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Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated). The illustrations can be found in the online text at bartleby.com. For the LibriVox recording, we have divided the book into five parts. Part 5 includes Splanchnology and Surface Anatomy and Markings. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

One of the most powerful defenses of conscience, courage, and moral conviction ever written. In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau delivers a passionate and uncompromising response to one of the most controversial events in American history. Written after John Brown's raid on...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 8, 2012.Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated). For the Librivox recording, we have divided the book into five parts. Part 2 includes Syndesmology and Myology. The mathematical formulas (section 25) and the illustrations can be found in the online text at bartleby.com. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

John Haye, a sensitive and artistic teenager attending boarding school, is blinded in an accident which changes his life forever. Forced to leave school and return home, John must confront an entirely new reality – one of restricted freedom, vulnerability and inner turmoil. As John attempts to adapt to his blindness, we are provided with a profound insight into his emotional world, including his alienation from others and efforts to form a new sense of self.

Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and fauna – especially the area around Great Yarmouth and Breydon Water. He was the author of many books about Broadland and was a regular and popular contributor (under the pen name of John Knowlittle) to the local county newspaper. From an early age, he developed an affinity with the natural history of the Broads and kept extensive daily notes on the area’s wildlife – which ultimately led him to collate and distil the observations that he had recorded ...

Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and documenting all aspects of the natural history of the Norfolk Broads, especially the area around Breydon Water near his home town of Great Yarmouth. At some 75000 acres (117 sq miles / 303 sq km), the Broads are the largest protected wetland in Britain. AHP was the author of many books about Broadland as well as submitting numerous papers and articles to nature societies and journals. Also, he was for many years, a regular and popular contributor (under ...

Letters written by Henry Parkes to his family in Birmingham, England as he made his way to London and then to Sydney. The letters were gathered by his daughter Annie T. Parkes. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

Set in the drawing rooms and fashionable circles of London, A London Life follows Laura Wing as she navigates a marriage overshadowed by scandal and the suffocating expectations of society. As rumours spread and loyalties fracture, James explores the tension between public image and private truth with razor-sharp insight. Elegant, psychologically rich, and strikingly modern in its understanding of reputation and relationships, A London Life is a timeless portrait of love, ambition, and survival in a city obsessed with status.

This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as infidelity and whether women's intelligence is equal to men's. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosystem, providing habitat for a diverse range of flora and fauna (some of which are unique to the Broads area), as well as a means of livelihood for the inhabitants of this region. In the company of the book’s author, a self-taught lifelong naturalist and undisputed expert of the Broads (who also wrote under the pen name of John Knowlittle), we discover how the life of the Broads unfolds over the course of a single year. So, why not listen in, and join us ...

En La bestia en la jungla, de Henry James, John Marcher vive obsesionado con la certeza de que un hecho extraordinario —terrible o sublime— lo aguarda en algún momento de su existencia. Solo May Bartram conoce su secreto y acepta acompañarlo en esa inquietante espera. Pero mientras los años pasan, la verdadera amenaza quizá no esté afuera… sino en aquello que ambos dejan vivir.

Bloomsbury presents The Art of Diplomacy by Stuart E. Eizenstat, read by Christopher Ragland A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. “A magisterial tome on the...

Il tema dell'intelligenza artificiale sta dominando ormai da alcuni anni il dibattito pubblico. Questo perché, anche se abbiamo appena iniziato ad avvertire l'impatto che l'IA avrà sulle nostre vite, stiamo diventando sempre più consapevoli che i suoi effetti saranno profondi, così come sarà profondo il modo in cui essa trasformerà il nostro rapporto con la realtà, la conoscenza e la verità. Le sue potenzialità aumentano a un ritmo vertiginoso, e i progressi, come i benefici che sapremo trarne, appaiono straordinari. Tuttavia, non mancano i segnali d'allarme.

One of the biggest secrets of the ages is this: thought is creative. Thought creates reality—no matter how much it might seem otherwise. This is the secret of power, success, love, and health. You shape your reality by shaping your thoughts. This is staggering and incredible, but it’s the truth. These twelve classic works all describe the true power of mind and how to make it work for you to achieve success and fulfillment in all areas of life: work, money, relationships, even luck.

They say I'm jealous. Possessive. Obsessed. I say I know what I want, and I want her. She'll be my submissive. My property. I'll teach her what it means to submit. I'll show her what it means to obey. So I hire her for a job. To be my accomplice. We'll pull off the biggest heist known to Corsica. They say money doesn't buy love… But it can buy her.

¿Anhelas una iglesia donde reine la armonía y el amor fraternal? Este libro, una compilación de reflexiones profundas de gigantes de la fe como C.H. Spurgeon, Matthew Henry y D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, te guiará hacia una comprensión más profunda de la unidad cristiana.

Not Enough Noras, a new HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks book, full description to follow when available...

"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, nay, which I am certain he will, relinquish." One of the great works of the English literary canon, this comic masterpiece, first published in 1749, draws us into the lives of two neighbouring Somersetshire squires and friends, one genial and generous, the other a hot-headed lover of the hunt and the bottle, who conspire together, on the basis of a mutual misunderstanding, to marry the former's nephew to the latter's daughter, very much to the discomfort of the ...

We enter the dank corridors of gibbering horrors with this pair of depraved dwellings being investigated by Henry Kuttner's occultist creation Michael Leigh! In The Salem Horror, we bear witness to a ghastly witch curse born of the dread Cthulhu mythos that refuses to stay dead, and in The Black Kiss, where Kuttner was ably assisted by noted horror author Robert Bloch of Psycho fame, we are held in sway of a demented sea goddess whose cold, lifeless lips beckon us into the depths of the abyss forever! - Summary by Ben Tucker