The Great Courses. Modern History: Victorian Britain (Audiobook). By Professor Patrick N. AllittBy Professor Patrick N. Allitt
Darwin. Gladstone. Disraeli. Dickens. Meet the pioneering, paradoxical Britons of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
This course is a chronological journey into the Victorian story with all its strengths and foibles and invites you to reflect on its lessons both positive and negative. You move from the unexpected ascension to the throne of teenaged Princess Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901 as the Boer War neared its end.
It's the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a special train rolls into York station. It carries a young aristocrat recently found guilty of murdering his father in the sleepy village of Adenwold.
Johnny Harlow, a world champion racing driver, realises after being involved in yet another crash on the circuit that there have been too many accidents on the racetrack lately. He decides to investigate but soon finds out that a few people don't want him to know the truth. He continues to stalk his prey and finally confronts the perpetrators which leads to a high speed showdown.
Do Dead People Watch You Shower?: And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium
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Do Dead People Watch You Shower?: And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium
“GHOSTS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN: the dead do walk among us, watch us make love and sometimes even try to get in on the action—but they won’t follow us into bars.” (PAGE SIX, New York Post )
“Bertoldi swears she has been communicating with the dead since she was a little girl. Now she reveals everything you’v ever wanted to know about what it’s like.” (Daily News )
“I have never read a more straightforward book about ‘The Other Side’…Concetta instills a sense that there is more living after death…heart-warming.” (Abigail Carter, author of The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation )
ANALYZING THE Italian municipal elections in the spring of 1999, longtime Italian political analyst Ernesto Galli della Loggia explained in the Milanese daily Corriere della Sera that voters were defying journalistic expectations. The working class was not voting for the Left in the numbers that had been predicted, whereas the Communists and other leftist parties were attracting a constituency consisting of gay, ecological, multicultural, and feminist activists and, more generally, of unmarried professionals.We are led to conclude that both “unconventional lifestyles” and distaste for an older European morality were characteristic of the changing Italian Left.
