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Title: [Spanish] - Reto bicentenario: Una mirada a las fracturas que limitan el desarrollo del Perú tras la pandemia

Author: David Reyes Zamora

Narrator: Victor Bedoya

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Release date: September 2, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A dos siglos de los primeros pasos de la independencia peruana, el libro Reto bicentenario. Una mirada a las fracturas que limitan el desarrollo del Perú tras la pandemia, del periodista David Reyes Zamora, traza una hoja de ruta conjunta para construir un mejor país en medio de la lucha contra el COVID-19 y afrontar las futuras dificultades una vez que logremos derrotarlo. Para ello, el autor entrevistó a 11 especialistas que analizan los problemas estructurales del Perú de hoy desde dos ejes transversales (política económica e innovación), y a partir de sus grandes retos económicos (informalidad, trabajo y mercado laboral, pobreza y desarrollo rural, e inclusión financiera), sectoriales (salud y educación), y políticos y sociales (desarrollo urbano y ciudadanía, lucha anticorrupción, y brecha de género y equidad). En este año del bicentenario, los desafíos para alcanzar el desarrollo del país en todos sus sectores son cada vez mayores. En respuesta, las 11 voces de las ciencias sociales congregadas en este libro contribuyen a unir las piezas para armar ese rompecabezas que llamamos Perú y así forjar el país en el que todos anhelamos vivir.

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Title: [Spanish] - Pensar México II (Pensar el mundo 2)

Series: #2 of Pensar el mundo

Author: Maruan Soto Antaki

Narrator: Bern Hoffman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

¿Hemos construido un país de solucionólogos y comentócratas? ¿Por qué la violencia y la humillación parecen inherentes a nuestra historia? Pensar México es una verdadera radiografía cultural de nuestro país. En Pensar Medio Oriente, Maruan Soto Antaki plantea preguntas esenciales para entender el mundo árabe(¿arabe es sinónimo de islámico? ¿Es indisociable el Islam del terrorismo? ¿Qué tan profundas son las raíces de los conflictos?) Ahora, centra su atención en un ámbito más cercano: México. Para entender Medio Oriente, debíamos dirigir nuestra mirada al lenguaje, pues ahí está el corazón de la cultura árabe. En el caso de México, hay que hacer lo mismo. La forma como hablamos y como callamos los mexicanos dice mucho de quiénes somos. Soto Antaki cuestiona la difundida idea de que, en México, el significado de las palabras varía dependiendo del contexto (según esto, podríamos insultar con afecto o sin tener la intención de agredir). Esto no es así: el problema es que, al relativizar el lenguaje al grado en el que lo hemos hecho, hemos vaciado a las palabras de significado. Ley, corrupción, orden: son palabras que pueden querer decir todo y nada. Esta erosión de significado revela un problema realmente grave, dado que el lenguaje es el principal elemento civilizatorio y que las élites culturales de nuestro país parecen haber renunciado a construir discursos públicos, ya sólo se hablan a sí mismas.

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Title: The American Nation: A History, Vol. 6: Provincial America, 1690–1740

Series: #6 of The American Nation Series

Author: Albert Bushnell Hart, Evarts Boutell Greene

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Volume 6 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime, there is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Six: To the period between 1689 and 1740 has been applied the term “The Forgotten Half-Century.” Most of the writers on colonial history in detail give special attention to the seventeenth century, the period of upbuilding; and general historians like Bancroft and Hildreth sweep rather lightly over the epoch between the English Revolution and the forerunners of the American Revolution. In distributing the parts of The American Nation, this period has been selected for special treatment, because within it are to be found the roots of many later institutions and experiences … Its theme is the essential difficulty of reconciling imperial control with the degree of local responsibility which had to be accorded to the colonists. From the Author’s Preface: In consequence of this attempt to formulate and put in force a system of colonial management, trouble inevitably arose between the people and the royal and proprietary governors in New York and the southern colonies; and between New England and the crown. With a government in England endeavoring to shape a definite program of control and a king on the throne who had no patience with the colonial demand for English liberties, it is little wonder that the era culminated in a series of exciting and dramatic episodes. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. ENGLAND AND THE COLONIES (1689)II. PROVINCIAL REORGANIZATION (1689–1692)III. EXTENSION OF IMPERIAL CONTROL (1689–1713)IV. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL OF THE PROVINCES (1689–1713)V. CONSTITUTIONAL TENDENCIES IN THE COLONIES (1689–1713)VI. PURITANS AND ANGLICANS (1689–1714)VII. FRENCH AND ENGLISH INTERESTS IN AMERICA (1689)VIII. KING WILLIAM’S WAR (1689–1701)IX.QUEEN ANNE’S WAR (1760–1709)X. ACADIA AND THE PEACE OF UTRECHT (1709–1713)XI. PROVINCIAL POLITICS (1714–1740)XII. PROVINCIAL LEADERS (1714–1740)XIV. IMMIGRATION AND EXPANSION (1690–1740)XV. FOUNDING OF GEORGIA (1732–1754)XVI. PROVINCIAL INDUSTRY (1690–1740)XVII. PROVINCIAL COMMERCE (1690–1740)XVIII. PROVINCIAL CULTURE (1690–1740)

