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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Tristam Summers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals. The attempts failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in some of his later political works. In his lifetime and after, Plato was considered almost divine. This led to the invention of many tall tales about him-both by those who adored him and his detractors. In this first ever full-length portrait of Plato, Robin Waterfield steers a judicious course among these stories, debunking some while accepting the kernels of truth in others. He explains why Plato chose to write dialogues rather than treatises and gives an overview of the subject matter of all of Plato's books. Clearly and engagingly written throughout, Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Author: Sasha Colby Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother's story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie Kühn-Leitz, Irina's rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of 'excessive humanity.' This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina's life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt Author: Charlotte Gray Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was at its height, France’s Second Empire flourished, and the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie, raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women’s roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies—Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley, and Jennie in the glittering world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Her deft social and political maneuverings helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed, her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks in large part to her financial support and to her guidance, Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser figures in the backdrop of history rather than as two remarkable individuals who were key in shaping the characters of the sons who adored them and in preparing them for leadership on the world stage. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, offering a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Author: Stephanie Saldaña Narrator: Raquel Beattie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories. Born of years of friendship and reporting, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction Author: Peter Adamson Narrator: David Stifel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sina's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called 'demonstration of the truthful,' a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sina and Islamic rational theology (kalam): in which we see how Ibn Sina responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sina's legacy in Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sina in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazali, al-Suhrawardi, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina Author: Wendy J Dunn Narrator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: María de Salinas, dama y fiel amiga de Catalina de Aragón, esposa de Enrique VIII, está en sus últimas horas. Ha compartido toda una vida con su desventurada reina y prima y, con ella, el destierro en un país, Inglaterra, lejos de la Castilla que la vio nacer. Hace tres años que la vio morir y ahora, demasiado enferma para viajar, escribe a su hija, Catherine Willoughby, la joven condesa de Suffolk, una carta en la que le cuenta su vida: una vida que no puede ser contada sin la de su reina y mejor amiga, Catalina de Aragón, hija menor de los Reyes Católicos. En dicha carta, le cuenta por qué tomó las decisiones que tomó en su vida, empezando por la de mantenerse siempre fiel a su reina y por qué quiso compartir su destino y quedarse en Inglaterra con ella, viviendo buenos y malos tiempos y hasta el final aciago de la infeliz reina.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Author: Rachael Hanel Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles Police in May 1974. How could a 'good girl' become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Rachael Hanel tells her story here, revealing both the deep humanity and the extraordinary circumstances of Camilla Hall's life. Her path from her Minnesota home to her final, radical SLA family featured years as an artist and activist—in welfare offices, political campaigns, union organizing, culminating in a love affair that would be her introduction to the SLA. Through research and interviews, Hanel pieces together Camilla's transformation. Camilla Hall's story is of interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Hanel ventures ever further into Camilla's past, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving journey into the dark side of America's promise. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On being 'the bad guy' Author: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 2, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been around people, yet still felt alone? Dr. bird has too. Within the first variant of their envirusmental series, they revealed thirty years of their late-in-life realized secrets. In this second volume, they, literally and figuratively, Zoom in on the last four 'unprecedented' ones. This includes them cutting-the-shit about how, half-way through their PhD, COVID-19 hit. And how, a couple years later, they added 'Dr.' to the front of their nickname. In typical 'bad guy' fashion, plague Dr. bird has more puns, cusswords, and trauma than all the answers on how to create our liberatory regenerative future. But, for now, they further diagnose how foundational U.S. issues severely sicken, disable, and kill us in the algorithmic envirusment. And,remind readers to drink water, do something nice for ourselves, and that we Abso-f*ckin-lutely deserve better than This Shit.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber Author: David Smart Narrator: Brian P. Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of climbing history covering Yosemite, the Tetons, the Gunks, the Alps, the United Kingdom, and more from the 1960s onward features star characters such as Liz Robbins—Robbins's wife and a pioneering adventurer in her own right—Yvon Chouinard, John Harlin, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, Tom Frost, and Doug Tompkins. An important addition to our knowledge of the Golden Age of rock climbing in Yosemite and the development of the clean climbing ethos, Royal Robbins sheds new light on an elemental figure of outdoor culture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders Author: Philippa Ryder Narrator: Jackie Meloche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 'My Name is Philippa,' prepare to be moved by a powerful story of love, transformation, and resilience. Katherine E. Zappone explains, This is primarily a love story. Philippa Ryder's journey to embracing her true self as a transgender woman has left an indelible mark on Irish culture. Growing up as a boy in the 1960s, she felt out of place, drawn to dressing in her sister's and later her wife's clothes. It wasn't until the 1990s that she discovered she wasn't alone in these feelings. Navigating the challenging path of transitioning from male to female, 'My Name is Philippa' tells an extraordinary tale of love, understanding, and the unwavering support of a family who stayed united as Philippa transformed from husband and father to wife and mother. In this heartfelt account, Philippa addresses many questions about what it means to be transgender, detailing the physical and emotional aspects of transition. Her story contributes to the global pursuit of freedom and empowerment for all individuals, regardless of gender identity. Through her honesty, courage, and perseverance, Philippa breaks the silence and encourages others to find their joy by embracing their authentic selves. This audiobook is a valuable resource for the transgender community, their allies, and anyone questioning their gender identity, as well as parents of transgender children and those seeking to learn more about transgender issues. Additionally, it offers insights for professionals in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion sectors, Employee Resource Groups across corporate and public sectors, and health and social service personnel.