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
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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
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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
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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
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