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ID: 523791

Title: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

Author: Mary Beard

Narrator: Mary Beard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:41

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by bestselling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this bookagainst a background of todays sculpture warsMary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the twelve Caesars, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.

Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of now-forgotten weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority.

From Beards reconstruction of Titians extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIIIs famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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ID: 524319

Title: What's My Cat Thinking?: Understand What Makes Your Cat Tick And Deepen The Bond Between You

Author: Jo Lewis

Narrator: Charlotte Randle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:52:28

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Psychology

Summary:

Unlock the secret code of cats for a deeper connection with the feline in your life.

Why does my cat always sleep on my keyboard? How can I stop them bullying the dog? Why will they only drink from the bathroom tap? Do they even like me?

If you've ever wondered, as they sit on your head at 4am, what's going on behind your cat's inscrutable gaze, this audiobook has the answers. Drawing on animal behaviour, psychology and the latest research, it reveals what's really behind the amusing, endearing, or downright weird things cats do.

Cats may not telegraph their emotions (unlike the dogs they look down on!) but they do show their feelings, often quite subtly. This audiobook helps you to interpret your cat's body language and behaviours, so you'll know when they're confident and contented, and when they're telling you that something's not right.

Advanced Catwatching features put the spotlight on key behaviours such as sofa-scratching, while Survival Guides offer top tips for managing challenges such as moving house, or introducing a new cat into the family.

What's My Cat Thinking? will deepen your understanding of your cat and strengthen the unique connection between you. So when they give you that 4am wake-up call, at least you'll know why.

Dr Jo Lewis is an award-winning Veterinary Surgeon and director of The Cat Vet. With a lifelong love of cats, Jo has more than 20 years experience and is an active member of the International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM). She set up The Cat Vet to promote the health and wellbeing of cats by taking routine veterinary care to the place where cats feel most at ease - their own home.

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ID: 524326

Title: What's My Dog Thinking?: Understand Your Dog to Give Them a Happy Life

Author: Hannah Molloy

Narrator: Hannah Molloy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:04:48

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Psychology

Summary:

Learn to recognise what's on your dog's mind. What does it really mean when they roll over and show you their tummy? And why do they sometimes chase their own tails?

Drawing on the latest research in dog psychology, this audiobook reveals the secret meanings behind more than 80 canine behaviours, including the seven types of dog greeting and why some dogs just won't play fetch!

The meaning(s) and root of each behaviour are explained, picking out the subtle body language so you can learn to interpret what your dog is thinking. Practical tips follow, for how to respond to what your dog is telling you, guiding their behaviour through positive reinforcement techniques, if needed.

Advanced Dogwatching features help you explore key behaviours in greater depth, such as the 'prey drive' instinct that can set your dog off chasing. And strategic Survival Guides give you the top 5 best tips for successfully navigating everyday situations, such as playing in the park or visiting the vet.

With What's My Dog Thinking you can put yourself in their paws and keep your canine companion happy, stimulated, well-behaved - and adorable!

Hannah Molloy is a leading behaviour expert on the Channel 4 TV show Puppy School. With a BSc in Animal Behaviour and over 15 years experience in the field, Hannah is director of the Pawfect Dogsense training school in Birmingham.

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ID: 536744

Title: Book of Form and Emptiness

Author: Ruth Ozeki

Narrator: Kerry Shale, Ruth Ozeki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:53:10

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Coming of Age

Summary:

WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.

 

At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many.

 

And he meets his very own Book—a talking thing—who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

 

With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.

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ID: 754501

Title: My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech

Author: Tanya Goodin

Narrator: Tanya Goodin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:25:39

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

What are you willing to lose for a connected life? Digital detox expert Tanya Goodin explores the cost that our digital life inflicts on our offline existence, and offers a toolkit to anyone who has lost their way.

Whether you are dealing with a partner who is mindlessly scrolling rather than listening to you (phubbing), flooding social media with your child’s image (sharenting), or panicking whenever you misplace your phone (nomophobia), learn how to recognise and label harmful habits– both of yourself and others – and find actionable answers in this book.

The collision of our online and offline worlds has left us more dependent on technology than ever before, and even more desperate to log off. My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance and addressing strange new social norms.

