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September 08, 2023 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Harry Potter, Book 3
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Harry Potter, Book 3
12 hr 4 min
September 08, 2023 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Harry Potter, Book 4
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Harry Potter, Book 4
20 hr 56 min
September 08, 2023 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Harry Potter, Book 1
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Harry Potter, Book 1
8 hr 26 min
September 08, 2023 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter, Book 2
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter, Book 2
9 hr 44 min
June 02, 2023 Homer - The Odyssey
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles
A Penguin Classic

Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible
poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man,
Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once
he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert
Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in the New York Times Book Review hails as "a distinguished achievement."
If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey
is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through
life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his
encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage
home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story
and an individual test of moral endurance.
In the myths and
legends retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of
Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey
to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.
Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb introduction and textual
commentary provide insightful background information for the general
reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles's
translation. This is an Odyssey
to delight both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a
new generation of Homer's students. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
For
more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and
notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

10 hr 21 min
June 01, 2023 Iliad of Homer
Lecture 1 sets the stage for our reading of the Iliad by providing an introduction to the plan of the course and summarizing the mythological background assumed by both the Iliad and the Odyssey (also available as a course taught by Dr. Vandiver).
Lecture 2 addresses the question of the 400- to 500-year gap between the events described in the Iliad (and, subsequently, the Odyssey) and the time when they were first written down.
It describes the Iliad's
relationship to traditional orally transmitted poetry, and considers
the implications of that oral tradition for the question of who "Homer"
was.
Lectures 3-12 address the plot, characters, and interpretations of the Iliad itself. Each focuses on a particular scene, character, or theme as we read through the Iliad.
Lecture 3 introduces the cultural concepts of kleos (glory) and timê (honor) and explains their significance for understanding the wrath of Achilles.
Lecture 4
moves inside the walls of Troy to discuss Homer's presentation of the
Trojans as sympathetic characters, rather than stereotypical enemies.
Lecture 5 looks in detail at Book IX of the Iliad, where three of Achilles's comrades try to persuade him to return to battle, and discusses how the concepts of kleos and timê factor into his refusal to do so.
Lecture 6 is devoted to a fuller discussion of the concept of kleos, which demonstrates that it is one of the key elements in the Iliad 's examination of the human condition.
Lecture 7
turns to an examination of the gods in Homer, discussing what types of
beings they are and what their presence in the narrative adds to the Iliad.
Lectures 8 and 9 give a detailed reading of the most important events of the day of Hektor's glory and Patroklos's death—the Iliad 's longest day, which lasts from Book XI through Book XVIII—with Lecture 8 focusing on Hektor and Lecture 9 on Patroklos.
Lecture 10
covers Achilles's return to battle, discussing the implications of his
actions, his divinely made armor, and his refusal to bury the dead
Patroklos.
Lecture 11 examines Hektor and
Achilles together, highlighting the contrasting elements in their
characters and the inevitability of their final encounter in battle.
Lecture 12 concludes the course with a discussion of the resolution of the Iliad, which is brought about by Achilles's encounter with his dead enemy, Hektor's aged father, King Priam.
The
encounter of these two enemies offers one final opportunity to take
from this great work a true understanding of the nature of mortality,
the Iliad's constant underlying theme.
6 hr 4 min
March 05, 2023 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
From best-selling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.
The three decades after the Civil War saw a wholesale shift in American life, and the cause was capitalism. Driven by J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and others like them, armies of men and women were harnessed to a new vision of massive industry. A society rooted in the soil became one based in cities, and legions of immigrants were drawn to American shores.
H. W. Brands’ American Colossus portrays the stunning transformation of the landscape and institutions of American life in these years. Brands charts the rise of Wall Street, the growth of a national economy, the building of the railroads, and the first sparks of union life. By 1900, America was wealthier than ever, yet prosperity was precarious, inequality rampant, and democracy stretched thin. A populist backlash stirred.
American Colossus is an unforgettable portrait of the years when a recognizably modern America first took shape.
23 hr 31 min
March 05, 2023 Andrew Carnegie
A New York Times bestseller!

“Beautifully crafted and fun to read.” —Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal

“Nasaw’s research is extraordinary.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Make no mistake: David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date.” —Salon.com

The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie

Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists—in what will prove to be the biography of the season.

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public—a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism—Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma.

Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. With a trove of new material—unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain—Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this facinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can.
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March 05, 2023 The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
The definitive and “utterly absorbing” biography of America’s first news media baron based on newly released private and business documents (Vanity Fair).
In The Chief, David Nasaw presents an intimate portrait of William Randolph Hearst, famously characterized in the classic film Citizen Kane, and whose influence was nearly as great as many world leaders.

A brilliant business strategist, Hearst controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and thirteen magazines. He quickly learned how to use this media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power.
The son of a gold miner, Hearst underwent a public metamorphosis from Harvard dropout to political kingmaker; from outspoken populist to opponent of the New Deal; and from citizen to congressman.?
With unprecedented access to Hearst’s personal and business papers, Nasaw details Heart’s relationship with his wife Millicent and his romance with Marion Davies; his interactions with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, and every American president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt; and his acquaintance with movie giants such as Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Irving Thalberg.
An “absorbing, sympathetic portrait of an American original,” The Chief sheds light on the private life of a very public man (Chicago Tribune).
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February 19, 2023 How to Raise Your Own Salary
This new edition of How to Raise Your Own Salary is filled with foolproof techniques for acquiring the knowledge and skills for increasing your share of life’s riches. The detailed dialog between Andrew Carnegie and Napoleon Hill will mesmerize you with its message. Simultaneously, this classic work will stimulate your subconscious mind to put into immediate operation your desire for individual achievement. This book will teach you how to: -Win riches, power, and prestige. -Discover how to set your own goal in life and achieve it. -Make life pay you for your personal efforts. -Uncover Andrew Carnegie’s entire secret of success. -Retrace step by step the principles of achievement that lifted Carnegie to a position of great affluence and wealth. -Achieve the right mental attitude that places you on the next rung in your ladder to success. -Manifest success in your day-to-day life.
10 hr 37 min

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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.