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A beautiful daughter of a wealthy man, Kate Hardcastle, is told that a suitor, Charles Marlowe is coming from London to the country to meet her. Her jealous step brother, Richard meets Marlowe in a pub in the village and directs Marlowe to his step-father's home for accommodations, telling him that it is a run down inn, about to go out of business. Kate goes along with the rouse and pretends to be a bar maid. And the comedic case of mistaken identity begins.

Oliver Goldsmith (Author), Johnnie M. Clark, Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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The Runaway Dolls

est friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. She arrived in a mysterious package . . . but she looks so familiar. Could she be Annabelle's long-lost baby sister? It'll take a runaway adventure to find out for sure. Are the dolls ready for life on the road? Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin bring us the third book in this enchanting trilogy about some very brave dolls.

Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, M. Martin Ann (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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The Doll People

The 100-year-old Doll family—beautifully crafted china dolls passed down through four generations of girls in one American family—meet their new neighbors, the Funcrafts, a doll family made completely of plastic and delivered straight from the factory shelves. Annabelle Doll is eight years old—she has been for over a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll people, day after day, year after year…until the Funcrafts move in. Now Annabelle has a friend. Sure she’s made entirely of plastic and she’s living in the scariest room in the house, but she’s an adventurer, and after a hundred years of boredom, that’s just what Annabelle needs.

Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, M. Martin Ann (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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The Meanest Doll in the World

Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, M. Martin Ann (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy

For centuries, the works of Aristotle and other Greek thinkers were preserved in the Arabic world, where they profoundly influenced Muslim thinkers who were trying to combine philosophical insight with religious piety. The intellectual range of this great tradition is remarkable: nothing escaped investigation, from details of medicine to the mysteries of God’s nature. Avicenna and Averroes produced philosophical systems that rival the greatest intellectual structures ever built. The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world’s great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life.

Professor Thomas Gaskill (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Philosophy

From Philo of Judea to Maimonides and beyond, Medieval Jewish philosophy created an outstanding, unbroken tradition. Jewish thinkers worked to square Biblical faith with the demands of reason; their efforts to understand the individual in relation to God and to the human community powerfully foreshadowed contemporary problems. Maimonides, who can be compared with St. Thomas Aquinas, profoundly influenced much subsequent philosophy. The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world’s great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life.

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Professor Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity

The Roman Empire became Christian in 323 AD; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began to convert. Medieval culture blurred the line between the sacred and the secular. While political and religious hierarchies vied for influence, liberal arts education claimed to seek sacred truths through secular means. But when Aristotle's works were first translated from Arabic, there began a conflict between reason and faith. Franciscan John Duns Scotus was one philosopher who tried to bridge this gap. The World of Philosophy series presents the questions, interests, and worldviews of the world's great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations, in understandable language, give you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life.

Professor Ralph McInerny, Ralph Mcinerny (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Coming Home

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last . . . coming home.

Rosamunde Pilcher (Author), Lynn Redgrave, Rosamunde Pilcher (Narrator)

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Confucius, Lao Tzu, and the Chinese Philosophical Tradition

The golden age of Chinese philosophy dates from the birth of Confucius (551 BC) until China was unified (and learning suppressed) in 221 BC. China's great Confucian philosophers were Confucius, Mengzi, and Xunzi. With a few exceptions, Confucianism has been the reigning paradigm for Chinese philosophy for over 2,000 years. Its central concepts are li (the proper ordering of society through rituals or ceremonies) and zhen (the proper ordering of the self through humaneness, benevolence, and love). Under such masters as Laozi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuangzi, Daoism (also known as Taoism) influenced Chinese thought with its doctrine of yin-yang, which symbolizes the interdependence of opposites (such as male/female, good/evil, etc.). The Dao (Tao) which means "the Way", also involves emptiness, absence, spontaneous action, and forgetting (rather than the rituals, learning, and prescriptive moral and social activities that Confucianism emphasized). The Daoist rejects power and control, instead accepting and ecstatically affirming things as they are. Daoism is a doctrine of nonresistance, of "going with the flow" by being so deeply immersed in an activity that you become one with it. The Daoist concept of enlightenment also helped shape the Chinese philosophy known as Chan Buddhism, which rejects consciousness and self-awareness. The Chan Buddhist gives up on "figuring things out," instead emphasizing meditative exercises and devices such as koans. This philosophy is known in Korea as Son, and in Japan and the West as Zen Buddhism.

