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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Black & TanSubtitle: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in AmericaAuthor: Douglas WilsonNarrator: Aaron WellsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 3 hrs and 58 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-15-18Publisher: Canon PressGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Even though America is fiercely divided between the left and the right and protests are becoming increasingly violent, both sides of the political aisle remain committed to secularism and increasingly to looser standards of sexual propriety.If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the 19th century. In this book, Douglas Wilson explains how our nation's failure to remove slavery in a biblical fashion has led us to many of the quagmires we find ourselves in and until we grapple with issues like racism, hate speech, and the biblical position on slavery, we will continue to repeat the same mistakes our ancestors did.This collection of essays lays out the answers from a view unafraid of historic, biblical orthodoxy, as well as addressing some of the controversies surrounding the previous edition of the book.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Making the News PopularSubtitle: Mobilizing US News AudiencesAuthor: Anthony M. NadlerNarrator: Robert J. EckrichFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 38 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-04-18Publisher: University Press AudiobooksGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production - and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions.Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with a critical grasp of news outlets' role in stirring broad interest in democratic life, he says, might journalism's digital crisis push us towards building a more robust and democratic news media.The book is published by University of Illinois Press.Critic Reviews:"This important book offers a penetrating and original analysis of how news audiences are mobilized...path-breaking contribution to media studies and journalism history...." (Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy)"An illuminating, challenging, and highly readable account." (Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Luxúria: Como ela mudou a História do Mundo [Lust: How it Changed the History of the World]Author: Maurício HortaNarrator: Daniela TibauFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 56 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-13-17Publisher: Audible StudiosGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:"Quem nunca pecou que atire a primeira pedra", disse Jesus na Bíblia. Dependendo da intenço de quem a jogasse, este também seria considerado um pecador. Se lançasse a pedra com raiva, certamente teria agido com Ira. Se sentisse prazer com o ato, cairia na Luxúria. Se a pedrada fosse por causa de uma dívida, seria um gesto de Cobiça. Se fosse para ficar com os bens da vítima, seria Inveja. Se fosse para aparecer perante os outros, olha aí a Vaidade. Se precisasse beber para tomar coragem, cometeria a Gula. Finalmente, quem chegasse atrasado ao apedrejamento, assim mesmo pecaria por ter cedido à Preguiça.Evitar os sete pecados capitais no é uma tarefa fácil, dada a marca que têm deixado na nossa trajetória. Saber como eles influenciaram a História, como foram criados e modificados ao longo do tempo, é entender onde estamos e aonde queremos chegar.Dos templos pagos da Grécia aos falsos pudores medievais; dos encantos dos portugueses pelas índias às revoluçes sexuais dos tempos modernos, deixemos os pudores de lado para mergulhar na Luxúria, talvez o mais tentador de todos os pecados.Sobre o autor: Maurício Horta é jornalista formado pela Escola de Comunicaçes e Artes da Universidade de So Paulo. Colaborou para diversas publicaçes, como o jornal Folha de So Paulo e a revista Superinteressante, pela qual publicou os livros Mitologia, Como as pessoas funcionam e O lado bom dos seus problemas.Please note: This audiobook is in Portuguese.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The End of HeavenSubtitle: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific AgeAuthor: Sidney DekkerNarrator: Sidney DekkerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 36 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-12-17Publisher: Sidney DekkerGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:In this deeply personal audiobook, Sidney Dekker narrates his own experiences with disaster and suffering, and in the process, he examines a largely unexplored dilemma.Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us.How can we satisfactorily deal with suffering when the disaster that caused it is no more than the dispassionate sum of utterly mundane, imperfect human decisions and technical failures? Broad in its historical sweep and ambition, The End of Heaven is as rich as it is moving.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Raw SpiritAuthor: Iain BanksNarrator: Tom CotcherFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 23 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-24-17Publisher: Whole Story AudiobooksGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author lain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland.His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Audio Nuggets: Criminology 101Author: Dr. Rick Sheridan, Alfred C. MartinoNarrator: Alfred C. MartinoFormat: Original RecordingLength: 15 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-17-17Publisher: Listen & Live AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:This program, Audio Nuggets: Criminology 101, offers basic information on the classifications of crimes, definitions of various types of crimes, the categories of evidence collected and used, and the key professionals in a criminal investigation.Rick Sheridan, a professor of Mass Media Communications at Wilberforce University in Ohio, has also taught at California State University-Sacramento and Butte College. He has a master's degree in Media Arts, and has received awards for both his teaching and his web design.Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over the End Line. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City, NJ.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Dream Differently: Candid Advice for America's StudentsAuthor: Dr. Vince M. BertramNarrator: Mike NorgaardFormat: UnabridgedLength: 3 hrs and 31 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-10-17Publisher: Regnery PublishingGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:To get the most out of your college education, you need to choose your classes wisely - and increasingly, that means choosing STEM. Today's job seekers should have at least a basic understanding of trigonometry and other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects more than one-point-three million job openings in math and computer-related fields by 2022.The purpose of this book is not to push you into a STEM career; it is simply to provide you with information and perspective, as well as a few questions that, if answered honestly, will help you plot out an educational and career pathway that will help you achieve your dreams.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: A Short History of DrunkennessAuthor: Mark ForsythNarrator: Richard HughesFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 30 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-02-17Publisher: Penguin Books LtdGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher'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.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez Author: Howard CampbellNarrator: Jim D JohnstonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 hrs and 27 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-10-17Publisher: University Press AudiobooksGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Thousands of people die in drug-related violence every year in Mexico. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, adjacent to El Paso, Texas, has become the most violent city in the Mexican drug war. Much of the cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine consumed in the United States is imported across the Mexican border, making El Paso/Juárez one of the major drug-trafficking venues in the world.In this anthropological study of drug trafficking and anti-drug law enforcement efforts on the US-Mexico border, Howard Campbell uses an ethnographic perspective to chronicle the recent Mexican drug war, focusing especially on people and events in the El Paso/Juárez area. It is the first social science study of the violent drug war that is tearing Mexico apart.Based on deep access to the drug-smuggling world, this study presents the drug war through the eyes and lives of direct participants. Half of the book consists of oral histories from drug traffickers, and the other half from law enforcement officials. There is much journalistic coverage of the drug war, but very seldom are the lived experiences of traffickers and "narcs" presented in such vivid detail. In addition to providing an up-close, personal view of the drug-trafficking world, Campbell explains and analyzes the functioning of drug cartels, the corruption that facilitates drug trafficking, the strategies of smugglers and anti-narcotics officials, and the perilous culture of drug trafficking that Campbell refers to as the "Drug War Zone".The book is published by University of Texas Press.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: EnglishSubtitle: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and WeatherAuthor: Ben FogleNarrator: Rupert FarleyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 16 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-05-17Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers LimitedRatings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined?Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Cooper's Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues, coastlines and sporting arenas, Ben Fogle takes us on a journey through the peculiarly English: a country of wax jackets, cricket, boat races and jellied eels, by way of national treasures such as the shipping forecast, fish and chips and the Wellington boot. Not to mention the Dunkirk spirit of relentless optimism in the face of adversity, be it the heroic failure of Captain Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition or simply the perennial hope for better weather.The archetypal Englishman - lover of Labradors and Land Rovers yet holder of two passports - Ben applauds all things quintessentially English while also paying tribute to the history, culture and ideas adopted with such gusto that they have become part of the fabric of the country. Written with Ben's trademark warmth and wit, this is a lighthearted yet touching tribute to all things English.Critic Reviews:"Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too." (Daily Mail)"A great escapade told with refreshing frankness." (The Independent on Sunday)"Passionate and well-researched." (Tatler)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101Subtitle: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools ScandalAuthor: Benjamin LawNarrator: Benjamin LawFormat: UnabridgedLength: 2 hrs and 51 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-09-17Publisher: Audible StudiosRatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Are Australian schools safe? And if they're not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped school staff and a confected media scandal?In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the centre of an ideological firestorm. In QE67, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender fluidity, tabloid media scares and mental health.Looking at the perils for those of uncertain or shamed sexual identity and bullying of the vulnerable young, he brings to light hidden worlds in an essay notable for its humane clarity.