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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344672 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A MemoirAuthor: Barrett BrownNarrator: Barrett BrownFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 56 minutesRelease date: July 9, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trumpâs America. This is his story. After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style, palpable anger and conviction, he exposes the incompetence and injustices that plague media and politics, reflects on the successes and failures of the transparency movement, and shows the way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for collective action. But My Glorious Defeats is more than just the tale of the clever and hilarious Brown; itâs also a rigorously researched dissection of our decaying institutions and of human nature itself. As Brown makes clear, institutions are made of peopleâpeople with personal ambitions and personal vicesâand it is people, just like him, just like us, who hold power. As optimistic as it is heartbreaking, My Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for insurgency in the information age. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344617 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain SurgeonAuthor: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Mim Eichler RivasNarrator: Henry LevyaFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 9 minutesRelease date: May 3, 2022Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story--from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity--including a few terrifying brushes with death--Becoming Dr. Q is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It's also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, and of giving people a chance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344683 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Vibrate Higher: A Rap StoryAuthor: Talib KweliNarrator: Talib KweliFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 31 minutesRelease date: February 16, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. From one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given their son an Afrocentric name in hope of securing for him a more traditional sense of pride and purpose). Kweliâs was the first generation to grow up with hip hop as established cultureâa genre of music that has expanded to include its own pantheon of heroes, rich history and politics, and distinct worldview. Eventually, childhood friendships turned into collaborations and Kweli gained notoriety as a rapper in his own right. From collaborating with some of hip hopâs greatestâincluding Mos Def, Common, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick Lamarâto selling books out of the oldest African-American bookstore in Brooklyn, and ultimately leaving his record label and taking control of his own recording career, Kweli tells the winding, always compelling story of the people and events that shaped his own life as well as the culture of hip hop which informs American culture at large. Vibrate Higher illuminates Talib Kweliâs upbringing and artistic success, but so too does it give life to hip hop as a political forceâone that galvanized the Movement for Black Lives, and serves a continual channel for resistance against the rising tide of white nationalism. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343633 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Warrior Rising: How Four Men Helped a Boy on his Journey to ManhoodAuthor: Maryanne HowlandNarrator: Adenrele OjoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 26 minutesRelease date: January 28, 2020Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: An eye-opening look at one mother's determination to provide positive male role models for her son, and the power of great mentoring to change lives. When MaryAnne Howland's son was turning thirteen she organized a 'Black Mitzvah' rite of passage celebration for him. Max is one of the one-in-three children in America being raised without a father in the home. Among African-Americans, that number is reported to be as high as 72 percent. To help fill the father-shaped hole in Max's life as he transitioned from boyhood to manhood, MaryAnne invited four men from different corners of her life --an engineer, a philanthropist, a publisher, and a financial planner--to become Max's mentors. Max has faced many challenges. As a boy without a consistent father figure in his life, as an African-American male in a time when race relations in this country continue to be fraught, and also because Max was born premature and as a result has cerebral palsy, he has had to be a true warrior. On the brink of manhood, his mother wanted to give him the benefit of men who could answer some of the questions she felt that she, as a woman, might not be able to answer. Through his adolescence, Max's mentors have shared valuable insights with him about what it means to be a good man in the face of life's challenges. These lessons, recounted in this book, will serve as a powerful roadmap for anyone wishing to support boys as they approach manhood.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343631 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Be an AntiracistAuthor: Ibram X. KendiNarrator: Ibram X. KendiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 29 minutesRelease date: August 13, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.04 of Total 475 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 55Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą From the National Book Awardâwinning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a âgroundbreakingâ (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselvesânow updated, with a new preface. âThe most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.ââThe New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARâThe New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racismâand, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideasâfrom the most basic concepts to visionary possibilitiesâthat will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343819 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of LanguageAuthor: Gretchen MccullochNarrator: Gretchen MccullochFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 1 minuteRelease date: July 23, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer âGretchen McCulloch is the internetâs favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.â âJonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer 'LOL' or 'lol,' why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344562 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying TogetherAuthor: Belinda LuscombeNarrator: Belinda LuscombeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 11 minutesRelease date: May 21, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for your health, your finances, your kids, and your happiness Like you, probably, Belinda Luscombe would rather have had her eyes put out than read a book about marriage; they all seemed full of advice that was obvious, useless, or bad. Plus they were boring. But after covering the relationship beat for Time magazine for ten years, she realized there was a surprisingly upbeat and little-known story to tell about the benefits of staying together for the long haul. Casting a witty, candid, and probing eye on the latest behavioral science, Luscombe has written a fresh and persuasive report on the state of our unions, how theyâve changed from the marriages of our parentsâ era, and what those changes mean for the happiness of this most intimate and important of our relationships. In Marriageology Luscombe examines the six major fault lines that can fracture contemporary marriages, also known as the F-words: familiarity, fighting, finances, family, fooling around, and finding help. She presents facts, debunks myths, and provides a fascinating mix of research, anecdotes, and wisdom from a wide range of approachesâfrom how properly dividing up chores can result in a better sex life to the benefits of fighting with your spouse (though not in the car) to whether or not to tell your partner that you lost $70,000. (The last one is from firsthand experience.) Marriageology offers simple, actionable, maybe even borderline fun techniques and tips to try, whether the relationship in question is about to conk out or just needs a little grease and an oil change. The best news of all is that sticking together is easier than it looks. Praise for Marriageology âDrawn from what she learned covering the relationship beat for Time, Luscombeâs how-not-to-split-up manual is witty and wise.ââPeople âPeople are still getting married, and this book is here to help. . . . A warm and companionable volume . . . [Luscombe has a] wry touch, a gift for scene-setting, and an endearingly even temper.ââThe New Yorker âFew things are more important than the quality of our relationshipsâand especially the one we build with our life partners. Belinda Luscombe has written a smart and funny book to help anyone work toward a stronger and more fulfilling marriage.ââSheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn and OptionB
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344524 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian RevolutionAuthor: Peter HesslerNarrator: Peter HesslerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 46 minutesRelease date: May 7, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.â âWall Street Journal From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt. After his years of covering China for The New Yorker, friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place. But not long before he arrived, the Egyptian Arab Spring had begun, and now the country was in chaos. In the midst of the revolution, Hessler often traveled to digs at Amarna and Abydos, where locals live beside the tombs of kings and courtiers, a landscape that they call simply al-Madfuna: 'the Buried.' He and his wife set out to master Arabic, striking up a friendship with their instructor, a cynical political sophisticate. They also befriended Peter's translator, a gay man struggling to find happiness in Egypt's homophobic culture. A different kind of friendship was formed with the neighborhood garbage collector, an illiterate but highly perceptive man named Sayyid, whose access to the trash of Cairo would be its own kind of archaeological excavation. Hessler also met a family of Chinese small-business owners in the lingerie trade; their view of the country proved a bracing counterpoint to the West's conventional wisdom. Through the lives of these and other ordinary people in a time of tragedy and heartache, and through connections between contemporary Egypt and its ancient past, Hessler creates an astonishing portrait of a country and its people. What emerges is a book of uncompromising intelligence and humanity--the story of a land in which a weak state has collapsed but its underlying society remains in many ways painfully the same. A worthy successor to works like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, The Buried bids fair to be recognized as one of the great books of our time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345128 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Cities: The First 6,000 YearsAuthor: Monica L. SmithNarrator: Monica L. SmithFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 40 minutesRelease date: April 16, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: 'A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time.'--Nature 'This is a must-read book for any city dweller with a voracious appetite for understanding the wonders of cities and why we're so attracted to them.'--Zahi Hawass, author of Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance. Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is growing. Weaving together archeology, history, and contemporary observations, Monica Smith explains the rise of the first urban developments and their connection to our own. She takes readers on a journey through the ancient world of Tell Brak in modern-day Syria; Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan in Mexico; her own digs in India; as well as the more well-known Pompeii, Rome, and Athens. Along the way, she presents the unique properties that made cities singularly responsible for the flowering of humankind: the development of networked infrastructure, the rise of an entrepreneurial middle class, and the culture of consumption that results in everything from take-out food to the tell-tale secrets of trash. Cities is an impassioned and learned account full of fascinating details of daily life in ancient urban centers, using archaeological perspectives to show that the aspects of cities we find most irresistible (and the most annoying) have been with us since the very beginnings of urbanism itself. She also proves the rise of cities was hardly inevitable, yet it was crucial to the eventual global dominance of our species--and that cities are here to stay.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344650 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?Author: Bill MckibbenNarrator: Bill Mckibben, Oliver WymanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 32 minutesRelease date: April 16, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: '[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future.' â AudioFile Magazine This program includes a foreword read by the author. Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibbenâs groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibbenâs experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. Weâre at a bleak moment in human history -- and weâll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343626 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral LifeAuthor: David BrooksNarrator: Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 59 minutesRelease date: April 16, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. âDeeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.ââThe Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joyâwho seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasnât my mountain after all. Thereâs another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment. In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose. In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But itâs also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extremeâand in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345114 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass IncarcerationAuthor: Emily BazelonNarrator: Cassandra CampbellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 3 minutesRelease date: April 9, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in Americaâs mass incarceration crisisâand charts a way out. âAn important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.ââBryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy âThis harrowing, often enraging book is a hopeful one, as well, profiling innovative new approaches and the frontline advocates who champion them.ââMatthew Desmond, author of Evicted FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE âą SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE âą NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR âą The New York Public Library âą Library Journal âą Publishers Weekly âą Kirkus Reviews The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. That image of the law does not match the reality in the courtroom, however. Much of the time, it is prosecutors more than judges who control the outcome of a case, from choosing the charge to setting bail to determining the plea bargain. They often decide who goes free and who goes to prison, even who lives and who dies. In Charged, Emily Bazelon reveals how this kind of unchecked power is the underreported cause of enormous injusticeâand the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. Charged follows the story of two young people caught up in the criminal justice system: Kevin, a twenty-year-old in Brooklyn who picked up his friendâs gun as the cops burst in and was charged with a serious violent felony, and Noura, a teenage girl in Memphis indicted for the murder of her mother. Bazelon tracks both casesâfrom arrest and charging to trial and sentencingâand, with her trademark blend of deeply reported narrative, legal analysis, and investigative journalism, illustrates just how criminal prosecutions can go wrong and, more important, why they donât have to. Bazelon also details the second chances they prosecutors can extend, if they choose, to Kevin and Noura and so many others. She follows a wave of reform-minded D.A.s who have been elected in some of our biggest cities, as well as in rural areas in every region of the country, put in office to do nothing less than reinvent how their job is done. If they succeed, they can point the country toward a different and profoundly better future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345083 to listen full audiobooks.Title: To Stop a Warlord: My Story of Justice, Grace, and the Fight for PeaceAuthor: Shannon Sedgwick DavisNarrator: Shannon Sedgwick Davis, Kevin R. FreeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 0 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: One womanâs inspiring true story of an unlikely alliance to stop the atrocities of a warlord, proving that there is no limit to what we can do, even in the face of unspeakable injustice and impossible odds âThis compelling and inspiring book beautifully moves each of us to take action to help the most vulnerable among us.ââArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Late one night in the summer of 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis, a lawyer, human rights advocate, and Texas mom to two young boys, first met a Ugandan general to discuss an unconventional plan to stop Joseph Kony, a murderous warlord whoâd terrorized communities in four countries across Central and East Africa. For twenty-five years, Kony and his Lordâs Resistance Army had killed over a hundred thousand people, displaced millions, and abducted tens of thousands of children, forcing them to become child soldiers. After Sedgwick Davis met with survivors and community leaders, aid workers and lawmakers, it was clear that the current international systems were failing to protect the most vulnerable. Guided by the strength of her beliefs and convictions, Sedgwick Davis knew she had to help other parents to have the same right she hadâto go to sleep each night knowing that their children were safe. But Sedgwick Davis had no roadmap for how to stop a violent armed group. She would soon step far outside the bounds of traditional philanthropy and activism and partner her human rights organization, the Bridgeway Foundation, with a South African private military contractor and a specialized unit within the Ugandan army. The experience would bring her to question everything she had previously believed about her role as a humanitarian, about the meaning of justice, and about the very nature of good and evil. In To Stop a Warlord, Shannon Sedgwick Davis tells the story, for the first time, of the unprecedented collaboration she helped build with the aim of finally ending Joseph Konyâs warâand the unforgettable journey on an unexpected path to peace. A powerful memoir that reads like a thriller, this is a story that asks us just how hard we would fight for what we believe in. 100 percent of the authorâs net proceeds from this book will go to organizations seeking justice and protection for civilians in conflict zones.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343820 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up YearsAuthor: Cathy GuisewiteNarrator: Anna Guisewite, Cathy GuisewiteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 54 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: From the creator of the iconic 'Cathy' comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls 'the panini generation.' As the creator of 'Cathy,' Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more than forty years ago, and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this debut essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle. With her uniquely wry and funny admissions and insights, Guisewite unearths the humor and horror of everything from the mundane (trying to introduce her parents to TiVo and facing four decades' worth of unorganized photos) to the profound (finding a purpose post-retirement, helping parents downsize their lives, and declaring freedrom from all those things that hold us back). No longer confined to the limits of four comic panels, Guisewite holds out her hand in prose form and becomes a reassuring companion for those on the threshold of 'what happens next.' Heartfelt and humane and always cathartic, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault is ideal reading for mothers, daughters, and anyone who is caught somewhere in between.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343614 to listen full audiobooks.Title: He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes from My Transgender JourneyAuthor: Gigi GorgeousNarrator: Gigi GorgeousFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 12 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Today, Gigi Gorgeous is beloved for her critically-acclaimed documentary, her outrageous sense of humor, her no-holds-barred honesty, and her glam Hollywood lifestyle. Ten years ago, she was a gawky Canadian teen named Gregory. In He Said, She Said, Gigi brings us on her personal journey from Gregory to Gigi, going deeper than ever before and exposing her vulnerability behind each struggle and triumph, with her signature humor on every page. With stunning photography and heirloom snapshots, He Said, She Said takes us back to Gigiâs early years as an Olympic-bound diver and high school mean girl, losing her mom at a tragically young age, and her journey of opening up about her sexuality and gender identity. She walks us through her transition, baring it all about dating and heartbreak in her stories of falling in love with both men and women. Uproarious, unconventional, and unabashedly candid, Gigi shares never-before-heard stories, inspiration, and advice about how your life can take you to incredible places once you get real with yourself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343612 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In BetweenAuthor: Michael DobbsNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 10 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany. In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that 'a piece of paper with a stamp on it' was 'the difference between life and death.' The Unwanted is the intimate account of a small village on the edge of the Black Forest whose Jewish families desperately pursued American visas to flee the Nazis. Battling formidable bureaucratic obstacles, some make it to the United States while others are unable to obtain the necessary documents. Some are murdered in Auschwitz, their applications for American visas still 'pending.' Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, interviews, and visa records, Michael Dobbs provides an illuminating account of America's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. He describes the deportation of German Jews to France in October 1940, along with their continuing quest for American visas. And he re-creates the heated debates among U.S. officials over whether or not to admit refugees amid growing concerns about 'fifth columnists,' at a time when the American public was deeply isolationist, xenophobic, and antisemitic. A Holocaust story that is both German and American, The Unwanted vividly captures the experiences of a small community struggling to survive amid tumultuous world events.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343608 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and HomeAuthor: Megan K. StackNarrator: Allyson RyanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 29 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made? Determined to confront the truth, Stack traveled to her employees' homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the tradeoffs they'd been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobilityâand on the cost to the children who were left behind. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343606 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim CrowAuthor: Henry Louis GatesNarrator: Dominic HoffmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 11 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked 'a new birth of freedom' in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the 'nadir' of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a 'New Negro' to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored 'home rule' to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds. *Includes a Bonus PDF of images from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343602 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the SouthAuthor: Robert W. LeeNarrator: Robert W. Lee, January LaVoyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 25 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2019Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee chronicles his story of growing up with the South's most honored name, and the moments that forced him to confront the privilege, racism, and subversion of human dignity that came with it. With a foreword by Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King. The Reverend Robert W. Lee was a little-known pastor at a small church in North Carolina until the Charlottesville protests, when he went public with his denunciation of white supremacy in a captivating speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. Support poured in from around the country, but so did threats of violence from people who opposed the Reverend's message. In this riveting memoir, he narrates what it was like growing up as a Lee in the South, an experience that was colored by the world of the white Christian majority. He describes the widespread nostalgia for the Lost Cause and his gradual awakening to the unspoken assumptions of white supremacy which had, almost without him knowing it, distorted his values and even his Christian faith. In particular, Lee examines how many white Christians continue to be complicit in a culture of racism and injustice, and how after leaving his pulpit, he was welcomed into a growing movement of activists all across the South who are charting a new course for the region. A Sin by Any Other Name is a love letter to the South, from the South, by a Leeâand an unforgettable call for change and renewal.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343600 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Higher Etiquette: A Guide to the World of Cannabis, from Dispensaries to Dinner PartiesAuthor: Lizzie PostNarrator: Lizzie PostFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 33 minutesRelease date: March 26, 2019Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Emily Post has gone to pot. As we enter the dawn of a new 'post-prohibition' era, the stigma surrounding cannabis use is fading, and the conversation about what it means to get high is changing. When it comes to being a respectful, thoughtful, and responsible consumer of pot, there is a lot you need to know. In Higher Etiquette, Lizzie Post--great-great granddaughter of Emily Post and co-president of America's most respected etiquette brand--explores and celebrates the wide world of legalized weed. Combining cannabis culture's long-established norms with the Emily Post Institute's tried-and-true principles, this book covers the social issues surrounding pot today, such as: - How to bring it to a dinner party or give it as a gift - Why eating it is different from inhaling it - How to respectfully use it as a guest - Why different strains affect you in different ways - How to be behave at a dispensary - How to tackle pot faux pas such as 'canoed' joints and 'lawn-mowed' bowls This handy guide also provides a primer on the diverse array of cannabis products and methods of use, illuminating the many convenient and accessible options available to everyone from experienced users to newbies and the canna-curious. Informative, charming, and stylishly illustrated, this buzzworthy book will make the ultimate lit addition to your stash.
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