Mike Pollock has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Nazi Conscience.
The Nazi Conscience
Summary
The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar anti-Semitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk. From 1933 to 1939, Nazi public culture was saturated with a blend of racial fear and ethnic pride that Koonz calls ethnic fundamentalism. Ordinary Germans were prepared for wartime atrocities by racial concepts widely disseminated in media not perceived as political: Academic research, documentary films, mass-market magazines, racial hygiene and art exhibits, slide lectures, textbooks, and humor. By showing how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust. The Nazi Conscience chronicles the chilling saga of a modern state so powerful that it extinguished neighborliness, respect, and, ultimately, compassion for all those banished from the ethnic majority.
©2003 Clauida Koonz (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Christmas F@%T
Summary
Christmas F@%T is about a dysfunctional family attempting to have a functional Christmas. But this year, someone has a secret. Will it be naughty? Will it be nice? It's a holiday you won't forget as a member of the Smith family gets ready to let one rip. Direction and additional material by Audie Award winner Barrett Leddy. Written by Emmy Award winner Jacklyn Thrapp. Christmas F@%T is presented by Thrappo Audio.
©2020 Jacklyn Thrapp LLC (P)2020 Jacklyn Thrapp LLC
Hanukkah Haunting
Summary
Eight nights of horror! In this audio drama, a Brooklyn family is haunted by ghosts over Hanukkah. Starring Voice Arts Awards winner Sarah Natochenny, Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser, Mike Pollock, Emily Cramer, Gianmarco Soresi, Barrett Leddy, Terrence Clowe, Josh Davis, and Simona Berman. Direction by Audie Award winner Barrett Leddy. Originally written by Emmy Award winner Jacklyn Thrapp. Additional material by Barrett Leddy, Jackson Bell, and Jane Lednovich. Music by Jackson Bell. Hanukkah Haunting is presented by Thrappo Audio. © Jacklyn Thrapp LLC
©2020 Jacklyn Thrapp LLC (P)2020 Jacklyn Thrapp LLC
The Quantum Story
Summary
Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the 21st-century technology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it has completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at its most fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicist Richard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it. The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the theory's bizarre implications. To take us from the story's beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes his narrative around 40 turning-point moments of discovery. Many of these are inextricably bound up with the characters involved--their rivalries and their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitement as they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through the mix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of theory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-boggling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entanglement, the Higgs boson, and much more. Brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing at its best. A compelling look at the 100-year history of quantum theory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicists have grappled with this monster ever since.
©2011 Jim Baggott (P)2011 Audible, Inc.