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Old Catskill Days - The Podcast

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
This podcast is to discuss and promote my book series, Old Catskill Days - Memoirs of a Hacker. I will discuss the book, technology, my life and anything else I wander my way into.
AWERE FIRST PUBLISHING | BLOG Podcast | NonFiction Articles in Tech, Wellness, SelfHelp...And More. artwork

AWERE FIRST PUBLISHING | BLOG Podcast | NonFiction Articles in Tech, Wellness, SelfHelp...And More.

42 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
This BLOG Podcast will be a collection of the audio format of the non-fiction multi-genre, blog posts from https://www.awerefirstpublishing.com/blog/. Going forward, I hope to have more exclusive...
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Author Create

25 episodes - Latest episode: over 3 years ago
For those who have a book trapped in their soul screaming to come out.
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Euthyphro by Plato

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these...
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution deliverin...
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Ion by Plato

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In Plato’s Ion, Socrates questions Ion on whether he should really claim laud and glory for his ‘rhapsodic’ recitals of Homer’s poetry.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short collections of aphorisms: “A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated”, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and “Phrases and Philosoph...
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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This autobiographical work describes the author’s harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.
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When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils needed for the preparation of each dish.
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Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
“Nature” is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-tradit...
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U.S. Historical Documents by Various

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ra...
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Bill of Rights & Amendments to the US Constitution by Founding Fathers of the United States

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately.
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Initiative Psychic Energy by Warren Hilton

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient.
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Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English by Henry Stanton

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is par...
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Chronicles of Canada -- Dawn of Canadian History: Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratings
Most readers of Stephen Leacock's works are familiar with his witty and humorous writings, but few may be aware that he was also a gifted teacher, political ideologue, economist and fiction writer....
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The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Brooks Adams (1848- 1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together...
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Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.” An uncannily prophetic quote from an 1890 book, Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall presents an idea that has been accept...
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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Published in 1859, On Liberty is a libertarian philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill that endorses his view on the importance of individuality for the constant progression and ...
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Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 by Charles Spurgeon

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It ...
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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natura...
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Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British...
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China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language a...
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The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Laozi

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Written in classical Chinese some time during the sixth century BC, The Tao Teh King or The Tao and its Characteristics is a classical Chinese text that is one of the important keystones in unders...
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Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
John Stuart Mill’s book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles publ...
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Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)
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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
“Is There A Santa Claus?” was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. The editorial, which included the response of “Yes, Virginia, There...
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As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts,” is one of the quotes from James Allen's classic self help books, As a Man Thinketh. Published in 1902,...
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Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Long before Christiane Amanpour, Frances Fitzgerald and Martha Gellhorn blazed a trail in courageous investigative journalism, a pioneering and intrepid writer and journalist whose pen name was Nel...
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett artwork

Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women is one of the many self help books that Bennett wrote, the most famous of these being How to Live 24 Hours a Day. It is highly readable, amusing a...
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Short Nonfiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain.