Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them Author: Stephen M. Silverman Narrator: Allan Corduner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 11, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Experience the electrifying, never-before-told true story of amusement parks, from the middle ages to present day, and meet the colorful (and sometimes criminal) characters who are responsible for their enchanting charms. Step right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the 'pleasure gardens' of Europe and England and ends with the most elaborate modern parks in the world. It's a history told largely through the stories of the colorful, sometimes hedonistic characters who built them, including: - Showmen like Joseph and Nicholas Schenck and Marcus Loew - Railroad barons Andrew Mellon and Henry E. Huntington - The men who ultimately destroyed the parks, including Robert Moses and Fred Trump - Gifted artisans and craft-people who brought the parks to life - An amazing cast of supporting players, from Al Capone to Annie Oakley And, of course, this is a full-throttle celebration of the rides, those marvels of engineering and heart-stopping thrills from an author, Stephen Silverman, whose life-long passion for his subject shines through. The parks and fairs featured include the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Dreamland, Euclid Beach Park, Cedar Point, Palisades Park, Ferrari World, Dollywood, Sea World, Six Flags Great Adventure, Universal Studios, Disney World and Disneyland, and many more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - رجال من التاريخ 1 Author: علي الطنطاوي Narrator: عادل المسلاتي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 13, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: فصول هذا الكتاب كانت -في الأصل- أحاديث دأب علي الطنطاوي على إذاعتها حيناً من إذاعة دمشق منذ نحو نصف قرن، كما قال في مقدمته للطبعة الجديدة من الكتاب: 'كل ما في هذا الكتاب بقيةٌ من أحاديث كانت تُذاع لي من دمشق قبل أكثر من خمس وثلاثين سنة (أي من وقت كتابة هذه المقدمة في عام 1985)، استمرّت إذاعتها أعواماً، تعبت في إعدادها كثيراً، واستمتع بها واستفاد منها -من السامعين- كثير، بلغت ثلاثمئة حديث أو تزيد، ضاعت فيما ضاع مما كتبت، وأرجو ألاّ يضيع عند الله ثوابها إن كتب الله لي -بكرمه- الثواب عليها'. ثم يقول في المقدمة ذاتها: 'وكنت كلما أعددت حديثاً عن رجل من الرجال فتح لي الباب للكلام عن أقرانه وأمثاله؛ فحديث عن صلاح الدين يجرّ إلى آخر عن نور الدين، وحديث عن أبي حنيفة يدفعني إلى آخر عن مالك. ولو أني استمررت أحدث عن أبطالنا وعظمائنا خمسين سنة، في كل أسبوع حديثاً، وجاء مئة مثلي يصنعون مثل صنعي، لما نفدت أحاديث هؤلاء الأبطال العظماء. وأنا لست من المولعين بجمع الكتب ورصّها في الخزائن لأُزهى بها وأفخر بكثرتها، ولا أقتني إلا الكتاب الذي أحتاج إليه؛ أرجو النفع به أو المتعة بقراءته، وقد اجتمع لي -على هذا- في مكتبتي الصغيرة، هنا وفي دمشق، أكثر من تسعين مجلدة في تراجم الرجال والنساء، فلو أن في كل واحدة منها سيرة مئة منهم لكان من ذلك تسعة آلاف من سير العظماء'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade Author: Benjamin Breen Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term 'drug' encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist. Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usurpation of the Portuguese drug networks. From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the cannabis that an East Indies merchant sold to the natural philosopher Robert Hooke in one of the earliest European coffeehouses, Breen shows how drugs have been entangled with science and empire from the very beginning.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust Author: Rebecca Clifford Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age. Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them—as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children—often branded 'the lucky ones'—had to struggle to be able to call themselves 'survivors' at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford's powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Author: Martha S. Jones Narrator: Mela Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation Author: Dylan Taylor-Lehman Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: September 3, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea, off the East Anglian Coast – and began the peculiar story of the world's most stubborn micronation. Having fought off attacks from the British government and armed mercenaries for half a century – and thwarted an attempted coup that saw the Prince Regent taken hostage – the self-proclaimed independent nation still stands. It has its own constitution, national flag and anthem, currency, and passports – and offers the esteemed titles of ‘Lord' or ‘Lady' to its loyal patrons. Incorporating original interviews with surviving members of the principality's royal family, Sealand recounts the outrageous attempt to build a sovereign kingdom by a family of rogue, larger-than-life adventurers on an isolated platform in the freezing waters of the North Sea.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los niños de Irena Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo Narrator: Karla Hernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 13, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Una mujer valiente y aguerrida que arriesgó su vida para salvar a niños inocentes del Holocausto. Una historia heroica de supervivencia, resistencia y redención. Tilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versión femenina de Oskar Schindler. La historia de una mujer que tomó grandes riesgos para salvar a 2 500 niños de la muerte y la deportación en Polonia, durante la ocupación de los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En 1942, a una joven trabajadora social, Irena Sendler, se le concedió acceso al gueto de Varsovia como especialista en salud pública. Una vez dentro, fue de puerta en puerta para