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Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett and the Friendship that Changed the World by Anthony McCarten

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551336 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551336] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett and the Friendship that Changed the World Author: Anthony McCarten Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour, and The Two Popes comes the fascinating account of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s friendship—one of the most impactful relationships in history, and the basis of an upcoming play and film. Few friendships have had such far-reaching implications for the world—from finance to technology to philanthropy—than that between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. After meeting at a party in 1991, the two played cards and golf, shared jokes, swapped trade secrets, ate junk food, talked and listened. Their growing friendship would impact each man and lead to change on a grander scale, culminating in the development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which holds nearly $50 billion in assets. How did such an unusual union blossom? In what ways specifically did each man begin to influence the other? How did these two avid wealth accumulators jointly decide to address some of the world’s most critical problems—poverty, disease, inequality—by giving their wealth away? And what, finally, does their giga-wealthy partnership mean for the rest of us in an age of great wealth—and great inequality? This book gives the fullest account yet of this extraordinary relationship and explores how it has transformed these two men—and is changing the world for the better for all of us.

The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi by Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551291 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551291] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi Author: Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson Narrator: Scott Richman, Stephan Berwick, Eric Yang, Bob Currie, Ron Butler, Brian Nishii, Emily Woo Zeller, Rob Shapiro, Feodor Chin, Jeff Gurner, Hillary Huber, Adam Grupper, Laurie Anderson, Oliver Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed’s worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson, with Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and Scott Richman. Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s. He studied with Chen Tai Chi pioneer Master Ren GuangYi. This book is a comprehensive collection of Reed’s writings on Tai Chi. It includes conversations with Reed’s fellow musicians, artists, friends, and Tai Chi practitioners, including Julian Schnabel, A. M. Homes, Hal Willner, Mingyur Rinpoche, Eddie Stern, Tony Visconti, and Iggy Pop. The Art of the Straight Line features Reed’s unpublished writings on the technique, practice, and purpose of martial arts, as well as essays, observations, and riffs on meditation and life.

See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549496 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549496] to listen full audiobooks. Title: See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too Author: Will Gompertz Narrator: Matt Addis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his typical engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness. In See What You're Missing we learn, for example, how Hasegawa Tohaku can help us to see beauty, how David Hockney helps us to see colour, and how Frida Kahlo can help us see pain. In doing so we come to know the exhilarating feeling of being truly alive. © Will Gompertz 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552842 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552842] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maus Now: Selected Writing Author: Hillary Chute Narrator: Fred Berman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the original publication of “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; it’s hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and has enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A timeless work in more ways than one, Maus has also often been at the center of debates, as its recent ban by the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board from the district’s English language-arts curriculum demonstrates.     Maus Now: Selected Writing collects responses to Spiegelman’s monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material’s complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections— “Contexts,” “Problems of Representation,” and “Legacy”—and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus.     Maus is revelatory and generative in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar Hillary Chute, an expert on comics and graphic narratives, assembles the world’s best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing images from the book.

Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl's Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Wanda Jackson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553348 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553348] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl's Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Author: Wanda Jackson Narrator: Grey Delisle, Elvis Costello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Wanda Jackson's debut single, 'You Can't Have My Love,' reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and asked her to be 'his girl.' With Presley's encouragement, the Oklahoma native began recording rock music, often releasing singles with country on one side and rock on the other during her decade-and-a-half tenure on Capitol Records. Known for her energetic stage shows and pioneering presence as a female artist, Wanda stormed the charts with a series of hit singles, including 'Let's Have a Party,' 'Right or Wrong,' and 'In the Middle of a Heartache.' With more than 40 albums to her credit, Wanda has proven to be an enduring and genre-defying legend of American music. In Every Night is Saturday Night, Wanda tells her own story of getting discovered by Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Thompson; why she refused to return to The Grand Ole Opry for more than fifty years; the challenges she and her integrated band, The Party Timers, faced in the early 1960s; finding the love of her life; her recent work with rock luminaries Jack White and Joan Jett; and how her deep faith has sustained her over more than seven decades of rocking, shocking, and thrilling audiences around the globe.