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Title: A Rare Recording of Film Icon James Cagney

Author: James Cagney

Narrator: James Cagney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 12 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

James Francis Cagney Jr., born in New York City, (July 17, 1899 - March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. Cagney won the Academy Award in 1943 for his performance in Yankee Doodle Dandy. For his contributions to the film industry, Cagney was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1974. The following recording is from a 1980 interview.

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Title: [Portuguese] - Crie de manhã, administre à tarde: Os segredos empresariais por trás do gênio

Author: Guther Faggion, Renata Sturm, Mauricio De Sousa

Narrator: Renata Sturm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

UM MAURICIO, DOIS MAURICIOS... Quando pesquisamos a palavra 'negócios' associada ao Mauricio de Sousa, não há muito conteúdo disponível. Este Mauricio (empreendedor) por trás do Mauricio (criativo) certamente é uma das facetas menos conhecidas de um homem que se tornou parte do imaginário do brasileiro por quatro gerações. É difícil visualizá-lo na sala de espera de um banco aguardando um gerente liberar um empréstimo para salvar sua empresa. Se você é brasileiro, acredita em um sonho e decidiu empreender, sabe que essa cena faz parte da realidade. O Mauricio que poucos conhecem, nasceu na barbearia de seu pai, exatamente no dia em que o sr. Antonio de Sousa deu ao filho o mais importante de todos os conselhos e que norteou para sempre seus caminhos: 'Crie de manhã, administre à tarde' . Esses Mauricios que se misturam – o criativo e o empreendedor – em uma personalidade tímida e, ao mesmo tempo, carismática, formam o espírito que determina toda a filosofia de negócios do Mauricio. Um depende do outro, como gêmeos siameses indivisíveis. Se a parte criativa é admirada no Brasil e no mundo, a parte empreendedora, muitas vezes silenciosa e discreta, foi a responsável por sustentar um sonho que se tornou mil vezes realizado. 'Conhecer a trajetória de Mauricio como empresário é inspirador para todos que se veem no desafio de empreender para realizar seu grande sonho. Mesmo com diversas negativas, Mauricio soube unir desenho e empreendedorismo, construindo uma empresa que é orgulho a todos os brasileiros.' BRUNO BLUWOL Gerente Sênior de Produções Locais na The Walt Disney Company Brasil. . 'Ninguém colaborou para tantos brasileiros gostarem de ler quanto o Mauricio de Sousa. Você, que viveu as aventuras da Turma da Mônica, já conhece o Mauricio autor. Agora, delicie-se com as lições e aprendizados que o Mauricio empreendedor desenvolveu enquanto criou um verdadeiro império.' RICARDO AMORIM Economista mais influente do Brasil e umas das cem pessoas mais influentes do país, segundo a revista Forbes.

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Title: [Catalan] - Homenatge a Catalunya

Author: George Orwell

Narrator: Roger Batalla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

L'edició definitiva de l'assaig de George Orwell sobre la Guerra Civil Espanyola, prologat per Miquel Berga i amb una nova traducció a càrrec de Jordi Ainaud. Homenatge a Catalunya és una obra imprescindible per conèixer aspectes essencials de la Guerra Civil Espanyola. El relat d'Orwell ha esdevingut un testimoni únic que recull les seves experiències a Barcelona i al Front d'Aragó. L'autor britànic va arribar el desembre del 1936 a una Barcelona en plena efervescència revolucionària i es va allistar de seguida a les milícies del POUM. Va tornar del front perquè una bala franquista li travessà el coll. Paradoxalment, va haver de fugir de Barcelona perseguit per les mateixes forces estalinistes que havien liquidat el dirigent del POUM Andreu Nin, després dels Fets de Maig de 1937. Aquesta edició inclou la versió definitiva de l'obra, un pròleg del professor i escriptor Miquel Berga, que reconstrueix amb mestratge la història editorial del llibre, i l'assaig 'La guerra d'Espanya en retrospectiva'. Escrit per Orwell el 1942, quatre anys després de la publicació d'Homenatge a Catalunya, aquest assaig es llegeix ara com un text clau per entendre l'impacte que va suposar per a Orwell la vivència de la guerra.

