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Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black worldmaking to reclaim our heritage and humanity by Aida Mariam Davis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766293 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766293] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black worldmaking to reclaim our heritage and humanity Author: Aida Mariam Davis Narrator: Aida Mariam Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness. Creating a world worthy of our children requires recalling the dignity and distinction of the African way of life. This book is not written for settler consumption. Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Structured in three parts—Remember, Refuse, and Reclaim—Kindred Creation is a philosophical guidebook and a vital invitation to power and reconnection. Davis employs parable, poetry, theory, memory, narrative, and prophecy to help readers: - Remember: By unforgetting the unending and cascading violence of settler colonialism and other forms of domination and exploring the ways that African land, language, lifestyle, and labor are stolen, distorted, and repackaged for colonial consumption to extract capital and sever ties to ancestral knowledge, lifeways, and dignity - Refuse: By rejecting and interrupting death-making institutions and relationships and choosing kinship and self-determination in the face of settler colonial violence - Reclaim: By revealing that freedom is within us—and within reach. Davis shares how the reader can birth new worlds and relationships and offers strategies for reclaiming land, language, lifestyle, and labor. The colonial violence and dispossession of African land, language, and labor is inflicted intentionally—and by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remembering what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation: a re-membering of our interconnectedness and kinship.

A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition by Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Arthur Goldschmidt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776256 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776256] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition Author: Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Arthur Goldschmidt Narrator: John Lescault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab–Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamist values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and the Middle East following 9/11, the 2011 Arab uprisings, and the regional crisis that erupted after October 7, 2023. The thirteenth edition has been fully revised to reflect the most recent events in, and concerns of, the region, including its future in the face of climate change and challenges in Iraq and developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition, the important role of Middle Eastern women in the history of the region is woven into the narrative. New parts and timelines will help listeners grasp and contextualize the long and complicated history of the region. With updated biographical sketches and new concluding chapters, this book remains the quintessential text for students of Middle East history. Table of Contents 1. Introduction Part I. The Rise of Islam to the Zenith of Abbasid Power 2. The Pre-Islamic 3. Muhammad and the Rise of Islam 4. The Early Arab Conquests 5. The High Caliphate Part II. The Turkic Empires from the Seljuks to Ottomans 6. Shi’a and Turkic Empires 7. The Crusader and Mongol Invasions 8. Islamic Civilization 9. Firearms, Slaves, and Empires Part III. European Incursions and the Nationalist Reaction 10. European Interests and Imperialism 11. Westernizing Reform in the Nineteenth Century 12. The Rise of Nationalism Part IV. World War I and its Aftermath 13. Arab Nationalism and the First World War 14. Modernizing Rulers in the Independent States 15. Egypt and the Fertile Crescent Under European Control Part V. The Arab-Israeli Conflict 16. The Contest for Palestine 17. Israel’s Formation and the Arab Response 18. Wars and the Quest for Peace Part VI. The Islamist Resurgence 19. The Iranian Revolution and Rise of Islamist Movement 20. The 1991 Gulf War and the Peace Process 21. Jihadism and America’s “War on Terror” Part VII. The Arab Uprisings and Middle East Cold War 22. The Arab Uprisings of 2011 23. The Regional Cold War in the Twenty-First Century 24. The Middle East and the Environment into the Twenty-First Century 25. Conclusion

When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon by Alex Cuadros

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769522 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769522] to listen full audiobooks. Title: When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon Author: Alex Cuadros Narrator: Alex Cuadros Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston). Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new capitalist reality, discovering its wonders as well as its horrors. They forged an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonists—until decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre; an act of retribution that made headlines across the globe.   Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye  is a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of a vital ecosystem threatened by the hunger for natural resources; of genocide and revenge. Most of all, it’s about a few startlingly clever individuals and their power to adapt and even thrive in the most unlikely circumstances.

The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death by Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778201 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778201] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death Author: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston Narrator: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 28, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans rarely live beyond a century – even while certain whales can thrive for over two hundred years – it’s hard not to see our biological limits as profoundly unfair. No wonder then that most people nearing death wish they still had more time. Yet, with ever-advancing science, will the ends of our lives always loom so close? For from ventilators to brain implants, modern medicine has been blurring what it means to die. In a lucid synthesis of current neuroscientific thinking, Zeleznikow-Johnston explains that death is no longer the loss of heartbeat or breath, but of personal identity – that the core of our identities is our minds, and that our minds are encoded in the structure of our brains. On this basis, he explores how recently invented brain preservation techniques now offer us all the chance of preserving our minds to enable our future revival. Whether they fought for justice or cured diseases, we are grateful to those of our ancestors who helped craft a kinder world – yet they cannot enjoy the fruits of the civilization they helped build. But if we work together to create a better future for our own descendants, we may even have the chance to live in it. Because, should we succeed, then just maybe, the future will love us enough to bring us back and share their world with us. © Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit by Craig Mundie, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768612 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768612] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit Author: Craig Mundie, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt Narrator: Byron Wagner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes more dynamic and ubiquitous, it is dramatically empowering people in all walks of life while also giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity—a historic challenge whose contours and consequences are revealed by three eminent thinkers in Genesis. As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe, revolutionize fields as diverse as medicine and architecture, and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen—usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution. Whom will we choose to lead our species through this wilderness? Or have we, passively and unwittingly, already chosen?   Charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear, Genesis outlines an effective strategy for navigating the age of AI. The last book of elder statesman Henry Kissinger, written with technologists Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie, it prepares the decisionmakers of today—that is, all of us—for the choices of tomorrow, and equips us to seize the opportunities presented by AI without falling prey to the darker forces that this revolution has unleashed.