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Title: Wicked Atlanta: The Sordid Side of Peach City History

Author: Laurel-Ann Dooley

Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Atlanta is the only American city to have been destroyed by fire as an act of war, and it has its share of salacious stories. Wealthy felons hosted elaborate parties inside the federal penitentiary. Billionaire bootleggers and murderous rich boys practiced corruption that reached all the way to the White House. Fast and fearless drivers, complete with glamorous reputations and criminal careers, gave rise to auto racing. Join author Laurel-Ann Dooley as she navigates the underworld of Atlanta's past filled with kidnapping, bribery, wives hiring hit men, and all sorts of criminal debauchery.

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Title: Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia

Author: Lisa M. Russell

Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks, and even entire towns disappeared. The creation of Lake Lanier displaced more than seven hundred families. During the construction of Lake Chatuge, busloads of schoolboys were brought in to help disinter graves for the community's cemetery relocation. Contractors clearing land for the development of Lake Hartwell met with seventy-eight-year-old Eliza Brock wielding a shotgun and warning the men off her property. Lisa Russell dives into the history hidden beneath North Georgia's lakes.

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Title: Wicked New Orleans: The Dark Side of the Big Easy

Author: Troy Taylor

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The author of Haunted New Orleans digs up NOLA's long and lawless history—from pirates and prostitutes to mobsters and murderers. Since as early as the 1700s, New Orleans has been a city filled with sin and vice. Those first pioneering citizens of the Big Easy were thieves, vagabonds, and criminals of all kinds. By the time Louisiana fell under American control, New Orleans had become a city of debauchery and corruption camouflaged by decadence. It was also considered one of the country's most dangerous cities, with a reputation of crime and loose morals. Rampant gambling and prostitution were the norm in nineteenth-century New Orleans, and over one-third of today's French Quarter was considered a hotbed of sin. Tales in this volume include that of the notorious Axeman who plagued the streets of the Crescent City in the early 1900s and Kate Townsend, a prostitute who was murdered by her own lover, a man who later was awarded her inheritance. Troy Taylor takes a look back at New Orleans's early wicked days and historic crimes.

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Title: I Have a Dream

Series: Part of The Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut

Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

Narrator: Amanda Gorman, Martin Luther King Jr., Blair Underwood

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 39 minutes

Release date: August 23, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword written and read by Amanda Gorman. A beautiful audio edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins, hear both the original recording of the speech and a new reading by Blair Underwood. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before thousands of Americans who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in the name of civil rights. Including the immortal words, “I have a dream,” Dr. King’s keynote speech would energize a movement and change the course of history. With references to the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Shakespeare, and the Bible, Dr. King’s March on Washington address has long been hailed as one of the greatest pieces of writing and oration in history. Profound and deeply moving, it is as relevant today as it was nearly sixty years earlier. This beautiful edition presents Dr. King’s speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

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Title: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Author: Kelly Lytle Hernández

Narrator: Joana Garcia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Release date: August 23, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 2

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Díaz, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of US authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The US Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice, as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world's first social revolution of the twentieth century. Taking listeners to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of US history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas' story integral to modern American life.

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Title: Heroes of Justice

Author: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this unique inspirational audiobook, together we take a deep dive and celebrate the almost superhuman contributions of the greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each of them educating, liberating, and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a cruel largely racist selfinterested exclusionary society. Fighting a Goliath of ignorance with little chance of success each, in their own way, overcoming incredible obstacles to implement the finer attributes of justice, truth, and freedom in the troubled unfair often brutal world around them. Painstakingly put together over two years by author Geoffrey Giuliano here is a unique inside look at the lives, loves, tragedies, and triumphs of our most precious black heroes of justice. An absolute must for any educational system, those interested in black studies, and everyone who counts themselves as a lover and defender of freedom everywhere. Featuring the histories and inspirational words of Huey P. Newton, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac Shakur, Congressman John Lewis and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With a timely moving contribution from Richie Havens and iconic singer Ben E. King.

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Title: [Spanish] - México lindo y herido: Lo más glorioso y lo más terrible de la historia mexicana

Author: Curiosamente

Narrator: Quecho Muñoz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

¿Santa Anna hizo algo bueno? ¿Porfirio Díaz fue un héroe? ¿Hidalgo y su ejército fueron crueles? ¿Por qué Benito Juárez es criticado? En México lindo y herido descubrirás los momentos más fascinantes de nuestra historia: los que nos enorgullecen y los que nos avergüenzan, los que nos alegran y los que quisiéramos que no hubieran ocurrido. Hallarás a los personajes más geniales y más ruines. Entenderás la complejidad de nuestra historia, sus matices e interpretaciones. ¡Y te asombrarás con tu país, mágico y alucinante! Búscanos en YouTube, Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como: CuriosaMente. Nuestra web: www.curiosamente.com