The Anthropology category has 155 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 7,559 ratings. The most-rated is Sapiens.
The Last of the Tribe
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Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of Southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man tribe was unprecedented. And like all of the isolated tribes in the Amazonian frontier, he was in danger. Resentment of Indians can run high among settlers, and the consequences can be fatal. The discovery of the Indian prevented local ranchers from seizing his land and led a small group of men who believed that he was the last of a murdered tribe to dedicate themselves to protecting him. These men worked for the government, overseeing indigenous interests in an odd job that was part Indiana Jones, part social worker, and were among the most experienced adventurers in the Amazon. They were a motley crew that included a rebel who spent more than a decade living with a tribe, a young man who left home to work in the forest at age 14, and an old-school sertanista with a collection of tall tales amassed over five decades of jungle exploration. Their quest would prove far more difficult than any of them could imagine. Over the course of a decade, the struggle to save the Indian and his land would pit them against businessmen, politicians, and even the Indian himself, a man resolved to keep the outside world at bay at any cost. It would take them into the farthest reaches of the forest and to the halls of Brazil's Congress, threatening their jobs and even their lives. Ensuring the future of the Indian and his land would lead straight to the heart of the conflict over the Amazon itself. A heart-pounding modern-day adventure set in one of the world's last truly wild places, The Last of the Tribe is a riveting, brilliantly told tale of encountering the unknown and the unfathomable - and the value of preserving it.
©2016 Monte Reel (P)2016 Random House Audio
The Undivided Past
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From one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict. Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference - religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization - Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history. Without denying their power to motivate populations dramatically at particular moments, he reveals that in the long term none has proven remotely as divisive as the occasional absolutist cries of "us versus them" would suggest, whether Christian versus Muslim during the Crusades (and now), landed gentry versus peasantry during the Bolshevik Revolution, or Jews versus "Aryan race" in Nazi Germany. For most of recorded time, these same "unbridgeable" differences were experienced as just one identity among others; whatever most chroniclers, self-serving mythmakers, and demagogues would have us believe, history needs to be reimagined to include the countless fruitful interactions across these lines, which are usually left out of the picture.
©2013 David Cannadine (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing
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You've heard of the Dog Whisperer? Meet the Ancestor Rescuer. Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has solved some of America's oldest and most fascinating genealogical mysteries. You've read the headlines; now get the inside story as the "Indiana Jones of genealogy" reveals how she cracked her news-making cases, became the face of this increasingly popular field - and redefined history along the way. How did Smolenyak discover Barack Obama's Irish ancestry - and his relation to Brad Pitt? Or the journey of Michelle Obama's family from slavery to the White House? Or the startling links between outspoken politicians Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond? And why is Smolenyak's name squared? Test your own skills as she shares her exciting secrets. Whether she's scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using cutting-edge DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers dating back to the Civil War, Smolenyak's historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself.
©2012 Megan Smolenyak (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Sarah Ourahmoune
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Au micro de Lauren Bastide, Sarah Ourahmoune parle de son enfance à Clichy, du sport comme valeur fondamentale et de son premier contact avec la boxe. Elle évoque aussi la situation des femmes dans ce sport à ses débuts, son premier combat, comment s'imposer dans le milieu sportif et son rapport à son corps. Elle témoigne enfin de la difficulté de la reprise après la maternité, de la puissance d'un corps de sportive de 34 ans et de son rôle dans la société. Sarah Ourahmoune est la boxeuse la plus médaillée de France. Dix fois championne de France, trois fois championne d'Europe, championne du monde en 2008 et médaille d'argent aux Jeux Olympiques de Rio en 2016, elle commence la boxe à 14 ans à Aubervilliers, alors que la compétition n'était pas encore autorisée aux femmes. Née en 1982, elle gagne sa première médaille en 1999, peu de temps après l'ouverture de l'accès à la compétition. En dehors de son impressionnant palmarès de boxe, elle a une formation d'éducatrice spécialisée et poursuit des études à Sciences Po où elle développe son entreprise : Boxer inside. Elle y utilise la boxe comme moyen de développement personnel et forme des publics divers, notamment en entreprise. Engagée politiquement, elle fait aujourd'hui partie du Comité national olympique et sportif français en charge des mixités et est une des porte-parole des Jeux Olympiques de 2024. La Poudre est une production Nouvelles Écoutes Réalisation et générique : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Coordination : Gaïa Marty Mixage : Audrey Ginestet.
