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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533064 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist itAuthor: Justin Hempson-JonesNarrator: Elliot FitzpatrickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 49 minutesRelease date: April 11, 2024Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: One of the governmentâs former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and behaviours of others â just as others use it change yours. We have been perfecting our influence for millions of years, but in the last 20 years digital technologies have revolutionised how influence works. We are now connected to old school friends and niche interest groups â but unwittingly also to organised criminals, terrorists and hostile states who infiltrate our societies. The course of history is being shaped: elections have been hijacked, lies spread about pandemics and the rapidly heating climate, and information has become as important as bullets and bombs to winning wars. More than ever, influence has become the crucial currency for commercial and political gain: If you donât understand it, you will likely become its victim. Written by a former government behavioural scientist working at the cutting edge of this field, Influence is a groundbreaking guide to the chaotic and murky world we live in. Through examining five key factors we are taken on a tour from the past to our real-world present, to build a picture of the major role influence plays in everyday life. Influence provides a simple personal plan illustrating how you can use influence to achieve your goals â whether gaining that promotion, getting your friends to a music festival, or your children to eat their greens. But by understanding the nature of influence, you will also see how it is changing in the information age, enabling dangerous adversaries to gain power, leaving our societies in peril. Most importantly, by using the tools of influence you will be empowered to play your part in protecting us â it will be down to you and everyone you know. Influence is a fascinating guide to how you can help by understanding it, using it and resisting it.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538501 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of LondonAuthor: Niall KishtainyNarrator: Robin LiangFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 12 minutesRelease date: July 20, 2023Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: âGloriousâ Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readableâ SPECTATOR In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors. He introduces us to thinkers like Thomas Spence who threw coins stamped with the words âYOU FOOLSâ into the alleys of Holborn. To Ada Salter who was the first woman borough councillor in London and ignited the Bermondsey Revolution. To ninety-two-year-old Dolly Watson who became the queen of Claremont Road in Leytonstone during the Reclaim the Streets protests in the 1990s. These are inspiring tales of people who drew might from the city around them and fought for their ideologies in an increasingly transforming world. Beginning in the sixteenth century and stretching from the contemporary transformation of the East End docklands to the COVID lockdowns, The Infinite City shows how Londonâs spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation.
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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: WorldPublisher'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/525654 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the EnlightenmentAuthor: Charles FreemanNarrator: Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 27 hours 37 minutesRelease date: February 7, 2023Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenmentâ500 to 1700 ADâtracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era. Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (âA triumphââThe Times [London]), explores the rebirth of Western thought in the centuries that followed the demise of the classical era. As the dominance of Christian teachings gradually subsided over time, a new open-mindedness made way for the ideas of morality and theology, and fueled and formed the backbone of the Western mind of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond. In this wide-ranging history, Freeman follows the immense intellectual development that culminated in the Enlightenment, from political ideology to philosophy and theology, as well as the fine arts and literature. He writes, in vivid detail, of how Europeans progressed from the Christian-minded thinking of Saint Augustine to the more open-minded later scholars, such as Michel de Montaigne, leading to a broader, more âhumanistâ way of thinking. He explores how the discovery of America fundamentally altered European conceptions of humanity, religion, and science; how the rise of Protestantism and the Reformation profoundly influenced the tenor of politics and legal systems, with enormous repercussions; and how the radical Christianity of philosophers such as Spinoza affected a rethinking of the concept of religious tolerance that has influenced the modern era ever since.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538496 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the VikingsAuthor: Thomas WilliamsNarrator: Matt AddisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 35 minutesRelease date: August 18, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ⊠[Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolkien knew, Britain in the âDark Agesâ was a mosaic of little kingdoms. Many of them fell by the wayside. Some vanished without a trace. Others have stories that can be told. ELMET. HWICCE. LINDSEY. DUMNONIA. ESSEX. RHEGED. POWYS. SUSSEX. FORTRIU. In Lost Realms, Thomas Williams, bestselling author of Viking Britain, uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of nine kingdoms that hover in the twilight between history and fable, whose stories hum with saints and gods and miracles, with giants and battles and the ruin of cities. Why did some realms â like Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria and Gwynedd â prosper while these nine fell? From the Scottish Highlands to the Cornish coastline, from the Welsh borders to the Thames Estuary, Williams brings together