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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551335 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's NarrativeAuthor: Gregg HecimovichNarrator: Janina Edwards, Ron ButlerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 59 minutesRelease date: October 17, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwomanâs Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the authorâs identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the authorâs name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond âCrafts.â She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identityâas Hannah Craftsâto make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwomanâs Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Craftsâs friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of Americaâs slide into Civil War.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549659 to listen full audiobooks.Title: American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our TimeAuthor: Wesley LoweryNarrator: Wesley LoweryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 0 minutesRelease date: June 27, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Barack Obama's election in 2008 was a moment of true, unabashed hope. But after two terms shadowed by a growing white supremacist movement, Obama was replaced by an openly nativist administration. So what the hell happened? In Whitelash, Wesley Lowery places a decade of American carnage in historical context, uncovering the horror that racial violence has wrought in our era. As he looks to America's past to understand the rise of Donald Trump and the 'whitelash' following the election of Barack Obama, a frightening pattern emerges. Every period of perceived black advancement has triggered a violent reaction by white Americans, the old system's beneficiaries. But while America's historical racists were conservatives, fighting to maintain their dominance in the status quo, those Lowery meets today are revolutionaries, self-styled soldiers in a holy war to bring the white race back from what they see as the brink of extinction. Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping first-hand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is entering ever more perilous territory, and how the United States still might find a route of escape. © Wesley Lowery 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550503 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship AddictAuthor: Elizabeth DayNarrator: Elizabeth DayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 16 minutesRelease date: March 30, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER âBravely revealingâ BERNARDINE EVARISTO âFunny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audienceâ SATHNAM SANGHERA âThis book is brilliantâ JO ELVIN âEssential reading⊠admirably candid and well-craftedâ GUARDIAN As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as â if not more â important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely complex bonds mean to us? In Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, Elizabeth Day embarks on a journey to answer these questions. Growing up, Elizabeth wanted to make everyone like her. Lacking friends at school, she grew up to believe that quantity equalled quality. Having lots of friends meant you were loved, popular and safe. She was determined to become a Good Friend. And, in many ways, she did. But in adulthood she slowly realised that it was often to the detriment of her own boundaries and mental health. Then, when a global pandemic hit in 2020, she was one of many who were forced to reassess what friendship really meant to them â with the crisis came a dawning realisation: her truest friends were not always the ones she had been spending most time with. Why was this? Could she rebalance it? Was there such thing asâŠtoo many friends? And was she really the friend she thought she was? Friendaholic unpacks the significance and evolution of friendship. From exploring her own personal friendships and the distinct importance of each of them in her life, to the unique and powerful insights of others across the globe, Elizabeth asks why there isnât yet a language that can express its crucial influence on our world. From ghosting and frenemies to social media and seismic life events, Elizabeth leaves no stone unturned. Friendaholic is the book you buy for the people you love but it's also the book you read to become a better friend to yourself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544468 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American DreamAuthor: Alissa QuartNarrator: Beth HicksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 26 minutesRelease date: March 14, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can âpull yourself up by your bootstrapsâ is central to the story of the American Dream. Itâs the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However, time and again we have seen how this foundational myth, with its emphasis on individual determination, brittle self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment, does not help us. Instead, as income inequality rises around us, we are left with shame and self-blame for our condition. Acclaimed journalist Alissa Quart argues that at the heart of our suffering is a do-it-yourself ethos, the misplaced belief in our own independence and the conviction that we must rely on ourselves alone. Looking at a range of delusions and half solutionsâfrom âgritâ to the false Horatio Alger story to the rise of GoFundMeâQuart reveals how we have been steered away from robust social programs that would address the root causes of our problems. Meanwhile, the responsibility for survival has been shifted onto the backs of ordinary people, burdening generations with debt instead of providing the social safety net we so desperately need. Insightful, sharply argued, and characterized by Quartâs lively writing and deep reporting, and for fans of Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Bootstrapped is a powerful examination of what ails us at a societal level and a plan for how we can free ourselves from these self-defeating narratives. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540087 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Empathy: Turning Compassion into ActionAuthor: David JohnstonNarrator: David JohnstonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 29 minutesRelease date: February 21, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action. As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as diverse as racism, gender, cybercrime, and climate change, the nations that best adapt and prosper are those in which empathy is fully alive and widely active. Written for a post-pandemic world, Empathy is a book about learning to be empathetic and then turning that empathy into action. Based on the personal experiences of author David Johnston, the book explores how awakening to the transformative power of listening and caring permanently changes individuals, families, communities, and nations. A how-to manual for a world craving kindness, Empathy offers proof of the inherent goodness of people, and shows how exercising the instinct for kindness creates societies that are both smart and caring. Through poignant stories and crisp observations, David contends that âEveryone has power over some things that other people donât. When they learn ways to turn that power into action, they change the future dramatically.â With clear and practical focus, Empathy looks at a host of issues that demand our attention, from education and immigration, to healthcare, the law, policing, business ethics, and criminal justice. In each of these areas, Johnston highlights the deeper understandings that have arisen during the COVID-19 crisis, with sharp emphasis on the positive and negative lessons now in crisp focus. Convinced that empathy is the fastest route to peace and progress in all their forms, David ends each short chapter with a set of practical steps the reader can take to make the world better, one deliberate action at a time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550043 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged AmericaAuthor: Will SommerNarrator: Joe KnezevichFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 12 minutesRelease date: February 21, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: ''A story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it.â âMolly Jong-Fast The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the conspiracy and are disseminating its lies. The Storm is Coming. Trust the Plan. WWG1WGA. Youâve seen the letter Q on TV and in the news â itâs been everywhere from Trump rallies to the January 6th insurrection. âQAnonâ used to sound vaguely familiar, somewhat ominous, but not quite mainstream. But what was once a fringe conspiracy theory has now become a household name and its symbols recognizable around the world. How did this happen, who is actually involved, what do they believe, and what do they want? Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer has been on the ground with Qâs followers since day one, and in Trust the Plan Sommer has written the definitive book on the movementâwho started it and who grew it, what they really believe is going on, and what they want to see âthe Stormâ accomplish on the day of its reckoning. At once a character study and a journalistic exposĂ©, Sommer lets his cast of characters do the talking as he visits them around the world, from their makeshift compounds to the rallies they are still holding. The great tragedy of this story is ultimately the legitimization of this ideology by mainstream politicians eager to gain access to a large and growing cohort of voters. Though 2020 brought the end of Trumpâs presidency, his following within the QAnon community has simply pivoted and grown stronger. Trust the Plan shows us in granular detail who weâll be up against for years to come, in the US and abroad. Understanding why and how something like Q happens is an indispensable exercise, and in showing us how we got here we can chart a path out. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550507 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build ImmunityAuthor: Sander Van Der LindenNarrator: Sander Van Der LindenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 11 minutesRelease date: February 16, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Natureâs Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 ï»żA Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023 Fake news. Alternative facts. Conspiracy theories. Misinformation is one of the defining problems of our age, and despite what we may think, we are all susceptible. So how and why does misinformation spread? And, more importantly, what can we do about it? Sander van der Linden, a Cambridge University professor and leading expert, takes us through the psychology of conspiratorial thinking and equips us with the tools needed to help stop the spread of misinformation once and for all. 'Authoritative' Financial Times 'Encouraging' The Times âA fascinating case for counteracting the misinformation virus through psychological inoculationâ Observer âA must-read for those of us interested in resisting the spread of disinformationâ Psychology Today 'If you want to know why people believe fake news and how to defend yourself against it, then this is the book to read' The Skeptic
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551257 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - Somewhere We Are Human Donde somos humanos (Spanish edition): Historias genuinas sobre migraciĂłn, sobrevivencia y renaceresAuthor: Sonia Guiñansaca, Reyna GrandeNarrator: Alejandra Corman, Diana Pou, Avi Roque, Christian BarillasFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 7 minutesRelease date: January 24, 2023Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Una colecciĂłn de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos. Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad polĂtica e incertidumbre, esta colecciĂłn de ensayos, poesĂa y arte tiene como objetivo cambiar el imaginario colectivo de la naciĂłn sobre los migrantes y refugiados hacia uno arraigado en la humanidad y la justicia. Los escritores de esta antologĂa cambiarĂĄn la percepciĂłn de sĂ mismos y de sus comunidades a travĂ©s de la narraciĂłn y el arte, para declarar en voz alta y con orgullo que, aquĂ y en todas partes, son humanos a pesar de la militarizaciĂłn fronteriza, la detenciĂłn masiva y la legislaciĂłn antiinmigrante draconiana. AquĂ, hablan de su experiencia, no solo lidiando con su estado migratorio actual, sino en un reflejo matizado de su propia existencia antes de la migraciĂłn y su hambre colectiva por un futuro sin fronteras. Estas historias llevarĂĄn al lector a un viaje a travĂ©s de los recuerdos de la infancia, las anĂ©cdotas familiares y los sueños de reunirse con los padres del otro lado. Otras historias capturarĂĄn lo que a menudo no se discute, como el momento en que uno decide dejar los EE. UU. para buscar una nueva vida en otro lugar, despuĂ©s de dĂ©cadas de vivir como inmigrante indocumentado en los Estados Unidos, ser procesado en un centro de detenciĂłn como transmigrante, y luto por patrias imaginadas. Algunas historias tendrĂĄn las complejidades en capas de ser negro y migrante, o reflejarĂĄn la angustia de envejecer fuera de DACA, pero todas las historias convergerĂĄn en las intersecciones de raza, clase, gĂ©nero, nacionalidad, sexualidad, creencias polĂticas y derechos reproductivos. Como semillas de diente de leĂłn, estas historias germinarĂĄn un sentido de urgencia, alegrĂa, esperanza, luto y perseverancia, echando raĂces en el suelo mĂĄs duro, demostrando lo que puede florecer a pesar de las condiciones adversas. El PDF de jemora suplementario acompana al audiolibro.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549661 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTubeâs Chaotic Rise to World DominationAuthor: Mark BergenNarrator: Sean Patrick HopkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 33 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Since 2005, YouTube has exploded, giving a platform to unique and valuable voices, but also to propaganda, misinformation and illicit videos. The algorithm which determines whether a channel lives or dies - how or when videos are seen, and how much creators earn through advertising - is notoriously secretive, remaining a mystery to consumers and broadcasters alike. At the same time, the site is massively profitable for parent company Google, helping turn it into one of the most influential powers on the planet. In Like, Comment, Subscribe, Bloomberg tech journalist Mark Bergen delivers the definitive account on YouTube, detailing how it started, how it works and ultimately how it drives Google's success. It can be seen as the story of a technical marvel that has upended traditional media and created stars out of everyday people, or the story of the rise of a ruthless advertising conglomerate with little regard for its impact on the world beyond the bottom line - but in reality, it's the story of both. © Mark Bergen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548759 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Return to Uluru: The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback AustraliaAuthor: Mark MckennaNarrator: David LinskiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 24 minutesRelease date: August 9, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: 'THIS WEEK'S HOTTEST NEW RELEASES: Murder befouls the outback... [A] gripping work of true crime.' âUSA TODAY Return to Uluru explores a cold case that strikes at the heart of white supremacyâthe death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, 'outback' police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museumâs storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years before. His misspelled name is etched on the crown, but the many bones in boxes around him remain unidentified. Who was Yokununna, and how did he die? His story reveals the layered, exploitative white Australian mindset that has long rendered Aboriginal reality all but invisible. When policeman Bill McKinnonâs Aboriginal prisoners escape in 1934, heâs determined to get them back. Tracking them across the so called 'dead heart' of the country, he finds the men at Uluru, a sacred rock formation. What exactly happened there remained a mystery, even after a Commonwealth inquiry. But Mark McKennaâs research uncovers new evidence, getting closer to the truth, revealing glimpses of indigenous life, and demonstrating the importance of this case today. Using McKinnonâs private journal entries, McKenna paints a picture of the police officer's life to better understand how white Australians treat the center of the country and its inhabitants. Return to Uluru dives deeply into one cold case. But it also provides a searing indictment of the historical white supremacy still present in Australiaâand has fascinating, illuminating parallels to the growing racial justice movements in the United States.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550416 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Forgiveness: An ExplorationAuthor: Marina CantacuzinoNarrator: Marina CantacuzinoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 57 minutesRelease date: August 4, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: I forgive you. Three simple words behind which sits an intriguing and complex concept. These words can be used to absolve a meaningless squabble, or said to someone who has caused you great harm. They can liberate you from guilt, or consciously place blame on your shoulders. Forgiveness can often be perceived as saccharine and overtly religious, something just for the spiritually superior or mentally strong. But really it is a gritty, risky concept that is so often relevant to our ordinary everyday lives. Forgiveness explores the subject from every angle, coming from a place of enquiry rather than persuasion, presenting it as an offering, never a prescription. Marina Cantacuzino seeks to investigate, unpick and debate the limits and possibilities of forgiveness â in our relationships, for our physical and mental wellbeing, how it plays out in international politics and within the criminal justice system, and where it intersects with religious faith. Cantacuzino speaks to people across the globe who have considered forgiveness in different forms and circumstances. She talks to a survivor of Auschwitz; to someone who accidentally killed a friend; to people who have lost loved ones in acts of violence; to a former combatant in The Troubles as well as to the daughter of someone he murdered. Through these real stories, expert opinion and the authorâs experience from two decades working in this field, the reader gets to better understand what forgiveness is and what it most definitely isnât, how it can be an important element in breaking the cycle of suffering, and ultimately how it might help transform fractured relationships and mend broken hearts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545093 to listen full audiobooks.Title: After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politicsâand How to Fix ItAuthor: Will BunchNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 12 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: From Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of collegeâthe great political and cultural fault line of American life Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ''This book is simply terrific.'' âHeather Cox Richardson | ''Ambitious and engrossing.'' âNew York Times Book Review | ''A must-read.'' âNancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribesâthe resentful ânon-collegeâ crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversariesâseem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called âknowledge economy'' of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of Americaâs commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat. In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand âthe college question,â there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair. From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., from the landmark GI Bill through the culture wars of the 60âs and 70âs, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itselfâand how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over againâwhat, and who, is college even for?âand pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans. The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic divisionâand charts a path forward for America.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543935 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the PlanetAuthor: George MonbiotNarrator: George MonbiotFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 29 minutesRelease date: August 2, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism | A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller | Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation âGeorge Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today.â âGreta Thunberg For the first time in millennia, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world. Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destructionâand the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticize urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have plowed, fenced, and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry and the price of food is rising faster than ever. Now the food system itself is beginning to falter. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, we can resolve the biggest of our dilemmas and feed the world without devouring the planet. Regenesis is a breathtaking vision of a new future for food and for humanity. Drawing on astonishing advances in soil ecology, Monbiot reveals how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming. He meets the people who are unlocking these methods, from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility; through breeders of perennial grains, liberating the land from plows and poisons; to the scientists pioneering new ways to grow protein and fat. Together, they show how the tiniest life forms could help us make peace with the planet, restore its living systems, and replace the age of extinction with an age of regenesis.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550463 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Inheritance: An Autobiography of WhitenessAuthor: Baynard WoodsNarrator: Will CollyerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 19 minutesRelease date: June 28, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his familyâs heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." âKirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. Heâd fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator. Then he was accused of discriminating against a Black student at a local university. How could I be racist? he wondered. Whiteness was a problem, but it wasnât really his problem. He taught at a majority Black school and wrote essays about education and Civil Rights. But it was his problem. Working as a reporter, it became clear that white supremacy was tearing the country apart. When a white kid from his hometown massacred nine Black people in Charleston, Woods began to delve into his familyâs historyâand the ways that history has affected his own life. When he discovered that his familyâboth the Baynards and the Woodsesâcollectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations. In this gripping and perceptive memoir, Woods takes us along on his journey to understand how race has impacted his life. Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance explores what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550262 to listen full audiobooks.Title: BFF?: The truth about female friendshipAuthor: Claire CohenNarrator: Claire CohenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 55 minutesRelease date: June 23, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you break up with a toxic friend? How many best friends should we be aiming for? BFF? will take a close look at society's most underappreciated relationship to interrogate what modern friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it and what we can do to get the most from it. Featuring interviews with brilliant women on what friendship means to them, Claire Cohen argues that, unlike romantic relationships, friendship is much harder to pin down and quantify - and shows how often our friendships are taken for granted. An antidote to the idea that every woman must belong to a perfect girl gang, this book is a reassuring guide to help women answer for themselves, 'Have we lost it? Are we still friends? Is there too much to catch up on?' 'This is a moment to take stock. To think about who our friends really are, what that means to us, what they give us (and we give them) and what we have learnt about friendship. Because, when we get it right, there is nothing so important as having true friends. What a shame that it took a rampaging virus to make us appreciate the value of that.' © Claire Cohen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551345 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves BehindAuthor: Fariha RoisinNarrator: Fariha RoisinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 25 minutesRelease date: June 14, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness. Growing up in Australia, Fariha RĂłisĂn, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her differentâeverything from ashwagandha to prayerâwere now being homogenized and marketed for good health, often at a premium by white people to white people. In this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet explores the way in which the progressive health industry has appropriated and commodified global healing traditions. She reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on the wisdom of Black, brown, and Indigenous peopleâwhile ignoring and excluding them. Who Is Wellness For? is divided into four sections, beginning with The Mind, in which Fariha examines the art of meditation and the importance of intuition. In part two, The Body, she investigates the physiology of trauma, detailing her own journey with fatphobia and gender dysmorphia, as well as her own chronic illness. In part three, Self-Care, she argues against the self-care industrial complex but cautious us against abandoning care completely and offers practical advice. She ends with Justice, arguing that if we truly want to be well, we must be invested in everyoneâs well being and shift toward nurturance culture. Deeply intimate and revelatory, Who Is Wellness For? forces us to confront the imbalance in health and healing and carves a path towards self-care that is inclusionary for all.