True Leadership . . . Where is It?
By: Steve Lundquist
Narrated by: Charles Hubbell
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Our world is changing rapidly. Everything in today’s world is connected, except top leadership in BIG Business and BIG Politics, AND WE the PEOPLE. For good or bad, WE are on a collision course with OUR destiny. Top leadership is failing, but the leadership solution is within OUR power . . . OUR connection. In True Leadership . . . Where Is It?... Read more
View audiobookThe Poetry of History
By: Jonathan Bate
Narrated by: Jonathan Bate
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Sir Jonathan Bate examines eight iconic poems inspired by great historical events - and explores the Romantics, John Clare and William Wordsworth
'Mingles history and poetry ... in an accessible, thought-provoking way' Irish Times
In this BBC Radio 4 series, eminent biographer and broadcaster Sir Jonathan Bate looks at major... Read more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers by the curmudgeonly shop owner and author of Confessions of a Bookseller. Shaun Bythell knows them all—from the “Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)” to the “Parents Secretly after Free Childcare.” The business of books has never been funnier.In a... Read more
View audiobookOf Human Kindness
By: Paula Marantz Cohen
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts... Read more
View audiobookكي لا أكتئب
By: وعد الدغيلبي
Narrated by: ألاء أحمد
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
تبدأ الكاتبة وعد العتيبي كتابها "كي لا أكتئب"، وهو أول عملٍ لها بإهدائه لكل قارئ، فهي لن تذكر أسماءً أو تعين أشخاصاً دون آخرين. تقول العتيبي: "كُنت أكتب على طاولتي بالمدرسة، وعلى أوراق دفتر مذكراتي اليومية. كنت أسخر من الكاتب حين ينعكف لأجل أن يكتب وها أنا الآن ُ أكتب بكتاب، ومنعزلة عن العالم بأجمعه وأعيش بالعالم الذي بين أسطر أحرفي. يا لسخرية... Read more
View audiobook#Mindsetpoesie. Dein Shift-Moment ist jetzt. Immer.
By: Carola Elisabeth
Narrated by: Carola Elisabeth
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
#Mindsetpoesie erzählt in ganz persönlichen Texten und Gedichten, wie sich innere Dunkelheit - und das Leben auf der Sonnenseite 10-15 Jahre "danach" - anfühlen. Das Poesie Hörbuch ist für jeden, der die Gewissheit braucht, dass er alles im Leben erreichen kann – egal, wie groß, wie klein, wie überlebenswichtig oder wie luxuriös das Ziel oder... Read more
View audiobookLenny Henry's What's So Great About...?
By: Lenny Henry
Narrated by: Lenny Henry
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of BBC radio shows presented by comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, TV presenter: Lenny Henry is a multi-talented Renaissance man with a wide range of interests. But there are a few things (and people) he just doesn't get, despite their iconic status - and in What's So Great About...?, he... Read more
The Real Wizard of Oz
By: Paul Brody
Narrated by: Jason Sullivan
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
★★★ You know his books, now discover his life ★★★For over 100 years, L. Frank Baum's classic fantasy series "The Wizard of Oz" has inspired films, books, and even fan clubs. Despite the success of the series, not a lot has been written about the author: L. Frank Baum.This biography looks at both the life and times of L. Frank Baum; it gives... Read more
View audiobookBatman and the Joker
By: Chris Richardson
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture.
Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by... Read more
الفراديس المصطنعة - في الحشيش والأفيون
By: شارل بودلير
Narrated by: هبة بيشاني
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
يتناول شارل بودلير في هذا الكتاب العلاقة الممكنة بين استعمال المخدّرات والإبداع الشعري متطرقاً إلى تجارب إبداعية أوروبية عديدة، مرتبطة بشكل أو بآخر بالتوظيفات الإبداعية للحشيش والأفيون في الشعر والسرد والموسيقى، مازجاً بين لغة علميّة أساسها البحث التاريخي والملاحظة المباشرة؛ وأسلوب شعري يخلّص هذا الكتاب من طابعه البحثي ويجعله واحداً من الكتب... Read more
View audiobookWhere Is Daddy? STAY PUT SERIES! - Abridged
By: Dominique Forbes
Narrated by: Hannah Vandavin
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Father brings joy to the home. A child becomes very excited to see the man of the house as he walks through the front door! (Now is a Father always ready to mentally and physically greet his child with the same amount of childlike animation? I think not! However, his very presence evokes enthusiasm nonetheless!)"Where is Daddy?" is a story... Read more
View audiobookThe Psychology of Harry Potter
By: Neil Mulholland, PhD
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Harry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of readers, but an examination of Harry, his friends, and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the muggle (and wizard!) mind. The twists and turns of the series, as well as the psychological depth and complexity of J. K. Rowling's characters,... Read more
View audiobookThe Psychology of Superheroes
By: Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD
Narrated by: Emily Ellet
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychologists get inside the human (and superhuman) mind, in these insightful essays about Batman, Wonder Woman, and many more of our favorite characters.
Why do superheroes choose to be superheroes? Where does Spider-Man's altruism come from, and what does it mean? Why is there so much prejudice against the X-Men, and how could they have... Read more
Further Up and Further In
By: Joseph Pearce
Narrated by: Jim Denison
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved by generations of readers, the Chronicles of Narnia are thought, erroneously, by some to be "mere children's stories." In this volume, Joseph Pearce thoroughly debunks the error as he skillfully explains why there is nothing "mere" about such stories. Rather, the Narnia books contain profound insights concerning the human condition.... Read more
View audiobookKnowledge Blaster Guide to Literature
By: Yucca Road Productions
Narrated by: Jerry Moss
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
What's that? You would love to be well-read and know so much more about all kinds of literary works? But just don't have the time to pore over volumes of best-known lore?You just got lucky.We were helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show when we realized we had accumulated enough material to help out almost... Read more
View audiobookArmas, gérmenes y acero
By: Jared Diamond
Narrated by: John Alex Toro
Length: 23 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Armas, gérmenes y acero, Premio Pulitzer 1998, cuestiona la prepotente visión occidental del progreso humano y nos ayuda a comprender cómo el mundo moderno y sus desigualdades han llegado a ser como son. Hace 13.000 años la evolución de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzó a tomar rumbos diferentes. La temprana domesticación de animales y el... Read more
View audiobookIn Search of the Color Purple
By: Salamishah Tillet
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more
View audiobookÉmile Zola
By: Brian Nelson
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as "naturalism" and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new realm of subjects,... Read more
View audiobookImpara il Tedesco Leggendo dei Brevi Racconti
By: Fiona Wagenar
Narrated by: Niccolò Lucciano & Christian Woelfig
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Preparati per il tuo prossimo viaggio!Leggere e ascoltare racconti brevi è un modo efficace e semplice per imparare il tedesco.Spesso impariamo solo vocabolario e grammatica non correlati, ma non sappiamo come formarne una frase e, al più tardi, quando arriviamo in aeroporto, preferiamo parlare inglese.
Ci sono molti modi per immergerti... Read more
Una Habitación propia - Abridged
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Mavi Lacovara
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Human
By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson,... Read more
View audiobookPoetry Marathon - Pandemic Poetry
By: Sophia Behal
Narrated by: Sophia Behal
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A friend extended an invitation to me to participate in a Poetry Marathon. Every day, for eight days, I wrote one poems, which are accompanied by a photograph. The poems will be translated into Russian and published in the almanac "Свежий взгляд" or FRESH VIEW and published in the Poetry Marathon by Sophia Behal with an audio poem production.... Read more
View audiobookUna habitación propia (Completo)
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Mavi Lacovara
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunción, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y muy particular. Una pregunta: ¿qué necesitan las mujeres para escribir buenas novelas? Una sola respuesta: independencia económica y... Read more
View audiobookPolitik als Beruf
By: Max Weber
Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"Politik als Beruf" war der zweite Vortrag der Vortragsreihe "Geistige Arbeit als Beruf", den Max Weber am 28. Januar 1919 vor dem Freistudentischen Bund, Landesverband Bayern gehalten hat (nach "Wissenschaft als Beruf" am 7. November 1917). Max Webers Analysen regen auch in der heutigen Zeit zum Nachdenken über politische Zusammenhänge an.... Read more
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