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Future-Proofing Business - Chapter 3

In Building a Business

Read by Pamela Hartigan


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Pamela Hartigan


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Social Entrepreneurship: Integrating Leadership and Technology for Social Change

In Energy, Climate Change, Social Entrepreneurship and Gender

Read by Pamela Hartigan and Mirjana Radovic


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Medical Innovation 2010: Parallel Session 5

In Medical Innovation

Read by Pamela Hartigan, Joop Tanis, Andrea Coleman, Deborah Szebeko and David Crosby


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University of Oxford Podcasts

The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918

Read by Pamela Nagami


John Howard Bertram Masterman


This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …

The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453

Read by Pamela Nagami


Eleanor Constance Lodge


Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…

The Life of Charlemagne

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Thomas Hodgkin


Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…

England and the Hundred Years' War

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Charles William Chadwick Oman


This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …

The Normans in European History

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Charles Homer Haskins


Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy

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Will Durant


This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of …

Captain Cook

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Walter Besant


James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

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Beatrice A. Lees


Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

History of Modern Philosophy

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Alfred William Benn


This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Le…

Bismarck

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Georges Lacour-Gayet


Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…

Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mary Edwards Walker


Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…

Lectures on Tropical Diseases

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Patrick Manson


This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco …