Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything Author: Christine Gross-Loh, Michael Puett Narrator: Michael Puett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Path by Professor Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, read by Professor Michael Puett. Harvard's most popular professor explains how thinkers from Confucius to Zhuangzi can transform our lives The first book of its kind, The Path draws on the work of the great but largely unknown Chinese philosophers to offer a profound guide to living well. By explaining what these teachings reveal about subjects from decision-making to relationships, it challenges some of our deepest held assumptions, forcing us to 'unlearn' many ideas that inform modern society. The way we think we're living our lives isn't the way we live them. The authors show that we live well not by 'finding' ourselves and slavishly following a grand plan, as so much of Western thought would have us believe, but rather through a path of self-cultivation and engagement with the world. Believing in a 'true self' only restricts what we can become - and tiny changes, from how we think about careers to how we talk with our family, can start to have powerful effects that will open up constellations of new possibilities. Professor Michael Puett's course in Chinese philosophy has taken Harvard by storm. In The Path, he collaborates with journalist and author Christine Gross-Loh to make this timeless wisdom accessible to everyone for the very first time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I Author: John Bagnell Bury Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: J.B. Bury wrote his "History of Greece" before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition was still being used as a college textbook in the late 1960?s. In the newer editions, a co-author rewrote the material dealing with the early centuries where there have been new archeological developments, but the later chapters and Bury's framework were retained essentially unchanged. Bury writes in a lucid, easily understood style that entertains as it educates. The book covers artistic and literary development, as well as politics and war, and its field of view includes western Asia Minor, the Agean archipelago, and "Greater Greece" (Sicily and Southern Italy). (Summary by Karen Merline)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of the Philippines Author: David Prescott Barrows Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: This book is one of the earliest studies of Philippine history by an American scholar. In preparation for this book, the author conducted ethnological studies of indiginous island tribes after the American war in the Philippines. Since this book was intended for the Philippine reader, the author nicely places the history of the Islands into the broader context of European and American history. (Summary by JoeD)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 Series: #11 of The Story of Civilization Author: Will Durant, Ariel Durant Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 44 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An engrossing volume on European civilization by Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant The Age of Napoleon, the eleventh and final volume of the Story of Civilization, surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the age of democracy. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the French Revolution—from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the king; the revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just—all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated; Napoleon's meteoric rise—from provincial Corsican military student to emperor and commander of the largest army in history; Napoleon's fall—his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, his escape and reconquest of the throne, and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe; the birth of Romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for a new era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Charlotte Brontë: A Life Author: Claire Harman Narrator: Claire Harman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 29, 2015 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential. This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers Author: Simon Winchester Narrator: Simon Winchester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 27, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015 Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to the New World, the Pacific Ocean defines our tomorrow. With China on the rise, so, too, are the American cities of the West coast, including Seattle, San Francisco, and the long cluster of towns down the Silicon Valley. Today, the Pacific is ascendant. Its geological history has long transformed us—tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis—but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan’s sixteenth-century circumnavigation. It is a natural wonder whose most fascinating history is currently being made. In telling the story of the Pacific, Simon Winchester takes us from the Bering Strait to Cape Horn, the Yangtze River to the Panama Canal, and to the many small islands and archipelagos that lie in between. He observes the fall of a dictator in Manila, visits aboriginals in northern Queensland, and is jailed in Tierra del Fuego, the land at the end of the world. His journey encompasses a trip down the Alaska Highway, a stop at the isolated Pitcairn Islands, a trek across South Korea and a glimpse of its mysterious northern neighbor. Winchester’s personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Voyage of Colombus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery Author: Martin Dugard Narrator: John McDonough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 8, 2014 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author Martin Dugard writes the first account of Columbus's little-known last voyage. Columbus' famed 1492 expedition wasn't his last. After tough times, he was given one more chance. But this voyage didn't have the fortuitous accidents of 1492. Instead it brought a shipwreck and more violence and mutiny than ever before-pushing an aging explorer to his limit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/242349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Caesar Rodney's Ride: Eighty Miles for Freedom Author: Jan Cheripko Narrator: Richard Poe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 15, 2013 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On July 1, 1776, battling bad weather and physical handicaps, the great patriot Caesar Rodney embarked on his historical ride to Philadelphia, where he would cast his vote for independence and help ensure the birth of the United States.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/241560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II Author: A. N. Wilson Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, few could have any inkling of the stupendous changes that were going to take place in Britain and around the world. In this third book of his acclaimed histories, A. N. Wilson paints a panoramic portrait of the development of modern Britain. He begins in the 1950s with the Suez crisis, immigration, the Angry Young Men and Harold Macmillan, and takes us through the vast cultural changes and pop fashions of the 1960s. He continues through the 1970s, with Vietnam and the Cold War looming large and the Labour government that ushered in the Winter of Discontent. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the ’80s signaled the end of a political era in Britain, leading up to the current period of unprecedented peace and prosperity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science from the Babylonians to the Mayans Author: Dick Teresi Narrator: Peter Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 5, 2002 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi's innovative history of science, explores the unheralded scientific breakthroughs from peoples of the ancient world -- Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Africans, New World and Oceanic tribes, among others -- and the non-European medieval world. They left an enormous heritage in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology.  The mathematical foundation of Western science is a gift from the Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Babylonians, and Maya. The ancient Egyptians developed the concept of the lowest common denominator, and they developed a fraction table that modern scholars estimate required 28,000 calculations to compile. The Babylonians developed the first written math and used a place-value number system. Our numerals, 0 through 9, were invented in ancient India; the Indians also boasted geometry, trigonometry, and a kind of calculus. Planetary astronomy as well may have begun with the ancient Indians, who correctly identified the relative distances of the known planets from the sun, and knew the moon was nearer to the earth than the sun was. The Chinese observed, reported, dated, recorded, and interpreted eclipses between 1400 and 1200 b.c. Most of the names of our stars and constellations are Arabic. Arabs built the first observatories.  Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians said the earth was circular. In the sixth century, a Hindu astronomer taught that the daily rotation of the earth on its axis provided the rising and setting of the sun. Chinese and Arab scholars were the first to use fossils scientifically to trace earth's history.  Chinese alchemists realized that most physical substances were merely combinations of other substances, which could be mixed in different proportions. Islamic scholars are legendary for translating scientific texts of many languages into Arabic, a tradition that began with alchemical books. In the eleventh century, Avicenna of Persia divined that outward qualities of metals were of little value in classification, and he stressed internal structure, a notion anticipating Mendeleyev's periodic chart of elements. Iron suspension bridges came from Kashmir, printing from India; papermaking was from China, Tibet, India, and Baghdad; movable type was invented by Pi Sheng in about 1041; the Quechuan Indians of Peru were the first to vulcanize rubber; Andean farmers were the first to freeze-dry potatoes. European explorers depended heavily on Indian and Filipino shipbuilders, and collected maps and sea charts from Javanese and Arab merchants.  The first comprehensive, authoritative, popularly written, multicultural history of science, Lost Discoveries fills a crucial gap in the history of science.