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  The Library as Forum in the Social Media Age (eBook, ePUB)

  How do individuals in our country converse about thorny political matters? We know that these kinds of discussions can be fraught, but there are ways that the conversations can be thoughtful and civil. In this book, ways to ensure civil conversations are explored deeply. A major thrust of the book is that the library (writ large) can be the locus for informed conversations, typified by evidence and truth. We begin with a description of the library-what it is, what purposes it can serve, what contributions it can make to civil discourse. As we will see, the theme of liberty runs throughout the commentary.Another chapter explores what discourse is, how discourse theory can inform civil conversations, and what kinds of discursive practices achieve the goal of civility. This is, admittedly, a tall order, but it is absolutely necessary to fulfill the promise of the book. The chapter further presents examples of topics that are components of political conversations today, as well as substantive sources that can inform those conversations. The final chapter returns to the library. The spirit and substance of providing a venue for civil conversation are discussed at some length. The conclusion presents how the library can be the exemplar for civil conversation. The audience for the book is not limited to librarians, but extends to all who are interested in, and committed to, reasoned discussion of the political issues that divide us today. Examples of topics of conversation conclude the last chapter. The purpose is to illustrate just how the fraught topics can be discussed in a civil and considered manner. The ultimate purpose of the book is to present a realistic manner by which political conversations can take place, fostered by libraries.

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  The Forsyte Saga, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min

  A compelling drama and a merciless scrutiny of a newly monied upper-middle-class family at the turn of the 20th century, The Forsyte Saga has a sumptuous range of characters:Soames, he of the ‘perpetual sniff’; Old Jolyon, ‘typifying the essential individualism born in the Briton’; the sensuous Bosinney with ‘an air as if he did not quite know on which side his bread was buttered’; Young Jolyon, the free thinker; and, of course, the sexually alluring and impenetrable Irene, catalyst for much dissension within the clan. The Forsytes believe they will live forever, but the unrelenting, imperturbable façade slowly begins to crumble as Aunt Ann, the oldest Forsyte ever, is interred in the family tomb at the end of this first volume. The author makes his presence and opinion felt with beautifully subtle pinpricks of wit, which leave one in no doubt what he thought of the accumulation of wealth and property, which typified the materialistic Victorian psyche, at the expense of sensitivity and freedom. As in The Dark Flower (also published by Assembled Stories), Galsworthy demonstrates a fundamental understanding of hidden sexual currents and their ability to change our destinies. If you have enjoyed The Forsyte Saga on television in the past, you will be familiar with this engrossing story; if not, prepare to be completely captivated and engaged by one of the best tales ever told. About Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "agic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act", and "a splendid example of audio at its best". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000010/bk_assm_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Selected Short Writings: Brethren Writers Library, Book 14 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min

  Three Selected Short Writings by C. A. Coates Peace with God: There are four things that hinder souls from having peace: Coates uses four Old Testament pictures to show how every question in connection with these four things has been met and settled for the believer. For example, "Many believers in Jesus do not know that their sins are put away...actually carried out of God's sight, and removed from before him by being borne by Jesus." Three scenes of Judgment: In this section "The Sacrifice of Isaac", "The casting out of Ishmael", and "The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah" are examined. As Coates says, "May the truths typified by these three scenes of judgment have such a place in our souls that each one of us may have unclouded peace and joy and be found in distinct testimony for the One who is rejected by the world." What meanest thou? A short Gospel message: "I would have you to consider carefully that indifference to the Gospel is a sin of no ordinary kind; it is pure and simple wickedness.... It is at an infinite cost that God has secured for Himself in righteousness the title of Saviour God. The Son has been given; Jesus has died; and the whole universe can see at the cross of Christ that God is indifferent neither to sin nor to the need of his poor creature who has fallen under its power.... Let me say, then, very briefly, that through a crucified, risen, and glorified Saviour - the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord - God is proclaiming the forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stuart Packer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001260/bk_hove_001260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American Culture (Sports & Popular Culture) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 826min

  In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation's larger cultural narrative.In 1920, with their acquisition of Babe Ruth, the Yankees rose to prominence. With his power-hitting style attracting legions of new fans, the "Great Bambino" became a national hero of the Roaring Twenties. In contrast to Ruth's flamboyance, his less flashy successors Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio captured the spirit of striving and courage that carried America through the Depression and WWII years. The Pride of the Yankees, a popular movie celebrating Gehrig's career, typified the trend.Mirroring the nation's postwar swagger and confidence, the club of the Mickey Mantle-era remained hugely popular, but "Yankee hating" set in as well. Novels like Mark Harris' The Southpaw and Douglas Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant signified a widespread resentment of the team's outsized dominance. Amid the national turmoil of the 1960s, the Yankees also went into decline. In the following decades, as player salaries soared and team infighting grabbed headlines, the once-glowing portrayals of the team gave way to tell-all books like Ball Four and The Bronx Zoo. Yet, as this informative and entertaining audiobook amply shows, the Yankees have, through all their ups and downs, retained a hold on the American imagination unmatched by any other sports franchise.The book is published by University of Tennessee Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks."The Yankees have connected with American culture for a century, and Will Bishop has done readers and fans a great service by documenting it all in one volume." (Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dale J. Hubbard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169038/bk_acx0_169038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Alaric Thain's History of the 21st Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 761min

