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A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, designing for himself a social experiment on experiencing different class and culture structures and the reality of working conditions at the end of the 19th century. This volume covers the Eastern part of the United States. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli The second volume The Workers - An Experiment in Reality - the West covers the Western part of the United ...

Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes in 1920. Holmes was hopeful. Technology had come a long way since 1862, when balloonist James Glaisher made a daring ascent to 37,000 feet above the earth and passed out for lack of oxygen [Travels in the Air]. Glaisher had to best-guess the altitude to which his balloon had climbed while he was unconscious. Technology requires a rational system of accurate measurement [A Metric America]. Societies, however, are not rational. Some past eras were filled ...

"Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage... Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence... It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the...

When Rooh tells Manav in a bar in New York that he ought to go to back home to the hills in Kashmir, he's suddenly thrown into the loop of his past-a blue door, white walls and a house at the end of a lane. Soon, the seemingly small worlds in which his memories reside coalesce into a giant mass...

Bloomsbury presents Flourish by Antonia Case, read by Sarah Kants. What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of...

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History Well Told is an aural palimpsest — a podcast that scrapes back the varnish of time and reads the faint, electric undertext. We’re time-sleuths and raconteurs: excavating forgotten protagonists, unspooling the tectonic moments that rewired civilization, and stepping into the liminal theatre where myth, memory, and politics collide. Expect immersive audio documentaries — textured soundscapes, rigorous scholarship, and human-centered narratives — each episode an act of analepsis that makes the past feel immediate, strange, and insistently alive.

Welcome! My podcast shares real stories from incredible women who inspire, lead, heal, and live life on their own terms. Listen in for unfiltered conversations about struggle, transformation, storytelling, and what happens when you rewrite your narrative and say yes to your next chapter.Thanks for being here!'Life is a Journey filled with unexpected detours, and most of us have experienced at least one life altering pitfall. How we choose to react and grow from heartbreaks, roadblocks, stumbles and struggles … well, that's where the magic is created.Tune in twice a month when Cathy Tallone ...

Thoughts shape Beliefs, which influence DecisionsI have always been a curious kid. I wanted to believe what I learned. But I got tired of not getting straight answers to some of the Big Questions of Life. My quest led me to earn an interdisciplinary PhD in paleoanthropology, neuroscience and theology.As a boots-on-the-ground field explorer to over 100 countries, I seek first-hand confirmation to check the facts of truth claims and to verify evidence for my own inherited beliefs.I will share insights drawn from over 30 years of interdisciplinary scholarship and ...

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The informative podcast of global arts and affairs from the perspective of writer, editor, traveler, military veteran and podcaster. Supportive. Instructive. Provocative. Hosted and Produced by Mark Antony Rossi. {IVp6 compatible for emerging markets}