Stream Popular Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Basque] - Bittor eta biok: Bittor Kapanaga 'Euskal Sokratesen' gogoeta ondarea Author: Gontzal Mendibil Narrator: Joseba Sarrionandia, Xabier Amuriza, Gontzal Mendbil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Liburu hau 2011.eko uztailaren 13ko gauean hasten da. Bittor Kapanaga, konorte gabe, azken arnasetan dago Gasteizko Santiago ospitalean eta gau luze horretan ni neu bere ondoan jagole eta zelatari nagoelarik, biok biotara hainbat urtetan izan genituen elkarren arteko solasaldia bailitz, berarengandik hartutako eta ikasitako gogoetak eta kontaketak aurkituko dituzu bertan. Euskal kulturgileok ezizen ugariz bataiatu izan dugu: 'Rara Avis' Xabier Kintanak, 'Profeta' Jon Lopategik, 'Aitzindaria' Jose Luis Lizundiak, 'Aztia' Igor Elortzak, 'Euskeraren jagolea' Juan Manuel Etxebarriak, 'Otxandioko jakituna' Bitoriano Gandiagak, 'Druida' Joseba Sarrionandiak, 'Pentsalari-ikerlaria' Xabier Amurizak edota euskal Sokrates, beste hainbatek. Bittor, Amaren Sua biztu nahian zebilen neure jakin-minaren ezagutza handiko iturria izan dut. Psikologo-filosofoa ere bazen, euskeraren erroak ikertzen eta garatzen ziharduen euskaltzalea. Eta hizkuntza, ibilian dabilen harria, darabilguna eta garabiltzana dugunez: 'Bittor, Izan Gare, Bagare eta Izango Gare'. HITZAURREA: Joseba Sarrionandia.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anselm: A Very Short Introduction Author: Thomas Williams Narrator: Shea Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) was the outstanding philosopher-theologian of the Latin West between Augustine and the thirteenth century. As a public figure, especially as Archbishop of Canterbury, he corresponded with kings and nobles, popes and bishops, in letters that reveal a fascinating personality and flesh out the practical dimensions of his theoretical philosophy. He wrote at a time when a renewed interest in logic encouraged careful and rigorous argumentation, but before the recovery of Aristotle filled the philosophical discourse with difficult technical jargon, making for writing that is unrivalled for its lucidity and accessibility. He offers the first clear account of what we now call a libertarian view of free will, according to which free choices cannot be determined by the agent's internal states or by external influences. His famous 'ontological argument' for the existence of God continues to generate discussion, debate, and puzzlement. His understanding of God is rightly regarded as one of the definitive expressions of classical theism or perfect-being theology, which remains influential in philosophy of religion and analytic theology. His account of the Atonement is one that every theologian to this day still grapples with.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edward II: The Unconventional King Author: Kathryn Warner Narrator: Danielle Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness, and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward's own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ladies-in-Waiting: Women Who Served Anne Boleyn Author: Sylvia Barbara Soberton Narrator: Naomi Madelin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The aspects of Anne Boleyn's life and death are fiercely debated by historians, yet her ladies-in-waiting remain an understudied topic. Much emphasis is usually put on Anne's relationships with the men in her life: her suitors, her royal husband, her father and brother, and her putative lovers who were executed on May 17, 1536. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of Anne Boleyn's female household, this book seeks to identify the women who served Anne and investigate what roles ladies-in-waiting played in this Queen's household.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction Author: Dana Villa Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz philosophy in Germany, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger. Arendt escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, traveling first to Paris, and then in 1940 to the United States, where she gained citizenship in 1951. As director of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction she oversaw the collection and presentation of over 1.5 million articles of Judaica and Hebraica that had been hidden from or looted by the Nazis. This Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical ideas and political theories belonging to one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. As a survivor of the Holocaust, Arendt's life informed her work exploring the meaning and construction of power, evil, totalitarianism, and direct democracy. Dana Villa explains how Arendt gained world-wide fame with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism, and went on to have a distinguished career as a political theorist and public intellectual. A