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551301 to listen full audiobooks.Title: We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for BoysAuthor: Erin KimmerleNarrator: Janina EdwardsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 1 minuteRelease date: June 14, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: ''With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice.'' âColson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys Schoolâthe true story behind the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning novel The Nickel Boysâand the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families. The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and âmysteriousâ deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the schoolâs management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the schoolâs shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the schoolâs graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The schoolâs poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the schoolâs property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerleâs work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncoveringâone she continues to investigate to this day. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. Itâs also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their familiesâan endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549991 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Raise an AntiracistAuthor: Ibram X. KendiNarrator: Ibram X. KendiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 46 minutesRelease date: June 14, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the author of How to Be an Antiracist and recipient of the MacArthur âGeniusâ Grant. âKendiâs latest . . . combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism affects every step of a childâs life. . . . Like all his books, this one is accessible to everyone regardless of race or class.ââLos Angeles Times (Book Club Pick) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar The tragedies and reckonings around racism that are rocking the country have created a specific crisis for parents, educators, and other caregivers: How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better? These are the questions Ibram X. Kendi found himself avoiding as he anticipated the birth of his first child. Like most parents or parents-to-be, he felt the reflex to not talk to his child about racism, which he feared would stain her innocence and steal away her joy. But research and experience changed his mind, and he realized that raising his child to be antiracist would actually protect his child, and preserve her innocence and joy. He realized that teaching students about the reality of racism and the myth of race provides a protective education in our diverse and unequal world. He realized that building antiracist societies safeguards all children from the harms of racism. Following the accessible genre of his internationally bestselling How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi combines a century of scientific research with a vulnerable and compelling personal narrative of his own journey as a parent and as a child in school. The chapters follow the stages of child development from pregnancy to toddler to schoolkid to teenager. It is never too early or late to start raising young people to be antiracist.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547349 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old BaileyAuthor: Wendy JosephNarrator: Roy Mcmillan, Wendy Joseph, Rachel BavidgeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 10 minutesRelease date: June 9, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous drivers, or corporate gross negligence. There are a lot of ways you can kill someone. I know because I've seen most of them at close quarters.' As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author has presided over many of the high-profile cases that all too often grab our attention in dramatic media headlines - for every unlawful death tells a story. But, unlike most of us, a judge doesn't get to turn the page and move on. Nor does the defendant, or the family of the victim, nor the many other people who populate the court room. Peeling apart six dramatic murder and manslaughter cases, Unlawful Killings removes this distinction between 'them' and 'us'. By detailing the inner workings of the Old Bailey and UK law, the author makes clear that each of us has a vested interest in what happens in the court room - especially when it comes to the death of a fellow human being. Any one of us could end up in the witness-box or even in the dock. And yet most people have only the sketchiest idea of what happens inside a Crown Court. With breath-taking skill and deep compassion, the author describes how cases unfold and illustrates exactly what it's like to be a murder trial judge and a witness to human good and bad. Sometimes very bad. Right now, with our courts straining under the weight of the many heinous crimes being committed, it's not merely the system that is flawed. The fracture lines that run through our society are becoming harder and harder to ignore and, from a unique vantage point, the author warns that we do so at our peril. © Anonymous 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540082 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on TrialAuthor: Corban AddisonNarrator: Rob ShapiroFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 16 minutesRelease date: June 7, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: 'Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written.' âFrom the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the worldâs most powerful companiesâand, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of Americaâs farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his familyâs ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighborsâ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelistâs instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rightsâand restore the heritageâof a long-suffering community.
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