Essays audiobooks

Tiger fressen keine Yogis - Abridged

By: Helge Timmerberg

Narrated by: Mathieu Carrière

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ein Tiger raubte ihm die Hände, die Zunge biss er sich während eines Malariaanfalls selber ab, und sein linkes Auge verlor er bei dem Streit mit einem afghanischen Widerstandskämpfer, den er um zwei Kilo Haschisch bescheißen wollte." So hätte es kommen können. Aber eines kann man Helge Timmerberg nun wirklich nicht nachsagen: er hätte nicht... Read more

Vanity Fair: January–March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

La madre de todas las preguntas - Abridged

By: Rebecca Solnit & Lucía Barahona (Translator)

Narrated by: Marta Martín Jorcano

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un nuevo libro de la autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust, que ilumina, entre otras cosas, la manera en que se entretejen la historia del silencio y la historia de las mujeres. "Hay una nueva revolución feminista en marcha, y Rebecca Solnit es una de sus voces más poderosas y cautivadoras."—Barbara Ehrenreich "No esperen un libro... Read more

Vanity Fair: April 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Becoming Meryl Streep: how personal tragedy and offscreen battles fueled the multiple Academy Award winner’s breakthrough performancePlus:On the road with the Rolling StonesAl Sharpton on the election and the controversies he can’t shakeSumner Redstone’s last chapterThe F. Scott Fitzgerald of CartooningPlus: Titus Burgess, Elizabeth Barlow... Read more

A Volta à África através do cuscuz - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A nossa lida histórica com o cuscuz é bastante curiosa. Ele nos chegou como prato, vindo do Magreb (Argélia, Tunísia e Marrocos), trazido por mercadores portugueses e, ao que tudo indica, penetrou a colônia a partir da Capitania de São Vicente. Historicamente, os fonds da culinária francesa derivaram dos vários tipos de pot-au-feu. São a... Read more

The Future of Spacetime - Abridged

By: Richard H. Price

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.

Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here... Read more

The Next Fifty Years - Abridged

By: John Brockman

Narrated by: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie, Oliver Wyman & S...

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.

Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

23 visões da gastronomia do futuro, Do jabaculê ao bundalelê & Alimentação e corrupção da imprensa - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tive um sonho no qual me apareceu Vate, um anjo torto, desses com dolmã e asas brancas, Nossa Senhora tatuada num braço e o Espírito Santo no outro. A diferença entre o jabaculê e o bundalelê é que o segundo não envolve pa-gamento e, por outro lado, muito mais gente pode se divertir. Read more

Performances internacionais e um pouco mais: Atala e Helena Rizzo - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A disputa foi mesmo entre Alex Atala e Gaston Acurio. E como disse Atala, la-mentando o fato de a premiação não ter sido realizada no Brasil: "A gente teve a chance, mas ninguém fez nada". A indicação de Helena Rizzo como a Melhor Cozinheira da América Latina não surpreende. E ninguém deve se surpreender também porque escrevo "cozinheira" e não... Read more

A complacência culinária, A manteiga! Dê-me a manteiga! Sempre a manteiga! & Gualtiero Marchesi: A nouvelle cuisine fora de casa - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A ideia de "autenticidade", por exemplo, expressa essa complacência. Muitos restaurantes de cozinha brasileira, com pegada "tradicional", fazem do culto à autenticidade uma verdadeira religião. Fernand Point (1897-1955) – enormíssimo cronópio, como diria Julio Cortázar se referindo a Lezama Lima – é a figura mais enigmática da gastronomia... Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. Read more

Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more

Entre o sabor e a técnica & A educação gastronômica do nariz - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eles precisam olhar o que Alex Atala e Helena Rizzo já fizeram para poderem avançar, distanciando-se dessas soluções tão felizes. São todos cozinheiros que dominam o repertório técnico moderno de forma impecável, mas isso só não basta. E é por isso que faz sentido indagar: como se dá a educação do nariz para a gastronomia moderna? Não é... Read more

The Pat Conroy Cookbook - Abridged

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Pat Conroy

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's favorite storyteller is back—with a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond.

This audiobook is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that... Read more

Vanity Fair: July 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Natural Blonde - Abridged

By: Liz Smith

Narrated by: Liz Smith

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more

O provincianismo universalista do paulistano, Vegetarianismo militante & A gastronomia como arte da sedução - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Somos uma cidade curiosa: copiamos modificando, mas achamos que copia-mos autenticamente; comemos em países imaginários e somos pobres em variedade, visto o mundo em sua amplidão, mas achamos que, internamente, contemos o mundo. Somos os provincianos mais universalistas, ou os metropolitanos mais provincianos. Gourmets e gourmands em geral não... Read more

The Men's Health Playbook - Abridged

By: Men's Health Magazine

Narrated by: Hank Jacobs & Nicole Fonarow

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Witty and insightful, Men's Health writers Joe Kita, Lisa Jones, Hugh O'Neill, Ron Geraci and others share their personal and often comical experiences as they tackle the universal topics of love, life, and exactly how to find and keep that special someone. The Men's Health Playbook features selected articles from Men's Health including:

• 50... Read more

Revistas de gastronomia: A filosofia da celebração, Os enochatos & Para onde François Simon quer nos levar? - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A palavra celebração resume a atitude editorial. Ela é visível no esforço de endeusamento dos chefs, projetando-os como principais artífices da cultura culinária. O enochato, enfim, é aquela classe singular de chato que entende que sua experiência pessoal é suficiente para iluminar a compreensão do mundo. Simon gostaria de salvar os chefs do... Read more

Vanity Fair: January 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Happy Hunkidays! Get to know Chris Hemsworth, Hollywood’s state-of-the-art movie star, in Vanity Fair’s Holiday Issue cover story.In this issue:Michael Lewis revisits HollywoodJessica Alba on her “Honest” EmpireWilliam Langewiesche on modern slaveryBillionaires battling in the BahamasDispatches from Gabriel García Márquez’s Mexico City and Jan... Read more

O papel da crítica em gastronomia - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Capacidade de antecipação. Talvez esta seja a chave da critica gastronômica. Essa coisa mística que é o terroir, segundo a concepção tradicional francesa e da qual abusam especialmente os enólogos, permite, contudo, uma mirada científica. A excelência de um vinho depende da perfeita harmonia entre três elemen-tos: a vinha, o homem e a natureza.... Read more

Marguerita de abobrinha!, O longo percurso do açúcar & Entre porcos e pérolas - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mas até que a tempestade passe por completo, talvez seja hora de, deixando de lado a marguerita, experimentar uma saborosa pizza de abobrinha, percebendo que o mundo não vem abaixo quando nos faltam os estimados tomates. Read more