LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manner. The pressure of environment, of mass ideas, of the socialized intelligence... is too enormous to be withstood." (H. L. Mencken, 1919) The individual and society were central to several vol. 080 reads: The Genealogy of Etiquette; A Lounge on the Lawn; Alexander Pushkin; Princess Zizianoff; The Hanseatic League; and The Limits of Atheism. Science and the inventive mind were covered in "On the Science of Experiments; Coffey's Science of Logic; Medicine and It's Subjects; How a Fast Train is Run; and The Telephone. Travel and customs were explored in Rupert Brooke & Skyros; Lundy Island; and An Unfamiliar Naples. Nature studies included Wildflowers of the Farm; Birds in the Calendar; Trees in Landscape Painting, and A Tame Rook. Finally, a dog's life received favorable comparison with our own in The Superior Animal. Summary by Sue Anderson The authorship of Lundy Island, originally ascribed to Anonymous has been determined through genealogical research to be Amelia Ann Heaven, a member of the family which owned the island from 1834 to 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy Roger Bacon's On the Science of Experiments was translated by Andrew George Little (1863-1945)

Recording facts

• Recording title: LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 7:06:17

Catalogue topics

• dog
• logic
• atheism
• painting
• train
• telephone
• Nightingale
• pushkin

Track guide

1. 01 - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin — 11:28
2. 02 - Birds in the Calendar, June, Voices of the Night — 10:17
3. 03 - Coffey's Science of Logic: Wittgenstein Book Review — 3:56
4. 04 - Flowers of the Farm, Introduction — 6:08
5. 05 - The Genealogy of Etiquette — 34:14
6. 06 - Hanseatic League — 27:45
7. 07 - How a Fast Train is Run — 18:19
8. 08 - The Limits of Atheism, Or, Why Should Sceptics Be Outlaws? — 45:14
9. 09 - A Lounge On the Lawn — 10:42
10. 10 - Lundy Island — 13:23
11. 11 - Medicine and its Subjects (AD 1025) — 9:55
12. 12 - On the Science of Experiments (AD 1267) — 5:31
13. 13 - Princess Nina Zizianoff Tells Her Story (1921) — 32:23
14. 14 - Rupert Brooke and Skyros — 19:02
15. 15 - The Superior Animal — 14:51
16. 16 - A Tame Rook — 6:13
17. 17 - The Telephone, Birth of the Telephone — 38:55
18. 18 - The Telephone, From Invention to Business — 1:14:22
19. 19 - Trees in Landscape Painting, Considerations of Balance — 25:29
20. 20 - An Unfamiliar Naples (1914) — 18:10

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