Crispin Sartwell, Professor Crispin Sartwell (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Voltaire and Rousseau

Voltaire and Rousseau offered opposing viewpoints on the major intellectual movement of their time: the Enlightenment. Like most Enlightenment thinkers, Voltaire repudiated tradition and history, embracing reform based on individualism and intellectual freedom. Rousseau, however, valued intellectual tradition and emphasized society's importance in establishing property, the rule of law, moral equality, and freedom. Though they openly despised one another, their contest of ideas provided important insights into the commitments of an era that produced the American and French Revolutions. Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) whose pen name was Voltaire, wrote novels, articles, poems, histories, and plays with a satirical wit that lampooned political and social traditions; he inspired the rise of liberal thought on the European continent. Voltaire's chief enemy was superstition and fanaticism, including many religious beliefs. He repudiated Descartes' rationalism (i.e. emphasis on the powers of the mind alone) in favor of English empiricism (i.e. emphasis on learning from experience). His most influential philosophical work was Letters Concerning the English Nation, published in 1733 in London (and later in France as Lettres Philosophiques). Voltaire's more mature views were published in his Philosophical Dictionary in 1764. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a passionate man who rejected the Enlightenment's emphasis on skepticism and cool-headed reason. Amid widespread rejection of social and political traditions, Rousseau sought to identify the conditions of a free society. His greatest work, Social Contract, declared that rights, property, moral obligation, and freedom itself can exist only in a social context. His famous concept of the general will refers to a general consensus of unifying values, loyalties, commitments, customs, taboos, aspirations, language, and religious beliefs, all of which denote a people as a "we" -- as this people rather than another.

Charles M. Sherover, Professor Charles Sherover (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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20th Century European Philosophy

Twentieth-century European philosophy has grown out of two movements: existentialism (emphasizing the everyday turmoil of living) and phenomenology (seeking the essential, indispensable core of things grasped by pure consciousness). These movements highlight consciousness, meaning, freedom, and body; later philosophers have also stressed language, discourse, and power. Major figures in "continental philosophy" are: Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) focused on pure consciousness, a non-bodily region with its own structures and laws. Bypassing considerations of space and time, Husserl used direct intuition to investigate the essences of material and psychical entities as they inhabit the mind. Husserl laid the groundwork for cognitive psychology and Gestalt psychology. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) explored the nature of Being, not through intuition but through interpretation and understanding of the "primary sources" of consciousness, as found in the everydayness of being-in-the-world. He believed that the essence of human being is not consciousness but existence - and he underlined the importance of Being and language. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) pointed to our existential freedom to create ourselves out of the "nothingness" from which we cannot escape. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) concentrated on the role of the experiential body, an ambiguous yet active vehicle for our past experiences and our "rising toward the world." Jacques Derrida (1930- ) responded to the linguistic "structuralism" of Ferdinand de Saussure by expanding his analysis of language to include much more than the spoken word, showing the primacy of writing at a deep level. The inventor of "deconstruction," Derrida pursues the difficult notions of "spacing" and "difference." Michel Foucault (1926-1984) focused on the "archeology of knowledge," demonstrating how institutions radically shape an individual's concrete actions and ways of thinking. A cultural relativist, Foucault believed that there are no enduring principles that transcend our situation in history. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) rejected a focus on essence or Being in favor of a concern for others - i.e., ethical relationships with what he calls "the Other."

Professor Ed Casey (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Twentieth Century European Philosophy

In an age of conflicting intellectual trends, some philosophers have lost faith in the everyday relevance of philosophy; others have affirmed that reflection is crucial to authentic living. The limelight has been shared by existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and other movements. The question remains: what is the next great step in philosophy? The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world's great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life.

Professor Ed Casey (Author), Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Lynn Redgrave