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ID: 662848

Title: Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

Author: Henry Chadwick, St. Augustine

Narrator: S. D. Cousins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:19:30

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent

from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood.

Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology

and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan,

and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information

about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.

The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this classic.

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ID: 662849

Title: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

Author: David Stahel

Narrator: Stewart Crank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:41:50

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. Using archival records, in this book David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

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ID: 662842

Title: Aviation Instructor's Handbook: FAA-H-8083-9B (Federal Aviation Administration)

Author: Federal Aviation Administration

Narrator: Airman Audio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:57:16

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Unabridged and expertly crafted for audiobook listeners.

Designed for ground instructors, flight instructors, and aviation maintenance instructors, the Aviation Instructor's Handbook was developed by the Flight Standards Service, Airman Testing Standards Branch, in cooperation with aviation educators and industry to help beginning instructors understand and apply the fundamentals of instruction. This handbook provides aviation instructors with upto-date information on learning and teaching, and how to relate this information to the task of teaching aeronautical knowledge and skills to learners. Experienced aviation instructors will also find the updated information useful for improving their effectiveness in training activities.

This handbook supersedes FAA-H-8083-9A, Aviation Instructor's Handbook, dated 2008.

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ID: 662843

Title: Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25B (Federal Aviation Administration)

Author: Federal Aviation Administration

Narrator: Airman Audio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Unabridged and expertly crafted for audiobook listeners.

The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots. This handbook introduces pilots to the broad spectrum of knowledge that will be needed as they progress in their pilot training. Except for the Code of Federal Regulations pertinent to civil aviation, most of the knowledge areas applicable to pilot certification are presented. This handbook is useful to beginning pilots, as well as those pursuing more advanced pilot certificates.

Occasionally the word 'must' or similar language is used where the desired action is deemed critical. The use of such language is not intended to add to, interpret, or relieve a duty imposed by Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR). It is essential for persons using this handbook to become familiar with and apply the pertinent parts of 14 CFR and the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM). The AIM is available online at www.faa.gov. The current Flight Standards Service airman training and testing material and learning statements for all airman certificates and ratings can be obtained

from www.faa.gov.

This handbook supersedes FAA-H-8083-25A, Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, dated 2008.

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ID: 663968

Title: American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

Author: Michael N. Bastedo, Patricia J. Gumport, Philip G. Altbach

Narrator: Chelsea Kwoka

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:27:25

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Education

Summary:

An indispensable reference that everyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities should acquire.

First published in 1999, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offered a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. This thoroughly revised edition brings the classic volume up to date. The contributors have rewritten every chapter to address major changes in higher education, including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, and the growth of for-profit and distance education. Three new chapters cover information technology, community colleges, and teaching and learning.

This edition seeks to capture several crucial dynamics in the nexus of higher education and society. Placing higher education within its social and political contexts, the contributors discuss finance, federal and state governance, faculty, students, curriculum, and academic leadership. They also grapple with growing concerns about the future of the academy and reflect more deeply on the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity within higher education.

No other book covers such wide-ranging issues under the broader theme of higher education's relationship to society. Highly acclaimed and incorporating cutting-edge research, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century is now more useful and engaging than ever.

Contributors: Michael N. Bastedo, Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport, Benjamin Baez, Peter Riley Bahr, Joy Blanchard, Corbin M. Campbell, Melanie E. Corrigan, Peter D. Eckel, Roger L. Geiger, Lawrence E. Gladieux, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jillian Leigh Gross, D. Bruce Johnstone, Adrianna Kezar, Jacqueline E. King, Aims C. McGuinness, Jr., Michael Mumper, Anna Neumann, Robert M. O'Neil, Laura W. Perna, Gary Rhoades, Roman Ruiz, Lauren Schudde, Sheila Slaughter, Daryl G. Smith

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ID: 663969

Title: Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis Aldous Huxley

Author: Peter Kreeft

Narrator: David Swanson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:52:43

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go? Peter Kreeft imagines their discussion as a part of The Great Conversation that has been going on for centuries. Does human life have meaning? Is it possible to know about life after death? What if one could prove that Jesus was God? With Kennedy taking the role of a modern humanist, Lewis representing Christian theism and Huxley advocating Eastern pantheism, the dialogue is lively and informative. This new edition of this classic work includes a postscript in which Kreeft describes why and how he wrote what has remained a standard of apologetic literature for a generation. He also adds an outline and index to the book as well as a never-before-published dialog in which he imagines 'A World Without an Easter.' Now more than ever this book offers an animated interaction that involves not only good thinking but good drama.

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ID: 663970

Title: Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness

Author: Edward T. Welch

Narrator: Richard Merton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:18:20

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Where Is God in the Struggle? Looking away from despair towards hope can feel risky. What if God doesn't come through for you? What if you don't feel instantly better? Instead of offering simple platitudes or unrealistic cure-all formulas, Edward T. Welch addresses the complex nature of depression with compassion and insight, applying the rich treasures of the Christian gospel, and giving fresh hope to those who struggle.

Depression can be a crippling mental health issue, but with the faith in God new hope can be discovered and a path to becoming a healthy happy Christian again can eb found

Originally published as Depression: A Stubborn Darkness Light for the Path, this new edition is updated with added content.

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ID: 667309

Title: Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Author: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Narrator: Jonathan Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 11:25:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Language Instruction, Language Arts, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science. Also included is a later essay which aims to demonstrate that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the recent development of new communications technologies.

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ID: 667326

Title: James Madison: A Biography

Author: Ralph Ketcham

Narrator: Bill Burrows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38:04:21

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

The best one volume biography of Madison's life, Ketcham's biography not only traces Madison's career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, 'all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man.' It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display (including a portrait of the beautiful Dolley Madison).

'Madison's personality comes alive in these pages, his strengths and weaknesses of mind and character clearly outlined. His great services in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 are graphically portrayed. The analysis of his political theory, and of the way in which he sought to apply it to the establishment of of government under the Constitution, is excellent. The depiction of Jeffersonian and Madisonian foreign policy up to the outbreak of the War of 1812 is clear and succinct. This is an excellent biography.

American Historical Review

Utilizing the vast amount of source material made available in the last 30 years, Ketcham has captured the essential man in his times and in doing so has made him understandable for us in our own day.

Los Angeles Times

This single volume has provided a penetrating and highly readable biography which merits distinction as the best one-volume life of Madison yet written.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Ketcham's long-standing familiarity with Madison's life and times is evident in this accessible work...Ketcham has written an enjoyable and scholarly narrative that will no doubt be considered of great value to Montpelier's more serious visitors, as well as students, scholars, and general readers with an interest in the founding couple.

Kellie Strickland, North Carolina State University - North Carolina Historical Review

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ID: 667317

Title: Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrator: James Clement

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Biblical Studies

Summary:

While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia.

Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Readers will find Gospels supposedly authored by the apostle Philip, James the brother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and others. There are Acts originally ascribed to John and to Thecla, Paul's female companion; there are Epistles allegedly written by Paul to the Roman philosopher Seneca. And there is an apocalypse by Simon Peter that offers a guided tour of the afterlife, both the glorious ecstasies of the saints and the horrendous torments of the damned, and an Epistle by Titus, a companion of Paul, which argues page after page against sexual love, even within marriage, on the grounds that physical intimacy leads to damnation.

In all, the anthology includes fifteen Gospels, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles, a number of Apocalypses and Secret Books, and several Canon lists. Ehrman has included a general introduction, plus brief introductions to each piece. This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.

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