In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia. They talk about love until the drunken...
The Gettysburg Gospel The Lincoln Speech that Nobody Knows
The literature of the Gettysburg Address tends to fall into one of two extremes. At one end are those books that maintain that Lincoln wrote his speech hastily, even on a scrap of...
A Rare Recording of Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991) was an influential American modern dancer and choreographer. In 1926, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance was...
Adolfo Kaminsky A Forger's Life
At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to...
Ghost Army of World War II
In 1941, the U.S. began to form a hand-picked army to fight in Europe. What made it different is that its troops were composed of artists, actors, meteorologists, and sound...
The Ancient Alien Question A New Inquiry into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors
Have we been visited by extraterrestrial beings?Did these "ancient aliens" contribute to the birth of human civilization?Do our ancient monuments contain evidence of their...
De Profundis
Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde’s moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet’s imprisonment. Here...
Eight Straits of the Greats How the Best Musicians Get That Way
In this life-changing audio book you will discover a most amazing truth: Greatness in music isn't about being "born with it." It's not about luck or fate or genes. It's about...
The Secret Piano From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Zhu Xiao-Mei was three years old when she saw her first piano, a cherished instrument introduced into her family's Beijing home by her mother. Soon after, the child began to play,...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
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