The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by The New York Times

30 Fables of La Fontaine, Bilingual edition, English-French by Jean de la Fontaine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495793 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495793] to listen full audiobooks. Title: 30 Fables of La Fontaine, Bilingual edition, English-French Author: Jean de la Fontaine Narrator: Stuart Walker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 39 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Learn French the easy way with our title '30 fables of La Fontaine, bilingual edition french english'. This album focuses exclusively on the well-known Fables de La Fontaine, which every French child knows by heart. You will hear professional comedians reading in a clear and intelligible voice the same fable, first in French, and then in English, for you to compare and to get used to the melody of the words. - -

The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by The New York Times

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506889 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506889] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History Author: The New York Times Narrator: Tina Jordan, Jericho Brown, Sarah Weinman, Jenna Wortham, Roxane Gay, Robert Petkoff, Sloane Crosley, Junot Diaz, Gary Shteyngart, Dominic Hoffman, Tayari Jones, Jodi Picoult Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives.   Now the editors have curated the Book Review’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage, this book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway, along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more.   Listeners will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read today.

Forever Free: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy by Tracy Swinton Bailey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497458 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497458] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forever Free: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy Author: Tracy Swinton Bailey Narrator: Tracy Swinton Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: A memoir and a call to action, this intimate look at America’s long-standing struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children offers valuable insights for effecting change in families, communities, and nationwide. At the root of every important problem we face, from mass incarceration to income inequality, is an education system influenced by our nation’s fraught history. Just as past generations fought to ensure that all Americans could enjoy the right to fully participate in our democracy, so must we rally tirelessly to advance an educational agenda that promotes equity and inclusion. With the gap between white academic achievement and that of students of color widening, now is the time to turn our attention to the basics, and few would argue with the fact that the single most essential aspect of a good education is literacy. Beyond reading and writing, literacy encompasses a whole host of skills that allow us to develop our potential and succeed in society, including critical thinking, self-discipline, curiosity, leadership, and motivation. Helping all our nation’s young people, especially those who live in low-income communities, improve their literacy skills should be a top priority. Numerous programs are operating around the country to address the issue of underperformance in light of the shortcomings of our public school system. In Forever Free, Tracy Swinton Bailey charts the journey of one such program, her nonprofit Freedom Readers. From a childhood shaped by books to a career promoting the love of reading, she describes the hurdles and rewards of academia, teaching, mobilizing, and fundraising. Bailey outlines clearly and persuasively how Freedom Readers’ one-on-one tutoring model has worked in the rural South, and how it can work across the US. This book will inspire and empower readers, and should be placed in the hands of educators and organizers at every level.

Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 3: Japanese Made Easy with Your Bestselling Language Coach by Paul Noble

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495493 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495493] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 3: Japanese Made Easy with Your Bestselling Language Coach Author: Paul Noble Narrator: Paul Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 22, 2021 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by over 1 million people to speak fluently and confidently. With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Japanese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios – from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses – that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are. Whatever your experience with languages, whether you’re an absolute beginner or someone with basic knowledge who wants to improve their ability, this is the course to get you speaking Japanese quickly and confidently. A native Japanese expert will help you to perfect your pronunciation as you progress through the course. You will learn a huge range of vocabulary in no time at all, and be able to quickly make your new knowledge work for you in a variety of everyday scenarios. A downloadable booklet is also included to use as a reference and revision tool. Paul Noble left school unable to speak a language – having found that the traditional learning methods left him feeling ‘confused, incapable and unable to really say anything’. Determined that there must be a better way to learn, Paul spent years devising his own unique method of learning languages which cuts out all the grammar, all the memorisation, and all the stress. He began using his method to teach in his Language Institute and, thousands of students later, he prides himself on never having had a student fail. This download contains the entire course – Parts 1, 2, and 3. To continue your language learning journey once you’ve completed this course, download Next Steps in Japanese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course. The accompanying booklet is also available here: http://collinsdictionary.com/resources.

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504273 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504273] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Author: Amanda Montell Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.96 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: “One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too late.”—Refinery29.com The New York Times-bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . . Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.” But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.   Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere.