Archive for the ‘Audio Books’ Category

Audio Bible Dramatized

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

A dramatized audio Bible allows you to do more Bible ‘reading’. Just think of all the time you spend idle when you are on your commute, waiting somewhere or doing manual chores that leave your brain and spirit empty.If you belong to the people who aspire to read the Bible cover to cover, then you know that this is quite a big undertaking and a major time commitment that can take years.

There may be a way to reach your gola earlier: listening to an audio Bible can dramatically speed up the time required to make it through the Holy Bible. If you can make just thirty minutes a day available, you can make it through the New Testament in about a month and half. Dramtized MP3 audio Bibles allow you also to easily return to sections that are important to you and relisten to them over and over again.

Audio Bibles also exist in specific editions for children, i.e. the NIrV Little Kids Adventure Audio Bible. There are different Bible versions for adults in audio format, i.e. the NIV Dramatized Audio Bible

Large Choice of Downloadable Audio Books

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Did you realize how many audio books are available now? I’ve recently done some research, and found that there are literally thousands of titles, and new ones are arriving every day!

Also there are plenty of interesting sites around audio books that crop up everywhere. One of them is the Audio Books Crtics site MP3Audio.org that offers audio books reviews. You can easily sign up and leave your own reviews.

If you want to check out the latest audio books arrivals, the site AudioBooksDowloader offers audio book downloads for many different categories, from art, biographies and history to fiction, romance and crime, as well as great language learning, business and self help audio books.

Catching up on my reading has been so much easier since I discovered audio books and got myself a MP3 player!

Learn Languages With MP3 Audio Files

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

To learn a foreign language can be tedious and difficult…. You certainly still remember the long hours spent when you were at school: Trying to remember 100′s of words that just would not enter your brain…

There is a much better method than learning vocabulary by rote: Listening to specially prepared foreign language audios. This allows your brain to pick up the meaning and the context in which these new words are used. Means: You are picking up this new foreign language very much the same way as you learned your first language.

The best known foreign language courses that use this system are the Pimsleur language courses. Pimsleur offers language audios for many different languages.

Valentines Poems in MP3 Format

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter are available as a love audio book: Valentines Poems – A Dozen Red Roses – downloadable audio files for iPod and other MP3 players

This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy novel written by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. Since it’s first issue just after the Second World War, been reprinted numerous times and translated 38 different languages. It certainly is one of the most popular works in newer literature.

Lord of the Rings.

This great book is now available as audio book! A sound sample is waiting for you, you’ll be astoinished how the action comes alive in this audio book.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne – Great Blog

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Great Blog about the audiobook The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. The posts pick up the contents and go one step further. If you onw ‘The Secret’ then you should hop over and see if some of these posts can help you get to the essence of what you really want.

The Secret – Special Offer for Audiobook Download

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is on special offer: Instead of $29.95 for the Hardcopy (CD) version you can download the audiobook for only $23.93

Take advantage of this great price to promote this New York Times Bestseller that has been and still is discussed in many TV Shows and well known magazines.

Martin Luther King – Biography Audiobook

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Here is an audiobook that describes the life of a truly exceptional man:

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. There is a long tradition of priesthood in this family, beginning with his grandfather. From 1960 until his death Martin Luther King was co-pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.After his theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania he was awarded the B.D. in 1951 and his doctrate degree from Boston University in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott and had two sons and two daughters with Coretta.

In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In December, 1955, he lead the great Negro nonviolent demonstration, the ‘bus boycott’. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals.
In 1957 Martin Luther King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he met President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested more than twenty times and often assaulted. Martin Luther King was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of only thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers, he was assassinated.

In ‘The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.’ by Clayborne Carson King’s life and work is decribe with many examples of it meant at the time to battle against segregation and to stand up for the human rights ob blacks.

Communicating with Teens

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Teens are people who are at a personal intersection in their life with many forks and possibilities where to continue their life’s flow. Problem is, they don’t really know yet, so they’ll have to try. And we adults think they should not try but simply listen to us old ones…

Conflict is preprogrammed all the way and in many familes the up to then so harmonious family life is all of a sudden in turmoil and communication slowly or rapidly goes down the drain. Not good and not really necessary. Yes, there will be discussions and disputes with your teenager, that’s OK. But it does not need to end in final and total disagreement, constant fights etc.

I have rencently listened to three excellent audio books that give some really good tips and examples how teenagers and their parents can deal with each other:

All three audiobooks should be listened to by parents and teenagers. Why not give one of these to your teen so that he or she can listen to these tips on their iPod?

Drugs and Alcohol, the Philosopy

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Drugs in general, and alcohol specifically have played an important role in all cultural societies known to man, as long as history goes back. The fascination of mind expanding drugs has always pulled man in and made him try to what extent these substances could be used. Some use them to be more creative, others to forget.
In the audiobook ‘Drugs and Alcohol’ Dr. Rod L. Evans takes a philosophical look at this development: Drugs and alcohol involve personal habits that have significant social consequences. Some have said that we are a society of drinkers and pill takers; much of this consumption is legal. Should the use of intoxicants, stimulants and drug medications be governed by personal choice or regulation? Which drugs should be legal, and which should be illegal? Is law or persuasion a better method of reform?

His views are a good base to start thinking about the problem yourself. There is no final cut and dried answer to the morality of drugs and the use or abuse… There always two sides to their consumption. Should drugs taken by amateur sportsmen to increase their fitness, power or stamina be allowed, how about for professionals?