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Title: The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History

Author: Oliver Tearle

Narrator: Greg Wagland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating tour through the curious history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention – the book. As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, Oliver Tearle also dusts off some of the more neglected items to be found hidden among the bookshelves of the past. You'll learn about the forgotten Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens, the woman who became the first published poet in America and the eccentric traveller who introduced the table-fork to England. Through exploring a variety of books – novels, plays, travel books, science books, cookbooks, joke books and sports almanacs – The Secret Library highlights some of the most fascinating aspects of our history. It also reveals the surprising connections between various works and historical figures. What links Homer's Iliad to Aesop's Fables? Or Wisden Cricketers' Almanack to the creator of Sherlock Holmes? The Secret Library brings these little-known stories to light, exploring the intersections between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world over 3,000 years.

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Title: [Spanish] - Vida: Mi historia a través de la historia

Author: Papa Francisco

Narrator: Josema Soler, Miguel Coll

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: March 20, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

«No hay que olvidar la lección más importante: podemos releer la historia de nuestra vida para hacer memoria y poder transmitir algo a quien nos escucha. Pero para aprender a vivir, todos tenemos que aprender a amar». Francisco El papa Francisco cuenta por primera vez la historia de su vida a través de los acontecimientos que han marcado a la humanidad en los últimos ochenta años. Unas vivencias inéditas en las que comparte los orígenes de las audaces ideas que han sido testigo de su pontificado: Desde sus valientes declaraciones contra la pobreza, su preocupación por la destrucción del medioambiente hasta la exhortación directa a los líderes mundiales en temas como la lucha contra las desigualdades o la carrera armamentística. Jorge Mario Bergoglio acompaña al lector en un viaje extraordinario que comienza con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en 1939 ―cuando el futuro pontífice tenía casi tres años― hasta nuestros días. En sus páginas la voz del papa se alterna con la de un narrador que en cada capítulo reconstruye el escenario histórico en el que se enmarca. En palabras del pontífice: «Vida ve la luz para que, sobre todo los más jóvenes, puedan escuchar la voz de un anciano y reflexionar sobre lo que ha vivido nuestro planeta, para no repetir los errores del pasado. Pensemos, por ejemplo, en las guerras que azotaron y que azotan el mundo. ¡Pensemos en los genocidios, en las persecuciones, en el odio entre hermanos y hermanas de diferentes religiones! ¡Cuánto dolor! Al llegar a cierta edad es importante, incluso para nosotros mismos, volver a abrir el libro de los recuerdos y hacer memoria, para aprender mirando atrás en el tiempo, para encontrar lo que no es bueno, aquello tóxico que hemos vivido junto a los pecados cometidos, pero también para revivir lo bueno que Dios nos ha enviado. Es un ejercicio de descernimiento que deberíamos hacer todos, ¡antes de que sea demasiado tarde!».

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Title: A Rare Recording of Barbara Stanwyck

Author: Barbara Stanwyck

Narrator: Barbara Stanwyck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 14 minutes

Release date: March 19, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Catherine Stevens (July 16, 1907 - January 20, 1990), was an American actress, model and dancer. During her 60-year professional career, Stanwyck was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility. She was nominated four times for a Best Actress Academy Award, received an Honorary Oscar in 1982, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. This recording includes a 1989 interview, followed by a 1965 interview.

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Title: The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections

Author: Suraj Yengde, Anand Teltumbde

Narrator: Rajiv Dadia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Release date: March 19, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

This landmark volume, edited and introduced by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde, establishes B.R. Ambedkar as the most powerful advocate of equality and fraternity in modern India. While the vibrant Dalit movement recognizes Ambedkar as an agent for social change, the intellectual class has celebrated him as the key architect of the Indian Constitution and the political establishment has sought to limit his concerns to the question of reservations. This remarkable volume seeks to unpack the radical in Ambedkar's legacy by examining his life work from hitherto unexplored perspectives.Although revered by millions today primarily as a Dalit icon, Ambedkar was a serious scholar of India's history, society and foreign policy. He was also among the first dedicated human rights lawyers, as well as a journalist and a statesman. Critically evaluating his thought and work, the essays in this book-by Jean Drèze, Partha Chatterjee, Sukhadeo Thorat, Manu Bhagavan, Anupama Rao and other internationally renowned names-discuss Ambedkar's theory on minority rights, the consequences of the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism, Dalit oppression in the context of racism and anti-Semitism, and the value of his thought for Marxism and feminism, among other global concerns.An extraordinary collection of immense breadth and scholarship that challenges the popular understanding of Ambedkar, The Radical in Ambedkar is essential reading for all those who wish to imagine a new future.