sometimes controversial figure, Arendt is now recognized as one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century and her works have become an acknowledged part of the Western canon of political theory and philosophy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the flag-draped presidential box, Abraham Lincoln watched the popular comedy on stage at the Ford Theater. As he laughed at a funny line--Bang! A single shot rang out from a small derringer, the sound barely audible over the laughter of the crowd. Abe slumped forward, blood running from behind his left ear. When President Lincoln died the next morning, the United States mourned as it had never mourned before. An assassin had killed the man who had led Americans through the bloody turmoil of the Civil War with an unswerving commitment to rebuilding a strong and united country. Abe Lincoln had never set his sights on becoming president; after all, he'd grown up in a log cabin on the frontier and had hardly any formal schooling. But as the quesion of slavery threatened to destroy the United Sates, this self-taught lawyer with a sharp mind and passion for justice found himself at the center of the greatest debate the nation had ever faced

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine Träne hat mich gerettet: Sie hielten mich für tot, aber ich kämpfte mich zurück ins Leben Author: Angèle Lieby Narrator: Astrid Schulz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 25, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Wegen starker Kopfschmerzen wird Angèle Lieby in die Notaufnahme gebracht. Als sie das Bewusstsein verliert, versetzt man sie in ein künstliches Koma, aus dem sie nicht mehr aufwacht. Die Ärzte erklären sie für tot und raten dem Ehemann, die Beerdigung vorzubereiten. Doch Angèle lebt. Eingesperrt in ihrem Körper leidet sie höllische Qualen. Erst als ihre Tochter sie anfleht, nicht zu gehen, rinnt ihr eine einzige Träne über die Wange. Dieses kleine Lebenszeichen ist ihre Rettung. Mit Hilfe der Familie kämpft sie sich Schritt für Schritt zurück ins Leben.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Familienbande - Vom Leben, Lieben und Loslassen - Die Autobiographie des bekannten Kroaten-Krimi-Kommissars (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Lenn Kudrjawizki Narrator: Lenn Kudrjawizki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die spannendsten Fälle schreibt das Leben Er spielt mit in dem oscar-prämierten Film Die Fälscher, mit Kevin Costner macht er während der Drehpausen im Wohnwagen Musik, als Kommissar im Kroatien-Krimi begeistert er regelmäßig ein Millionenpublikum. Das Leben von Lenn Kudrjawizki ist aufregend und abwechslungsreich und doch so viel mehr als eine reine Schauspielerbiografie. Schon als Kind hört Lenn von seinem Großvater die Geschichten seiner jüdischen Familie von Krieg, Flucht und Vertreibung. Seine Jugend in der DDR erlebt er wechselvoll und voller Umbrüche. Mit 18 wird er für den Film entdeckt, kurz darauf stirbt der geliebte Vater. Um der Trauer zu entfliehen, stürzt Lenn sich in die Arbeit. Die filmische Karriere nimmt Fahrt auf, doch innerlich geht es mit ihm immer weiter bergab. Nachdem sein Halbbruder ermordet wird, kommt es zum Zusammenbruch. Lenn Kudrjawizki schreibt offen und bewegend über sein Leben, seine beeindruckende europäisch-jüdische Familiengeschichte und die Kunst, zu leben, zu lieben und loszulassen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge Author: Chanrithy Him Narrator: Kalean Ung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity.' —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way 'worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child.' In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the 'killing fields.' She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BRITNEY: Breaking Free Author: Danny White Narrator: Rebecca Lachance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe and starred in iconic music videos but Britney Spears’ success has come at an almost unbearable price. As she enters her third decade in the spotlight, read the story of how a church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the Princess of Pop. Go behind the scenes of Britney’s battle to free herself from her notorious conservatorship and the impact it has had on a highly talented but fragile woman. This book lifts the lid on the controversies that have plagued her life, covers her romances and celebrates her many remarkable triumphs. A compelling and intimate portrait of the real Britney that brings her story up to date. - Danny White is the author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller 1D: The One Direction Story which has been translated into sixteen languages. He has also written successful biographies of Harry Styles, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Niall Horan, will.i.am and Johnny Depp.