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[Spanish] - Enigmas históricos al descubierto. De Jesús a Bin Laden by César Vidal
Jan 28, 202105:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177458to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Enigmas históricos al descubierto. De Jesús a Bin Laden Author: César Vidal Narrator: Rafael Oñate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: January 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: El conocido divulgador César Vidal aborda los mayores misterios históricos, nacionales e internacionales, para satisfacer la curiosidad de los lectores más inquietos, a través de una prosa clara y accesible: ¿quién ordenó el bombardeo de Guernica?, ¿fue Bin Laden un agente de la CIA?, ¿cómo se apoderó Gran Bretaña de Gibraltar?, ¿salvó el Opus Dei la economía de Franco? Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - César Vidal Manzanares es un abogado, periodista y escritor español. Ha trabajado para varias cadenas de radio, como la COPE y EsRadio, y periódicos, como El Mundo o La Razón.
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How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing in Person and Online by Susan RoAne
Dec 31, 201308:05:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/205190to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Savvy Socializing in Person and Online Author: Susan RoAne Narrator: Susan RoAne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 31, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Over a million copies of this networking classic have been sold worldwide! Now Susan Roane's invaluable advice is available in audio You enter a crowded room. For a moment every eye is on you. And a little voice inside you cries, 'HELP!' If this has ever happened to you, you're not alone! Walking into a room full of people you don't know can be very uncomfortable. It can also be one of your very best opportunities to meet and make new business contacts and friends. The Mingling Maven™ will show step by step, how to allay your fears and make the most of every moment. Including: • Seven steps for planning your presence before you enter a room • How to converse with ease and grace • The new rules of etiquette, including 'Internetiquette' • Seven strategies to follow when you walk in Whether the event you're walking into is professional, social, or even electronic—How to Work a Room will give you the confidence and tools you need to enter any room and shine.
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All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
Oct 29, 201306:56:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200825to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours Author: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins' Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus' belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of 'lumia,' or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of 'getting things done,' All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards
Oct 22, 201308:26:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199191to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind Author: Gavin Edwards Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix. As the brightly colored 1980s wound down, a new crew of leading men began to appear on movie screens. Hailed for their acting prowess and admired for choosing meaty roles, actors such as Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, and Brad Pitt were soon rocketing toward stardom while an unknown Leonardo DiCaprio prepared to make his acting debut. River Phoenix, however, stood in front of the pack. Blessed with natural talent and fueled by integrity, Phoenix was admired by his peers and adored by his fans. More than just a pinup on teenage girls' walls, Phoenix was also a fervent defender of the environment and a vocal proponent of a vegan lifestyle—well on his way to becoming a symbol of his generation. At age eighteen, he received his first Oscar nomination. But behind his beautiful public face, there was a young man who had been raised in a cult by nonconformist parents, who was burdened with supporting his family from a young age, and who eventually succumbed to addiction, escaping into a maelstrom of drink and drugs. And then he was gone. After a dozen films, including Stand by Me and My Own Private Idaho, and with a seemingly limitless future, River Phoenix died of a drug overdose. He was twenty-three years old. In Last Night at the Viper Room, bestselling author and journalist Gavin Edwards toggles between the tragic events at the Viper Room in West Hollywood on Halloween 1993 and the story of an extraordinary life. Last Night at the Viper Room is part biography, part cultural history of the 1990s, and part celebration of River Phoenix, a Hollywood icon gone too soon. Full of interviews from his fellow actors, directors, friends, and family, Last Night at the Viper Room shows the role he played in creating the place of the actor in our modern culture and the impact his work still makes today.
