Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106, 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. 106 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fair Speech, by Ptah-hotep an Egyptian vizier, is one of 15 reader-chosen recordings in vol. 106. Other reflective selections are The Appearance of Good Angels; Latin School Prize Declamation; The Persecutions of Beauty; Instructions of Kegemni; The Teaching of Amen-Em-Apt; Rights of Aliens in the United States; and The Triton Fountain. Science-focused articles include The Influence of Temperature on a Mendelian Character; The Effects of Temperature Upon Growing Mice; The Northern Lights; The Oroya Railroad of Peru; and Aerial Globe Trotting, an account of the first round-the-world flight. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:47

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• Latin
• beauty
• prophecy
• civil rights
• mice
• spirituality
• apparition

Track guide

1. 01 - Aerial Globe Trotting (1924) — 31:08
2. 02 - The Appearance of Good Angels Proved by the Books of the Old Testament — 3:12
3. 03 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural Address, January 20, 1941 — 9:46
4. 04 - The Influence of Temperature on the Development of a Mendelian Character (1915) — 1:12:38
5. 05 - The Instruction of Ke'gemni — 2:43
6. 06 - The Instruction of Ptah-hotep — 25:09
7. 07 - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 — 9:58
8. 08 - Latin School Prize Declamation (May 21, 1859) — 6:42
9. 09 - The Northern Lights (1880) — 10:13
10. 10 - The Oroya Railroad of Peru, Highest of All Railroads (1902) — 7:18
11. 11 - The Persecutions of Beauty — 19:24
12. 12 - Rights of Aliens in the United States from 1919 to 1942 — 22:40
13. 13 - Some Effects of Temperature Upon Growing Mice, and the Persistence of Such Effects in a Subsequent Generation (1911) — 15:09
14. 14 - The Teaching of Amen-Em-Apt, Son of Ka-Nekht — 35:56
15. 15 - The Triton Fountain in Rome — 5:51

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