Gloves Past and Present by Willard M. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [history]

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08/24/23

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228m

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Gloves Past and Present by Willard M. Smith audiobook.

Genre: history

In Gloves Past and Present, Willard M. Smith turns an everyday accessory into a surprising lens on power, faith, fashion, and work. Drawing on decades in the glove trade, Smith sets out to explain why gloves once carried the weight of ceremony and status: as emblems of royal authority, symbols in religious ritual, and tokens used to seal pledges, issue challenges, or confer honor. Moving across centuries, he traces how hand coverings evolved from practical protection into coded social signals that shaped etiquette and public life. The book then shifts from legend to craft, opening the workshop door on how gloves are designed, cut, sewn, fitted, and finished, and how changing tastes and technologies transformed the modern industry. Along the way, Smith highlights the people behind the product - artisans, merchants, and designers - and the economic networks that made gloves a global business. Part cultural history and part insider's guide, this is a spirited invitation to look closely at what you wear and discover the long human story stitched into it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:47) Chapter 01

(00:15:10) Chapter 02

(00:32:38) Chapter 03

(00:55:08) Chapter 04

(01:14:59) Chapter 05

(01:33:46) Chapter 06

(02:02:21) Chapter 07

(02:23:49) Chapter 08

(02:43:16) Chapter 09

(03:18:01) Chapter 10

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Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

August 24, 2023

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785m

Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with the destitute heroine, royal court-intrigues and rebellious uprising, all set in dungeons, dark towers and the untamed nature of Norway.

This audio-book has been recorded as Dramatic Reading with all the voices performed by one single reader, including laughs, sobs, groans, occasional screams and a lot of growls. I hope you will enjoy listening to this adventurous journey just as much as I enjoyed recording it

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:10) Chapter 02

(00:08:04) Chapter 03

(00:21:05) Chapter 04

(00:39:58) Chapter 05

(00:43:39) Chapter 06

(00:53:08) Chapter 07

(00:57:26) Chapter 08

(01:25:58) Chapter 09

(01:40:54) Chapter 10

(02:00:27) Chapter 11

(02:15:30) Chapter 12

(02:44:02) Chapter 13

(02:55:41) Chapter 14

(03:07:08) Chapter 15

(04:02:50) Chapter 16

(04:16:16) Chapter 17

(04:29:16) Chapter 18

(04:37:42) Chapter 19

(04:55:07) Chapter 20

(04:58:24) Chapter 21

(05:08:50) Chapter 22

(05:25:45) Chapter 23

(05:31:34) Chapter 24

(05:37:32) Chapter 25

(06:08:42) Chapter 26

(06:13:49) Chapter 27

(06:39:39) Chapter 28

(07:19:31) Chapter 29

(07:22:30) Chapter 30

(07:26:24) Chapter 31

(07:51:39) Chapter 32

(08:11:19) Chapter 33

(08:23:28) Chapter 34

(08:42:00) Chapter 35

(08:43:34) Chapter 36

(08:51:21) Chapter 37

(08:57:38) Chapter 38

(09:03:10) Chapter 39

(09:17:25) Chapter 40

(09:35:04) Chapter 41

(09:40:49) Chapter 42

(10:00:26) Chapter 43

(10:19:38) Chapter 44

(10:29:36) Chapter 45

(10:38:07) Chapter 46

(11:20:26) Chapter 47

(11:42:06) Chapter 48

(12:00:30) Chapter 49

(12:05:52) Chapter 50

(12:10:02) Chapter 51

(12:28:03) Chapter 52

(12:40:30) Chapter 53

(13:02:11) Chapter 54

(13:05:23) Chapter 55

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Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson ~ Full Audiobook [science]

August 24, 2023

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393m

Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson audiobook.

Genre: science

In Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind, physician and thinker William Hanna Thomson explores one of the most enduring questions in human self-understanding: how the material brain relates to the immaterial experiences we call thought, character, will, and consciousness. Writing for curious readers as well as students of medicine and philosophy, Thomson surveys what anatomy and physiology can say about the nervous system, then presses onward into the harder territory of personality: why individuals differ, how habits and emotions take root, and what it means to speak of a self that can reflect and choose. Along the way, he weighs popular assumptions about heredity, mental effort, and the limits of scientific explanation, arguing for careful observation without reducing the whole of mind to mere mechanism. Part scientific primer and part philosophical inquiry, this book invites listeners into a disciplined conversation between laboratory facts and lived experience, aiming to clarify where physical causation ends, where interpretation begins, and how both perspectives can inform a humane view of mental life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:38:00) Chapter 02

(00:55:01) Chapter 03

(01:07:32) Chapter 04

(01:25:01) Chapter 05

(01:59:58) Chapter 06

(02:29:32) Chapter 07

(02:53:40) Chapter 08

(03:16:55) Chapter 09

(03:43:18) Chapter 10