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  • Audiobook

    From Moonshine to Armadillos

    The Birth of the Austin Music Scene

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Veteran award-winning producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this hour-long program outlining the history of Threadgill's and Armadillo World Headquarters, their contribution to the birth of the Austin music scene, and their influence on the Nashville sound and country rock."This program offers a soup to nuts history of Austin's growth into the live music Mecca that it's become today. The show is more than ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encapsulation of Ungrateful Consequences

    At nearly three fifteen in the morning, Omar stands on the fifth-floor fire escape, watching the rain be illuminated by the street lamps. He is highly agitated as he now sees two people vanish further into the shadows. Betting on his own life, the two people are Darius and V.How is he supposed to explain to Grozden what happened in the stairwell, and why was V, let alone Darius, allowed to leave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chess Moves

    Prequel

    Series series Prequel
    For the past year, Chess Matters has been counting down his departure from life on the South Side of Chicago. Always watchful of his younger siblings, ongoing gang wars and his dealings in the streets, not getting locked up or killed has been quite the feat. After the recent murder of one his close friends, and alleged betrayal of his girlfriend, his last days before hitting the road for college ... Read more

    Free

  • Freezing People Is (Not) Easy

    My Adventures in Cryonics

    Bob Nelson was no ordinary T.V. repairman. One day he discovered a book that ultimately changed his entire life trajectory *--*The Prospect of Immortality by Professor Robert Ettinger. From it, he learned about cryonics: a process in which the body temperature is lowered during the beginning of the dying process to keep the brain intact, so that those frozen could potentially be reanimated in the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Three Crazy Careers Seventy-Two Years

    One Lucky Man

    This account of three unplanned careers supports the theory that life does not pursue a set of plans. As the author at ninety-two explains to friends, If it werent for World War II, Id likely still be milking cows today. While in elementary school, Nelson and his older brother, Roy, became key parts of the familys dairy labor force. He describes his official thirty-year work career as a fertilizer ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Neighbors

    A Summer-Winter Affair

    At seventy-five, widower Ted Butler is content to spend his day growing prize-winning tomatoes, fishing on his mountain lake, and visiting with his children and grandchildren. His expectations of life suddenly change when he delivers a basket of tomatoes to his new forty-something neighbor and finds himself delightfully seduced.Lauren Haas has just moved in across the street from Teds home of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States

    This insightful book clarifies the meaning of social sustainability and how it can be assessed in ageing welfare states. It explores the impact of population ageing on well-being and social policies, identifying the resources and institutions which can facilitate well-being and social sustainability without compromising financial and environmental sustainability.Expert contributors discuss the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States

    This insightful book clarifies the meaning of social sustainability and how it can be assessed in ageing welfare states. It explores the impact of population ageing on well-being and social policies, identifying the resources and institutions which can facilitate well-being and social sustainability without compromising financial and environmental sustainability.Expert contributors discuss the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology

    The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology explores the key developments in both Protestant and Catholic theology ca. 1475-1650. Exploring the various settings and schools in which theology was formulated and taught, and the social backgrounds of its exponents—including women and non-university-trained men, as well as writers both in and outside Europe—it establishes how the major ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease

    Pathologic Basis for Treatment

    Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease: Pathologic Basis for Treatment reviews the natural history of carotid atherosclerotic plaque, this volume outlines different pathologic characteristics of asymptomatic and symptomatic carotid plaque. The authors provide a pathology-based rationale for assessment, risk stratification, and decision-making therapeutic strategy. They illustrate the impact of carotid ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Freckles (UNABRIDGED)

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    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the Limberlost Swamp, as a Limberlost guard of precious timber. In the process, he discovers a love for the wilderness and animals he encounters every day on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Generational Welfare Contract

    Justice, Institutions and Outcomes

    This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational justice. Contributing new insights about the preconditions for designing sustainable, inclusive policies for all of society, the authors expose the possibilities of supporting egalitarian principles in an aging society through balanced generational welfare contracts ... Read more

    $35.99 USD