new archaeological revelations with the few precious fragments of written sources to have survived to rebuild a lost world; a world where the halls of farmer-lords survive as ghost-marks in the soil, where the vestiges of hill-forts cling to rocky outcrops and grave-fields and barrow-mounds shelter the bodies of the ancient dead. This is the world of Arthur and Urien, Bede and Taliesin; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle. In riveting detail, Williams uses Britainâs ancient landscape to resurrect a lost past where lives were lived with as much vigour and joy as in any other age, where people fought and loved and toiled and suffered grief and disappointment just as cutting as our own. In restoring some of these voices, he raises questions matching many we face today: how do nations form and why do some fail? How do communities adapt to catastrophe, and how do people insulate themselves from change? How do we construct the past, and why do we â like the people of early medieval Britain â revere it, often finding in the tales of those long-gone a curious sense of belonging?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530740 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of ItAuthor: Janina RamirezNarrator: Janina RamirezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 55 minutesRelease date: July 21, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Extraordinary women have held positions of power throughout history. But, aside from the select few, why do we not hear about them? The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, Saints and Kings: a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But by digging a little deeper into the truth, drawing on evidence from all disciplines, we can see that the 'dark' ages were anything but. BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. Male gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burnt, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, which has manipulated our view of history. By weaving a vivid and evocative picture of the lives of the women who influenced their society, we discover not just why these remarkable individuals were removed from our collective memories, but also how many other misconceptions underpin our historical narratives, altering the course of history, upholding the oppressive masculine structures of their present, and affecting our contemporary view of the past. © Janina Ramirez 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540068 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Leadership: Six Studies in World StrategyAuthor: Henry KissingerNarrator: Sean Patrick HopkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 9 minutesRelease date: July 5, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy âAn extraordinary book.â -The Wall Street Journal âA must read...His books - including this one - will hopefully be read well into the future. Indeed our present and future leaders would benefit from reading all of Kissinger's books. They are timeless.' -The New York Journal of Books âLeaders,â writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, âthink and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy.â In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders - Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher - through the distinctive strategies of statecraft that he believes they embodied. To each of these studies, Kissinger brings historical perception, public experience and, because he knew each of the subjects and participated in many of the events he describes, personal knowledge. Leadership is enriched by insights and judgements that only Kissinger could make and concludes with his reflections on world order and the indispensability of leadership today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537534 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Leadership: Six Studies in World StrategyAuthor: Henry KissingerNarrator: Sean Patrick HopkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 9 minutesRelease date: June 28, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which he presents them as embodying, to show how it is the combination of character and circumstance which creates history. Kissinger's public experience, personal knowledge and historical perceptions enrich the book with insights and judgements such as only he could make. © Henry Kissinger 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526975 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the TruthAuthor: Dan MccrumNarrator: Dan MccrumFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 3 minutesRelease date: June 16, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When investigative journalist Dan McCrum first came across Wirecard, the hot new tech company that looked poised to challenge Silicon Valley, it all looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up all over the world, they were reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs (or perhaps Elizabeth Holmes). In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum began to dig deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more compelling than he could have imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he even received a criminal complaint from financial regulators. Now the race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name. Based on inside sources and a years-long paper trail, this is the riveting inside story of the Wirecard fraud, a multi-billion-dollar house of cards that turned Germany's biggest new tech darling into an international investigation. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices, fake journalists, a fake kidnapping and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally reveal the truth. © Dan McCrum 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533066 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Clubland: How the working menâs club shaped BritainAuthor: Pete BrownNarrator: Pete BrownFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 31 minutesRelease date: June 9, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The untold story of a British institution âBrilliant.â Alan Johnson âCompelling.â David Kynaston âThe beer drinkersâ Bill Bryson.â Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazineâs Best Beer Book of the Year Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of the working menâs clubs. From the movementâs founding by teetotaller social reformer the Reverend Henry Solly to the booze-soaked mid-century heyday, when more than 7 million Brits were members, this warm-hearted and entertaining book reveals how and why the clubs became the cornerstone of Britainâs social life â offering much more than cheap Federation Bitter and chicken in a basket. Often dismissed as relics of a bygone age â bastions of bigotry and racism â Brown reminds us that long before the days of Phoenix Nights, 3,000-seat venues routinely played host to stars like Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong, and the Bee Gees, offering entertainment for all the family, and close to home at that. Britainâs best-known comedians made reputations through a thick miasma of smoke, from Sunniside to Skegness. For a young man growing up in the pit town of Barnsley this was a radiant wonderland that transformed those who entered. Brown explores the clubsâ role in defining masculinity, community and class identity for generations of men in Britainâs industrial towns. They were, at their best, a vehicle for social mobility and self-improvement, run as cooperatives for working people by working people: an informal, community-owned pre-cursor to the Welfare State. As the movement approaches its 160th anniversary, this exuberant book brings to life the thrills and the spills of a cultural phenomenon that might still be rescued from irrelevance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533246 to listen full audiobooks.Title: What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious PortraitAuthor: Eden CollinsworthNarrator: Cassandra CampbellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 45 minutesRelease date: May 24, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The remarkable true story behind one of historyâs most enigmatic portraitsâ'a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe' (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardoâs genius would not only capture Ceciliaâs beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardoâs brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Ceciliaâs soul. Even today, The Woman with an Ermine manages to astonish. Despite the work's importance in its own time, no records of it have been found for the two hundred and fifty years that followed Galleraniâs death. Readers of The Hare with the Amber Eyes will marvel at Eden Collinsworthâs dexterous story of illuminates the eventual history of this unique masterpiece, as it journeyed from one owner to the nextâfrom the portraitâs next recorded owner, a Polish noblewoman, who counted Benjamin Franklin as an admirer, to its exile in Paris during the Polish Soviet War, to its return to WWII-era Poland whereâin advance of Germanyâs invasionâit remained hidden behind a bricked-up wall by a housekeeper who defied Hitlerâs edict that it be confiscated as one of the Reichâs treasures. Fans of Anne-Marie OâConnorâs The Lady in Gold will treasure the story of this criss-crossing journey and the enigmatic woman at its heart. What the Ermine Saw is a fact-based story that cheats fiction and a reminder that genius, power, and beauty always have a price.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/540084 to listen full audiobooks.Title: River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the NileAuthor: Candice MillardNarrator: Paul MichaelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 2 minutesRelease date: May 17, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacyâfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST âą GOODREADS 'A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the geographic riddle of their era.' âThe New York Times Book Review For millennia the location of the Nile Riverâs headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe â and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a decorated soldier. He was also mercurial, subtle, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark, passionate about hunting, Burtonâs opposite in temperament and beliefs. From the start the two men clashed. They would endure tremendous hardships, illness, and constant setbacks. Two years in, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to press on, but Speke did, and claimed he found the source in a great lake that he christened Lake Victoria. When they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his claim, and Speke launched another expedition to Africa to prove it. The two became venomous enemies, with the public siding with the more charismatic Burton, to Spekeâs great envy. The day before they were to publicly debate,Speke shot himself. Yet there was a third man on both expeditions, his name obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits were even more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India. When the man who purchased him died, he made his way into the local Sultanâs army, and eventually traveled back to Africa, where he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and raw courage to forge a living as a guide. Without Bombay and men like him, who led, carried, and protected the expedition, neither Englishman would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived. In River of the Gods Candice Millard has written another peerless story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526720 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Last Train: A Family History of the Final SolutionAuthor: Peter BradleyNarrator: John SackvilleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 10 minutesRelease date: May 12, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: âHaunting.â Jonathan Freedland âPowerful.â Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish familyâs fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia. The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peterâs lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived. It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his familyâs story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution. Why did Sally and Berthaâs fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitlerâs persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust. This is the powerful, poignant story of Peterâs journey through family papers and archives, through works of scholarship and the testimony of survivors, and from Bavaria and Buchenwald to the mass graves of the Baltic. And, reflecting on what he learned, he asks: in the events of our own times, we are all perpetrators or bystanders or resisters; which of those roles do we choose for ourselves?