Carpenter's geographical reader: North America by Frank G. CARPENTER (1855 - 1924) Genre(s): Reference, Travel & Geography Read by: MaryAnn, BettyB, John Demetre, J. M. Smallheer, realisticspeakers, Garth Burton, Paige Al Qasem, Andrea Kotzer in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 40 - Alaska and the Seal Islands 00:12:25 - 41 - British America 00:24:18 - 42 - The Cities of Canada 00:40:42 - 43 - Spanish North America -- Mexico 00:52:53 - 44 - Travels in Mexico 01:06:12 - 45 - Central America The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live. Upon a personally conducted tour they are taken by the author through the most characteristic parts of the North American continent. They travel through the United States, British America, Mexico, and Central America, studying the most interesting features of life and work among the people of each country, learning how they are governed, and what they do in order to live. Much information is also given concerning the natural resources and the physical features of the countries visited. (From the preface) More information: http://librivox.org/geographical-reader-north-america-by-frank-g-carpenter/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Summa Contra Gentiles, Second Book (On Creation) by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) Genre(s): Christianity - Commentary, Christianity - Other Read by Various in English Parts: Part 2 https://youtu.be/pzEODzpkaCU Chapters: 00:00:00 - Ch 01 00:04:02 - Ch 02 00:09:16 - Ch 03 00:14:24 - Ch 04 00:18:31 - Ch 05 00:19:29 - Ch 06 00:23:51 - Ch 07 00:26:30 - Ch 08 00:29:16 - Ch 09 00:31:35 - Ch 10 00:34:00 - Ch 11 00:36:28 - Ch 12 00:40:18 - Ch 13 00:43:24 - Ch 14 00:44:57 - Ch 15 00:53:31 - Ch 16 01:05:08 - Ch 17 01:08:36 - Ch 18 01:11:22 - Ch 19 01:17:12 - Ch 20 01:22:34 - Ch 21 01:33:25 - Ch 22 01:41:26 - Ch 23 01:50:01 - Ch 24 01:54:34 - Ch 25 02:04:32 - Ch 26 02:09:46 - Ch 27 02:11:21 - Ch 28 02:19:49 - Ch 29 02:26:16 - Ch 30 02:43:11 - Ch 31 02:49:20 - Ch 32 02:59:17 - Ch 33 03:06:55 - Ch 34 03:12:17 - Ch 35 03:23:10 - Ch 36 03:29:18 - Ch 37 03:36:17 - Ch 38 03:43:57 - Ch 39 03:50:56 - Ch 40 03:56:21 - Ch 41 04:07:09 - Ch 42 04:15:55 - Ch 43 04:23:18 - Ch 44 04:36:50 - Ch 45 04:44:16 - Ch 46 04:51:43 - Ch 47 04:58:07 - Ch 48 05:04:16 - Ch 49 05:11:02 - Ch 50 05:17:23 - Ch 51 05:20:13 - Ch 52 05:28:14 - Ch 53 05:31:42 - Ch 54 05:36:35 - Ch 55 05:53:23 - Ch 56 06:04:15 - Ch 57 06:15:31 - Ch 58 06:27:42 - Ch 59 06:40:06 - Ch 60 The Summa Contra Gentiles was composed by Thomas Aquinas between 1259 and 1265, in four books broadly covering teachings on God, on Creation, on Providence, and on tenets specific to Christianity. This Summa is not to be confused with his final Summa, the Summa Theologiae. The latter is specifically 'theological' and directed to a Christian audience , whereas the former, as the 'Contra Gentiles' indicates, is directed toward 'non-Christian' thinkers. Implicitly a defence of the Catholic Christian faith, the first three books constitute a sort of rational apology of Christian thought, where philosophical arguments are deployed to defend Christian beliefs and usually only evoke Scripture in a latter instance to show its concordance with these largely-rational conclusions; the fourth book, however, is theological in character given that its content deals primarily with topics derived from Christian revelation. Although Thomas Aquinas certainly aims to discredit pagan, Jewish, Muslim or Christian-'heretical' positions incompatible with the Catholic Christian religion in this work, at the same time he incorporates whatever is salvageable from their thought, thus often quoting in his favor the very authors he discredits on other positions: therefore the 'Contra Gentiles' of this Summa is not to be understood as an outright rejection of non-Christian thought, but rather as a sort of 'rational purification' unto its Catholic assimilation, in disposing open minds to revealed Christian truths. More information: https://librivox.org/summa-contra-gentiles-second-book-on-creation-by-saint-thomas-aquinas/