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Reality Entertainment announces the Reality UFO Series V1, a unique series in conjunction with Hard Evidence and Ufologist Magazines. The series will focus on some of the most compelling, well documented cases in UFO and Paranormal History.

In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," 1830-1930. To capture the essence of the nation's railroad experience, Grant explores four fundamental topics - trains and travel, train stations, railroads and community life, and the legacy of railroading in America. Grant recalls the lasting memories left by train travel, both of luxurious Pullman cars and the grit and grind of coal-powered locals.

Clare Balding looks back at the time the Olympic Games came to London in 1948. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still gripped by austerity. Rationing was still in force, severe bomb damage was still much in evidence, and no new sports facilities could be built. Visiting athletes were put up in schools and RAF camps. Yet the Games were a resounding success and actually made a profit.

The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy, and it is human skill which develops them. However, the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of business; rather, they apply to just about every significant personal transaction in your life....

What is wisdom? Petunia, the silly goose, learns a bit of philosophy sure to be long remembered.

In a daring and high stakes heist worth millions, one man narrowly escapes capture. Now his past could jeopardize his future as detectives piece together a web of clues. A rare coin collection worth millions was stolen, and the thief is gone without a trace. Detective Mac McRyan and Detective Lich join forces to stakeout suspects and solve a few of Mac's problems along the way. Dick is in rare form with his classic crude and obnoxious humor to work the case with Mac in...a case from the dick files.

Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, completely unknown - humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic programme of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust.

Delight in a collection of our favourite children's stories voiced by Brenda & Robin Markwell. From a fantastic edition of "Beauty and the Beast", to a captivating retelling of "The Little Mermaid", and many, many more....

The first twelve 'Perspectives with Seth' recordings hosted by Roger Hanson, who asks audience-submitted questions to the infamous Seth as expressed through / channeled by Story Waters.

January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history, the Cold War enters its deadliest phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities have turned hot on the Korean peninsula as the United States and Soviet Union clash in an intractable and bloody proxy war. An ageing Winston Churchill yearns for peace with the Kremlin - but new American President Dwight Eisenhower cautions the West not to drop its guard.

Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom (including freedom of expression and association), morality, equality, property and rights on the other. He traces the origins and development of the conservative ideology in the philosophies and thoughts of, among others, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and Robert Nozick.

This series explores the cultural history of America through a person by person examination spanning from the pre-colonial era, to colonial times, into the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The series is fittingly bookended by presentations about indigenous American cultures.This person-by-person historical exploration winds its way through the lives of ancient Amerindian cultures, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, James McNeill Whistler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Greene and ...

William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo on a future Earth, is called upon to aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. With the aid of a shape-shifting alien known as "Cat," he carries out the mission, with one condition: when the mission is over, Cat wants a return bout with the man who captured him, a chase with Singer as the hunted instead of the hunter . . .

More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the rights of animals.

Build your self-confidence, and unlock your courage to endure hardship and perform under any condition! Mental toughness will help you rise above the many people who are easily affected by their external circumstances such as challenges, obstacles, and mishaps. It allows you to perform under pressure and overcome life’s challenges. This audiobook hands you the keys to develop true mental toughness.

While in Vatican City, renowned photorealist Anthony Brunelli is summoned from an art reception honoring his latest masterpiece to an unexpected private audience with Pope Benedict XVI. There, he receives a shocking request: uncover an 800-year-old secret left by Saint Francis of Assisi—a revelation with the power to reshape the very foundations of Christianity.

The Tale of Troy tells of the last great adventure of the Heroic Age. It is the story of Helen and the judgment of Paris; of the gathering of the heroes and the siege of Troy; of Achilles, reared by the centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus, his great strategy of the Wooden Horse, and of his many adventures on his long journey home to Greece.

Aware both of the excitement and uncertainty generated by The Shack, theologian Randal Rauser takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the pages of the story. In successive chapters he explores many of the books complex and controversial issues. Through these chapters Rauser offers an honest and illuminating discussion which opens up a new depth to the conversation while providing the reader with new opportunities for Finding God in The Shack.