Mark Rice-Oxley has narrated 7 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors. The most-rated is Ye Olde Antique Shoppe: Books 1-3.
Study Guide: Beowulf by Anonymous
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as heroism and leadership and mortality and Christianity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The 1999 translation of the ancient poem Beowulf by acclaimed Irish poet Seamus Heaney was universally praised on its release for its freshness and readability. In this epic tale, the great warrior Beowulf battles fearsome enemies on his path to becoming king. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a work’s underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Doubles 1: Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch
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Cover: Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait Saint-Rémy, autumn 1889 Oil paint on canvas 578 x 445 mm National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr and Mrs John Hay Whitney 1998.74.5. Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Self-Portrait, 1895. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Doubles 1: Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch by Marina Vaizey. Introduction In a set of essays entitled "Doubles" author, critic, curator, and traveller, Marina Vaizey explores pairings of artists drawn from the canonical cycle of Western art. She considers themes of engagement such as the portrait or figure, treated as stories of wider implication for society, that draw on the artist’s perception of the seen, combined with personal visions of dreams and imagination. The artist as recorder It is the supreme ability of art, perhaps its highest purpose - acknowledged or not - to show and tell: To show us what we are, and in so doing to tell us. Art even at its most abstract is story-telling. And what we like most is encapsulated in Alexander Pope’s phrase from 1733, the proper study of mankind is man. Perhaps that explains that the artists who are among those most currently revered those exact contemporaries Rembrandt and Velazquez, Van Gogh and Munch, the appeal of the disruptive Francis Bacon, and the joyful David Hockney are artists who in their own individual ways are both disturbing and consoling. There is a particular kind of painter who is indeed only interested in appearance of what he or she is looking at, and that appearance might be anything. And there are others who acknowledge the importance of appearance and also go beyond. Titian, Rembrandt, Velazquez, El Greco, Holbein, Van Dyck, Goya, Cézanne, Dégas, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian, Freud, Gerhard, Richter, are just a handful of the masters of the portrait and the self-portrait. A significant majority of the artists considered the greatest in the Western canon devoted much even at times the majority, of their work to the portrait. There are even some mythical figures in the painted world that produced, it seems, hardly anything but portraits, mysteries with humans at the centre. The tiny output of Vermeer is a case in point and paint: Almost no interior without a single person or a couple.
©2020 Cv Publications (P)2020 Cv Publications
The Serpent's Egg
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“When oblivion comes, it is forever, as endless as the slumber of those beings that lie buried beneath the roots of the world, dreaming in darkness.” A writer’s research into the legend of the Lambton Worm takes a horrifying twist when he uncovers the true origin of the story: A legend that stirs, knowing the time for its rebirth is near. A chilling tale of the Cthulhu mythos, written by award-winning author Jonathan Green.
©2017 Jonathan Green (P)2020 Jonathan Green
Startup Fundraising: How Successful Founders Raise Capital for Their Startups
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You have a great start-up idea. You decide to take the plunge and start your own company. You find like-minded friends who come together, and you start building the company. You realize you need money, loads of it, to pursue your dream. You decide to raise funds and do it successfully immediately. In a perfect world where things fell into place when we wished, this would be a possibility. However, we live in a world that is far from perfect and is highly competitive. In 2017 alone, more than 11,000 start-ups received funding amounting to $164 billion (as per CB Insights and PricewaterhouseCoopers). Sounds heartening? It isn’t! Globally only 11,042 start-ups received funding. Why did the thousands of start-ups which had been launched in the last few years not succeed in raising funds? This audiobook is written for startup founders to prepare them for successful fund raising for their company. From working on the core components of the startup to preparation of right documents and pitching to the investors, this audiobook covers all key aspects of fund raising. Atal Malviya, the founder of Spark10 has built and exited VC funded companies and has also helped hundreds of startups in raising investment globally. Spark10 has worked with investors and founders closely to fill the gaps and induct the most promising startups into its accelerator program while providing opportunities to savvy investors. This audiobook is written by investors who see hundreds of deals on a regular basis and follow the same core pattern before taking a call - this audiobook is the summary of that core pattern and components that investors look for, before making an investment decision. The audiobook also talks about right and wrong investors and how founders must be wary while choosing their future investor partners. In this audiobook, founders will also find links to useful resources such as sample pitch deck, sample cash flow statements, and business plan structure that is usually shared with Spark10 companies joining the accelerator.
©2018 Atal Malviya (P)2020 Atal Malviya
The Roman Bracelet
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While Rachel has stayed away from the Antique Shop and concentrated on her business, Peter has spent a lot of time there, making short trips to the past and cataloguing the things that have taken him there. What neither of them realize is that their activities are being watched, and when an estate agent contacts Rachel, wanting to negotiate a sale of the Antique Shop for a wealthy client, she is concerned that he won't take no for an answer. She is right; David Mills is very persistent, as he can see no good reason why Rachel won't sell. He's sure he can persuade her, given the right incentive and the right price, but when he follows her to the shop and sees its contents, he is even more puzzled. Wanting to prove his point, he has no idea what will happen when he slips an ancient bracelet into his pocket.
©2020 Margaret Brazear (P)2020 Margaret Brazear
Deadweight
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It was hailed as the answer to the obesity epidemic; a pill that allows you to eat anything you like and still lose weight. Millions were attracted by the promise of a leaner, fitter body, but there was a fatal and unforeseen flaw in this new panacea. A tiny microbe, lurking within, slowly infects the users. In turn they pass the infection to others with a sneeze, a cough or a simple kiss, and before long tens of millions are infected and turned into mindless, shambling wrecks, with the sole purpose of existing to eat. The virus is rampant, reaching into every corner of the globe. Governments collapse and shut down, unable to contain the outbreak, while the army works hard against the unending assault in a desperate bid to stop the dead from total victory. But there are even greater dangers to be faced. A few unfortunate souls suffer with the hunger of the dead but the mind of the living. They are neither dead nor alive, but something in between; something far more dangerous to the surviving humans. And amidst this carnage of the end of the world, in the south east of England, a small group of survivors are fighting on, against all the odds, as they try to stay one step in front of the dead, trying to avoid being the next item on the menu. The question is, in a world now claimed by the dead, what will they have to do to survive?
©2020 Paul Forster (P)2020 Paul Forster
Ye Olde Antique Shoppe: Books 1-3
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When Rachel inherits an abandoned antique shop in London, she suspects the reason for its abandonment. But when she and her friend Peter find a valuable coin, they take it with them - only to then find themselves in the 15th century. But that is only the beginning. Then, there's the discovery of the Edward V. coin, a relic from the short-lived reign of Edward V., prompts Peter to want to find out what really happened to the princes in the tower. Then, when Peter finds the famous B necklace worn by Anne Boleyn in many portraits, he is eager to use it to go back and see her in the flesh. But Rachel has sworn she'll never time travel again - until she finds a journal which reveals a cousin, stranded in the 15th century. She feels she must rescue her - only she doesn't stop to wonder if the cousin wants to be rescued.
©2018, 2020 Margaret Brazear (P)2020 Margaret Brazear