Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067, 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. 067 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison" and Washington's "Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission (1783)." Other topics in history and political theory include two of George W. Ball's memos about the Vietnam War from 1965, "Irish Marriage Rites," "Celts and Celtophiles," Kropotkin on "Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution," a tragedy at sea ("The Titanic"), and a look back at "The Passing of the Sailing Ship." Religion and philosophy are represented with two selections from Kierkegaard's "Preparation for a Christian Life" and a sermon by Spurgeon ("Glorious Predestination"). Biographies pay homage to the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. How-to and guidance readings include farming advice from George Washington Carver ("Help for Hard Times"), "Teaching Mathematics with Paper Folding," "Sexual Neuroses," and "Elementary Lessons in Cookery." "The Common Milkweed" celebrates one of summer's roadside flowers. Finally Richard de Bury pens a tribute to books in a selection from the Philobiblon, written in 1345. Summary by Sue Anderson Selections from Kierkegaard were translated by Lee M. Hollander That the Treasure of Wisdom is Chiefly Contained in Books was translated by E.C. Thomas

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 4:58:46

Catalogue topics

• books
• mathematics
• marriage
• anarchism
• Washington
• cooking
• Madison
• Predestination

Track guide

1. 01 - Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission (1783) — 2:30
2. 02 - Celts and Celtophiles — 9:08
3. 03 - Christianity as the Absolute; Contemporaneousness with Christ — 20:52
4. 04 - A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison — 15:36
5. 05 - The Common Milkweed — 8:19
6. 06 - Elementary Lessons in Cookery — 10:24
7. 07 - Glorious Predestination, Sermon 1043 — 44:06
8. 08 - Help for the Hard Times — 7:09
9. 09 - Invitation and the Inviter from Preparation for a Christian Life (1850) — 15:59
10. 10 - Irish Marriage Rites — 5:38
11. 11 - Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State to President Johnson, June 18, 1965 — 15:51
12. 12 - Paper by the Under Secretary of State, July 1, 1965 — 19:18
13. 13 - The Passing of the Sailing Ship — 19:44
14. 14 - The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution — 42:53
15. 15 - Sexual Neuroses: Onanism (1879) — 5:58
16. 16 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, His Early Life — 10:32
17. 17 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, An Obituary — 5:37
18. 18 - Teaching Geometry with Paper Folding — 12:00
19. 19 - That the Treasure of Wisdom is Chiefly Contained in Books, a Selection from the Philobiblon — 9:25
20. 20 - The Titanic — 17:47

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