Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084, 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. 084 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in 1863. Optical illusions were among the twenty vol. 084 topics, chosen by their readers, which were concerned with science, technology, and medicine, including the societal implications of decision making in these fields: (The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass; The Machine That Thinks; Rocks For Homes; Ottawa Illinois Radiation Area; Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses; Cincinnati's "Old Cunny; and Buck v. Bell). This Troubled World, a 1938 essay by Eleanor Roosevelt, is joined by others with a sociological focus: (The Graves of the Fallen; The American Indian in the Great War (1921); A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India (1908); and Not Revolution, but Evolution). Rational thought is explored in both philosophic and religious contexts (Ascending Forms and Powers; The Four Gospels from a Lawyer's Standpoint). Foibles and quibbles get their due (Mr. Flannery Finds Himself; On Being Bored). The collection is then rounded out with a history of Danzig and letters relating to the Hamilton-Burr duel. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:15:23

Catalogue topics

• WWI
• relativity
• ghosts
• eugenics
• Gospels
• nursing
• optics
• hamilton

Track guide

1. 01 - The American Indian in the Great War (1921) — 10:37
2. 02 - Buck v. Bell (1927) — 9:36
3. 03 - Cincinnati's "Old Cunny," A Notorious Purveyor of Human Flesh — 17:37
4. 04 - Danzig (today's Gdańsk) — 7:01
5. 05 - The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity — 7:34
6. 06 - Mr. Flannery Finds Himself — 1:53
7. 07 - Florence Nightingale to her Nurses, Excerpt — 40:24
8. 08 - The Four Gospels from a Lawyer's Standpoint — 51:58
9. 09 - The Graves of the Fallen — 16:27
10. 10 - Hamilton-Burr Duel Correspondence — 8:23
11. 11 - A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India (1908) — 43:47
12. 12 - The Machine That Thinks (1904) — 9:12
13. 13 - Not Revolution, but Evolution (1792) — 21:29
14. 14 - On Being Bored — 3:19
15. 15 - Public Health Assessment for Ottawa, Illinois, Radiation Area, July 25, 2006, Excerpt — 22:06
16. 16 - Rocks for Homes — 18:27
17. 17 - A Series of Ascending Forms and Powers prevails in our Earthly Creation — 13:14
18. 18 - Spectropia — 16:44
19. 19 - This Troubled World (1938) — 49:17
20. 20 - 18 U.S. Code § 2101 - Riots — 6:18

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