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539988 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a FortuneAuthor: Keith ThomsonNarrator: Feodor ChinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 41 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Discover the âfascinating and outrageously readableâ account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in Englandâperfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey Godâ) The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened piratesâa potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneersâgather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the eraâa story not given its full due until now. Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morganâyes, that Captain Morganâthe company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent. With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the piratesâ legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538576 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and BeyondâA Story for All GenerationsAuthor: Dov Forman, Lily EbertNarrator: Dov Forman, Lily Ebert, Anna Cordell, Charles Hrh The Prince Of WalesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 54 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Performed by Anna Cordell and Dov Forman featuring a foreword written and read by Charles HRH The Prince of Wales and dedication written and read by Lily Ebert. âUtterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle. I couldn't stop reading it.ââSimon Sebag Montefiore In this life-affirming intergenerational memoir, Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor, and her great-grandson, Dov Forman, come together to share her storyâan unforgettable tale of resilience and resistance. On Yom Kippur, 1944, fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz, Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story, for everyone who couldnât. Now, at ninety-eight, this remarkable womanâand TikTok sensation, thanks to the help of her eighteen-year-old great-grandsonâfulfills that vow, relaying the details of her harrowing experiences with candor, charm, and an overflowing heart. In these pages, she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz, and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. Dov knows that it is up to younger people like him to keep Lilyâs promise. He and Lily bridge the generation gap to share her experience, reminding us of the joy that accompanies the solemn responsibility of keeping the pastâand our storiesâalive.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538563 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to DoAuthor: Tracy DawsonNarrator: Kendra HoffmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 26 minutesRelease date: May 10, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women. âThis book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger you on the lengths women have had to go to pursue their dreams. Tracy has such a gift for storytelling and making history leap off the page. Her book has a wit that suggests it was written by a man since everyone knows women aren't this funny.ââKay Cannon, writer, producer, director (the Pitch Perfect films, Cinderella) âA smart, funny journey through history that introduces us to the rule breakers who made history worth traveling through.ââPatton Oswalt, comedian, actor and author âI came up with Tracy as a fellow sketch comedian on the vomit-soaked stages of the Toronto comedy scene. And like the brilliant, resourceful, rule-breaking, damn-well-stubborn sisters in Let Me Be Frank, Tracy is someone who gets the job done, and gets it done well.ââSamantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Let Me Be Frank illuminates with a wry warmth the incredible stories of a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who have defied the patriarchy, refusing to allow men or the status quo to define their lives or break their spirit. An often sardonic and thoroughly impassioned homage to female ingenuity and tenacity, the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to take ânoâ for an answer. These women took matters into their own hands, dressingâsometimes literally, sometimes figurativelyâas men to do what they wanted to do. This includes competing in marathons, publishing books, escaping enslavement, practicing medicine, tunneling deep in the earth as miners, taking to the seas as pirates and serving on the frontlines in the military, among many other pursuits. Not only did these women persist, many unknowingly made history and ultimately inspired later generations in doing so. This compendium is an informative and enthralling celebration of these revolutionary badasses who have changed the world and our lives. WOMEN PROFILED INCLUDE: Jeanne Baret * Anne Bonny and Mary Read * Christian Caddell * Ellen Craft * Catalina De Erauso * Louise Augustine Gleizes * Hatshepsut * Annie Hindle and Florence Hines* Pili Hussein * Joan of Arc * Rena âRustyâ Kanokogi * Margaret King * Dorothy Lawrence * TarpĂ© Mills * Hannah Snell * Kathrine Switzer * Maria Toorpakai * Dr. Mary Edwards Walker * Cathay Williams Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539977 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable SpiritAuthor: Dan HamptonNarrator: John PrudenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 24 minutesRelease date: May 3, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick âBillâ Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay; but his harrowing ordeal had just begun. Shipwrecked on the southern coast of the Philippines, he was sheltered by a Filipino aristocrat, engaged in guerilla fighting, and eventually set off through hostile waters to China. After 29 days of misadventures and violent storms, Harris and his crew limped into a friendly fishing village in the southern Philippines. Evading and fighting for months, he embarked on another agonizing voyage to Australia, but was betrayed by treacherous islanders and handed over to the Japanese. Held for two years in the notorious Ofuna prisoner-of-war camp outside Yokohama, Harris was continuously starved, tortured, and beaten, but he never surrendered. Teaching himself Japanese, he eavesdropped on the guards and created secret codes to communicate with fellow prisoners. After liberation on August 30, 1945, Bill represented American Marine POWs during the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay before joining his father and flying to a home he had not seen in four years. Valor is a riveting new look at the Pacific War. Through military documents, personal photos, and an unpublished memoir provided by his daughter, Harrisâ experiences are dramatically revealed through his own words in the expert hands of bestselling author and retired fighter pilot Dan Hampton. This is the stunning and captivating true story of an American hero. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539759 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the MoviesAuthor: Paul FischerNarrator: Emily ElletFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 59 minutesRelease date: April 19, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A âspellbinding, thriller-likeâ (Shelf Awareness) history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious, forgotten man behind itâdetailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his âtakerâ or âreceiverâ device for his family on the front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human experienceâfrom the most mundane to the most momentousâwould need to be lost to history. In 1890, Le Prince was granted patents in four countries ahead of other inventors who were rushing to accomplish the same task. But just weeks before unveiling his invention to the world, he mysteriously disappeared and was never seen or heard from again. Three and half years later, Thomas Edison, Le Princeâs rival, made the device public, claiming to have invented it himself. And the man who had dedicated his life to preserving memories was himself lost to historyâuntil now. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures pulls back the curtain and presents a âpassionate, detailed defense of Louis Le PrinceâŠunfurled with all the cliffhangers and red herrings of a scripted melodramaâ (The New York Times Book Review). This âfascinating, informative, skillfully articulated narrativeâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) presents the never-before-told history of the motion picture and sheds light on the unsolved mystery of Le Princeâs disappearance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533254 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern AgeAuthor: Robert D. KaplanNarrator: Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 26 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: â[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europeâs past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.ââThe Wall Street Journal âA lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places and peoples he first encountered decades ago.ââPeter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. He undertakes a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to reveal that far more is happening in the region than most news stories let on. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of the most significant challenges of our time, including the rise of populist politics, the refugee crisis, and battles over the control of energy resources. And it is once again becoming a global trading hub that will determine Europeâs relationship with the rest of the world as China and Russia compete for dominance in its ports. Kaplan explores how the region has changed over his three decades of observing it as a journalist. He finds that to understand both the historical and contemporary Adriatic is to gain a window on the future of Europe as a whole, and he unearths a stark truth: The era of populism is an epiphenomenonâa symptom of the age of nationalism coming to an end. Instead, the continent is returning to alignments of the early modern era as distinctions between East and West meet and break down within the Adriatic countries and ultimately throughout Europe. With a brilliant cross-pollination of history, literature, art, architecture, and current events, in Adriatic, Kaplan demonstrates that this unique region that exists at the intersection of civilizations holds revelatory truths for the future of global affairs.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532083 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental CatastropheAuthor: Keith O'brienNarrator: Eileen StevensFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 6 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of Americaâs most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. In the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didnât take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly-sweet smell of chemicals. In this propulsive work of narrative reportage, Keith OâBrien uncovers how Lois Gibbs and Luella Kenny exposed the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood. The school and playground had been built atop an old canalâthe Love Canal, it was called. The cityâs largest employer, Hooker Chemical, had quietly filled this canal with 20,000 tons of toxic waste in the 1940s and 1950s. This waste was now leaching to the surface, causing a public health crisis the likes of which America had never seen beforeâand sparking new and specific fears. Luella Kenny believed the chemicals were making her son sick. OâBrien braids together the previously unknown stories of Hooker Chemicalâs deeds; the local newspaperman, scientist, and congressional staffer who tried to help; the city and state officials who didnât; and the heroic women who stood up to corporate and governmental indifference to save their families and their children. They would take their fight all the way to the top, winning support from the E.P.A. and the White House, even President Jimmy Carter himself, and by the time it was over, they would capture the American imagination. Sweeping and electrifying, Paradise Falls brings to life a defining story from our past, laying bare how the dauntless efforts of a few women helped to spark the modern environmental movement as we know it today. Cover images: Courtesy of the University Archives, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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