Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social Science

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484711 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484711] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey Series: #4 of Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths Author: Stephen Fry Narrator: Stephen Fry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Sunday Times bestseller The next book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey. Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . . Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father – and his gaze turns longingly towards home. Setting sail with a small fleet, Odysseus dreams of soon lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus the ways of a warrior. However, the gods laugh at the foolish hopes of mortals. And, angered by this upstart, Poseidon – God of the ocean realms – curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years. Encountering one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters, terrible storms, titanic whirlpools, hypnotic sirens, seductive witches and jealous goddesses, Odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man’s endurance. Yet he is no mere mortal – and the lure of his wife and son draws him, step by step, stroke by stroke, ever closer to home and his ultimate destiny . . . A tale of love and longing, return and redemption, home and hope, Stephen Fry’s Odyssey sees the author and national treasure weave the final threads of the fabulous story begun in the worldwide bestseller, Mythos, into an astonishing and mesmerising tapestry for the ages. 'With his distinctive narration, Fry brings warmth, exuberance and humour to these age-old stories, along with a range of voices...' The Guardian 'Fry is at his story-telling best . . . the gods will be pleased' Times 'Brilliant . . . all hail Stephen Fry' Daily Mail © Stephen Fry 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface by Orlando Patterson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493928 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493928] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface Author: Orlando Patterson Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. Beyond the reconceptualization of the basic master-slave relationship and the redefinition of slavery as an institution with universal attributes, Patterson rejects the legalistic Roman concept that places the 'slave as property' at the core of the system. Rather, he emphasizes the centrality of sociological, symbolic, and ideological factors interwoven within the slavery system. Along the whole continuum of slavery, the cultural milieu is stressed, as well as political and psychological elements. Materialistic and racial factors are deemphasized. Interdisciplinary in its methods, this study employs qualitative and quantitative techniques from all the social sciences to demonstrate the universality of structures and processes in slave systems and to reveal cross-cultural variations in the slave trade and in slavery, in rates of manumission, and in the status of freedmen.

A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game by Calum Jacobs

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492114 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492114] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game Author: Calum Jacobs Narrator: Sanaa Qureshi, Aniefiok ‘neef’ Ekpoudom, Thomas Theodore, Kwaku Dapaah-Danquah, Calum Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 21, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A New Formation is an exploration of the unique role that Black British footballers have played in shaping the beautiful game both on and off the pitch, an inventive and highly original analysis of the intersections between football and wider Black British culture. A New Formation is not a book about football and racism. Jacobs and his co-contributors - including authors Musa Okwonga and Aniefiok Ekpoudom and sports broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye MBE - eschew the standard frameworks of trauma and oppression that are foisted upon Black narratives and seek to move beyond discussions of diversity, identity and representation. Featuring interviews with legendary players such as Ian Wright, Anita Asante and Andy Cole, they draw upon broader social and cultural history to examine Black footballers in contexts larger than themselves. By engaging with these subtler connections between football and Black cultural expression, A New Formation reveals the vibrancy and nuance of contemporary Black life in Britain. © Calum Jacobs 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493247 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493247] to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation Author: Julissa Arce Narrator: Julissa Arce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation with the author and Paola Ramos, a Vice News journalist, MSNBC Contributor, and author of Finding Latinx. “A love letter to our people—full of fury and passion.' — José Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen Illegal 'If you could take Rodolfo Gonzales epic poem 'I Am Joaquin' and explain it through compelling, personal narrative in twenty-first century America, You Sound Like A White Girl would be it.” — Joaquin Castro Bestselling author Julissa Arce brings readers a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. “You sound like a white girl.” These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she struggled to find her place in America. As a brown immigrant from Mexico, assimilation had been demanded of her since the moment she set foot in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. She’d spent so much time getting rid of her accent so no one could tell English was her second language that in that moment she felt those words—you sound like a white girl?—were a compliment. As a child, she didn’t yet understand that assimilating to “American” culture really meant imitating “white” America—that sounding like a white girl was a racist idea meant to tame her, change her, and make her small. She ran the race, completing each stage, but never quite fit in, until she stopped running altogether. In this dual polemic and manifesto, Julissa dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English—each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory—neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa offers a bold new promise: Belonging only comes through celebrating yourself, your history, your culture, and everything that makes you uniquely you. Only in turning away from the white gaze can we truly make America beautiful. An America where difference is celebrated, heritage is shared and embraced, and belonging is for everyone. Through unearthing veiled history and reclaiming her own identity, Julissa shows us how to do this.

Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice by Solomon Jones

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492745 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/492745] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice Author: Solomon Jones Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Told through the powerful stories of Black lives that were ravaged by racism, this manifesto holds 10 demands to rectify racial injustice Told through his perspective as an activist, acclaimed commentator Solomon Jones tells the stories of real people whose lives and deaths pushed the Black Lives Matter movement forward. He explains how each act of violence was incited by specific instances of structural racism, and details concrete and actionable strategies to address crimes committed by our “justice” system. These stories and strategies are a critical resource for social justice activists looking to further their anti-racist education. These 10 demands form an actionable plan that is necessary to repair our racist past, change the racist present, and bring justice to the future:    1. George Floyd: Pay financial reparations to Black communities that have been damaged by legalized racism.    2. Michael Brown: Use consent decrees to reform police departments that demonstrate a “pattern or practice” of racism and police brutality.    3. Hassan Bennett: Offer compensation for all those who are wrongfully imprisoned.    4. Breonna Taylor: Require functioning body cameras and ban no-knock warrants.    5. Eric Garner: All police disciplinary and dismissal records must be made public.    6. Alton Sterling: Change federal law to allow prosecution of flagrant lawbreakers within police departments.    7. Tamir Rice: Use independent prosecutors to eliminate prosecutorial conflicts of interest.    8. Trayvon Martin: Eliminate stand-your-ground laws.    9. Deborah Danner: Defund the police and move funds to trained social workers, mental health professionals, and conflict resolution specialists.    10. Sandra Bland: End racial profiling.