Audiobooks narrated by Brian Jones

Black history is under attack from powerful right-wing forces that seek to excise it from classrooms and libraries. Its opponents fail to understand a simple truth: the best education challenges our assumptions and demands we keep at it. It makes us uncomfortable, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures. In Black History Is for Everyone, award-winning educator and scholar Brian Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history, using his own experiences as a life-long learner and classroom teacher to question everything from the meaning of race and nation to the radicalism of the American Revolution. We see that 'race' took centuries to get defined; we follow Frederick Douglass as he grapples with how to relate to the United States and, later, to Haiti; we compare the American, French, and Haitian revolutions; and we learn why the study of Black history has always been threatened. In these pages, Jones offers a persuasive case for Black history and a celebration of the rewards of education. With warmth, immersive storytelling, and good cheer, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high, the effort is worth it.

Brian Jones (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator)

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Life Happens Now What the Fxck: Master the Good Bad and Ugly that life can throw at you

When Life Happens Now what the Fxck! Master the good, bad, and ugly that life can throw at you! When life happens, discover how you can always be your best when life has other plans! To master life is to be greater than any event that can take hold of you! A strategy that makes you stronger through each event, as hard as it might seem at the time. Winning the lottery is easy in life, yet dealing with a loved one who has just passed away is hard. They are separate events, but in reality, one moment in time and two different reactions. How long we stay inside these events will ultimately determine our life. We cannot control anything that happens, yet we do control everything going forward. If we become a puppet to our reactions, we will live inside every event. The other side of events is where we need to live our life. How can someone who has nothing, go through unbearable circumstances, yet rise to become a symbol of the capabilities of a human being? How can others have everything, grow a successful life, and throw it all away to their circumstances? Was their life that much harder than someone with five kids living on food stamps? Life is happening for you, whether you believe it or not, yet we can turn these events into our biggest strengths. When we have power over ourselves, this is real power. When you implement the techniques that this book offers, you will become the creator of life and not the caretaker for a life. Events will never define who you will become. When life happens, it happens! You cross the river of change and grow into who you will eventually become. Life can only travel in one direction at a time, and you get to choose that direction! Become the Victor in Life!

Brian Jones (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator)

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Who Rules the World?

The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy—diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable—the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.

Noam Chomsky (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator)

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Who Rules the World?: Reframings

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Who Rules the World? By Noam Chomsky, read by Brian Jones. Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post 9/11 world Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing policies and actions, calling our politicians, institutions and media to account. The culmination of years of work, Who Rules the World? is Chomsky's definitive intellectual investigation into the major issues of our times. From the dark history of the US and Cuba to China's global rise, from torture memos to sanctions on Iran, Chomsky explores how America's talk of freedom and human rights is often at odds with its actions. Delving deep into the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he provides nuanced, surprising insights into the workings of modern-day imperial power. The world's political and financial elite have become ever more insulated from democratic constraints on their actions. Chomsky shines a powerful light on this inconvenient truth. With climate change and nuclear proliferation threatening the survival of our civilization, the message has never been more pertinent or more urgent: the need for an engaged and active public to steer the world away from disaster grows ever greater. Fiercely outspoken and rigorously argued, Who Rules the World? is an indispensable guide to how things really are from the lone authoritative voice courageous and clear-sighted enough to tell us the truth.

Noam Chomsky (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator)

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The Wheels on the Bus and Other Children's Songs: 22 Fun Songs!

A fun collection of all-time favorite songs for everyone to enjoy...and join in with! The Wheels on the Bus includes: The Wheels on the Bus, Baa Baa Black Sheep, If Your Happy and You Know It, Do Your Ears Hang Low, Skip to My Lou, Hickory Dickory Dock, Itsy Bitsy Spider/Jack and Jill, I'm a Little Teapot, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Bingo, Hush, Little Baby, Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone, Old MacDonald, The Muffin Man, A Tiskit A Tasket, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Row, Row Your Boat, Oh, Susanna, The Farmer in the Dell, Knick Knack Paddy Whack, ABC, and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes. Performed by Susan Boyce and Brian Jones. Music arranged and performed by Will Sibilia.