©2019 Nouvelles Écoutes (P)2019 Nouvelles Écoutes
Why We Remain Jews
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In Why We Remain Jews, Dr. Vladimir Tsesis describes the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclusion that religion and science - especially in light of recent discoveries - are not antagonists but are in fact in complete harmony, supplementing and not excluding each other. In the spirit of ecumenism, Tsesis speaks about coexistence of different religions, which share the common objective of assurance of perpetual survival of the human race. The unifying theme of this audiobook, however, is the beauty of the Jewish religion and a possible answer to the question of why we remain Jews.
©2013 Vladimir Tsesis (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Scimmie
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Rompere una noce con un sasso, lavare e salare le patate, fare un bagno in acque termali... sono loro: le scimmie. Ecco perché occuparsene, anche se hanno quattro mani e non solo due. L'audiolibro ci guida attraverso un viaggio nel mondo dei Primati, per aiutarci ad afferrarne la complessità e il fascino, ma anche per provare a capire in quale misura siamo noi stessi un po' scimmie e, dunque, a tutti gli effetti parte della natura. Ci accorgeremo, allora, che molti dei nostri comportamenti - compresi quelli più sofisticati - sono modulazioni di caratteristiche piuttosto diffuse tra i nostri parenti più stretti.
©2011 Società editrice il Mulino Spa (P)2019 Audible Studios
The Hidden Life of Life
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An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this engrossing book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards. Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution - that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships - Thomas leads listeners on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of “Gaia’s creatures,” from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love, from proud primates to Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna. Fervently rejecting “anthropodenial,” the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren’t really as special as we think we are - and that it doesn’t take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things. A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things better. Narrated by Thomas, this joyful book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all those in between. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, an anthropologist and animal behaviorist, has published thirteen previous books, including the New York Times best seller The Hidden Life of Dogs. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Learn more at elizabethmarshallthomas.net.
©2018 Penn State University Press (P)2020 Penn State University Press
Traveling Heavy
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Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family as well as the strangers who show her kindness as she makes her way through the world. Compassionate, curious, and unafraid to reveal her failings, Behar embraces the unexpected insights and adventures of travel, whether it's learning that she longed to become a mother after being accused of giving the evil eye to a baby in rural Mexico or going on a zany pilgrimage to the Behar World Summit in the Spanish town of Béjar. Behar calls herself an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness. Repeatedly returning to her homeland of Cuba, unwilling to utter her last good-bye, she is obsessed with the question of why we leave home to find home. For those of us who travel heavy with our own baggage, Behar is an indispensable guide, full of grace and hope in the perpetual search for connection that defines our humanity. The book is published by Duke University Press.
©2013 Ruth Behar (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
Anuta, Second Edition
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Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Richard Feinberg's updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertook fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. He explores dominant cultural features, including language, kinship, marriage, politics, and religion topics that align with subject matter covered in introductory anthropology courses and he looks at some of the challenges Anutans face in the 21st century. Like many other peoples living on small, remote islands, Anutans strive to maintain traditional values while at the same time becoming involved in the world market economy. In all, Feinberg gives listeners magnificent material for studying the relations between demography, environment, culture, and society in this changing world. The book is published by Kent State University Press.