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Labyrinth A-Subtitle: An Introduction to the How, What, and Why of Labyrinths and Labyrinth WalkingAuthor: Clive JohnsonNarrator: Clive JohnsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 1 hr and 27 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 07-12-17Publisher: Labyrinthe PressRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Labyrinths have fascinated the people of many different cultures across many millennia. Their popularity in recent times is phenomenal - more labyrinths have come into being since the start of the 21st century than in the remainder of human history put together. Today, hundreds of thousands of people regularly walk labyrinths.Labyrinths are found in public squares, hospital gardens, university campuses, and school playgrounds. Portable canvas labyrinths and lap-held finger versions have brought the labyrinth to new communities, and made them accessible in the home.This book sets out to explore why this explosion in interest is happening, and asks what happens when a person steps into the labyrinth. Following a brief survey of the history of labyrinths, it turns to question how we should approach walking a labyrinth, and offers many practical suggestions for first-time walkers, as well as individuals and groups who are considering commissioning or creating a labyrinth of their own.An extensive guide to available resources for locating, making, buying, and working with labyrinths is included in this innovative and accessible book.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: I Cant Believe You Just Said ThatSubtitle: The truth about why people are SO rudeAuthor: Danny WallaceNarrator: Danny WallaceFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 11 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 06-15-17Publisher: Random House AudiobooksRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Passive aggression. Road rage. Snarky tweets. Queue jumpers. Idiots who are #justsaying. Fat shamers. Victim blaming. Furious waitresses who refuse to sell you a hot dog...We are ruder than we've ever been. In this incisive and very funny book, Danny Wallace investigates the new wave of rudeness that threatens to overwhelm us. He travels the world, visiting our rudest critics, interviewing psychologists, psychiatrists, bellboys, cab drivers, bin men, barristers, politicians, a limo driver called José and at least one expert in cooked meat production. In doing so he uncovers the hidden truths behind what makes us rude, whether it can be caught and how one small moment of rudeness - like being declined a hot dog - can snowball into disaster. From the jihadist who launched a blistering attack on the "bad manners" of his fellow ISIS militants to the mayor in Bogota who recruited an army of mimes to highlight inconsiderate driving, this is a very funny and powerful exploration into the way humans work and why it is surely time for an antirudeness revolution.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Super-ChargedSubtitle: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented MarijuanaAuthor: Jim RendonNarrator: Michael HintonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 17 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-30-17Publisher: Tantor AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937. Yet, thanks in large part to a loosely connected underground world of breeders, dealers, and smokers, there are currently more than 2000 varieties available. And since 1996, when California first passed legislation allowing for legalized medical marijuana, the underground has slowly surfaced, pushing what was once a decentralized, lawless world closer to the corporate world of business, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals. Super-Charged gets up close and personal with the people who have transformed this controversial drug. With personalities and backgrounds as diverse as the plant itself, the growers include a former Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, third-generation Humboldt, California, growers, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, and the famous marijuana personality Jorge Cervantes. Jim Rendon takes listeners behind the scenes and into the homes and grow operations of the committed, quality-obsessed practitioners in the international underground industry responsible for creating today's super-charged cannabis.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: The Impact on Algebra vs. Geometry of a Learner's Ability to Develop Reasoning SkillsAuthor: Dr. Lisa Johnson Q.M.E.Narrator: Michael StuhreFormat: UnabridgedLength: 2 hrs and 16 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 05-05-17Publisher: Dr Lisa A Johnson QMERatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:In this master's thesis, Dr. Lisa A. Johnson Q.M.E. examines the impact of three reasoning skills - number sense, structure sense, and abstract reasoning - on algebra and geometry. The study concentrates its efforts on data compiled from more than 20 researchers in this area, an extensive annotated bibliography, and work done at fictitiously named Union High School, real school classes consisting of 48 math students and eight math teachers. Through the efforts of this study, Dr. Johnson determined that algebra relies on abstract reasoning and structure sense, while geometry does not. Moreover, Dr. Johnson observed that further instruction needs to be given to teachers on communicating the three reasoning skills, as the teachers studied were not sufficiently knowledgeable in these areas. With teacher improvements, students in non-sufficient school systems could better excel in mathematics.Dr. Johnson holds two bachelors in sciences; three master's degrees, one of which is in Math Education Curriculum, and a doctorate degree. She attributes her success to her parents and sisters. This is her second publication.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Human TargetsSubtitle: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino YouthAuthor: Victor M. RiosNarrator: A.T. ChandlerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 53 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 04-11-17Publisher: Tantor AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life - putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth.In Human Targets, Rios takes us to the streets of California, where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as 15-year-old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools, homes, community organizations, and detention facilities, watch them interact with police, grow up to become fathers, get jobs, get rap sheets - and in some cases get killed.What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid/bad kid, street kid/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic, arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities - and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles.Critic Reviews:"Critically urgent and rendered in clear prose, Human Targets is a must-read book that asks more of us." (Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted)
