Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272465 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272465] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time Travel: A History Author: James Gleick Narrator: Rob Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: September 27, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions “A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post “A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston Globe From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture—from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. (With a color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations throughout)

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270845 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270845] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Author: Patrick Phillips Narrator: Patrick Phillips Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 20, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they’d founded the county’s thriving black churches. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. In the wake of the expulsions, whites harvested the crops and took over the livestock of their former neighbors, and quietly laid claim to “abandoned” land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the hope and promise of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth’s racial cleansing. With bold storytelling and lyrical prose, Phillips breaks a century-long silence and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century.

The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270645 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270645] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging Author: Charles Vogl Narrator: Tom Dheere Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 12, 2016 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Community builders face a difficult task: create spaces-physical, virtual, or both-where we can be connected, defeat loneliness, and enrich our lives. Charles Vogl outlines seven ancient principles any organization can follow to create robust, thriving, positive communities. This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a community, to strengthen the community they already have, or who may not think of themselves as community leaders but who are envisioning a group they hope to create. These communities can be formal, with official memberships and administrations, or informal, tied by shared values and commitments. Some people think communities happen by accident, or have to emerge organically, but Charles Vogl emphasizes that there are solid, time-honored principles for consciously building them. Drawing on 3,000 years of tradition, Vogl lays out seven enduring principles that every community of every kind must master to be effective and supportive. He describes each principle's purpose and provides extensive hands-on tools for implementing them. He also helps leaders ensure that their communities remain healthy and life-affirming and not degenerate into rigid cults.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269751 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269751] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 340 Ratings of Narrator: 4.77 of Total 61 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold? 'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow © Yuval Noah Harari 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272630 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/272630] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Author: Margot Lee Shetterly Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 737 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 52 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.