Non-Fiction Audiobooks

Second Child: Essential Information and Wisdom to Help You Decide, Plan and Enjoy

From changes in workload, sibling rivalry, money and relationship issues, to health and well-being, an addition to your family raises questions, challenges and emotions. Offering a practical and reassuring guide, this book provides the tried and tested expert advice, supplemented with the voices of parents and children, to help you successfully navigate the difficult decision of welcoming a second child. A trusted companion for parents alike, feel positive, prepared and excited about your new family with 'Second Child: Essential Information and Wisdom to Help You Decide, Plan and Enjoy'. - Doreen Rosenthal PhD (born 1938) is an Australian academic researcher, specialising in adolescent sexual and women's health. In 2020, Rosenthal was appointed Professor Emerita in the School of Population Health at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Her research spans studies of homeless young people, drug use and HIV risk, along with women's sexual health. Her recent self-help books include 'The Psychology of Family History: Exploring our Genealogy' and 'Second Child: Essential Information and Wisdom to Help You Decide, Plan and Enjoy'. She provides expert advice with a reassuring human touch. Susan Moore was born in Melbourne and is a university researcher and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She has co-authored several books, articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals. Many with a focus on life span developmental issues, particularly the psychology of adolescence and risk-taking. She has worked as a psychologist and researcher in universities and schools for over 40 years and is now semi-retired. She has a daughter, stepdaughter and stepson, as well as three primary school-aged grandchildren.

Doreen Rosenthal, Susan Moore (Author), Leslie Gray Robbins (Narrator)

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The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation

Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement. During the Cold War, the US State Department enlisted some of America's greatest musicians to serve as jazz ambassadors, touring the world to trumpet a so-called 'free society.' Honored as celebrities abroad, the jazz ambassadors, who were overwhelmingly African Americans, returned home to racial discrimination and deferred dreams. The Brubecks used this double standard as the central message for the musical, deploying humor and pathos to share perspectives on American values. On September 23, 1962, The Real Ambassadors's stunning debut moved a packed arena at the Monterey Jazz Festival to laughter, joy, and tears. The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation caps this jazz story by detailing how the show was revived in 2014 by Jazz at Lincoln Center, reaffirming the musical's place as an integral part of America's jazz history.

Keith Hatschek (Author), William Andrew Quinn (Narrator)

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Complaint!

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors-to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive-Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. This book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.

Sara Ahmed (Author), Pearl Hewitt (Narrator)

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Race and the Suburbs in American Film

This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relationship of race to the built environment. Suburb films began as a cycle in response to both America's changing urban geography and the re-segregation of its domestic spaces in the postwar era, which excluded African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx from the suburbs while buttressing whiteness. By defying traditional categories and chronologies in cinema studies, the contributors explore the myriad ways suburban spaces and racialized bodies in film mediate each other. Race and the Suburbs in American Film is a stimulating resource for considering the manner in which race is foundational to architecture and urban geography, which is reflected, promoted, and challenged in cinematic representations.

Merrill Schleier (Author), Amir Abdullah, Patryce Williams (Narrator)

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Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party 'A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.' -Kirkus Reviews The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business-two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending-and the First Amendment-work. The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in US politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics-and explains how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending.

Mary Ziegler (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

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The Inner Game of Music

The Inner Game of music is that which takes place in the mind, played against such elusive opponents as nervousness, self doubt, and fear of failure. Using the same principles of 'natural learning' W. Timothy Gallwey developed so successfully for tennis, golf, and skiing and applying them to his own field, noted musician Barry Green shows how to acknowledge and overcome these internal obstacles in order to bring a new quality to the experience and learning of music. It is also ideal for those who don't play an instrument but who feel their appreciation of music will be enhanced if they understand more about the process of playing. In precise, easy to understand language, Green and Gallwey explain how natural skills can be nurtured and enhanced, and through a series of special exercises they demonstrate the ways in which musicians can achieve exact intonation, artistic phrasing, and improved technique. Ensemble playing, improvisation, composition and creativity, and listening skills are discussed throughout. A methodology with a proven track record, this will be invaluable to anyone seriously interested in music, professional or amateur, composer, performer, or an appreciative listener.

