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The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H.G. Wells

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834781 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/834781] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: H. G. Wells, one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers—author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—wrote The Open Conspiracy to express his ideas about how a peaceful and cooperative world community could bring happiness and prosperity to all the inhabitants of the earth. Wars would no longer be fought and hunger would not rear its ugly head. Writing shortly after World War One, he writes of the horrible waste of life and immense suffering that extreme nationalism brought to Europe. He is no fan of Socialism or Communism but neither is he a supporter of unbridled Capitalism. It is an engrossing and compelling argument for peace and prosperity through nations laying down arms and joining forces to move civilization forward. Although The Open Conspiracy did not result in the global movement Wells envisioned, it was part of his broader effort to promote progressive social and political ideas. The book has been interpreted as a precursor to discussions about globalism, world governance, and international cooperation, themes that have become even more relevant in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/819840 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/819840] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Naked Civil Servant Author: Quentin Crisp Narrator: Christian Coulson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to 'come out' as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative by George J. Borjas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818273 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818273] to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative Author: George J. Borjas Narrator: Jim Seybert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of 'paupers.' Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become pervasive. To many modern economists, immigrants are a trove of much-needed workers who can fill predetermined slots along the proverbial assembly line. But this view of immigration's impact is overly simplified, explains George J. Borjas, a Cuban American, Harvard labor economist. Immigrants are more than just workers—they're people who have lives outside of the factory gates and who may or may not fit the ideal of the country to which they've come to live and work. Like the rest of us, they're protected by social insurance programs, and the choices they make are affected by their social environments. In We Wanted Workers, Borjas shows that, in the grand scheme, immigration has not affected the average American all that much. But it has created winners and losers. The losers tend to be nonmigrant workers who compete for the same jobs as immigrants. And somebody's lower wage is somebody else's higher profit, so those who employ immigrants benefit handsomely. In the end, immigration is mainly just another government redistribution program.

American Bulk: Essays on Excess by Emily Mester

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/825298 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/825298] to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Bulk: Essays on Excess Author: Emily Mester Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: What if we explored our relationship to consumption with the same depth and feeling we use to tell stories of great loves and losses? Americans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restaurant. In American Bulk, Emily Mester intertwines cultural critique and personal history to explore how the things we buy, eat, amass, and discard become an intimate part of our lives. With humor and sharp intellect, she reflects on the joys and anxieties of family Costco trips, how a seasonal stint at Ulta Beauty taught her the insidious art of the sale, and what it means to get Mall Sad. In a nuanced examination of diet culture and fatness, Mester recounts her teenage summer at fat camp and the unexpected liberation she finds there. Finally, she ventures to Storm Lake, Iowa, to reckon with her grandmother's abandoned hoard, excavating the dysfunction that lies at the heart of her family's obsession with stuff. American Bulk introduces listeners to a striking new literary talent from the American heartland, one who dares to ask us to regard consumption not with guilt but with grace and empathy.

Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners by Angela Y. Davis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835428 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835428] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners Author: Angela Y. Davis Narrator: Curtis Michael Holland, Krystal Hammond, Gary Tiedemann, Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities. A project of abolitionist Josh Davidson and political prisoner Eric King, this book is filled with the experience and wisdom of over thirty current and former North American political prisoners. It provides first-hand details of prison life and the political commitments that continue to lead prisoners into direct confrontation with state authorities and institutions. The people Josh Davidson has interviewed include former radicals and Black liberation militants from the sixties and seventies, current antifascists, nonviolent Catholic peace activists, Animal and Earth Liberation Front saboteurs, and more. Their stories are moving, often tragic, yet deeply inspiring. Collectively, these people have spent hundreds of years behind bars, and their experiences speak directly to the cruelty and immorality of our prison and so-called criminal justice systems. This wide range of voices come together to embody what bell hooks called 'a legacy of defiance.' It is this legacy—of tirelessly struggling to right today's wrongs and create a better tomorrow—that the prison system tries, yet fails, to extinguish.