  Alaric Thain’s History of the 21st Century recounts the events of the pivotal 21st century in a way that can be understood by people of the 29th century, who live in what might considered a progressive utopia. Alaric Thain was born in 2064 but traveled extensively at relativistic speeds until he returned to Earth and wrote his seminal work in 2864. His point of view is unique as he is able both to understand the motivations of 21st-century humans and explain them to 29th-century humans.The History of the 21st Century is divided into three sections. The first section summarizes the history of humanity from the emergence of the species through to the dawn of the information age. By laying the foundations of primitive human thought, 29th-century listeners can better appreciate the often perplexing motivations and reasoning of their ancestors.  The second section looks at the history of the information age in detail, from its start, in 1998, to the closing of the last fossil fuel power plant in 2070, encompassing the “singularity”, the American culture wars, and the advent of fusion power.  The third section explains three key archaic concepts that are typically difficult to understand for 29th-century listeners: politics, economics, and religion.The History of the 21st Century tells a tale of drama and resolve and of trial and error, from the nearly disastrous experiments in populism typified by the presidency of Donald Trump to the heroism and nobility of people like Destiny Holt and Mukantagara Mporera. It was the vision and courage of leaders such as these that allowed us to weather the catastrophes that threatened us and achieve the “second enlightenment” by the end of the era.The book has been brought to 2019 so as to provide an example to contemporary people of what might be the most favorable outcome imaginable, the one in which Alaric Thain had the opportunity to look back and write his history.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alaric Thain, Faustina Dax. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170101/bk_acx0_170101_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min

  New York Times correspondent Frank Rich examines the trail of fictions manufactured by the Bush administration from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, exposing the most brilliant spin campaign ever waged.When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not to vanquish Al Qaeda, but to consolidate its own power at any cost. It was a mission that could be accomplished only by a propaganda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own invention; and such was that scenario's devious brilliance that it fashioned a second war against an enemy that did not attack America on 9/11, intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned a presidential election into an irrelevant referendum on macho imagery and same-sex marriage.As only he can, acclaimed New York Times columnist Frank Rich delivers a step-by-step chronicle of how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and how the institutions that should have exposed these fictions, the mainstream news media, were too often left powerless by the administration's relentless attack machine, their own post-9/11 timidity, and an unending parade of self-inflicted scandals (typified by those at The New York Times).Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness", and the ways in which a bungled war, a seemingly obscure Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the man-behind-the-curtain and the story that had so effectively been sold to the nation, as god-given patriotic fact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000515/bk_peng_000515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  This Mysterious Realm Called Sleep: The Complete Trilogy - Books 1 to 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

  Leslie Watkins' unabridged collection of three volumes exploring sleep, a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. They move around in their hundreds, in their thousands, and they’re spread through every town and city in the world. There's the famous musician whose dream gave him one of the most successful songs of this century - one enthusiastically covered by a host of stars including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Liberace. Equally intriguing is the case-history of the daughter of pauperized former slaves in Louisiana who, thanks to information given in a dream, became one of the world’s richest women - and an immensely generous philanthropist. Some call it the mystery of slow-wave sleep when behavior by sleepwalkers, which seem too bizarre to be possible, takes place. They are typified by the baffling talent of Welshman Lee Hadwin, the first example in this book, who is a brilliant artist - but only when fast asleep. He cannot paint nor draw when awake and yet his hypnotic paintings sell for hundreds of thousands. And then there's sexomnia, when primal urges in the brain take control, like the case of Toronto landscaper Jan Luedecke accused of raping a young woman. He had sex with the woman and yet Ontario Court Judge Russell Otter ruled that the attack had been involuntary and acquitted Luedecke. He walked from the court a free man. Why? Because the judge ruled Luedecke had been asleep when he raped the girl.  Somnambulism, parasomnia, noctambulism are just a few of the names for such strange, fascinating and sometimes terrifying goings-on. Lesley Cusack of Warrington in Cheshire - a mother-of-three - who was desperate to lose weight cooking huge meals while asleep; dieting furiously during the day but eating herself to death each night. A man waking, horrified to find himself in a lake surrounded by crocodiles and it wasn't a dream ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Watkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108507/bk_acx0_108507_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  SETI: The History and Legacy of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min

