Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Drenajes Author: Diego Rodríguez Landeros Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 21, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'Todo parte en un remolino, un espiral de agua que traga lagos, ríos, gente, el flujo completo de un país que desacomoda y que termina desapareciendo por el resumidero. Con una escritura líquida e inclasificable, mitad crónica, mitad ensayo, Diego Rodríguez Landeros convoca la memoria del agua resucitando las ausencias, enfocando la marca de los cadáveres lacustres y fluviales que dieron vida a comunidades enteras. Vertiginosa, lúdica, luminosa y conmovedoramente inteligente, esta obra nos advierte, como el Ángel de la Historia de Benjamin, sobre las ruinas que trae el huracán del progreso.'—Nona Fernández 'Diego Rodríguez Landeros tiene una prosa estupenda.'—Jorge Comensal Escritos con una triple escafandra de ficción, crónica y ensayo, los textos de Drenajes se sumergen en algunos momentos claves de la historia del agua en México para emerger de ahí con un ramillete de maravillas literarias. Desde las obras hidráulicas impulsadas por tlatoanis aztecas, reyes texcocanos y presidentes priistas, hasta los trasvases kilométricos que abastecen a las megalópolis del siglo xxi, pasando por cañerías subterráneas, ríos contaminados y la desecación de cuencas hidrográficas como resultado de megaproyectos virreinales, agroindustriales, inmobiliarios o energéticos, los hitos visitados en este libro conforman un mosaico que muestra los usos y abusos del agua en este país, así como un recuento de los beneficiados y damnificados de esos procesos. Al mismo tiempo, reafirmando su irrenunciable vocación literaria, la investigación se ramifica en un delta que conduce a inesperados finales de cuento, perfiles de personajes delirantes, digresiones poéticas, honduras filosóficas y reflexiones atípicas donde la mirada, tras el avistamiento de las profundidades, es capaz de ver orillas antes ocultas por la niebla. Drenajes, tercer libro de ensayos de Diego Rodríguez Landeros, continua la línea literaria de investigación sobre la crisis hidrológica en México que el autor ha realizado, cuya primera parte es la novela Desagüe, publicada también en Scribd Audio.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba Author: David E. Hoffman Narrator: Gary Tiedemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy. Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, promising to create a “free, democratic, and just Cuba.” But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime with little tolerance of free speech or thought. His secret police were trained to crush dissent by East Germany’s ruthless Stasi. Throughout Cuba’s 20th century history, the dream of democracy was often just within reach, only to be dashed by dictatorship and revived again by a new generation. Payá inherited this dream and it became his life’s work. As a teenager in Communist Cuba, he led a protest against the Soviet-led shattering of the Prague Spring. Before long, he was sent to Castro’s forced labor camps. Payá later became a leading voice of opposition and formed a pro-democracy movement. A devoted Catholic, he championed a simple, bedrock belief that rights are bestowed by God, and not the state. Every day, he witnessed these rights trampled in Cuba. He could not stay silent. Payá’s most daring challenge to the Cuban government was the Varela Project, a one-page citizen petition demanding free speech, a free press, freedom of association, freedom of belief, private enterprise, free elections and freedom for political prisoners. More than 35,000 people signed the Varela Project, an extraordinary outpouring of protest—with nothing more than pen and paper—against Castro’s decades of despotism. The regime responded by ignoring the petition, arresting dozens of Payá’s followers and sending them to prison for many years. After receiving multiple death threats, Payá was killed in a suspicious car wreck on a remote country road. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David E. Hoffman returns with an epic portrait of a lone individual who had the courage, faith, and persistence to struggle for democracy against an unforgiving dictator. At its heart, Give Me Liberty is a sweeping account of one country’s tragic and continuing struggle for its freedom.