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

Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift by Kristie Frederick Daugherty

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796334 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/796334] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift Author: Kristie Frederick Daugherty Narrator: Katie Allsup, Dominique Salvacion, Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Diane Seuss, Candace Fitzgerald, Curtis Michael Holland, André Santana, Talon David, Imani Jade Powers, Mark Sanderlin, Bailey Carr, Jonathan Bate, Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including Kate Baer, Maggie Smith, and Joy Harjo. Let the decoding begin! With a record-breaking four Grammy awards for Album of the Year, Taylor Swift stands alone in the world of pop music. One of the most talented lyricists of all time, her music captivates millions of fans throughout the globe with the narrative depth and emotional resonance of her songwriting. In Invisible Strings, poet, professor, and dedicated Swiftie Kristie Frederick Daugherty has brought together 113 contemporary poets, each contributing an original poem that responds to a specific Taylor Swift song. In a spirit of celebration and collaboration, poets have taken a cue from Swift’s love of dropping clues and puzzles for her fandom to decode, as each poem alludes to a song without using direct lyrics. Swifties will enjoy closely reading each of the poems to discover which song each poet responded to; each poem responds to only one song. The collection showcases a diverse and accomplished array of writers including the 23rd US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, Pulitzer Prize winners Diane Seuss, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, and Gregory Pardlo, National Book Critics Circle Award winners Mary Jo Bang and Laura Kasischke, and bestselling poets Maggie Smith, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kate Baer, amanda lovelace, Tyler Knott Gregson, and Jane Hirshfield. Swifties will experience the profundity and nuance of Swift’s lyrics through these poems, while having fun matching the poems to songs from all of her eras—vault tracks included! For poetry lovers, this one-of-a-kind anthology is an unparalleled collection of new work from today’s most lauded and revered poets. * This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of additional resources from the printed book.

Hispanic Market Power: America’s Business Growth Engine by Isaac Mizrahi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795944 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795944] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hispanic Market Power: America’s Business Growth Engine Author: Isaac Mizrahi Narrator: Andrew Joseph Perez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The United States Hispanic segment represents the most prominent demographic growth in the country, and a huge and untapped business opportunity for companies willing to move away from preconceived notions and market effectively to Hispanic customers. This book shows you how. Now more than ever, corporations operating in the United States should see the Hispanic population at the core of their existing and future strategies, but many leaders believe Hispanic marketing is the same marketing you run for Anglos but translated into Spanish, or that all Hispanics are undocumented immigrants with no purchasing power, or that using Mariachis in their communications is the way to connect with this diverse segment. It's time for a modern approach, and Isaac Mizrahi, one of the country's leading voices in multicultural marketing, uses his experience as a corporate executive, agency CEO, and industry leader to help businesses grow by leveraging the Hispanic consumer segment to drive sales. Filled with straightforward talk, illustrative case studies, and pragmatic suggestions and recommendations, this book counterbalances academic books on the topic with little connection to reality and other books with a more political standpoint. This is a business book created by a marketer for other marketers and business leaders looking to succeed.

The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More—and How We Can Judge Others Less by Ilana Redstone

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813122 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813122] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More—and How We Can Judge Others Less Author: Ilana Redstone Narrator: Qarie Marshall, Lisa Larsen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: When we’re in the Certainty Trap, we tend to view people who disagree with us as hateful, ignorant, or just plain stupid. When it comes to heated social and political issues in particular, many of us know this feeling well—a consuming state of righteous indignation and moral outrage. And this response makes sense because our very certainty tells us that there are simple and obvious causes and solutions to the hot-button issues we care about most. But the things we care about the most are—far more often than not—morally and ethically complex. If the problems that divide us are inherently complicated, then a sense that the answers are obvious—and that anyone who disagrees must be deficient in some way—is misplaced. It's an oversimplification that both leads to and reflects faulty thinking. When we’re certain, we not only fail to recognize the possibility that we’re wrong but also fail to be clear about the principles and values that drive our disagreement in the first place. By committing to challenging and clarifying our thinking—by avoiding the trap certainty sets for us—we can increase social trust, reduce political polarization, and better address the world’s pressing challenges.

The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forret

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814621 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814621] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War Author: Jeff Forret Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.” —Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery. Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.

Game On: How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans by David Bockino

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812660 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812660] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Game On: How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans Author: David Bockino Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In Game On David Bockino, a former marketing and advertising manager at ESPN turned professor of communications and sport management, provides the first overview of the evolution of the sports media industry. From the groundbreaking radio broadcast of the Jack Dempsey—Georges Carpentier boxing match in 1921 and the launch of Sports Illustrated magazine in 1954 to the birth of ESPN in 1979 and the unveiling of the NFL's yellow line in 1998, Game On details the most important events, platforms, and personalities in the evolution of the sports media industry. Increased interest led to more innovation and more options—cable TV, sports talk radio, internet broadcasts, and now multitudes of podcasts. Today the personalization of sports content means broadcasters increasingly focus on what individual consumers want, often at the expense of the collective fan experience. Exploring the evolution of the sports media industry can tell us a lot about how our world has changed over the past hundred years and how it might yet change in the future. Through an exploration of sports media trends, Bockino shows that the industry's privileging of personal over collective interests reflects how people today form and maintain their social identities—and sports' key role in shaping them.