Complete with diagnostic guides to tell-tale signs and a manifesto for improved digital citizenship, this habit-improving bible offers the conversation-starting vocabulary we so desperately need to understand and untangle our relationship with technology for a more humane world.

Among the scenarios included are:

- Doomscrolling – endlessly consuming doom-and-gloom news, a habit perpetuated by attention-seeking algorithms that triggers anxiety and depression;

- Comparison Culture – 52% of teens feel less confident because of feeling inadequate when comparing their social media profiles with other people’s;

- Vampire Shoppers – dead-of-night, sleepless shoppers who spend a third more than daytime shoppers, and range from nocturnal gamers to exhausted parents;

- Digital Legacies – before the end of the century there could be 4.9 billion deceased internet users, yet only 7% of us want our online profiles maintained after death;

- Cyberchondria – Dr Google is causing a wave of misdiagnoses from anxious searchers, with 35% of all US adults among this number;

- Clicktivism – also known as slacktivism, is virtue signalling through performative alignment with online causes, but can it ever amount to meaningful change?

Both a wake-up call and a user’s guide, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance.

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ID: 537783

Title: Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics

Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Narrator: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed author Anne-Marie Slaughter tells a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political lives

America and much of the world are deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughters candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future.

Weaving together personal stories and reflections with insights from the latest research in the social sciences, Slaughter recounts a difficult time of selfexamination and growth in the wake of a crisis that changed the way she lives, leads, and learns. She connects her experience to our national crisis of identity and values as the country looks into a four-hundred-year-old mirror and tries to confront and accept its full reflection. The promise of the Declaration of Independence has been hollow for so many for so long. That reckoning is the necessary first step toward renewal. The lessons here are not just for America. Slaughter shows how renewal is possible for any individual or institution that is willing to see themselves with new eyes and embrace radical honesty, risk, resilience, interdependence, grace, and vision.

Part personal journey, part manifesto, Renewal offers hope tempered by honesty and is essential reading for citizens, leaders, and change makers of tomorrow.

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ID: 502559

Title: Iron Widow (Book 1)

Author: Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrator: Rong Fu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:14:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Penguin Teen

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!

A USA Today bestseller!

Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.

 

When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​

 

To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

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ID: 525816

Title: Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

Author: Jesse Wente

Narrator: Jesse Wente

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:53:46

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction

SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book Award

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read.'

—Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and Sufferance

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort.

Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.

Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions.

As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him.

Wente analyzes and gives voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous peoples and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples' best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place.

Wente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels 'the two founding nations' myth, and insists that the notion of 'reconciliation' is not a realistic path forward. Peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can't be recovered through reconciliation--because no such relationship ever existed.

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ID: 519303

Title: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Author: Chen Qiufan, Kai-Fu Lee

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Feodor Chin, James Chen, Mirron Willis, Siho Ellsmore, Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:04:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-21

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?

AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up-both to AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.

In this provocative, utterly original work of 'scientific fiction,' Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, set twenty years in the future, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings:

In San Francisco, a new industry, 'job reallocation,' arises to serve displaced workers

In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship

In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI gets in the way of romance

In Seoul, virtual teachers offer orphaned twins new ways to learn and connect

In Munich, a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot imperils the world

By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future-while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.

© Chen Qiufan 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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ID: 537623

Title: Some Call It Love

Author: Sarah Peis

Narrator: Ava Erickson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:24:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

The best feel-good romcom you need right now.

A mistaken arrest, an unpaid debt, and a trip to Vegas.

Living in a small town where everyone knows your business isnt easy. But when your dad is the business everyone talks about, its even harder.

When Willa Montgomery becomes collateral to pay off her dads debt to local playboy Jameson Drake, she realizes things can always get worse.

Forced to work for Jameson, she soon realizes there is more to him than meets the eye. Behind the delectable wrapping and gruff demeanor is a good guy whos ready to help whenever Willa needs him. And the way he looks at her makes her think that the rumors are wrong. Because just maybe he doesnt hate her as much as she thought.

But has the former player really changed, or is he just warming up for his big game?

This is the first book in the Sweet Dreams series and can be read as a standalone.

Note from the author: In order not to get kicked out of the good (okay goodish.... fine, sometimes good) girls club, Id like to point out that this is a steamy romcom and my characters use bad language (sometimes) and like to get it on. Theres no cheating and all my books have a HEA.

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