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Title: Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany

Author: Anne Berg

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Release date: March 19, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Paper, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones—the Nazi empire demanded its population collect anything that could be reused. Citizens conjured up schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, no matter the cost to people or the environment. As WWII dragged on, rescued loot—much of it waste—clogged transport routes and piled up in warehouses across Europe. Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, Anne Berg shows that the management of waste was central to the politics of war and to the genesis of genocide in the Nazi Germany. Destruction and recycling were part of an overarching strategy to redress raw material shortages, procure lebensraum, and cleanse the continent of Jews and others considered undesirable. Resource extending schemes obscured the crucial political role played by virtually all German citizens to whom salvaging, scrapping, and recycling were promoted as inherently virtuous and orderly behaviors. Throughout Nazi occupied-Europe, Jews, POWs, concentration camp inmates, and enemy civilians were forced to recycle the loot, discards, and debris of the Nazi race war. In the end, the materials that were fully exploited and the people who had been bled dry were cast aside, buried, burned, or left to rot. Nonetheless, waste reclamation did not have the power to win the war.

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Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - De schaduw van Tambora: De grootste natuurramp sinds mensenheugenis

Author: Philip Dröge

Narrator: Philip Dröge

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Release date: March 18, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Het meeslepende verhaal van een van de grootste vulkaanuitbarstingen aller tijden 'Dröge belicht zijn onderwerp van alle kanten en levert een meeslepend boek af.' Trouw In april 1815 vond op het eiland Soembawa, in het toenmalige Nederlands-Indië, de grootste vulkaanuitbarsting sinds mensenheugenis plaats. Deze uitbarsting verbijsterde behalve de plaatselijke bevolking ook de koloniale overheersers. De enorme aswolk die na de eruptie over de wereld dreef, zorgde voor hagel op Sri Lanka en sneeuw in het zuiden van de VS. Twee natuurverschijnselen die daarvoor én daarna nooit meer zijn waargenomen. Het boek volgt de wolk die na de uitbarsting over de hele wereld heen trekt. Dröge beschrijft hoe men wereldwijd tegen het unieke fenomeen aankeek en hoe men het niet altijd als een natuurverschijnsel zag, maar vaak ook als een goddelijk teken. De schaduw van Tambora vertelt het ongelooflijke verhaal van de mega-uitbarsting en de opkomst van de moderne wetenschap. Het is een reisboek en het geeft een prachtig tijdsbeeld, maar het is bovenal een geweldig verhaal. De pers over De schaduw van Tambora: 'Verborgen geschiedenis – opgedist met een fijn huivergehalte.' Frank Westerman 'In zijn prettig geschreven De schaduw van Tambora beschrijft Dröge de verbijsterende gevolgen van deze uitbarsting wereldwijd. […] Een bijzonder leerzaam boek.' NRC Handelsblad 'Geologische thriller en pageturner, geschreven met vakmanschap en bijzonder fraai uitgegeven. Vijf sterren.' De Standaard 'Geen boek om je bij te vervelen.' Het Parool Philip Dröge is schrijver, columnist en onderzoeksjournalist. Naast zijn boeken schreef hij de korte verhalen Barbarenzaken en De Republiek Groningen. Zijn boeken zijn vertaald in het Duits en Italiaans, en werden genomineerd voor de Jan Wolkers Prijs en de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs.

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Title: The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

Author: Michiko Kakutani

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2024

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger. As people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider – the protester, the populist, the hacker. Some of these outsiders have sown chaos, like Donald Trump, and others have provided inspirational leadership, like Volodymyr Zelensky. But all have grasped this precarious moment to make something new. Writing with a critic’s incisive understanding of cultural trends, Michiko Kakutani outlines the consequences of these new asymmetries of power, and looks back to similar hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the aftermath of the Second World War, to find a way forward. For there is, Kakutani argues, always the promise of transformation in times of turmoil. We can surrender to the waters, give in to the gathering chaos, or we can use the wave’s momentum to propel us into a more stable and sustainable future.