Barry Green (Author), Roxanne Abbott (Narrator)

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El contrato social

„El hombre nace libre y, sin embargo, por todas partes se encuentra encadenado.“ - En El contrato social, Rousseau explora el concepto de libertad y las estructuras políticas que pueden permitir que las personas la adquieran. Argumenta que el poder soberano de un estado no reside en ningún gobernante sino en la voluntad de la población en general. Rousseau argumenta que el estado ideal sería una democracia directa donde la toma de decisiones ejecutivas la llevan a cabo ciudadanos reunidos en asamblea, como lo harían en la antigua ciudad-estado de Atenas. Los pensamientos contenidos en el trabajo fueron fundamentales para el advenimiento de la Revolución Americana y se volvieron sagrados para quienes lideraron la Revolución Francesa. El filósofo ginebrino Jean-Jacques Rousseau escribió sus pensamientos básicos sobre la constitución de un buen estado en 1762, cuando el poder absolutista de muchos reyes estaba en su apogeo. En consecuencia, el contrato social, que puede verse como un precursor de las democracias modernas, ha sido prohibido en muchos países. ¿Qué diría Rousseau sobre la constitución de las democracias actuales? Una mirada a su obra aclarará esta cuestión.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author), Manuel Lopez (Narrator)

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El caso Neymar

La crónica de un largo proceso judicial que arranca en Sao Paolo, Brasil, y está a punto de terminar en Madrid. ¿Por qué Neymar está a punto de sentarse en el banquillo de los acusados de la Audiencia Nacional? ¿En qué se distingue su caso del de otros futbolísticas con escándalos como Cristiano Ronaldo y Messi? ¿Cuáles son las víctimas de su presunto delito? ¿Y qué tienen que ver en toda esta historia Sandro Rosell, Josep María Bartomeu y Florentino Pérez? La rivalidad entre el Barcelona y el Real Madrid, la codicia del jugador y su entorno y las fortunas que mueven las grandes estrellas del fútbol han llevado al club catalán y a Neymar Jr, acompañado por su famoso padre, ante la justicia. Según la acusación particular y la Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional, el fichaje del astro brasileño por parte del club blaugrana esconde una larga historia de pactos bajo cuerda, pagos millonarios y presuntos engaños que empezó a mediados de 2011, con un primer enfrentamiento entre los principales clubes de Europa por hacerse con los servicios del jugador, y termina en 2017 con la apertura de un juicio oral contra el Barcelona; sus dos últimos presidentes, Sandro Rosell y Josep María Bartomeu; el ya ex presidente del Santos, Odilio Rodrigues Filho; los padres de Neymar, Nadine y Neymar Santos da Silva, y el propio jugador por un delito de corrupción en los negocios y otro de estafa impropia. Y es que el fichaje de Neymar no es sólo una historia sobre las maniobras (más o menos éticas) llevadas a cabo por el club catalán para ganar la pugna internacional por el jugador sin ir a la guerra. También es la historia de un modesto empleado de la red de autobuses de Sao Paulo que aprovechó las habilidades de su hijo para hacerse millonario y que parece estar dispuesto a casi cualquier cosa para seguir enriqueciéndose. Y también es el relato de unos empresarios brasileños, los hermanos Delcir e Idi Sonda, que se sienten engañados y buscan rentabilizar la inversión realizada en 2009 en un muchacho de 17 años con muchas posibilidades en el mundo del fútbol. Fue entonces, sin que Neymar hubiese debutado con el primer equipo del Santos, cuando adquirieron el 40% de sus derechos federativos, desde que su padre y agente llamase a su puerta para ofrecerles el negocio: el Santos ya no podía seguir el ritmo de las constantes demandas de subidas de sueldo del padre de Neymar. - Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, África Semprún Wilde (Madrid, 1986) ha desarrollado su trayectoria profesional como redactora de empresas y finanzas, investigación y economía internacional en el diario elEconomista y como redactora de macroeconomía y política en la edición de Almería de El Mundo.

áfrica Semprún (Author), Aneta Fernández (Narrator)

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The Art of War

More than 2,500 years ago, a Chinese commander, Master Sun – or Sun-tzu – collected together his precepts on generalship to form the kernel of one of the most famous military treatises of all time. Our understanding of strategic warfare that comes out of his writings has yet to be surpassed. Eschewing conventional courage and military might as primary deciding factors, The Art of War is characterised by a profoundly enlightened emphasis on moderation, imagination, good morale and scrupulous forward planning. There has never been a state that has benefited from an extended war. Leaders from all centuries and all countries have claimed to have drawn inspiration from the work, and its influence infiltrated popular culture as modern thinkers recognised that its fundamental philosophies apply as much to gaining a competitive edge in day-to-day life as they do to the battlefield.

Sun Tzu (Author), Malk Williams (Narrator)

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GLOBO ARTE AUGUST 2022 ISSUE: AN art magazine for helping artist in their art career

Globo Arte Team (Author), Parshwika Bhandari (Narrator)

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The story of success.: B.R Ambedkar

Gurmeet (Author), Gurmeet Munday (Narrator)

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Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, written by Lao Tzu, is a book about the nature of Tao and how to follow it. Tao is a difficult concept to define, but it can be roughly described as the way things are when they are in balance. The audio book teaches how to live in harmony with Tao and achieve inner peace. Read in English, unabridged.

Lao Tzu (Author), Mia Goodrum (Narrator)

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