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: ChavsSubtitle: The Demonization of the Working ClassAuthor: Owen JonesNarrator: Leighton PughFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 hrs and 16 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-30-17Publisher: Audible StudiosRatings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient fig leaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality. When Chavs was first published in 2011 it opened up the discussion of class in Britain. Then, in the public debate after the riots of that summer, Owen Jones's thesis was proved right - the working class were the scapegoats for everything that was wrong with Britain. This new edition includes a new chapter, reflecting on the overwhelming response to the book and the situation in Britain today.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Guide to Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot StopAuthor: EurekaNarrator: Jeff JorgensenFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 03-08-17Publisher: EurekaRatings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Please note: this is a companion to the book and not the original book.Preview:Michael Eric Dyson's Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America is a book about racism in the United States. Dyson argues that white Americans need to understand the privilege and power whiteness grants them. They can then take steps to end racism....Inside this companion:
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: High NotesSubtitle: Selected Writings of Gay TaleseAuthor: Gay Talese, Lee Gutkind - introductionNarrator: Brian SutherlandFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11 hrs and 46 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 02-28-17Publisher: Audible Studios for BloomsburyRatings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:When Gay Talese left The New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life - in taboo topics and overlooked truths. During a time when the nation seemed hardly to recognize itself, Talese wrote some of the most illuminating and influential magazine articles of all time, canonical works of New Journalism, like 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold', that elevated the form and brought to it a cachet and creativity formerly reserved for fiction.Taking its name from Talese's 2011 New Yorker account of a revealing studio session with avant-pop star Lady Gaga and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, High Notes draws from six decades of Talese's work, from his long-form pieces for Esquire to his more autobiographical writings of the '80s and '90s to his 21st-century reflections on New York, New Yorkers, and the institution of which he is the longtime chronicler, The New York Times.Each one of Talese's masterful books was an extension of an article collected here. High Notes will appeal to fans of those classics and to students of narrative nonfiction, a genre for which Talese has been so instrumental. The book includes an introduction by Creative Nonfiction founder Lee Gutkind.
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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com Title: Rescuing Penny JaneSubtitle: One Shelter Volunteer, Countless Dogs, and the Quest to Find Them All HomesAuthor: Amy SutherlandNarrator: Xe SandsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 18 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 02-21-17Publisher: HarperAudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votesGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesPublisher's Summary:Drawing on her work at a shelter, her experiences living with two rescue dogs of her own, and years of research, best-selling author and Boston Globe columnist Amy Sutherland takes us on an unforgettable journey into the special world of rescue and shelter dogs - and the growing number of dedicated people who are deeply invested in saving these precious lives.Terrified Penny Jane; brassy but filthy Dixie Lou; tough-guy Dingo; and the crazed, nippy jester, Walter Joe. These are not your average cute-and-cared-for, well-trained pups - these are shelter dogs. Scared, aggressive, so painfully shy that they can't look you in the eye, they have languished so long without attention that they are slipping into a dark place, and soon will no longer be able to bond with people.A member of the elite corps of volunteers at Boston's Animal Rescue League, Amy Sutherland began walking shelter dogs in 2001 and has patiently helped train canines with serious behavior problems. Rescuing Penny Jane is the story of her adventures with these remarkable dogs, from working at a shelter, helping dozens of animals discover that the right person can give them love, hope, and a whole new life, to adopting two rescue dogs of her own and fostering half a dozen more. In addition to her touching, funny, and insightful anecdotes, Sutherland travels the country talking to leading shelter experts, animal behaviorists, and activists.An affecting, entertaining portrait of the relationships between shelter dogs and those who care for them, Rescuing Penny Jane is a book that dog lovers and all who care about animals will treasure.
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