©2011 Richard Feinberg (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
Julie Gayet
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Au micro de Lauren Bastide, Julie Gayet parle du choix du nom de sa société de production, de son enfance entre Paris et banlieue, des figures de femmes de sa famille, de son passage du chant au jeu et du travail du corps. Elle évoque longuement son expérience avec Agnès Varda, mais aussi ses transformations d'actrice, la prise de conscience de sa féminité, la question du cinéma au féminin, son engagement contre les violences faites aux femmes et la ménopause. Julie Gayet est actrice et dirige la société de production Rouge international. Née en 1972 en région parisienne, elle fait du chant lyrique enfant puis, adolescente, en vient à la comédie. Son premier grand rôle au cinéma lui est offert par Agnès Varda en 1994, dans "Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma". Elle ne quittera plus les plateaux où elle se transforme de film en film, souvent méconnaissable, toujours au service de l'œuvre des réalisateurs. Elle remporte plusieurs prix pour son rôle dans "Sélect Hôtel" en 1997, ainsi que le César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle en 2014 pour "Quai d'Orsay". En 2007, elle monte sa société de production, Rouge international qui produit des films et documentaires engagés et créatifs, comme "Grave" de Julia Ducournau ou "Visages Villages" d’Agnès Varda et JR. Julie Gayet milite aussi contre les violences faites aux femmes. Elle fait partie du collectif 5050x2020, du mouvement #Maintenantonagit pour récolter des fonds pour les associations de terrain et est cofondatrice de l'association Info-endométriose qui travaille à la reconnaissance de cette maladie. La voix que vous entendez dans l'introduction est celle d’Agnès Varda dans un entretien pour Télérama Dialogue. La Poudre est une production Nouvelles Écoutes Réalisation et générique : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Mixage du générique du cycle Cinéma : Charles de Cillia Coordination : Gaïa Marty.
©2019 Nouvelles Écoutes (P)2019 Nouvelles Écoutes
L'evoluzione umana
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Una storia prima della storia. Ossa fossili, denti, manufatti, siti preistorici e dati genetici per ricostruire l'evoluzione di un gruppo di scimmie antropomorfe che, intorno a 6 milioni di anni fa, in Africa, intrapresero l'intricato percorso evolutivo che diede origine alla nostra specie. È la lunga vicenda raccontata in quest'audiolibro: dalle origini, quando primati bipedi popolavano un habitat ancora forestale, alla varietà delle cosiddette "australopitecine" - fra cui la nota Lucy -, all'emergere del genere Homo, fino alla comparsa sulla scena di Homo sapiens e alla sua (nostra) affermazione sull'intero pianeta. Un percorso lungo e complesso, fondamentale per la nostra natura di esseri biologici e, al tempo stesso, culturali.
©2007 Società editrice il Mulino Spa (P)2019 Audible Studios
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El mito de las tres transformaciones [The Myth of the Three Transformations]
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«El que controla el pasado controla el futuro, y el que controla el presente es quien controla el pasado.» George Orwell, 1984 La historia no estudia el pasado, lo construye. Toda historia nacional es una mitología, y las mitologías sirven para estructurar la mente de un pueblo. La historia ha sido un arma, una herramienta política, un discurso psicológico, y eso es así porque siempre se ha escrito desde el poder para legitimarlo. Hoy se habla de transformaciones en la historia de México: independencia, reforma y revolución. Todas implicaron guerra, polarización y odio; cada una de ellas generó división y sembró las semillas de los conflictos posteriores. Para transformar a México, hay que tener un cambio colectivo de mentalidad, y con el bien común como premisa indispensable para encontrar la paz. El mito de las tres transformaciones es un paseo a lo largo de la historia y la psicología de nosotros mismos para lograr una verdadera transformación y construir el mejor México posible. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2018 Juan Miguel Zunzunegui (P)2019 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
L'art & la poudre #1 - Laure Prouvost et Martha Kirszenbaum
