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  • Maps for Family and Local History (2nd Edition)

    The Records of the Tithe, Valuation Office and National Farm Surveys, Second Edition

    Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas. Covering 1836 to 1943, the Tithe, Valuation Office, and National Farm Surveys provide a wealth of information on rural and urban localities, on dwellings, settlements, and landscapes as well as the status of householders. ... Read more

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  • The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

    47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

    The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • Making Mondragón

    The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex

    Series series Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
    This well-researched study should be read by anyone with an interest in worker cooperatives, community economic development, and work redesign programs.― Contemporary SociologySince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Prisoner For Blasphemy (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Kristi Rose ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker", a magazine that, despite the best efforts of the 19th Century British judicial system, is still going strong. "Prisoner for Blasphemy" is a memoir of his several trials and final imprisonment in Holloway Gaol. Although Foote's was the last prominent blasphemy case ... Read more

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  • Geographic Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management

    A holistic view of geospatial data and analysis across the risk management lifecycleGeospatial data and analytical tools are widely used for disaster management, insurance, humanitarian response, and defence—yet methodologies remain siloed. Geographic Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management, written by a team of experienced practitioners in catastrophe risk analytics and geospatial studies, ... Read more

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  • Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

    "Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)" is a collection of short stories edited by H. C. Bunner. This anthology features works by various American writers, showcasing a diverse range of styles, themes, and voices from the late 19th century.While the specific stories included in this volume may vary depending on the edition, anthologies like this typically offer readers a glimpse into the literary ... Read more

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  • Street Corner Society

    The Social Structure of an Italian Slum

    The classic study of a poor community in Boston's North End in the mid-twentieth century.Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"—Boston's North End—has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years.By mapping the intricate social ... Read more

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  • Arrows of Freethought

    The Archbishop of York is peculiarly qualified to speak on religion and progress. His form of thanksgiving to the God of Battles for our "victory" in Egypt marks him as a man of extraordinary intellect and character, such as common people may admire without hoping to emulate; while his position, in Archbishop Tait's necessitated absence from the scene, makes him the active head of the English ... Read more

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  • Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker"

    English literature has its Comic Histories, its Comic Grammars, its Comic Geographies, and its Comic Law-Books, and Carlyle once prophesied that it would some day boast its Comic Bible. Tough as the fine old Sage of Chelsea was, he predicted this monstrosity with something of the horror a barbarian might feel at the thought of some irreverent fellow deliberately laughing at the tribal fetish. But ... Read more

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    Flowers of Freethought (UNABRIDGED)

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    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    A collection of 51 short essays by George William Foote, who in May 1881 founded the magazine "The Freethinker", which is still published (online) today. In the first issue, Foote writes: The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must therefore be chiefly aggressive. It will wage relentless war against superstition in general, and against Christian superstition in particular. The essays of ... Read more

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    Satires and Profanities (Unabridged)

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    7 hours 14 min

    "Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the periodical press. There will doubtless be a diversity of opinion as to their value. One critic, for instance, has called “The Story of a Famous Old ... Read more

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