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Montaigne

by Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

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2 hours 52 min

"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but an from ... Read more

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"The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but an from
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Material-Integrated Intelligent Systems

Technology and Applications

Edited by Stefan Bosse, Dirk Lehmhus, Walter Lang, Matthias Busse ...

Combining different perspectives from materials science, engineering, and computer science, this reference provides a unified view of the various aspects necessary for the successful realization of intelligent systems.The editors and authors are from academia and research institutions with close ties to industry, and are thus able to offer first-hand information here. They adopt a unique, three ... Read more

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Combining different perspectives from materials science, engineering, and computer science, this reference provides a unified view of the various aspects necessary for the successful realization of intelligent systems.The editors and authors are from academia and research institutions with close ties to industry, and are thus able to offer first-hand information here. They adopt a unique, three
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Advances in System-Integrated Intelligence

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt 2022), September 7-9, 2022, Genova, Italy

Edited by Maurizio Valle, Dirk Lehmhus, Christian Gianoglio, Edoardo Ragusa, Lucia Seminara, Stefan Bosse, Ali Ibrahim, Klaus-Dieter Thoben ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments focusing on integrating intelligent functionalities into materials, components, systems and products. Gathering the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt 2022), held on September 7-9, in Genova, Italy, it offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and applied perspective on the state-of ... Read more

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This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments focusing on integrating intelligent functionalities into materials, components, systems and products. Gathering the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt 2022), held on September 7-9, in Genova, Italy, it offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and applied perspective on the state-of
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Trip to Russia

by Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

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1 hour 27 min

"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First ... Read more

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"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan Zweig's bourgeois world collapsed with the First
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Magellan

A Man and his Deed

by Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

With the age of voyages of discovery in the 15th century, the curtain of history slowly came down on the late Middle Ages. Portuguese and Spanish seafarers set out to remeasure the dimensions of the earth. Numerous spices and fruits, which we would hardly be able to do without today, found their way to Europe for the first time. Columbus discovered America in 1492 on his quest for India. Six years ... Read more

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With the age of voyages of discovery in the 15th century, the curtain of history slowly came down on the late Middle Ages. Portuguese and Spanish seafarers set out to remeasure the dimensions of the earth. Numerous spices and fruits, which we would hardly be able to do without today, found their way to Europe for the first time. Columbus discovered America in 1492 on his quest for India. Six years
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Charles Dickens

by Stefan Zweig ...

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Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

"Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic century of Napoleon, the glorious past, and imperialism, the dream of his future. (….) Only when one hates the hypocritical narrow-mindedness of Victorian culture from the bottom of one's soul can one appreciates with full admiration the genius of a man who compelled us to find this disgusting world of sated ... Read more

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"Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic century of Napoleon, the glorious past, and imperialism, the dream of his future. (….) Only when one hates the hypocritical narrow-mindedness of Victorian culture from the bottom of one's soul can one appreciates with full admiration the genius of a man who compelled us to find this disgusting world of sated
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Nietzsche

Fighting Demons

by Stefan Zweig, Vanessa Walsh ...

Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

Unabridged

3 hours 1 min

A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth century by one of the most widely read German-language authors of the twentieth century. In this vivid and eloquent biography, Zweig largely eschews the traditional academic discourse on the philosopher's work, instead concentrating entirely on Nietzsche as a person, his habits, his passions and his obsessions. ... Read more

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A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth century by one of the most widely read German-language authors of the twentieth century. In this vivid and eloquent biography, Zweig largely eschews the traditional academic discourse on the philosopher's work, instead concentrating entirely on Nietzsche as a person, his habits, his passions and his obsessions.
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Tolstoy

by Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

According to Stefan Zweig, no contemporary author, not even Marx or Nietzsche, delivered the radical spiritual shock that Tolstoy's works gave millions and millions of people around the world. But which Tolstoy are we talking about? For Zweig it is the essayist Tolstoy, the radical thinker and incorruptible anarchist. The Tolstoy who claims that the state is the great cover-up of social injustice ... Read more

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According to Stefan Zweig, no contemporary author, not even Marx or Nietzsche, delivered the radical spiritual shock that Tolstoy's works gave millions and millions of people around the world. But which Tolstoy are we talking about? For Zweig it is the essayist Tolstoy, the radical thinker and incorruptible anarchist. The Tolstoy who claims that the state is the great cover-up of social injustice
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On Character

Choices That Define a Life

by General Stanley McChrystal ...

Narrated by General Stanley McChrystal ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, reflections on character, and who we choose to be.“Reputation is what men and women think of us;character is what God and angels know of us.”—Thomas Paine**How to measure a life? After a career of service, retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal had much to contemplate. He pondered his ... Read more

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, reflections on character, and who we choose to be.“Reputation is what men and women think of us;character is what God and angels know of us.”—Thomas Paine**How to measure a life? After a career of service, retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal had much to contemplate. He pondered his
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The Essays

by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...

Narrated by Thomas Judd ...

Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Thomas Judd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by M. A. Screech.A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Thomas Judd. This definitive recording includes an introduction by M. A. Screech.A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics
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Telegraph Days

A Novel

by Larry McMurtry ...

Narrated by Annie Potts ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, UnabridgedFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their ... Read more

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Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, UnabridgedFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their
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The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America

by Ellis Cose ...

Narrated by Korey Jackson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

Named one ofNewsweek**’s ""25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020""**The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet ... Read more

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Named one ofNewsweek**’s ""25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020""**The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet
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