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The Mechanism of the Human Voice Audiobook

We are living in an age which is singularly poor in fine voices, both male and female, and with regard to the tenors of the present time there is this additional misfortune, that, as a rule, their voices do not last, but are often worn out in a very few years; in many instances while their owners are still under training, and before they have had an opportunity of making their appearance in public. If we remember that there was a time when most beautiful and highly cultivated voices were so plentiful that even in comparatively small towns there were to be found Opera Companies consisting of excellent singers, we may well ask ourselves how this remarkable change for the worse has come about. People have attempted to account for it in various ways. Up to the middle of the last century women were forbidden by Ecclesiastical Law to take part in church music. The voices of boys being available only for a very short time, means were taken to prevent their voices from breaking, and thus a class of male soprani and contralti was created, who made their first appearance in Rome in the beginning of the 17th century, and to these singers the education of the female voices was soon almost exclusively entrusted. In the middle of the last century, however, when women were permitted to participate in church music, there was no longer any occasion to procure artificial female voices, and these singers gradually died out, though there were still some of them living and teaching in the beginning of the present century.

Emil Behnke (Author), Douglas Woolley (Narrator)

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Art of Singing

Two of opera's greatest names offer encouragement and useful advice to aspiring singers in this classic guide. Tenor Enrico Caruso and coloratura soprano Luisa Tetrazzini employ nontechnical terms to provide an informal vocalist's anatomy, with instructions for the proper training, care, and disposition of the tongue, lungs, diaphragm, mouth, and the voice itself. Tetrazzini deals with the foundations of singing in breath control; tone emission and attack; and, sending aspiring performers to the mirror, facial expression and dress. Caruso remarks on tone production; such faults as the 'white voice' and 'goat voice'; the necessity of good diction; the role of diet; and the part superstition plays in certain singers' performances. These consummate artists show great charm and presence as writers, and this little book is a great pleasure to listen to.

Enrico Caruso (Author), Lincoln Greene (Narrator)

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HowExpert Guide to Toy Collecting: 101 Tips on How to Find, Buy, Collect, and Sell Collectible Toys

If you want to discover how to find, buy, collect, and sell collectible toys, then check out HowExpert Guide to Toy Collecting. Toys are the one item that connects us all. They bring us back to our childhood and reconnect us to a simpler time in life. Toys carry some of our favorite memories. Some collectors choose toys that they dreamed of having but never did – until now. Today is the day to reach out and grab that special toy and build a collection all around it! You will find just what you need to do all that in HowExpert Guide to Toy Collecting. One of the essential aspects of collecting toys is to know their history. This book is chock full of historical dates and facts that all collectors should know, including information on identifying toys and their manufacturer. In addition, there are resources and tips on how to find collectible toys (both old and new) along with the safest ways to clean, display, and take care of these toys. Learn where to meet fellow collectors and the best ways to sell and trade collectible toys, all through the pages of this guide. Check out HowExpert Guide to Toy Collecting now! About the Expert Charlotte Hopkins is a freelance writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an author of nine books, including her children’s books, featuring Pixie Trist and Bo, and her “365 Days” series. She was also published three times in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the Shadows & Light Anthology, and Authors for Haiti. She has released a line of journals and logbooks under “Kannyn Books.” She is also a collector of several items. Her first collection was keychains, and she collects penguins, wooden boxes, miniatures (including miniature books), journals, and pens. She just started collecting Magic 8 Balls and Pen Cups. She has a fondness for writing, photography, astrology, history, museums, and everything purple! HowExpert publishes how to guides by everyday experts.

Charlotte Hopkins, Howexpert (Author), N.W. Edwards (Narrator)

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GLOBO ARTE MARCH 2022 ISSUE: AN art magazine for helping artist in their art career

Globo Arte Team (Author), Parshwika Bhandari (Narrator)