AudioGo (Author), Brian Jones, Susan Boyce (Narrator)

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The Wheels on the Bus Holiday Songs: Favorite Preschool Holiday Songs

Join in and sing along with a host of much-loved holiday songs. The Wheels on the Bus Holiday Songs includes: We Three Kings, Deck the Halls, Up On the Housetop, I Saw Three Ships, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Away in a Manager, The First Noel, Over the River and Through the Woods, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Oh, Christmas Tree, Twas the Night Before Christmas, and Jolly Old St. Nicholas. Performed by Susan Boyce and Brian Jones, with Laura Almeida and Nate Grant. Music arranged and performed by Will Sibilia. Additional Music by John Cooke.

AudioGo, Various Authors (Author), Brian Jones, Susan Boyce, Various (Narrator)

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The Wheels on the Bus Around the World: Favorite Preschool Songs From Around the World

Join in and sing along with a host of much-loved songs and rhymes. The Wheels on the Bus Around the World includes: The Wheels on the Bus, London Bridge is Falling Down, Eenie Meenie Mackeracka, Pop Goes the Weasel, She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain, Five Currant Buns, Ten Fat Sausages, Cockles and Mussels, Frere Jacques, Tom, Tom the Piper's Son, Ring a Ring o' Roses, Pussycat, Pussycat, The Grand Old Duke of York, Boys and Girls, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Diddle Diddle Dumpling, Polly Put the Kettle On, Lavender's Blue, Dance to Your Daddy, A Sailor Went to Sea, Sing a Song of Sixpence, The Cuckoo, Waltzing Matilda, and Harry Whistle. Songs performed by Mark Meadows, Deryn Edwards, Michelle Durler, Robin Fritz, Susan Sheridan, Jimmy Hibbert, Sophie Aldred, and Richard Mitchley. Additional vocals by Dee, Charlotte, and Emily Owen. Music by Bernard Graham Shaw, Steven D. Jones, Glyn M. Owen, and Roger Davis.

AudioGo, Various Authors (Author), Brian Jones, Susan Boyce, Various (Narrator)

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A fun collection of songs and rhymes for everyone to enjoy and join in with! More "The Wheels on the Bus" includes: The Wheels on the Bus, Down at the Station, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Pat-a-Cake, Hey Diddle Diddle, Miss Polly Had a Dolly, Simple Simon, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, Froggy Went A' Courting, Ten in the Bed, Peter Hammers With One Hammer, I Jump Out of Bed, Polly Put the Kettle On, Little Bo Peep, Wee Willie Winkie, I Hear Thunder, I Hear Thunder, and If All The World Were Apple Pie. Songs performed by Mark Meadows, Deryn Edwards, Michelle Durler, Robin Fritz, Susan Sheridan, Jimmy Hibbert, Sophie Aldred, and Richard Mitchley. Additional vocals by Dee, Charlotte, and Emily Owen. Music by Bernard Graham Shaw, Steven D. Jones, Glyn M. Owen, and Roger Davis.

AudioGo (Author), Brian Jones, Susan Boyce (Narrator)

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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

The world's foremost intellectual activist narrates his irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood—the heavens—as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its skies are, for the Bush administration, the final frontiers of imperial control. In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this moment, what kind of peril we find ourselves in, and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky dissects America's quest for global supremacy, tracking the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of policies intended to achieve “full spectrum dominance at any cost. He lays out vividly how the various strands of policy cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our survival. In our era, he argues, empire is a recipe for an earthly wasteland. Lucid, rigorous, and thoroughly documented, Hegemony or Survival promises to be Chomsky's most urgent and sweeping work in years, certain to spark widespread debate.

Noam Chomsky (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Brian Jones