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L'artiste contemporaine Laure Prouvost et la commissaire d'exposition Martha Kirszenbaum, duo à l'origine du pavillon français de la Biennale de Venise 2019 sont les invitées du premier épisode du cycle L'art & La Poudre. Avec Lauren Bastide, elles ont parlé d'art, de femmes et de poulpe. L'édito de Lauren : L'art n'a pas de nation. L'art n'a pas de temps. L'art n'a pas de sexe. Ou si ? En mai, après l'ouverture de la Biennale, à Venise, l'eau s'est mise à monter. Je suis allée sur le toit du pavillon français. J'ai embarqué dans un bateau, avec deux femmes. C'était Laure Prouvost, l'artiste, et Martha Kirszenbaum, la commissaire. Grandes, lumineuses, musclées, invincibles, belles... On a vogué des jours. On a vogué des nuits. On a atteint une île et on a accosté. Sur le sol, au bord de l'eau, des micros. On s'est assises, et on a parlé. Résumé de l'épisode : Quelle place pour les femmes dans l'art contemporain ? Comment les artistes françaises entrent-elles dans les musées, les foires et prix internationaux, les institutions ? Laure Prouvost, née en 1978 à Croix, est l'une des artistes contemporaines les plus reconnues de sa génération. Avec Martha Kirszenbaum, jeune commissaire d'exposition née en 1983 à Vitry-sur-Seine, elle a réalisé le pavillon français à la Biennale de Venise 2019. L'œuvre qui en a résulté, "Deep Sea Blue Surrounding You" ("Vois ce bleu profond te fondre") est un voyage sensoriel et initiatique, l’épopée mystique et transfrontalière d'une douzaine de personnages, de la banlieue parisienne à la lagune vénitienne. Toutes deux passées par un parcours international, elles revendiquent la liberté que leur a apporté ce changement de paradigme et le questionnement sur les identités et les frontières qu'il entraîne. Un questionnement qui fait partie intégrante de leur proposition à la Biennale. Elles ont pourtant grandi en France : Laure Prouvost dans le Nord, une enfance campagnarde et réfractaire à l'autoritarisme du système scolaire, et Martha Kirszenbaum en région parisienne, entre classicisme versaillais et parents moins conventionnels. C'est l'Angleterre qui accueille Laure Prouvost dès ses débuts et lui remet le prix Turner. Elle devient ainsi la première française à recevoir cette prestigieuse récompense pour une œuvre qui, déjà, questionnait les frontières et les moyens de les contourner. Pour Martha, ce sont les États-Unis qui lui offrent la possibilité de diriger un centre d'exposition, alors qu'elle manquait de modèles de femmes commissaires d'exposition dans son pays d'origine. Au-delà de ces problématiques géographiques, Laure Prouvost évoque au micro de Lauren Bastide sa propre féminité mais aussi sa mise en scène du corps féminin dans ses œuvres. Sensibles à la place des femmes et à leur représentation dans l'art, elles sont d'ailleurs toutes les deux signataires de l'appel Not suprised qui dénonce les violences sexuelles dans le monde de l'art. Un monde où les femmes peinent encore à trouver leur place et un équilibre entre vie privée et vocation. Bonne écoute, et continuez de faire parler La Poudre ! Les extraits sonores et les morceaux de Lafawndah et Flavien Berger que vous entendez dans l'épisode sont extraits de l’œuvre "Deep Sea Blue Surrounding You" ("Vois ce bleu profond te fondre"). Merci à Laure Prouvost pour son autorisation. La Poudre est une émission produite par Nouvelles Écoutes Réalisation et générique : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Programmation et coordination : Gaïa Marty Mixage : Clotilde Fauchille.
©2019 Nouvelles Écoutes (P)2019 Nouvelles Écoutes
Bones
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Human bone is versatile and entirely unique: It repairs itself without scarring, it's lightweight but responds to stresses, and it's durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals explores and extols this amazing material that both supports and records vertebrate life. Inside the body, bone proves itself the world's best building material. Meals examines the biological makeup of bones; demystifies how they grow, break, and heal; and compares the particulars of human bone to variations throughout the animal kingdom. In engaging and clear prose, he debunks familiar myths - humans don't have exactly 206 bones - and illustrates common bone diseases, like osteoporosis and arthritis, and their treatments. Along the way, he highlights the medical innovations - from the first X-rays to advanced operative techniques - that enhance our lives and introduces the giants of orthopedic surgery who developed them. With enthusiasm and humor, Meals also investigates the diverse roles bone has played in human culture throughout history. He highlights allusions to bone in religion and literature, from Adam's rib to Hamlet's skull, and uncovers its enduring presence as fossils, technological tools, and musical instruments ranging from the Tibetan thighbone kangling horn to everyday drumsticks.
