Ted Hughes translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses in Audio. This is not the entire Tales from Ovid as published in book form. I first heard about Ted Hughes and his translation of Echo and Narcissus story from Daniel Robinson in TTC - Greek Legacy course lecture 1.
Text for Echo and Narcissus
http://rapidshare.com/files/141944235/Echo_and_Narcissus.rar.html
Text for Pygmalion
http://rapidshare.com/files/143412672/Pygmalion.rar.html
Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But the complexity of scientific research can also be confusing and overwhelming, causing many to divert their attentions elsewhere and leave science to the "experts." Going beyond the issue-centered debates, Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future.
The Arabic/English Thematic Lexicon by Daniel Newman
The Arabic / English Thematic Lexicon is an invaluable resource for all learners of Arabic.
It contains some 8,000 entries, arranged into themes, including flora
and fauna, food and drink, the human body, health care, the family,
housing, clothing, education, IT, sports, politics, economics and
commerce, the law, media, language, geography, travel, religion, arts,
science and natural resources. Three appendices cover the names of Arab
and selected non-Arab regions, countries and capitals, and
international organizations.
The entries in the Lexicon have been drawn from an extensive corpus of
contemporary Standard Arabic vocabulary, based on authentic sources. In
addition to verbs, nouns and adjectives, the Lexicon includes phrases
and commonly used collocations, providing users with the necessary
vocabulary in order to communicate effectively and confidently in both
written and spoken Standard Arabic.
The Lexicon provides an indispensable complement to Arabic grammar
instruction and also serves as a useful reference guide for all Arabic
language users.
Daniel Newman is Reader in Arabic and Course Director of the MA in Arabic/English Translation at the University of Durham.
Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle What exactly is happiness? Can we measure
it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that
could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and
throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its
nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong
instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in itself, why
haven't we simply evolved to be happier? Daniel Nettle uses the results
of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and
unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve
it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and
how happiness is now marketed to us as a commodity. Nettle concludes
that while it may be unrealistic to expect lasting happiness, our
evolved tendency to seek happiness drives us to achieve much that is
worthwhile in itself. What is more, it seems to be not your particular
circumstances that define whether you are happy so much as your
attitude towards life. Happiness gives us the latest scientific
insights into the nature of our feelings of well-being, and what these
imply for how we might live our lives. (Amazon.Com)
Daniel’s getting married next week. He’s got his future all worked out.
It’s his past that’s the problem. Daniel never knew his father. All his
mother would say was that his Dad had been a Nigerian who died the year
Daniel was born. He didn’t even know what his Dad looked like until an
old neighbour showed him a picture. But the man in the photo is still
alive. And Daniel will stop at nothing to find him.
