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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wiener Tagebuch: Mein Alltag im roten Sumpf Author: Werner Reichel Narrator: Werner Reichel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Release date: January 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Wien gibt es keine ideologiefreien Räume. Über der ganzen Stadt schwebt der linke Geist der rot-grünen Regierung. Damit muss man hier leben. Das ist nicht immer einfach. Besonders für die wenigen Konservativen, die in diesem linken Biotop lediglich geduldet werden. Der Journalist und Autor Werner Reichel beschreibt mit scharfem Witz und viel Humor den Alltag in der letzten roten Hochburg des Landes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism Author: Glory M. Liu Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention. Liu tells the story of how an unassuming Scottish philosopher captured the American imagination and played a leading role in shaping American economic and political ideas. She shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the nineteenth century and was firmly associated with free trade, and how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Chicago School of Economics transformed him into the preeminent theorist of self-interest and the miracle of free markets. Liu explores how a new generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to recover Smith's original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral philosopher. Charting the enduring fascination that this humble philosopher from Scotland has held for American readers over more than two centuries, Adam Smith's America shows how Smith continues to be a vehicle for articulating perennial moral and political anxieties about modern capitalism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Do No Harm Author: Peter Sykes Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'? The devastating effect that the disruption has on their patients causes the young couple great concern. They are desperate to avoid being involved in industrial action - but are destined to be drawn in against their wishes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greatest Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson Author: Desmond Seward Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved, or ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop murdered, and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century after his death he was proclaimed 'Eternal King' and has been a national hero there ever since. Despite his bloodthirsty beginnings, Olav converted to Christianity and, in a personal vendetta against the old Norse gods, made Norway Christian too, thereby changing irrevocably the Viking world he was born into. Told with reference to Norse sagas, early chronicles, and the work of modern scholars, Desmond Seward paints an intensely vivid and colorful portrait of the life and times of arguably the greatest Viking of them all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II Author: Pearson Phillips Narrator: Nanette Newman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 1 minute Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen huge changes in the lifestyle and expectations of peoples and nations. She has proved to be the constitutional monarch par excellence – while primarily a figurehead she has guided the concept of monarchy through difficult times, both national and personal. And even when her family has been rocked by scandals, she has maintained a quiet dignity. In this informative yet entertaining audio-biography, Pearson Phillips reflects on her life and times.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I Author: Elizabeth Jenkins Narrator: Karen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Throughout her vivid life, Elizabeth I was the centre of a complicated web of political intrigue that made up the Elizabethan constitution. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her classic biography, reveals the woman behind the skilful politician, showing her belief in personal sacrifice to secure peace for the country she loved more than any man.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Was du nicht siehst: Diagnose Borderline – zwischen Todesangst und Lebenstraum: - Author: Saskia Hirschberg, Franziska Elea Narrator: Linda Cedli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich sterbe und keiner sieht es.' Solange sie sich zurückerinnern kann, lebt Franzi mit Angststörungen, später kam die Diagnose Borderline dazu. Wovor sie sich nicht fürchtet, ist, sich verletzlich zu zeigen. Die Autorin gibt nicht nur Einblicke in ihre eigene Geschichte, sondern bricht auch mit dem Stigma psychischer Krankheiten und legt schockierende Missstände in unserem psychiatrischen System offen.Wer den Instagram-Account von Franziska Elea besucht, sieht Bilder einer schönen jungen Frau: Sie trägt hübsche Kleider, führt eine glückliche Beziehung, zeigt sich verträumt in Blumenfeldern oder lachend am Urlaubsstrand – und über 200.000 Leute schauen ihr dabei zu. Doch kaum jemand weiß, was sich hinter der nur scheinbar perfekten Fassade verbirgt:Eine Kindheit und Jugend, die von emotionaler Vernachlässigung geprägt war, mehrere stationäre Therapie-Aufenthalte, der Wunsch, einem perspektivlosen Umfeld zu entfliehen, in dem Franzi immer die Aussätzige war. Sie gibt Einblicke in die Ursachen ihrer Krankheitsgeschichte, schildert ihre Erfahrungen in der Psychiatrie, die lange Suche nach wirklicher Hilfe und schließlich ihren Weg zur erfolgreichen Influencerin. Aufklärung im Bezug auf die komplexe Persönlichkeitsstörung Borderline liegt der Autorin ebenso am Herzen wie ein Appell an alle Hörer*innen: Über psychische Erkrankungen zu sprechen darf kein Tabu mehr sein und sich therapeutische Unterstützung zu suchen ist keine Schande.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser niño 'huacho' en la historia de Chile (siglo XIX) (Completo) Author: Gabriel Salazar Vergara Narrator: Natalia Valdebenito, Marcelo Pintos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Los textos que se reúnen en este libro dan cuenta de un continuo en escenarios distintos: niños pobres, huachos, los hijos de Rosaria hacia 1845, los hijos de Gregorio Ruiz hacia 1912, juan Machuca, de 14 años, hacia el 2000; todos ellos de laguna manera toman aquí la palabra para hablar de su cotidiano, de la suerte de sus padres, de su trabajo con ellos, de su soledad, de sus anhelos. Y al escucharlos sabemos que el futuro -el que les pertenecía y les pertenece- ha sido incierto para ellos, y, la mayoría de las veces, implacable en la discriminación y marginación.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms Author: Lisa Brahin Narrator: Eva Kaminsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village, killing Jewish residents. Channa described a perilous three-year journey through Russia and Romania, led at first by an American who had snuck into the Ukraine to save his immediate family and ended up leading an exodus of nearly eighty people to safety. With almost no published sources to validate her grandmother’s tales, Lisa embarked on an incredible journey to tell Channa’s story, forging connections with archivists around the world to find elusive documents to fill in the gaps of what happened in Stavishche. She also tapped into connections closer to home, gathering testimonies from her grandmother’s relatives, childhood friends, and neighbors. The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes—the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty. With the growing passage of time, it is unlikely that we will see another family saga emerge so richly detailing this forgotten time period. Tears Over Russia eloquently proves that true life is sometimes more compelling than fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En la sombra Author: Duque De Sussex Príncipe Harry Narrator: Aleix Peña Miralles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Fue una de las imágenes más desgarradoras del siglo XX: dos niños, dos príncipes, caminando detrás del féretro de su madre mientras el mundo contemplaba la escena con pesar... y horror. A la vez que se daba sepultura a Diana, princesa de Gales, miles de millones de personas se preguntaron qué debían de pensar y sentir esos príncipes y qué rumbo tomarían sus vidas en adelante. En el caso de Harry, esta es, por fin, esa historia. Con su franqueza directa y sin concesiones, En la sombra es una publicación que marcará un hito, llena de lucidez, revelaciones, introspección y sabiduría, adquirida a un alto coste, sobre el eterno poder del amor. Reseñas: «Un relato inquebrantable, introspectivo y bien escrito». Time «Tan ingenioso como convincente… [unas] memorias superventas». The New Yorker «Un testimonio demoledor sobre la vida en una jaula de oro». The Atlantic