©2020 Roy A. Meals, MD (P)2020 Tantor
Ingenious
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In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond - into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite - a start-up backed by millions in venture capital-designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."
©2013 Jason Fagone (P)2013 Tantor
Our Tempestuous Day
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The tumult and opulence of England’s Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out. Hoping to control the crisis, Parliament appoints the king’s unpopular son Prince George IV as Regent or caretaker. But for the next nine years, this substitute ruler shocks the nation with his drunkenness, his mistresses, and his wanton spending. From seething mobs in the streets to Lucullan feasts in drawing rooms, historian Carolly Erickson vividly captures the nation in a troubled transition. With narrator Simon Prebble’s dramatic performance, the splendor and intrigue of Regency England are as enthralling as the most entertaining novel.
©1986 Carolly Erickson (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC
Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
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Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race. To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among "races" remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint. Differences among human populations that people intuitively view as "racial" are not only superficial but are also of astonishingly recent origin. In this intriguing and highly accessible audiobook, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are - and are not - and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity. They explain that the relative isolation of local populations of the newly evolved human species during the last Ice Age - when Homo sapiens was spreading across the world from an African point of origin - has now begun to reverse itself, as differentiated human populations come back into contact and interbreed. The book is published by Texas A&M University Press.
©2011 Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
Laurence Lascary
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Au micro de Lauren Bastide, Laurence Lascary parle de son choix d'être productrice, de son enfance en banlieue parisienne, de son attachement au département de la Seine Saint-Denis, des films qui l'ont marquée et du chemin qu'elle s'est tracée. Elle évoque aussi son passage à New York et l'optimisme qu'elle en a rapporté, à quel point les représentations comptent, son rôle en tant qu'actrice du changement, la complexité des sujets qu'elle porte et son expérience d'écriture. Laurence Lascary est productrice. Née en 1980, elle grandit à Bobigny. Après un master à la Sorbonne et à l'INA, elle travaille à Studio Canal, puis part à New York pour un poste chez Unifrance. L'optimisme qu'elle tire de cette expérience la pousse en 2008 à monter sa propre structure de production sans attendre : "De l'Autre Côté du Périph". Grâce à sa société, elle s'attache à faire bouger les lignes des représentations. Après plusieurs puissants documentaires pour la télévision, elle produit en 2016 un premier long-métrage, "L'Ascension", qui rafle le prix du public et le grand prix du jury au festival de l'Alpe d'Huez et fait plus d'un million d'entrées. Très engagée, elle est aussi membre du Conseil National des Villes, du Collège diversité du Ministère de la Culture et coprésidente du collectif 50/50 pour 2020 qui lutte pour la parité dans le monde du cinéma. La Poudre est une production Nouvelles Écoutes Réalisation et générique : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Mixage du générique du cycle Cinéma : Charles de Cillia Coordination : Gaïa Marty Mixage : Paul Lambert de Cursay.
©2019 Nouvelles Écoutes (P)2019 Nouvelles Écoutes
This is Your Country on Drugs
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Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago. NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers just as President Clinton knew it would. President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic. Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason. The fastest-growing drug in America is a legal hallucinogen you can buy on the Internet.
©2009 Ryan Grim (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
The Blue Man
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Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recounting the author’s experiences with memorable patients he has treated who suffer from mysterious skin conditions. Robert Norman begins by highlighting the qualities of the skin, tracing the history of its conditions and diseases, then examining the cultural, social and psychological impact of both color and irregularity. The audiobook also features an absorbing collection of stories about some of his most intriguing patients: from a man whose skin mysteriously turned blue, to a hypochondriacal woman who begins to show signs of a life-threatening disease. This is a fascinating account of the dynamic nature of the skin, and the people who inhabit it.
©2014 The Regents of the University of California (P)2014 Audible Inc.