Amanda Bailey has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Play Chess to Win.
Play Chess to Win
Summary
Learn how to play chess like a pro. Amaze your friends! This audiobook will take your chess game to the next level. All over the world, chess is one of the most popular board games. Start now and claim your place next to all the other pro players from all over the world. You will learn how to internalize the best chess moves. Even as a beginner, you can get your friends in trouble with amazing chess openings. Here is a preview of what you'll learn.... Why are you here? Chess - an insight How to win chess as a beginner How to win as an intermediate player How to win a chess match as an expert Specific tactics Much, much more!
©2015 Amanda Bailey (P)2017 Amanda Bailey
Of Bondage
Summary
The late 16th-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default. Amanda Bailey shows that the early modern theater, itself dependent on debt bonds, was well positioned to stage the complex ethical issues raised by a system of forfeiture that registered as a bodily event. While plays about debt like The Merchant of Venice and The Custom of the Country did not use the language of political philosophy, they were artistically and financially invested in exploring freedom as a function of possession. By revealing dramatic literature's heretofore unacknowledged contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Amanda Bailey not only deepens our understanding of creditor-debtor relations in the period but also sheds new light on the conceptual conditions for the institutions of indentured servitude and African slavery. Of Bondage is vital not only for students and scholars of English literature but also for those interested in British and colonial legal history, the history of human rights, and the sociology of economics. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. "A compelling account of the role of debt in the early modern imaginary...raises important historical questions." (Sixteenth Century Journal) "Absorbing and beautifully written." (Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University)
©2013 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
The North Side of Down: A True Story of Two Sisters
Summary
"How do I want to die? Oh, I don't know. How about a pillow over my face? It will probably be a family member." Thus illustrates the biting candor of Amanda Bailey, the youngest in this poignant, funny, painfully honest story of bitterly divided family. With their father on his deathbed, eight siblings engage in a feud over property and possessions. Born with Down syndrome, Amanda is pulled into a belligerent guardianship dispute. Her favorite sister, Nancy, is immersed in bankruptcy and foreclosure. Just when Nancy needs to support Amanda the most, she is at her most broken. In unexpected ways Amanda lifts her up as no one else can. Set in Michigan's remote and economically depressed Upper Peninsula, The North Side of Down examines some important questions about society, illustrating the paralyzing legal position of people with disabilities and the stigma of the homeless. It shows how two sisters' love for each other transcends loss, grief, and upheaval within a hopelessly dysfunctional family. In the midst of chaos, it is the misfits who manage to shine.
©2014 Nancy J. Bailey (P)2015 Nancy J. Bailey