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It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their...
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Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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8 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Europe, it's no secret that the vast majority of people are either bilingual or trilingual. The Euro Method is the easy and simple way many Europeans use to learn to speak a second language. Based on the same tried and proven techniques that allow a four-year old to speak a language long before that same child can read or write, the Instant Immersion Spanish Audio CD Learning System is guaranteed to be the best method for learning to speak Spanish...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
c2009
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8 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (88 p. ; 21 cm.)
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Reviews basic concepts from French Level 1, then expands on these areas, focusing on extensive sentence building instruction and medium-lengthsentence combinations to improve conversational skills and listening comprehension.
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks?those that are honest about the past and those that are not?that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation?s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
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8 CDs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in + 1 book (98 p. ; 21 cm.)
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Behind the Wheel's French Level 1 provides a stable and universal foundation in comprehending, speaking, and using creative expression for the novice French language learner.
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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays...
Publisher
Living Language
Pub. Date
[2002], p1997
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3 CDs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 listener's guide (86 p. ; 18 cm.) in container 23 x 20 x 5 cm.
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An English-speaking narrator guides the user through 35 short lessons; listen and repeat after the native German speakers. The guide shows the spelling and text of all the dialogues, along with a brief grammar summary and a glossary of grammatical terms. Designed to help learn the German language while driving, working around the house, or exercising at the gym.
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Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical...
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