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Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture by Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon
Oct 8, 201310:38:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199043to listen full audiobooks. Title: Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture Author: Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon Narrator: Laurence Maslon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture. Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers: down from the heavens—Superman and the Mighty Thor—or swinging over rooftops—the Batman and Spider-Man; star-spangled, like Captain America and Wonder Woman, or clad in darkness, like the Shadow and Spawn; facing down super-villains on their own, like the Flash and the Punisher or gathered together in a team of champions, like the Avengers and the X-Men! Based on the three-part PBS documentary series Superheroes, this companion volume chronicles the never-ending battle of the comic book industry, its greatest creators, and its greatest creations. Covering the effect of superheroes on American culture—in print, on film and television, and in digital media—and the effect of American culture on its superheroes, Superheroes: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture appeals to readers of all ages, from the casual observer of the phenomenon to the most exacting fan of the genre. Drawing from more than 50 new interviews conducted expressly for Superheroes!—creators from Stan Lee to Grant Morrison, commentators from Michael Chabon to Jules Feiffer, actors from Adam West to Lynda Carter, and filmmakers such as Zach Snyder—this is an up-to-the-minute narrative history of the superhero, from the comic strip adventurers of the Great Depression, up to the blockbuster CGI movie superstars of the 21st Century. Superheroes! is the definitive story of this powerful presence in pop culture. BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive first-hand commentary from some of the greatest creators in comic book history, from Golden Age artists and writers (Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Stan Lee) to the superstars of the Silver Age (Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Denny O'Neil)--all the way up to the movers and shakers of the 21st Century (Todd McFarlane, Joe Quesada); plus luminaries such as Adam West, Jules Feiffer and Michael Chabon. Selected interviews from Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle courtesy of Ghost Light Films, © 2013 Ghost Light Films.
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One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
Oct 1, 201317:04:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196766to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Summer: America, 1927 Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Bill Bryson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 10 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression. All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
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Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston
Oct 1, 201308:47:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198070to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol Author: Ann Dowsett Johnston Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls. With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational lives. They have also achieved equality with men in more troubling areas as well. In the U.S. alone, the rates of alcohol abuse among women have skyrocketed in the past decade. DUIs, “drunkorexia” (choosing to limit eating to consume greater quantities of alcohol), and health problems connected to drinking are all rising—a problem exacerbated by the alcohol industry itself. Battling for women’s dollars and leisure time, corporations have developed marketing strategies and products targeted exclusively to women. Equally alarming is a recent CDC report showing a sharp rise in binge drinking, putting women and girls at further risk. As she brilliantly weaves in-depth research, interviews with leading researchers, and the moving story of her own struggle with alcohol abuse, Johnston illuminates this startling epidemic, dissecting the psychological, social, and industry factors that have contributed to its rise, and exploring its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives.
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From Scratch: Inside the Food Network by Allen Salkin
Oct 1, 201315:46:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197937to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Scratch: Inside the Food Network Author: Allen Salkin Narrator: Julian Fleischer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Big personalities, high drama—the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the way America thinks about food. In October 1993, a tiny start-up called the Food Network debuted to little notice. Twenty years later, it is in 100 million homes, approaches a billion dollars a year in revenue, and features a galaxy of stars whose faces and names are as familiar to us as our own family’s. But what we don’t know about them, and the people behind them, could fill a book. Based upon extensive inside access, documents, and interviews with hundreds of executives, stars, and employees all up and down the ladder, Allen Salkin’s book is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride from chaos to conquest (and sometimes back). As Salkin takes us inside the conference rooms, studios, homes, restaurants, and after-hours meetings, we see a salty Julia Child lording it over the early network performers; a fragile Emeril Lagasse staggering from the sudden public shock of cancellation; a very green Rachael Ray nearly burning down the set on her first day; a torn Tyler Florence accepting the Applebee’s job he knows he can’t refuse, but with a chill running down his spine; a determined Bobby Flay reinventing himself once again to survive. Paula Deen, Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Martha Stewart, Guy Fieri, Cat Cora: Salkin illuminates the people we thought we knew, and the ones we never knew about, in this irresistible story of the intersection between business, television, pop culture, food—and us.
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
Oct 1, 201310:50:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198518to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living Author: Nick Offerman Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 183 Ratings of Narrator: 4.48 of Total 44 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees. A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
Oct 1, 201307:01:00Tap to summarizePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196488to listen full audiobooks. Title: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Author: Malcolm Gladwell Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 231 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 48 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014 Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms—all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw—David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
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