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The Lessons of Ubuntu by Mark Mathabane | Free Audiobook
Jan 30, 201809:26:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Lessons of UbuntuAuthor: Mark MathabaneNarrator: JD JacksonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 26 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Brilliance AudioGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational memoir, Kaffir Boy,. A book highly-praised by Oprah and President Clinton for inspiring hope, Kaffir Boy described the effects of South Africa's system of legalized racism and oppression on black lives in vivid prose. The book won the prestigious Christopher Award, was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy award, rose to #3 on The New York Times bestsellers list, and to #1 on the Washington Post list. It is required reading in schools across the country. In his latest book The Language of Ubuntu, Mathabane uses his experiences with race in both South Africa and in America, where he has lived for the past thirty-seven years, to provide a fresh, timely, and provocative approach to the search for solutions to this country's number one and most intractable social problem.Mathabane argues that the reason many Americans are turned off by the current divisive racial dialogue is because the discussion has mostly been about the politics of race and avoids the elephant in the room - - what each of us can do to become agents for racial healing. His solution is for people to learn to speak the language of Ubuntu, a Zulu word for common humanity. Mathabane shows how Nelson Mandela used such language to rally blacks and whites to abolish apartheid peacefully; and how Dr. King did the same thing for African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement in the battle to eradicate Jim Crow.With race dominating the news during the 2016 Presidential election, in the wake of the killing of black men by the police, and growing protests on college and university campuses, Mathabane challenges both blacks and whites to use the language of Ubuntu to overcome the stereotypes, half-truths, misconceptions, and mistaken beliefs they have of each other so they can connect as human beings to achieve racial healing. Without this human connection, Mathabane argues, the racial divide will only get worse and make lasting solutions virtually impossible.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Coffee for One by KJ Fallon | Free Audiobook
Jan 30, 201804:24:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Coffee for OneAuthor: KJ FallonNarrator: James Anderson FosterFormat: UnabridgedLength: 4 hrs and 24 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-30-18Publisher: Brilliance AudioGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:An inside look into the story of why we all traded in pots for pods!Reminiscent of God in a Cup and The Devil's Cup, this is an inside look into the modern business of making coffee. But rather than a general history, Coffee for One focuses on the revolution that made single serve the most popular way to consume coffee worldwide, and the competition and conflict that got us here.This story features A-list names, corporate intrigue, environmental destruction, and much, much more. For the vast majority of the time humans have consumed coffee, the drink has been brewed in pots or other multi-serving tools; that is, until the last two decades, which saw the rise of the single serve coffee machine. Whether it's a Keurig or a Nespresso, today most people get their coffee from little plastic individual serving pods. But why? Coffee for One breaks open this story of innovation, profit, and cultural change.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax | Free Audiobook
Jan 25, 201807:09:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: How to Be Human: The ManualAuthor: Ruby WaxNarrator: Ruby Wax, Ash Ranpura, Gelong ThubtenFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 9 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-25-18Publisher: Penguin Books LtdGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be Human: The Manual written and read by Ruby Wax with Ash Ranpura and Gelong Thubten.It took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we are now. No question, anyone reading this has won the evolutionary Hunger Games by the fact you're on all twos and not some fossil. This should make us all the happiest species alive - most of us aren't, what's gone wrong? We've started treating ourselves more like machines and less like humans. We're so used to upgrading things like our iPhones: as soon as the new one comes out, we don't think twice, we dump it. (Many people I know are now on iWife4 or iHusband8, the motto being, if it's new, it's better.)We can't stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we're on. But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, we'll still, fingers crossed, have our minds, which, hopefully, we'll be able to use for things like compassion, rather than chasing what's 'better', and if we can do that we're on the yellow brick road to happiness.I wrote this book with a little help from a monk, who explains how the mind works, and also gives some mindfulness exercises, and a neuroscientist who explains what makes us 'us' in the brain. We answer every question you've ever had about: evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, kids, the future and compassion. How to be Human is extremely funny, true and the only manual you'll need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you've upgraded your iPhone.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Modern Loss by Gabrielle Birkner | Free Audiobook
Jan 23, 201807:40:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Modern LossAuthor: Gabrielle Birkner, Rebecca SofferNarrator: Josh Bloomberg, Meredith MitchellFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 40 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-23-18Publisher: Harper AudioGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning", this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices.At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map.Let's face it: Most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they cofounded Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and - above all - empathize.Soffer and Birkner, along with 40 guest contributors including Lucy Kalanithi, singer Amanda Palmer, and CNN's Brian Stelter, reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics including triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message.Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne | Free Audiobook
