Resultados Editorial "audible originals" en Política y ciencias sociales

In 10 lectures, award-winning historian Patrick N. Allitt transports listeners to England in the 1840s and 1850s. During those two decades, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, became one of the most influential people in the country and remains a figure of fascination even today. In fact, the British royal family as we know it wouldn't exist without the private and public actions of this detached, impartial, and upright political figure.

In 1960, Ishmael Reed, then an aspiring young writer, interviewed Malcolm X for a local radio station in Buffalo, and the encounter cost Reed his job and changed his life. In Malcolm and Me, Reed, the author of such classic novels as Mumbo Jumbo and the winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, reveals a side of Malcolm X the public has never seen before, and explores how the civil rights firebrand influenced his own views on working and living and speaking out, and left a mark on generations of artists and activists.

15 dicembre 1969, la giornata più lunga. I funerali di Stato delle vittime nel Duomo. L'arresto del "mostro" Pietro Valpreda, un ballerino anarchico milanese. A suo carico c'è una testimonianza che gli inquirenti ritengono inattaccabile: un tassista sostiene di averlo accompagnato alla Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (BNA) con una valigetta molto pesante, pochi minuti prima della strage. Dopo tre giorni, il ferroviere anarchico Giuseppe Pinelli è ancora trattenuto in questura: a mezzanotte, durante l'ennesimo interrogatorio, precipita dal quarto piano di Milano e muore.

L'incontro con un maestro di giornalismo, Corrado Stajano, fondamentale anche nella vicenda di Piazza Fontana, e quello con Mario Calabresi, per parlare della morte di suo padre, ucciso il 17 maggio 1972. La giustizia negata per la morte di Pinelli e per le vittime della strage. Il ruolo del giudice Guido Salvini e l'indagine che non può finire. Anzi, sta per entrare nel vivo.

La prima pista è quella rossa. La sera del 12 dicembre 1969 la polizia inizia a rastrellare decine di militanti di sinistra, soprattutto anarchici. Sei di loro – per la verità – sono già in prigione da alcuni mesi: li si accusa di aver compiuto una serie di attentati tra la primavera e l'estate del 1969. Gli inquirenti li stanno torchiando duramente, mentre i giornali annunciano senza esitazioni: il mostro ha già un nome.

12 dicembre 1969, Milano. Sono le 16:37 quando un giovane impiegato venuto dal Sud si avvicina alla grande vetrata che dà sul grande salone della banca dove lavora, la Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (BNA) di piazza Fontana. La sua vita e la storia di questo Paese stanno per cambiare per sempre. Lì sotto, nell'emiciclo, una bomba esplode uccidendo 17 persone e ferendone 88. È la più grande strage europea dal 1945.

Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures. Showcased in novels such as Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and in present day pop culture through works like Downtown Abbey, the Gilded Age was an era of contradictions. Life on both sides of the Atlantic was grimy and glamorous, prosperous and impoverished, traditional and revolutionary.

In December 2017 the famous porn star August Ames committed suicide in a park in the Conejo Valley. It happened a day after she’d been the victim of a pile-on, via Twitter, by fellow porn professionals - punishment for her tweeting something deemed homophobic. A month later, August’s husband, Kevin, connected with Jon Ronson to tell the story of how Twitter bullying killed his wife. What neither Kevin nor Ronson realized was that Ronson would soon hear rumors and secrets hinting at a very different story - something mysterious and unexpected and terrible.

From Halloween costumes to patriotic parades to belly-busting meals, every holiday tradition tells a unique story—one encoded in symbols and layered meanings that stretch back over the centuries. In 19 lectures, professional storyteller Dr. Hannah B. Harvey takes listeners through the seasons and investigates the surprising stories behind seemingly odd holiday traditions.

Listen in as the Romance Editors discuss, exclaim over, and dive deep on Remedial Rocket Science by Susannah Nix for the Audible Escape Listening Club. Plus, enjoy editor Melissa’s interview with the author!

Tornadoes, cyclones, tsunamis… Weather can be deadly – especially when it strikes without warning. Millions of Americans could soon find themselves at the mercy of violent weather if the public data behind lifesaving storm alerts gets privatized for personal gain. In his first Audible Original feature, New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis delivers hard-hitting research on not-so-random weather data – and how Washington plans to release it.

From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time National Book Award winner Robert A. Caro: a short, penetrating reflection on the evolution and workings of political power - for good and for ill.

Drawing on dozens of intimate audio interviews with families from all across the country, award-winning psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon redefines what it means to be an “ideal family” in America today. Solomon observes that America, led in large part by the women’s, civil rights, and gay rights movements, has undergone a radical social shift in the last few decades. Although the structure of family has changed, economic and legal structures lag behind and need to adapt to accommodate this explosive new reality.

A humanities professor at a liberal arts college is terrified of what she feels is an inevitable act of violence, fearing that one day, she will be the victim of a disgruntled student’s aggression. As a single mother, no one matters more than her little boy. So when a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands.

To hear Ethiopian and Swedish chef, TV personality, and restauranteur Marcus Samuelsson cook with special guests at the Red Rooster restaurant is to make an audio pilgrimage to Harlem. Listeners will get to know the iconic neighborhood, Marcus’ home, through its food, its history, and - most importantly - its people.

Conversations with Joe presents the edited highlights of Vice President Joe Biden’s 29 city US tour, in which he speaks candidly about his son Beau’s remarkable life and the hope and purpose the Biden family found in carrying on Beau’s work after he lost his battle with brain cancer. The conversations feature a kaleidoscopic assortment of American leaders, artists, performers and writers - including Man Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders, late night talk-show host Stephen Colbert, television actress Constance Wu, philanthropist Melinda Gates, and more.

The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind. By carefully x-raying areas such as body image, marriage, mental illness, fashion, and politics, this audiobook examines what it was like to be a woman in the past versus what it’s like now, when women are constantly told equality between the sexes exists but reality proves otherwise.

"Terra in vista - La scienza e la tecnologia spiegate a mio figlio" è un programma di Radio24 di divulgazione scientifica per ragazzi, condotto da Federico Taddia e dal filosofo della scienza Telmo Pievani. Che cosa s'intende per algoritmo? A cosa serve? È facile da scrivere? Perché si sente sempre di più la frase: "Lo ha deciso l'algoritmo"? Ospite della puntata è Maurizio Tesconi, ricercatore dell'Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche.

"Terra in vista - La scienza e la tecnologia spiegate a mio figlio" è un programma di Radio24 di divulgazione scientifica per ragazzi, condotto da Federico Taddia e dal filosofo della scienza Telmo Pievani. A cosa serve il sonno? Cosa succede al nostro cervello quando si dorme? Si può dormire ad occhi aperti? Ospite della puntata è Lino Nobili, docente di Neuropsichiatria infantile all'Università di Genova. Come sempre non può mancare l'esperimento proposto da Agnese Sonato, caporedattrice della rivista scientifica per bambini PLaNCK.

Dopo il grande successo di ascolti e recensioni della prima stagione di "Scuola di Filosofie", Maura Gancitano e Andrea Colamedici completano la lista dei più importanti pensatori del XX secolo con 20 nuovi imperdibili autori.