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  • Quiet Time with The President

    A Doctor's Story About Learning to Listen

    by Peter Friedland Friedland, Jill Margo ...
    One Sunday in 2001 ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Peter Friedland received an unexpected call from Nelson Mandela's personal physician. The former president was struggling to hear. Could Peter visit him at home? Friedland discovered that Mandela was using antiquated hearing aids and was struggling to maintain them. Soon he became a regular visitor to Mandela's home in Houghton where he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Engaging Agnes Heller

    A Critical Companion

    by Katie Terezakis, Peter Beilharz, Janos Boros, Amos Friedland, John Grumley, Horst Hutter, Preben Kaarsholm, Dmitri Nikulin, Simon Tormey, Richard J. Bernstein0, Kira Brunner Don1, Bryan S. Turner2, Agnes Heller3 ...
    This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    Quiet Time with the President

    A doctor's story about learning to listen

    by Peter Friedland with Jill Margo ...
    Narrated by Adam Niell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    One Sunday in 2001 ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Peter Friedland received an unexpected call from Nelson Mandela’s personal physician. The former president was struggling to hear. Could Peter visit him at home?Friedland discovered that Mandela was using antiquated hearing aids and was struggling to maintain them. Soon he became a regular visitor to Mandela’s home in Houghton where he ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oral History

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    by Allan Nevins, Louis Starr, Ronald J. Grele, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Tuchman, William Cutler III, William Moss, Jan Vansina, Ruth Finnegan, David Lance, Saul Benison, Peter Friedlander, Amelia Fry, Lynwood Montell, Larry Danielson, Gary Okihiro, Sherna Gluck, Linda Shopes, Tamara Hareven, Alex Haley, Richard Dorson, Charles Joyner, Sidney Mintz, David Dunaway, Eugenia Meyer, Paul Thompson, Karen Hartewig, Daniel Voldman, Alessandro Portelli, Dora Schwarztein ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

    Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

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  • Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real

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