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ECHA PA'LANTE: Tú Puedes

De nada sirve lamentarse si no hemos hecho bien las cosas, ya lo pasado quedó atrás, estamos a punto de salir de una crisis sanitaria (Covid-19) fueron muchas las pérdidas humanas en todo el mundo, nadie esperaba los resultados que se dieron cuando este maligno virus se empezó a esparcir por todos lados. Siempre lamentaremos las perdidas, y el dolor lo llevaremos clavado en el alma por el resto de nuestras vidas. Fue una pesadilla, traer día a día la mascarilla cubriendo nuestros rostros. ¿Un mensaje divino? No lo sé, lo cierto que alguna enseñanza nos dejará cuando por fin se llegue a controlar el virus y busquemos los medios para no volver a ser invadidos por otro virus maligno o por alguna bacteria. Avanzamos, caminamos, otros paramos porque la energía se nos terminó, disfrutamos de la vida, sonreímos y nos deleita sentir el amor de quien nos quiere, jugamos o nos apasionamos por querer tener el carro Tesla que tanto nos llama la atención, a otros más nos gustaría un viaje en globo alrededor del mundo o quizás vibrar observando como las pequeñas hormigas se desplazan con la carga en su espalda para construir sus pequeños hogares.

Raymundo Ramírez (Author), David Morales (Narrator)

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ECHA PA'LANTE: Tú Puedes

Raymundo Ramirez (Author), David Morales (Narrator)

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GLOBO ARTE FEBRUARY 2022 ISSUE: AN art magazine for helping artist in their art career

Globo Arte Team (Author), Parshwika Bhandari (Narrator)

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HABLA EN PÚBLICO SIN TEMOR

Hablar en público ya no es algo reservado a unas pocas personas. Hoy en día, basta con tener una idea para comunicar y ya puedes solicitar dar una conferencia TED. Es más, ni siquiera hace falta hacerlo sobre un escenario, frente a un grupo de personas. Hablar ante el público puede ser algo tan simple como hablar en el descanso en un evento de networking, o también puedes llegar a miles de personas, en cualquier parte del mundo, haciendo una transmisión en línea. Saber hablar en público, entonces, se volvió una necesidad. Un valor agregado a cualquier ámbito, personal o profesional. ¿Pero qué sucede si hablar en público te provoca que te conviertas en un manojo de nervios o peor, que te lleve hasta un ataque de pánico y ansiedad? El miedo a hablar en público, pánico escénico o glosofobia es más común de lo que te imaginas. Se estima que un 75% de la población sufre en mayor o menor medida por esta condición. Dado que la habilidad de hablar en público es de mucha utilidad a lo largo de toda la vida, lo ideal sería que aprendiéramos estrategias que nos permitan manejar nuestras emociones desde la infancia. Especialmente cuando tenemos que enfrentarnos a estas situaciones que ya de por sí, son estresantes por tener que exponernos ante grupos de personas. La capacidad de transmitir nuestro mensaje de forma efectiva también es algo que se debería enseñar en las escuelas. Pero por desgracia no se hace, no nos han enseñado como conseguirlo y la mayoría hemos tenido que enfrentarnos a un «público» desde temprana edad, estando en la escuela. Y si esas experiencias fueron negativas, es probable que cuando tengas que hacerlo siendo adulto, tengas más de una dificultad. La buena noticia es que el temor a hablar en público tiene solución.

Raymundo Ramírez (Author), David Morales (Narrator)

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HABLA EN PÚBLICO SIN TEMOR

Raymundo Ramírez (Author), David Morales (Narrator)

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The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region's most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

Gary Goodman (Author), Tristan Morris (Narrator)

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The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective 'truth' on their victims' minds. The first two and one-half years of WWII, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at first-hand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion...Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially.... After the war, he came to the United States...As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed - Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others - his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime... It is Dr. Meerloo's position that through pressure on the weak points in men's makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a 'traitor.' And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized 'rape of the mind.' He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.

Joost Meerloo (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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Las Mil y Una Noches

Originada alrededor del 850, es quizás, la recopilación más interesante y extraordinaria de historias reunidas a través de los siglos, donde los hechos transcurren en las culturas persa, árabe y turca, así como en India y China. En la trama principal, Shariar,un rey engañado por su mujer, ordena a visir que le consiga una nueva esposa cada noche, pues al llegar la mañana ordena decapitarlas; este designio es roto por Shehrazada, quien se ofrece como esposa del rey, pero con un plan: durante cada noche le contará una historia y nunca habrá de concluirla.

Anonimo (Author), Armando Hernandez (Narrator)

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