Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/324509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession Author: Andrew Friedman Narrator: Roger Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports listeners back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and 1980s. Andrew Friedman goes inside Chez Panisse and other Bay Area restaurants to show how the politically charged backdrop of Berkeley helped spark this new profession; into the historically underrated community of Los Angeles chefs, including a young Wolfgang Puck; and into the clash of cultures between established French chefs in New York City and the American game changers behind the Quilted Giraffe, River Café, and other storied establishments. Along the way, the chefs, their struggles, their cliques, and, of course, their restaurants are brought to life in vivid, memorable detail. As the ’80s unspool, we watch the profession evolve as American masters like Thomas Keller rise, and watch the genesis of a “chef nation” as chefs start crisscrossing the country for work and special events and legendary hangouts like Blue Ribbon become social focal points, all as the industry-altering Food Network shimmers on the horizon. Told primarily in the words of the people who lived it—from writers like Ruth Reichl to chefs like Jeremiah Tower and Jonathan Waxman—Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll treats readers to an unparalleled 360-degree re-creation of the industry and the times through the perspectives not only of the pioneering chefs but also of line cooks, front-of-house personnel, investors, and critics who had front-row seats to this extraordinary transformation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a People Author: Deborah Dash Moore, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer, Annie Polland, Jeffrey S. Gurock Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 10, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, 'City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York,' Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation's publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism. In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city's neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only describes Jews' many positive influences on New York, but also exposes the group's struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multi-religious world city.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist Author: George D. Morgan Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 8, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined. World War II and the Cold War space race with the Russians changed the fates of both von Braun and Mary Sherman Morgan. When von Braun and other top engineers could not find a solution to the repeated failures that plagued the nascent U.S. rocket program, North American Aviation, where Sherman Morgan then worked, was given the challenge. Recognizing her talent for chemistry, company management turned the assignment over to young Mary. In the end, America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist. While von Braun went on to become a high-profile figure in NASA's manned space flight, Mary Sherman Morgan and her contributions fell into obscurity—until now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain Author: Ian Mortimer Narrator: Greg Wagland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It's the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II, Christopher Wren in architecture, Henry Purcell in music and Isaac Newton in science. In The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain, Ian Mortimer answers the crucial questions that a prospective traveller to seventeenth-century Britain would ask.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China Author: Philip Ball Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China's culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization. Water, Ball shows, is a key that unlocks much of Chinese culture. In The Water Kingdom, he takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, showing how the complexity and energy of the country and its history repeatedly come back to the challenges, opportunities, and inspiration provided by the waterways. Drawing on stories from travelers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, all of whom have been influenced by an environment shaped and permeated by water, Ball explores how the ubiquitous relationship of the Chinese people to water has made it an enduring metaphor for philosophical thought and artistic expression.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains Author: Andrew Martin Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow approached Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous trains. Andrew Martin recreates famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents, describing the disappearance of the extravagance and luxury.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kinglake 350 Author: Adrian Hyland Narrator: Jim Pike Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On 7 February 2009 Roger Wood was the police officer in charge of Kinglake, at the epicentre of the worst ever bushfire disaster in Australia's history, Black Saturday. As the firestorm engulfed the community, he risked his life, again and again, to try and save people. When he phoned home to warn his wife what was coming, she screamed that the fire had already hit their property. Then the line went dead. This is a book about the monster – and the fear, grief, desolation and heroism of those who confronted it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/317005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power Author: Michael Reid Narrator: Michael Healy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 21, 2016 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths, Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its potential but faces important challenges before it becomes a nation of substantial global significance. After decades of military rule, the fourth most populous democracy enjoyed effective reformist leadership that tamed inflation, opened the country up to trade, and addressed poverty and other social issues, enabling Brazil to become more of an essential participant in global affairs. But as it prepares to host the 2016 Olympics, Brazil has been rocked by mass protest. This insightful volume considers the nation's still abundant problems—an inefficient state, widespread corruption, dysfunctional politics, and violent crime in its cities—alongside its achievements to provide a fully rounded portrait of a vibrant country about to take a commanding position on the world stage.