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Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance – its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. Kathryn Hughes Thu, 26 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309698 thebookvoice.com 13:44:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309698]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum Author: Kathryn Hughes Narrator: Jenny Funnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 26, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘Intriguing, gleefully contentious and – appropriately enough – fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance – its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309698]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum Author: Kathryn Hughes Narrator: Jenny Funnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 26, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘Intriguing, gleefully contentious and – appropriately enough – fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance – its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309655 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now We Are 40 Author: Tiffanie Darke Narrator: Tiffanie Darke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers – but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool? Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland immortalised in his novel of the same name. The wry, knowing navel-gazers obsessed with cool and being cool who today are sandwiched between the boomers of the 60s and the millennials. Gen X'ers came of age against a backdrop of Britpop and the Spice Girls, Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Madchester and the Stone Roses, acid house and rave, super clubs, Ministry and Cream. They holidayed in Ibiza high on hooch and E and never ever believed there'd be a comedown. So whatever happened to them? We turned 40. And as Tiffanie Darke points out in this witty exploration of the generation who defied generalisation, we're not handling it all that well… Where once we wore floaty skirts and Doc Martins, now we’re sporting Scandi fashion and 'interesting' trainers. We still party in Ibiza but now bodyboard in Cornwall. Where once mixtapes were the ultimate mating call, now we take selfies and swap Spotify playlists – all the while conspicuously wearing large Dr Beats headphones and casually leaving old packets of Kingsize Rizla lying round our open plan kitchens. More to the point, Gen X are now in charge. In government, in business and the creative industries. The most anti-establishment of generations has now become the establishment. But as tech overtakes the arts as society's great shaping force, Tiffanie ponders – does cool and its pursuit still matter? If Gen X had it sorted, gave us Barack Obama and downward facing dogs, why is stress the new flu? Why are we working not for love anymore – or cool – but to avoid negative equity and depleting pension pots? In Now We Are 40, Tiffanie interviews some of the most iconic Gen X’ers such as Pearl Lowe, Richard Reed and Blur’s bassist Alex James to look at how Gen X live their life in between being young and old, and how it feels to want to burn down the establishment only to realise that now you are the establishment. Tiffanie Darke Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309655 thebookvoice.com 8:34:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now We Are 40 Author: Tiffanie Darke Narrator: Tiffanie Darke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers – but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool? Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland immortalised in his novel of the same name. The wry, knowing navel-gazers obsessed with cool and being cool who today are sandwiched between the boomers of the 60s and the millennials. Gen X'ers came of age against a backdrop of Britpop and the Spice Girls, Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Madchester and the Stone Roses, acid house and rave, super clubs, Ministry and Cream. They holidayed in Ibiza high on hooch and E and never ever believed there'd be a comedown. So whatever happened to them? We turned 40. And as Tiffanie Darke points out in this witty exploration of the generation who defied generalisation, we're not handling it all that well… Where once we wore floaty skirts and Doc Martins, now we’re sporting Scandi fashion and 'interesting' trainers. We still party in Ibiza but now bodyboard in Cornwall. Where once mixtapes were the ultimate mating call, now we take selfies and swap Spotify playlists – all the while conspicuously wearing large Dr Beats headphones and casually leaving old packets of Kingsize Rizla lying round our open plan kitchens. More to the point, Gen X are now in charge. In government, in business and the creative industries. The most anti-establishment of generations has now become the establishment. But as tech overtakes the arts as society's great shaping force, Tiffanie ponders – does cool and its pursuit still matter? If Gen X had it sorted, gave us Barack Obama and downward facing dogs, why is stress the new flu? Why are we working not for love anymore – or cool – but to avoid negative equity and depleting pension pots? In Now We Are 40, Tiffanie interviews some of the most iconic Gen X’ers such as Pearl Lowe, Richard Reed and Blur’s bassist Alex James to look at how Gen X live their life in between being young and old, and how it feels to want to burn down the establishment only to realise that now you are the establishment. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now We Are 40 Author: Tiffanie Darke Narrator: Tiffanie Darke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers – but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool? Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland immortalised in his novel of the same name. The wry, knowing navel-gazers obsessed with cool and being cool who today are sandwiched between the boomers of the 60s and the millennials. Gen X'ers came of age against a backdrop of Britpop and the Spice Girls, Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Madchester and the Stone Roses, acid house and rave, super clubs, Ministry and Cream. They holidayed in Ibiza high on hooch and E and never ever believed there'd be a comedown. So whatever happened to them? We turned 40. And as Tiffanie Darke points out in this witty exploration of the generation who defied generalisation, we're not handling it all that well… Where once we wore floaty skirts and Doc Martins, now we’re sporting Scandi fashion and 'interesting' trainers. We still party in Ibiza but now bodyboard in Cornwall. Where once mixtapes were the ultimate mating call, now we take selfies and swap Spotify playlists – all the while conspicuously wearing large Dr Beats headphones and casually leaving old packets of Kingsize Rizla lying round our open plan kitchens. More to the point, Gen X are now in charge. In government, in business and the creative industries. The most anti-establishment of generations has now become the establishment. But as tech overtakes the arts as society's great shaping force, Tiffanie ponders – does cool and its pursuit still matter? If Gen X had it sorted, gave us Barack Obama and downward facing dogs, why is stress the new flu? Why are we working not for love anymore – or cool – but to avoid negative equity and depleting pension pots? In Now We Are 40, Tiffanie interviews some of the most iconic Gen X’ers such as Pearl Lowe, Richard Reed and Blur’s bassist Alex James to look at how Gen X live their life in between being young and old, and how it feels to want to burn down the establishment only to realise that now you are the establishment. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309385 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309385]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures Author: Ben Bradlee Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn. The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history. Bradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century—a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography...must reading” (The New York Times Book Review). Ben Bradlee Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309385 thebookvoice.com 20:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309385]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures Author: Ben Bradlee Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn. The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history. Bradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century—a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography...must reading” (The New York Times Book Review). Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309385]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures Author: Ben Bradlee Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn. The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at The Washington Post. After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read. His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history. Bradlee’s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century—a “sassy, sometimes eye-poppingly, engrossing autobiography...must reading” (The New York Times Book Review). https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309330 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309330]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War: A History in 100 Battles Author: Richard Overy Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Choosing just one hundred battles from recorded human history is a challenge. Not just because it is necessary to cover almost 6,000 years of history, but because men have fought each other almost continuously for millennia. Anyone who knows anything about the history of war may be disappointed at what has had to be left out. However, each of the 100 memorable battles described shows both how the nature of armed combat has changed over human history, and also how, despite changes in technology, organisation or ideas, many things have remained the same. It is an old adage that you can win a battle but lose a war. The battles featured here almost always resulted in victory for one side or another, but the victor did not necessarily win the war. Some battles are decisive in that broader historical sense, others are not. The further back in time, the more likely it is that an enemy could be finished off in one blow. The wars of the modern age, between major states, have involved repeated battles until one side was battered into submission. Some of the great generals of the recent past – Napoleon, Robert E Lee, Erich von Manstein – have been on the losing side but are remembered nonetheless for their generalship. Some on the winning side have all but disappeared from the history books or from public memory. Equally, in many battles, the issue is not victory or defeat, but what the battle can tell us about the history of warfare itself. New weapons, new tactics, new ways of organising armed forces can have a sudden impact on the outcome of a battle. But so too can leadership, or the effects of a clever deception, or raw courage. That is why the book has been divided up into clear themes which apply equally to the battles of the ancient world as they do to the battles of today. As Professor Richard Overy laments: “Battle is not a game to plug into a computer but a piece of living history, messy, bloody and real. That, at least, has not changed in 6,000 years.” Richard Overy Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309330 thebookvoice.com 16:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309330]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War: A History in 100 Battles Author: Richard Overy Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Choosing just one hundred battles from recorded human history is a challenge. Not just because it is necessary to cover almost 6,000 years of history, but because men have fought each other almost continuously for millennia. Anyone who knows anything about the history of war may be disappointed at what has had to be left out. However, each of the 100 memorable battles described shows both how the nature of armed combat has changed over human history, and also how, despite changes in technology, organisation or ideas, many things have remained the same. It is an old adage that you can win a battle but lose a war. The battles featured here almost always resulted in victory for one side or another, but the victor did not necessarily win the war. Some battles are decisive in that broader historical sense, others are not. The further back in time, the more likely it is that an enemy could be finished off in one blow. The wars of the modern age, between major states, have involved repeated battles until one side was battered into submission. Some of the great generals of the recent past – Napoleon, Robert E Lee, Erich von Manstein – have been on the losing side but are remembered nonetheless for their generalship. Some on the winning side have all but disappeared from the history books or from public memory. Equally, in many battles, the issue is not victory or defeat, but what the battle can tell us about the history of warfare itself. New weapons, new tactics, new ways of organising armed forces can have a sudden impact on the outcome of a battle. But so too can leadership, or the effects of a clever deception, or raw courage. That is why the book has been divided up into clear themes which apply equally to the battles of the ancient world as they do to the battles of today. As Professor Richard Overy laments: “Battle is not a game to plug into a computer but a piece of living history, messy, bloody and real. That, at least, has not changed in 6,000 years.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309330]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War: A History in 100 Battles Author: Richard Overy Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Choosing just one hundred battles from recorded human history is a challenge. Not just because it is necessary to cover almost 6,000 years of history, but because men have fought each other almost continuously for millennia. Anyone who knows anything about the history of war may be disappointed at what has had to be left out. However, each of the 100 memorable battles described shows both how the nature of armed combat has changed over human history, and also how, despite changes in technology, organisation or ideas, many things have remained the same. It is an old adage that you can win a battle but lose a war. The battles featured here almost always resulted in victory for one side or another, but the victor did not necessarily win the war. Some battles are decisive in that broader historical sense, others are not. The further back in time, the more likely it is that an enemy could be finished off in one blow. The wars of the modern age, between major states, have involved repeated battles until one side was battered into submission. Some of the great generals of the recent past – Napoleon, Robert E Lee, Erich von Manstein – have been on the losing side but are remembered nonetheless for their generalship. Some on the winning side have all but disappeared from the history books or from public memory. Equally, in many battles, the issue is not victory or defeat, but what the battle can tell us about the history of warfare itself. New weapons, new tactics, new ways of organising armed forces can have a sudden impact on the outcome of a battle. But so too can leadership, or the effects of a clever deception, or raw courage. That is why the book has been divided up into clear themes which apply equally to the battles of the ancient world as they do to the battles of today. As Professor Richard Overy laments: “Battle is not a game to plug into a computer but a piece of living history, messy, bloody and real. That, at least, has not changed in 6,000 years.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309328 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309328]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Victoria Letters: The official companion to the ITV Victoria series Author: Helen Rappaport Narrator: Duguld Bruce Lockhart, Jessica Ball, Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The official companion to ITV’s hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England’s greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV’s Victoria follows the early years of the young Queen’s reign, based closely on Victoria’s own letters and journals. Now explore this extensive collection in greater depth, and discover who Victoria really was behind her upright public persona. At only 18 years old, Victoria ascended the throne as a rebellious teenager and gradually grew to become one of the most memorable, unshakeable and powerful women in history. The extensive writings she left behind document this personal journey and show how she triumphed over scandal and corruption. Written by Internationally bestselling author, historian of 12 books and Victoria historical consultant, Helen Rappaport, and including a foreword by Daisy Goodwin – acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter of the series – The Victoria Letters details the history behind the show. Revealing Victoria’s own thoughts about the love interests, family dramas and court scandals during her early reign, it also delves into the running of the royal household, the upstairs-downstairs relationships, and what it was like to live in Victorian England. Come behind the palace doors and discover the girl behind the Queen. Helen Rappaport Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309328 thebookvoice.com 5:26:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309328]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Victoria Letters: The official companion to the ITV Victoria series Author: Helen Rappaport Narrator: Duguld Bruce Lockhart, Jessica Ball, Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The official companion to ITV’s hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England’s greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV’s Victoria follows the early years of the young Queen’s reign, based closely on Victoria’s own letters and journals. Now explore this extensive collection in greater depth, and discover who Victoria really was behind her upright public persona. At only 18 years old, Victoria ascended the throne as a rebellious teenager and gradually grew to become one of the most memorable, unshakeable and powerful women in history. The extensive writings she left behind document this personal journey and show how she triumphed over scandal and corruption. Written by Internationally bestselling author, historian of 12 books and Victoria historical consultant, Helen Rappaport, and including a foreword by Daisy Goodwin – acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter of the series – The Victoria Letters details the history behind the show. Revealing Victoria’s own thoughts about the love interests, family dramas and court scandals during her early reign, it also delves into the running of the royal household, the upstairs-downstairs relationships, and what it was like to live in Victorian England. Come behind the palace doors and discover the girl behind the Queen. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309328]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Victoria Letters: The official companion to the ITV Victoria series Author: Helen Rappaport Narrator: Duguld Bruce Lockhart, Jessica Ball, Gabrielle Glaister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 6, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The official companion to ITV’s hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England’s greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV’s Victoria follows the early years of the young Queen’s reign, based closely on Victoria’s own letters and journals. Now explore this extensive collection in greater depth, and discover who Victoria really was behind her upright public persona. At only 18 years old, Victoria ascended the throne as a rebellious teenager and gradually grew to become one of the most memorable, unshakeable and powerful women in history. The extensive writings she left behind document this personal journey and show how she triumphed over scandal and corruption. Written by Internationally bestselling author, historian of 12 books and Victoria historical consultant, Helen Rappaport, and including a foreword by Daisy Goodwin – acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter of the series – The Victoria Letters details the history behind the show. Revealing Victoria’s own thoughts about the love interests, family dramas and court scandals during her early reign, it also delves into the running of the royal household, the upstairs-downstairs relationships, and what it was like to live in Victorian England. Come behind the palace doors and discover the girl behind the Queen. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309280 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World Author: Sali Hughes Narrator: Sali Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 20, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future. ‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell of Johnson’s baby lotion through to Simple Face wipes, NARS Orgasm and beyond, looking at the formative role beauty plays in our lives. Considering which much-hyped beauty buys are worth the buzz, and who they might be best suited for, in Pretty Iconic Sali Hughes uses her witty, inclusive and discerning style to look at some of the most significant products in beauty – from treasured classics such as Chanel No 5, to life-changers such as Babyliss Big Hair, and the more recent releases from Charlotte Tilbury, Sunday Riley and others that are shaping the beauty industry today. Delving into the products that are simply the best at what they do, the inventions that changed our perception of beauty and the launches that completely broke the mould, Pretty Iconic is a treasure trove of knowledge from Britain’s most trusted beauty writer. Sali Hughes Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309280 thebookvoice.com 9:7:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World Author: Sali Hughes Narrator: Sali Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 20, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future. ‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell of Johnson’s baby lotion through to Simple Face wipes, NARS Orgasm and beyond, looking at the formative role beauty plays in our lives. Considering which much-hyped beauty buys are worth the buzz, and who they might be best suited for, in Pretty Iconic Sali Hughes uses her witty, inclusive and discerning style to look at some of the most significant products in beauty – from treasured classics such as Chanel No 5, to life-changers such as Babyliss Big Hair, and the more recent releases from Charlotte Tilbury, Sunday Riley and others that are shaping the beauty industry today. Delving into the products that are simply the best at what they do, the inventions that changed our perception of beauty and the launches that completely broke the mould, Pretty Iconic is a treasure trove of knowledge from Britain’s most trusted beauty writer. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World Author: Sali Hughes Narrator: Sali Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 20, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future. ‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell of Johnson’s baby lotion through to Simple Face wipes, NARS Orgasm and beyond, looking at the formative role beauty plays in our lives. Considering which much-hyped beauty buys are worth the buzz, and who they might be best suited for, in Pretty Iconic Sali Hughes uses her witty, inclusive and discerning style to look at some of the most significant products in beauty – from treasured classics such as Chanel No 5, to life-changers such as Babyliss Big Hair, and the more recent releases from Charlotte Tilbury, Sunday Riley and others that are shaping the beauty industry today. Delving into the products that are simply the best at what they do, the inventions that changed our perception of beauty and the launches that completely broke the mould, Pretty Iconic is a treasure trove of knowledge from Britain’s most trusted beauty writer. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309147 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309147]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain Author: James Canton Narrator: James Canton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 15, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen and follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea. As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine. James Canton Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309147 thebookvoice.com 8:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309147]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain Author: James Canton Narrator: James Canton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 15, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen and follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea. As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309147]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain Author: James Canton Narrator: James Canton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 15, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen and follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea. As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America Author: Steven J. Ross Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city’s Jews and to sabotage the nation’s military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. US law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention—preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis—and only Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, attorney Leon Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” ran a spy operation comprising military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, this daring ring of spies uncovered and foiled the Nazis’ disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis’ daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream. Steven J. Ross Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096 thebookvoice.com 14:1:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America Author: Steven J. Ross Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city’s Jews and to sabotage the nation’s military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. US law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention—preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis—and only Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, attorney Leon Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” ran a spy operation comprising military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, this daring ring of spies uncovered and foiled the Nazis’ disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis’ daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309096]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America Author: Steven J. Ross Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 1 minute Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city’s Jews and to sabotage the nation’s military installations. Plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast. US law enforcement agencies were not paying close attention—preferring to monitor Reds rather than Nazis—and only Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies stood in the way. From 1933 until the end of World War II, attorney Leon Lewis, the man Nazis would come to call “the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles,” ran a spy operation comprising military veterans and their wives who infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in Los Angeles. Often rising to leadership positions, this daring ring of spies uncovered and foiled the Nazis’ disturbing plans for death and destruction. Featuring a large cast of Nazis, undercover agents, and colorful supporting players, Hitler in Los Angeles, by acclaimed historian Steven J. Ross, tells the story of Lewis’ daring spy network in a time when hate groups had moved from the margins to the mainstream. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308917 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308917]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 17 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Escucha ahora el bestseller del New York Times que ya han disfrutado un millón de personas. Yuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en nuestra obsesión por convertirnos en dioses. A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista. ¿Qué pasará con la democracia cuando Google y Facebook lleguen a conocer nuestros gustos y preferencias políticas mejor que nos conocemos a nosotros mismos? ¿Qué pasará con el estado de bienestar cuando la inteligencia artificial expulse a los individuos del mercado laboral, creando una «clase innecesaria» de humanos? ¿Cómo podremos lidiar con los avances en ingeniería genética? ¿Terminará Silicon Valley por establecer nuevas religiones en lugar de enfocarse a producir únicamente dispositivos inteligentes? El audiolibro de Homo Deus explora los proyectos, los sueños y las pesadillas que configurarán el siglo XXI: desde superar la muerte hasta la creación de la inteligencia y la vida artificial. ¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos? ¿Cómo protegeremos al mundo de nuestros propios poderes destructivos? He aquí una mirada hacia el futuro de la evolución. He aquí Homo Deus. Reseñas: «Yuval Noah Harari, autor del fenómeno Sapiens, reflexiona sobre el futuro de la humanidad en Homo Deus, un libro de prosa inteligente, fresca y libre de prejuicios.» Jorge Wagensberg, Babelia «Aún más legible, incluso más importante que su excelente Sapiens.» Kazuo Ishiguro, Premio Nobel de Literatura « Homo Deus te impactará y te cautivará, pero sobre todo te hará pensar como nunca antes.» Daniel Kahneman, Premio Nobel de Economía «Harari se convierte en una especie de filósofo del futuro que desarrolla las intuiciones de su primera obra [...] un ritmo y una energía que convierten Homo Deus en un libro francamente ameno.» El Cultural «El épico y mundialmente celebrado Sapiens recibe la secuela que necesitaba: una intensa y compulsiva investigación sobre el apocalipsis de la humanidad en un futuro impulsado por la tecnología.» The Guardian «Un libro implacable y fascinante que seguramente se convertirá, y merece ser un éxito de ventas.» KirkusReview «Un estimulante libro que lleva al lector a profundizar sobre cuestiones de identidad, conciencia e inteligencia.» The Observer «Un brebaje embriagador de ciencia, filosofía y futurismo.» Mail onSunday «Un estudio brillante, original, estimulante e importante sobre hacia dónde se dirige la humanidad.» Evening Standard Yuval Noah Harari Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308917 thebookvoice.com 17:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308917]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 17 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Escucha ahora el bestseller del New York Times que ya han disfrutado un millón de personas. Yuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en nuestra obsesión por convertirnos en dioses. A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista. ¿Qué pasará con la democracia cuando Google y Facebook lleguen a conocer nuestros gustos y preferencias políticas mejor que nos conocemos a nosotros mismos? ¿Qué pasará con el estado de bienestar cuando la inteligencia artificial expulse a los individuos del mercado laboral, creando una «clase innecesaria» de humanos? ¿Cómo podremos lidiar con los avances en ingeniería genética? ¿Terminará Silicon Valley por establecer nuevas religiones en lugar de enfocarse a producir únicamente dispositivos inteligentes? El audiolibro de Homo Deus explora los proyectos, los sueños y las pesadillas que configurarán el siglo XXI: desde superar la muerte hasta la creación de la inteligencia y la vida artificial. ¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos? ¿Cómo protegeremos al mundo de nuestros propios poderes destructivos? He aquí una mirada hacia el futuro de la evolución. He aquí Homo Deus. Reseñas: «Yuval Noah Harari, autor del fenómeno Sapiens, reflexiona sobre el futuro de la humanidad en Homo Deus, un libro de prosa inteligente, fresca y libre de prejuicios.» Jorge Wagensberg, Babelia «Aún más legible, incluso más importante que su excelente Sapiens.» Kazuo Ishiguro, Premio Nobel de Literatura « Homo Deus te impactará y te cautivará, pero sobre todo te hará pensar como nunca antes.» Daniel Kahneman, Premio Nobel de Economía «Harari se convierte en una especie de filósofo del futuro que desarrolla las intuiciones de su primera obra [...] un ritmo y una energía que convierten Homo Deus en un libro francamente ameno.» El Cultural «El épico y mundialmente celebrado Sapiens recibe la secuela que necesitaba: una intensa y compulsiva investigación sobre el apocalipsis de la humanidad en un futuro impulsado por la tecnología.» The Guardian «Un libro implacable y fascinante que seguramente se convertirá, y merece ser un éxito de ventas.» KirkusReview «Un estimulante libro que lleva al lector a profundizar sobre cuestiones de identidad, conciencia e inteligencia.» The Observer «Un brebaje embriagador de ciencia, filosofía y futurismo.» Mail onSunday «Un estudio brillante, original, estimulante e importante sobre hacia dónde se dirige la humanidad.» Evening Standard Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308917]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 17 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Escucha ahora el bestseller del New York Times que ya han disfrutado un millón de personas. Yuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en nuestra obsesión por convertirnos en dioses. A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista. ¿Qué pasará con la democracia cuando Google y Facebook lleguen a conocer nuestros gustos y preferencias políticas mejor que nos conocemos a nosotros mismos? ¿Qué pasará con el estado de bienestar cuando la inteligencia artificial expulse a los individuos del mercado laboral, creando una «clase innecesaria» de humanos? ¿Cómo podremos lidiar con los avances en ingeniería genética? ¿Terminará Silicon Valley por establecer nuevas religiones en lugar de enfocarse a producir únicamente dispositivos inteligentes? El audiolibro de Homo Deus explora los proyectos, los sueños y las pesadillas que configurarán el siglo XXI: desde superar la muerte hasta la creación de la inteligencia y la vida artificial. ¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos? ¿Cómo protegeremos al mundo de nuestros propios poderes destructivos? He aquí una mirada hacia el futuro de la evolución. He aquí Homo Deus. Reseñas: «Yuval Noah Harari, autor del fenómeno Sapiens, reflexiona sobre el futuro de la humanidad en Homo Deus, un libro de prosa inteligente, fresca y libre de prejuicios.» Jorge Wagensberg, Babelia «Aún más legible, incluso más importante que su excelente Sapiens.» Kazuo Ishiguro, Premio Nobel de Literatura « Homo Deus te impactará y te cautivará, pero sobre todo te hará pensar como nunca antes.» Daniel Kahneman, Premio Nobel de Economía «Harari se convierte en una especie de filósofo del futuro que desarrolla las intuiciones de su primera obra [...] un ritmo y una energía que convierten Homo Deus en un libro francamente ameno.» El Cultural «El épico y mundialmente celebrado Sapiens recibe la secuela que necesitaba: una intensa y compulsiva investigación sobre el apocalipsis de la humanidad en un futuro impulsado por la tecnología.» The Guardian «Un libro implacable y fascinante que seguramente se convertirá, y merece ser un éxito de ventas.» KirkusReview «Un estimulante libro que lleva al lector a profundizar sobre cuestiones de identidad, conciencia e inteligencia.» The Observer «Un brebaje embriagador de ciencia, filosofía y futurismo.» Mail onSunday «Un estudio brillante, original, estimulante e importante sobre hacia dónde se dirige la humanidad.» Evening Standard https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308513 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308513]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Explorers: B1 Author: Fiona MacKenzie Narrator: Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Release date: July 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Marco Polo who taught the world about China Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions David Livingstone who explored Africa Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space BRITISH ENGLISH Word count: 14,679 Headword count: 1,163 PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. Created in association with The Amazing People Club. About Collins ELT Readers: Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: Level 1 – elementary (A2) Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) Level 3 – intermediate (B1) Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience. Fiona MacKenzie Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308513 thebookvoice.com 1:36:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308513]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Explorers: B1 Author: Fiona MacKenzie Narrator: Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Release date: July 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Marco Polo who taught the world about China Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions David Livingstone who explored Africa Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space BRITISH ENGLISH Word count: 14,679 Headword count: 1,163 PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. Created in association with The Amazing People Club. About Collins ELT Readers: Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: Level 1 – elementary (A2) Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) Level 3 – intermediate (B1) Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308513]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Explorers: B1 Author: Fiona MacKenzie Narrator: Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Release date: July 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Marco Polo who taught the world about China Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions David Livingstone who explored Africa Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space BRITISH ENGLISH Word count: 14,679 Headword count: 1,163 PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen. Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure. After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research. Created in association with The Amazing People Club. About Collins ELT Readers: Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels: Level 1 – elementary (A2) Level 2 – pre-intermediate (A2–B1) Level 3 – intermediate (B1) Level 4 – upper intermediate (B2) Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308442 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308442]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time Author: Juliet Gardiner Narrator: Eve Karpf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘An accomplished and intensely evocative memoir … A journey of courage and determination … Joining the Dots … will become in time an integral part of our understanding of postwar Britain’ Daniel Kynaston, Books of the Year, Observer How has Britain changed – politically, economically, socially and culturally – in the postwar era? Both lyrical and personal, social historian Juliet Gardiner’s memoir Joining the Dots is the accessible and empowering living history of a mid-twentieth-century woman who grew into a world so different from the one she was born into. The book is also a wider study of class, sexual choice, motherhood and marriage, feminism, family planning and professional ambition. An essential read for anyone interested in gender equality and modern history. Juliet Gardiner Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308442 thebookvoice.com 5:50:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308442]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time Author: Juliet Gardiner Narrator: Eve Karpf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘An accomplished and intensely evocative memoir … A journey of courage and determination … Joining the Dots … will become in time an integral part of our understanding of postwar Britain’ Daniel Kynaston, Books of the Year, Observer How has Britain changed – politically, economically, socially and culturally – in the postwar era? Both lyrical and personal, social historian Juliet Gardiner’s memoir Joining the Dots is the accessible and empowering living history of a mid-twentieth-century woman who grew into a world so different from the one she was born into. The book is also a wider study of class, sexual choice, motherhood and marriage, feminism, family planning and professional ambition. An essential read for anyone interested in gender equality and modern history. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308442]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time Author: Juliet Gardiner Narrator: Eve Karpf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ‘An accomplished and intensely evocative memoir … A journey of courage and determination … Joining the Dots … will become in time an integral part of our understanding of postwar Britain’ Daniel Kynaston, Books of the Year, Observer How has Britain changed – politically, economically, socially and culturally – in the postwar era? Both lyrical and personal, social historian Juliet Gardiner’s memoir Joining the Dots is the accessible and empowering living history of a mid-twentieth-century woman who grew into a world so different from the one she was born into. The book is also a wider study of class, sexual choice, motherhood and marriage, feminism, family planning and professional ambition. An essential read for anyone interested in gender equality and modern history. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own. Maya Jasanoff Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353 thebookvoice.com 10:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308184 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308184]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided Author: Catherine Pelonero Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the state.The investigation, aided by famed FBI profiler John Douglas, drew national attention and biting criticism from Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders. The killer, when at last he was unmasked, seemed an unlikely candidate to have held New York in a grip of terror.His capture was neither the end of the story nor the end of the racial strife, which flared anew during circuitous prosecutions and judicial rulings that prompted cries of a double standard in the justice system. Both a wrenching true crime story and an incisive portrait of dangerously discordant race relations in America, Absolute Madness also chronicles a lonely, vulnerable man’s tragic descent into madness and the failure of the American mental health system that refused his pleas for help. Catherine Pelonero Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308184 thebookvoice.com 17:25:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308184]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided Author: Catherine Pelonero Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the state.The investigation, aided by famed FBI profiler John Douglas, drew national attention and biting criticism from Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders. The killer, when at last he was unmasked, seemed an unlikely candidate to have held New York in a grip of terror.His capture was neither the end of the story nor the end of the racial strife, which flared anew during circuitous prosecutions and judicial rulings that prompted cries of a double standard in the justice system. Both a wrenching true crime story and an incisive portrait of dangerously discordant race relations in America, Absolute Madness also chronicles a lonely, vulnerable man’s tragic descent into madness and the failure of the American mental health system that refused his pleas for help. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308184]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided Author: Catherine Pelonero Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the state.The investigation, aided by famed FBI profiler John Douglas, drew national attention and biting criticism from Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders. The killer, when at last he was unmasked, seemed an unlikely candidate to have held New York in a grip of terror.His capture was neither the end of the story nor the end of the racial strife, which flared anew during circuitous prosecutions and judicial rulings that prompted cries of a double standard in the justice system. Both a wrenching true crime story and an incisive portrait of dangerously discordant race relations in America, Absolute Madness also chronicles a lonely, vulnerable man’s tragic descent into madness and the failure of the American mental health system that refused his pleas for help. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder Author: Arthur Herman Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One in order to make the “world safe for democracy”—only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and advocate for class war and “dictatorship of the proletariat,” would overthrow Russia’s earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the all-power Czar, all in the name of liberating humanity—and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union. In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries only marched into war to increase or protect their national interests.  After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas.  Together Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today. Our New World Disorder is the legacy left by Wilson and Lenin, and their visions of the perfectibility of man. One hundred years later, we still sit on the powder keg they first set the detonator to, through war and revolution. Arthur Herman Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013 thebookvoice.com 16:33:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder Author: Arthur Herman Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One in order to make the “world safe for democracy”—only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and advocate for class war and “dictatorship of the proletariat,” would overthrow Russia’s earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the all-power Czar, all in the name of liberating humanity—and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union. In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries only marched into war to increase or protect their national interests.  After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas.  Together Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today. Our New World Disorder is the legacy left by Wilson and Lenin, and their visions of the perfectibility of man. One hundred years later, we still sit on the powder keg they first set the detonator to, through war and revolution. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308013]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder Author: Arthur Herman Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice; thrust the United States into World War One in order to make the “world safe for democracy”—only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October Vladimir Lenin, communist revolutionary and advocate for class war and “dictatorship of the proletariat,” would overthrow Russia’s earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the all-power Czar, all in the name of liberating humanity—and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union. In this incisive, fast-paced history, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. Through the end of World War I, countries only marched into war to increase or protect their national interests.  After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas.  Together Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the world, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today. Our New World Disorder is the legacy left by Wilson and Lenin, and their visions of the perfectibility of man. One hundred years later, we still sit on the powder keg they first set the detonator to, through war and revolution. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307903 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307903]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Practicing History: Selected Essays Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Aviva Skell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 28, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The critically-acclaimed historian's insights, sense of humor, and sharp pen take on everything from Vietnam, Israel, and the Great War to writing history and its meaning. Includes these essays: Why Policy-Makers Do Not Listen; When Does History Happen?; Is History a Guide to the Future?; America as an Idea; How We Entered World War I; and more Barbara W. Tuchman Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307903 thebookvoice.com 9:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307903]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Practicing History: Selected Essays Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Aviva Skell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 28, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The critically-acclaimed historian's insights, sense of humor, and sharp pen take on everything from Vietnam, Israel, and the Great War to writing history and its meaning. Includes these essays: Why Policy-Makers Do Not Listen; When Does History Happen?; Is History a Guide to the Future?; America as an Idea; How We Entered World War I; and more Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307903]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Practicing History: Selected Essays Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Aviva Skell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 28, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The critically-acclaimed historian's insights, sense of humor, and sharp pen take on everything from Vietnam, Israel, and the Great War to writing history and its meaning. Includes these essays: Why Policy-Makers Do Not Listen; When Does History Happen?; Is History a Guide to the Future?; America as an Idea; How We Entered World War I; and more https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Author: Thomas Weber Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred. In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue. Thomas Weber Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749 thebookvoice.com 14:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Author: Thomas Weber Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred. In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307749]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Author: Thomas Weber Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement. The tragedy for Germany and the world was that Hitler found himself in Munich; had he not been in Bavaria in the wake of the war and the revolution, his transformation into a National Socialist may never have occurred. In Becoming Hitler, Weber brilliantly charts this tragic metamorphosis, dramatically expanding our knowledge of how Hitler became a lethal demagogue. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307696 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307696]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome, Inc: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation Author: Stanley Bing Narrator: Kerin McCue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 13, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world's first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. Stanley Bing Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307696 thebookvoice.com 6:3:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307696]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome, Inc: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation Author: Stanley Bing Narrator: Kerin McCue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 13, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world's first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307696]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome, Inc: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation Author: Stanley Bing Narrator: Kerin McCue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 13, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world's first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307683 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307683]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda! Author: Paquito D'Rivera Narrator: Paquito D'Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 24, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067 fue fundador, junto a Armando Romeu de la orquesta Cubana de musica moderna y mas tarde, con Chucho Valdes, del explosivo, innovador e influyente grupo Irakere. Ganador hasta ahora de nueve premios Grammy en las mas diversas categorias. Paquito D'Rivera Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307683 thebookvoice.com 9:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307683]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda! Author: Paquito D'Rivera Narrator: Paquito D'Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 24, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067 fue fundador, junto a Armando Romeu de la orquesta Cubana de musica moderna y mas tarde, con Chucho Valdes, del explosivo, innovador e influyente grupo Irakere. Ganador hasta ahora de nueve premios Grammy en las mas diversas categorias. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307683]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser o no ser, !Esa es la jodienda! Author: Paquito D'Rivera Narrator: Paquito D'Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 24, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Hijo de una encantadora modista de Santiago de Cuba y un habanerisimo padre musico que desde nino le inculco el amor a las artes y la pasion por la lectura. Paquito D'Rivera nacio en Marianao, La Habana el 4 de Junio de 1948. De temperamento inquieto y caracter humoristico, el eclectico saxofonista, clarinetista, compositor y escritor, en 1067 fue fundador, junto a Armando Romeu de la orquesta Cubana de musica moderna y mas tarde, con Chucho Valdes, del explosivo, innovador e influyente grupo Irakere. Ganador hasta ahora de nueve premios Grammy en las mas diversas categorias. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307619 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307619]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South Author: Osha Gray Davidson Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwater and Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South’s rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class and that cooperation is possible—even in the most divisive situations—when people begin to listen to one another. Osha Gray Davidson Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307619 thebookvoice.com 11:3:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307619]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South Author: Osha Gray Davidson Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwater and Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South’s rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class and that cooperation is possible—even in the most divisive situations—when people begin to listen to one another. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307619]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South Author: Osha Gray Davidson Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwater and Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South’s rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class and that cooperation is possible—even in the most divisive situations—when people begin to listen to one another. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307592 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307592]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age Author: Leslie Berlin Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world. Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world. “In this vigorous account…a sturdy, skillfully constructed work” (Kirkus Reviews), historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years, five major industries—personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic—were born. “There is much to learn from Berlin’s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible force” (The Christian Science Monitor). Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from the factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future. Leslie Berlin Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307592 thebookvoice.com 16:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307592]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age Author: Leslie Berlin Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world. Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world. “In this vigorous account…a sturdy, skillfully constructed work” (Kirkus Reviews), historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years, five major industries—personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic—were born. “There is much to learn from Berlin’s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible force” (The Christian Science Monitor). Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from the factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307592]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age Author: Leslie Berlin Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world. Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world. “In this vigorous account…a sturdy, skillfully constructed work” (Kirkus Reviews), historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years, five major industries—personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic—were born. “There is much to learn from Berlin’s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible force” (The Christian Science Monitor). Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from the factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers and pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer. Svetlana Alexievich Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404 thebookvoice.com 14:18:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers and pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307404]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers and pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307351 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307351]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the 'Beast of Rillington Place' caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today. Kate Winkler Dawson Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307351 thebookvoice.com 9:31:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307351]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the 'Beast of Rillington Place' caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307351]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the 'Beast of Rillington Place' caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307299 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307299]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class Author: Tim Shipman Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you behind the scenes of the most extraordinary episode in British politics since the Second World War. With unparalleled access to all key players, this is a story of calculation, attempted coups and people torn between principles and loyalty. It is a book about our leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make, how and why they make them and how they feel when they turn out to be so wrong. In All Out War, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life, and why he lost. Tim Shipman Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307299 thebookvoice.com 32:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307299]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class Author: Tim Shipman Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you behind the scenes of the most extraordinary episode in British politics since the Second World War. With unparalleled access to all key players, this is a story of calculation, attempted coups and people torn between principles and loyalty. It is a book about our leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make, how and why they make them and how they feel when they turn out to be so wrong. In All Out War, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life, and why he lost. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307299]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class Author: Tim Shipman Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 3, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU. This is the acclaimed inside story of the EU referendum in 2016 that takes you behind the scenes of the most extraordinary episode in British politics since the Second World War. With unparalleled access to all key players, this is a story of calculation, attempted coups and people torn between principles and loyalty. It is a book about our leaders and their closest aides, the decisions they make, how and why they make them and how they feel when they turn out to be so wrong. In All Out War, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why David Cameron chose to take the biggest political gamble of his life, and why he lost. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307201 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307201]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Drunkenness Author: Mark Forsyth Narrator: Richard Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth, read by Sh*tfaced Shakespeare's Richard Hughes. Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. This is a history of the world at its inebriated best. Mark Forsyth Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307201 thebookvoice.com 5:31:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307201]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Drunkenness Author: Mark Forsyth Narrator: Richard Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth, read by Sh*tfaced Shakespeare's Richard Hughes. Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. This is a history of the world at its inebriated best. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307201]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Drunkenness Author: Mark Forsyth Narrator: Richard Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth, read by Sh*tfaced Shakespeare's Richard Hughes. Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day's work. It can send you to sleep, or send you into battle. A Short History of Drunkenness traces humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, answering every possible question along the way: What did people drink? How much? Who did the drinking? Of the many possible reasons, why? On the way, learn about the Neolithic Shamans, who drank to communicate with the spirit world (no pun intended), marvel at how Greeks got giddy and Romans got rat-arsed, and find out how bars in the Wild West were never quite like in the movies. This is a history of the world at its inebriated best. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307123 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307123]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion of Münster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis Author: Fr. Daniel Utrecht Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "The dear God placed me in a position in which I had a duty to call black 'black' and white 'white'." These words were spoken by Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, the bishop of the diocese of Münster in Germany from 1933 to 1946. In so doing, he risked death at the hands of the Nazis, one Gestapo leader even urging that he be publicly hanged. Joseph Goebbels and others in the Nazi leadership, knowing the bishop's popularity, advised waiting, subscribing to the adage that revenge is a dish best served cold. In this, the definitive English-language biography of the great Lion of Münster, listeners will encounter the young von Galen as he learns the Catholic faith and love of the fatherland from his family, members of the German aristocracy. A nobleman, a prince of his people and of his Church, the boy grew into a man, a six-and-a-half-foot-tall giant of a man, who, though he loved his homeland, loved God, his Church, and his law even more; for he knew that calling his homeland back to the ways of God is the one way in which a bishop can best demonstrate that love for the people under his spiritual care. And so, in three magnificent sermons and countless other speeches, communiques and gestures, the Lion roared. This story of his life and his stirring words provides listeners with an indispensable glimpse into the confrontation between church and state in Hitler's Germany and will serve as a reminder to all men and women of good will of the duty to call black "black" and white "white". Fr. Daniel Utrecht Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307123 thebookvoice.com 12:25:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307123]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion of Münster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis Author: Fr. Daniel Utrecht Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "The dear God placed me in a position in which I had a duty to call black 'black' and white 'white'." These words were spoken by Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, the bishop of the diocese of Münster in Germany from 1933 to 1946. In so doing, he risked death at the hands of the Nazis, one Gestapo leader even urging that he be publicly hanged. Joseph Goebbels and others in the Nazi leadership, knowing the bishop's popularity, advised waiting, subscribing to the adage that revenge is a dish best served cold. In this, the definitive English-language biography of the great Lion of Münster, listeners will encounter the young von Galen as he learns the Catholic faith and love of the fatherland from his family, members of the German aristocracy. A nobleman, a prince of his people and of his Church, the boy grew into a man, a six-and-a-half-foot-tall giant of a man, who, though he loved his homeland, loved God, his Church, and his law even more; for he knew that calling his homeland back to the ways of God is the one way in which a bishop can best demonstrate that love for the people under his spiritual care. And so, in three magnificent sermons and countless other speeches, communiques and gestures, the Lion roared. This story of his life and his stirring words provides listeners with an indispensable glimpse into the confrontation between church and state in Hitler's Germany and will serve as a reminder to all men and women of good will of the duty to call black "black" and white "white". Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307123]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lion of Münster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis Author: Fr. Daniel Utrecht Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "The dear God placed me in a position in which I had a duty to call black 'black' and white 'white'." These words were spoken by Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, the bishop of the diocese of Münster in Germany from 1933 to 1946. In so doing, he risked death at the hands of the Nazis, one Gestapo leader even urging that he be publicly hanged. Joseph Goebbels and others in the Nazi leadership, knowing the bishop's popularity, advised waiting, subscribing to the adage that revenge is a dish best served cold. In this, the definitive English-language biography of the great Lion of Münster, listeners will encounter the young von Galen as he learns the Catholic faith and love of the fatherland from his family, members of the German aristocracy. A nobleman, a prince of his people and of his Church, the boy grew into a man, a six-and-a-half-foot-tall giant of a man, who, though he loved his homeland, loved God, his Church, and his law even more; for he knew that calling his homeland back to the ways of God is the one way in which a bishop can best demonstrate that love for the people under his spiritual care. And so, in three magnificent sermons and countless other speeches, communiques and gestures, the Lion roared. This story of his life and his stirring words provides listeners with an indispensable glimpse into the confrontation between church and state in Hitler's Germany and will serve as a reminder to all men and women of good will of the duty to call black "black" and white "white". https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 114 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 19 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions comes the "remarkably engaging" (Washington Post) history of the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained remarkably durable and unmatched in the history of the ancient world. In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled: rising economic inequality disrupted traditional ways of life, endemic social and ethnic prejudice led to clashes over citizenship and voting rights, and rampant corruption and ruthless ambition sparked violent political clashes that cracked the once indestructible foundations of the Republic. Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment. Abandoning the ancient principles of their forbearers, men like Marius, Sulla, and the Gracchi brothers set dangerous new precedents that would start the Republic on the road to destruction and provide a stark warning about what can happen to a civilization that has lost its way. Mike Duncan Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877 thebookvoice.com 10:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 114 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 19 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions comes the "remarkably engaging" (Washington Post) history of the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained remarkably durable and unmatched in the history of the ancient world. In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled: rising economic inequality disrupted traditional ways of life, endemic social and ethnic prejudice led to clashes over citizenship and voting rights, and rampant corruption and ruthless ambition sparked violent political clashes that cracked the once indestructible foundations of the Republic. Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment. Abandoning the ancient principles of their forbearers, men like Marius, Sulla, and the Gracchi brothers set dangerous new precedents that would start the Republic on the road to destruction and provide a stark warning about what can happen to a civilization that has lost its way. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306877]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 114 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 19 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions comes the "remarkably engaging" (Washington Post) history of the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty tyrants, barbarian chieftains, and despotic kings. Through the centuries, Rome's model of cooperative and participatory government remained remarkably durable and unmatched in the history of the ancient world. In 146 BC, Rome finally emerged as the strongest power in the Mediterranean. But the very success of the Republic proved to be its undoing. The republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled: rising economic inequality disrupted traditional ways of life, endemic social and ethnic prejudice led to clashes over citizenship and voting rights, and rampant corruption and ruthless ambition sparked violent political clashes that cracked the once indestructible foundations of the Republic. Chronicling the years 146-78 BC, The Storm Before the Storm dives headlong into the first generation to face this treacherous new political environment. Abandoning the ancient principles of their forbearers, men like Marius, Sulla, and the Gracchi brothers set dangerous new precedents that would start the Republic on the road to destruction and provide a stark warning about what can happen to a civilization that has lost its way. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306869 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's Author: Joseph Jebelli Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases -- Alzheimer's -- from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved grandfather had Alzheimer's and now he's written the book he needed then -- a very human history of this frightening disease. But In Pursuit of Memory is also a thrilling scientific detective story that takes you behind the headlines. Jebelli's quest takes us from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England, to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the technological proving grounds of Japan; through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Its heroes are scientists from around the world -- many of whom he's worked with -- and the brave patients and families who have changed the way that researchers think about the disease. This compelling insider's account shows vividly why Jebelli feels so hopeful about a cure, but also why our best defense in the meantime is to understand the disease. In Pursuit of Memory is a clever, moving, eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now. Joseph Jebelli Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306869 thebookvoice.com 7:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's Author: Joseph Jebelli Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases -- Alzheimer's -- from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved grandfather had Alzheimer's and now he's written the book he needed then -- a very human history of this frightening disease. But In Pursuit of Memory is also a thrilling scientific detective story that takes you behind the headlines. Jebelli's quest takes us from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England, to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the technological proving grounds of Japan; through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Its heroes are scientists from around the world -- many of whom he's worked with -- and the brave patients and families who have changed the way that researchers think about the disease. This compelling insider's account shows vividly why Jebelli feels so hopeful about a cure, but also why our best defense in the meantime is to understand the disease. In Pursuit of Memory is a clever, moving, eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's Author: Joseph Jebelli Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases -- Alzheimer's -- from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved grandfather had Alzheimer's and now he's written the book he needed then -- a very human history of this frightening disease. But In Pursuit of Memory is also a thrilling scientific detective story that takes you behind the headlines. Jebelli's quest takes us from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England, to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the technological proving grounds of Japan; through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Its heroes are scientists from around the world -- many of whom he's worked with -- and the brave patients and families who have changed the way that researchers think about the disease. This compelling insider's account shows vividly why Jebelli feels so hopeful about a cure, but also why our best defense in the meantime is to understand the disease. In Pursuit of Memory is a clever, moving, eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306865 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306865]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: God: A Human History Author: Reza Aslan Narrator: Reza Aslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Zealot explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.   In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”   But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments.   More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle Reza Aslan Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306865 thebookvoice.com 5:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306865]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: God: A Human History Author: Reza Aslan Narrator: Reza Aslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Zealot explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.   In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”   But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments.   More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306865]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: God: A Human History Author: Reza Aslan Narrator: Reza Aslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Zealot explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.   In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”   But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments.   More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Praise for God “Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306856 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306856]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell Author: Neil Strauss, Marilyn Manson Narrator: James Patrick Cronin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When this bestselling autobiography was originally released, readers were shocked: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell was the darkest, funniest, most controversial, and best-selling rock book of its time—and it became the template, both visually and narratively, for almost every rock book since. Marilyn Manson is not just a music icon, it turned out, but one of the best storytellers of his generation. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss and modeled on Dante's Inferno, this edition of The Long Hard Road Out of Hell features a bonus chapter not in the original hardcover. In the shocking and candid memoir, Manson takes readers from backstage to emergency rooms to jail cells, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country. Along the way, you'll hear what happens to fans—and celebrities—who dare to venture backstage with the one of the world's most dangerous rock stars. In the words of Elle magazine, the book ''makes Madonna's infamous Sex seem downright wholesome in comparison.'' Neil Strauss, Marilyn Manson Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306856 thebookvoice.com 9:1:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306856]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell Author: Neil Strauss, Marilyn Manson Narrator: James Patrick Cronin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When this bestselling autobiography was originally released, readers were shocked: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell was the darkest, funniest, most controversial, and best-selling rock book of its time—and it became the template, both visually and narratively, for almost every rock book since. Marilyn Manson is not just a music icon, it turned out, but one of the best storytellers of his generation. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss and modeled on Dante's Inferno, this edition of The Long Hard Road Out of Hell features a bonus chapter not in the original hardcover. In the shocking and candid memoir, Manson takes readers from backstage to emergency rooms to jail cells, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country. Along the way, you'll hear what happens to fans—and celebrities—who dare to venture backstage with the one of the world's most dangerous rock stars. In the words of Elle magazine, the book ''makes Madonna's infamous Sex seem downright wholesome in comparison.'' Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306856]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell Author: Neil Strauss, Marilyn Manson Narrator: James Patrick Cronin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When this bestselling autobiography was originally released, readers were shocked: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell was the darkest, funniest, most controversial, and best-selling rock book of its time—and it became the template, both visually and narratively, for almost every rock book since. Marilyn Manson is not just a music icon, it turned out, but one of the best storytellers of his generation. Written with bestselling author Neil Strauss and modeled on Dante's Inferno, this edition of The Long Hard Road Out of Hell features a bonus chapter not in the original hardcover. In the shocking and candid memoir, Manson takes readers from backstage to emergency rooms to jail cells, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country. Along the way, you'll hear what happens to fans—and celebrities—who dare to venture backstage with the one of the world's most dangerous rock stars. In the words of Elle magazine, the book ''makes Madonna's infamous Sex seem downright wholesome in comparison.'' https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306847 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306847]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: S Is for Southern: A Guide to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco Series: #4 of Garden & Gun Books Author: Editors Of Garden And Gun, David Dibenedetto Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling authors of The Southerner’s Handbook, Good Dog, and The Southerner’s Cookbook comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture. The American South is a multifaceted region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and cultural touchstones. Even for those born in the South, the unspoken rules—layered in local nuances and complexities—can sometimes be confounding. Tennessee whiskey may technically be bourbon, but don't let anyone in Kentucky hear you call it that. And bless your heart, don’t you dare make the mistake of confusing a magnolia blossom with a Japanese tulip. Now, from the editors of Garden & Gun—the magazine known as ''the soul of the South''—comes this encyclopedia of Southern living, culture, and history. Covering age-old traditions and current zeitgeists, S Is for Southern includes more than 500 entries spanning every letter of the alphabet, from absinthe to zydeco. This audiobook also includes 100 signature essays from notable Southern writers, including: - Jon Meacham on the Civil War - Sean Brock on Waffle House - Roy Blount, Jr. on humidity - Jessica B. Harris on field peas - Jason Isbell on the Atlanta Braves - Jack Hitt on pluff mud - The Lee Brothers on boiled peanuts - Jonathan Miles on Larry Brown - Julia Reed on the Delta Informative and irreverent, S Is for Southern celebrates and demystifies the traditions of the South, and is a must-listen for all fans of the region and culture enthusiasts. Editors Of Garden And Gun, David Dibenedetto Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306847 thebookvoice.com 14:55:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306847]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: S Is for Southern: A Guide to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco Series: #4 of Garden & Gun Books Author: Editors Of Garden And Gun, David Dibenedetto Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling authors of The Southerner’s Handbook, Good Dog, and The Southerner’s Cookbook comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture. The American South is a multifaceted region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and cultural touchstones. Even for those born in the South, the unspoken rules—layered in local nuances and complexities—can sometimes be confounding. Tennessee whiskey may technically be bourbon, but don't let anyone in Kentucky hear you call it that. And bless your heart, don’t you dare make the mistake of confusing a magnolia blossom with a Japanese tulip. Now, from the editors of Garden & Gun—the magazine known as ''the soul of the South''—comes this encyclopedia of Southern living, culture, and history. Covering age-old traditions and current zeitgeists, S Is for Southern includes more than 500 entries spanning every letter of the alphabet, from absinthe to zydeco. This audiobook also includes 100 signature essays from notable Southern writers, including: - Jon Meacham on the Civil War - Sean Brock on Waffle House - Roy Blount, Jr. on humidity - Jessica B. Harris on field peas - Jason Isbell on the Atlanta Braves - Jack Hitt on pluff mud - The Lee Brothers on boiled peanuts - Jonathan Miles on Larry Brown - Julia Reed on the Delta Informative and irreverent, S Is for Southern celebrates and demystifies the traditions of the South, and is a must-listen for all fans of the region and culture enthusiasts. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306847]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: S Is for Southern: A Guide to the South, from Absinthe to Zydeco Series: #4 of Garden & Gun Books Author: Editors Of Garden And Gun, David Dibenedetto Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling authors of The Southerner’s Handbook, Good Dog, and The Southerner’s Cookbook comes a lively compendium of Southern tradition and contemporary culture. The American South is a multifaceted region with its own vocabulary, peculiarities, and cultural touchstones. Even for those born in the South, the unspoken rules—layered in local nuances and complexities—can sometimes be confounding. Tennessee whiskey may technically be bourbon, but don't let anyone in Kentucky hear you call it that. And bless your heart, don’t you dare make the mistake of confusing a magnolia blossom with a Japanese tulip. Now, from the editors of Garden & Gun—the magazine known as ''the soul of the South''—comes this encyclopedia of Southern living, culture, and history. Covering age-old traditions and current zeitgeists, S Is for Southern includes more than 500 entries spanning every letter of the alphabet, from absinthe to zydeco. This audiobook also includes 100 signature essays from notable Southern writers, including: - Jon Meacham on the Civil War - Sean Brock on Waffle House - Roy Blount, Jr. on humidity - Jessica B. Harris on field peas - Jason Isbell on the Atlanta Braves - Jack Hitt on pluff mud - The Lee Brothers on boiled peanuts - Jonathan Miles on Larry Brown - Julia Reed on the Delta Informative and irreverent, S Is for Southern celebrates and demystifies the traditions of the South, and is a must-listen for all fans of the region and culture enthusiasts. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306784 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306784]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific Author: Oliver North Narrator: Joel Leffert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 10, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, describes the remarkable accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II. The American and Japanese veterans of such terrible campaigns as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima shared their stories with North, who presents them here in the soldiers' own words. More than a fascinating history of combat, War Stories II stands as a testament to the unmatched valor and bravery of an extraordinary generation. Oliver North Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306784 thebookvoice.com 16:37:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306784]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific Author: Oliver North Narrator: Joel Leffert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 10, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, describes the remarkable accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II. The American and Japanese veterans of such terrible campaigns as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima shared their stories with North, who presents them here in the soldiers' own words. More than a fascinating history of combat, War Stories II stands as a testament to the unmatched valor and bravery of an extraordinary generation. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306784]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific Author: Oliver North Narrator: Joel Leffert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 10, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author Oliver North, host of FOX News Channel's top-rated War Stories program, describes the remarkable accomplishments of the heroic men who fought in the Pacific theater of World War II. The American and Japanese veterans of such terrible campaigns as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima shared their stories with North, who presents them here in the soldiers' own words. More than a fascinating history of combat, War Stories II stands as a testament to the unmatched valor and bravery of an extraordinary generation. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306689 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306689]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama Author: Jenni Konner, Nick Haramis, Lena Dunham Narrator: Rashida Jones, Gabourey Sidibe, Nick Haramis, Alice Waters, Charlamagne Tha God, Janet Mock, Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Patton Oswalt, Jon Meacham, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women’s rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished. In an extension of his popular T, The New York Times Style Magazine feature, Nick Haramis has assembled nineteen essays from prizewinning writers, Hollywood stars, and political leaders—all of whom have been moved and influenced by Mrs. Obama’s extraordinary example of grace in power. Here are original testimonials from Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alice Waters, and Charlamagne tha God, among others. Presidential biographer Jon Meacham supplies historical perspective. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross suggests that Mrs. Obama “provided an antidote to all the false representations of black women that have inundated us for centuries.” Anna Wintour and designer Jason Wu celebrate the former first lady’s impact as an international fashion icon. Two ninth-grade girls—one in training to be a boxer—talk about how Mrs. Obama has emboldened them to be themselves. Here are some of the many facets of Michelle Obama as she continues to inspire us, a stirring reminder that the best of America once lived in the White House, embodied in one authentic, inclusive, and courageous woman. Read by the authors and a full cast of narrators: Lena Dunham Nick Haramis Alice Waters Zainab Jah Janet Mock Raymond Lee  Erin Spencer  Adasendis De La Cruz Issa Rae Charlamagne tha God Gloria Steinem Patton Oswalt Hillary Huber Rashida Jones Jon Meacham Laura Camacho Gabourey Sidibe Kimberly Farr Adenrele Ojo     Advance praise for Courage Is Contagious “Courage Is Contagious reminds us of the fortitude, brilliance, grace, humility, compassion, and humor of a woman we were so crazy lucky to have serve as first lady. This is an exceptional celebration of a most exceptional American.”—J.J. Abrams “The first lady planted a powerful new knowledge inside of each of us. When you read this book you realize it’s still in there and always will be.”—Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You “The diversity of the voices in Courage Is Contagious captures perfectly why Michelle Obama is so remarkable. If we can all see our best selves in her so vividly, how can we really be that different from each other? This glorious little book will give you goosebumps as it takes you on a journey celebrating one of the most important people alive.”—iO Tillett Wright, author of Darling Days Jenni Konner, Nick Haramis, Lena Dunham Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306689 thebookvoice.com 1:49:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306689]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama Author: Jenni Konner, Nick Haramis, Lena Dunham Narrator: Rashida Jones, Gabourey Sidibe, Nick Haramis, Alice Waters, Charlamagne Tha God, Janet Mock, Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Patton Oswalt, Jon Meacham, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women’s rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished. In an extension of his popular T, The New York Times Style Magazine feature, Nick Haramis has assembled nineteen essays from prizewinning writers, Hollywood stars, and political leaders—all of whom have been moved and influenced by Mrs. Obama’s extraordinary example of grace in power. Here are original testimonials from Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alice Waters, and Charlamagne tha God, among others. Presidential biographer Jon Meacham supplies historical perspective. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross suggests that Mrs. Obama “provided an antidote to all the false representations of black women that have inundated us for centuries.” Anna Wintour and designer Jason Wu celebrate the former first lady’s impact as an international fashion icon. Two ninth-grade girls—one in training to be a boxer—talk about how Mrs. Obama has emboldened them to be themselves. Here are some of the many facets of Michelle Obama as she continues to inspire us, a stirring reminder that the best of America once lived in the White House, embodied in one authentic, inclusive, and courageous woman. Read by the authors and a full cast of narrators: Lena Dunham Nick Haramis Alice Waters Zainab Jah Janet Mock Raymond Lee  Erin Spencer  Adasendis De La Cruz Issa Rae Charlamagne tha God Gloria Steinem Patton Oswalt Hillary Huber Rashida Jones Jon Meacham Laura Camacho Gabourey Sidibe Kimberly Farr Adenrele Ojo     Advance praise for Courage Is Contagious “Courage Is Contagious reminds us of the fortitude, brilliance, grace, humility, compassion, and humor of a woman we were so crazy lucky to have serve as first lady. This is an exceptional celebration of a most exceptional American.”—J.J. Abrams “The first lady planted a powerful new knowledge inside of each of us. When you read this book you realize it’s still in there and always will be.”—Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You “The diversity of the voices in Courage Is Contagious captures perfectly why Michelle Obama is so remarkable. If we can all see our best selves in her so vividly, how can we really be that different from each other? This glorious little book will give you goosebumps as it takes you on a journey celebrating one of the most important people alive.”—iO Tillett Wright, author of Darling Days Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306689]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama Author: Jenni Konner, Nick Haramis, Lena Dunham Narrator: Rashida Jones, Gabourey Sidibe, Nick Haramis, Alice Waters, Charlamagne Tha God, Janet Mock, Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Patton Oswalt, Jon Meacham, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for women’s rights, education, healthy eating, and exercise. Her genre-busting personal style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to dress as they wished. In an extension of his popular T, The New York Times Style Magazine feature, Nick Haramis has assembled nineteen essays from prizewinning writers, Hollywood stars, and political leaders—all of whom have been moved and influenced by Mrs. Obama’s extraordinary example of grace in power. Here are original testimonials from Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alice Waters, and Charlamagne tha God, among others. Presidential biographer Jon Meacham supplies historical perspective. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross suggests that Mrs. Obama “provided an antidote to all the false representations of black women that have inundated us for centuries.” Anna Wintour and designer Jason Wu celebrate the former first lady’s impact as an international fashion icon. Two ninth-grade girls—one in training to be a boxer—talk about how Mrs. Obama has emboldened them to be themselves. Here are some of the many facets of Michelle Obama as she continues to inspire us, a stirring reminder that the best of America once lived in the White House, embodied in one authentic, inclusive, and courageous woman. Read by the authors and a full cast of narrators: Lena Dunham Nick Haramis Alice Waters Zainab Jah Janet Mock Raymond Lee  Erin Spencer  Adasendis De La Cruz Issa Rae Charlamagne tha God Gloria Steinem Patton Oswalt Hillary Huber Rashida Jones Jon Meacham Laura Camacho Gabourey Sidibe Kimberly Farr Adenrele Ojo     Advance praise for Courage Is Contagious “Courage Is Contagious reminds us of the fortitude, brilliance, grace, humility, compassion, and humor of a woman we were so crazy lucky to have serve as first lady. This is an exceptional celebration of a most exceptional American.”—J.J. Abrams “The first lady planted a powerful new knowledge inside of each of us. When you read this book you realize it’s still in there and always will be.”—Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and No One Belongs Here More Than You “The diversity of the voices in Courage Is Contagious captures perfectly why Michelle Obama is so remarkable. If we can all see our best selves in her so vividly, how can we really be that different from each other? This glorious little book will give you goosebumps as it takes you on a journey celebrating one of the most important people alive.”—iO Tillett Wright, author of Darling Days https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306685 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306685]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Author: Anne Applebaum Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic’s borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first. Anne Applebaum Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306685 thebookvoice.com 17:47:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306685]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Author: Anne Applebaum Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic’s borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306685]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Author: Anne Applebaum Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic’s borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306600 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306600]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 18 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that visitor to late sixteenth-century England would ask, applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. Ian Mortimer Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306600 thebookvoice.com 17:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306600]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 18 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that visitor to late sixteenth-century England would ask, applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306600]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 18 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that visitor to late sixteenth-century England would ask, applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306541 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306541]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures Series: #1 of The World of Lore Author: Aaron Mahnke Narrator: Aaron Mahnke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “They Made a Tonic,” “Passed Notes,” and “Unboxed,” as well as rare material. They live in shadows—deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They’re spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives’ tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us remains vulnerable to them: werewolves and wendigos, poltergeists and vampires, angry elves and vengeful spirits.  In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the desolate Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the notorious winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. He delves into harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation . . . perhaps. He visits the dimly lit rooms where séances take place, the European villages where gremlins make mischief, even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted doll named Robert. In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a reflection of our primal fears, we know, on some level, that not every mystery has been explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear deep in our hearts and souls. As Aaron Mahnke reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore. The World of Lore series includes: MONSTROUS CREATURES • WICKED MORTALS • DREADFUL PLACES Aaron Mahnke Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306541 thebookvoice.com 9:6:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306541]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures Series: #1 of The World of Lore Author: Aaron Mahnke Narrator: Aaron Mahnke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “They Made a Tonic,” “Passed Notes,” and “Unboxed,” as well as rare material. They live in shadows—deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They’re spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives’ tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us remains vulnerable to them: werewolves and wendigos, poltergeists and vampires, angry elves and vengeful spirits.  In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the desolate Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the notorious winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. He delves into harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation . . . perhaps. He visits the dimly lit rooms where séances take place, the European villages where gremlins make mischief, even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted doll named Robert. In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a reflection of our primal fears, we know, on some level, that not every mystery has been explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear deep in our hearts and souls. As Aaron Mahnke reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore. The World of Lore series includes: MONSTROUS CREATURES • WICKED MORTALS • DREADFUL PLACES Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306541]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures Series: #1 of The World of Lore Author: Aaron Mahnke Narrator: Aaron Mahnke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “They Made a Tonic,” “Passed Notes,” and “Unboxed,” as well as rare material. They live in shadows—deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They’re spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives’ tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us remains vulnerable to them: werewolves and wendigos, poltergeists and vampires, angry elves and vengeful spirits.  In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the desolate Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the notorious winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. He delves into harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation . . . perhaps. He visits the dimly lit rooms where séances take place, the European villages where gremlins make mischief, even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted doll named Robert. In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a reflection of our primal fears, we know, on some level, that not every mystery has been explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear deep in our hearts and souls. As Aaron Mahnke reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore. The World of Lore series includes: MONSTROUS CREATURES • WICKED MORTALS • DREADFUL PLACES https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306533 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306533]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands Author: Roger D. Hodge Narrator: Roger D. Hodge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph. Roger D. Hodge Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306533 thebookvoice.com 12:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306533]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands Author: Roger D. Hodge Narrator: Roger D. Hodge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306533]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands Author: Roger D. Hodge Narrator: Roger D. Hodge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306228 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306228]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Second World War Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Lawrence Keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Do you know the origin of the word 'Nazi'? Who were the key figures involved in the Second World War, and what terrible weapons did they unleash? How did the war begin, and when did it actually end? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Lawrence Keefe talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the Second World War. With sections including key figures, statistics, weapons and more, this is an excellent addition to anyone's audiobook collection. Jack Goldstein Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306228 thebookvoice.com 0:37:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306228]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Second World War Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Lawrence Keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Do you know the origin of the word 'Nazi'? Who were the key figures involved in the Second World War, and what terrible weapons did they unleash? How did the war begin, and when did it actually end? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Lawrence Keefe talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the Second World War. With sections including key figures, statistics, weapons and more, this is an excellent addition to anyone's audiobook collection. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306228]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: 101 Amazing Facts about the Second World War Author: Jack Goldstein Narrator: Lawrence Keefe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Do you know the origin of the word 'Nazi'? Who were the key figures involved in the Second World War, and what terrible weapons did they unleash? How did the war begin, and when did it actually end? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Lawrence Keefe talks us through over one hundred amazing facts about the Second World War. With sections including key figures, statistics, weapons and more, this is an excellent addition to anyone's audiobook collection. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306073 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Jonathan Aris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin 'desired the good . . . but created evil.' This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs) Victor Sebestyen Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306073 thebookvoice.com 20:3:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Jonathan Aris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin 'desired the good . . . but created evil.' This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs) Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Jonathan Aris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, Lenin was radicalized after the execution of his brother in 1887. Sebestyen traces the story from Lenin's early years to his long exile in Europe and return to Petrograd in 1917 to lead the first Communist revolution in history. Uniquely, Sebestyen has discovered that throughout Lenin's life his closest relationships were with his mother, his sisters, his wife, and his mistress. The long-suppressed story told here of the love triangle that Lenin had with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his beautiful, married mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a more complicated character than that of the coldly one-dimensional leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. With Lenin's personal papers and those of other leading political figures now available, Sebestyen gives is new details that bring to life the dramatic and gripping story of how Lenin seized power in a coup and ran his revolutionary state. The product of a violent, tyrannical, and corrupt Russia, he chillingly authorized the deaths of thousands of people and created a system based on the idea that political terror against opponents was justified for a greater ideal. An old comrade what had once admired him said that Lenin 'desired the good . . . but created evil.' This included his invention of Stalin, who would take Lenin's system of the gulag and the secret police to horrifying new heights. In Lenin, Victor Sebestyen has written a brilliant portrait of this dictator as a complex and ruthless figure, and he also brings to light important new revelations about the Russian Revolution, a pivotal point in modern history. (With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs) https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303909 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303909]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged edition of The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, read by Saul Reichlin. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? The War of the World comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. 'A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, The New York Times 'Unputdownable, controversial, compelling' Independent on Sunday 'The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom' Max Hastings 'History at its most controversial ... no one can afford to overlook it' Allan Mallinson Niall Ferguson Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303909 thebookvoice.com 34:31:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303909]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged edition of The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, read by Saul Reichlin. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? The War of the World comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. 'A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, The New York Times 'Unputdownable, controversial, compelling' Independent on Sunday 'The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom' Max Hastings 'History at its most controversial ... no one can afford to overlook it' Allan Mallinson Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303909]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged edition of The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, read by Saul Reichlin. The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? The War of the World comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. 'A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, The New York Times 'Unputdownable, controversial, compelling' Independent on Sunday 'The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom' Max Hastings 'History at its most controversial ... no one can afford to overlook it' Allan Mallinson https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303889 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303889]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Author: Masha Gessen Narrator: Masha Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS  WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD   NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,  BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.  Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.  Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. Masha Gessen Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303889 thebookvoice.com 16:44:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303889]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Author: Masha Gessen Narrator: Masha Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS  WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD   NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,  BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.  Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.  Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303889]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Author: Masha Gessen Narrator: Masha Gessen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS  WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD   NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,  BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.  Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.  Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303465 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303465]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: DisneyWar Author: James B. Stewart Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme parks, and living rooms around the world—everywhere Disney does business and its products are cherished. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as thousands of pages of never-before-seen letters, memos, transcripts, and other documents, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years: What really caused the rupture with studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a man who once regarded Eisner as a father but who became his fiercest rival? How could Eisner have so misjudged Michael Ovitz, a man who was not only “the most powerful man in Hollywood” but also his friend, whom he appointed as Disney president and immediately wanted to fire? What caused the break between Eisner and Pixar chairman Steve Jobs, and why did Pixar abruptly abandon its partnership with Disney? Why did Eisner so mistrust Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him? How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards? DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America’s most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that—in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax—might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic—except that it’s all true. James B. Stewart Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303465 thebookvoice.com 25:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303465]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: DisneyWar Author: James B. Stewart Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme parks, and living rooms around the world—everywhere Disney does business and its products are cherished. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as thousands of pages of never-before-seen letters, memos, transcripts, and other documents, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years: What really caused the rupture with studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a man who once regarded Eisner as a father but who became his fiercest rival? How could Eisner have so misjudged Michael Ovitz, a man who was not only “the most powerful man in Hollywood” but also his friend, whom he appointed as Disney president and immediately wanted to fire? What caused the break between Eisner and Pixar chairman Steve Jobs, and why did Pixar abruptly abandon its partnership with Disney? Why did Eisner so mistrust Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him? How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards? DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America’s most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that—in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax—might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic—except that it’s all true. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303465]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: DisneyWar Author: James B. Stewart Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves through the entertainment industry, corporate boardrooms, theme parks, and living rooms around the world—everywhere Disney does business and its products are cherished. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as thousands of pages of never-before-seen letters, memos, transcripts, and other documents, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years: What really caused the rupture with studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a man who once regarded Eisner as a father but who became his fiercest rival? How could Eisner have so misjudged Michael Ovitz, a man who was not only “the most powerful man in Hollywood” but also his friend, whom he appointed as Disney president and immediately wanted to fire? What caused the break between Eisner and Pixar chairman Steve Jobs, and why did Pixar abruptly abandon its partnership with Disney? Why did Eisner so mistrust Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him? How did Eisner control the Disney board for so long, and what really happened in the fateful board meeting in September 2004, when Eisner played his last cards? DisneyWar is an enthralling tale of one of America’s most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. It tells a story that—in its sudden twists, vivid, larger-than-life characters, and thrilling climax—might itself have been the subject of a Disney classic—except that it’s all true. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303420 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303420]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization Author: Martin Puchner Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World “It’s with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner’s book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is ‘world literature,’ a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal.”—The Sunday Times (U.K.)  “Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . [Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life.”—BookPage “Well worth a read, to find out how come we read.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Martin Puchner Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303420 thebookvoice.com 12:3:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303420]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization Author: Martin Puchner Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World “It’s with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner’s book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is ‘world literature,’ a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal.”—The Sunday Times (U.K.)  “Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . [Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life.”—BookPage “Well worth a read, to find out how come we read.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303420]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization Author: Martin Puchner Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World “It’s with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner’s book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is ‘world literature,’ a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal.”—The Sunday Times (U.K.)  “Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . [Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life.”—BookPage “Well worth a read, to find out how come we read.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303380 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303380]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend Author: Meryl Gordon Narrator: Vanessa Cortland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original. Meryl Gordon Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303380 thebookvoice.com 17:33:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303380]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend Author: Meryl Gordon Narrator: Vanessa Cortland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303380]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend Author: Meryl Gordon Narrator: Vanessa Cortland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in 2014 at age 103, was press-shy during her lifetime. With the co-operation of Bunny Mellon's family, author Meryl Gordon received access to thousands of pages of her letters, diaries and appointment calendars and has interviewed more than 175 people to capture the spirit of this talented American original. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303269 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303269]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil Author: Yvette Manessis Corporon Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants—and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn’t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin’s child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, it was still happening today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautifully told interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt story about the power of faith, the importance of kindness, and the courage to stand up for what’s right in the face of great evil. Yvette Manessis Corporon Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303269 thebookvoice.com 10:12:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303269]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil Author: Yvette Manessis Corporon Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants—and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn’t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin’s child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, it was still happening today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautifully told interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt story about the power of faith, the importance of kindness, and the courage to stand up for what’s right in the face of great evil. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303269]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil Author: Yvette Manessis Corporon Narrator: Pam Turlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family—a tailor named Savvas and his daughters—from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants—and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn’t always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin’s child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, it was still happening today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautifully told interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt story about the power of faith, the importance of kindness, and the courage to stand up for what’s right in the face of great evil. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Author: Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella Narrator: Shridhar Solanki, Satya Nadella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere. Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives—the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It’s about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform ''hit refresh'' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it’s about us humans and how our one unique quality—empathy—will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will disrupt the status quo as never before. Satya Nadella explores a fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO—one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He tells the inside story of how a company rediscovered its soul—transforming everything from culture to their fiercely competitive landscape and industry partnerships. Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of technology and by exploring the potential impact to society and delivering call to action for world leaders. ''Ideas excite me,'' Nadella explains. ''Empathy grounds and centers me.'' Hit Refresh is a reflection, meditations, and series of recommendations presented as algorithms from a principled, deliberative leader searching for improvement—for himself, for a storied company, and for society. Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204 thebookvoice.com 7:27:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Author: Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella Narrator: Shridhar Solanki, Satya Nadella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere. Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives—the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It’s about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform ''hit refresh'' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it’s about us humans and how our one unique quality—empathy—will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will disrupt the status quo as never before. Satya Nadella explores a fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO—one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He tells the inside story of how a company rediscovered its soul—transforming everything from culture to their fiercely competitive landscape and industry partnerships. Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of technology and by exploring the potential impact to society and delivering call to action for world leaders. ''Ideas excite me,'' Nadella explains. ''Empathy grounds and centers me.'' Hit Refresh is a reflection, meditations, and series of recommendations presented as algorithms from a principled, deliberative leader searching for improvement—for himself, for a storied company, and for society. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303204]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Author: Greg Shaw, Satya Nadella Narrator: Shridhar Solanki, Satya Nadella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere. Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives—the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It’s about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform ''hit refresh'' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it’s about us humans and how our one unique quality—empathy—will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will disrupt the status quo as never before. Satya Nadella explores a fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO—one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He tells the inside story of how a company rediscovered its soul—transforming everything from culture to their fiercely competitive landscape and industry partnerships. Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of technology and by exploring the potential impact to society and delivering call to action for world leaders. ''Ideas excite me,'' Nadella explains. ''Empathy grounds and centers me.'' Hit Refresh is a reflection, meditations, and series of recommendations presented as algorithms from a principled, deliberative leader searching for improvement—for himself, for a storied company, and for society. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303200 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303200]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies Author: Jason Fagone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the ''Adam and Eve'' of the NSA, Elizebeth’s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizabeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma—and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson’s bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is riviting popular history at its finest. Includes an enhancement PDF. Jason Fagone Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303200 thebookvoice.com 13:37:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303200]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies Author: Jason Fagone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the ''Adam and Eve'' of the NSA, Elizebeth’s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizabeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma—and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson’s bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is riviting popular history at its finest. Includes an enhancement PDF. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303200]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies Author: Jason Fagone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 26, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the ''Adam and Eve'' of the NSA, Elizebeth’s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation’s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizabeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler’s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma—and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America’s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith’s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson’s bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is riviting popular history at its finest. Includes an enhancement PDF. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303178 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303178]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson, read by John Sackville. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld. Audio updated as of December 2017. Niall Ferguson Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303178 thebookvoice.com 16:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303178]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson, read by John Sackville. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld. Audio updated as of December 2017. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303178]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson, read by John Sackville. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld. Audio updated as of December 2017. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303011 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303011]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.”—Tom Brokaw “[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America’s cultural history.”—Newsday “Compelling and totally unnerving.”—The Village Voice “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.”—The Guardian “This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci Kurt Andersen Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303011 thebookvoice.com 19:36:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303011]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.”—Tom Brokaw “[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America’s cultural history.”—Newsday “Compelling and totally unnerving.”—The Village Voice “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.”—The Guardian “This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303011]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.”—Tom Brokaw “[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America’s cultural history.”—Newsday “Compelling and totally unnerving.”—The Village Voice “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.”—The Guardian “This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302939 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302939]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism Series: #3 of The Resistance Quartet Author: Caroline Moorehead Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in ''The Resistance Quartet'': the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars—a profile in courage that remains relevant today. Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy of Florence at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Rosselli family, led by their fierce matriarch, Amelia, were vocal anti-fascists. As populist, right-wing nationalism swept across Europe after World War I, and Italy’s Prime Minister, Benito Mussolini, began consolidating his power, Amelia’s sons Carlo and Nello led the opposition, taking a public stand against Il Duce that few others in their elite class dared risk. When Mussolini established a terrifying and brutal police state controlled by his Blackshirts—the squaddristi—the Rossellis and their anti-fascist circle were transformed into active resisters. In retaliation, many of the anti-fascists were arrested and imprisoned; others left the country to escape a similar fate. Tragically, Carlo and Nello were eventually assassinated by Mussolini’s secret service. After Italy entered World War II in June 1940, Amelia, thanks to visas arranged by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt herself, fled to New York City with the remaining members of her family. Renowned historian Caroline Moorehead paints an indelible picture of Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, offering an intimate account of the rise of Il Duce and his squaddristi; life in Mussolini’s penal colonies; the shocking ambivalence and complicity of many prominent Italian families seduced by Mussolini’s promises; and the bold, fractured resistance movement whose associates sacrificed their lives to fight fascism. In A Bold and Dangerous Family, Moorehead once again pays tribute to heroes who fought to uphold our humanity during one of history’s darkest chapters. Caroline Moorehead Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302939 thebookvoice.com 14:31:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302939]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism Series: #3 of The Resistance Quartet Author: Caroline Moorehead Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in ''The Resistance Quartet'': the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars—a profile in courage that remains relevant today. Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy of Florence at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Rosselli family, led by their fierce matriarch, Amelia, were vocal anti-fascists. As populist, right-wing nationalism swept across Europe after World War I, and Italy’s Prime Minister, Benito Mussolini, began consolidating his power, Amelia’s sons Carlo and Nello led the opposition, taking a public stand against Il Duce that few others in their elite class dared risk. When Mussolini established a terrifying and brutal police state controlled by his Blackshirts—the squaddristi—the Rossellis and their anti-fascist circle were transformed into active resisters. In retaliation, many of the anti-fascists were arrested and imprisoned; others left the country to escape a similar fate. Tragically, Carlo and Nello were eventually assassinated by Mussolini’s secret service. After Italy entered World War II in June 1940, Amelia, thanks to visas arranged by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt herself, fled to New York City with the remaining members of her family. Renowned historian Caroline Moorehead paints an indelible picture of Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, offering an intimate account of the rise of Il Duce and his squaddristi; life in Mussolini’s penal colonies; the shocking ambivalence and complicity of many prominent Italian families seduced by Mussolini’s promises; and the bold, fractured resistance movement whose associates sacrificed their lives to fight fascism. In A Bold and Dangerous Family, Moorehead once again pays tribute to heroes who fought to uphold our humanity during one of history’s darkest chapters. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302939]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism Series: #3 of The Resistance Quartet Author: Caroline Moorehead Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in ''The Resistance Quartet'': the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars—a profile in courage that remains relevant today. Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy of Florence at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Rosselli family, led by their fierce matriarch, Amelia, were vocal anti-fascists. As populist, right-wing nationalism swept across Europe after World War I, and Italy’s Prime Minister, Benito Mussolini, began consolidating his power, Amelia’s sons Carlo and Nello led the opposition, taking a public stand against Il Duce that few others in their elite class dared risk. When Mussolini established a terrifying and brutal police state controlled by his Blackshirts—the squaddristi—the Rossellis and their anti-fascist circle were transformed into active resisters. In retaliation, many of the anti-fascists were arrested and imprisoned; others left the country to escape a similar fate. Tragically, Carlo and Nello were eventually assassinated by Mussolini’s secret service. After Italy entered World War II in June 1940, Amelia, thanks to visas arranged by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt herself, fled to New York City with the remaining members of her family. Renowned historian Caroline Moorehead paints an indelible picture of Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, offering an intimate account of the rise of Il Duce and his squaddristi; life in Mussolini’s penal colonies; the shocking ambivalence and complicity of many prominent Italian families seduced by Mussolini’s promises; and the bold, fractured resistance movement whose associates sacrificed their lives to fight fascism. In A Bold and Dangerous Family, Moorehead once again pays tribute to heroes who fought to uphold our humanity during one of history’s darkest chapters. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302922 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302922]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Edith Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author. 'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leaves you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Edith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. There, she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Her heroic actions helped her sister to survive, and her bunkmates to save her life, during a death march, after which she was found in a pile of bodies, barely alive. She recovered and moved to America, going on to become an eminent psychologist, and giving the keynote address at Viktor Frankl's 90th birthday party. Like Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Edith Eger's important book, The Choice, could change your life. Eger shares stories of the Holocaust and the experiences of her clients , who range from survivors of abuse to soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering. Warm, wise and compassionate, The Choice offers profound insights into the nature of human suffering, and our capacity to heal. Edith Eger Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302922 thebookvoice.com 12:26:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302922]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Edith Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author. 'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leaves you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Edith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. There, she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Her heroic actions helped her sister to survive, and her bunkmates to save her life, during a death march, after which she was found in a pile of bodies, barely alive. She recovered and moved to America, going on to become an eminent psychologist, and giving the keynote address at Viktor Frankl's 90th birthday party. Like Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Edith Eger's important book, The Choice, could change your life. Eger shares stories of the Holocaust and the experiences of her clients , who range from survivors of abuse to soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering. Warm, wise and compassionate, The Choice offers profound insights into the nature of human suffering, and our capacity to heal. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302922]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice Author: Edith Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author. 'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leaves you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Edith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. There, she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Her heroic actions helped her sister to survive, and her bunkmates to save her life, during a death march, after which she was found in a pile of bodies, barely alive. She recovered and moved to America, going on to become an eminent psychologist, and giving the keynote address at Viktor Frankl's 90th birthday party. Like Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Edith Eger's important book, The Choice, could change your life. Eger shares stories of the Holocaust and the experiences of her clients , who range from survivors of abuse to soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering. Warm, wise and compassionate, The Choice offers profound insights into the nature of human suffering, and our capacity to heal. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302890 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302890]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Farmer George Plants a Nation Author: Peggy Thomas Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 8, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: George Washington as he's rarely seen. Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery. Both illustrator and author worked closely with the staff of Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens to render an accurate portrait of Farmer George at work. Peggy Thomas Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302890 thebookvoice.com 0:23:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302890]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Farmer George Plants a Nation Author: Peggy Thomas Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 8, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: George Washington as he's rarely seen. Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery. Both illustrator and author worked closely with the staff of Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens to render an accurate portrait of Farmer George at work. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302890]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Farmer George Plants a Nation Author: Peggy Thomas Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 8, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: George Washington as he's rarely seen. Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery. Both illustrator and author worked closely with the staff of Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens to render an accurate portrait of Farmer George at work. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302820 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302820]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible Author: Edith Eva Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 33 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate “Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself. Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers. Edith Eva Eger Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302820 thebookvoice.com 12:27:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302820]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible Author: Edith Eva Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 33 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate “Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself. Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302820]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible Author: Edith Eva Eger Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 33 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate “Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself. Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302803 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302803]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Author: Liza Mundy Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a 'prodigiously researched and engrossing' (New York Times) book that 'shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history' (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment. Liza Mundy Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302803 thebookvoice.com 14:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302803]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Author: Liza Mundy Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a 'prodigiously researched and engrossing' (New York Times) book that 'shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history' (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302803]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Author: Liza Mundy Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a 'prodigiously researched and engrossing' (New York Times) book that 'shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history' (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302437 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302437]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy Author: Tim Harford Narrator: Roger Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 29, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.   Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers?  Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to IKEA’s Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention’s own curious, surprising, and memorable story.  Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography. Tim Harford Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302437 thebookvoice.com 9:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302437]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy Author: Tim Harford Narrator: Roger Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 29, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.   Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers?  Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to IKEA’s Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention’s own curious, surprising, and memorable story.  Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302437]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy Author: Tim Harford Narrator: Roger Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 29, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.   Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da Vinci Code and the collapse of Lehman Brothers?  Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy paints an epic picture of change in an intimate way by telling the stories of the tools, people, and ideas that had far-reaching consequences for all of us. From the plough to artificial intelligence, from Gillette’s disposable razor to IKEA’s Billy bookcase, bestselling author and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford recounts each invention’s own curious, surprising, and memorable story.  Invention by invention, Harford reflects on how we got here and where we might go next. He lays bare often unexpected connections: how the bar code undermined family corner stores, and why the gramophone widened inequality. In the process, he introduces characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, and were ruined by them, as he traces the principles that helped explain their transformative effects. The result is a wise and witty book of history, economics, and biography. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302322 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302322]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Author: Dick Gregory Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating journey through time, Defining Moments in Black History explores historical movements such as The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones such as Sidney Poitier winning the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Holiday releasing Strange Fruit. An engaging look at black life that offers insightful commentary on the intricate history of the African American people, Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain. Dick Gregory Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302322 thebookvoice.com 7:38:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302322]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Author: Dick Gregory Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating journey through time, Defining Moments in Black History explores historical movements such as The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones such as Sidney Poitier winning the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Holiday releasing Strange Fruit. An engaging look at black life that offers insightful commentary on the intricate history of the African American people, Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302322]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Author: Dick Gregory Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the Civil Rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War; sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights; fought apartheid in South Africa; and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter. In this collection of thoughtful, provocative essays, Gregory charts the complex and often obscured history of the African American experience. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the Middle Passage to the creation of the Jheri Curl, the enjoyment of bacon and everything pig, the headline-making shootings of black men, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A captivating journey through time, Defining Moments in Black History explores historical movements such as The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones such as Sidney Poitier winning the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies in the Field and Billie Holiday releasing Strange Fruit. An engaging look at black life that offers insightful commentary on the intricate history of the African American people, Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302181 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Author: Laura Spinney Narrator: Paul Hodgson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted -- and often permanently altered -- global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true 'lost generation.' Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity. Laura Spinney Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302181 thebookvoice.com 10:6:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Author: Laura Spinney Narrator: Paul Hodgson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted -- and often permanently altered -- global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true 'lost generation.' Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World Author: Laura Spinney Narrator: Paul Hodgson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus -- one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on twentieth-century history. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth -- from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted -- and often permanently altered -- global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid, and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true 'lost generation.' Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology and economics, Pale Rider masterfully recounts the little-known catastrophe that forever changed humanity. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302176 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302176]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Andrea Pitzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 19, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of 'never again.' In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century. 'Masterly'-The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year Andrea Pitzer Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302176 thebookvoice.com 14:10:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302176]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Andrea Pitzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 19, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of 'never again.' In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century. 'Masterly'-The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302176]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Andrea Pitzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 19, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of 'never again.' In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century. 'Masterly'-The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302174 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302174]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido Author: David Friend Narrator: David Friend Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra. David Friend Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302174 thebookvoice.com 26:29:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302174]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido Author: David Friend Narrator: David Friend Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302174]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido Author: David Friend Narrator: David Friend Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302152 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302152]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self Author: Charles Eisenstein Narrator: Steve Wojtas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self   Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.   Fortunately, an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery. Even in our darkest hour, Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world—not through the extension of millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our Babelian efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization—one designed for beauty rather than height. Charles Eisenstein Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302152 thebookvoice.com 27:26:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302152]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self Author: Charles Eisenstein Narrator: Steve Wojtas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self   Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.   Fortunately, an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery. Even in our darkest hour, Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world—not through the extension of millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our Babelian efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization—one designed for beauty rather than height. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302152]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self Author: Charles Eisenstein Narrator: Steve Wojtas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self   Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.   Fortunately, an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery. Even in our darkest hour, Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world—not through the extension of millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our Babelian efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization—one designed for beauty rather than height. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302122 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World Author: Eric Metaxas Narrator: Eric Metaxas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation   On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther’s now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the bestselling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, Martin Luther tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears. Luther’s monumental faith and courage gave birth to the ideals of liberty, equality, and individualism that today lie at the heart of all modern life. Eric Metaxas Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302122 thebookvoice.com 20:39:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World Author: Eric Metaxas Narrator: Eric Metaxas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation   On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther’s now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the bestselling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, Martin Luther tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears. Luther’s monumental faith and courage gave birth to the ideals of liberty, equality, and individualism that today lie at the heart of all modern life. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World Author: Eric Metaxas Narrator: Eric Metaxas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 44 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation   On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther’s now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the bestselling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, Martin Luther tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears. Luther’s monumental faith and courage gave birth to the ideals of liberty, equality, and individualism that today lie at the heart of all modern life. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302017 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302017]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own Author: Emily Herring Wilson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt’s life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women—the “three graces,” as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them—were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York’s progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor’s burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin’s rise to power in politics. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women’s relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson’s telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself. Emily Herring Wilson Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302017 thebookvoice.com 6:24:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302017]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own Author: Emily Herring Wilson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt’s life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women—the “three graces,” as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them—were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York’s progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor’s burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin’s rise to power in politics. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women’s relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson’s telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302017]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own Author: Emily Herring Wilson Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt’s life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women—the “three graces,” as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them—were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York’s progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor’s burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin’s rise to power in politics. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women’s relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson’s telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301660 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301660]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World Author: Brad S. Gregory Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today. For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined. Gregory analyzes Luther’s inadvertent role in starting the Reformation and the epochal changes that followed. He reveals how Luther’s insistence on the Bible as the sole authority for Christian truth led to conflicting interpretations of its meaning—and to the rise of competing churches, political conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he contends, some of the major historical and cultural developments that arose in its wake—including the Enlightenment, individual self-determination and moral relativism, and a religious freedom that protects one’s right to worship or even to reject religion—would have appalled Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a rebel in the ranks, whose goal was to make society more Christian, yet instead set the world on fire. Brad S. Gregory Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301660 thebookvoice.com 9:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301660]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World Author: Brad S. Gregory Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today. For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined. Gregory analyzes Luther’s inadvertent role in starting the Reformation and the epochal changes that followed. He reveals how Luther’s insistence on the Bible as the sole authority for Christian truth led to conflicting interpretations of its meaning—and to the rise of competing churches, political conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he contends, some of the major historical and cultural developments that arose in its wake—including the Enlightenment, individual self-determination and moral relativism, and a religious freedom that protects one’s right to worship or even to reject religion—would have appalled Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a rebel in the ranks, whose goal was to make society more Christian, yet instead set the world on fire. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301660]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World Author: Brad S. Gregory Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today. For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined. Gregory analyzes Luther’s inadvertent role in starting the Reformation and the epochal changes that followed. He reveals how Luther’s insistence on the Bible as the sole authority for Christian truth led to conflicting interpretations of its meaning—and to the rise of competing churches, political conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he contends, some of the major historical and cultural developments that arose in its wake—including the Enlightenment, individual self-determination and moral relativism, and a religious freedom that protects one’s right to worship or even to reject religion—would have appalled Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a rebel in the ranks, whose goal was to make society more Christian, yet instead set the world on fire. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301655 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel Author: Shimon Peres Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new nation as prime minister, president, foreign minister, and the head of several other ministries. He was central to the establishment of the Israeli Defense Forces and the defense industry that would provide the young nation with a robust deterrent power. He was crucial to launching Israel’s nuclear energy program and to the creation of its high-tech “Start Up Nation” revolution. His refusal to surrender to conventional wisdom and political conventions helped save the Israeli economy and prompted some of the most daring military operations in history, among them the legendary Operation Entebbe. And yet, as important as his role in creating and deploying Israel’s armed forces was, his stunning transition from hawk to dove–with its accompanying unwavering commitment to peace–made him one of the globe’s most recognized, honored, and admired statesmen. In this, his final work, finished only weeks before his passing, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness. Told with the frankness of someone aware this would likely be his final statement, No Room for Small Dreams spans decades and events, but as much as it is about what happened, it is about why it happened. Examining pivotal moments in Israel’s rise, Peres explores what makes for a great leader, how to make hard choices in a climate of uncertainty and distress, the challenges of balancing principles with policies, and the liberating nature of imagination and unpredicted innovation. In doing so, he not only charts a better path forward for his beloved country but provides deep and universal wisdom for younger generations who seek to lead–be it in politics, business, or the broader service of making our planet a safer, more peaceful, and just place. Shimon Peres Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301655 thebookvoice.com 7:24:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel Author: Shimon Peres Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new nation as prime minister, president, foreign minister, and the head of several other ministries. He was central to the establishment of the Israeli Defense Forces and the defense industry that would provide the young nation with a robust deterrent power. He was crucial to launching Israel’s nuclear energy program and to the creation of its high-tech “Start Up Nation” revolution. His refusal to surrender to conventional wisdom and political conventions helped save the Israeli economy and prompted some of the most daring military operations in history, among them the legendary Operation Entebbe. And yet, as important as his role in creating and deploying Israel’s armed forces was, his stunning transition from hawk to dove–with its accompanying unwavering commitment to peace–made him one of the globe’s most recognized, honored, and admired statesmen. In this, his final work, finished only weeks before his passing, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness. Told with the frankness of someone aware this would likely be his final statement, No Room for Small Dreams spans decades and events, but as much as it is about what happened, it is about why it happened. Examining pivotal moments in Israel’s rise, Peres explores what makes for a great leader, how to make hard choices in a climate of uncertainty and distress, the challenges of balancing principles with policies, and the liberating nature of imagination and unpredicted innovation. In doing so, he not only charts a better path forward for his beloved country but provides deep and universal wisdom for younger generations who seek to lead–be it in politics, business, or the broader service of making our planet a safer, more peaceful, and just place. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301655]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel Author: Shimon Peres Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new nation as prime minister, president, foreign minister, and the head of several other ministries. He was central to the establishment of the Israeli Defense Forces and the defense industry that would provide the young nation with a robust deterrent power. He was crucial to launching Israel’s nuclear energy program and to the creation of its high-tech “Start Up Nation” revolution. His refusal to surrender to conventional wisdom and political conventions helped save the Israeli economy and prompted some of the most daring military operations in history, among them the legendary Operation Entebbe. And yet, as important as his role in creating and deploying Israel’s armed forces was, his stunning transition from hawk to dove–with its accompanying unwavering commitment to peace–made him one of the globe’s most recognized, honored, and admired statesmen. In this, his final work, finished only weeks before his passing, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision maker and eyewitness. Told with the frankness of someone aware this would likely be his final statement, No Room for Small Dreams spans decades and events, but as much as it is about what happened, it is about why it happened. Examining pivotal moments in Israel’s rise, Peres explores what makes for a great leader, how to make hard choices in a climate of uncertainty and distress, the challenges of balancing principles with policies, and the liberating nature of imagination and unpredicted innovation. In doing so, he not only charts a better path forward for his beloved country but provides deep and universal wisdom for younger generations who seek to lead–be it in politics, business, or the broader service of making our planet a safer, more peaceful, and just place. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301422 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301422]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - The Kings of Wall-Street. The Stories of Success and Failures [Russian Edition] Author: Kevin Spencer Narrator: Stanislav Ivanov Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: July 26, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The stock exchange is a place where you can become rich and lose everything. Among the quotes and shares, only the fittest survive, because the real jungle laws operate in the financial market. In this audiobook you can find a collection of stories of ups and downs of the largest exchange vultures that will help you understand if you are ready to enter into this risky game. And if you are ready, that is what is to be feared, not to be the losers in this financial battlefield. Reference edition. Kevin Spencer Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301422 thebookvoice.com 1:19:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301422]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - The Kings of Wall-Street. The Stories of Success and Failures [Russian Edition] Author: Kevin Spencer Narrator: Stanislav Ivanov Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: July 26, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The stock exchange is a place where you can become rich and lose everything. Among the quotes and shares, only the fittest survive, because the real jungle laws operate in the financial market. In this audiobook you can find a collection of stories of ups and downs of the largest exchange vultures that will help you understand if you are ready to enter into this risky game. And if you are ready, that is what is to be feared, not to be the losers in this financial battlefield. Reference edition. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301422]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - The Kings of Wall-Street. The Stories of Success and Failures [Russian Edition] Author: Kevin Spencer Narrator: Stanislav Ivanov Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: July 26, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The stock exchange is a place where you can become rich and lose everything. Among the quotes and shares, only the fittest survive, because the real jungle laws operate in the financial market. In this audiobook you can find a collection of stories of ups and downs of the largest exchange vultures that will help you understand if you are ready to enter into this risky game. And if you are ready, that is what is to be feared, not to be the losers in this financial battlefield. Reference edition. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301215 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301215]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 Author: James Holland Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh. In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion of Russia; America’s entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic. As in his first volume, Germany Ascendant, he interweaves his account of the well-known events of the period with the personal stories of individuals caught up in them - on all sides. Through interviews, letters, diaries and reports, he allows us to see the war not just from the perspective of politicians, military commanders and strategists, but also through the eyes of civilians bombed out of their homes, resistance members stranded in the frozen Norwegian winter, sailors risking their lives in the Atlantic convoys, German aces striving for supremacy in the air, and ordinary soldiers battling for survival in the scorching sands of Libya. He also looks behind the scenes at the all-important ‘machinery’ of war: the manufacturing, farming and vital supply lines that underpinned the entire conflict and ultimately determined its course. From the battle fronts on land, sea and air, to the streets, fields and factories of Britain, America and Germany, he paints a dramatic and compelling portrait of these pivotal years when the tide began to turn. Combining his own research with only recently accessible archive material, Holland looks afresh at this cataclysmic conflict, reassessing long-held views and challenging conventional assumptions. The result is ground-breaking history that redefines the war in the West and makes us think again about the events that shaped our modern world. James Holland Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301215 thebookvoice.com 24:54:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301215]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 Author: James Holland Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh. In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion of Russia; America’s entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic. As in his first volume, Germany Ascendant, he interweaves his account of the well-known events of the period with the personal stories of individuals caught up in them - on all sides. Through interviews, letters, diaries and reports, he allows us to see the war not just from the perspective of politicians, military commanders and strategists, but also through the eyes of civilians bombed out of their homes, resistance members stranded in the frozen Norwegian winter, sailors risking their lives in the Atlantic convoys, German aces striving for supremacy in the air, and ordinary soldiers battling for survival in the scorching sands of Libya. He also looks behind the scenes at the all-important ‘machinery’ of war: the manufacturing, farming and vital supply lines that underpinned the entire conflict and ultimately determined its course. From the battle fronts on land, sea and air, to the streets, fields and factories of Britain, America and Germany, he paints a dramatic and compelling portrait of these pivotal years when the tide began to turn. Combining his own research with only recently accessible archive material, Holland looks afresh at this cataclysmic conflict, reassessing long-held views and challenging conventional assumptions. The result is ground-breaking history that redefines the war in the West and makes us think again about the events that shaped our modern world. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/301215]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 Author: James Holland Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 24, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh. In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion of Russia; America’s entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic. As in his first volume, Germany Ascendant, he interweaves his account of the well-known events of the period with the personal stories of individuals caught up in them - on all sides. Through interviews, letters, diaries and reports, he allows us to see the war not just from the perspective of politicians, military commanders and strategists, but also through the eyes of civilians bombed out of their homes, resistance members stranded in the frozen Norwegian winter, sailors risking their lives in the Atlantic convoys, German aces striving for supremacy in the air, and ordinary soldiers battling for survival in the scorching sands of Libya. He also looks behind the scenes at the all-important ‘machinery’ of war: the manufacturing, farming and vital supply lines that underpinned the entire conflict and ultimately determined its course. From the battle fronts on land, sea and air, to the streets, fields and factories of Britain, America and Germany, he paints a dramatic and compelling portrait of these pivotal years when the tide began to turn. Combining his own research with only recently accessible archive material, Holland looks afresh at this cataclysmic conflict, reassessing long-held views and challenging conventional assumptions. The result is ground-breaking history that redefines the war in the West and makes us think again about the events that shaped our modern world. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300925 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300925]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials Author: Michael J. Hayde Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When Charles Chaplin signed a record-setting contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in February 1916, it was the culmination of events that changed the motion picture business. Mutual’s founders redefined how films were bought, sold, and distributed. Chaplin redefined screen comedy with a character that leapt into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Together they established the value of star power and created twelves magnificent comedies that have endured for generations. From the nickelodeon to the internet, the Mutual-Chaplin Specials have been viewed by more people than any other films in the entire history of cinema. Chaplin’s Vintage Year tells the full story of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials, framed within the rise and fall of the Mutual Film Corporation, the worldwide phenomenon known as “Chaplinitis,” the famous $670,000 contract, and the various acquisitions and releases these comedies have enjoyed for nearly one hundred years. Michael J. Hayde Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300925 thebookvoice.com 5:23:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300925]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials Author: Michael J. Hayde Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When Charles Chaplin signed a record-setting contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in February 1916, it was the culmination of events that changed the motion picture business. Mutual’s founders redefined how films were bought, sold, and distributed. Chaplin redefined screen comedy with a character that leapt into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Together they established the value of star power and created twelves magnificent comedies that have endured for generations. From the nickelodeon to the internet, the Mutual-Chaplin Specials have been viewed by more people than any other films in the entire history of cinema. Chaplin’s Vintage Year tells the full story of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials, framed within the rise and fall of the Mutual Film Corporation, the worldwide phenomenon known as “Chaplinitis,” the famous $670,000 contract, and the various acquisitions and releases these comedies have enjoyed for nearly one hundred years. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300925]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaplin’s Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials Author: Michael J. Hayde Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When Charles Chaplin signed a record-setting contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in February 1916, it was the culmination of events that changed the motion picture business. Mutual’s founders redefined how films were bought, sold, and distributed. Chaplin redefined screen comedy with a character that leapt into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Together they established the value of star power and created twelves magnificent comedies that have endured for generations. From the nickelodeon to the internet, the Mutual-Chaplin Specials have been viewed by more people than any other films in the entire history of cinema. Chaplin’s Vintage Year tells the full story of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials, framed within the rise and fall of the Mutual Film Corporation, the worldwide phenomenon known as “Chaplinitis,” the famous $670,000 contract, and the various acquisitions and releases these comedies have enjoyed for nearly one hundred years. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300315 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300315]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Quest for Cosmic Justice Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom—amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed—and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage. Thomas Sowell Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300315 thebookvoice.com 5:52:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300315]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Quest for Cosmic Justice Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom—amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed—and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300315]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Quest for Cosmic Justice Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom—amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed—and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300313 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300313]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 15, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 1989 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 187 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem. Yuval Noah Harari Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300313 thebookvoice.com 15:18:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300313]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 15, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 1989 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 187 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300313]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 15, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 1989 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 187 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300292 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300292]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sapiens. De animales a dioses (Latino): Una breve historia de la humanidad Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 299 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 44 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. Escucha ahora su versión audiolibro. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante interpretación de Yuval Noah Harari sobre la historia de la humanidad.Bestseller nacional e internacional, este audio libro explora las formas en que la biología y la historia nos han definido y han mejorado nuestra comprensión de lo que significa ser «humano». Hace 70.000 años al menos seis especies de humanos habitaban la Tierra. Hoy solo queda una, la nuestra: Homo Sapiens. ¿Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derechos humanos; a confiar en el dinero, en los libros o en las leyes? ¿Cómo acabamos sometidos a la burocracia, a los horarios y al consumismo? ¿Y cómo será el mundo en los milenios venideros? En Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari traza una breve historia de la humanidad, desde los primeros humanos que caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los radicales y a veces devastadores avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrícola y la científica. A partir de hallazgos de disciplinas tan diversas como la biología, la antropología o la economía, Harari explora cómo las grandes corrientes de la historia han modelado nuestra sociedad, los animales y las plantas que nos rodean e incluso nuestras personalidades. ¿Hemos ganado en felicidad a medida que ha avanzado la historia? ¿Seremos capaces de liberar alguna vez nuestra conducta de la herencia del pasado? ¿Podemos hacer algo para influir en los siglos futuros? Audaz, ambicioso y provocador, este libro cuestiona todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el ser humano: nuestros orígenes, nuestras ideas, nuestras acciones, nuestro poder y nuestro futuro. El mejor ensayo disponible para escuchar. Reseñas: «El libro definitivo para entender quiénes somos. Provocador, lúcido, aporta un original enfoque sobre la esencia del ser humano.» Julia Navarro «Interesante y provocador. Este libro nos da cierta perspectiva del poco tiempo que llevamos en la Tierra, de la corta vida de la ciencia y la agricultura, y de por qué no debemos dar nada por sentado.» Barack Obama «Recomendaría este libro a cualquier persona interesada en una historia de la humanidad a la vez entretenida y desafiante [...]No sepuededejar de leer.» Bill Gates «Aborda las cuestiones más importantes de la historia y del mundo moderno y, además, está escrito con un estilo vívido e inolvidable.» Jared Diamond, premio Pulitzer y autor de Armas, gérmenes y acero «Un libro que invita a la reflexión.» Mark Zuckerberg «Un repaso absorbente de la peripecia humana, escrito con rigor e irreverencia ilustrada.» Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País «Un libro fascinante, como nuestra especie. Nos ayudará a saber de dónde venimos para decidir hacia dónde vamos. Recomiendo Sapiens casi antes que saludar. ¡Disfrútenlo!» Leonor Watling «Monumental, brillante, provocadora.» Pablo Jáuregui, El Mundo «Cuenta la historia del ser humano desde su origen hasta que se convirtió en el rey de la creación.» Iñaki Gabilondo Yuval Noah Harari Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300292 thebookvoice.com 17:26:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300292]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sapiens. De animales a dioses (Latino): Una breve historia de la humanidad Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 299 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 44 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. Escucha ahora su versión audiolibro. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante interpretación de Yuval Noah Harari sobre la historia de la humanidad.Bestseller nacional e internacional, este audio libro explora las formas en que la biología y la historia nos han definido y han mejorado nuestra comprensión de lo que significa ser «humano». Hace 70.000 años al menos seis especies de humanos habitaban la Tierra. Hoy solo queda una, la nuestra: Homo Sapiens. ¿Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derechos humanos; a confiar en el dinero, en los libros o en las leyes? ¿Cómo acabamos sometidos a la burocracia, a los horarios y al consumismo? ¿Y cómo será el mundo en los milenios venideros? En Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari traza una breve historia de la humanidad, desde los primeros humanos que caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los radicales y a veces devastadores avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrícola y la científica. A partir de hallazgos de disciplinas tan diversas como la biología, la antropología o la economía, Harari explora cómo las grandes corrientes de la historia han modelado nuestra sociedad, los animales y las plantas que nos rodean e incluso nuestras personalidades. ¿Hemos ganado en felicidad a medida que ha avanzado la historia? ¿Seremos capaces de liberar alguna vez nuestra conducta de la herencia del pasado? ¿Podemos hacer algo para influir en los siglos futuros? Audaz, ambicioso y provocador, este libro cuestiona todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el ser humano: nuestros orígenes, nuestras ideas, nuestras acciones, nuestro poder y nuestro futuro. El mejor ensayo disponible para escuchar. Reseñas: «El libro definitivo para entender quiénes somos. Provocador, lúcido, aporta un original enfoque sobre la esencia del ser humano.» Julia Navarro «Interesante y provocador. Este libro nos da cierta perspectiva del poco tiempo que llevamos en la Tierra, de la corta vida de la ciencia y la agricultura, y de por qué no debemos dar nada por sentado.» Barack Obama «Recomendaría este libro a cualquier persona interesada en una historia de la humanidad a la vez entretenida y desafiante [...]No sepuededejar de leer.» Bill Gates «Aborda las cuestiones más importantes de la historia y del mundo moderno y, además, está escrito con un estilo vívido e inolvidable.» Jared Diamond, premio Pulitzer y autor de Armas, gérmenes y acero «Un libro que invita a la reflexión.» Mark Zuckerberg «Un repaso absorbente de la peripecia humana, escrito con rigor e irreverencia ilustrada.» Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País «Un libro fascinante, como nuestra especie. Nos ayudará a saber de dónde venimos para decidir hacia dónde vamos. Recomiendo Sapiens casi antes que saludar. ¡Disfrútenlo!» Leonor Watling «Monumental, brillante, provocadora.» Pablo Jáuregui, El Mundo «Cuenta la historia del ser humano desde su origen hasta que se convirtió en el rey de la creación.» Iñaki Gabilondo Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300292]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sapiens. De animales a dioses (Latino): Una breve historia de la humanidad Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Carlos Manuel Vesga Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 299 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 44 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: El libro de no ficción del año. Bestseller internacional con más de diez millones de ejemplares vendidos. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. Escucha ahora su versión audiolibro. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante interpretación de Yuval Noah Harari sobre la historia de la humanidad.Bestseller nacional e internacional, este audio libro explora las formas en que la biología y la historia nos han definido y han mejorado nuestra comprensión de lo que significa ser «humano». Hace 70.000 años al menos seis especies de humanos habitaban la Tierra. Hoy solo queda una, la nuestra: Homo Sapiens. ¿Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derechos humanos; a confiar en el dinero, en los libros o en las leyes? ¿Cómo acabamos sometidos a la burocracia, a los horarios y al consumismo? ¿Y cómo será el mundo en los milenios venideros? En Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari traza una breve historia de la humanidad, desde los primeros humanos que caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los radicales y a veces devastadores avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrícola y la científica. A partir de hallazgos de disciplinas tan diversas como la biología, la antropología o la economía, Harari explora cómo las grandes corrientes de la historia han modelado nuestra sociedad, los animales y las plantas que nos rodean e incluso nuestras personalidades. ¿Hemos ganado en felicidad a medida que ha avanzado la historia? ¿Seremos capaces de liberar alguna vez nuestra conducta de la herencia del pasado? ¿Podemos hacer algo para influir en los siglos futuros? Audaz, ambicioso y provocador, este libro cuestiona todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el ser humano: nuestros orígenes, nuestras ideas, nuestras acciones, nuestro poder y nuestro futuro. El mejor ensayo disponible para escuchar. Reseñas: «El libro definitivo para entender quiénes somos. Provocador, lúcido, aporta un original enfoque sobre la esencia del ser humano.» Julia Navarro «Interesante y provocador. Este libro nos da cierta perspectiva del poco tiempo que llevamos en la Tierra, de la corta vida de la ciencia y la agricultura, y de por qué no debemos dar nada por sentado.» Barack Obama «Recomendaría este libro a cualquier persona interesada en una historia de la humanidad a la vez entretenida y desafiante [...]No sepuededejar de leer.» Bill Gates «Aborda las cuestiones más importantes de la historia y del mundo moderno y, además, está escrito con un estilo vívido e inolvidable.» Jared Diamond, premio Pulitzer y autor de Armas, gérmenes y acero «Un libro que invita a la reflexión.» Mark Zuckerberg «Un repaso absorbente de la peripecia humana, escrito con rigor e irreverencia ilustrada.» Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País «Un libro fascinante, como nuestra especie. Nos ayudará a saber de dónde venimos para decidir hacia dónde vamos. Recomiendo Sapiens casi antes que saludar. ¡Disfrútenlo!» Leonor Watling «Monumental, brillante, provocadora.» Pablo Jáuregui, El Mundo «Cuenta la historia del ser humano desde su origen hasta que se convirtió en el rey de la creación.» Iñaki Gabilondo https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300274 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300274]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. “But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”—Svetlana Alexievich Read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Alan Winter THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “Patient in overcoming cliché, attentive to the unexpected, and restrained in exposition, her writing reaches those far beyond her own experiences and preoccupations, far beyond her generation, and far beyond the lands of the former Soviet Union.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “Alexievich’s artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension. It is no wonder that her brilliant obsession with what Vasily Grossman called ‘the brutal truth of war’ was suppressed for so long by Soviet censors, because her unprecedented pen portraits and interviews reveal the face of war hidden by propaganda.”—Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege “A mighty documentarian and a mighty artist . . . Her books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper. But Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own which emerges from the chorus she assembles, with great style and authority, and she shapes her investigations of Soviet and post-Soviet life and death into epic dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies.”—The New Yorker Svetlana Alexievich Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300274 thebookvoice.com 14:19:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300274]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. “But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”—Svetlana Alexievich Read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Alan Winter THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “Patient in overcoming cliché, attentive to the unexpected, and restrained in exposition, her writing reaches those far beyond her own experiences and preoccupations, far beyond her generation, and far beyond the lands of the former Soviet Union.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “Alexievich’s artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension. It is no wonder that her brilliant obsession with what Vasily Grossman called ‘the brutal truth of war’ was suppressed for so long by Soviet censors, because her unprecedented pen portraits and interviews reveal the face of war hidden by propaganda.”—Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege “A mighty documentarian and a mighty artist . . . Her books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper. But Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own which emerges from the chorus she assembles, with great style and authority, and she shapes her investigations of Soviet and post-Soviet life and death into epic dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies.”—The New Yorker Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/300274]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Author: Svetlana Alexievich Narrator: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories. Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war. “But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”—Svetlana Alexievich Read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Alan Winter THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” “Patient in overcoming cliché, attentive to the unexpected, and restrained in exposition, her writing reaches those far beyond her own experiences and preoccupations, far beyond her generation, and far beyond the lands of the former Soviet Union.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century “Alexievich’s artistry has raised oral history to a totally different dimension. It is no wonder that her brilliant obsession with what Vasily Grossman called ‘the brutal truth of war’ was suppressed for so long by Soviet censors, because her unprecedented pen portraits and interviews reveal the face of war hidden by propaganda.”—Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege “A mighty documentarian and a mighty artist . . . Her books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper. But Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own which emerges from the chorus she assembles, with great style and authority, and she shapes her investigations of Soviet and post-Soviet life and death into epic dramatic chronicles as universally essential as Greek tragedies.”—The New Yorker https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296641 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296641]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi país inventado Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Javiera Gazitua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un audiolibro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocación, la vida, la felicidad añorada y los espacios más queridos de Isabel Allende. Amor por Chile y una gran nostalgia son el origen de este libro: la presencia continuada del pasado, el sentimiento de verse ausente de la patria, la conciencia de haber sido peregrina y forastera... todo ello lo transmite Isabel Allende con inteligencia y humor. Aquí Chile deviene un país real y fantástico a la vez; una tierra estoica y hospitalaria, de hombres machistas y mujeres fuertes y apegadas a la tierra. Pero, sobre todo, es el escenario de su niñez. Evocados con gracia, cobran vida de nuevo su original familia, la casa de los abuelos, el ceremonial de las comidas, las historias de infidelidades... y los espíritus que siempre la han acompañado. Los mejores títulos de Isabel Allende disponibles para escuchar. Reseña: «Un libro que capta mi entera atención al exponer la relación de la autora con ese país suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria inventada, con su vocación de escritora.» Jorge Edwards Isabel Allende Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296641 thebookvoice.com 6:11:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296641]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi país inventado Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Javiera Gazitua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un audiolibro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocación, la vida, la felicidad añorada y los espacios más queridos de Isabel Allende. Amor por Chile y una gran nostalgia son el origen de este libro: la presencia continuada del pasado, el sentimiento de verse ausente de la patria, la conciencia de haber sido peregrina y forastera... todo ello lo transmite Isabel Allende con inteligencia y humor. Aquí Chile deviene un país real y fantástico a la vez; una tierra estoica y hospitalaria, de hombres machistas y mujeres fuertes y apegadas a la tierra. Pero, sobre todo, es el escenario de su niñez. Evocados con gracia, cobran vida de nuevo su original familia, la casa de los abuelos, el ceremonial de las comidas, las historias de infidelidades... y los espíritus que siempre la han acompañado. Los mejores títulos de Isabel Allende disponibles para escuchar. Reseña: «Un libro que capta mi entera atención al exponer la relación de la autora con ese país suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria inventada, con su vocación de escritora.» Jorge Edwards Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296641]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi país inventado Author: Isabel Allende Narrator: Javiera Gazitua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un audiolibro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocación, la vida, la felicidad añorada y los espacios más queridos de Isabel Allende. Amor por Chile y una gran nostalgia son el origen de este libro: la presencia continuada del pasado, el sentimiento de verse ausente de la patria, la conciencia de haber sido peregrina y forastera... todo ello lo transmite Isabel Allende con inteligencia y humor. Aquí Chile deviene un país real y fantástico a la vez; una tierra estoica y hospitalaria, de hombres machistas y mujeres fuertes y apegadas a la tierra. Pero, sobre todo, es el escenario de su niñez. Evocados con gracia, cobran vida de nuevo su original familia, la casa de los abuelos, el ceremonial de las comidas, las historias de infidelidades... y los espíritus que siempre la han acompañado. Los mejores títulos de Isabel Allende disponibles para escuchar. Reseña: «Un libro que capta mi entera atención al exponer la relación de la autora con ese país suyo, inventado, imaginario, ficcional, con la historia de su familia, que a su vez es memoria inventada, con su vocación de escritora.» Jorge Edwards https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296589 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296589]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth of York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn England. In Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen, Alison Weir builds a portrait of this beloved queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent, ceremonious, often brutal world she inhabited. Alison Weir Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296589 thebookvoice.com 23:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296589]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth of York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn England. In Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen, Alison Weir builds a portrait of this beloved queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent, ceremonious, often brutal world she inhabited. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296589]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth of York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn England. In Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen, Alison Weir builds a portrait of this beloved queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent, ceremonious, often brutal world she inhabited. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296588 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296588]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lancaster and York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, and his wife Margaret of Anjou, who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled in a violent man's world. Alison Weir Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296588 thebookvoice.com 22:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296588]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lancaster and York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, and his wife Margaret of Anjou, who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled in a violent man's world. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296588]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lancaster and York Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, and his wife Margaret of Anjou, who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled in a violent man's world. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296587 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296587]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spy Who Loved Author: Clare Mulley Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. She was one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated secret agents, and the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort. Clare Mulley Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296587 thebookvoice.com 16:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296587]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spy Who Loved Author: Clare Mulley Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. She was one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated secret agents, and the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296587]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spy Who Loved Author: Clare Mulley Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. She was one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated secret agents, and the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296586 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296586]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction in Jacobean England Author: Tracy Borman Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 3, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the last male of the line, will not survive. It is said witches are to blame. And so the Earl of Rutland's sons will not be the last to die. Tracy Borman Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296586 thebookvoice.com 12:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296586]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction in Jacobean England Author: Tracy Borman Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 3, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the last male of the line, will not survive. It is said witches are to blame. And so the Earl of Rutland's sons will not be the last to die. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296586]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction in Jacobean England Author: Tracy Borman Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 3, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the last male of the line, will not survive. It is said witches are to blame. And so the Earl of Rutland's sons will not be the last to die. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296585 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296585]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flappers Author: Judith Mackrell Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Glamorised, mythologised and demonised - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: it focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. ‘Flappers is all good, dirty fun… Mackrell is an engaging storyteller with a deceptively light touch' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Judith Mackrell Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296585 thebookvoice.com 18:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296585]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flappers Author: Judith Mackrell Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Glamorised, mythologised and demonised - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: it focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. ‘Flappers is all good, dirty fun… Mackrell is an engaging storyteller with a deceptively light touch' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296585]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flappers Author: Judith Mackrell Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Glamorised, mythologised and demonised - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: it focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. ‘Flappers is all good, dirty fun… Mackrell is an engaging storyteller with a deceptively light touch' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296584 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296584]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gunpowder Plot Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. “An excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot.” LITERARY REVIEW “Told with impressive scholarship and panache ... with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carré novel'.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Antonia Fraser Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296584 thebookvoice.com 16:29:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296584]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gunpowder Plot Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. “An excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot.” LITERARY REVIEW “Told with impressive scholarship and panache ... with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carré novel'.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296584]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gunpowder Plot Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Patricia Gallimore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. “An excellent book which unravels the whole story of the plot.” LITERARY REVIEW “Told with impressive scholarship and panache ... with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carré novel'.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296583 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296583]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centuries of Change Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Ian Mortimer, Mike Grady, Multiple Narrators Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the internet in a medieval joust – whose side would you be on? In this hugely entertaining book, celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change. Ian Mortimer Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296583 thebookvoice.com 16:39:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296583]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centuries of Change Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Ian Mortimer, Mike Grady, Multiple Narrators Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the internet in a medieval joust – whose side would you be on? In this hugely entertaining book, celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296583]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Centuries of Change Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Ian Mortimer, Mike Grady, Multiple Narrators Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 5, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the internet in a medieval joust – whose side would you be on? In this hugely entertaining book, celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296582 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296582]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain Author: Charlotte Higgins Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What has 'Roman Britain' meant to the British people since the Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to us now? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using some of Britain's most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirely fresh way. ‘Mesmerising. Sophisticated and passionate. She personalizes the story in a diaristic, almost poetic tone.' GUARDIAN ‘An utterly original history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors.' SUNDAY TIMES Charlotte Higgins Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296582 thebookvoice.com 10:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296582]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain Author: Charlotte Higgins Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What has 'Roman Britain' meant to the British people since the Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to us now? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using some of Britain's most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirely fresh way. ‘Mesmerising. Sophisticated and passionate. She personalizes the story in a diaristic, almost poetic tone.' GUARDIAN ‘An utterly original history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors.' SUNDAY TIMES Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296582]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain Author: Charlotte Higgins Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Under Another Sky was shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What has 'Roman Britain' meant to the British people since the Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to us now? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using some of Britain's most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirely fresh way. ‘Mesmerising. Sophisticated and passionate. She personalizes the story in a diaristic, almost poetic tone.' GUARDIAN ‘An utterly original history, lyrically alive to the haunting presence of the past and our strange and familiar ancestors.' SUNDAY TIMES https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296581 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296581]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace and War: Britain in 1914 Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 3, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without… Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster, to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the opening of London's first nightclub, to the embarking for Belgium of the British Expeditionary Force, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war. Nigel Jones Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296581 thebookvoice.com 7:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296581]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace and War: Britain in 1914 Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 3, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without… Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster, to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the opening of London's first nightclub, to the embarking for Belgium of the British Expeditionary Force, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296581]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace and War: Britain in 1914 Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 3, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without… Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster, to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the opening of London's first nightclub, to the embarking for Belgium of the British Expeditionary Force, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296580 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296580]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children of Henry VIII Author: John Guy Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord. Praise for the author: ‘Guy, whose prose is commendably readable, has a real gift for bringing Tudor history to life for 21st-century readers.' INDEPENDENT John Guy Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296580 thebookvoice.com 6:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296580]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children of Henry VIII Author: John Guy Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord. Praise for the author: ‘Guy, whose prose is commendably readable, has a real gift for bringing Tudor history to life for 21st-century readers.' INDEPENDENT Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296580]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children of Henry VIII Author: John Guy Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 6, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord. Praise for the author: ‘Guy, whose prose is commendably readable, has a real gift for bringing Tudor history to life for 21st-century readers.' INDEPENDENT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296579 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296579]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Western Thought Author: Stephen Trombley Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A short, sharp and entertaining survey all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition- from the ancient Greeks to the present day A Short History of Western Thought outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today; no major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley's attention. Included are the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the German idealists from Kant to Hegel and the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Stephen Trombley Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296579 thebookvoice.com 7:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296579]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Western Thought Author: Stephen Trombley Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A short, sharp and entertaining survey all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition- from the ancient Greeks to the present day A Short History of Western Thought outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today; no major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley's attention. Included are the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the German idealists from Kant to Hegel and the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296579]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Western Thought Author: Stephen Trombley Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A short, sharp and entertaining survey all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition- from the ancient Greeks to the present day A Short History of Western Thought outlines the 2,500-year history of European ideas from the philosophers of Classical Antiquity to the thinkers of today; no major representative of any significant strand of Western thought escapes Trombley's attention. Included are the Christian Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages, the German idealists from Kant to Hegel and the four shapers-in-chief of our modern world: the philosopher, historian and political theorist Karl Marx; the naturalist Charles Darwin, proposer of the theory of evolution; Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; and the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296578 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296578]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ring and the Crown Author: Multiple Authors, Sarah Gristwood, Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Alison Weir Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings. Each writer focuses on different areas of interest, from Medieval to the present day, and fascinating anecdotal details are revealed in the course of this most informative and entertaining overview. Multiple Authors, Sarah Gristwood, Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Alison Weir Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296578 thebookvoice.com 5:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296578]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ring and the Crown Author: Multiple Authors, Sarah Gristwood, Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Alison Weir Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings. Each writer focuses on different areas of interest, from Medieval to the present day, and fascinating anecdotal details are revealed in the course of this most informative and entertaining overview. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296578]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ring and the Crown Author: Multiple Authors, Sarah Gristwood, Tracy Borman, Kate Williams, Alison Weir Narrator: Julia Franklin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings. Each writer focuses on different areas of interest, from Medieval to the present day, and fascinating anecdotal details are revealed in the course of this most informative and entertaining overview. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296577 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296577]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 Author: Roger Moorhouse Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating portrayal of the German experience during the Second World War told through the eyes of the citizens of Berlin While our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about everyday life in Nazi Germany. In this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays the German experience of the Second World War from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes, raising issues of consent and dissent, morality and authority and charting the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis. Roger Moorhouse Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296577 thebookvoice.com 18:30:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296577]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 Author: Roger Moorhouse Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating portrayal of the German experience during the Second World War told through the eyes of the citizens of Berlin While our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about everyday life in Nazi Germany. In this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays the German experience of the Second World War from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes, raising issues of consent and dissent, morality and authority and charting the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296577]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 Author: Roger Moorhouse Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A fascinating portrayal of the German experience during the Second World War told through the eyes of the citizens of Berlin While our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about everyday life in Nazi Germany. In this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays the German experience of the Second World War from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes, raising issues of consent and dissent, morality and authority and charting the violent humbling of a once-proud metropolis. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296576 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296576]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, an eventful and violent year that featured riots in Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham. The time-span of the book is from Wellington's intractable declaration in November 1830 that 'The beginning of reform is beginning of revolution' to 7 June 1832, when William IV reluctantly assented to the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and the threat of revolution throughout the country. Wider themes of Irish and 'negro emancipation' underscore the narrative. The book is character driven; we learn of the Whig aristocrats prepared to whittle away their own power to bring liberty to the country, the all-too-conservative opposition who included the intransigent Duchess of Kent and Queen Adelaide and finally the 'revolutionaries' like William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides. These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life. 'A writer whose command of sources, eye for detail, perception of character and shrewd judgment enable her to bring the past truthfully to life' ( Sunday Telegraph) 'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here, adorned by often fascinating, at times esoteric detail' ( Guardian) 'Fraser brings to life the female stars circling the Sun King in an account that successfully combines erudition with gossipy stories of the kind the Versailles courtiers loved so much.' ( Sunday Times) Antonia Fraser Tue, 07 May 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296576 thebookvoice.com 11:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296576]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, an eventful and violent year that featured riots in Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham. The time-span of the book is from Wellington's intractable declaration in November 1830 that 'The beginning of reform is beginning of revolution' to 7 June 1832, when William IV reluctantly assented to the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and the threat of revolution throughout the country. Wider themes of Irish and 'negro emancipation' underscore the narrative. The book is character driven; we learn of the Whig aristocrats prepared to whittle away their own power to bring liberty to the country, the all-too-conservative opposition who included the intransigent Duchess of Kent and Queen Adelaide and finally the 'revolutionaries' like William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides. These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life. 'A writer whose command of sources, eye for detail, perception of character and shrewd judgment enable her to bring the past truthfully to life' ( Sunday Telegraph) 'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here, adorned by often fascinating, at times esoteric detail' ( Guardian) 'Fraser brings to life the female stars circling the Sun King in an account that successfully combines erudition with gossipy stories of the kind the Versailles courtiers loved so much.' ( Sunday Times) Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296576]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Author: Antonia Fraser Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 7, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, an eventful and violent year that featured riots in Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham. The time-span of the book is from Wellington's intractable declaration in November 1830 that 'The beginning of reform is beginning of revolution' to 7 June 1832, when William IV reluctantly assented to the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and the threat of revolution throughout the country. Wider themes of Irish and 'negro emancipation' underscore the narrative. The book is character driven; we learn of the Whig aristocrats prepared to whittle away their own power to bring liberty to the country, the all-too-conservative opposition who included the intransigent Duchess of Kent and Queen Adelaide and finally the 'revolutionaries' like William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides. These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life. 'A writer whose command of sources, eye for detail, perception of character and shrewd judgment enable her to bring the past truthfully to life' ( Sunday Telegraph) 'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here, adorned by often fascinating, at times esoteric detail' ( Guardian) 'Fraser brings to life the female stars circling the Sun King in an account that successfully combines erudition with gossipy stories of the kind the Versailles courtiers loved so much.' ( Sunday Times) https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296532 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296532]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time Author: Carl M. Cannon Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Forget what you were taught in seventh grade-this riveting book takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. From the arrival of the Mayflower through the 2016 election, On This Date explores five hundred years of American history, revealing a compelling tale for each day in the calendar year. Drawing from Carl M. Cannon's popular RealClearPolitics' 'Morning Note,' On This Date is focused on fascinating -- and sometimes unknown -- stories behind specific dates in U.S. history: What inspired Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard, what Dwight Eisenhower really thought about playing football against the great Jim Thorpe, the legal grounds for the first American divorce, who wrote 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer' -- and who profited from it. Colorful yet authoritative, On This Date debunks some popular myths and celebrates America's forgotten heroes. Carl M. Cannon Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296532 thebookvoice.com 20:43:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296532]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time Author: Carl M. Cannon Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Forget what you were taught in seventh grade-this riveting book takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. From the arrival of the Mayflower through the 2016 election, On This Date explores five hundred years of American history, revealing a compelling tale for each day in the calendar year. Drawing from Carl M. Cannon's popular RealClearPolitics' 'Morning Note,' On This Date is focused on fascinating -- and sometimes unknown -- stories behind specific dates in U.S. history: What inspired Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard, what Dwight Eisenhower really thought about playing football against the great Jim Thorpe, the legal grounds for the first American divorce, who wrote 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer' -- and who profited from it. Colorful yet authoritative, On This Date debunks some popular myths and celebrates America's forgotten heroes. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296532]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time Author: Carl M. Cannon Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Forget what you were taught in seventh grade-this riveting book takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. From the arrival of the Mayflower through the 2016 election, On This Date explores five hundred years of American history, revealing a compelling tale for each day in the calendar year. Drawing from Carl M. Cannon's popular RealClearPolitics' 'Morning Note,' On This Date is focused on fascinating -- and sometimes unknown -- stories behind specific dates in U.S. history: What inspired Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard, what Dwight Eisenhower really thought about playing football against the great Jim Thorpe, the legal grounds for the first American divorce, who wrote 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer' -- and who profited from it. Colorful yet authoritative, On This Date debunks some popular myths and celebrates America's forgotten heroes. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296522 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296522]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Author: Peter Hayes Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust. Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions—yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basic—yet vexing—questions that remain: why the Jews and not another ethnic group? Why the Germans? Why such a swift and sweeping extermination? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Why didn't they receive more help? While responding to the questions he has been most frequently asked by students over the decades, world-renowned Holocaust historian and professor Peter Hayes brings a wealth of scholarly research and experience to bear on conventional, popular views of the history, challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. He argues that there is no single theory that 'explains' the Holocaust; the convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time led to catastrophe. In clear prose informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of Holocaust literature in English and German, Hayes weaves together stories and statistics to heart-stopping effect. Why? is an authoritative, groundbreaking exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history. Peter Hayes Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296522 thebookvoice.com 13:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296522]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Author: Peter Hayes Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust. Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions—yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basic—yet vexing—questions that remain: why the Jews and not another ethnic group? Why the Germans? Why such a swift and sweeping extermination? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Why didn't they receive more help? While responding to the questions he has been most frequently asked by students over the decades, world-renowned Holocaust historian and professor Peter Hayes brings a wealth of scholarly research and experience to bear on conventional, popular views of the history, challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. He argues that there is no single theory that 'explains' the Holocaust; the convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time led to catastrophe. In clear prose informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of Holocaust literature in English and German, Hayes weaves together stories and statistics to heart-stopping effect. Why? is an authoritative, groundbreaking exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296522]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why?: Explaining the Holocaust Author: Peter Hayes Narrator: Don Hagen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust. Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions—yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike. Why? dispels many misconceptions and answers some of the most basic—yet vexing—questions that remain: why the Jews and not another ethnic group? Why the Germans? Why such a swift and sweeping extermination? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often? Why didn't they receive more help? While responding to the questions he has been most frequently asked by students over the decades, world-renowned Holocaust historian and professor Peter Hayes brings a wealth of scholarly research and experience to bear on conventional, popular views of the history, challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations. He argues that there is no single theory that 'explains' the Holocaust; the convergence of multiple forces at a particular moment in time led to catastrophe. In clear prose informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of Holocaust literature in English and German, Hayes weaves together stories and statistics to heart-stopping effect. Why? is an authoritative, groundbreaking exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296517 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296517]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now Author: Stuart Maconie Narrator: Stuart Maconie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow, written and read by Stuart Maconie. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history’s footsteps, Maconie is in search of what Modern Britain is really like today. Travelling down the country’s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the thirties with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable; highstreets peppered with pound shops and e-cigarette vendors, smoothie bars and Costas on every corner. Maconie visits the great, established and yet evolving cities of Leeds, Sheffield and London, as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now. Written in Maconie’s signature style, this is a fascinating exploration of a modern nation that, though looks and sounds strangely familiar, has been completely transformed. Stuart Maconie Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296517 thebookvoice.com 12:21:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296517]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now Author: Stuart Maconie Narrator: Stuart Maconie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow, written and read by Stuart Maconie. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history’s footsteps, Maconie is in search of what Modern Britain is really like today. Travelling down the country’s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the thirties with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable; highstreets peppered with pound shops and e-cigarette vendors, smoothie bars and Costas on every corner. Maconie visits the great, established and yet evolving cities of Leeds, Sheffield and London, as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now. Written in Maconie’s signature style, this is a fascinating exploration of a modern nation that, though looks and sounds strangely familiar, has been completely transformed. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296517]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now Author: Stuart Maconie Narrator: Stuart Maconie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 20, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Long Road from Jarrow, written and read by Stuart Maconie. In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie, walks from north to south retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history’s footsteps, Maconie is in search of what Modern Britain is really like today. Travelling down the country’s spine, Maconie moves through a land that is, in some ways, very much the same as the England of the thirties with its political turbulence, austerity, north/south divide, food banks and of course, football mania. Yet in other ways, it is completely unrecognisable; highstreets peppered with pound shops and e-cigarette vendors, smoothie bars and Costas on every corner. Maconie visits the great, established and yet evolving cities of Leeds, Sheffield and London, as well as the sleepy hamlets, quiet lanes and roaring motorways. He meets those with stories to tell and whose voices build a funny, complex and entertaining tale of Britain, then and now. Written in Maconie’s signature style, this is a fascinating exploration of a modern nation that, though looks and sounds strangely familiar, has been completely transformed. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296407 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296407]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus Bridge Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures. Stephen E. Ambrose Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296407 thebookvoice.com 5:59:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296407]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus Bridge Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296407]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pegasus Bridge Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295782 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295782]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories Author: Laura Shapiro Narrator: Laura Shapiro, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's 'Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017' NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air Six  “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking, probing how their attitudes toward food can offer surprising new insights into their lives, and our own. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table.  What She Ate is a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt,  First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, who challenges our warm associations of food, family, and table; Barbara Pym, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin. Laura Shapiro Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295782 thebookvoice.com 10:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295782]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories Author: Laura Shapiro Narrator: Laura Shapiro, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's 'Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017' NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air Six  “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking, probing how their attitudes toward food can offer surprising new insights into their lives, and our own. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table.  What She Ate is a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt,  First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, who challenges our warm associations of food, family, and table; Barbara Pym, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295782]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories Author: Laura Shapiro Narrator: Laura Shapiro, Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's 'Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017' NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air Six  “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking, probing how their attitudes toward food can offer surprising new insights into their lives, and our own. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table.  What She Ate is a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt,  First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, who challenges our warm associations of food, family, and table; Barbara Pym, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295769 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295769]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris (t) Author: Tom Sancton Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim. It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell... The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart. Tom Sancton Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295769 thebookvoice.com 13:51:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295769]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris (t) Author: Tom Sancton Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim. It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell... The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295769]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris (t) Author: Tom Sancton Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim. It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell... The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295763 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295763]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Author: Tom Gjelten Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation. Tom Gjelten Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295763 thebookvoice.com 18:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295763]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Author: Tom Gjelten Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295763]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Author: Tom Gjelten Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With his intimate account of their struggles and adventures across five generations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba's fight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295745 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295745]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler Author: Bruce Henderson Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys, they were sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, the Ritchie Boys eagerly joined the fight to defeat Hitler. As they did, many of them did not know the fates of their own families left behind in occupied Europe. Taking part in every major campaign in Europe, they collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions. A postwar Army report found that more than sixty percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews with many surviving veterans and extensive archival research to bring this never-before-told chapter of the Second World War to light. Sons and Soldiers traces their stories from childhood and their escapes from Nazi Germany, through their feats and sacrifices during the war, to their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones in war-torn Europe. Sons and Soldiers is an epic story of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten. Bruce Henderson Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295745 thebookvoice.com 13:19:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295745]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler Author: Bruce Henderson Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys, they were sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, the Ritchie Boys eagerly joined the fight to defeat Hitler. As they did, many of them did not know the fates of their own families left behind in occupied Europe. Taking part in every major campaign in Europe, they collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions. A postwar Army report found that more than sixty percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews with many surviving veterans and extensive archival research to bring this never-before-told chapter of the Second World War to light. Sons and Soldiers traces their stories from childhood and their escapes from Nazi Germany, through their feats and sacrifices during the war, to their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones in war-torn Europe. Sons and Soldiers is an epic story of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295745]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler Author: Bruce Henderson Narrator: Brett Barry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery of the German language, history, and customs. Known as the Ritchie Boys, they were sent in small, elite teams to join every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war. Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, the Ritchie Boys eagerly joined the fight to defeat Hitler. As they did, many of them did not know the fates of their own families left behind in occupied Europe. Taking part in every major campaign in Europe, they collected key tactical intelligence on enemy strength, troop and armored movements, and defensive positions. A postwar Army report found that more than sixty percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys. Bruce Henderson draws on personal interviews with many surviving veterans and extensive archival research to bring this never-before-told chapter of the Second World War to light. Sons and Soldiers traces their stories from childhood and their escapes from Nazi Germany, through their feats and sacrifices during the war, to their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones in war-torn Europe. Sons and Soldiers is an epic story of heroism, courage, and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295730 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295730]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Russian Revolution: A New History Author: Sean McMeekin Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the "imperialist war" into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century. Sean McMeekin Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295730 thebookvoice.com 15:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295730]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Russian Revolution: A New History Author: Sean McMeekin Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the "imperialist war" into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295730]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Russian Revolution: A New History Author: Sean McMeekin Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 3, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution. In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin's program of turning the "imperialist war" into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over 20 million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still, Bolshevik rule was secure, owing to the new regime's monopoly on force, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. Drawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe, Turkey, and the United States, McMeekin delivers exciting, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295675 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295675]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake Author: Brian Hicks Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 1, 2006 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling tradition of The Devil in the White City, award-winning author Brian Hicks tells the explosive story of the Morro Castle-the elegant luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934. On September 7, 1934, the captain of the luxurious Ward Line flagship Morro Castle died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before his ship caught fire off the New Jersey coast. Much of the crew abandoned ship, leaving passengers to burn or jump into the sea as a hurricane approached and literally fanned the flames. The ship was incinerated, and 134 people perished. Using hundreds of previously classified FBI reports, first-person survivor interviews, and countless documents, Brian Hicks has written-and solved-a murder mystery that mesmerized the nation more than seventy years ago. Told with authentic period detail and true-crime excitement, Hicks determines that the ominous weather was not the cause for the ship's burning. After reading Hick's deeply researched epic, we can only conclude that the disaster was the work of a madman among the crew. Hicks creates a finely drawn portrait of Depression-era America. Perfect for history buffs and adventure enthusiasts, When the Dancing Stopped is nonfiction narrative at its best. 'A suspenseful, highly satisfying read.'—Kirkus Starred Review '...the book is a riveting account of this tragedy...'—Booklist Brian Hicks Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295675 thebookvoice.com 12:36:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295675]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake Author: Brian Hicks Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 1, 2006 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling tradition of The Devil in the White City, award-winning author Brian Hicks tells the explosive story of the Morro Castle-the elegant luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934. On September 7, 1934, the captain of the luxurious Ward Line flagship Morro Castle died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before his ship caught fire off the New Jersey coast. Much of the crew abandoned ship, leaving passengers to burn or jump into the sea as a hurricane approached and literally fanned the flames. The ship was incinerated, and 134 people perished. Using hundreds of previously classified FBI reports, first-person survivor interviews, and countless documents, Brian Hicks has written-and solved-a murder mystery that mesmerized the nation more than seventy years ago. Told with authentic period detail and true-crime excitement, Hicks determines that the ominous weather was not the cause for the ship's burning. After reading Hick's deeply researched epic, we can only conclude that the disaster was the work of a madman among the crew. Hicks creates a finely drawn portrait of Depression-era America. Perfect for history buffs and adventure enthusiasts, When the Dancing Stopped is nonfiction narrative at its best. 'A suspenseful, highly satisfying read.'—Kirkus Starred Review '...the book is a riveting account of this tragedy...'—Booklist Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295675]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake Author: Brian Hicks Narrator: Dick Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: December 1, 2006 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling tradition of The Devil in the White City, award-winning author Brian Hicks tells the explosive story of the Morro Castle-the elegant luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934. On September 7, 1934, the captain of the luxurious Ward Line flagship Morro Castle died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before his ship caught fire off the New Jersey coast. Much of the crew abandoned ship, leaving passengers to burn or jump into the sea as a hurricane approached and literally fanned the flames. The ship was incinerated, and 134 people perished. Using hundreds of previously classified FBI reports, first-person survivor interviews, and countless documents, Brian Hicks has written-and solved-a murder mystery that mesmerized the nation more than seventy years ago. Told with authentic period detail and true-crime excitement, Hicks determines that the ominous weather was not the cause for the ship's burning. After reading Hick's deeply researched epic, we can only conclude that the disaster was the work of a madman among the crew. Hicks creates a finely drawn portrait of Depression-era America. Perfect for history buffs and adventure enthusiasts, When the Dancing Stopped is nonfiction narrative at its best. 'A suspenseful, highly satisfying read.'—Kirkus Starred Review '...the book is a riveting account of this tragedy...'—Booklist https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295663 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295663]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Author: R. Howard Bloch Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. In his fascinating new book, Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Bloch opens with a gripping account of the event that inspired the Tapestry: the swift, bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman bastard William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. But to truly understand the connection between battle and embroidery, one must retrace the web of international intrigue and scandal that climaxed at Hastings. Bloch demonstrates how, with astonishing intimacy and immediacy, the artisans who fashioned this work of textile art brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. Every age has cherished the Tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. French nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, fired by the Tapestry's evocation of military glory, unearthed the lost French epic 'The Song of Roland,' which Norman troops sang as they marched to victory in 1066. As the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, Hitler sent a team to France to study the Tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the precious cloth to Berlin. The richest horde of buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, the matchless beauty of Byzantine silk, Aesop's strange fable 'The Swallow and the Linseed,' the colony that Anglo-Saxon nobles founded in the Middle East following their defeat at Hastings—all are brilliantly woven into Bloch's riveting narrative. Seamlessly integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Byzantine elements, the Bayeux Tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. And yet, more than a work of art, the Tapestry served as the suture that bound up the wounds of 1066. A Needle in the Right Hand of God will stand with The Professor and the Madman and How the Irish Saved Civilization as a triumph of popular history. R. Howard Bloch Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295663 thebookvoice.com 7:12:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295663]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Author: R. Howard Bloch Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. In his fascinating new book, Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Bloch opens with a gripping account of the event that inspired the Tapestry: the swift, bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman bastard William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. But to truly understand the connection between battle and embroidery, one must retrace the web of international intrigue and scandal that climaxed at Hastings. Bloch demonstrates how, with astonishing intimacy and immediacy, the artisans who fashioned this work of textile art brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. Every age has cherished the Tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. French nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, fired by the Tapestry's evocation of military glory, unearthed the lost French epic 'The Song of Roland,' which Norman troops sang as they marched to victory in 1066. As the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, Hitler sent a team to France to study the Tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the precious cloth to Berlin. The richest horde of buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, the matchless beauty of Byzantine silk, Aesop's strange fable 'The Swallow and the Linseed,' the colony that Anglo-Saxon nobles founded in the Middle East following their defeat at Hastings—all are brilliantly woven into Bloch's riveting narrative. Seamlessly integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Byzantine elements, the Bayeux Tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. And yet, more than a work of art, the Tapestry served as the suture that bound up the wounds of 1066. A Needle in the Right Hand of God will stand with The Professor and the Madman and How the Irish Saved Civilization as a triumph of popular history. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295663]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Author: R. Howard Bloch Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile—an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. In his fascinating new book, Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Bloch opens with a gripping account of the event that inspired the Tapestry: the swift, bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman bastard William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. But to truly understand the connection between battle and embroidery, one must retrace the web of international intrigue and scandal that climaxed at Hastings. Bloch demonstrates how, with astonishing intimacy and immediacy, the artisans who fashioned this work of textile art brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. Every age has cherished the Tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. French nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, fired by the Tapestry's evocation of military glory, unearthed the lost French epic 'The Song of Roland,' which Norman troops sang as they marched to victory in 1066. As the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, Hitler sent a team to France to study the Tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the precious cloth to Berlin. The richest horde of buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, the matchless beauty of Byzantine silk, Aesop's strange fable 'The Swallow and the Linseed,' the colony that Anglo-Saxon nobles founded in the Middle East following their defeat at Hastings—all are brilliantly woven into Bloch's riveting narrative. Seamlessly integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Byzantine elements, the Bayeux Tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. And yet, more than a work of art, the Tapestry served as the suture that bound up the wounds of 1066. A Needle in the Right Hand of God will stand with The Professor and the Madman and How the Irish Saved Civilization as a triumph of popular history. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295002 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295002]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Author: Jonathan Schneer Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history. With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germany’s side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace. The key players in this watershed moment are rendered here in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero, the folksmensch who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “super cerebral” British officer who “set the desert on fire” for the Arabs; Basil Zaharoff, the infamous arms dealer who was Britain’s most important back channel to the Turks; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land. A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events. Jonathan Schneer Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295002 thebookvoice.com 18:31:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295002]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Author: Jonathan Schneer Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history. With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germany’s side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace. The key players in this watershed moment are rendered here in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero, the folksmensch who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “super cerebral” British officer who “set the desert on fire” for the Arabs; Basil Zaharoff, the infamous arms dealer who was Britain’s most important back channel to the Turks; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land. A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295002]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Author: Jonathan Schneer Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be felt to this day. Now the entire fascinating story of the document is revealed in this impressive work of modern history. With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germany’s side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace. The key players in this watershed moment are rendered here in nuanced and detailed relief: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero, the folksmensch who charmed British high society; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary “super cerebral” British officer who “set the desert on fire” for the Arabs; Basil Zaharoff, the infamous arms dealer who was Britain’s most important back channel to the Turks; and the other generals and prime ministers, soldiers and negotiators, who shed blood and cut deals to grab or give away the precious land. A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294986 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294986]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine Author: Claire Prentice Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did thousands of premature infants come to be exhibited at America’s most popular amusement park?In Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine, Claire Prentice uncovers the incredible true story of Martin Couney, the “incubator doctor.”Couney ran his incubator facility for premature babies at Coney Island from 1903 to 1943 and set up similar exhibits at World’s Fairs and amusement parks across America, and in London, Paris, Mexico and Brazil.Couney’s techniques were advanced for the time and his facility was expensive to run. But he didn’t charge the parents of the preemies a penny; instead the public paid to see them. He claimed to have a survival rate of 85 percent. By contrast, most mainstream doctors in the early part of the 20th century regarded premature babies as “weaklings” and did little or nothing to save them.Prentice’s meticulous research unravels the mystery of Couney’s origins, and reveals that the “incubator doctor” was not all that he seemed. She brings one of the most extraordinary stories in American medicine to life through interviews with Couney’s former “incubator babies.” Claire Prentice Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294986 thebookvoice.com 3:11:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294986]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine Author: Claire Prentice Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did thousands of premature infants come to be exhibited at America’s most popular amusement park?In Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine, Claire Prentice uncovers the incredible true story of Martin Couney, the “incubator doctor.”Couney ran his incubator facility for premature babies at Coney Island from 1903 to 1943 and set up similar exhibits at World’s Fairs and amusement parks across America, and in London, Paris, Mexico and Brazil.Couney’s techniques were advanced for the time and his facility was expensive to run. But he didn’t charge the parents of the preemies a penny; instead the public paid to see them. He claimed to have a survival rate of 85 percent. By contrast, most mainstream doctors in the early part of the 20th century regarded premature babies as “weaklings” and did little or nothing to save them.Prentice’s meticulous research unravels the mystery of Couney’s origins, and reveals that the “incubator doctor” was not all that he seemed. She brings one of the most extraordinary stories in American medicine to life through interviews with Couney’s former “incubator babies.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294986]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine Author: Claire Prentice Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did thousands of premature infants come to be exhibited at America’s most popular amusement park?In Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine, Claire Prentice uncovers the incredible true story of Martin Couney, the “incubator doctor.”Couney ran his incubator facility for premature babies at Coney Island from 1903 to 1943 and set up similar exhibits at World’s Fairs and amusement parks across America, and in London, Paris, Mexico and Brazil.Couney’s techniques were advanced for the time and his facility was expensive to run. But he didn’t charge the parents of the preemies a penny; instead the public paid to see them. He claimed to have a survival rate of 85 percent. By contrast, most mainstream doctors in the early part of the 20th century regarded premature babies as “weaklings” and did little or nothing to save them.Prentice’s meticulous research unravels the mystery of Couney’s origins, and reveals that the “incubator doctor” was not all that he seemed. She brings one of the most extraordinary stories in American medicine to life through interviews with Couney’s former “incubator babies.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294945 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294945]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture Author: Joshua Levine Narrator: Leighton Pugh, Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 59 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, Joshua Levine, the film's official historian, explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape. Joshua Levine Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294945 thebookvoice.com 10:44:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294945]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture Author: Joshua Levine Narrator: Leighton Pugh, Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 59 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, Joshua Levine, the film's official historian, explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294945]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture Author: Joshua Levine Narrator: Leighton Pugh, Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 59 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, Joshua Levine, the film's official historian, explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294910 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294910]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spitfire Girl Author: Jackie Moggridge Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 4, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to women... or at least it seemed to be. Jackie Moggridge Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294910 thebookvoice.com 8:30:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294910]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spitfire Girl Author: Jackie Moggridge Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 4, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to women... or at least it seemed to be. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294910]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spitfire Girl Author: Jackie Moggridge Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 4, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship and even love in the air. At last the world was opening up to women... or at least it seemed to be. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294691 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294691]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror Author: Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 18, 2007 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston, In Defense of Our America takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties, In Defense of Our America provides a look at the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of terror. Against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, readers are taken behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America. From the story of the 'American Taliban' to the battle against the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, In Defense of Our America tracks a roster of skirmishes in the larger fight for civil liberties in this country. It tracks an effort in Pennsylvania to force religion into the public school science curriculum and tells the story of South Dakota's attempts to place an outright ban on abortions in the state. In a narrative that allows the characters to tell the story, In Defense of Our America offers the first inside look at the Lindh family as they saw their son and brother, John Walker Lindh, emerge as a symbol of America's battle against Islamic fundamentalism. It follows Joshua Dratel, a defense attorney at the center of many legal battles over the rights of individuals suspected of terrorism, and tells the story of a modern-day Scopes trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. The book tracks the case of Matthew Limon, a gay teenager sentenced to seventeen years for having consensual oral sex with a younger teenage boy in Kansas, and looks behind the reports of a broken judicial system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In Defense of Our America chronicles the stories of an array of colorful characters to illustrate the state of play in today's fight for civil liberties, including Cecelia Fire Thunder, the Sioux president who wanted to open an abortion clinic on her South Dakota reservation, and high school science teacher Bertha Spahr, who defied a school board dominated by fundamentalist Christians by taking a stand against 'intelligent design.' With unparalleled access to key players in some of the landmark tests of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, In Defense of Our America weaves together a compelling narrative that provides an unusually full look at the fight for civil liberties as Americans struggle to protect their rights and ensure their security. Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294691 thebookvoice.com 7:38:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294691]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror Author: Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 18, 2007 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston, In Defense of Our America takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties, In Defense of Our America provides a look at the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of terror. Against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, readers are taken behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America. From the story of the 'American Taliban' to the battle against the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, In Defense of Our America tracks a roster of skirmishes in the larger fight for civil liberties in this country. It tracks an effort in Pennsylvania to force religion into the public school science curriculum and tells the story of South Dakota's attempts to place an outright ban on abortions in the state. In a narrative that allows the characters to tell the story, In Defense of Our America offers the first inside look at the Lindh family as they saw their son and brother, John Walker Lindh, emerge as a symbol of America's battle against Islamic fundamentalism. It follows Joshua Dratel, a defense attorney at the center of many legal battles over the rights of individuals suspected of terrorism, and tells the story of a modern-day Scopes trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. The book tracks the case of Matthew Limon, a gay teenager sentenced to seventeen years for having consensual oral sex with a younger teenage boy in Kansas, and looks behind the reports of a broken judicial system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In Defense of Our America chronicles the stories of an array of colorful characters to illustrate the state of play in today's fight for civil liberties, including Cecelia Fire Thunder, the Sioux president who wanted to open an abortion clinic on her South Dakota reservation, and high school science teacher Bertha Spahr, who defied a school board dominated by fundamentalist Christians by taking a stand against 'intelligent design.' With unparalleled access to key players in some of the landmark tests of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, In Defense of Our America weaves together a compelling narrative that provides an unusually full look at the fight for civil liberties as Americans struggle to protect their rights and ensure their security. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294691]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror Author: Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 18, 2007 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston, In Defense of Our America takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties, In Defense of Our America provides a look at the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of terror. Against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, readers are taken behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America. From the story of the 'American Taliban' to the battle against the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, In Defense of Our America tracks a roster of skirmishes in the larger fight for civil liberties in this country. It tracks an effort in Pennsylvania to force religion into the public school science curriculum and tells the story of South Dakota's attempts to place an outright ban on abortions in the state. In a narrative that allows the characters to tell the story, In Defense of Our America offers the first inside look at the Lindh family as they saw their son and brother, John Walker Lindh, emerge as a symbol of America's battle against Islamic fundamentalism. It follows Joshua Dratel, a defense attorney at the center of many legal battles over the rights of individuals suspected of terrorism, and tells the story of a modern-day Scopes trial in Dover, Pennsylvania. The book tracks the case of Matthew Limon, a gay teenager sentenced to seventeen years for having consensual oral sex with a younger teenage boy in Kansas, and looks behind the reports of a broken judicial system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In Defense of Our America chronicles the stories of an array of colorful characters to illustrate the state of play in today's fight for civil liberties, including Cecelia Fire Thunder, the Sioux president who wanted to open an abortion clinic on her South Dakota reservation, and high school science teacher Bertha Spahr, who defied a school board dominated by fundamentalist Christians by taking a stand against 'intelligent design.' With unparalleled access to key players in some of the landmark tests of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, In Defense of Our America weaves together a compelling narrative that provides an unusually full look at the fight for civil liberties as Americans struggle to protect their rights and ensure their security. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294610 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Author: Jim DeFede Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away! When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. Jim DeFede Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294610 thebookvoice.com 6:29:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Author: Jim DeFede Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away! When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Author: Jim DeFede Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away! When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294324 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294324]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Author: Nicholas Shrady Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 21, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days. In The Last Day, Nicholas Shrady provides not only a vivid account of this horrific disaster but also a stimulating survey of the many shock waves it sent throughout Western civilization. When news of the quake spread, it inspired both a lurid fascination in the popular imagination of Europe and an intellectual debate about the natural world and God's place in human affairs. Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other eminent figures, took up the disaster as a sort of cause célèbre and a vehicle to express Enlightenment ideas. More practically, the Lisbon quake led to the first concerted effort at disaster control, modern urban planning, and the birth of seismology. The Last Day is popular history writing at its best and will appeal to readers of Simon Winchester's Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Nicholas Shrady Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294324 thebookvoice.com 6:57:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294324]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Author: Nicholas Shrady Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 21, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days. In The Last Day, Nicholas Shrady provides not only a vivid account of this horrific disaster but also a stimulating survey of the many shock waves it sent throughout Western civilization. When news of the quake spread, it inspired both a lurid fascination in the popular imagination of Europe and an intellectual debate about the natural world and God's place in human affairs. Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other eminent figures, took up the disaster as a sort of cause célèbre and a vehicle to express Enlightenment ideas. More practically, the Lisbon quake led to the first concerted effort at disaster control, modern urban planning, and the birth of seismology. The Last Day is popular history writing at its best and will appeal to readers of Simon Winchester's Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294324]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Author: Nicholas Shrady Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 21, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days. In The Last Day, Nicholas Shrady provides not only a vivid account of this horrific disaster but also a stimulating survey of the many shock waves it sent throughout Western civilization. When news of the quake spread, it inspired both a lurid fascination in the popular imagination of Europe and an intellectual debate about the natural world and God's place in human affairs. Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other eminent figures, took up the disaster as a sort of cause célèbre and a vehicle to express Enlightenment ideas. More practically, the Lisbon quake led to the first concerted effort at disaster control, modern urban planning, and the birth of seismology. The Last Day is popular history writing at its best and will appeal to readers of Simon Winchester's Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294298 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294298]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West Author: Anthony Pagden Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day. The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans—creating the modern Middle East along the way—and on to the present struggles in Iraq. Throughout we learn a tremendous amount about what 'East' and 'West' were and are, and how it has always been competing worldviews and psychologies, more than religion or power grabs, that have fed the mistrust and violence between East and West. In Pagden's dark but provocative view, this struggle cannot help but go on. Anthony Pagden Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294298 thebookvoice.com 20:39:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294298]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West Author: Anthony Pagden Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day. The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans—creating the modern Middle East along the way—and on to the present struggles in Iraq. Throughout we learn a tremendous amount about what 'East' and 'West' were and are, and how it has always been competing worldviews and psychologies, more than religion or power grabs, that have fed the mistrust and violence between East and West. In Pagden's dark but provocative view, this struggle cannot help but go on. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294298]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West Author: Anthony Pagden Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 25, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day. The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans—creating the modern Middle East along the way—and on to the present struggles in Iraq. Throughout we learn a tremendous amount about what 'East' and 'West' were and are, and how it has always been competing worldviews and psychologies, more than religion or power grabs, that have fed the mistrust and violence between East and West. In Pagden's dark but provocative view, this struggle cannot help but go on. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294290 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294290]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution Author: Robert H. Patton Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. They played a decisive role in America's struggle for independence and later turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade, revealing the conflict between enterprise and morality central to American history. In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, the grandson of the battlefield genius of World War II, writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might earn in a year; and how privateering created fortunes that survive to this day. As one naval historian wrote, "The great battles of the American Revolution were fought on land, but independence was won at sea." Patton writes how, in addition to its strategic and economic importance, privateering played a large political role in the Revolution. For example, Benjamin Franklin, from his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged skippers to sell their captured goods in French ports—a calculated effort on Franklin's part to break the neutrality agreements between France and Britain, bring the two countries to blows, and take the pressure off American fighters. This is a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit and national freedom. Robert H. Patton Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294290 thebookvoice.com 10:25:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294290]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution Author: Robert H. Patton Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. They played a decisive role in America's struggle for independence and later turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade, revealing the conflict between enterprise and morality central to American history. In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, the grandson of the battlefield genius of World War II, writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might earn in a year; and how privateering created fortunes that survive to this day. As one naval historian wrote, "The great battles of the American Revolution were fought on land, but independence was won at sea." Patton writes how, in addition to its strategic and economic importance, privateering played a large political role in the Revolution. For example, Benjamin Franklin, from his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged skippers to sell their captured goods in French ports—a calculated effort on Franklin's part to break the neutrality agreements between France and Britain, bring the two countries to blows, and take the pressure off American fighters. This is a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit and national freedom. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294290]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution Author: Robert H. Patton Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. They played a decisive role in America's struggle for independence and later turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade, revealing the conflict between enterprise and morality central to American history. In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, the grandson of the battlefield genius of World War II, writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might earn in a year; and how privateering created fortunes that survive to this day. As one naval historian wrote, "The great battles of the American Revolution were fought on land, but independence was won at sea." Patton writes how, in addition to its strategic and economic importance, privateering played a large political role in the Revolution. For example, Benjamin Franklin, from his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged skippers to sell their captured goods in French ports—a calculated effort on Franklin's part to break the neutrality agreements between France and Britain, bring the two countries to blows, and take the pressure off American fighters. This is a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit and national freedom. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294268 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294268]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Author: Johan Norberg Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead. It’s on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world. Johan Norberg Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294268 thebookvoice.com 6:58:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294268]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Author: Johan Norberg Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead. It’s on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294268]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Author: Johan Norberg Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead. It’s on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is—financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive. Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294129 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294129]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jews: Story of a People Author: Howard Fast Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 13, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'There is no human being on the face of this earth exempt from the Jewish influence. For as long as there has been history, the Jew has wandered through it, shaping it at times, riding the current silently at other times, but always leaving his mark. History without the Jew? It is inconceivable.'-Howard Fast This popular history brings the history of the Jewish people into focus, from Genesis to contemporary times. Howard Fast Fri, 13 May 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294129 thebookvoice.com 12:20:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294129]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jews: Story of a People Author: Howard Fast Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 13, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'There is no human being on the face of this earth exempt from the Jewish influence. For as long as there has been history, the Jew has wandered through it, shaping it at times, riding the current silently at other times, but always leaving his mark. History without the Jew? It is inconceivable.'-Howard Fast This popular history brings the history of the Jewish people into focus, from Genesis to contemporary times. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294129]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jews: Story of a People Author: Howard Fast Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 13, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'There is no human being on the face of this earth exempt from the Jewish influence. For as long as there has been history, the Jew has wandered through it, shaping it at times, riding the current silently at other times, but always leaving his mark. History without the Jew? It is inconceivable.'-Howard Fast This popular history brings the history of the Jewish people into focus, from Genesis to contemporary times. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294126 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294126]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History Author: Martin Gilbert Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 30, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work.A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary. Martin Gilbert Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294126 thebookvoice.com 29:56:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294126]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History Author: Martin Gilbert Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 30, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work.A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294126]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History Author: Martin Gilbert Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 30, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work.A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294074 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294074]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 1, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the 'smartest and most devastating' critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was intended to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syria, help win the war on terror, consolidate American world leadership, and entrench the Republican Party for decades. Instead, —Bush handed Iran its greatest strategic triumph in four centuries. —U.S. troops now fight to support an Iraqi government led by religious parties intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic republic. —As part of the surge, the United States created a Sunni militia led by the same Baathists the United States invaded Iraq to overthrow. —Obsessed with Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs. —Turkey, a key NANATO ally long considered a model pro-Western Muslim democracy, became one of the most anti-American countries in the world. —U.S. prestige around the world reached an all-time low. Iraq: Galbraith challenges the assertion that the surge will lead to victory. By creating a Sunni army, the surge has, in fact, contributed to Iraq's breakup and set the stage for an intensified civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. If the United States wishes to escape the Iraq quagmire, it must face up to the reality that the country has broken up and cannot be put back together. Iran: Having helped Iran's allies take control in Baghdad, the Bush administration no longer has a viable military option to stop Iran's nuclear program. Galbraith discusses how a president more pragmatic than Bush might get Iran to freeze its nuclear program as part of a package deal to upgrade relations between two countries equally threatened by Sunni extremism. Turkey, Syria, and Israel: A war intended to make Israel more secure, undermine Syria's Assad regime, and strengthen ties with Turkey has had the opposite result. Nationalism: In the coming decades, other countries may follow Iraq's example in fragmenting along ethnic and religious lines. Galbraith draws on his considerable experience in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia to predict where this might happen and what the United States might do about it. The United States: George W. Bush substituted wishful thinking for strategy and, as a result, made America weaker. Galbraith provides some rules for a national strategy that will appeal equally to conservatives and liberals—indeed, to anyone who believes the United States needs an effective national security strategy. Peter W. Galbraith Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294074 thebookvoice.com 6:45:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294074]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 1, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the 'smartest and most devastating' critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was intended to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syria, help win the war on terror, consolidate American world leadership, and entrench the Republican Party for decades. Instead, —Bush handed Iran its greatest strategic triumph in four centuries. —U.S. troops now fight to support an Iraqi government led by religious parties intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic republic. —As part of the surge, the United States created a Sunni militia led by the same Baathists the United States invaded Iraq to overthrow. —Obsessed with Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs. —Turkey, a key NANATO ally long considered a model pro-Western Muslim democracy, became one of the most anti-American countries in the world. —U.S. prestige around the world reached an all-time low. Iraq: Galbraith challenges the assertion that the surge will lead to victory. By creating a Sunni army, the surge has, in fact, contributed to Iraq's breakup and set the stage for an intensified civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. If the United States wishes to escape the Iraq quagmire, it must face up to the reality that the country has broken up and cannot be put back together. Iran: Having helped Iran's allies take control in Baghdad, the Bush administration no longer has a viable military option to stop Iran's nuclear program. Galbraith discusses how a president more pragmatic than Bush might get Iran to freeze its nuclear program as part of a package deal to upgrade relations between two countries equally threatened by Sunni extremism. Turkey, Syria, and Israel: A war intended to make Israel more secure, undermine Syria's Assad regime, and strengthen ties with Turkey has had the opposite result. Nationalism: In the coming decades, other countries may follow Iraq's example in fragmenting along ethnic and religious lines. Galbraith draws on his considerable experience in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia to predict where this might happen and what the United States might do about it. The United States: George W. Bush substituted wishful thinking for strategy and, as a result, made America weaker. Galbraith provides some rules for a national strategy that will appeal equally to conservatives and liberals—indeed, to anyone who believes the United States needs an effective national security strategy. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294074]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 1, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the 'smartest and most devastating' critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the earliest expert to describe Iraq's breakup into religious and ethnic entities, a reality that is now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was intended to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syria, help win the war on terror, consolidate American world leadership, and entrench the Republican Party for decades. Instead, —Bush handed Iran its greatest strategic triumph in four centuries. —U.S. troops now fight to support an Iraqi government led by religious parties intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic republic. —As part of the surge, the United States created a Sunni militia led by the same Baathists the United States invaded Iraq to overthrow. —Obsessed with Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs. —Turkey, a key NANATO ally long considered a model pro-Western Muslim democracy, became one of the most anti-American countries in the world. —U.S. prestige around the world reached an all-time low. Iraq: Galbraith challenges the assertion that the surge will lead to victory. By creating a Sunni army, the surge has, in fact, contributed to Iraq's breakup and set the stage for an intensified civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. If the United States wishes to escape the Iraq quagmire, it must face up to the reality that the country has broken up and cannot be put back together. Iran: Having helped Iran's allies take control in Baghdad, the Bush administration no longer has a viable military option to stop Iran's nuclear program. Galbraith discusses how a president more pragmatic than Bush might get Iran to freeze its nuclear program as part of a package deal to upgrade relations between two countries equally threatened by Sunni extremism. Turkey, Syria, and Israel: A war intended to make Israel more secure, undermine Syria's Assad regime, and strengthen ties with Turkey has had the opposite result. Nationalism: In the coming decades, other countries may follow Iraq's example in fragmenting along ethnic and religious lines. Galbraith draws on his considerable experience in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia to predict where this might happen and what the United States might do about it. The United States: George W. Bush substituted wishful thinking for strategy and, as a result, made America weaker. Galbraith provides some rules for a national strategy that will appeal equally to conservatives and liberals—indeed, to anyone who believes the United States needs an effective national security strategy. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294073 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three constituent components: a pro-western Kurdistan in the north, an Iran-dominated Shiite entity in the south, and a chaotic Sunni Arab region in the center. The country is plagued by insurgency and is in the opening phases of a potentially catastrophic civil war. George W. Bush broke up Iraq when he ordered its invasion in 2003. The United States not only removed Saddam Hussein, it also smashed and later dissolved the institutions by which Iraq's Sunni Arab minority ruled the country: its army, its security services, and the Baath Party. With these institutions gone and irreplaceable, the basis of an Iraqi state has disappeared. The End of Iraq describes the administration's strategic miscalculations behind the war as well as the blunders of the American occupation. There was the failure to understand the intensity of the ethnic and religious divisions in Iraq. This was followed by incoherent and inconsistent strategies for governing, the failure to spend money for reconstruction, the misguided effort to create a national army and police, and then the turning over of the country's management to Republican political loyalists rather than qualified professionals. As a matter of morality, Peter W. Galbraith writes, the Kurds of Iraq are no less entitled to independence than are Lithuanians, Croatians, or Palestinians. And if the country's majority Shiites want to run their own affairs, or even have their own state, on what democratic principle should they be denied? If the price of a unified Iraq is another dictatorship, Galbraith writes, it is too high a price to pay. The United States must now focus not on preserving or forging a unified Iraq but on avoiding a spreading and increasingly dangerous and deadly civil war. It must accept the reality of Iraq's breakup and work with Iraq's Shiites, Kurds, and Sunni Arabs to strengthen the already semi-independent regions. If they are properly constituted, these regions can provide security, though not all will be democratic. There is no easy exit from Iraq for America. We have to relinquish our present strategy—trying to build national institutions when there is, in fact, no nation. That effort is doomed, Galbraith argues, and it will only leave the United States with an open-ended commitment in circumstances of uncontrollable turmoil. Galbraith has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions. In The End of Iraq, he offers many firsthand observations of the men who are now Iraq's leaders. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. The End of Iraq is the definitive account of this war and its ramifications. Peter W. Galbraith Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294073 thebookvoice.com 9:36:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three constituent components: a pro-western Kurdistan in the north, an Iran-dominated Shiite entity in the south, and a chaotic Sunni Arab region in the center. The country is plagued by insurgency and is in the opening phases of a potentially catastrophic civil war. George W. Bush broke up Iraq when he ordered its invasion in 2003. The United States not only removed Saddam Hussein, it also smashed and later dissolved the institutions by which Iraq's Sunni Arab minority ruled the country: its army, its security services, and the Baath Party. With these institutions gone and irreplaceable, the basis of an Iraqi state has disappeared. The End of Iraq describes the administration's strategic miscalculations behind the war as well as the blunders of the American occupation. There was the failure to understand the intensity of the ethnic and religious divisions in Iraq. This was followed by incoherent and inconsistent strategies for governing, the failure to spend money for reconstruction, the misguided effort to create a national army and police, and then the turning over of the country's management to Republican political loyalists rather than qualified professionals. As a matter of morality, Peter W. Galbraith writes, the Kurds of Iraq are no less entitled to independence than are Lithuanians, Croatians, or Palestinians. And if the country's majority Shiites want to run their own affairs, or even have their own state, on what democratic principle should they be denied? If the price of a unified Iraq is another dictatorship, Galbraith writes, it is too high a price to pay. The United States must now focus not on preserving or forging a unified Iraq but on avoiding a spreading and increasingly dangerous and deadly civil war. It must accept the reality of Iraq's breakup and work with Iraq's Shiites, Kurds, and Sunni Arabs to strengthen the already semi-independent regions. If they are properly constituted, these regions can provide security, though not all will be democratic. There is no easy exit from Iraq for America. We have to relinquish our present strategy—trying to build national institutions when there is, in fact, no nation. That effort is doomed, Galbraith argues, and it will only leave the United States with an open-ended commitment in circumstances of uncontrollable turmoil. Galbraith has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions. In The End of Iraq, he offers many firsthand observations of the men who are now Iraq's leaders. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. The End of Iraq is the definitive account of this war and its ramifications. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/294073]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End Author: Peter W. Galbraith Narrator: Alan Sklar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 16, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East. Instead, Iraq has disintegrated into three constituent components: a pro-western Kurdistan in the north, an Iran-dominated Shiite entity in the south, and a chaotic Sunni Arab region in the center. The country is plagued by insurgency and is in the opening phases of a potentially catastrophic civil war. George W. Bush broke up Iraq when he ordered its invasion in 2003. The United States not only removed Saddam Hussein, it also smashed and later dissolved the institutions by which Iraq's Sunni Arab minority ruled the country: its army, its security services, and the Baath Party. With these institutions gone and irreplaceable, the basis of an Iraqi state has disappeared. The End of Iraq describes the administration's strategic miscalculations behind the war as well as the blunders of the American occupation. There was the failure to understand the intensity of the ethnic and religious divisions in Iraq. This was followed by incoherent and inconsistent strategies for governing, the failure to spend money for reconstruction, the misguided effort to create a national army and police, and then the turning over of the country's management to Republican political loyalists rather than qualified professionals. As a matter of morality, Peter W. Galbraith writes, the Kurds of Iraq are no less entitled to independence than are Lithuanians, Croatians, or Palestinians. And if the country's majority Shiites want to run their own affairs, or even have their own state, on what democratic principle should they be denied? If the price of a unified Iraq is another dictatorship, Galbraith writes, it is too high a price to pay. The United States must now focus not on preserving or forging a unified Iraq but on avoiding a spreading and increasingly dangerous and deadly civil war. It must accept the reality of Iraq's breakup and work with Iraq's Shiites, Kurds, and Sunni Arabs to strengthen the already semi-independent regions. If they are properly constituted, these regions can provide security, though not all will be democratic. There is no easy exit from Iraq for America. We have to relinquish our present strategy—trying to build national institutions when there is, in fact, no nation. That effort is doomed, Galbraith argues, and it will only leave the United States with an open-ended commitment in circumstances of uncontrollable turmoil. Galbraith has been in Iraq many times over the last twenty-one years during historic turning points for the country: the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish genocide, the 1991 uprising, the immediate aftermath of the 2003 war, and the writing of Iraq's constitutions. In The End of Iraq, he offers many firsthand observations of the men who are now Iraq's leaders. He draws on his nearly two decades of involvement in Iraq policy working for the U.S. government to appraise what has occurred and what will happen. The End of Iraq is the definitive account of this war and its ramifications. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293974 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293974]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Author: Antony Beevor Narrator: Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies. 'Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. . . It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement' Giles Foden, Guardian 'No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail' Christopher Silvester, Daily Express © Antony Beevor 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2017 Antony Beevor Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293974 thebookvoice.com 19:49:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293974]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Author: Antony Beevor Narrator: Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies. 'Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. . . It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement' Giles Foden, Guardian 'No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail' Christopher Silvester, Daily Express © Antony Beevor 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2017 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293974]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy Author: Antony Beevor Narrator: Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies. 'Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. . . It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement' Giles Foden, Guardian 'No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail' Christopher Silvester, Daily Express © Antony Beevor 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2017 https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293892 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293892]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunks: An American History Author: Christopher M. Finan Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day Today, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse for the rest of their lives. We have finally come to understand alcoholism as a treatable illness, rather than a moral failure. Today’s advocates can draw inspiration from the victories of sober drunks throughout American history. Christopher Finan recounts the nation’s history with alcohol and its search for sobriety, which began among Native Americans in the colonial period, when liquor was used to cheat them of their property. He introduces us to the first of a colorful cast of characters, a remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, who dedicated his life to helping his people renounce hard liquor. And we meet Carrie Nation, the wife of an alcoholic who destroyed bars with an ax in her anger over what alcohol had done to her family, as well as the idealistic and energetic Washingtonians, reformed drunks who led the first national movement to save men like themselves. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, the two drunks who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and has made it possible for millions of men and women to quit drinking. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements. Christopher M. Finan Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293892 thebookvoice.com 11:33:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293892]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunks: An American History Author: Christopher M. Finan Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day Today, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse for the rest of their lives. We have finally come to understand alcoholism as a treatable illness, rather than a moral failure. Today’s advocates can draw inspiration from the victories of sober drunks throughout American history. Christopher Finan recounts the nation’s history with alcohol and its search for sobriety, which began among Native Americans in the colonial period, when liquor was used to cheat them of their property. He introduces us to the first of a colorful cast of characters, a remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, who dedicated his life to helping his people renounce hard liquor. And we meet Carrie Nation, the wife of an alcoholic who destroyed bars with an ax in her anger over what alcohol had done to her family, as well as the idealistic and energetic Washingtonians, reformed drunks who led the first national movement to save men like themselves. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, the two drunks who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and has made it possible for millions of men and women to quit drinking. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293892]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunks: An American History Author: Christopher M. Finan Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 27, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day Today, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing support for alcoholics who will face the danger of relapse for the rest of their lives. We have finally come to understand alcoholism as a treatable illness, rather than a moral failure. Today’s advocates can draw inspiration from the victories of sober drunks throughout American history. Christopher Finan recounts the nation’s history with alcohol and its search for sobriety, which began among Native Americans in the colonial period, when liquor was used to cheat them of their property. He introduces us to the first of a colorful cast of characters, a remarkable Iroquois leader named Handsome Lake, who dedicated his life to helping his people renounce hard liquor. And we meet Carrie Nation, the wife of an alcoholic who destroyed bars with an ax in her anger over what alcohol had done to her family, as well as the idealistic and energetic Washingtonians, reformed drunks who led the first national movement to save men like themselves. Finan also tells the dramatic story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, the two drunks who helped each other stay sober and then created AA, which survived its tumultuous early years and has made it possible for millions of men and women to quit drinking. This is narrative history at its best: entertaining and authoritative, an important portrait of one of America’s great liberation movements. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293620 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293620]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Are There! World History: Dramatizations of World History Series: Part of The Old Time Radio Show Collection Author: CBS Radio Narrator: John Hollenback, John Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings. “You Are There” radio dramatization begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from the ships, the shore, and from Spain. The dialogue is very believable, historically accurate, and very much in character. It is apparent that the producers of this show did their homework! Let’s listen to the announcer now … “CBS takes you back to 1492. All things are as they were then, except for one thing: when CBS is there, You Are There! You Are There is based on authentic historical fact and quotations, and now, on to our story.” Look for the Old Time Radio Show Collection from the 30s, 40s, and 50s! These classic stories will capture your attention as they reenact history in short programs. CBS Radio Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293620 thebookvoice.com 14:54:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293620]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Are There! World History: Dramatizations of World History Series: Part of The Old Time Radio Show Collection Author: CBS Radio Narrator: John Hollenback, John Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings. “You Are There” radio dramatization begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from the ships, the shore, and from Spain. The dialogue is very believable, historically accurate, and very much in character. It is apparent that the producers of this show did their homework! Let’s listen to the announcer now … “CBS takes you back to 1492. All things are as they were then, except for one thing: when CBS is there, You Are There! You Are There is based on authentic historical fact and quotations, and now, on to our story.” Look for the Old Time Radio Show Collection from the 30s, 40s, and 50s! These classic stories will capture your attention as they reenact history in short programs. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293620]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Are There! World History: Dramatizations of World History Series: Part of The Old Time Radio Show Collection Author: CBS Radio Narrator: John Hollenback, John Daly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings. “You Are There” radio dramatization begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Niña, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from the ships, the shore, and from Spain. The dialogue is very believable, historically accurate, and very much in character. It is apparent that the producers of this show did their homework! Let’s listen to the announcer now … “CBS takes you back to 1492. All things are as they were then, except for one thing: when CBS is there, You Are There! You Are There is based on authentic historical fact and quotations, and now, on to our story.” Look for the Old Time Radio Show Collection from the 30s, 40s, and 50s! These classic stories will capture your attention as they reenact history in short programs. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293460 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293460]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France Author: Peter Cossins Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep by Peter Cossins, read by Joseph Kloska. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair. Its riders included characters like Maurice “The White Bulldog” Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman whose parents were said to have swapped him for a round of cheese in order to smuggle him into France as a 14 year old, Hippolyte Aucouturier, who with his jersey of horizontal stripes and handlebar moustache looked like the villain from a Buster Keaton movie and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had no idea what he was letting himself in for. Dreamed up to revive a struggling newspaper, cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about this 'heroic' race through roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to twenty kilos, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a chimney sweep and a circus acrobat. There was no indication that this ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did, and all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again. Acclaimed cycling writer Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France stage by stage to see where the greatest sporting event of all began. Peter Cossins Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293460 thebookvoice.com 8:20:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293460]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France Author: Peter Cossins Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep by Peter Cossins, read by Joseph Kloska. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair. Its riders included characters like Maurice “The White Bulldog” Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman whose parents were said to have swapped him for a round of cheese in order to smuggle him into France as a 14 year old, Hippolyte Aucouturier, who with his jersey of horizontal stripes and handlebar moustache looked like the villain from a Buster Keaton movie and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had no idea what he was letting himself in for. Dreamed up to revive a struggling newspaper, cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about this 'heroic' race through roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to twenty kilos, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a chimney sweep and a circus acrobat. There was no indication that this ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did, and all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again. Acclaimed cycling writer Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France stage by stage to see where the greatest sporting event of all began. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293460]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France Author: Peter Cossins Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep by Peter Cossins, read by Joseph Kloska. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, the first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair. Its riders included characters like Maurice “The White Bulldog” Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman whose parents were said to have swapped him for a round of cheese in order to smuggle him into France as a 14 year old, Hippolyte Aucouturier, who with his jersey of horizontal stripes and handlebar moustache looked like the villain from a Buster Keaton movie and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had no idea what he was letting himself in for. Dreamed up to revive a struggling newspaper, cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about this 'heroic' race through roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to twenty kilos, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a chimney sweep and a circus acrobat. There was no indication that this ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did, and all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again. Acclaimed cycling writer Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France stage by stage to see where the greatest sporting event of all began. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293448 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293448]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp Author: Helga Weiss Narrator: Emily Bevan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss. Read by the actress Emily Bevan. In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin, and her friends and family start to disappear. In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the concentration camp of Terezín, where they live for three years. Here Helga documents their daily life - the harsh conditions, disease and suffering, as well as moments of friendship, creativity and hope - until, in 1944, they are sent to Auschwitz. Helga leaves her diary behind with her uncle, who bricks it into a wall to preserve it. Helga's father is never heard of again, but miraculously Helga and her mother survive the horrors of Auschwitz, the gruelling transports of the last days of the war, and manage to return to Prague. As Helga writes down her experiences since Terezín, completing the diary, she is fifteen and a half. She is one of only a tiny number of Czech Jews who have survived. Reconstructed from her original notebooks, which were later retrieved from Terezín, and from the loose-leaf pages on which Helga wrote after the war, the diary is presented here in its entirety. As such, Helga's Diary is one of the most vivid and comprehensive testimonies written during the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. Helga Weiss Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293448 thebookvoice.com 5:13:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293448]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp Author: Helga Weiss Narrator: Emily Bevan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss. Read by the actress Emily Bevan. In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin, and her friends and family start to disappear. In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the concentration camp of Terezín, where they live for three years. Here Helga documents their daily life - the harsh conditions, disease and suffering, as well as moments of friendship, creativity and hope - until, in 1944, they are sent to Auschwitz. Helga leaves her diary behind with her uncle, who bricks it into a wall to preserve it. Helga's father is never heard of again, but miraculously Helga and her mother survive the horrors of Auschwitz, the gruelling transports of the last days of the war, and manage to return to Prague. As Helga writes down her experiences since Terezín, completing the diary, she is fifteen and a half. She is one of only a tiny number of Czech Jews who have survived. Reconstructed from her original notebooks, which were later retrieved from Terezín, and from the loose-leaf pages on which Helga wrote after the war, the diary is presented here in its entirety. As such, Helga's Diary is one of the most vivid and comprehensive testimonies written during the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293448]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp Author: Helga Weiss Narrator: Emily Bevan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss. Read by the actress Emily Bevan. In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin, and her friends and family start to disappear. In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the concentration camp of Terezín, where they live for three years. Here Helga documents their daily life - the harsh conditions, disease and suffering, as well as moments of friendship, creativity and hope - until, in 1944, they are sent to Auschwitz. Helga leaves her diary behind with her uncle, who bricks it into a wall to preserve it. Helga's father is never heard of again, but miraculously Helga and her mother survive the horrors of Auschwitz, the gruelling transports of the last days of the war, and manage to return to Prague. As Helga writes down her experiences since Terezín, completing the diary, she is fifteen and a half. She is one of only a tiny number of Czech Jews who have survived. Reconstructed from her original notebooks, which were later retrieved from Terezín, and from the loose-leaf pages on which Helga wrote after the war, the diary is presented here in its entirety. As such, Helga's Diary is one of the most vivid and comprehensive testimonies written during the Holocaust ever to have been recovered. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293333 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293333]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Author: Herb Boyd Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric. Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not grasp their full significance at the time, this critical moment would be one of many he witnessed that would mold his political activism and exposed a city restless for change. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, in search of understanding why Detroit is a special place for black people. Boyd reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry. Well paying jobs on assembly lines allowed working class Black Detroiters to ascend to the middle class and achieve financial stability, an accomplishment not often attainable in other industries. Boyd makes clear that while many of these middle-class jobs have disappeared, decimating the population and hitting blacks hardest, Detroit survives thanks to the emergence of companies such as Shinola—which represent the strength of the Motor City and and its continued importance to the country. He also brings into focus the major figures who have defined and shaped Detroit, including William Lambert, the great abolitionist, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, Coleman Young, the city’s first black mayor, diva songstress Aretha Franklin, Malcolm X, and Ralphe Bunche, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a stunning eye for detail and passion for Detroit, Boyd celebrates the music, manufacturing, politics, and culture that make it an American original. Herb Boyd Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293333 thebookvoice.com 10:23:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293333]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Author: Herb Boyd Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric. Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not grasp their full significance at the time, this critical moment would be one of many he witnessed that would mold his political activism and exposed a city restless for change. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, in search of understanding why Detroit is a special place for black people. Boyd reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry. Well paying jobs on assembly lines allowed working class Black Detroiters to ascend to the middle class and achieve financial stability, an accomplishment not often attainable in other industries. Boyd makes clear that while many of these middle-class jobs have disappeared, decimating the population and hitting blacks hardest, Detroit survives thanks to the emergence of companies such as Shinola—which represent the strength of the Motor City and and its continued importance to the country. He also brings into focus the major figures who have defined and shaped Detroit, including William Lambert, the great abolitionist, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, Coleman Young, the city’s first black mayor, diva songstress Aretha Franklin, Malcolm X, and Ralphe Bunche, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a stunning eye for detail and passion for Detroit, Boyd celebrates the music, manufacturing, politics, and culture that make it an American original. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293333]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Author: Herb Boyd Narrator: James Shippy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric. Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not grasp their full significance at the time, this critical moment would be one of many he witnessed that would mold his political activism and exposed a city restless for change. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, in search of understanding why Detroit is a special place for black people. Boyd reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry. Well paying jobs on assembly lines allowed working class Black Detroiters to ascend to the middle class and achieve financial stability, an accomplishment not often attainable in other industries. Boyd makes clear that while many of these middle-class jobs have disappeared, decimating the population and hitting blacks hardest, Detroit survives thanks to the emergence of companies such as Shinola—which represent the strength of the Motor City and and its continued importance to the country. He also brings into focus the major figures who have defined and shaped Detroit, including William Lambert, the great abolitionist, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, Coleman Young, the city’s first black mayor, diva songstress Aretha Franklin, Malcolm X, and Ralphe Bunche, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. With a stunning eye for detail and passion for Detroit, Boyd celebrates the music, manufacturing, politics, and culture that make it an American original. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293142 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From Author: Edward Dolnick Narrator: Ben Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from. Edward Dolnick Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293142 thebookvoice.com 9:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From Author: Edward Dolnick Narrator: Ben Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From Author: Edward Dolnick Narrator: Ben Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293115 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293115]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion Author: Catriona Menzies-Pike Narrator: Olivia MacKenzie-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. 'Runner' was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, 'a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory,' was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, running away from.            As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial—running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to 'get the hell out of my race'—but also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running, and why any of us do. Catriona Menzies-Pike Tue, 23 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293115 thebookvoice.com 7:52:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293115]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion Author: Catriona Menzies-Pike Narrator: Olivia MacKenzie-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. 'Runner' was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, 'a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory,' was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, running away from.            As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial—running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to 'get the hell out of my race'—but also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running, and why any of us do. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293115]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Run: A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion Author: Catriona Menzies-Pike Narrator: Olivia MacKenzie-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An unlikely marathoner finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. 'Runner' was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, 'a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory,' was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for ten messy years, running away from.            As Catriona excavates her own past, she also grows curious about other women drawn to running. What she finds is a history of repression and denial—running was thought to endanger childbearing, and as late as 1967 the organizer of the Boston Marathon tried to drag a woman off the course, telling her to 'get the hell out of my race'—but also of incredible courage and achievement. As she brings to life the stories of pioneering athletes and analyzes the figure of the woman runner in pop culture, literature, and myth, she comes to the heart of why she's running, and why any of us do. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292806 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292806]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power Author: Thomas J. Wright Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great power competition is back, and the liberal order is in jeopardy. Russia and China are increasingly revisionist in their regions. The Middle East appears to be unraveling. And many Americans question why the United States ought to lead. What will great power competition look like in the decades ahead? Will the liberal world order survive? What impact will geopolitics have on globalization? And, what strategy should the United States pursue to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. In this book, Thomas Wright explains how major powers will compete fiercely even as they try to avoid war with each other. Wright outlines a new American strategy—responsible competition—to navigate these challenges and strengthen the liberal order. Thomas J. Wright Tue, 23 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292806 thebookvoice.com 8:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292806]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power Author: Thomas J. Wright Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great power competition is back, and the liberal order is in jeopardy. Russia and China are increasingly revisionist in their regions. The Middle East appears to be unraveling. And many Americans question why the United States ought to lead. What will great power competition look like in the decades ahead? Will the liberal world order survive? What impact will geopolitics have on globalization? And, what strategy should the United States pursue to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. In this book, Thomas Wright explains how major powers will compete fiercely even as they try to avoid war with each other. Wright outlines a new American strategy—responsible competition—to navigate these challenges and strengthen the liberal order. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292806]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power Author: Thomas J. Wright Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great power competition is back, and the liberal order is in jeopardy. Russia and China are increasingly revisionist in their regions. The Middle East appears to be unraveling. And many Americans question why the United States ought to lead. What will great power competition look like in the decades ahead? Will the liberal world order survive? What impact will geopolitics have on globalization? And, what strategy should the United States pursue to succeed in an increasingly competitive world. In this book, Thomas Wright explains how major powers will compete fiercely even as they try to avoid war with each other. Wright outlines a new American strategy—responsible competition—to navigate these challenges and strengthen the liberal order. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292788 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292788]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Marry an English Lord Author: Carol Mcd. Wallace, Gail Maccoll Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details—plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette—To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Carol Mcd. Wallace, Gail Maccoll Tue, 27 May 2014 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292788 thebookvoice.com 9:13:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292788]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Marry an English Lord Author: Carol Mcd. Wallace, Gail Maccoll Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details—plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette—To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292788]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Marry an English Lord Author: Carol Mcd. Wallace, Gail Maccoll Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 27, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details—plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette—To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292653 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292653]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria Author: Wendy Pearlman Narrator: Assaf Cohen, Susan Nezami, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government’s ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. Yet despite all the reporting, the video, and the wrenching photography, the stories of ordinary Syrians remain unheard, while the stories told about them have been distorted by broad brush dread and political expediency. This fierce and poignant collection changes that. Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East and Europe, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is a breathtaking mosaic of first-hand testimonials from the frontlines. Some of the testimonies are several pages long, eloquent narratives that could stand alone as short stories; others are only a few sentences, poetic and aphoristic. Together, they cohere into an unforgettable chronicle that is not only a testament to the power of storytelling but to the strength of those who face darkness with hope, courage, and moral conviction. Wendy Pearlman Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292653 thebookvoice.com 6:1:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292653]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria Author: Wendy Pearlman Narrator: Assaf Cohen, Susan Nezami, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government’s ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. Yet despite all the reporting, the video, and the wrenching photography, the stories of ordinary Syrians remain unheard, while the stories told about them have been distorted by broad brush dread and political expediency. This fierce and poignant collection changes that. Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East and Europe, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is a breathtaking mosaic of first-hand testimonials from the frontlines. Some of the testimonies are several pages long, eloquent narratives that could stand alone as short stories; others are only a few sentences, poetic and aphoristic. Together, they cohere into an unforgettable chronicle that is not only a testament to the power of storytelling but to the strength of those who face darkness with hope, courage, and moral conviction. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292653]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria Author: Wendy Pearlman Narrator: Assaf Cohen, Susan Nezami, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: June 6, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government’s ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. Yet despite all the reporting, the video, and the wrenching photography, the stories of ordinary Syrians remain unheard, while the stories told about them have been distorted by broad brush dread and political expediency. This fierce and poignant collection changes that. Based on interviews with hundreds of displaced Syrians conducted over four years across the Middle East and Europe, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled is a breathtaking mosaic of first-hand testimonials from the frontlines. Some of the testimonies are several pages long, eloquent narratives that could stand alone as short stories; others are only a few sentences, poetic and aphoristic. Together, they cohere into an unforgettable chronicle that is not only a testament to the power of storytelling but to the strength of those who face darkness with hope, courage, and moral conviction. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292644 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292644]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century Author: Timothy B. Shutt Narrator: Joel F. Recheimer, Timothy B. Shutt, Katherine Elkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 29, 2009 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Odyssey of the West series, a grand exploration of art, literature, revolutionary theories, and intellectual progress through the ages, concludes with a fascinating look at the twentieth century. Series editor and esteemed university professor Timothy B. Shutt is joined by contributing lecturers for a lively discussion of the major works and strains of thought that ushered in the modern age. A fitting capstone for this comprehensive series, this sixth and final installment imparts a learned understanding of the forces that shaped-and continue to shape-Western culture. Timothy B. Shutt Fri, 29 May 2009 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292644 thebookvoice.com 8:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292644]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century Author: Timothy B. Shutt Narrator: Joel F. Recheimer, Timothy B. Shutt, Katherine Elkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 29, 2009 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Odyssey of the West series, a grand exploration of art, literature, revolutionary theories, and intellectual progress through the ages, concludes with a fascinating look at the twentieth century. Series editor and esteemed university professor Timothy B. Shutt is joined by contributing lecturers for a lively discussion of the major works and strains of thought that ushered in the modern age. A fitting capstone for this comprehensive series, this sixth and final installment imparts a learned understanding of the forces that shaped-and continue to shape-Western culture. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292644]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey of the West VI: A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century Author: Timothy B. Shutt Narrator: Joel F. Recheimer, Timothy B. Shutt, Katherine Elkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 29, 2009 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Odyssey of the West series, a grand exploration of art, literature, revolutionary theories, and intellectual progress through the ages, concludes with a fascinating look at the twentieth century. Series editor and esteemed university professor Timothy B. Shutt is joined by contributing lecturers for a lively discussion of the major works and strains of thought that ushered in the modern age. A fitting capstone for this comprehensive series, this sixth and final installment imparts a learned understanding of the forces that shaped-and continue to shape-Western culture. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292603 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292603]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Author: Aaron Lansky Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' fellowship and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, Lansky recounts his efforts to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish-language books before they pass out of existence. Outwitting History follows Lansky's far-flung travels and features the engaging men and women he meets along the way. 'Lansky's account of salvaging books is both hilarious and moving, filled with Jewish humor... and touching accounts of what were once thriving Jewish communities in Europe.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review Aaron Lansky Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292603 thebookvoice.com 10:10:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292603]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Author: Aaron Lansky Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' fellowship and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, Lansky recounts his efforts to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish-language books before they pass out of existence. Outwitting History follows Lansky's far-flung travels and features the engaging men and women he meets along the way. 'Lansky's account of salvaging books is both hilarious and moving, filled with Jewish humor... and touching accounts of what were once thriving Jewish communities in Europe.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292603]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Author: Aaron Lansky Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' fellowship and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, Lansky recounts his efforts to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish-language books before they pass out of existence. Outwitting History follows Lansky's far-flung travels and features the engaging men and women he meets along the way. 'Lansky's account of salvaging books is both hilarious and moving, filled with Jewish humor... and touching accounts of what were once thriving Jewish communities in Europe.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292602 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292602]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England Author: Carolly Erickson Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 6, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out. Hoping to control the crisis, Parliament appoints the king's unpopular son Prince George IV as Regent or caretaker. But for the next nine years, this substitute ruler shocks the nation with his drunkenness, his mistresses, and his wanton spending. From seething mobs in the streets to Lucullan feasts in drawing rooms, historian Carolly Erickson vividly captures the nation in a troubled transition. With narrator Simon Prebble's dramatic performance, the splendor and intrigue of Regency England are as enthralling as the most entertaining novel. Carolly Erickson Fri, 06 May 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292602 thebookvoice.com 9:44:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292602]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England Author: Carolly Erickson Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 6, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out. Hoping to control the crisis, Parliament appoints the king's unpopular son Prince George IV as Regent or caretaker. But for the next nine years, this substitute ruler shocks the nation with his drunkenness, his mistresses, and his wanton spending. From seething mobs in the streets to Lucullan feasts in drawing rooms, historian Carolly Erickson vividly captures the nation in a troubled transition. With narrator Simon Prebble's dramatic performance, the splendor and intrigue of Regency England are as enthralling as the most entertaining novel. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292602]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England Author: Carolly Erickson Narrator: Simon Prebble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 6, 2011 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out. Hoping to control the crisis, Parliament appoints the king's unpopular son Prince George IV as Regent or caretaker. But for the next nine years, this substitute ruler shocks the nation with his drunkenness, his mistresses, and his wanton spending. From seething mobs in the streets to Lucullan feasts in drawing rooms, historian Carolly Erickson vividly captures the nation in a troubled transition. With narrator Simon Prebble's dramatic performance, the splendor and intrigue of Regency England are as enthralling as the most entertaining novel. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America Author: Rick Wartzman Narrator: Rick Wartzman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business Rick Wartzman Tue, 30 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501 thebookvoice.com 14:41:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America Author: Rick Wartzman Narrator: Rick Wartzman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292501]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America Author: Rick Wartzman Narrator: Rick Wartzman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers -- General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and Coca-Cola -- he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for providing their workers and retirees with an array of social benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years, Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing, outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways. Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in current interestA best business book of the year in economics, Strategy+Business https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292413 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292413]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirates Author: Matthew West Narrator: Harry Farthing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The thirty-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men—and even a few women—to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes revenge. The treasure taken in a single trip could net a captain many times the profit an average sailor might expect to gain over a lifetime. The Pirates provides an exciting glimpse into the characters, crimes, and legends created by the buccaneers. Matthew West Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292413 thebookvoice.com 5:19:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292413]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirates Author: Matthew West Narrator: Harry Farthing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The thirty-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men—and even a few women—to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes revenge. The treasure taken in a single trip could net a captain many times the profit an average sailor might expect to gain over a lifetime. The Pirates provides an exciting glimpse into the characters, crimes, and legends created by the buccaneers. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292413]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirates Author: Matthew West Narrator: Harry Farthing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The thirty-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early eighteenth century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men—and even a few women—to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes revenge. The treasure taken in a single trip could net a captain many times the profit an average sailor might expect to gain over a lifetime. The Pirates provides an exciting glimpse into the characters, crimes, and legends created by the buccaneers. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292257 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292257]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lou: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball Author: Lou Piniella, Bill Madden Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved New York Yankee legend looks back over his nearly fifty-year career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball. For nearly five decades, Lou Piniella has been a fixture in Major League Baseball, as an outfielder with the legendary New York Yankees of the 1970s, and as a manager for five teams in both the American and National leagues. With respected veteran sportswriter Bill Madden, Piniella now reflects on his storied career, offering fans a glimpse of life on the field, in the dugout, and inside the clubhouse. Piniella speaks from the heart about his teams and his players, offering a detailed, up-close portrait of the Bronx Zoo’s raucous personalities such as Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter, as well as his close friendship with Thurman Munson and his unusual relationship with George Steinbrenner. He also delves deep into his post-Yankee experiences, from winning a World Series for the controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Marge Schott, to transforming the perennial cellar-dwelling Seattle Mariners into one of the league’s best teams. Some of the game’s brightest stars are here: Ken Griffey Jr, Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez, Piniella’s supremely talented and controversial protégé. Throughout his time in the majors, Piniella has witnessed MLB grow into a multi-billion-dollar business. Piniella reflects on those changes, voicing his highly critical opinions on a range of controversial subjects, including steroids. Hilarious and uproarious, filled with eight pages of photos, Lou brings into focus a man whose deeply rooted passion for baseball has defined his life. Lou Piniella, Bill Madden Tue, 16 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292257 thebookvoice.com 10:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292257]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lou: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball Author: Lou Piniella, Bill Madden Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved New York Yankee legend looks back over his nearly fifty-year career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball. For nearly five decades, Lou Piniella has been a fixture in Major League Baseball, as an outfielder with the legendary New York Yankees of the 1970s, and as a manager for five teams in both the American and National leagues. With respected veteran sportswriter Bill Madden, Piniella now reflects on his storied career, offering fans a glimpse of life on the field, in the dugout, and inside the clubhouse. Piniella speaks from the heart about his teams and his players, offering a detailed, up-close portrait of the Bronx Zoo’s raucous personalities such as Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter, as well as his close friendship with Thurman Munson and his unusual relationship with George Steinbrenner. He also delves deep into his post-Yankee experiences, from winning a World Series for the controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Marge Schott, to transforming the perennial cellar-dwelling Seattle Mariners into one of the league’s best teams. Some of the game’s brightest stars are here: Ken Griffey Jr, Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez, Piniella’s supremely talented and controversial protégé. Throughout his time in the majors, Piniella has witnessed MLB grow into a multi-billion-dollar business. Piniella reflects on those changes, voicing his highly critical opinions on a range of controversial subjects, including steroids. Hilarious and uproarious, filled with eight pages of photos, Lou brings into focus a man whose deeply rooted passion for baseball has defined his life. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292257]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lou: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball Author: Lou Piniella, Bill Madden Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved New York Yankee legend looks back over his nearly fifty-year career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball. For nearly five decades, Lou Piniella has been a fixture in Major League Baseball, as an outfielder with the legendary New York Yankees of the 1970s, and as a manager for five teams in both the American and National leagues. With respected veteran sportswriter Bill Madden, Piniella now reflects on his storied career, offering fans a glimpse of life on the field, in the dugout, and inside the clubhouse. Piniella speaks from the heart about his teams and his players, offering a detailed, up-close portrait of the Bronx Zoo’s raucous personalities such as Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter, as well as his close friendship with Thurman Munson and his unusual relationship with George Steinbrenner. He also delves deep into his post-Yankee experiences, from winning a World Series for the controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds, Marge Schott, to transforming the perennial cellar-dwelling Seattle Mariners into one of the league’s best teams. Some of the game’s brightest stars are here: Ken Griffey Jr, Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez, Piniella’s supremely talented and controversial protégé. Throughout his time in the majors, Piniella has witnessed MLB grow into a multi-billion-dollar business. Piniella reflects on those changes, voicing his highly critical opinions on a range of controversial subjects, including steroids. Hilarious and uproarious, filled with eight pages of photos, Lou brings into focus a man whose deeply rooted passion for baseball has defined his life. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292052 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292052]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Author: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Lawrence Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11. Lawrence Wright Tue, 16 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292052 thebookvoice.com 16:32:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292052]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Author: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Lawrence Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292052]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Author: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Lawrence Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292047 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292047]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Author: Angela P. Dodson Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Following the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, this book documents the milestones in the hard-won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since. From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as photos, line art, charts, graphs, documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience. Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, photos, and drawings of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself. It is full of little-known facts. For instance: When the Constitutional Convention of the thirteen colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution!). Important for today's discussions, Remember the Ladies does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts. Angela P. Dodson Tue, 23 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292047 thebookvoice.com 9:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292047]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Author: Angela P. Dodson Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Following the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, this book documents the milestones in the hard-won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since. From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as photos, line art, charts, graphs, documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience. Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, photos, and drawings of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself. It is full of little-known facts. For instance: When the Constitutional Convention of the thirteen colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution!). Important for today's discussions, Remember the Ladies does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292047]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Author: Angela P. Dodson Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Following the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, this book documents the milestones in the hard-won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since. From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as photos, line art, charts, graphs, documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience. Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, letters, photos, and drawings of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself. It is full of little-known facts. For instance: When the Constitutional Convention of the thirteen colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution!). Important for today's discussions, Remember the Ladies does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292045 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292045]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Rapport Narrator: Neil Dickson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution. Mike Rapport Tue, 02 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292045 thebookvoice.com 15:30:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292045]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Rapport Narrator: Neil Dickson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292045]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Rapport Narrator: Neil Dickson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291942 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291942]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reformation: A History Author: Patrick Collinson Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 11, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, 'The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged.' This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John McDonough's presentation of the spiritual and the secular elements that led to religious reform will captivate listeners. Patrick Collinson Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291942 thebookvoice.com 7:21:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291942]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reformation: A History Author: Patrick Collinson Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 11, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, 'The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged.' This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John McDonough's presentation of the spiritual and the secular elements that led to religious reform will captivate listeners. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291942]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reformation: A History Author: Patrick Collinson Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 11, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Renowned scholar Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. He states, 'The Reformation (and Counter Reformation) was the blast furnace in which the modern state was forged.' This engaging work offers a concise overview of the ecumenical revolution of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Narrator John McDonough's presentation of the spiritual and the secular elements that led to religious reform will captivate listeners. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291824 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291824]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt: Travel Like an Egyptian Author: Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago? What sort of transportation did they use? For how long did they go? What destinations did they visit? For which purposes did they travel? Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as “tourism” or not? According to our current perceptions of tourism, if the Egyptians had tourism in ancient times, did they understand it as such? Which varieties of tourism did the ancient Egyptians have compared to what mankind has today? These and many more questions are answered in this ground-breaking book based on research, evidence, and artifacts by Egyptologist and Tourism expert Mohammed Ahmed. A fascinating exploration of hieroglyphs, ancient stories, language, art and more, and what they tell us about travel in ancient Egypt, while also informing our tourism experiences today. Indeed, we know that numerous aspects of the current global civilization derived from the ancient Egyptian civilization, such as writing, the scholarly calendar, medicine, architecture, festivals, chemistry, and other fields of life. The influence of the ancient Egyptian civilization on the modern world is clear. Climb aboard and tour Egypt with us - travel like an Egyptian! Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291824 thebookvoice.com 7:9:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291824]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt: Travel Like an Egyptian Author: Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago? What sort of transportation did they use? For how long did they go? What destinations did they visit? For which purposes did they travel? Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as “tourism” or not? According to our current perceptions of tourism, if the Egyptians had tourism in ancient times, did they understand it as such? Which varieties of tourism did the ancient Egyptians have compared to what mankind has today? These and many more questions are answered in this ground-breaking book based on research, evidence, and artifacts by Egyptologist and Tourism expert Mohammed Ahmed. A fascinating exploration of hieroglyphs, ancient stories, language, art and more, and what they tell us about travel in ancient Egypt, while also informing our tourism experiences today. Indeed, we know that numerous aspects of the current global civilization derived from the ancient Egyptian civilization, such as writing, the scholarly calendar, medicine, architecture, festivals, chemistry, and other fields of life. The influence of the ancient Egyptian civilization on the modern world is clear. Climb aboard and tour Egypt with us - travel like an Egyptian! Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291824]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt: Travel Like an Egyptian Author: Mohammed Yehia Zakaria Z. Ahmed Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago? What sort of transportation did they use? For how long did they go? What destinations did they visit? For which purposes did they travel? Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as “tourism” or not? According to our current perceptions of tourism, if the Egyptians had tourism in ancient times, did they understand it as such? Which varieties of tourism did the ancient Egyptians have compared to what mankind has today? These and many more questions are answered in this ground-breaking book based on research, evidence, and artifacts by Egyptologist and Tourism expert Mohammed Ahmed. A fascinating exploration of hieroglyphs, ancient stories, language, art and more, and what they tell us about travel in ancient Egypt, while also informing our tourism experiences today. Indeed, we know that numerous aspects of the current global civilization derived from the ancient Egyptian civilization, such as writing, the scholarly calendar, medicine, architecture, festivals, chemistry, and other fields of life. The influence of the ancient Egyptian civilization on the modern world is clear. Climb aboard and tour Egypt with us - travel like an Egyptian! https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291751 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291751]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination Author: Adam Lashinsky Narrator: Adam Lashinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO. Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. And even after taking Uber from the germ of an idea to a $69 billion global transportation behemoth, he still describes his company as a start-up. Like other Silicon Valley icons such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s always focused on the next disruptive innovation and the next world to conquer. Both Uber and Kalanick have acquired a reputation for being combative, relentless, and iron-fisted against competitors. They’ve inspired both admiration and loathing as they’ve flouted government regulators, thrown the taxi industry into a tailspin, and stirred controversy over possible exploitation of drivers. They’ve even reshaped the deeply ingrained consumer behavior of not accepting a ride from a stranger—against the childhood warnings from everyone’s parents. Wild Ride is the first truly inside look at Uber’s global empire. Veteran journalist Adam Lashinsky, the bestselling author of Inside Apple, traces the origins of Kalanick’s massive ambitions in his humble roots, and he explores Uber’s murky beginnings and the wild ride of its rapid growth and expansion into different industries. Lashinsky draws on exclusive, in-depth interviews with Kalanick and many other sources who share new details about Uber’s internal and external power struggles. He also examines its doomed venture into China and the furtive fight between Kalanick and his competitors at Google, Tesla, Lyft, and GM over self-driving cars. Lashinsky even got behind the wheel as an Uber driver himself to learn what it’s really like. Uber has made headlines thanks to its eye-popping valuations and swift expansion around the world. But this book is the first account of how Uber really became the giant it is today, and how it plans to conquer the future. Adam Lashinsky Tue, 23 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291751 thebookvoice.com 7:37:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291751]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination Author: Adam Lashinsky Narrator: Adam Lashinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO. Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. And even after taking Uber from the germ of an idea to a $69 billion global transportation behemoth, he still describes his company as a start-up. Like other Silicon Valley icons such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s always focused on the next disruptive innovation and the next world to conquer. Both Uber and Kalanick have acquired a reputation for being combative, relentless, and iron-fisted against competitors. They’ve inspired both admiration and loathing as they’ve flouted government regulators, thrown the taxi industry into a tailspin, and stirred controversy over possible exploitation of drivers. They’ve even reshaped the deeply ingrained consumer behavior of not accepting a ride from a stranger—against the childhood warnings from everyone’s parents. Wild Ride is the first truly inside look at Uber’s global empire. Veteran journalist Adam Lashinsky, the bestselling author of Inside Apple, traces the origins of Kalanick’s massive ambitions in his humble roots, and he explores Uber’s murky beginnings and the wild ride of its rapid growth and expansion into different industries. Lashinsky draws on exclusive, in-depth interviews with Kalanick and many other sources who share new details about Uber’s internal and external power struggles. He also examines its doomed venture into China and the furtive fight between Kalanick and his competitors at Google, Tesla, Lyft, and GM over self-driving cars. Lashinsky even got behind the wheel as an Uber driver himself to learn what it’s really like. Uber has made headlines thanks to its eye-popping valuations and swift expansion around the world. But this book is the first account of how Uber really became the giant it is today, and how it plans to conquer the future. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291751]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination Author: Adam Lashinsky Narrator: Adam Lashinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO. Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. And even after taking Uber from the germ of an idea to a $69 billion global transportation behemoth, he still describes his company as a start-up. Like other Silicon Valley icons such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s always focused on the next disruptive innovation and the next world to conquer. Both Uber and Kalanick have acquired a reputation for being combative, relentless, and iron-fisted against competitors. They’ve inspired both admiration and loathing as they’ve flouted government regulators, thrown the taxi industry into a tailspin, and stirred controversy over possible exploitation of drivers. They’ve even reshaped the deeply ingrained consumer behavior of not accepting a ride from a stranger—against the childhood warnings from everyone’s parents. Wild Ride is the first truly inside look at Uber’s global empire. Veteran journalist Adam Lashinsky, the bestselling author of Inside Apple, traces the origins of Kalanick’s massive ambitions in his humble roots, and he explores Uber’s murky beginnings and the wild ride of its rapid growth and expansion into different industries. Lashinsky draws on exclusive, in-depth interviews with Kalanick and many other sources who share new details about Uber’s internal and external power struggles. He also examines its doomed venture into China and the furtive fight between Kalanick and his competitors at Google, Tesla, Lyft, and GM over self-driving cars. Lashinsky even got behind the wheel as an Uber driver himself to learn what it’s really like. Uber has made headlines thanks to its eye-popping valuations and swift expansion around the world. But this book is the first account of how Uber really became the giant it is today, and how it plans to conquer the future. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291729 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291729]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Holocaust: A New History Author: Laurence Rees Narrator: Eric Vale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.   In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.   Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history. Laurence Rees Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291729 thebookvoice.com 19:30:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291729]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Holocaust: A New History Author: Laurence Rees Narrator: Eric Vale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.   In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.   Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291729]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Holocaust: A New History Author: Laurence Rees Narrator: Eric Vale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.   In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.   Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291713 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291713]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de Anne Frank Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Laura Prats Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias que vivió una niña judía recluida con su familia para huir del Holocausto, ahora en audiolibro. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista TIME. Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Anne, a la sazón una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único en su género sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. Anne murió en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morirá. «De entre los muchos que, a lo largo de la historia, han hablado en nombre de la dignidad humana en tiempos de sufrimiento y muerte, no hay ninguna voz que tenga más peso que la de Anne Frank.» John F. Kennedy Anne Frank Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291713 thebookvoice.com 12:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291713]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de Anne Frank Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Laura Prats Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias que vivió una niña judía recluida con su familia para huir del Holocausto, ahora en audiolibro. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista TIME. Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Anne, a la sazón una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único en su género sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. Anne murió en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morirá. «De entre los muchos que, a lo largo de la historia, han hablado en nombre de la dignidad humana en tiempos de sufrimiento y muerte, no hay ninguna voz que tenga más peso que la de Anne Frank.» John F. Kennedy Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291713]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diario de Anne Frank Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Laura Prats Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Un testimonio único sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias que vivió una niña judía recluida con su familia para huir del Holocausto, ahora en audiolibro. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista TIME. Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Anne, a la sazón una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio único en su género sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. Anne murió en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morirá. «De entre los muchos que, a lo largo de la historia, han hablado en nombre de la dignidad humana en tiempos de sufrimiento y muerte, no hay ninguna voz que tenga más peso que la de Anne Frank.» John F. Kennedy https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291709 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291709]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Anatomía de un instante Author: Javier Cercas Narrator: José Posada Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror. «Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero de 1981 mientras las balas de los golpistas zumbaban a su alrededor en el hemiciclo del Congreso de los Diputados y todos los demás parlamentarios -todos menos dos: el general Gutiérrez Mellado y Santiago Carrillo- buscaban refugio bajo sus escaños. Este libro es la crónica de ese gesto y la crónica de un golpe de estado y la crónica de unos años decisivos en la historia de España. Este libro es un libro imprescindible. Un libro único.» Javier Cercas Libro del año, Babelia Libro de no ficción del año, El Cultural Reseñas: «Una de las obras capitales de la literatura en lengua castellana de nuestra época.» Alberto Manguel «Una obra maestra de la narrativa europea del siglo XXI.» Jordi Gracia «Un hermoso y desde ahora imprescindible texto sobre el 23F (...) más de 400 páginas de lectura compulsiva.» Manuel Rodríguez Rivero «Un ensayo que se lee con la pasión de una novela.» Los libros de año El Periódico «El mejor libro del año, un estudio extraña e inquietantemente profundo del último intento de golpe de estado de España en la maravillosa prosa del autor, escueta, sencilla, sutil.» Felipe Fernández Armesto «Le felicito, le envidio malsanamente y me quito el sombrero que no llevo.» Sergi Pàmies «Un libro emocionante que reivindica la potencia de la narrativa para explicar el mundo.» Màrius Serra «Una rotunda defensa de la democracia.» J.A. Masoliver Ròdenas «Excepcional cruce de géneros narrativos.» Javier Pradera «Un libro necesario.» Félix Romeo «Inaugura otra época del nuevo periodismo, marcada por la mejor escritura y la exactitud en el dato.» Joaquín Estefanía «Esclarecedor, apasionante y asombroso.» Domingo Ródenas Javier Cercas Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291709 thebookvoice.com 14:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291709]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Anatomía de un instante Author: Javier Cercas Narrator: José Posada Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror. «Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero de 1981 mientras las balas de los golpistas zumbaban a su alrededor en el hemiciclo del Congreso de los Diputados y todos los demás parlamentarios -todos menos dos: el general Gutiérrez Mellado y Santiago Carrillo- buscaban refugio bajo sus escaños. Este libro es la crónica de ese gesto y la crónica de un golpe de estado y la crónica de unos años decisivos en la historia de España. Este libro es un libro imprescindible. Un libro único.» Javier Cercas Libro del año, Babelia Libro de no ficción del año, El Cultural Reseñas: «Una de las obras capitales de la literatura en lengua castellana de nuestra época.» Alberto Manguel «Una obra maestra de la narrativa europea del siglo XXI.» Jordi Gracia «Un hermoso y desde ahora imprescindible texto sobre el 23F (...) más de 400 páginas de lectura compulsiva.» Manuel Rodríguez Rivero «Un ensayo que se lee con la pasión de una novela.» Los libros de año El Periódico «El mejor libro del año, un estudio extraña e inquietantemente profundo del último intento de golpe de estado de España en la maravillosa prosa del autor, escueta, sencilla, sutil.» Felipe Fernández Armesto «Le felicito, le envidio malsanamente y me quito el sombrero que no llevo.» Sergi Pàmies «Un libro emocionante que reivindica la potencia de la narrativa para explicar el mundo.» Màrius Serra «Una rotunda defensa de la democracia.» J.A. Masoliver Ròdenas «Excepcional cruce de géneros narrativos.» Javier Pradera «Un libro necesario.» Félix Romeo «Inaugura otra época del nuevo periodismo, marcada por la mejor escritura y la exactitud en el dato.» Joaquín Estefanía «Esclarecedor, apasionante y asombroso.» Domingo Ródenas Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291709]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Anatomía de un instante Author: Javier Cercas Narrator: José Posada Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este relato vibrante, tenso y pormenorizado que empieza como una novela policíaca y acaba leyéndose como una novela de terror. «Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero de 1981 mientras las balas de los golpistas zumbaban a su alrededor en el hemiciclo del Congreso de los Diputados y todos los demás parlamentarios -todos menos dos: el general Gutiérrez Mellado y Santiago Carrillo- buscaban refugio bajo sus escaños. Este libro es la crónica de ese gesto y la crónica de un golpe de estado y la crónica de unos años decisivos en la historia de España. Este libro es un libro imprescindible. Un libro único.» Javier Cercas Libro del año, Babelia Libro de no ficción del año, El Cultural Reseñas: «Una de las obras capitales de la literatura en lengua castellana de nuestra época.» Alberto Manguel «Una obra maestra de la narrativa europea del siglo XXI.» Jordi Gracia «Un hermoso y desde ahora imprescindible texto sobre el 23F (...) más de 400 páginas de lectura compulsiva.» Manuel Rodríguez Rivero «Un ensayo que se lee con la pasión de una novela.» Los libros de año El Periódico «El mejor libro del año, un estudio extraña e inquietantemente profundo del último intento de golpe de estado de España en la maravillosa prosa del autor, escueta, sencilla, sutil.» Felipe Fernández Armesto «Le felicito, le envidio malsanamente y me quito el sombrero que no llevo.» Sergi Pàmies «Un libro emocionante que reivindica la potencia de la narrativa para explicar el mundo.» Màrius Serra «Una rotunda defensa de la democracia.» J.A. Masoliver Ròdenas «Excepcional cruce de géneros narrativos.» Javier Pradera «Un libro necesario.» Félix Romeo «Inaugura otra época del nuevo periodismo, marcada por la mejor escritura y la exactitud en el dato.» Joaquín Estefanía «Esclarecedor, apasionante y asombroso.» Domingo Ródenas https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291610 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Compassionate Soldier: Remarkable True Stories of Mercy, Heroism, and Honor from the Battlefield Author: Jerry Borrowman Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion, even knowing their actions could put their lives and liberty at risk. Included in this collection are the stories of Richard Kirkland, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who disobeyed orders and brought blankets and water to the wounded from both North and South during the Battle of Fredericksburg; Patrick Ferguson, a British soldier during the American Revolution who had the chance to kill George Washington, but refused to shoot a man in the back; and Oswald Böelcke, a German World War I flying ace who was one of the most influential tacticians of early air combat but was known for making sure the airmen he shot down made it to the ground alive. These inspirational stories illustrate that even in the midst of unspeakable horrors of war, acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, and humanity can prevail and, in doing so, expand our conventional thinking of honor and battlefield glory. Jerry Borrowman Tue, 02 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291610 thebookvoice.com 5:44:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Compassionate Soldier: Remarkable True Stories of Mercy, Heroism, and Honor from the Battlefield Author: Jerry Borrowman Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion, even knowing their actions could put their lives and liberty at risk. Included in this collection are the stories of Richard Kirkland, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who disobeyed orders and brought blankets and water to the wounded from both North and South during the Battle of Fredericksburg; Patrick Ferguson, a British soldier during the American Revolution who had the chance to kill George Washington, but refused to shoot a man in the back; and Oswald Böelcke, a German World War I flying ace who was one of the most influential tacticians of early air combat but was known for making sure the airmen he shot down made it to the ground alive. These inspirational stories illustrate that even in the midst of unspeakable horrors of war, acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, and humanity can prevail and, in doing so, expand our conventional thinking of honor and battlefield glory. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291610]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Compassionate Soldier: Remarkable True Stories of Mercy, Heroism, and Honor from the Battlefield Author: Jerry Borrowman Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion, even knowing their actions could put their lives and liberty at risk. Included in this collection are the stories of Richard Kirkland, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who disobeyed orders and brought blankets and water to the wounded from both North and South during the Battle of Fredericksburg; Patrick Ferguson, a British soldier during the American Revolution who had the chance to kill George Washington, but refused to shoot a man in the back; and Oswald Böelcke, a German World War I flying ace who was one of the most influential tacticians of early air combat but was known for making sure the airmen he shot down made it to the ground alive. These inspirational stories illustrate that even in the midst of unspeakable horrors of war, acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, and humanity can prevail and, in doing so, expand our conventional thinking of honor and battlefield glory. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291599 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291599]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South Author: John T. Edge Narrator: John T. Edge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.  Food was a battleground in the Civil Rights movement. Access to food and ownership of culinary tradition was a central part of the long march to racial equality. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS begins in 1955 as black cooks and maids fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and it concludes in 2015 as a Newer South came to be, enriched by the arrival of immigrants from Lebanon to Vietnam to all points in between.  Along the way, THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tracks many different evolutions of Southern identity --first in the 1970s, from the back-to-the-land movement that began in the Tennessee hills to the rise of fast and convenience foods modeled on Southern staples. Edge narrates the gentrification that gained traction in North Carolina and Louisiana restaurants of the 1980s and the artisanal renaissance that reconnected farmers and cooks in the 1990s and in the 00s. He profiles some of the most extraordinary and fascinating figures in Southern food, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Colonel Sanders, Edna Lewis, Paul Prudhomme, Craig Claiborne, Sean Brock, and many others.  Like many great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, masters ate the greens from the pot and set aside the left-over potlikker broth for their slaves, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient-rich. After slavery, potlikker sustained the working poor, black and white. In the rapidly gentrifying South of today, potlikker has taken on new meanings as chefs have reclaimed the dish.  Over the last two generations, wrenching changes have transformed the South. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of that change--and reveals how Southern food has become a shared culinary language for the nation. Music Copyright © 2012, Lee Bains III John T. Edge Tue, 16 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291599 thebookvoice.com 10:8:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291599]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South Author: John T. Edge Narrator: John T. Edge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.  Food was a battleground in the Civil Rights movement. Access to food and ownership of culinary tradition was a central part of the long march to racial equality. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS begins in 1955 as black cooks and maids fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and it concludes in 2015 as a Newer South came to be, enriched by the arrival of immigrants from Lebanon to Vietnam to all points in between.  Along the way, THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tracks many different evolutions of Southern identity --first in the 1970s, from the back-to-the-land movement that began in the Tennessee hills to the rise of fast and convenience foods modeled on Southern staples. Edge narrates the gentrification that gained traction in North Carolina and Louisiana restaurants of the 1980s and the artisanal renaissance that reconnected farmers and cooks in the 1990s and in the 00s. He profiles some of the most extraordinary and fascinating figures in Southern food, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Colonel Sanders, Edna Lewis, Paul Prudhomme, Craig Claiborne, Sean Brock, and many others.  Like many great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, masters ate the greens from the pot and set aside the left-over potlikker broth for their slaves, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient-rich. After slavery, potlikker sustained the working poor, black and white. In the rapidly gentrifying South of today, potlikker has taken on new meanings as chefs have reclaimed the dish.  Over the last two generations, wrenching changes have transformed the South. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of that change--and reveals how Southern food has become a shared culinary language for the nation. Music Copyright © 2012, Lee Bains III Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291599]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South Author: John T. Edge Narrator: John T. Edge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.  Food was a battleground in the Civil Rights movement. Access to food and ownership of culinary tradition was a central part of the long march to racial equality. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS begins in 1955 as black cooks and maids fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and it concludes in 2015 as a Newer South came to be, enriched by the arrival of immigrants from Lebanon to Vietnam to all points in between.  Along the way, THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tracks many different evolutions of Southern identity --first in the 1970s, from the back-to-the-land movement that began in the Tennessee hills to the rise of fast and convenience foods modeled on Southern staples. Edge narrates the gentrification that gained traction in North Carolina and Louisiana restaurants of the 1980s and the artisanal renaissance that reconnected farmers and cooks in the 1990s and in the 00s. He profiles some of the most extraordinary and fascinating figures in Southern food, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Colonel Sanders, Edna Lewis, Paul Prudhomme, Craig Claiborne, Sean Brock, and many others.  Like many great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, masters ate the greens from the pot and set aside the left-over potlikker broth for their slaves, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient-rich. After slavery, potlikker sustained the working poor, black and white. In the rapidly gentrifying South of today, potlikker has taken on new meanings as chefs have reclaimed the dish.  Over the last two generations, wrenching changes have transformed the South. THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of that change--and reveals how Southern food has become a shared culinary language for the nation. Music Copyright © 2012, Lee Bains III https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291511 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291511]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror Author: Edward Keyes Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Over the next two years, five more bodies of female students were uncovered around the area. In the wake of these murders, southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. But after multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect: an all-American boy studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University who wasn't all that he seemed. Edward Keyes Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291511 thebookvoice.com 15:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291511]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror Author: Edward Keyes Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Over the next two years, five more bodies of female students were uncovered around the area. In the wake of these murders, southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. But after multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect: an all-American boy studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University who wasn't all that he seemed. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291511]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror Author: Edward Keyes Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Over the next two years, five more bodies of female students were uncovered around the area. In the wake of these murders, southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. But after multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect: an all-American boy studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University who wasn't all that he seemed. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291280 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing Alone Around the World Author: Joshua Slocum Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joshua Slocum was the first man ever to sail around the world single-handedly. He completed his voyage in 1895, without radio and modern technology, when native pirates roamed the seas. It makes for an exciting tale-all 46,000 miles and three years of it. Joshua Slocum Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291280 thebookvoice.com 6:38:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing Alone Around the World Author: Joshua Slocum Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joshua Slocum was the first man ever to sail around the world single-handedly. He completed his voyage in 1895, without radio and modern technology, when native pirates roamed the seas. It makes for an exciting tale-all 46,000 miles and three years of it. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291280]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing Alone Around the World Author: Joshua Slocum Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Joshua Slocum was the first man ever to sail around the world single-handedly. He completed his voyage in 1895, without radio and modern technology, when native pirates roamed the seas. It makes for an exciting tale-all 46,000 miles and three years of it. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291238 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291238]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreign Leaders Series: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech Series Author: The Speech Resource Company Narrator: Robert Wikstrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Features a collection of some of the well-known speeches from leaders around the world. From presidents, prime ministers, czars, queens and kings, dramatic words that changed the course of history and inspired millions worldwide. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom. Mahatma Gandhi, Spiritual Message, 10/17/31 Winston Churchill, address to the US Congress, 12/26/41 Golda Meir, White House Reception, 9/25/69 Menachem Begin, “Camp David Accord,” 9/17/78Ferdinand Marcos, Washington, DC, reception, 9/16/82 Pope John Paul II, Cathedral of St. Mary, 9/10/87Benazir Bhutto, address to the US Congress, 6/7/89 Nelson Mandela, after release from prison, 2/11/90 Tony Blair, Joint Session of Congress, 7/17/03 Queen of Jordan Rania, Yale University, 9/22/09 Desmond Tutu, One Young World Summit, 9/1/11 Prince Charles, September 11th anniversary, 9/11/11 Angela Merkel, address to British Parliament, 2/27/14Dalai Lama, MacAlester College, 3/2/14 Benjamin Netanyahu, Joint Session of Congress, 3/3/15Pope Francis, Joint Session of Congress, 9/24/15 Vladimir Putin, United Nations General Assembly, 9/28/15 Malcolm Turnbull, Back to Business Lunch, 3/10/16 Brian Mulroney, address to NATO Canada, 6/20/16 Justin Trudeau, United Nations address, 9/20/16 The Speech Resource Company Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291238 thebookvoice.com 8:11:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291238]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreign Leaders Series: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech Series Author: The Speech Resource Company Narrator: Robert Wikstrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Features a collection of some of the well-known speeches from leaders around the world. From presidents, prime ministers, czars, queens and kings, dramatic words that changed the course of history and inspired millions worldwide. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom. Mahatma Gandhi, Spiritual Message, 10/17/31 Winston Churchill, address to the US Congress, 12/26/41 Golda Meir, White House Reception, 9/25/69 Menachem Begin, “Camp David Accord,” 9/17/78Ferdinand Marcos, Washington, DC, reception, 9/16/82 Pope John Paul II, Cathedral of St. Mary, 9/10/87Benazir Bhutto, address to the US Congress, 6/7/89 Nelson Mandela, after release from prison, 2/11/90 Tony Blair, Joint Session of Congress, 7/17/03 Queen of Jordan Rania, Yale University, 9/22/09 Desmond Tutu, One Young World Summit, 9/1/11 Prince Charles, September 11th anniversary, 9/11/11 Angela Merkel, address to British Parliament, 2/27/14Dalai Lama, MacAlester College, 3/2/14 Benjamin Netanyahu, Joint Session of Congress, 3/3/15Pope Francis, Joint Session of Congress, 9/24/15 Vladimir Putin, United Nations General Assembly, 9/28/15 Malcolm Turnbull, Back to Business Lunch, 3/10/16 Brian Mulroney, address to NATO Canada, 6/20/16 Justin Trudeau, United Nations address, 9/20/16 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291238]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreign Leaders Series: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech Series Author: The Speech Resource Company Narrator: Robert Wikstrom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Features a collection of some of the well-known speeches from leaders around the world. From presidents, prime ministers, czars, queens and kings, dramatic words that changed the course of history and inspired millions worldwide. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom. Mahatma Gandhi, Spiritual Message, 10/17/31 Winston Churchill, address to the US Congress, 12/26/41 Golda Meir, White House Reception, 9/25/69 Menachem Begin, “Camp David Accord,” 9/17/78Ferdinand Marcos, Washington, DC, reception, 9/16/82 Pope John Paul II, Cathedral of St. Mary, 9/10/87Benazir Bhutto, address to the US Congress, 6/7/89 Nelson Mandela, after release from prison, 2/11/90 Tony Blair, Joint Session of Congress, 7/17/03 Queen of Jordan Rania, Yale University, 9/22/09 Desmond Tutu, One Young World Summit, 9/1/11 Prince Charles, September 11th anniversary, 9/11/11 Angela Merkel, address to British Parliament, 2/27/14Dalai Lama, MacAlester College, 3/2/14 Benjamin Netanyahu, Joint Session of Congress, 3/3/15Pope Francis, Joint Session of Congress, 9/24/15 Vladimir Putin, United Nations General Assembly, 9/28/15 Malcolm Turnbull, Back to Business Lunch, 3/10/16 Brian Mulroney, address to NATO Canada, 6/20/16 Justin Trudeau, United Nations address, 9/20/16 https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291199 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291199]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI Author: David Grann Narrator: Danny Campbell, Ann Marie Lee, Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO ** ‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER ‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ KATE ATKINSON ‘A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West’ JOHN GRISHAM   From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations.  In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.   Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.    ‘David Grann has a razor-keen instinct for suspense’ LOUISE ERDRICH David Grann Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291199 thebookvoice.com 9:5:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291199]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI Author: David Grann Narrator: Danny Campbell, Ann Marie Lee, Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO ** ‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER ‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ KATE ATKINSON ‘A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West’ JOHN GRISHAM   From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations.  In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.   Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.    ‘David Grann has a razor-keen instinct for suspense’ LOUISE ERDRICH Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291199]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI Author: David Grann Narrator: Danny Campbell, Ann Marie Lee, Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 20, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO ** ‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER ‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ KATE ATKINSON ‘A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West’ JOHN GRISHAM   From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations.  In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.   Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.    ‘David Grann has a razor-keen instinct for suspense’ LOUISE ERDRICH https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291188 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291188]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with,' if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays! Thomas E. Ricks Tue, 23 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291188 thebookvoice.com 9:55:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291188]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with,' if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays! Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291188]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 23, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 16 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with,' if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift for the holidays! https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291162 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291162]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today. Rob Sheffield Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291162 thebookvoice.com 9:9:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291162]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291162]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World Author: Rob Sheffield Narrator: Rob Sheffield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290783 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290783]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Author: Penrose Halson Narrator: Jane Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life Penrose Halson Tue, 02 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290783 thebookvoice.com 8:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290783]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Author: Penrose Halson Narrator: Jane Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290783]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Author: Penrose Halson Narrator: Jane Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290679 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290679]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Discovery of New Worlds Author: M. B. Synge Narrator: Laura Caldwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of Peru. Along the way, passing through the Dark Ages, going on the Crusades, and exploring the unknown world with the brave men who had the courage to travel unknown seas. Also featured is the destruction of Pompeii and the invention of the Printing Press, along with many other interesting happenings of history during this time period. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) M. B. Synge Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290679 thebookvoice.com 5:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290679]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Discovery of New Worlds Author: M. B. Synge Narrator: Laura Caldwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of Peru. Along the way, passing through the Dark Ages, going on the Crusades, and exploring the unknown world with the brave men who had the courage to travel unknown seas. Also featured is the destruction of Pompeii and the invention of the Printing Press, along with many other interesting happenings of history during this time period. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290679]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Discovery of New Worlds Author: M. B. Synge Narrator: Laura Caldwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of Peru. Along the way, passing through the Dark Ages, going on the Crusades, and exploring the unknown world with the brave men who had the courage to travel unknown seas. Also featured is the destruction of Pompeii and the invention of the Printing Press, along with many other interesting happenings of history during this time period. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290389 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290389]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La muerte de Guernica Author: Paul Preston Narrator: Carlos Vicente Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: April 6, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras. La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad «abierta» prácticamente arrasada por completo durante un bombardeo. Fueron tres horas de bombas y ametrallamientos en vuelos rasantes, un atroz ataque, perpetrado en día de mercado, que más tarde fue objeto de una terrible campaña de manipulación. En La muerte de Guernica, el prestigioso historiador Paul Preston, el hispanista más importante de la actualidad, nos cuenta la historia de ese bombardeo, desde las tácticas de la Legión Cóndor y sus tratos con Franco hasta la obsesión de Mola y la impagable labor de periodistas como George Steer. El mejor ensayo disponible en formato audiolibro. Paul Preston Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290389 thebookvoice.com 1:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290389]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La muerte de Guernica Author: Paul Preston Narrator: Carlos Vicente Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: April 6, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras. La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad «abierta» prácticamente arrasada por completo durante un bombardeo. Fueron tres horas de bombas y ametrallamientos en vuelos rasantes, un atroz ataque, perpetrado en día de mercado, que más tarde fue objeto de una terrible campaña de manipulación. En La muerte de Guernica, el prestigioso historiador Paul Preston, el hispanista más importante de la actualidad, nos cuenta la historia de ese bombardeo, desde las tácticas de la Legión Cóndor y sus tratos con Franco hasta la obsesión de Mola y la impagable labor de periodistas como George Steer. El mejor ensayo disponible en formato audiolibro. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290389]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La muerte de Guernica Author: Paul Preston Narrator: Carlos Vicente Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: April 6, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Escucha este brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras. La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad «abierta» prácticamente arrasada por completo durante un bombardeo. Fueron tres horas de bombas y ametrallamientos en vuelos rasantes, un atroz ataque, perpetrado en día de mercado, que más tarde fue objeto de una terrible campaña de manipulación. En La muerte de Guernica, el prestigioso historiador Paul Preston, el hispanista más importante de la actualidad, nos cuenta la historia de ese bombardeo, desde las tácticas de la Legión Cóndor y sus tratos con Franco hasta la obsesión de Mola y la impagable labor de periodistas como George Steer. El mejor ensayo disponible en formato audiolibro. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290362 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290362]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite Author: Duff McDonald Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm. With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University occupies a unique place in the public’s imagination, but HBS has arguably eclipsed its parent in terms of its influence on modern society. A Harvard degree guarantees respect. An HBS degree is, as the New York Times proclaimed in 1978, ''the golden passport to life in the upper class.'' Those holding Harvard MBAs are near-guaranteed entrance into Western capitalism’s most powerful realm—the corner office. Most people have a vague knowledge of the power of the HBS network, but few understand the dynamics that have made HBS an indestructible and powerful force for almost a century. As McDonald explores these dynamics, he also reveals how, despite HBS’s enormous success, it has failed with respect to the stated goal of its founders: ''the multiplication of men who will handle their current business problems in socially constructive ways.'' While HBS graduates tend to be very good at whatever they do, that is rarely the doing of good. In addition to teasing out the essence of this exclusive, if not necessarily ''secret'' club, McDonald explores two important questions: Has the school failed at reaching the goals it set for itself? And is HBS therefore complicit in the moral failings of Western capitalism? At a time of pronounced economic disparity and political unrest, this hard-hitting yet fair portrait offers a much-needed look at an institution that has a profound influence on the shape of our society and all our lives. Duff McDonald Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290362 thebookvoice.com 21:37:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290362]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite Author: Duff McDonald Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm. With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University occupies a unique place in the public’s imagination, but HBS has arguably eclipsed its parent in terms of its influence on modern society. A Harvard degree guarantees respect. An HBS degree is, as the New York Times proclaimed in 1978, ''the golden passport to life in the upper class.'' Those holding Harvard MBAs are near-guaranteed entrance into Western capitalism’s most powerful realm—the corner office. Most people have a vague knowledge of the power of the HBS network, but few understand the dynamics that have made HBS an indestructible and powerful force for almost a century. As McDonald explores these dynamics, he also reveals how, despite HBS’s enormous success, it has failed with respect to the stated goal of its founders: ''the multiplication of men who will handle their current business problems in socially constructive ways.'' While HBS graduates tend to be very good at whatever they do, that is rarely the doing of good. In addition to teasing out the essence of this exclusive, if not necessarily ''secret'' club, McDonald explores two important questions: Has the school failed at reaching the goals it set for itself? And is HBS therefore complicit in the moral failings of Western capitalism? At a time of pronounced economic disparity and political unrest, this hard-hitting yet fair portrait offers a much-needed look at an institution that has a profound influence on the shape of our society and all our lives. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290362]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite Author: Duff McDonald Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm. With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University occupies a unique place in the public’s imagination, but HBS has arguably eclipsed its parent in terms of its influence on modern society. A Harvard degree guarantees respect. An HBS degree is, as the New York Times proclaimed in 1978, ''the golden passport to life in the upper class.'' Those holding Harvard MBAs are near-guaranteed entrance into Western capitalism’s most powerful realm—the corner office. Most people have a vague knowledge of the power of the HBS network, but few understand the dynamics that have made HBS an indestructible and powerful force for almost a century. As McDonald explores these dynamics, he also reveals how, despite HBS’s enormous success, it has failed with respect to the stated goal of its founders: ''the multiplication of men who will handle their current business problems in socially constructive ways.'' While HBS graduates tend to be very good at whatever they do, that is rarely the doing of good. In addition to teasing out the essence of this exclusive, if not necessarily ''secret'' club, McDonald explores two important questions: Has the school failed at reaching the goals it set for itself? And is HBS therefore complicit in the moral failings of Western capitalism? At a time of pronounced economic disparity and political unrest, this hard-hitting yet fair portrait offers a much-needed look at an institution that has a profound influence on the shape of our society and all our lives. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290307 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290307]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories from Xenophon—Excerpts Author: Xenophon Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Xenophon records the history of the Peloponnesian War beginning in 411 with the final years of the struggle between Athens and Sparta for mastery of Greece. His tales are portraits of democracy in crisis; of military dominance; of fratricidal strife; of the beginning of the slow, inexorable decline of the culture-that of Homer, and the Greek philosophers and tragedians-whose legacy serves as a foundation for the democratic values of the West. Xenophon Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290307 thebookvoice.com 4:14:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290307]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories from Xenophon—Excerpts Author: Xenophon Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Xenophon records the history of the Peloponnesian War beginning in 411 with the final years of the struggle between Athens and Sparta for mastery of Greece. His tales are portraits of democracy in crisis; of military dominance; of fratricidal strife; of the beginning of the slow, inexorable decline of the culture-that of Homer, and the Greek philosophers and tragedians-whose legacy serves as a foundation for the democratic values of the West. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290307]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stories from Xenophon—Excerpts Author: Xenophon Narrator: Nelson Runger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Xenophon records the history of the Peloponnesian War beginning in 411 with the final years of the struggle between Athens and Sparta for mastery of Greece. His tales are portraits of democracy in crisis; of military dominance; of fratricidal strife; of the beginning of the slow, inexorable decline of the culture-that of Homer, and the Greek philosophers and tragedians-whose legacy serves as a foundation for the democratic values of the West. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290122 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City Author: Drew Philp Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing” (Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come. Drew Philp Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290122 thebookvoice.com 8:54:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City Author: Drew Philp Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing” (Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290122]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City Author: Drew Philp Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing” (Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290120 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290120]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States Author: Benjamin C. Waterhouse Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity. The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the present. It explores the nation’s evolving economic, social, and political landscape by examining how different types of enterprising activities rose and fell, how new labor and production technologies supplanted old ones—and at what costs—and how Americans of all stripes responded to the tumultuous world of business. In particular, historian Benjamin Waterhouse highlights the changes in business practices, the development of different industries and sectors, and the complex relationship between business and national politics. From executives and bankers to farmers and sailors, from union leaders to politicians to slaves, business history is American history, and Waterhouse pays tribute to the unnamed millions who traded their labor (sometimes by choice, often not) or decided what products to consume (sometimes informed, often not). Their story includes those who fought against what they saw as an oppressive system of exploitation as well as those who defended free markets from any outside intervention. The Land of Enterprise is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today’s world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change. Benjamin C. Waterhouse Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290120 thebookvoice.com 7:41:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290120]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States Author: Benjamin C. Waterhouse Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity. The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the present. It explores the nation’s evolving economic, social, and political landscape by examining how different types of enterprising activities rose and fell, how new labor and production technologies supplanted old ones—and at what costs—and how Americans of all stripes responded to the tumultuous world of business. In particular, historian Benjamin Waterhouse highlights the changes in business practices, the development of different industries and sectors, and the complex relationship between business and national politics. From executives and bankers to farmers and sailors, from union leaders to politicians to slaves, business history is American history, and Waterhouse pays tribute to the unnamed millions who traded their labor (sometimes by choice, often not) or decided what products to consume (sometimes informed, often not). Their story includes those who fought against what they saw as an oppressive system of exploitation as well as those who defended free markets from any outside intervention. The Land of Enterprise is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today’s world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290120]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States Author: Benjamin C. Waterhouse Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity. The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the present. It explores the nation’s evolving economic, social, and political landscape by examining how different types of enterprising activities rose and fell, how new labor and production technologies supplanted old ones—and at what costs—and how Americans of all stripes responded to the tumultuous world of business. In particular, historian Benjamin Waterhouse highlights the changes in business practices, the development of different industries and sectors, and the complex relationship between business and national politics. From executives and bankers to farmers and sailors, from union leaders to politicians to slaves, business history is American history, and Waterhouse pays tribute to the unnamed millions who traded their labor (sometimes by choice, often not) or decided what products to consume (sometimes informed, often not). Their story includes those who fought against what they saw as an oppressive system of exploitation as well as those who defended free markets from any outside intervention. The Land of Enterprise is not only a comprehensive look into our past achievements, but offers clues as to how to confront the challenges of today’s world: globalization, income inequality, and technological change. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290117 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290117]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Spirit Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles. “Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and cherish—our unifying ideas and ideals” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Over the course of his distinguished career, McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following the bitter 2016 election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume that celebrates the important principles and characteristics that are particularly American. “The American Spirit is as inspirational as it is brilliant, as simple as it is sophisticated” (Buffalo News). McCullough reminds us of the core American values that define us, regardless of which region we live in, which political party we identify with, or our ethnic background. This is a book about America for all Americans that reminds us who we are and helps to guide us as we find our way forward. David McCullough Tue, 18 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290117 thebookvoice.com 4:14:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290117]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Spirit Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles. “Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and cherish—our unifying ideas and ideals” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Over the course of his distinguished career, McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following the bitter 2016 election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume that celebrates the important principles and characteristics that are particularly American. “The American Spirit is as inspirational as it is brilliant, as simple as it is sophisticated” (Buffalo News). McCullough reminds us of the core American values that define us, regardless of which region we live in, which political party we identify with, or our ethnic background. This is a book about America for all Americans that reminds us who we are and helps to guide us as we find our way forward. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290117]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Spirit Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles. “Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and cherish—our unifying ideas and ideals” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Over the course of his distinguished career, McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following the bitter 2016 election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume that celebrates the important principles and characteristics that are particularly American. “The American Spirit is as inspirational as it is brilliant, as simple as it is sophisticated” (Buffalo News). McCullough reminds us of the core American values that define us, regardless of which region we live in, which political party we identify with, or our ethnic background. This is a book about America for all Americans that reminds us who we are and helps to guide us as we find our way forward. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290064 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290064]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Author: Tom Reiss Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.  Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.  He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe.  His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino–a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust–is still in print today. But Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories.  He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity–until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal.  His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck–also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s–was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States.  Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer–until the Fascists discovered his “true” identity.  Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book–discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone–helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.  Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks.  Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject’s life.  Reiss’s quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle, to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds–of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists–that have also been forgotten.  The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century–of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism.  Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book. Tom Reiss Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290064 thebookvoice.com 15:58:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290064]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Author: Tom Reiss Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.  Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.  He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe.  His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino–a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust–is still in print today. But Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories.  He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity–until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal.  His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck–also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s–was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States.  Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer–until the Fascists discovered his “true” identity.  Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book–discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone–helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.  Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks.  Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject’s life.  Reiss’s quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle, to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds–of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists–that have also been forgotten.  The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century–of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism.  Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290064]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Author: Tom Reiss Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.  Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.  He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe.  His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino–a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust–is still in print today. But Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories.  He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity–until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal.  His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck–also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s–was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States.  Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer–until the Fascists discovered his “true” identity.  Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book–discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone–helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.  Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks.  Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject’s life.  Reiss’s quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle, to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds–of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists–that have also been forgotten.  The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century–of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism.  Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290048 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290048]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's Up to the Women Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this timeless account from Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady shares her advice for hardworking women as they make their mark on an ever-changing America. "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today. Eleanor Roosevelt Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290048 thebookvoice.com 5:13:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290048]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's Up to the Women Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this timeless account from Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady shares her advice for hardworking women as they make their mark on an ever-changing America. "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290048]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's Up to the Women Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this timeless account from Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady shares her advice for hardworking women as they make their mark on an ever-changing America. "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book." -- Jill Lepore, from the Introduction "Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part -- cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation that working women take time for themselves in order to fully enjoy time spent with their families, recipes for cheap but wholesome home-cooked meals, or America's obligation to women as they take a leading role in the new social order, many of the opinions expressed here are as fresh as if they were written today. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289841 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289841]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Author: Charlie English Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s  Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery”  tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city.  But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands—according to some, hundreds of thousands—of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda–linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. Charlie English Tue, 02 May 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289841 thebookvoice.com 13:56:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289841]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Author: Charlie English Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s  Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery”  tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city.  But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands—according to some, hundreds of thousands—of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda–linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289841]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past Author: Charlie English Narrator: Enn Reitel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s  Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name “Timbuktu” long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for “discovery”  tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city.  But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands—according to some, hundreds of thousands—of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda–linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289735 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289735]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Plantagenets Author: Thomas B. Costain Narrator: David Case Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds. It was an era of brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagance. Thomas B. Costain Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289735 thebookvoice.com 16:57:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289735]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Plantagenets Author: Thomas B. Costain Narrator: David Case Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds. It was an era of brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagance. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289735]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Plantagenets Author: Thomas B. Costain Narrator: David Case Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 6, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor. The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds. It was an era of brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagance. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289733 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289733]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. Since early 2007 a new military order has directed American strategy. Some top U.S. officials now in Iraq actually opposed the 2003 invasion, and almost all are severely critical of how the war was fought from then through 2006. At the core of the story is General David Petraeus, a military intellectual who has gathered around him an unprecedented number of officers with both combat experience and Ph.D.s. Underscoring his new and unorthodox approach, three of his key advisers are quirky foreigners—an Australian infantryman-turned- anthropologist, an antimilitary British woman who is an expert in the Middle East, and a Mennonite-educated Palestinian pacifist. The Gamble offers news-breaking account, revealing behind-the-scenes disagreements between top commanders. We learn that almost every single officer in the chain of command fought the surge. Many of Petraeus’s closest advisers went to Iraq extremely pessimistic, doubting that the surge would have any effect, and his own boss was so skeptical that he dispatched an admiral to Baghdad in the summer of 2007 to come up with a strategy to replace Petraeus’s. That same boss later flew to Iraq to try to talk Petraeus out of his planned congressional testimony. The Gamble examines the congressional hearings through the eyes of Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and their views of the questions posed by the 2008 presidential candidates. For Petraeus, prevailing in Iraq means extending the war. Thomas E. Ricks concludes that the war is likely to last another five to ten years—and that that outcome is a best case scenario. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that “the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered by us and by the world have not yet happened.” Thomas E. Ricks Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289733 thebookvoice.com 10:17:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289733]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. Since early 2007 a new military order has directed American strategy. Some top U.S. officials now in Iraq actually opposed the 2003 invasion, and almost all are severely critical of how the war was fought from then through 2006. At the core of the story is General David Petraeus, a military intellectual who has gathered around him an unprecedented number of officers with both combat experience and Ph.D.s. Underscoring his new and unorthodox approach, three of his key advisers are quirky foreigners—an Australian infantryman-turned- anthropologist, an antimilitary British woman who is an expert in the Middle East, and a Mennonite-educated Palestinian pacifist. The Gamble offers news-breaking account, revealing behind-the-scenes disagreements between top commanders. We learn that almost every single officer in the chain of command fought the surge. Many of Petraeus’s closest advisers went to Iraq extremely pessimistic, doubting that the surge would have any effect, and his own boss was so skeptical that he dispatched an admiral to Baghdad in the summer of 2007 to come up with a strategy to replace Petraeus’s. That same boss later flew to Iraq to try to talk Petraeus out of his planned congressional testimony. The Gamble examines the congressional hearings through the eyes of Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and their views of the questions posed by the 2008 presidential candidates. For Petraeus, prevailing in Iraq means extending the war. Thomas E. Ricks concludes that the war is likely to last another five to ten years—and that that outcome is a best case scenario. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that “the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered by us and by the world have not yet happened.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289733]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: James Lurie Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. Since early 2007 a new military order has directed American strategy. Some top U.S. officials now in Iraq actually opposed the 2003 invasion, and almost all are severely critical of how the war was fought from then through 2006. At the core of the story is General David Petraeus, a military intellectual who has gathered around him an unprecedented number of officers with both combat experience and Ph.D.s. Underscoring his new and unorthodox approach, three of his key advisers are quirky foreigners—an Australian infantryman-turned- anthropologist, an antimilitary British woman who is an expert in the Middle East, and a Mennonite-educated Palestinian pacifist. The Gamble offers news-breaking account, revealing behind-the-scenes disagreements between top commanders. We learn that almost every single officer in the chain of command fought the surge. Many of Petraeus’s closest advisers went to Iraq extremely pessimistic, doubting that the surge would have any effect, and his own boss was so skeptical that he dispatched an admiral to Baghdad in the summer of 2007 to come up with a strategy to replace Petraeus’s. That same boss later flew to Iraq to try to talk Petraeus out of his planned congressional testimony. The Gamble examines the congressional hearings through the eyes of Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and their views of the questions posed by the 2008 presidential candidates. For Petraeus, prevailing in Iraq means extending the war. Thomas E. Ricks concludes that the war is likely to last another five to ten years—and that that outcome is a best case scenario. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that “the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered by us and by the world have not yet happened.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289593 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289593]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Hampton Sides Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 27, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see. With a New Afterword Hampton Sides Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289593 thebookvoice.com 15:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289593]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Hampton Sides Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 27, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see. With a New Afterword Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289593]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Hampton Sides Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 27, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see. With a New Afterword https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289485 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289485]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Umbrellas and Their History Author: William Sangster Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica) William Sangster Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289485 thebookvoice.com 1:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289485]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Umbrellas and Their History Author: William Sangster Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica) Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289485]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Umbrellas and Their History Author: William Sangster Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica) https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289363 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289363]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Author: Agustín Fuentes Narrator: Agustín Fuentes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?   Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago, and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft. Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have separated us out from all other creatures. As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agustín Fuentes's resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readers—and spark all kinds of creativity. Agustín Fuentes Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289363 thebookvoice.com 10:27:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289363]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Author: Agustín Fuentes Narrator: Agustín Fuentes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?   Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago, and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft. Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have separated us out from all other creatures. As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agustín Fuentes's resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readers—and spark all kinds of creativity. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289363]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional Author: Agustín Fuentes Narrator: Agustín Fuentes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?   Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín Fuentes argues that your child's finger painting comes essentially from the same place as creativity in hunting and gathering millions of years ago, and throughout history in making war and peace, in intimate relationships, in shaping the planet, in our communities, and in all of art, religion, and even science. It requires imagination and collaboration. Every poet has her muse; every engineer, an architect; every politician, a constituency. The manner of the collaborations varies widely, but successful collaboration is inseparable from imagination, and it brought us everything from knives and hot meals to iPhones and interstellar spacecraft. Weaving fascinating stories of our ancient ancestors' creativity, Fuentes finds the patterns that match modern behavior in humans and animals. This key quality has propelled the evolutionary development of our bodies, minds, and cultures, both for good and for bad. It's not the drive to reproduce; nor competition for mates, or resources, or power; nor our propensity for caring for one another that have separated us out from all other creatures. As Fuentes concludes, to make something lasting and useful today you need to understand the nature of your collaboration with others, what imagination can and can't accomplish, and, finally, just how completely our creativity is responsible for the world we live in. Agustín Fuentes's resounding multimillion-year perspective will inspire readers—and spark all kinds of creativity. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289142 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong Author: Paul A. Offit Narrator: Greg Tremblay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps. Pandora’s Lab takes us from opium’s heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria. These are today’s sins of science—as deplorable as mistaken ideas from the past such as advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, explained by renowned author and speaker Paul A. Offit. Offit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using as case studies some of today’s most controversial creations: e-cigarettes, GMOs, and drug treatments for ADHD. For every “Aha!” moment that should have been an “Oh no,” this book is an engrossing account of how science has been misused disastrously—and how we can learn to use its power for good. Paul A. Offit Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289142 thebookvoice.com 7:52:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong Author: Paul A. Offit Narrator: Greg Tremblay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps. Pandora’s Lab takes us from opium’s heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria. These are today’s sins of science—as deplorable as mistaken ideas from the past such as advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, explained by renowned author and speaker Paul A. Offit. Offit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using as case studies some of today’s most controversial creations: e-cigarettes, GMOs, and drug treatments for ADHD. For every “Aha!” moment that should have been an “Oh no,” this book is an engrossing account of how science has been misused disastrously—and how we can learn to use its power for good. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289142]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong Author: Paul A. Offit Narrator: Greg Tremblay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps. Pandora’s Lab takes us from opium’s heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the United States; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria. These are today’s sins of science—as deplorable as mistaken ideas from the past such as advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, explained by renowned author and speaker Paul A. Offit. Offit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using as case studies some of today’s most controversial creations: e-cigarettes, GMOs, and drug treatments for ADHD. For every “Aha!” moment that should have been an “Oh no,” this book is an engrossing account of how science has been misused disastrously—and how we can learn to use its power for good. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289136 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289136]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition Author: Paul Watson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice―with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones―until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. Paul Watson Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289136 thebookvoice.com 12:23:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289136]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition Author: Paul Watson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice―with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones―until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289136]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition Author: Paul Watson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845―whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice―with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship’s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumors of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones―until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289135 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289135]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Author: Holly Tucker Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Appointed to conquer the “crime capital of the world,” the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light. The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic―not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly backstabbing world of the king’s court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris’ most illustrious churches and cathedrals. As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: Could Louis’ mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king. From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie’s compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker’s riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page. Holly Tucker Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289135 thebookvoice.com 9:7:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289135]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Author: Holly Tucker Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Appointed to conquer the “crime capital of the world,” the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light. The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic―not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly backstabbing world of the king’s court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris’ most illustrious churches and cathedrals. As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: Could Louis’ mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king. From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie’s compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker’s riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289135]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Author: Holly Tucker Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Appointed to conquer the “crime capital of the world,” the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light. The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic―not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly backstabbing world of the king’s court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris’ most illustrious churches and cathedrals. As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: Could Louis’ mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king. From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie’s compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker’s riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285384 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285384]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Gore Vidal, Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In 'Inventing a Nation', Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and others. We come to know these men, their opinions of each other, their worries about money and their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Gore Vidal Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285384 thebookvoice.com 5:14:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285384]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Gore Vidal, Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In 'Inventing a Nation', Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and others. We come to know these men, their opinions of each other, their worries about money and their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285384]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Gore Vidal, Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In 'Inventing a Nation', Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and others. We come to know these men, their opinions of each other, their worries about money and their concerns about creating a viable democracy. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285383 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285383]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insurgent Mexico Author: John Reed Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time. John Reed Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285383 thebookvoice.com 7:39:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285383]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insurgent Mexico Author: John Reed Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/285383]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insurgent Mexico Author: John Reed Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 27, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289614 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289614]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. Author: William Cohan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the 'Great Men' who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through the tumultuous history of this exalted and fascinating company.  Cohan deconstructs the explosive feuds between Felix Rohatyn and Steve Rattner, superstar investment bankers and pillars of New York society, and between the man who controlled Lazard, the inscrutable French billionaire Michel David-Weill, and his chosen successor, Bruce Wasserstein. Cohan follows Felix, the consummate adviser, as he reshapes corporate America in the 1970s and 1980s, saves New York City from bankruptcy, and positions himself in New York society and in Washington. Felix’s dreams are dashed after the arrival of Steve, a formidable and ambitious former newspaper reporter. By the mid-1990s, as Lazard neared its 150th anniversary, Steve and Felix were feuding openly.   The internal strife caused by their arguments could not be solved by the imperious Michel, whose manipulative tendencies served only to exacerbate the trouble within the firm. Increasingly desperate, Michel took the unprecedented step of relinquishing operational control of Lazard to one of the few Great Men still around, Bruce Wasserstein, then fresh from selling his own M&A boutique, for $1.4 billion.  Bruce’s take: more than $600 million. But it turned out Great Man Bruce had snookered Great Man Michel when the Frenchman was at his most vulnerable.  The LastTycoons is a tale of vaulting ambitions, whispered advice, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance. William Cohan Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289614 thebookvoice.com 32:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289614]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. Author: William Cohan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the 'Great Men' who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through the tumultuous history of this exalted and fascinating company.  Cohan deconstructs the explosive feuds between Felix Rohatyn and Steve Rattner, superstar investment bankers and pillars of New York society, and between the man who controlled Lazard, the inscrutable French billionaire Michel David-Weill, and his chosen successor, Bruce Wasserstein. Cohan follows Felix, the consummate adviser, as he reshapes corporate America in the 1970s and 1980s, saves New York City from bankruptcy, and positions himself in New York society and in Washington. Felix’s dreams are dashed after the arrival of Steve, a formidable and ambitious former newspaper reporter. By the mid-1990s, as Lazard neared its 150th anniversary, Steve and Felix were feuding openly.   The internal strife caused by their arguments could not be solved by the imperious Michel, whose manipulative tendencies served only to exacerbate the trouble within the firm. Increasingly desperate, Michel took the unprecedented step of relinquishing operational control of Lazard to one of the few Great Men still around, Bruce Wasserstein, then fresh from selling his own M&A boutique, for $1.4 billion.  Bruce’s take: more than $600 million. But it turned out Great Man Bruce had snookered Great Man Michel when the Frenchman was at his most vulnerable.  The LastTycoons is a tale of vaulting ambitions, whispered advice, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289614]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. Author: William Cohan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the 'Great Men' who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker, takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazard and presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through the tumultuous history of this exalted and fascinating company.  Cohan deconstructs the explosive feuds between Felix Rohatyn and Steve Rattner, superstar investment bankers and pillars of New York society, and between the man who controlled Lazard, the inscrutable French billionaire Michel David-Weill, and his chosen successor, Bruce Wasserstein. Cohan follows Felix, the consummate adviser, as he reshapes corporate America in the 1970s and 1980s, saves New York City from bankruptcy, and positions himself in New York society and in Washington. Felix’s dreams are dashed after the arrival of Steve, a formidable and ambitious former newspaper reporter. By the mid-1990s, as Lazard neared its 150th anniversary, Steve and Felix were feuding openly.   The internal strife caused by their arguments could not be solved by the imperious Michel, whose manipulative tendencies served only to exacerbate the trouble within the firm. Increasingly desperate, Michel took the unprecedented step of relinquishing operational control of Lazard to one of the few Great Men still around, Bruce Wasserstein, then fresh from selling his own M&A boutique, for $1.4 billion.  Bruce’s take: more than $600 million. But it turned out Great Man Bruce had snookered Great Man Michel when the Frenchman was at his most vulnerable.  The LastTycoons is a tale of vaulting ambitions, whispered advice, worldly mistresses, fabulous art collections, and enormous wealth—a story of high drama in the world of high finance. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284775 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284775]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: February 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 15 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. Timothy Snyder Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284775 thebookvoice.com 1:47:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284775]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: February 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 15 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284775]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 47 minutes Release date: February 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 83 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 15 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284750 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284750]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so. Timothy Snyder Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284750 thebookvoice.com 1:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284750]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284750]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289025 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289025]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Game: A History of Chess Author: David Shenk Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful educational tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society including military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, literature, and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by different popes, rabbis, and imams. In his wide-ranging and ever fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the new aesthetic of modernism in 20th century art, to its 21st century importance to the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may for individuals be what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter. David Shenk Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289025 thebookvoice.com 8:4:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289025]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Game: A History of Chess Author: David Shenk Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful educational tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society including military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, literature, and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by different popes, rabbis, and imams. In his wide-ranging and ever fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the new aesthetic of modernism in 20th century art, to its 21st century importance to the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may for individuals be what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289025]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Immortal Game: A History of Chess Author: David Shenk Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 5, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its thirty-two figurative pieces, moving about its sixty-four black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful educational tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society including military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, literature, and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by different popes, rabbis, and imams. In his wide-ranging and ever fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the new aesthetic of modernism in 20th century art, to its 21st century importance to the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may for individuals be what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345138 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345138]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Author: Candice Millard Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Candice Millard Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345138 thebookvoice.com 12:18:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345138]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Author: Candice Millard Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345138]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Author: Candice Millard Narrator: Paul Michael Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284552 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284552]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 Author: Nicholas Reynolds Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II. While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been previously understood. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway’s life—when he worked closely with both the American OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and the Soviet NKVD, the USSR’s forerunner to the KGB to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Reynolds dig deep into Hemingway’s involvement in World War II, from his recruitment by both the Americans and the Soviets—who valued Hemingway for his journalistic skills and access to sources—through his key role in gaining tactical intelligence for the Allies during the liberation of Paris, to his later doubts about communist ideology and his undercover work in Cuba. As he examines the links between his work as a spy and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway’s wartime experiences shook his faith in literature and contributed to the writer’s block that plagued him for much of the final two decades of his life. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences also informed one of Hemingway’s greatest works—The Old Man and the Sea—the final novel published during his lifetime. A unique portrait as fast-paced and exciting as the best espionage thrillers, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy illuminates a hidden side of a revered artist and is a thrilling addition to the annals of World War II. Nicholas Reynolds Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284552 thebookvoice.com 9:15:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284552]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 Author: Nicholas Reynolds Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II. While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been previously understood. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway’s life—when he worked closely with both the American OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and the Soviet NKVD, the USSR’s forerunner to the KGB to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Reynolds dig deep into Hemingway’s involvement in World War II, from his recruitment by both the Americans and the Soviets—who valued Hemingway for his journalistic skills and access to sources—through his key role in gaining tactical intelligence for the Allies during the liberation of Paris, to his later doubts about communist ideology and his undercover work in Cuba. As he examines the links between his work as a spy and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway’s wartime experiences shook his faith in literature and contributed to the writer’s block that plagued him for much of the final two decades of his life. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences also informed one of Hemingway’s greatest works—The Old Man and the Sea—the final novel published during his lifetime. A unique portrait as fast-paced and exciting as the best espionage thrillers, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy illuminates a hidden side of a revered artist and is a thrilling addition to the annals of World War II. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284552]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 Author: Nicholas Reynolds Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II. While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime military intelligence expert, began to discover tantalizing clues that suggested Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in the Second World War was much more complex and dangerous than has been previously understood. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy brings to light for the first time this riveting secret side of Hemingway’s life—when he worked closely with both the American OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and the Soviet NKVD, the USSR’s forerunner to the KGB to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Reynolds dig deep into Hemingway’s involvement in World War II, from his recruitment by both the Americans and the Soviets—who valued Hemingway for his journalistic skills and access to sources—through his key role in gaining tactical intelligence for the Allies during the liberation of Paris, to his later doubts about communist ideology and his undercover work in Cuba. As he examines the links between his work as a spy and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway’s wartime experiences shook his faith in literature and contributed to the writer’s block that plagued him for much of the final two decades of his life. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences also informed one of Hemingway’s greatest works—The Old Man and the Sea—the final novel published during his lifetime. A unique portrait as fast-paced and exciting as the best espionage thrillers, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy illuminates a hidden side of a revered artist and is a thrilling addition to the annals of World War II. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289630 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289630]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Google Story Author: Mark Malseed, David A. Vise Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 29, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates. THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL." Mark Malseed, David A. Vise Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289630 thebookvoice.com 10:27:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289630]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Google Story Author: Mark Malseed, David A. Vise Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 29, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates. THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL." Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289630]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Google Story Author: Mark Malseed, David A. Vise Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 29, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: "Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates. THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL." https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284318 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284318]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil Author: Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman Narrator: Tony Call Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 1, 2005 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now. Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert, Lightning Out of Lebanon is a chilling and essential addition to our understanding of the external and internal threats to America. In disturbing detail, it portrays the degree to which Hezbollah has infiltrated this country and the extent to which it intends to do us harm. Formed in Lebanon by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is fueled by hatred of Israel and the United States. Its 1983 truck-bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 soldiers–the largest peacetime loss ever for the U.S. military–and caused President Reagan to withdraw all troops from Lebanon. Since then, among other atrocities, Hezbollah has murdered Americans at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon and the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia; tortured and killed the CIA station chief in Beirut; held organizational meetings with top members of al Qaeda–including Osama bin Laden–and established sleeper cells in the United States and Canada. Lightning Out of Lebanon reveals how, starting in 1982, a cunning and deadly Hezbollah terrorist named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud operated a cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the radar of American intelligence. The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account. Yet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah. Using their exclusive sources in the Middle East and inside the U.S. counterterrorism establishment, the authors of Lightning Out of Lebanon imagine the deadly future of Hezbollah and posit how best to combat the group which top American counterintelligence officials and Senator Bob Graham, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have called “the A Team of terrorism.” Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284318 thebookvoice.com 2:17:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284318]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil Author: Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman Narrator: Tony Call Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 1, 2005 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now. Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert, Lightning Out of Lebanon is a chilling and essential addition to our understanding of the external and internal threats to America. In disturbing detail, it portrays the degree to which Hezbollah has infiltrated this country and the extent to which it intends to do us harm. Formed in Lebanon by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is fueled by hatred of Israel and the United States. Its 1983 truck-bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 soldiers–the largest peacetime loss ever for the U.S. military–and caused President Reagan to withdraw all troops from Lebanon. Since then, among other atrocities, Hezbollah has murdered Americans at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon and the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia; tortured and killed the CIA station chief in Beirut; held organizational meetings with top members of al Qaeda–including Osama bin Laden–and established sleeper cells in the United States and Canada. Lightning Out of Lebanon reveals how, starting in 1982, a cunning and deadly Hezbollah terrorist named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud operated a cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the radar of American intelligence. The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account. Yet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah. Using their exclusive sources in the Middle East and inside the U.S. counterterrorism establishment, the authors of Lightning Out of Lebanon imagine the deadly future of Hezbollah and posit how best to combat the group which top American counterintelligence officials and Senator Bob Graham, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have called “the A Team of terrorism.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284318]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil Author: Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman Narrator: Tony Call Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 1, 2005 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now. Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert, Lightning Out of Lebanon is a chilling and essential addition to our understanding of the external and internal threats to America. In disturbing detail, it portrays the degree to which Hezbollah has infiltrated this country and the extent to which it intends to do us harm. Formed in Lebanon by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Hezbollah is fueled by hatred of Israel and the United States. Its 1983 truck-bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 soldiers–the largest peacetime loss ever for the U.S. military–and caused President Reagan to withdraw all troops from Lebanon. Since then, among other atrocities, Hezbollah has murdered Americans at the U.S. embassy in Lebanon and the Khobar Towers U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia; tortured and killed the CIA station chief in Beirut; held organizational meetings with top members of al Qaeda–including Osama bin Laden–and established sleeper cells in the United States and Canada. Lightning Out of Lebanon reveals how, starting in 1982, a cunning and deadly Hezbollah terrorist named Mohammed Youssef Hammoud operated a cell in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the radar of American intelligence. The story of how FBI special agent Rick Schwein captured him in 2002 is a brilliantly researched and written account. Yet the past is only prologue in the unsettling odyssey of Hezbollah. Using their exclusive sources in the Middle East and inside the U.S. counterterrorism establishment, the authors of Lightning Out of Lebanon imagine the deadly future of Hezbollah and posit how best to combat the group which top American counterintelligence officials and Senator Bob Graham, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have called “the A Team of terrorism.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284088 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284088]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 514 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 61 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future. Yuval Noah Harari Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284088 thebookvoice.com 14:54:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284088]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 514 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 61 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284088]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 514 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 61 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda. What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus. With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283977 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283977]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Author: Jonathan Harr Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.  An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances. Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eighty of his works are in existence today. Many others–no one knows the precise number–have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy. Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ–its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer working in Ireland, that she finally manages to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle. Praise for The Lost Painting “Jonathan Harr has gone to the trouble of writing what will probably be a bestseller . . . rich and wonderful. . . . In truth, the book reads better than a thriller. . . . If you're a sucker for Rome, and for dusk . . . [you'll] enjoy Harr's more clearly reported details about life in the city.”—The New York Times Book Review “Jonathan Harr has taken the story of the lost painting, and woven from it a deeply moving narrative about history, art and taste—and about the greed, envy, covetousness and professional jealousy of people who fall prey to obsession. It is as perfect a work of narrative nonfiction as you could ever hope to read.”—The Economist Jonathan Harr Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283977 thebookvoice.com 6:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283977]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Author: Jonathan Harr Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.  An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances. Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eighty of his works are in existence today. Many others–no one knows the precise number–have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy. Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ–its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer working in Ireland, that she finally manages to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle. Praise for The Lost Painting “Jonathan Harr has gone to the trouble of writing what will probably be a bestseller . . . rich and wonderful. . . . In truth, the book reads better than a thriller. . . . If you're a sucker for Rome, and for dusk . . . [you'll] enjoy Harr's more clearly reported details about life in the city.”—The New York Times Book Review “Jonathan Harr has taken the story of the lost painting, and woven from it a deeply moving narrative about history, art and taste—and about the greed, envy, covetousness and professional jealousy of people who fall prey to obsession. It is as perfect a work of narrative nonfiction as you could ever hope to read.”—The Economist Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283977]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Author: Jonathan Harr Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 25, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story.  An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity to fame and wealth, but success didn’t alter his violent temperament. His rage finally led him to commit murder, forcing him to flee Rome a hunted man. He died young, alone, and under strange circumstances. Caravaggio scholars estimate that between sixty and eighty of his works are in existence today. Many others–no one knows the precise number–have been lost to time. Somewhere, surely, a masterpiece lies forgotten in a storeroom, or in a small parish church, or hanging above a fireplace, mistaken for a mere copy. Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ–its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer working in Ireland, that she finally manages to assemble all the pieces of the puzzle. Praise for The Lost Painting “Jonathan Harr has gone to the trouble of writing what will probably be a bestseller . . . rich and wonderful. . . . In truth, the book reads better than a thriller. . . . If you're a sucker for Rome, and for dusk . . . [you'll] enjoy Harr's more clearly reported details about life in the city.”—The New York Times Book Review “Jonathan Harr has taken the story of the lost painting, and woven from it a deeply moving narrative about history, art and taste—and about the greed, envy, covetousness and professional jealousy of people who fall prey to obsession. It is as perfect a work of narrative nonfiction as you could ever hope to read.”—The Economist https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283955 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283955]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Dick Estell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review “Lively and relevant.” —USA Today   Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more. Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of “hidden history” about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War is the only audiobook you’ll ever need on “the war that never ended.” Kenneth C. Davis Tue, 03 May 2011 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283955 thebookvoice.com 16:49:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283955]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Dick Estell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review “Lively and relevant.” —USA Today   Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more. Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of “hidden history” about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War is the only audiobook you’ll ever need on “the war that never ended.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283955]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Dick Estell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 3, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review “Lively and relevant.” —USA Today   Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more. Drawing on moving eyewitness accounts, Davis includes a wealth of “hidden history” about the roles played by women and African Americans before and during the war, along with lesser-known facts that will enthrall even learned Civil War buffs. Vivid, informative, and hugely entertaining, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War is the only audiobook you’ll ever need on “the war that never ended.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283926 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283926]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Author: Guy Laron Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. Guy Laron Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283926 thebookvoice.com 15:29:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283926]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Author: Guy Laron Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283926]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East Author: Guy Laron Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 21, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283916 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283916]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon Author: Neil Sheehan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever’s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union. Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russians–intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitler’s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program. The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it. Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America. Neil Sheehan Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283916 thebookvoice.com 19:0:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283916]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon Author: Neil Sheehan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever’s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union. Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russians–intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitler’s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program. The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it. Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283916]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon Author: Neil Sheehan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 22, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever’s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union. Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russians–intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitler’s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program. The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it. Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283869 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I Author: Lynn Dumenil Narrator: Susan Hanfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American “new woman,” Lynn Dumenil examines World War I’s surprising impact on women and, in turn, women’s impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation’s history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as home-front volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as “the second line of defense.” But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era. Lynn Dumenil Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283869 thebookvoice.com 14:49:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I Author: Lynn Dumenil Narrator: Susan Hanfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American “new woman,” Lynn Dumenil examines World War I’s surprising impact on women and, in turn, women’s impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation’s history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as home-front volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as “the second line of defense.” But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283869]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I Author: Lynn Dumenil Narrator: Susan Hanfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 13, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American “new woman,” Lynn Dumenil examines World War I’s surprising impact on women and, in turn, women’s impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation’s history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as home-front volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as “the second line of defense.” But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283531 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283531]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama Author: Eric Braeden Narrator: Eric Braeden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past thirty-five years. For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television’s number-one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they’ve come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden. I'll Be Damned is his story—a startling and uplifting true tale of war, deprivation, determination, fame, and social commitment that spans from Nazi Germany to modern Hollywood. Braeden’s journey from a hospital basement in Kiel to the soundstages of Los Angeles has taught him more about joy, heartbreak, fear, dignity, loss, love, loneliness, exhilaration, courage, persecution, and profound responsibility to the global community than he could have hoped to learn in several lifetimes. Growing up in the years after Germany’s defeat, Braeden knew very little about the atrocities of his parents’ generation, until he arrived in America as a teenager—a discovery that horrified and transformed him. Trying to redress the wrongs of his homeland, he has dedicated his life to humanitarian work—even forming the German American Culture Society—working for decades to show the world that what we share as humans is far more important than what separates us from one another. Told with openness, candor, humor, heart, and occasional raw vulnerability, I’ll Be Damned reveals a man committed to making the world a better, more loving place. I’ll Be Damned will be a treasured keepsake for Y&R fans, and is an inspiring testament to the goodness within us all. Eric Braeden Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283531 thebookvoice.com 7:22:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283531]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama Author: Eric Braeden Narrator: Eric Braeden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past thirty-five years. For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television’s number-one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they’ve come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden. I'll Be Damned is his story—a startling and uplifting true tale of war, deprivation, determination, fame, and social commitment that spans from Nazi Germany to modern Hollywood. Braeden’s journey from a hospital basement in Kiel to the soundstages of Los Angeles has taught him more about joy, heartbreak, fear, dignity, loss, love, loneliness, exhilaration, courage, persecution, and profound responsibility to the global community than he could have hoped to learn in several lifetimes. Growing up in the years after Germany’s defeat, Braeden knew very little about the atrocities of his parents’ generation, until he arrived in America as a teenager—a discovery that horrified and transformed him. Trying to redress the wrongs of his homeland, he has dedicated his life to humanitarian work—even forming the German American Culture Society—working for decades to show the world that what we share as humans is far more important than what separates us from one another. Told with openness, candor, humor, heart, and occasional raw vulnerability, I’ll Be Damned reveals a man committed to making the world a better, more loving place. I’ll Be Damned will be a treasured keepsake for Y&R fans, and is an inspiring testament to the goodness within us all. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283531]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama Author: Eric Braeden Narrator: Eric Braeden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past thirty-five years. For nearly four decades, fans have welcomed the star of television’s number-one daytime show, The Young and the Restless, into their living rooms. While they’ve come to know and love the suave Victor Newman, few truly know the man behind the character, the supremely talented Eric Braeden. I'll Be Damned is his story—a startling and uplifting true tale of war, deprivation, determination, fame, and social commitment that spans from Nazi Germany to modern Hollywood. Braeden’s journey from a hospital basement in Kiel to the soundstages of Los Angeles has taught him more about joy, heartbreak, fear, dignity, loss, love, loneliness, exhilaration, courage, persecution, and profound responsibility to the global community than he could have hoped to learn in several lifetimes. Growing up in the years after Germany’s defeat, Braeden knew very little about the atrocities of his parents’ generation, until he arrived in America as a teenager—a discovery that horrified and transformed him. Trying to redress the wrongs of his homeland, he has dedicated his life to humanitarian work—even forming the German American Culture Society—working for decades to show the world that what we share as humans is far more important than what separates us from one another. Told with openness, candor, humor, heart, and occasional raw vulnerability, I’ll Be Damned reveals a man committed to making the world a better, more loving place. I’ll Be Damned will be a treasured keepsake for Y&R fans, and is an inspiring testament to the goodness within us all. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283181 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Controversy, and Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975 Author: William Manchester Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The writing of Death of a President, William Manchester’s award-winning account of President Kennedy’s assassination, is the topic of the title essay in this collection, as it was a controversy like few others, pitting one of the most prominent historians of the day against Jackie Kennedy, the most famous, and private, widow in the world. The seventy-six page essay provides an insider’s account of the struggle to see the book published. The rest of this sweeping collection examines the time period between World War II and the Vietnam era. It is an account that is both exactingly accurate and a pleasure to hear. William Manchester Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283181 thebookvoice.com 16:50:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Controversy, and Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975 Author: William Manchester Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The writing of Death of a President, William Manchester’s award-winning account of President Kennedy’s assassination, is the topic of the title essay in this collection, as it was a controversy like few others, pitting one of the most prominent historians of the day against Jackie Kennedy, the most famous, and private, widow in the world. The seventy-six page essay provides an insider’s account of the struggle to see the book published. The rest of this sweeping collection examines the time period between World War II and the Vietnam era. It is an account that is both exactingly accurate and a pleasure to hear. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283181]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Controversy, and Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975 Author: William Manchester Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The writing of Death of a President, William Manchester’s award-winning account of President Kennedy’s assassination, is the topic of the title essay in this collection, as it was a controversy like few others, pitting one of the most prominent historians of the day against Jackie Kennedy, the most famous, and private, widow in the world. The seventy-six page essay provides an insider’s account of the struggle to see the book published. The rest of this sweeping collection examines the time period between World War II and the Vietnam era. It is an account that is both exactingly accurate and a pleasure to hear. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283029 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283029]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mil y una muertes Author: Sergio Ramirez Narrator: Francisco Rivela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Esta obra nos lleva a travEs de la historia de las fotografIas que el fotOgrafo CastellOn toma durante los tiempos de la guerra en Europa y los tiempos de paz en Nicaragua, pasa de un episodio a otro desde la naciente Nicaragua, un ghetto en Varsovia, o a un monasterio en Mallorca y muchos mAs. AsI como tambiEn mencionando a un sin numero de personajes de la historia universal con los que tiene algUn contacto el fotOgrafo CastellOn, como el mercenario Walter, NapoleOn el pequeNo, Turgueniev, Flaubert y George Sand, la misma reina Victoria y personajes tales como Wenceslao Vivorny y el archiduque Luis Salvador. AdemAs hay pasajes de la historia donde vemos caer y surgir ideales, sueNos y grandes negocios. No podemos dejar de mencionar la apariciOn de Chopin y Ruben Dario en la misma historia. Sergio Ramirez Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283029 thebookvoice.com 9:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283029]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mil y una muertes Author: Sergio Ramirez Narrator: Francisco Rivela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Esta obra nos lleva a travEs de la historia de las fotografIas que el fotOgrafo CastellOn toma durante los tiempos de la guerra en Europa y los tiempos de paz en Nicaragua, pasa de un episodio a otro desde la naciente Nicaragua, un ghetto en Varsovia, o a un monasterio en Mallorca y muchos mAs. AsI como tambiEn mencionando a un sin numero de personajes de la historia universal con los que tiene algUn contacto el fotOgrafo CastellOn, como el mercenario Walter, NapoleOn el pequeNo, Turgueniev, Flaubert y George Sand, la misma reina Victoria y personajes tales como Wenceslao Vivorny y el archiduque Luis Salvador. AdemAs hay pasajes de la historia donde vemos caer y surgir ideales, sueNos y grandes negocios. No podemos dejar de mencionar la apariciOn de Chopin y Ruben Dario en la misma historia. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/283029]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mil y una muertes Author: Sergio Ramirez Narrator: Francisco Rivela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Esta obra nos lleva a travEs de la historia de las fotografIas que el fotOgrafo CastellOn toma durante los tiempos de la guerra en Europa y los tiempos de paz en Nicaragua, pasa de un episodio a otro desde la naciente Nicaragua, un ghetto en Varsovia, o a un monasterio en Mallorca y muchos mAs. AsI como tambiEn mencionando a un sin numero de personajes de la historia universal con los que tiene algUn contacto el fotOgrafo CastellOn, como el mercenario Walter, NapoleOn el pequeNo, Turgueniev, Flaubert y George Sand, la misma reina Victoria y personajes tales como Wenceslao Vivorny y el archiduque Luis Salvador. AdemAs hay pasajes de la historia donde vemos caer y surgir ideales, sueNos y grandes negocios. No podemos dejar de mencionar la apariciOn de Chopin y Ruben Dario en la misma historia. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282873 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282873]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance Author: Anders Rydell Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'A most valuable book.' —Christian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe’s libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin’s public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it. Anders Rydell Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282873 thebookvoice.com 13:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282873]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance Author: Anders Rydell Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'A most valuable book.' —Christian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe’s libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin’s public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282873]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance Author: Anders Rydell Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'A most valuable book.' —Christian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe’s libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin’s public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282278 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282278]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medieval Europe Author: Chris Wickham Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. Chris Wickham Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282278 thebookvoice.com 14:21:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282278]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medieval Europe Author: Chris Wickham Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/282278]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Medieval Europe Author: Chris Wickham Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281993 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281993]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler’s Fleet Author: Iain Ballantyne Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship’s complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally, the author takes us into the last showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler’s fleet. This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called “ordinary sailors” caught up in extraordinary events. Killing the Bismarck is an outstanding book, conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power. Iain Ballantyne Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281993 thebookvoice.com 11:32:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281993]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler’s Fleet Author: Iain Ballantyne Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship’s complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally, the author takes us into the last showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler’s fleet. This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called “ordinary sailors” caught up in extraordinary events. Killing the Bismarck is an outstanding book, conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281993]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler’s Fleet Author: Iain Ballantyne Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 17, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship’s complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally, the author takes us into the last showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler’s fleet. This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called “ordinary sailors” caught up in extraordinary events. Killing the Bismarck is an outstanding book, conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281989 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281989]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region Author: Michael R. Auslin Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia’s future is increasingly uncertain. Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe—but only if it acts boldly. Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin’s provocative reassessment of Asia’s future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come. Michael R. Auslin Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281989 thebookvoice.com 10:38:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281989]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region Author: Michael R. Auslin Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia’s future is increasingly uncertain. Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe—but only if it acts boldly. Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin’s provocative reassessment of Asia’s future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281989]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region Author: Michael R. Auslin Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 10, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia’s future is increasingly uncertain. Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe—but only if it acts boldly. Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin’s provocative reassessment of Asia’s future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281898 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281898]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune Author: Mary Jo Ignoffo Narrator: Nan McNamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune demystifies the life of this unique American. In the first full-length biography of Winchester, author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo unearths the truth about this notorious eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, gives the heiress a voice for the first time since her death. Ignoffo’s research reveals that Winchester’s true financial priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San José but investing it for a philanthropic legacy. For too long Sarah Winchester has existed as a ghost herself—a woman whose existence lies somewhere between the facts of her life and a set of sensationalized recollections of who she may have been. Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this remarkable woman, and, in the process, uncovers the legacy she intended to leave behind. Mary Jo Ignoffo Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281898 thebookvoice.com 10:40:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281898]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune Author: Mary Jo Ignoffo Narrator: Nan McNamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune demystifies the life of this unique American. In the first full-length biography of Winchester, author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo unearths the truth about this notorious eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, gives the heiress a voice for the first time since her death. Ignoffo’s research reveals that Winchester’s true financial priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San José but investing it for a philanthropic legacy. For too long Sarah Winchester has existed as a ghost herself—a woman whose existence lies somewhere between the facts of her life and a set of sensationalized recollections of who she may have been. Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this remarkable woman, and, in the process, uncovers the legacy she intended to leave behind. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281898]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune Author: Mary Jo Ignoffo Narrator: Nan McNamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune demystifies the life of this unique American. In the first full-length biography of Winchester, author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo unearths the truth about this notorious eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence. The author takes readers through Winchester’s several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, gives the heiress a voice for the first time since her death. Ignoffo’s research reveals that Winchester’s true financial priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San José but investing it for a philanthropic legacy. For too long Sarah Winchester has existed as a ghost herself—a woman whose existence lies somewhere between the facts of her life and a set of sensationalized recollections of who she may have been. Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this remarkable woman, and, in the process, uncovers the legacy she intended to leave behind. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281861 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281861]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations Author: Garson O'Toole Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ”Extensive and brilliant investigations…a tour de force of detective work…Mr. O’Toole is a beacon of accuracy who should inspire all readers who prefer their facts real rather than phony.” —Wall Street Journal Everywhere you look, you’ll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O’Toole—the Internet’s foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings—collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O’Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Garson O'Toole Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281861 thebookvoice.com 8:43:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281861]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations Author: Garson O'Toole Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ”Extensive and brilliant investigations…a tour de force of detective work…Mr. O’Toole is a beacon of accuracy who should inspire all readers who prefer their facts real rather than phony.” —Wall Street Journal Everywhere you look, you’ll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O’Toole—the Internet’s foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings—collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O’Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281861]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations Author: Garson O'Toole Narrator: Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 1, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: ”Extensive and brilliant investigations…a tour de force of detective work…Mr. O’Toole is a beacon of accuracy who should inspire all readers who prefer their facts real rather than phony.” —Wall Street Journal Everywhere you look, you’ll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O’Toole—the Internet’s foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings—collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history. Containing an enormous amount of original research, this delightful compendium presents information previously unavailable to readers, writers, and scholars. It also serves as the first careful examination of what causes misquotations and how they spread across the globe. Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O’Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. As Carl Sagan did not say, “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281756 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281756]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Author: Stanley Weintraub Narrator: Donada Peters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of her life. For example, she was fatherless at eight months and treated poorly by her family, but survived to become the only English queen comparable to Elizabeth I. The character of Victoria herself, stubborn and vital, is also drawn out. Stanley Weintraub Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281756 thebookvoice.com 29:10:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281756]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Author: Stanley Weintraub Narrator: Donada Peters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of her life. For example, she was fatherless at eight months and treated poorly by her family, but survived to become the only English queen comparable to Elizabeth I. The character of Victoria herself, stubborn and vital, is also drawn out. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281756]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Author: Stanley Weintraub Narrator: Donada Peters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 24, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This biography of Victoria highlights the many dramas of her life. For example, she was fatherless at eight months and treated poorly by her family, but survived to become the only English queen comparable to Elizabeth I. The character of Victoria herself, stubborn and vital, is also drawn out. https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281607 Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281607]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1: From Washington to Taft Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Larry Schweikart Narrator: John McLain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft. Larry Schweikart Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:58:50 GMT https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281607 thebookvoice.com 10:46:00 no Listen to full audiobooks for free on thebookvoice.com Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281607]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1: From Washington to Taft Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Larry Schweikart Narrator: John McLain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft. Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/281607]]> to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1: From Washington to Taft Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Larry Schweikart Narrator: John McLain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 9, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft.