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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776256 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th EditionAuthor: Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Arthur GoldschmidtNarrator: John LescaultFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 56 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the ArabâIsrael conflict, the reassertion of Islamist values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and the Middle East following 9/11, the 2011 Arab uprisings, and the regional crisis that erupted after October 7, 2023. The thirteenth edition has been fully revised to reflect the most recent events in, and concerns of, the region, including its future in the face of climate change and challenges in Iraq and developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition, the important role of Middle Eastern women in the history of the region is woven into the narrative. New parts and timelines will help listeners grasp and contextualize the long and complicated history of the region. With updated biographical sketches and new concluding chapters, this book remains the quintessential text for students of Middle East history. Table of Contents 1. Introduction Part I. The Rise of Islam to the Zenith of Abbasid Power 2. The Pre-Islamic 3. Muhammad and the Rise of Islam 4. The Early Arab Conquests 5. The High Caliphate Part II. The Turkic Empires from the Seljuks to Ottomans 6. Shiâa and Turkic Empires 7. The Crusader and Mongol Invasions 8. Islamic Civilization 9. Firearms, Slaves, and Empires Part III. European Incursions and the Nationalist Reaction 10. European Interests and Imperialism 11. Westernizing Reform in the Nineteenth Century 12. The Rise of Nationalism Part IV. World War I and its Aftermath 13. Arab Nationalism and the First World War 14. Modernizing Rulers in the Independent States 15. Egypt and the Fertile Crescent Under European Control Part V. The Arab-Israeli Conflict 16. The Contest for Palestine 17. Israelâs Formation and the Arab Response 18. Wars and the Quest for Peace Part VI. The Islamist Resurgence 19. The Iranian Revolution and Rise of Islamist Movement 20. The 1991 Gulf War and the Peace Process 21. Jihadism and Americaâs âWar on Terrorâ Part VII. The Arab Uprisings and Middle East Cold War 22. The Arab Uprisings of 2011 23. The Regional Cold War in the Twenty-First Century 24. The Middle East and the Environment into the Twenty-First Century 25. Conclusion
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769522 to listen full audiobooks.Title: When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the AmazonAuthor: Alex CuadrosNarrator: Alex CuadrosFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 19 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston). Growing up in a remote corner of the worldâs largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new capitalist reality, discovering its wonders as well as its horrors. They forged an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonistsâuntil decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre; an act of retribution that made headlines across the globe. Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye is a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of a vital ecosystem threatened by the hunger for natural resources; of genocide and revenge. Most of all, itâs about a few startlingly clever individuals and their power to adapt and even thrive in the most unlikely circumstances.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766293 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black worldmaking to reclaim our heritage and humanityAuthor: Aida Mariam DavisNarrator: Aida Mariam DavisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 35 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness. Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life. This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignityâall (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empireânot least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Structured in three partsâRemember, Refuse, and ReclaimâKindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection. Davis employs parable, poetry, theory, memory, narrative, and prophecy to help readers: - Remember: By unforgetting the unending and cascading violence of settler colonialism and other forms of domination and exploring the ways that African land, language, lifestyle, and labor are stolen, distorted, and repackaged for colonial consumption to extract capital and sever ties to ancestral knowledge, lifeways, and dignity - Refuse: By rejecting and interrupting death-making institutions and relationships and choosing kinship and self-determination in the face of settler colonial violence - Reclaim: By revealing that freedom is within usâand within reach. Davis shares how the reader can birth new worlds and relationships and offers strategies for reclaiming land, language, lifestyle, and labor. The colonial violence and dispossession of African land, language, and labor is inflicted intentionallyâand by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remembering what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation: a re-membering of our interconnectedness and kinship.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778201 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish DeathAuthor: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-JohnstonNarrator: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-JohnstonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 25 minutesRelease date: November 28, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans rarely live beyond a century â even while certain whales can thrive for over two hundred years â itâs hard not to see our biological limits as profoundly unfair. No wonder then that most people nearing death wish they still had more time. Yet, with ever-advancing science, will the ends of our lives always loom so close? For from ventilators to brain implants, modern medicine has been blurring what it means to die. In a lucid synthesis of current neuroscientific thinking, Zeleznikow-Johnston explains that death is no longer the loss of heartbeat or breath, but of personal identity â that the core of our identities is our minds, and that our minds are encoded in the structure of our brains. On this basis, he explores how recently invented brain preservation techniques now offer us all the chance of preserving our minds to enable our future revival. Whether they fought for justice or cured diseases, we are grateful to those of our ancestors who helped craft a kinder world â yet they cannot enjoy the fruits of the civilization they helped build. But if we work together to create a better future for our own descendants, we may even have the chance to live in it. Because, should we succeed, then just maybe, the future will love us enough to bring us back and share their world with us. © Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775038 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The ServiceberryAuthor: Robin Wall KimmererNarrator: Robin Wall KimmererFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 56 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberryâs relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealthâits abundance of sweet, juicy berriesâto meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, âServiceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.â As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is âa great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.â The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that âhoarding wonât save us, all flourishing is mutual.â Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768612 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human SpiritAuthor: Craig Mundie, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric SchmidtNarrator: Byron WagnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 3 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanityâa historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in Genesis. As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe, revolutionize fields as diverse as medicine and architecture, and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seenâusurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution. Whom will we choose to lead our species through this wilderness? Or have we, passively and unwittingly, already chosen? Charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI. The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, it prepares the decisionmakers of todayâthat is, all of usâfor the choices of tomorrow, and equips us to seize the opportunities presented by AI without falling prey to the darker forces that this revolution has unleashed.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758978 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy TheoristsAuthor: David HarsanyiNarrator: Charles ConstantFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 13 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: David Harsanyi delves into the mindset of people who think Republicans would usher in the Handmaid's Tale and who compare Trump's Madison Square Garden rally to a pro-Nazi rally held there eight decades earlier. In The Rise of BlueAnon, David Harsanyi reveals how the left has been consumed by a uniquely dangerous and delusional brand of conspiracy theories. And unlike those on the right, the Leftâs conspiracy theories are rarely kept in check by mainstream institutions. How many Democrats are donning tinfoil hats? Way more than the media will admit: · A recent poll found nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans believed âthe Holocaust is a myth.â · Historically, Democrats are more likely to be 9/11 âTruthers.'' · Democrats have been accusing Republicans of stealing elections since Reagan defeated Carter. · Despite their lawn signs declaring, âscience is real,â Democrats are twice as likely to believe in astrology as Republicans. · Most of the Americans who believe that alien spacecraft are observing our planet right now are Democrats. · Democrats have spread the most successful conspiracy theory in American history: The Trump-Russia collusion hoax. From shrieks that weâre just one election away from living in The Handmaidâs Tale, to shrills that the world will end in 12 years from a corporation-caused climate catastrophe, Democrats have whipped themselves up with unfounded fears and falsehoods. Virtually all mainstream media experts, pundits, and late-night talk-show hosts claim that conservatives are a bunch of unhinged conspiracy theorists. The Rise of BlueAnon is a fun, hard-hitting, and insightful refutation of this myth, and it shows why so many Democrat accusations are, in reality, projections.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765390 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas CreaturesAuthor: Sarah CleggNarrator: Sarah Clegg, Hannah CurtisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 34 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Discover the monsters, witches, and other ghoulish creatures that make up lesser known Christmas folklore in this gleefully creepy guideâperfect for horror fans who love the wintry holidays. When you think about Christmas, you likely picture mangers, glowing fireplaces, sweet carolers, and snow-blanketed hills. But behind all this bright magic, thereâs something much darker lurking in the shadows. In The Dead of Winter, Cambridge-trained historian Sarah Clegg delves deep into the folklore of the Christmas season in Europe, detailing the way its terrifying and often debaucherous past continues to haunt and entertain us now in the twenty-first century. Perfect for the growing mainstream audience obsessed with horror and monsters, this guide makes the perfect gift, beautifully packaged in a stocking-stuffer-friendly trim size.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760976 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered CreaturesAuthor: Katherine RundellNarrator: Katherine Rundell, Lenny HenryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 19 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A Most Anticipated Book from Boston Globe, Parade, & Literary Hub âą From the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a ârare and magical bookâ (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for a dance, pirouetting and changing colors before going their separate ways, to dance again the next day. The American wood frog survives winter by allowing itself to freeze solid, its heartbeat slowing until it stops altogether. Come spring, the heart kick-starts itself spontaneously back to life. As for the lemur, it lives in matriarchal troops led by an alpha female (itâs not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive). Whenever they are cold or frightened, they group together in whatâs known as a lemur ball, paws and tails intertwined, to form a furry mass as big as a bicycle wheel. But each of these extraordinary animals is endangered or holds a sub-species that is endangered. This urgent, inspiring book of essays dedicated to 23 unusual and underappreciated creatures is a clarion call insisting that we look at the world around us with new eyesâto see the magic of the animals we live among, their unknown histories and capabilities, and above all how lucky we are to tread the same ground as such vanishing treasures. Full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756997 to listen full audiobooks.Title: 'They Just Need to Get a Job': 15 Myths on HomelessnessAuthor: Mary BrosnahanNarrator: Kristen Kallen-KeckFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 40 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: âReaders will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them).â âBooklist, Starred Review For readers of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors As the COVID-19 crisis put millions of Americans in danger of eviction, the nationâs affordable housing crisis has reached new heights. Yet Conservative think tanks like the Manhattan Institute continue to disseminate anti-homeless myths in the media, legislatures, and the larger culture: - âThese people just need to learn to save money.â - âMost homeless people are mentally ill and dangerous.â - âRunaways aren't really homeless.â Drawing on her deep legal knowledge, policy expertise, and decades of frontline service, Mary Brosnahan cuts through the misinformation to deliver two important messages: that homelessness ultimately stems from a lack of investment in affordable housing; and that the greatest myth of all is that we should have no hope. In fact, the proven solutions are well documented, and the ability to enact them depends on us all. Brosnahan takes a nationwide look from New York to Detroit to rural areas such as Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to debunk 15 widespread misconceptions, including: - that the problem is inevitable (in fact, Housing First approaches have shown great success) - that âhandoutsâ cause homelessness (in fact, the primary causes are flat wages and high rent) - that homeless people need to prove that theyâre âreadyâ to receive aid (in fact, enforcing hurdles is far more expensive and less effective than Housing First). With brilliant insight, Brosnahan showcases how by dispelling these pervasive myths rooted in fear, we can embrace the affordable, housing-based solutions that will bring our impoverished neighbors home.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765143 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and LawAuthor: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan GoodwinNarrator: Julie MckayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 50 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us âand why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks in the floorboards of our daily lives, whether we want it to or not. A departure from more traditional approaches to 'Religion 101,' Religion Is Not Done with You gives thought-provoking context to the basics of religious studies by challenging readers to consider the origins of their assumptions about religion and broaden their perspectives on what religion is and does. Religion scholars and Keeping It 101 podcast duo Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwin offer their straightforward, plainspoken overviews of religious studies theory: that religion is what people do (not just beliefs or individual practices); that people are complicated and messy and constantly changing, which means religion is also complicated and messy and constantly changing; that religion shapes what choices you get to make. Choices like what you can learn in school; how your government works; what kind of options you have (or increasingly donât have) in caring for your own body. Sure, you have the choice to participate in religion or not. But how you make that choice builds on your entire personal history, your connection to communities and regions, and the systems that surround you. All of which have been shaped by religion. Religion is systems and structures and assumptions we didnât create or choose â and, to be honest, we might not even like or agree with. You can feel however you want to feel about religion, but religion is shaping your world whether you like it or not. And if you donât like how religion is shaping our world? This book might just be your first step in diagnosing the problems and agitating for positive change. Even if you are done with religion, religion is not done with you.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/788068 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Meditations for Black Men: Ten Guided Meditations for the Body, Mind, and SpiritSeries: Part of Self-Care for Black Men SeriesAuthor: Jor-El CaraballoNarrator: Jor-El CaraballoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 26 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: By licensed therapist and author of Self-Care For Black Men Jor-El Caraballo, LMHC, this audio meditation program is filled with unique insights and tools for Black men everywhere to prioritize mental health, empowering listeners to create a deeper connection with their body, mind, and spirit over the course of ten guided meditations. For Black men, self-care too often feels like a luxury. But being in touch with your emotions, deepening sensory awareness, and taking time to quiet the busy mind are essential tools for a healthy lifestyle. Mindfulness can be a pathway to emotional and psychological freedom. Over the course of ten guided meditations, this audio program covers topics such as redefining Black masculinity, connecting with your ancestors, and creating sacred space, as well as physical practices such as breath work and a walking meditation. The program closes with affirmations: short, positive messages to further instill self-confidence and emotional well-being. The ten meditations vary in length from five to twenty minutes and are designed for all levels. Each is performed by the author and includes music and rich sound design for an immersive listening experience. This inspiring program will provide everything you need to develop your own meditation practice and find mindful moments every day.