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Tudor Princess Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and grandmother of monarchs. Beautiful and tempestuous, she created scandal, not just once, but twice, by falling in love with unsuitable men. Fortunately, the marriage arranged for her turned into a love match.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/311482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House by the Lake Author: Thomas Harding Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a house by a lake. It had been a holiday home for her family, that she had been forced to leave as the Nazis swept to power. As he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived, he realised that this house had witnessed violence, betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chinese Rules: Mao’s Dog, Deng’s Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons for Understanding China Author: Tim Clissold Narrator: Stephen Critchlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 23, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the author of the acclaimed ‘Mr. China’ comes another rollicking adventure story – part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio – that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China. In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he left off in the international bestseller ‘Mr. China’, ‘Chinese Rules’ chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners, and local characters building a climate change business in China. Of course, all does not go as planned as he finds himself caught between the world’s largest carbon emitter and the world’s richest man. Clissold offers entertaining and enlightening anecdotes of the absurdities, gaffes, and mysteries he encountered along the way. Sprinkled amid surreal scenes of cultural confusion and near misses are smart myth-busting insights and practical lessons Westerns can use to succeed in China. Exploring key episodes in that nation’s long political, military, and cultural history, Clissold outlines five Chinese rules, which anyone can deploy in on-the-ground situations with modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese rules will enable foreigners not only to co-operate with China but also to compete with it on its own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/313602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Dugald Bruce Lockhart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 11, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller ‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings ‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour-by-hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy – and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trigger Author: Tim Butcher Narrator: Tim Butcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 10, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip triggered conflict that would claim millions of lives in battle, and turmoil that would change our world. Tim Butcher uncovers the unreported details of Princip's life and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present. The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/315600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle Author: Paula Byrne Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 8, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England. In one of the most famous portraits in the world, a pretty girl walks through the grounds of Kenwood House, a vision of aristocratic refinement. But the eye is drawn to the beautiful woman on her right. Pointing at her own cheek, she playfully acknowledges her remarkable position in eighteenth-century society. For Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the notorious Zong case – the drowning of 142 slaves by an unscrupulous shipping company. His ruling provided the legal underpinning to the abolition of slavery in Britain. From the privileged yet unequal lives of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth, to the horrific treatment of African slaves, Paula Byrne – the bestselling author of ‘The Real Jane Austen’ – vividly narrates the story of a family that defied convention, the legal trial that exposed the cruelties of slavery and the woman who challenged notions of race at the highest rank.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/319549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heidegger: Philosophy in an Hour Author: Paul Strathern Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: May 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Philosophy for busy people who are always on the go but have always wanted to read up on certain figures in history that have shaped the way we think and live. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Heidegger in just one hour. One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was: ‘What is the meaning of existence?’ For Heidegger, this was not a query that could simply be ‘analysed away’ – it was beyond the reach of logic or reason. This was the primary ‘given’ of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entirely new form of philosophy. Here is a concise, expert account of Heidegger’s life and philosophical ideas that is entertainingly written and easy to understand. Also included are selections from Heidegger’s work, suggested further reading and chronologies that place Heidegger in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/323802 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Understanding the Holocaust Author: David Engel Narrator: David Engel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 28, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Understanding the Holocaust, Professor David Engel of New York University examines the encounter between Germany's Third Reich and the Jews of the twenty European countries that fell under Nazi domination between 1933 and 1945. The results of this encounter stretch human comprehension to the limit and raise frightening questions about the human condition. When it was over, two-thirds of Europe's Jews, some 5.8 million people, had died-and their deaths had occurred amid the most gruesome of circumstances. Engel explores the reasons behind the Holocaust and attempts to enter into the minds of the participants. From the origins of the idea behind the killing campaign to the notions of modernity that many blame for creating the possibility for such a happening, Engel offers an illuminating analysis of the twentieth century's great tragedy.