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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Schnitt! - Die ganze Geschichte der Chirurgie erzählt in 28 Operationen (Ungekürzt) Author: Arnold van de Laar Narrator: Stefan Barth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs - der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht. Eingehend widmet er sich Erkrankungen und Verletzungen bekannter Persönlichkeiten wie Bob Marley, Kaiserin Sissi, Lenin, Königin Victoria, Einstein und Präsident Kennedy. Dabei geht es nicht nur um Operationen berühmter Persönlichkeiten, sondern auch um überraschende Fakten. Wussten Sie zum Beispiel, dass Albert Einstein viel länger gelebt hat, als man es eigentlich für möglich gehalten hatte? Dass englische Könige am liebsten in ihrem eigenen Schloss operiert wurden, dass Kaiserin Sissi mit sechzig Jahren niedergestochen wurde oder dass John F. Kennedy und Lee Harvey Oswald von demselben Chirurgen operiert wurden? In diesem Hörbuch erfahren wir: *Was Chirurgie ist und welche Bedeutung sie früher hatte; *Wie ein Körper auf das Eindringen eines Messers, einer Bakterie, einer Krebszelle oder einer Kugel reagiert; *Was sich durch eine Operation reparieren lässt und was nicht; *Wie man bei der Rettung eines Menschenlebens genau vorgeht; *Woher die gängigsten Operationen stammen, und wer sie erfunden hat. 'Schnitt' ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die Königsdisziplin der Medizin, fesselnd erzählt von einer Koryphäe auf dem Gebiet der Chirurgie. Arnold van de Laar, Jahrgang 1969, studierte Medizin in Löwen und Heidelberg. Seine erste Stelle als Chirurg führte ihn auf die Karibikinsel Sint Maarten. Seit 2003 arbeitet er als chirurgischer Chefarzt in Amsterdam. Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel: 'Onder het mes. De beroemdste patiënten en operaties uit de geschiedenis van de chriurgie'. © 2014 Arnold van de Laar © 2015 Pattloch Verlag Ein Imprint der Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur GmbH & Co. KG, München. Übersetzung von Bärbel Jänicke. (P) 2022 ABP Verlag

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic Author: John E. O’neill, Sarah C. Wynne Narrator: Russell Niemand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “God is on your side? Is he a conservative? The Devil is on my side, he’s a good communist.”—Joseph Stalin In the wee hours of January 23, 1931, the world’s greatest ballerina lay dying. As her lungs filled with fluid, the exiled Russian, Anna Pavlova, gasped to doctors that she had been “poisoned” by food in Paris, but to no avail. To a watching world, she symbolized the glories of pre-Soviet Russia. And for that, she had to die. Joseph Stalin, chief murderer and dictator of the USSR, devised the most devastating system of poison labs and bioweapons the world had yet seen. In his effort to consolidate power, his assassins spread across the globe, striking dead dozens of famed exiles even as he slaughtered millions of his own people. But the dictator’s diabolical fascination with toxins did not end with his death or even the collapse of the Soviet Union. In The Dancer and the Devil, #1 nationally bestselling author John O’Neill teams up with Sarah Wynne to expose the toxic reign of terror continuing today. As engaging as a novel and packed with historical research and testimonies from modern victims of communism, The Dancer and the Devil reveals how the spirit of Stalin lives on in the hideous human experiments being conducted in the concentration camps of North Korea, in Putin’s blatant assassination plots, and in the bioweapon plans of the People’s Republic of China.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times Author: Anne C. Heller Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed biographer presents “a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher” and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews). Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. Arendt’s first book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, single-handedly altered the way generations around the world viewed fascism and genocide. Her most famous work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, created fierce debate that continues to this day, exacerbated by the posthumous discovery that she had been the lover of the philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a “conscious pariah”—one of those rare people who doesn’t “lose confidence in ourselves if society does not approve us” and will not “pay any price” to gain the acceptance of others.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Rose: Stories of My Horses: Volume II Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Carrying on from The Mare and the Mouse, this series, The Stories of My Horses, is not just a compendium of imaginative romantic narratives written to casually entertain the horse loving public. As romantically remembered as they might seem to be, they are actually straightforward historical accounts of what happens when a life-loving fool like me, a native of that beautiful land-locked, cultural island called Northern New Mexico, who in the latter half of the 20th century, decides he must live his everyday life in direct defiance of the soul-shrinking threat of modernity’s earth-wrecking ugliness and mediocre existence, by keeping some modicum of the bright shine and outrageous living passion of our real souls alive by flying free and beautiful on the backs of flesh and blood horses over a live unpeopled, unmanicured land… I’ll admit I’m a romantic and heroic. But to be honest, it’s not my fault: it’s the fault of all the horses I’ve ever known. For horses since forever, real horses I mean, have always been romantic, noble and heroic by definition of their very existence, and to be with them well, you too have to develop a soul that corresponds! In my romantic struggle for beauty in an unromantic mechanical age, my horses, simply by how they were, and how we looked, and how we were together, although no more than a tiny broadside against the ghost ship of mediocrity of this crazy age was some kind of victory just by the fact that we still existed. Horses inspire courage against hopeless odds just by their courage and beauty.” –from the Introduction to The Wild Rose

