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Two Sides of the Coin is your essential guide to understanding the world's most intricate and often polarizing issues. In a media landscape too often defined by absolutes, we commit to exploring every topic from multiple, deeply considered compassionate perspectives. Each episode, we dive beyond the headlines to dissect nuances, unravel historical contexts, and present diverse viewpoints with unparalleled fairness, balance, and compassion. Our mission isn't to provide definitive answers, but to foster truly informed conversations that empower you to think critically and empathize deeply. If ...

Achieve a worry-free retirement, simplify your planning journey, and maximize the enjoyment of your golden years, even without financial expertise! Have you reached the point where retirement looms large on the horizon, yet the thought of financial instability keeps you awake at night? Financial Planning for Retirement Made Easy simplifies retirement planning and eases financial anxieties.

Drawing on his personal experiences as a husband and physician, Dr. George Simms weaves together timeless aphorisms, personal anecdotes, and hard-won wisdom to uncover beauty in life’s broken moments.

Unlock deeper connections and lasting love with conflict-free conversations, even if past attempts have failed. Are you constantly caught in a cycle of misunderstandings that escalate into arguments? Do you find it challenging to express your emotions without fear of causing conflict? Are you struggling to adapt communication during significant life changes, like welcoming a new family member or transitioning to a new job? You're not alone if you answered "yes" to any of these questions. Many couples face these exact dilemmas, but this doesn't have to be your story.

Real stories. Honest chats. Stuff that actually matters. I’m Pete George, an Australian photographer and storyteller. Hey Georgie is where we talk creativity, resilience, and paying attention, not just through the camera but in life. No gear talk or chasing the latest fad here. It’s about what catches our eye, what sticks with us, and why we keep showing up, even when no one’s clapping. Sometimes I get personal. Other times, I bring on folks who’ve been through their stuff. But it’s always real, reflective, and all about connection. No fluff. No ego. Just curiosity, purpose, and the ...

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive? The authors bring the tragedy to life, telling the story of the ship's design, construction, and maiden voyage.

Despite her name, Clover has always felt decidedly unlucky. So when she stumbles upon a mysterious cottage in the woods, she can hardly believe her good fortune. It's the Magical Animal Adoption Agency, and it houses creatures of all kinds. Fairy horses, unicorns, and a fiery young dragon are just the beginning! Mr. Jams, the agency's owner, agrees to hire her as a summer helper and Clover hopes her luck has finally changed. But when she's left alone to care for the agency, a sneaky witch comes after the magical creatures! Will Clover outsmart her in time to protect the animals?

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth—or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak—where he alters newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, however, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts and breaking through the loneliness in which he lives. Thus he takes his first dangerous steps, writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia.

In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms. These technologies - far from the out-of-control nightmare depicted in science fiction - have the power to improve human and animal health, increase our intelligence, enhance our memory, and even extend our life span.

This anthology has been in the making for some years in the mind of the editor, Dione Venables, founding member of The Orwell Society. In 2006 she contributed the postscript to her cousin Jacintha Buddicom's memoir about the childhood and early youth of George Orwell. She continues to work for greater clarity and appreciation of the great man's genius and felt that this emotional layer of perception had been largely ignored by academia.

In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.

Todo ocurre en el futurista Londres del año 1984, en Oceanía, la nación que agrupaba todos los pueblos angloparlantes del mundo, el gobierno que imperaba era de índole totalitario, controlado por el Partido y liderado por el Gran Hermano, la figura a quien todos los ciudadanos le deben absoluto respeto y admiración.

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons left in the world.

A wise, playful, electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next. With the acuity and explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time—the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress—and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.

In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. Thorfinn wakes to the twentieth century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island.

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An inconsistent but highly whimsical pod, in which your host, George Dunn, talks horror literature with people who actually know stuff.

Dive into the unexpected friendship of Mr. Crittenden Yollop and a burglar who breaks into his home. Instead of turning him in, Yollop takes humor and reform into his own hands, helping the criminal achieve his real desire - to return to prison. This satirical tale offers a unique perspective on the prison system, law enforcement, and social reform.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry.

On the night of April 14, 1865, the nation reeled in horror as President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by the famed actor John Wilkes Booth. In this gripping 19th-century account, journalist George Alfred Townsend delivers a detailed and chilling narrative of Booth’s descent into infamy, the conspiracy that rocked the nation, and the relentless manhunt that followed.