...

"The Classic Collection of Immanuel Kant" is a comprehensive anthology that brings together the most influential works of one of the greatest philosophers in Western history. This collection features Kant's seminal texts, including "The Critique of Pure Reason," "The Critique of Practical Reason," "Critique of Judgment," and more, enhanced with captivating illustrations. In "The Critique of Pure Reason," Kant explores the boundaries of human knowledge and the nature of reality itself. His ...

Having served as a member of the Allied Forces Occupation of Japan, Bernard Smith has produced a book about the time he spent in Japan in 1946 in the city of Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, both of which cities are located on the east coast of Japan alongside its beautiful Inland Sea. Except for his rather mystifying visit to Tokyo in the summer of 1946, his entire book is based almost entirely on his personal diary, and notes which he wrote while aboard his homeward bound ship at the end of his ...

Bernard takes the reader on an evocative and fascinating journey from his early life, detailing his ancestral influences on his his chosen career of cellist, until the present day.A charming book full of pathos and humour, which tells the true story of the world famous Lindsay String Quartet, their adventures during 40 years of world travel and their achievement of the highest accolades, making them one of the most revered quartets of the 20th century. Bernard continues, in his thi...