Free Will by Sam Harris

Free Will by Sam Harris

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122999 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122999] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free Will Author: Sam Harris Narrator: Sam Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 15 minutes Release date: March 6, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 9 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, 'brilliant and witty' (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.

The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine by Ari Rabin-Havt, David Brock

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122304 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122304] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine Author: Ari Rabin-Havt, David Brock Narrator: Bob Dunsworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 21, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Here is comprehensive overview of the tumultuous career of former Fox News president Roger Ailes and a must-read for anyone looking to understand his legacy and impact on news media.  Based on the meticulous research of the news watchdog organization Media Matters for America, David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt show how Fox News, under its president Roger Ailes, changed from a right-leaning news network into a partisan advocate for the Republican Party. The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from his early work as a television producer and media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Consequently, when he was hired in 1996 as the president of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship conservative cable news network, Ailes had little journalism experience, but brought to the job the mindset of a political operative. As Brock and Rabin-Havt demonstrate through numerous examples, Ailes used his extraordinary power and influence to spread a partisan political agenda that is at odds with long-established, widely held standards of fairness and objectivity in news reporting. Featuring transcripts of leaked audio and memos from Fox News reporters and executives, The Fox Effect is a damning indictment of how the network’s news coverage and commentators have biased reporting, drummed up marginal stories, and even consciously manipulated established facts in their efforts to attack the Obama administration.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120528 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120528] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity Author: Katherine Boo Narrator: Sunil Malhotra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 7, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 46 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 9 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People “A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.  With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.  WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award • The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate •  Publishers Weekly

How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120839 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120839] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be Black Author: Baratunde Thurston Narrator: Baratunde Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 31, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media’s insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture’s richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America’s blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black.

Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry by Dylan Ratigan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120551 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/120551] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry Author: Dylan Ratigan Narrator: Dylan Ratigan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 10, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: DYLAN RATIGAN’S mission is to uncover never-before-seen solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: government corruption, corporate communism, an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a broken educational system. In this groundbreaking book, Ratigan makes a case that America has the opportunity to prosper, but only by setting clear goals. Ratigan believes that this country, now more than ever, needs passionate debate and smart policy, a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work, and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America, and with this book he has started the debate America deserves.