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Civil Engineering Made Simple is a podcast that simplifies key civil engineering concepts by summarizing important topics and ideas from well-known civil engineering books.Each episode breaks down a specific subject in a clear and easy way, making it useful for students, beginners, and anyone who wants to understand civil engineering without complications.

Fall asleep with your favorite comfort bedtime stories: the complete Sherlock Holmes in timeline order. In each episode, a section of a Sherlock Holmes story will be read aloud in a soothing text-to-speech voice set to relaxation music, to help you get to sleep.

درِ اين جعبه را كه باز كنيد چيزهايى از ادبيات و فرهنگ و هنر پيدا خواهيد كرد... شايد هم چيزهايى بيشتر... كارى از منصور ضابطيان Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Original text version: http://unsongbook.com/ The novel was completed in October of 2020. Now this podcast has switched to short stories by the same author.

Dive into the enchanting world of Shakespeare with Childrens Shakespeare, a delightful collection that retells twelve of his most beloved plays as captivating stories for young readers. Each play is transformed into a short story or fairy tale, designed to engage and inspire childrens imaginations. The books introduction highlights how introducing children to Shakespeares works can spark their curiosity and pave the way for a deeper appreciation of the original plays as they grow. (Summary by timferreira)

Every day I scrub the beautiful Winchester house from top to bottom. I pick up her daughter from school and prepare delicious meals for the whole family before going upstairs to dinner alone in my tiny room upstairs. I try not to pay attention to Nina when she makes a mess just to see how she cleans it. To the strange lies he tells about his own daughter. Her husband, who seems more dejected every day. But when I look into Andrew's eyes, brown, lovely, and full of pain, it's not hard to imagine what it would be like to live in Nina's skin. The large dressing room, the luxury car, the perfect ...

I've been finding old stories and re-telling them as podcast episodes since 2015. They used to be all over the place, now they're all here (or will be, as I find time to add them). My goal has always been, simply, to catalogue these stories so that they don't get lost. I don't always get the pronunciations right, and the quality of the audio will vary as my skills as an audio engineer varied over the 6-years I've been collecting and retelling these stories. In total there are over 200. Keep your eye on the feed, I'll bulk upload as I find the time to do so.

Welcome to 'Tom Reads Books' the podcast where I take you on an adventure through some of literature's most loved treasures. We all have those classic novels that we meant to get around to reading, but somehow never got to. Let me take you on a literary adventure instead!Read and produced by Tom York

Douglas Adams is one of the most celebrated science fiction and comedy writers of his generation. He is best known for the best-selling radio, book, TV, and film series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, along with Dirk Gently's Detective Agency, episodes of Doctor Who, and his collaborations with members of Monty Python.

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The opposite of true crime. Part book club, part interview show, Tea & Murder is a podcast all about Agatha Christie and her work. Every episode, host Rebecca Thandi Norman has an exciting guest to discuss an Agatha Christie book, story, or play of their choice. With a smattering of literary analysis and a big dose of humor, Rebecca and her guest dive into why we like the things we like, what makes a great mystery, and every conceivable element of the Agatha Christie universe. Welcome to Tea & Murder! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author, broadcaster and 'rock star classicist' Natalie Haynes is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greece and Rome. In these four series, she explores some of the most prominent historical and mythological figures from the classical world, telling their stories through a mix of stand-up comedy and conversation.

How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text. The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and...

In The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges, editors Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict, along with a team of international scholars, contextualize Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century listeners and critics.

Immerse yourself in the timeless tale of Don Quixote, a groundbreaking Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. First published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, this work is heralded as the cornerstone of modern Western literature and a defining piece of the Spanish Golden Age. The story follows the eccentric adventures of Mr. Alonso Quixano, a hidalgo whose obsessive reading of chivalric romances drives him to madness. Determined to revive the noble ideals of knighthood, he takes on the persona of Don Quixote de la Mancha and sets out to right wrongs and seek justice, accompanied by his...

Buy the book on Amazon : https://amzn.to/3JOIChlThe first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow up in Civil War-era New England. Under the guidance of their loving mother, Marmee, they navigate poverty, personal dreams, and family challenges. Meg seeks domestic life, Jo aspires to be a writer, Beth is gentle and musical, and Amy is artistic and ambitious. Their bonds are tested through illness, love, loss, and societal expectations. Ultimately, the novel celebrates sisterhood, moral growth, and the pursuit of individuality while highlighting the joys and struggles of ...

Buy the book on Amazon : https://amzn.to/4pbhFEOA New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment"Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining." —Wall Street Journal"Don't trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman's own laugh-out-loud whodunit." —ParadeIn a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.

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In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form - not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.