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/781980 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World WrongAuthor: Paul RichardsonNarrator: Orlando WellsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 10 minutesRelease date: October 29, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the center of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbors. In his punchy and authoritative new book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how the world is represented often isn't how it really isâthat the map is not the territory. Along the way we visit some remarkable places: Iceland's Thingvellir National Park, where you can swim between two continents, and Bir Tawil in North Africa, one of the world's only territories not claimed by any country. We follow the first train that ran across Eurasia between Yiwu in east China and Barking in east London, and scale the US-Mexico border wall to find out why such fortifications donât work. Written with verve and full of quotable facts, Myths of Geography is a book that will turn your world upside down.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774154 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023Series: Part of The Alchemy LectureAuthor: Joseph M. Pierce, JanaĂna Oliveira, Phoebe Boswell, Cristina Rivera Garza, Saidiya HartmanNarrator: Angelique Lazarus, Christina SharpeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas. The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 at York University to a sold out in-person audience and nearly one thousand live online viewers. Moderated by Dr. Christina Sharpe, the Alchemistsâagile thinkers and practitioners working across a range of disciplines and geographiesâconvened to discuss their radical visions of the beautiful world, and the manifestos that may help to guide us there. Their treatises have been captured and luminously expanded in the pages of this book. Cherokee Nation citizen and professor Joseph M. Pierce asserts that â[f]or this decolonial future to become possible, the guiding force must no longer be capital but relations.â Informed by her practice of âcuration as care,â Brazilian film curator JanaĂna Oliveira evokes music and movement as a means toward this relationality: âit's almost by falling that you live. . . . The beautiful world dances the stumbles. The beautiful world dances dancing.â Kenyan-British visual artist Phoebe Boswell uses the space of a virtual gallery to ask, âIf we burn down the institution, what happens next? Do we trust ourselves to know?â and gestures toward the possibility of this âas yet unlived, unexperienced thing.â Professor and MacArthur fellow Saidiya Hartman asks us to consider our capacity to burn, stating that â[P]ragmatism yields a profound tolerance of the unlivable.â And Mexican-American author Cristina Rivera Garza gives us the language of the future in the subjunctive, which âlays the groundwork for the irruption. . . . The subjunctive is the smuggler who crosses the border of the future bearing unknown cargo.â Each Alchemist is intimately concerned with the shape of this cargo and our ability to bear its weight, together. Through these expansive, transformative essays, new ways of being are threaded and proposed, illuminating our path towards this possible beautiful world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768866 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Into the Taylor-Verse: Taylor Swift's Songwriting JourneyAuthor: Satu HĂ€meenaho-FoxNarrator: Carly RobinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 26 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: The only book that unlocks the deep meanings and themes of Taylor Swiftâs music and lyrics, era by era. For every fan whose heart beats to Swiftâs music, Into the Taylor-Verse will speak to you âAll Too Well.â From the early days of Fearless to the sleepless musings of Midnights, Into the Taylor-Verse explores how Taylor crafts stories that are like mirrors, reflecting back our deeply felt experiences and the journey of self-discovery. Taylorâs fans know that her lyrics âHit Different,â and so, too, does Into the Taylor-Verse, which celebrates Swiftâs trademark themes of love, loss, resilience, and redemption in songs that are emotional anchors. Each chapter is dedicated to a distinct era, taking readers from girlhood dreams to grown-up realities. Itâs âYou Belong with Meâ in book form. Special features include playlists, a timeline of Taylorâs iconic hairstyles, the essential breakdown of the number thirteen, and more. Into the Taylor-Verse is the âEnchantedâ map for every fan to listen, interpret, and relate on a whole new levelâperfect for new Swifties and those whoâve been âDancing with Our Hands Tiedâ to her music for years.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765027 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful ConvictionsAuthor: John Grisham, Jim MccloskeyNarrator: Jim Mccloskey, Michael Beck, John GrishamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 55 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą In John Grishamâs first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, âthe master of the legal thrillerâ (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, âthe godfather of the innocence movementâ (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. âEach of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just gripping true storiesâthey are a clarion call for reforming the tragic flaws in our criminal justice system.ââDavid Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but itâs his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you. * This audiobook edition is accompanied by a downloadable PDF which includes A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760883 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: EssaysAuthor: Kiese LaymonNarrator: Kiese LaymonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 48 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the âstar in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautifulâ (NPR). Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymonâs first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his familyâs experiences, while simultaneously examining the worldâMississippi, the South, the United Statesâthat has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymonâs profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is âsimply one of the most talented writers in Americaâ (New York magazine).