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught between East and West Author: Fouad Ajami Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s—the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east and west. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami’s sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s. The time was a transitional one—not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East—the Cold War, the Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the Gulf—were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt into full view.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 20 Hrs. 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story Author: Amelia Earhart Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Amelia Earhart captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane. This audiobook, her personal account of the historic flight, sparkles with her high-spirited charm and adventurous determination. Narrated by a fellow female pilot with a voice reminiscent of Earhart’s mid-West twang, this audiobook includes logbook entries from the historic flight, as well as an autobiographical account of her young adult life and fascination with airplanes and a serious-minded discussion of the future of flight and the important role of women in aviation. 20 Hrs. 40 Min. remains a classic tale of adventure to this day. Includes a bonus PDF with illustrations and photos, including photos of actual logbook pages from Amelia’s flight

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy, and Nature Author: Iain Mccalman Narrator: Daniel Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On an East African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year-old American woman, casually captured a baby female monkey, never dreaming this act would overturn both their lives. Delia’s life was isolated and often lonely in an overpoweringly masculine world. She decided to name the monkey JT Jr and study her interactions with humans; a long-frustrated desire to adopt a child led her to also lose her heart to this lovable animal. This relationship with a feisty, intelligent Vervet unlocked Delia’s latent talents of research and observation, anticipating both Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee writings and Margaret Mead’s Samoan ethnographies. It illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality by reinstating an obscured story of a dedicated amateur primatologist. Iain McCalman uses records, official and informal, to build a story of passionate love and hate among women, men, animals, and museums that predates our times but speaks to our present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Taste of Life: The Last Days of U.G. Krishnamurti Author: Mahesh Bhatt Narrator: Mahesh Bhatt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: U.G. Krishnamurti famously described enlightenment as a neurobiological state of being with no religious, psychological or mystical implications. He did not lecture, did not set up organizations, held no gatherings and professed to have no message for mankind. Known as the ‘anti-guru’, the ‘raging sage’ and the ‘thinker who shuns thought’, U.G. spent his life destroying accepted beliefs in science, god, mind, soul, religion, love and relationships?all the props man uses to live life. Having taken away all support systems from those who came to him, he refused to replace them with those of his own; always insisting that each must find his own truth. And when U.G. knew that it was time for him go, he refused all attempts to prolong life with medical help. He let nature, and his body, take their course. On the afternoon of 22 March 2007, U.G. Krishnamurti passed away in Vallecrosia, Italy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Indonesian] - Kisah Hikayat Ruh Wanita Muslimah Yang Bebas Dari Siksa Kubur Alam Barzakh Karena Syafaat Salawat Nabi Muhammad SAW Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 5, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Audiobook Kisah Hikayat Ruh Wanita Muslimah Yang Bebas Dari Siksa Kubur Alam Barzakh Karena Syafaat Salawat Nabi Muhammad SAW Edisi Bahasa Indonesia Sebuah kisah tentang keistimewaan selawat kepada Nabi Nabi Muhammad SAW, diceritakan dari Tsimarul Yani‘ah fir Riyadhil Badi‘ah karya Syekh Muhammad Nawawi Dari Banten. Bermula ketika seorang ibu tua mendatangi Imam Sufi Al-Hasan Al-Bashri Dari Madinah. Ia bercerita, baru saja ditinggal mati anaknya yang perempuan. Kepada Imam Al-Hasan Al-Bashri, ia menyampaikan kerinduan mendalam kepada anaknya. “Saya merasa kehilangan. Saya ingin mengetahui keadaan si anak. Saya ingin berjumpa dengan putri saya, meski dalam mimpi,” katanya.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Gujarati] - Prakash No Padachhayo Author: Dinkar Joshi Narrator: Darshan Jariwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 8, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: દિનકર જોશી ની લખેલી પુસ્તક પ્રકાશ નો પડછાયો નું ઓડિયો રૂપાંતર દર્શન જરીવાલા ની આવાઝ માં ગુજરાતી નવલકથા ક્ષેત્રે જીવનકથનાત્મક નવલકથાઓની આગવી જ કેડી કંડારનારી આ નવલકથા ગાંધીજીના જ્યેષ્ઠ પુત્ર હરિલાલના જીવન ઉપર આધારિત છે. ગાંધીજીના પારિવારિક જીવનમાં પિતા પુત્ર વચ્ચેનો માનસિક સંઘર્ષ એમની કરુણાંતિકા હતી. આ કરુણાંતિકામાં કસ્તુરબાની વ્યથા સર્વથી અધિક હતી. 'પ્રકાશનો પડછાયો ' એક વિશ્વવંદ્ય પુરુષના પરિવારનું અજાણ્યું પાસું પહેલી જ વાર પ્રગટ કરે છે. આ નવલકથા 'સમકાલીન' , 'લોકસત્તા' તથા 'જનસત્તા' માં ધારાવાહિક રૂપે પ્રગટ થઈ હતી. એ ઉપરાંત એનો હિંદી અનુવાદ મુંબઈના હિંદી દૈનિક 'જનસત્તા' તથા લખનૌના હિંદી દૈનિક 'જાગરણ' માં ધારાવાહિક થયો હતો. ગુજરાતી ઉપરાંત આ પુસ્તક હિંદી, મરાઠી, તેલુગુ, તમિલ, બાંગલા, ઓરિયા, અંગ્રેજી તથા જર્મન ભાષામાં પ્રસિધ્ધ થઈ ચૂક્યું છે. તેમ જ આ પુસ્તક પરથી ગુજરાતી, હિંદી મરાઠી તથા અંગ્રેજીમાં નાટકો ભજવાયા છે. આ કથાનક પર આધારિત અંગ્રેજી તથા હિંદી ફિલ્મ 'ગાંધી માય ફાધર' બની છે.