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Author: Kim Gordon, Sinead Gleeson Narrator: Sinead Gleeson, Nikki Massoud, Jeanette Illidge, Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those who offer a new way of thinking about the vast spectrum of women in music. This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson and features an array of talented contributors, including: Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li, and Zakia Sewell. In this radical departure from the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men, for men, This Woman’s Work challenges the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in the canons of music, literature, and film and has forced women to fight pigeon-holing or being side-lined by carving out their own space. Women have to speak up, to shout louder to tell their story—like the auteurs and ground-breakers featured in this collection, including: Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson; Megan Jasper on her ground-breaking work with Sub Pop; Margo Jefferson on Bud Powell and Ella Fitzgerald; and Fatima Bhutto on music and dictatorship. This Woman’s Work also features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism, the genre-breakers, the vocal auteurs; stories of lost homelands and friends; of propaganda and dictatorships, the women of folk and country, the racialized tropes of jazz, the music of Trap and Carriacou; of mixtapes and violin lessons.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age Author: Dennis Duncan Narrator: Neil Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinking About History Author: Sarah Maza Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Damit die Kinder nicht vergessen (Ungekürzt) Author: Engelbert Sauter Narrator: Engelbert Sauter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 15, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Als Vater hat Engelbert Sauter die Frage beschäftigt, wie er eigene Erfahrungen seinen Kindern wirksam weitergeben könne. Eines Tages kam die Tochter mit der Aufgabe aus der Schule, jemanden zu finden, der über Nachkriegserfahrungen berichten könne. Nachdem er selbst mehrere Stunden seiner Tochter erzählt hatte, kam die Idee, diese Erfahrungen aufzuschreiben und mit beruflichen Erfahrungen zu kombinieren, die er für besonders wichtig hielt. Das Wissen um die eigenen Erfahrungen sollte seinen Kindern helfen, in ihrem Leben daran mitzuarbeiten, dass nie mehr eine Situation entstehen würde, in der eines Tages Väter ihren Kindern wieder von Kriegserfahrungen berichten müssten. In seinem Berufsleben hatte der Autor über 100 Gespräche und Begegnungen mit vielen Persönlichkeiten aus Politik und Gesellschaft - u.a. mit Gabriel Bach und Richard von Weizsäcker. Diesen Erfahrungsschatz will der Autor in die nächste Generation übertragen, 'damit die Kinder nicht vergessen'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Bushrangers Author: Mike Munro Narrator: Mike Munro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 19, 2019 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Kenniff gang, fast gaining notoriety as Queensland's equivalent of the Kelly gang. Yet the murders are a bold escalation from the petty fraud, horse stealing and cattle duffing the gang is known for. Starving and exhausted after three long months on the run, the brothers are finally captured, and so the wheels of justice start to turn. The story of the Kenniffs has fascinated Mike Munro for decades - ever since he found out these last bushrangers were his family. If not for Mike's grandfather illegally changing his name in shame from Kenniff to Munro, this major figure in Australian television would be known to us as Mike Kenniff. But who were Mike's relatives? What drove them to their life of crime? And were the brothers really responsible for such terrible murders? In answering these questions Mike Munro takes us back to the dawn of Federation, when bush skills and horsemanship could help outlaws escape the police, when remote pastoralists were vulnerable targets for thieves and marauders, when race and class divides were entrenched - but resented - and when brutal, feckless outlaws faced the ultimate punishment. This is a story that is both gripping and personal, and an insight into an Australia just coming of age. PRAISE FOR THE LAST BUSHRANGERS 'All families have a secret ... but Mike's is a doozy! This touching, TRUE story is a terrific read!' Di Morrissey 'A thoroughly informed, lively and balanced page-turner' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Skandal im Jagdschloss Grunewald (Ungekürzt) Author: Wolfgang Wippermann Narrator: Uve Teschner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: October 2, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Alles begann im Januar 1891 mit einer Sex-Party im Berliner Jagdschloss Grunewald. Teilgenommen hatten rund 15 adlige Damen und Herren der Hofgesellschaft - einige davon pikanterweise enge Verwandte Wilhelms II. Als ihr sexuelles Treiben in anonymen und mit pornographischen Fotos versehenen Briefen angeprangert wurde und der Inhalt der Briefe an die Öffentlichkeit durchsickerte, zog der Skandal rasch immer weitere Kreise. Als Verfasser der Briefe verdächtigt wurde Zeremonienmeister Leberecht von Kotze. In seiner Ehre verletzt, verdächtigte er seinerseits adlige Standesgenossen, ihn verdächtigt zu haben. Es kam zu mehreren Duellen - in die Auseinandersetzungen um die Frage der Ehre mischte sich schließlich Wilhelm II. höchstpersönlich ein. Wolfgang Wippermann zeichnet die Geschichte dieses Skandals nach, der sich vom Hof- und Sittenskandal bald zu einem handfesten politischen Skandal auswuchs. Und er zeigt, inwiefern es dabei letztlich um Grundfragen der Mentalitätsgeschichte des deutschen Kaiserreichs ging: um Männlichkeit und Ehre.