Mussolini

Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“[A] well-written and balanced account of one of the more enigmatic figures of the twentieth
century.”Booklist

Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascismBenito
Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory
figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writersand their wives. From his early years
raised in the traditions of revolutionary Italian Socialism, to his violent execution by Communist partisans at
the end of World War II, we watch Mussolini’s power ambitions erode his political ideals, as he evolves from
brilliant orator and journalist to empire-building dictator enforcing his authority by death squads. A man initially
praised and admired by such Western luminaries as Winston Churchill, or underestimated as a posturing
buffoon, he eventually showed his true colors as a racist and persecutor of the Jews. He sought equal stature
with Hitler, but his alliance with him would prove disastrous. Ridley’s account of this unforgettable twentieth-century
figure is even-handed and indispensable.

Jasper Ridley has written many successful biographies of forceful and vivid characters in the sixteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among them Lord Palmerston, Napoleon III and Eugénie, Henry VIII, and Garibaldi. His books have been acclaimed in the United States, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Latin America. His most recently published book is a biography of Marshal Tito.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Jasper Ridley
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5128-5
Normal Price: $44.95
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Woman Protesting Gas Prices Set Fires in Restrooms - FOX News

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Woman Protesting Gas Prices Set Fires in Restrooms - FOX News
DANVILLE, Calif. — Police in the San Francisco Bay area say a woman set fires in the restrooms of two gas stations and a coffee house and told them she did it to protest high gas prices. No structural damage was reported at the Arco station, the
Source: www.foxnews.com

Radio tester renders quicker operation - Electronic Engineering Times
Agilent Technologies Inc. launched rugged, portable radio tester that enables one-button testing of FM and single channel ground air radio system at both operational and intermediate military testing levels. “Delivering advanced diagnostics, the
Source: www.eetasia.com

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Echo of Greece, The

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Echo of Greece, The
Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, writes the author,
apart from the great men it produced, for it is the prelude to the end of Greece…. The kind of
events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of
unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed
can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things but a blueprint of what may happen
again.

With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle,
of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, of the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics,
and finally of Plutarch. She brings these figures vividly to life, not only placing them in relation to
their own times but also conveying very poignantly their meaning for our world today.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Edith Hamilton
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5283-4
Normal Price: $29.95
Download Price: $14.95

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Lives of The Artists Vol. 1

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired.
He describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli,
da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character
sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations.

Although Vasari was at times inaccurate, prompting some dry remarks from Michelangelo, Michelangelo
did praise the work for endowing artists with immortality.

Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art
bear out his predictions that he would have a worldwide influence on the history of art.

Volume One includes the lives of Brunelleschi, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and
fourteen more.

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) , born in Tuscany, studied in Florence with Michelangelo while he was still a boy. When his patron, Duke Alessandro, was assassinated, Vasari wandered round Italy filling his notebooks with sketches; during this period, he conceived the idea of the Lives. By his thirties, Vasari was a highly successful painter; when his Lives were published they were received enthusiastically. He returned to Florence in 1555, where he was appointed architect of the Palazzo Vecchio. After a grand tour of Italian towns he published the revised and enlarged edition of his Lives in 1568. Vasari was knighted by Pope Pius V in 1571.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Giorgio Vasari, translated by George Bull
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5122-6
Normal Price: $49.95
Download Price: $36.95 Discover this audio book

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Tales of Beatrix Potter

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“Nadia May’s dramatization is very good. Peter Rabbit is young and reckless, Squirrel
Nutkin as rude as can be, the cats sound dangerous, and the mice in “The Tailor of Gloucester”well,
they sound just like the most sociable mice I know.”AudioFile

This collection of eighteen of Beatrix Potter’s charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin,
Mrs. Tittlemouse, and the others have enchanted children for over a hundred years and will surely do so well
into the future. Beatrix Potter’s tales were often connected with real places, people, or animals, so each story
also includes a brief introductory note about its history.

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) born in Kensington Square, London, England, was raised by governesses and nurses, with little interaction with her parents. Alone in the third floor nursery, she spent her time studying and sketching the small animals that were her closest companions. Her brother Bertram was born six years later and for a time they became inseperable companions. In the summers the Potter rented a house in the Scottish highlands and here the children would spend joyous hours exploring the countryside, gathering plants, insects, rocks and fossils.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Beatrix Potter
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5244-3
Normal Price: $25.95
Download Price: $12.95 Get it now

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