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The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren Mcgarvey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409656 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/409656] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain Author: Darren Mcgarvey Narrator: Darren Mcgarvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Britain is in a long-distance relationship with reality... From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country - our political class. So this is a book about the distance, whether geographical, economic, or cultural, between those who make decisions and the people on the receiving end of them. The distance between the affluent and the poor, how their interests and values diverge, and the assumptions they make about each other's experiences and intentions in the absence of any meaningful interaction. How even those with the noblest aims, inadvertently cause harm as a result of their social remoteness and fail to advance anybody's interests but their own misguided ones. Could Britain's problem be, not that there is a lot of inequality, but that for generations, a small group of people, who know little about it, have been charged with discussing, debating, and sorting it out? At what point do we look for answers, not to the people who are hardest up, but the apparently educated and sophisticated, whose dominance of Britain's institutions has been virtually unbroken for centuries? Praise for Darren McGarvey: 'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' Herald 'Utterly compelling' Ian Rankin, New Statesman 'Brilliant' Russell Brand 'An absolutely fascinating individual' Owen Jones 'Offer[s] an antidote to populist anger that transcends left and right... articulate and emotional' Financial Times 'McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say' Nick Cohen, Guardian © Darren McGarvey 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

The Nightingale: ‘The nature book of the year’ by Sam Lee

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/404697 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/404697] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nightingale: ‘The nature book of the year’ Author: Sam Lee Narrator: Sam Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 25, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As featured on The Today Programme 'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. For thousands of years, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. Passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’, Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird. ‘Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted.’ LILY COLE © Sam Lee 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Parent Like It Matters: How to Raise Joyful, Change-Making Girls by Janice Johnson Dias

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411987 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411987] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parent Like It Matters: How to Raise Joyful, Change-Making Girls Author: Janice Johnson Dias Narrator: Janice Johnson Dias, Jacqueline Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: An accessible blueprint to embolden our daughters to be critical thinkers, fearless doers, and joyful change agents for our future—from the proud mother of teen activist Marley Dias, founder of 1000BLACKGIRLBOOKS. “A stunning and pathbreaking how-to guide and memoir for every mom, dad, or caregiver who believes in rearing children to be healthy individuals and caring citizens.”—Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness Renowned sociologist Janice Johnson Dias has devoted her life to nurturing and training girls to become changemakers—whether through her investment in her daughter Marley’s humanitarian projects or through her work with the GrassROOTS Community Foundation “SuperCamp” she co-founded for girls. In these unprecedented times, her work has never been more urgent, as parents find themselves asking: How do we teach girls to change the world?   Dr. Johnson Dias knows that self-realized girls are created through intentional parenting. And so she asks parents to make deliberate choices—from babyhood through adolescence—that will give their girls the resources and foundation to take hold of their own futures and to create sustainable social change.    Unlike other parenting experts, Dr. Johnson Dias doesn’t urge parents to focus solely on their children. Instead, she tasks them with a personal challenge: to find their own joy. Just as Dr. Johnson Dias brings her own jubilant passion to parenting, mentoring, and teaching, she inspires caregivers to do the same.    Using cutting-edge research and Dr. Johnson Dias’s own experiences, the book offers information and strategies for making discussions of racism and sexism a daily practice, identifying heroes and mentors, educating yourselves together, and uncovering your girl’s passions and what issues drive her the most.    Parenting is enormous work; it can be as overwhelming as it is fulfilling. Within the pages of Parent Like It Matters, parents will find the invaluable tools they need to raise  resilient, optimistic girls who determine for themselves what their world will look like. * This audiobook includes a bonus pdf of assignments, appendices and a list of resources from the book.

American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408181 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408181] to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption Author: Gabrielle Glaser Narrator: Margaret Katz, Gabrielle Glaser, Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific 'assessments,' and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.

Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team that Brought Him to Justice by Charlotte Bismuth

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/406952 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/406952] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team that Brought Him to Justice Author: Charlotte Bismuth Narrator: Samantha Desz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “A taut exploration of America’s deadly battle with opioid addiction—an unnerving and inspirational firecracker of a book.” —Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author For fans of Dopesick and Bad Blood, the shocking story of New York’s most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down. In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and Xanax, trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors, psychiatrists, and desperate family members warned him that his patients were at risk of death but he would not stop. In Killer in a White Coat, former prosecutor Charlotte Bismuth meticulously recounts the jaw-dropping details of this criminal case that would span four years, culminating in a landmark trial. As a new assistant district attorney and single mother, Bismuth worked tirelessly with her team to bring Dr. Li to justice. Killer in a White Coat is a chilling story of corruption and greed and an important look at the role individual doctors play in America’s opioid epidemic.