rescatar a los niños de las familias judías atrapadas en el gueto. Empezó a sacarlos a escondidas del distrito amurallado, convenciendo a sus amigos y vecinos de que los ocultaran en sus casas. Impulsada a tomar medidas extremas y con la ayuda de una red de comerciantes locales, residentes del gueto y su amante, perteneciente a la resistencia judía, ella logró salvar a miles de niños de los nazis. Irena hizo peligrosos viajes a través de las alcantarillas de la ciudad, ocultó a los niños en ataúdes, los colocó bajo abrigos en los puestos de control y los condujo a través de pasadizos secretos en edificios abandonados. Y luego mantuvo listas secretas enterradas en botellas debajo de un viejo manzano en el jardín de la casa de una amiga. En las listas estaban los nombres y las verdaderas identidades de los niños judíos, escritos cuidadosamente con la esperanza de que sus familiares pudieran encontrarlos después de la guerra. Aunque no pudo prever que más del noventa por ciento de estas familias moriría. La vida de Irena Sendler, sin duda, es mucho más que una muestra de apego a la vida y cariño a los niños: es un gesto deslumbrante de amor a la humanidad. La crítica ha opinado: 'Los niños de Irena teje en una fascinante historia el relato de una ciudad devastada, la depravación nazi y el extraordinario valor físico y moral de aquellos que decidieron responder a la inhumanidad con compasión. Éste es un libro que se queda contigo mucho después de pasar la última página.' -Chaya Deitsch, autora de Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family- 'Un relato fundamental, aunque aterrador, de la historia del Holocausto que hasta ahora era poco conocido: el de cómo miles de niños fueron rescatados del gueto de Varsovia por una mujer polaca con mucho valor y una extraordinaria calidad moral.' -Joseph Kanon, autor de Leaving Berlin- 'Mazzeo relata un rayo de esperanza en tiempos de desesperación en esta biografía conmovedora de una mujer que se negó a darse por vencida.' -Kirkus Reviews- 'Si bien ésta no es la primera biografía de Irena Sendler, su concisión y legibilidad presentarán a muchos lectores a una mujer realmente valiente y notable, quien inició y encabezó 'un gran esfuerzo colectivo de decencia.' -Publishers Weekly-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 9/11/2001: The Day America Died: Three Buildings Two Planes Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And Richard Gage Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 10, 2020 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The 9/11 Commission Report, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement however, dispute the mainstream account of the September 11 attacks of 2001. The group disputes the commonly accepted account Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashed them into the Pentagon and New York's Twin Towers, where the crashes led to their collapse. The primary focus is on missed information not adequately explained in the official NIST theory, such as the collapse of 7 World Trade Center. They suggest a cover-up and, at the least, complicity by insiders. Edited by Macc Kay in Bangkok Production executive Avalon Giuliano in London ICON Intern Eden Giuliano in Delhi Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Icon Audio Arts (P) 2020 Icon Audio Arts LLC Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The History of the Holocaust Author: Howard Lupovitch Narrator: Howard Lupovitch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 13, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 57 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 20 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: What gave rise to one of the darkest chapters in human history? Taught in an accessible and thoughtful manner,, this audio course gives you a deeper understanding of the history of antisemitism as well as a lesson in the strength of the human spirit. In The History of the Holocaust, you'll reflect on the political, cultural, social, economic, religious, military, and broad historical context in which the extermination of more than five million Jews and other minorities occurred. Although it is difficult to look upon such bald-faced evil, Prof. Howard Lupovitch (Ph. D. , Columbia University) pilots this series with great courage and insight. In 22 lectures, you'll examine disturbing developments of the 19th century and early 20th centuries, including: - the pre-modern religious-based hatred of Jews; - ultra-nationalist politics and post-war xenophobia; - the Nuremberg Laws and Krystalnacht; and - The Final Solution. The mechanization of hatred that made the Holocaust possible raises the bar of unthinkable evil. In our own time, you might wonder how antisemitism compares with other forms of fear and hatred. Ultimately, remembering the Holocaust affords you the opportunity to recognize and confront the pernicious attitudes that denied so many their common humanity. As you examine the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the founding of Israel, you will do so with clear eyes. This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die deutsche Seele Author: Richard Wagner, Thea Dorn Narrator: Hubertus Gertzen, Doris Wolters Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 2, 2012 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Thea Dorn und Richard Wagner bringen dem Hörer das eigene Land näher - kenntnisreich, kritisch, leidenschaftlich und ohne Berührungsängste. Sie erforschen die deutsche Seele und widmen sich einer Vielzahl von Begriffen wie beispielsweise 'Abendbrot', 'Gemütlichkeit', 'Wanderlust', 'Fußball' und 'Kulturnation'. Die deutsche Seele ist keine nüchterne Bestandsaufnahme, sondern ein persönliches Plädoyer der Autoren. Eine erkenntnisreiche und unterhaltsame Reise zu den Wurzeln unseres nationalen Erbes.