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758933 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I Do (I Think): Conversations About Modern MarriageAuthor: Allison RaskinNarrator: Allison RaskinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 12 minutesRelease date: October 15, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: "Allison Raskinâs book unpacks the questions and uncertainties around marriage that so many of us have... a must-read for anyone and everyone that may be curious about the intricacies of modern marriage.â âNick Viall, TV Personality, Host of The Viall Files, and Bestselling Author From Just Between Us cohost and bestselling author Allison Raskin comes a witty, incisive take on modern marriage and how a new generation can navigate its uncertainties and questions. Marriage rates may be on the decline, but that doesnât mean marriage is disappearing from society. In fact, as modern relationship norms and structures continue to evolve, the public discourse about marriage has never been louderâor more conflicted. Divorce rates, the appeal of cohabitation, seemingly infinite options for future partners, the patriarchal roots of marriage and gender roles, and economic uncertainty are just a few factors that leave a new generation of single and dating adults wondering. What does marriage even look like now? Why do people still do it? And, most importantly, is it âfor meâ? With conversational wit and compassion, bestselling author Allison Raskin draws on new research, interviews with licensed experts, and the stories of real-life couples to break down the many pieces of todayâs âmarriage conversationââand to make the leap of faith a little less scary for Gen Z and millennial adults like herself. What emerges is a thoughtful investigation into our cultural assumptions about commitment, compatibility, divorce, meaningful partnership, the future of marriageâand what it really means to join your bank accounts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/784740 to listen full audiobooks.Title: American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent EraAuthor: Nico LangNarrator: Vico OrtizFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 58 minutesRelease date: October 8, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today.Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. From the tip of Floridaâs conservative panhandle to vibrant queer communities in California, and from Texas churches to mosques in Illinois, American Teenagergives readers a window into the lives of Wyatt, Rhydian, Mykah, Clint, Ruby, Augie, Jack, and Kylie, eight teens who, despite what some lawmakers might want us to believe, are truly just kids looking for a brighter future. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what itâs actually like to grow up trans today.âWith humor and compassion, Lang shows trans teenagers as they really are: kids trying their best, day by day, to grow into their truest selves and fullest potential.ââMaia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir Author Bio© Print Copyright©2024 by Nico Lang? Audio Copyright?2024 by Recorded BooksCover DesignCover design by Eli MockArtwork CreditsCover art by Pace TaylorArrangementRecorded by arrangement with Harry N. Abrams, Inc.Genre/AgeISBNsC09231 5065723 9798892745406 American TeenagerZ21485 5065723 9798892745512 American TeenagerDG17688 5065723 9798892745628 American TeenagerImagesInsert cover JPG and cover PDF hereAmerican TeenagerTitleAmerican TeenagerSubtitleHow Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent EraSeriesAuthorNico LangNarratorVico OrtizCopyFrom an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today.Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. From the tip of Floridaâs conservative panhandle to vibrant queer communities in California, and from Texas churches to mosques in Illinois, American Teenagergives readers a window into the lives of Wyatt, Rhydian, Mykah, Clint, Ruby, Augie, Jack, and Kylie, eight teens who, despite what some lawmakers might want us to believe, are truly just kids looking for a brighter future. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what itâs actually like to grow up trans today.âWith humor and compassion, Lang shows trans teenagers as they really are: kids trying their best, day by day, to grow into their truest selves and fullest potential.ââMaia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778380 to listen full audiobooks.Title: We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New EliteAuthor: Musa Al-GharbiNarrator: Musa al-GharbiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 34 minutesRelease date: October 8, 2024Genres: Social SciencePublisher's Summary: How a new âwokeâ elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and statusâwithout helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarianâin theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new eliteâthe symbolic capitalists. In education, media, nonprofits, and beyond, members of this elite work primarily with words, ideas, images, and data, and are very likely to identify as allies of antiracist, feminist, LGBTQ, and other progressive causes. Their dominant ideology is âwokenessâ and, while their commitment to equality is sincere, they actively benefit from and perpetuate the inequalities they decry. Indeed, their egalitarian credentials help them gain more power and status, often at the expense of the marginalized and disadvantaged.We Have Never Been Woke details how the language of social justice is increasingly used to justify this eliteâand to portray the losers in the knowledge economy as deserving their lot because they think or say the âwrongâ things about race, gender, and sexuality. Al-Gharbiâs point is not to accuse symbolic capitalists of hypocrisy or cynicism. Rather, he examines how their genuine beliefs prevent them from recognizing how they contribute to social problemsâor how their actions regularly provoke backlash against the social justice causes they champion.A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this eliteâs self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.âIn this important and timely book, Musa al-Gharbi describes the rise of the âsymbolic capitalists,â and how an ideology has evolved to cement their power and restrict entry from outsiders. We Have Never Been Woke effectively addresses a wide readership on this contentious issue.ââTyler Cowen, George Mason University
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