  The question of man’s place in the extended universe has been pondered by every known culture since the beginning of recorded history. Lacking the means to prove otherwise, discussions of an alternative to Earth’s solitary existence have remained conceptual. The ongoing debate is spurred by the appearance of unexplainable phenomena through the centuries in the atmosphere and the space beyond, so much so that contact with alien civilizations has been depicted in some of the most ancient examples of representational art.In the rock drawings of Valcamonica on Italy’s Lombardy Plain, tantalizing etchings suggest that ancient man experienced the same type of appearances as those revealed to modern man. These drawings dating back to 10,000 BC serve as the counterpart to the present day’s alleged evidence of such contact. In addition to aerial craft, depictions include light-emitting, helmeted human figures carrying unidentifiable artifacts. Such examples are to be found not only in the terrain of the world’s land mass, but also in ancient tablets, temples, and vast western cathedrals.In both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the appearance of what seems like supernatural beings are commonly typified by Ezekiel’s visions of the “wheel”, interpreted by many to represent a “heavenly” craft or creature from the Seraphic realm. Similar appearances range to angelic visitations at the birth of Christ and on to the Book of Revelation at the New Testament’s conclusion. Lacking scientific language with which to analyze these appearances, the angelic metaphor within the “heavenly hierarchy” model became the chosen designation of a scientifically uneducated population. The representations are esteemed and worshipped as the veritable reality of those times by millions throughout the world. If they depict actual events and beings, the Garden of Eden’s angel of the flaming sword, the annunciation to Mary, and the appearance of heralds to the shepherds may be rein ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232711/bk_acx0_232711_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  This Mysterious Realm Called Sleep , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min

  Sleep is a mystery packed with surprises. Most people are unaware that every night vast numbers of sleepwalkers display totally unexpected behavior. They move around in their hundreds, in their thousands, and they're spread through every town and city in the world. There's the famous musician whose dream gave him one of the most successful songs of this century - one enthusiastically covered by a host of stars including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Liberace. Equally intriguing is the case-history of the daughter of pauperized former slaves in Louisiana who, thanks to information given in a dream, became one of the world's richest women - and an immensely generous philanthropist. Some call it the mystery of slow-wave sleep when behavior by sleepwalkers, which seem too bizarre to be possible, takes place. They are typified by the baffling talent of Welshman Lee Hadwin, the first example in this book, who is a brilliant artist - but only when fast asleep. He cannot paint nor draw when awake and yet his hypnotic paintings sell for hundreds of thousands. And then there's sexomnia, when primal urges in the brain take control, like the case of Toronto landscaper Jan Luedecke accused of raping a young woman. He had sex with the woman and yet Ontario Court Judge Russell Otter ruled that the attack had been involuntary and acquitted Luedecke. He walked from the court a free man. Why? Because the judge ruled Luedecke had been asleep when he raped the girl. Somnambulism, parasomnia, noctambulism are just a few of the names for such strange, fascinating and sometimes terrifying goings-on. Lesley Cusack of Warrington in Cheshire - a mother-of-three - who was desperate to lose weight cooking huge meals while asleep; dieting furiously during the day but eating herself to death each night. These are just some of the incredible cases explored in This Mysterious Realm Called Sleep. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Watkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106102/bk_acx0_106102_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Roaring Twenties: A History from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovations in numerous industries revived a sluggish post-World War I economy, and mass production methods allowed for the standardized, rapid production of various goods, the most notable of which was the automobile. The roar of thousands of newly manufactured vehicles filled the city streets, and the ripple effect of the industry spawned a myriad of ancillary industries, such as car dealerships and mechanic shops. Innovations in the entertainment industry heralded the Golden Age of Radio and resulted in the replacement of vaudeville with cinema as "talkies" replaced silent films and movies came alive with color. The most iconic image of the era was the flapper - a thoroughly modern, young woman, unafraid to flout the social norms of her parents' generation and break with long-standing traditions. She typified the sexually expressive, modern, young, and fun woman who had gained the right to vote and who was ready to take her rightful place in both the workforce and in the speakeasies that cropped up in the wake of Prohibition. You will learn about.... The booming economy of the 1920s Babe Ruth, jazz, Art Deco, and the flapper Women's rights, civil rights, and gay rights Politics and all that jazz The Wall Street Crash of 1929 And much more! Along with the social changes for women, African-American cultural and artistic expressions ruled the day as jazz music emanated from the speakeasies and the radio. African-American literature rose to prominence, and all-black casts were featured in the popular theatrical productions. It was an era of progressive change fueled by a sustained economic prosperity that seemed to have no end. It did come to an abrupt end, though, with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The music stopped, the flapper faded, and the roar of prosperity was si ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Tivenan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103641/bk_acx0_103641_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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