Jan 23, 201805:10:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Swearing Is Good for YouAuthor: Emma ByrneNarrator: Henrietta MeireFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 10 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-23-18Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:In a sparkling debut in the entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She reveals how swearing has been around since the earliest humans began to communicate, and has been shown to reduce physical pain, to lower anxiety, to prevent physical violence, to help trauma victims recover language, and to promote human cooperation.Packed with the results of unlikely and often hilarious scientific studies? from the "ice bucket test" for coping with pain, to the connection between Tourette's and swearing, to a chimpanzee who curses at her handler in sign language - Swearing Is Good for You presents a lighthearted but convincing case for the foulmouthed.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Analysis of Esther Perels The State of Affairs by Milkyway Media by Milkyway Media | Free Audiobook
Jan 18, 201800:25:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Analysis of Esther Perels The State of Affairs by Milkyway MediaAuthor: Milkyway MediaNarrator: Dwight EquitzFormat: UnabridgedLength: 25 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-18-18Publisher: Milkyway MediaGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (2017) by sex and relationship expert Esther Perel is an examination of unfaithfulness in romantic relationshipswhat it is, why it happens, and how different cultures handle itas well as an exploration of what affairs can teach all lovers about healthy relationships. Perel takes a non-judgmental approach to the motivations of the cheater and the outside lover, as well as to the contributions of the betrayed partner to the relationship crisis. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Uneasy Peace by Patrick Sharkey | Free Audiobook
Jan 16, 201806:56:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Uneasy PeaceAuthor: Patrick SharkeyNarrator: P. J. OchlanFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 56 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years.Sociologist Patrick Sharkey gathered data from across the country to understand why this happened, and how it changed the nature of urban inequality. He shows that the decline of violence is one of the most important public health breakthroughs of the past several decades, that it has made schools safer places to learn and increased the chances of poor children rising into the middle class. Yet there have been costs, in the abuses and high incarceration rates generated by aggressive policing.Sharkey puts forth an entirely new approach to confronting violence and urban poverty. At a time when inequality, complacency, and conflict all threaten a new rise in violent crime, and the old methods of policing are unacceptable, the ideas in this book are indispensable.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo | Free Audiobook
Jan 16, 201807:41:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: So You Want to Talk About RaceAuthor: Ijeoma OluoNarrator: Bahni TurpinFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 41 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.Genres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, editor-at-large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions listeners don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystallize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word." A Harper's Bazaar pick of One of 10 Books to Read in 2018.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Black & Tan by Douglas Wilson | Free Audiobook
Jan 15, 201803:58:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Black & TanAuthor: Douglas WilsonNarrator: Aaron WellsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 3 hrs and 58 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-15-18Publisher: Canon PressGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:Even though America is fiercely divided between the left and the right and protests are becoming increasingly violent, both sides of the political aisle remain committed to secularism and increasingly to looser standards of sexual propriety.If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the 19th century. In this book, Douglas Wilson explains how our nation's failure to remove slavery in a biblical fashion has led us to many of the quagmires we find ourselves in and until we grapple with issues like racism, hate speech, and the biblical position on slavery, we will continue to repeat the same mistakes our ancestors did.This collection of essays lays out the answers from a view unafraid of historic, biblical orthodoxy, as well as addressing some of the controversies surrounding the previous edition of the book.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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Off the Charts by Ann Hulbert | Free Audiobook
Jan 9, 201812:04:00Tap to summarizeListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Off the ChartsAuthor: Ann HulbertNarrator: Kirsten PotterFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 4 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Random House AudioGenres: Nonfiction, Social SciencesSummary:From the author of the widely praised Raising America - a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of 15 exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book for a time when parents anxiously aspire to raise "super children" and experts worry the nation is wasting the brilliant young minds it needs.Ann Hulbert examines the lives of children whose rare accomplishments have raised hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it. She probes the changing role of parents and teachers as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, who push back against adults more as the decades proceed.Among the children are the math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics, a Harvard graduate student at age 15; two girls, a poet and a novelist, whose published work stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple and the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and autistic "prodigious savants"; and musical prodigies, present and past.Off the Charts also tells the surprising inside stories of Lewis Terman's prewar study of high-IQ children and of the postwar talent search begun at Johns Hopkins and discovers what Tiger Mom Amy Chua really has to tell us. But in these moving stories, it is the children who deliver the most important messages.Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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