https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-top-full-audiobooks-in-non-fiction-current-affairs-law-politics--6575954https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/411/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for ways to relax after stressful working hours? With over 500,000+ audiobooks in categories like Comedy, Sports & Entertainment, and Science Fiction, we will bring you interesting experiences. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and start exploring the world of sound. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and many other devices; audiobooks will be the perfect companion for your modern life. Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enEducationCopyright Maeve Nikolaushttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7c1a53b445999d02b9984c6484aa05c6.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-top-full-audiobooks-in-non-fiction-current-affairs-law-politics--6575954Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:30:04 +0000Maeve NikolausMaeve Nikolausfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/411/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for ways to relax after stressful working hours? With over 500,000+ audiobooks in categories like...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/411/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for ways to relax after stressful working hours? With over 500,000+ audiobooks in categories like Comedy, Sports & Entertainment, and Science Fiction, we will bring you interesting experiences. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and start exploring the world of sound. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and many other devices; audiobooks will be the perfect companion for your modern life. Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lies-my-liberal-teacher-told-me-debunking-the-false-narratives-defining-america-s-school-curricula-by-wilfred-reilly--65206099https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula Author: Wilfred Reilly Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down. Among the popular lies he debunks: “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies” “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing” “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing” “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican” “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless” Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.  Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula Author: Wilfred Reilly Narrator: Mirron Willis...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula Author: Wilfred Reilly Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down. Among the popular lies he debunks: “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies” “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing” “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing” “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican” “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless” Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.  Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/morning-after-the-revolution-dispatches-from-the-wrong-side-of-history-by-nellie-bowles--65206216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Author: Nellie Bowles Narrator: Nellie Bowles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and friends—until she started questioning  whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected. In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life. Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640Tue, 14 May 2024 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Author: Nellie Bowles Narrator: Nellie Bowles Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Author: Nellie Bowles Narrator: Nellie Bowles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and friends—until she started questioning  whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected. In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life. Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/if-we-burn-the-mass-protest-decade-and-the-missing-revolution-by-vincent-bevins--65206062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Author: Vincent Bevins Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?   From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon.   Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549Tue, 03 Oct 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Author: Vincent Bevins Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Author: Vincent Bevins Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?   From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon.   Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crisis-by-nicky-perfect--65206136https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life. The most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning. From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance. It’s about finding yourself and following your passion, and of a life lived to help others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508Thu, 31 Aug 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life. The most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning. From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance. It’s about finding yourself and following your passion, and of a life lived to help others.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/policing-the-womb-invisible-women-and-the-criminalization-of-motherhood-by-michele-goodwin--65206201https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Author: Michele Goodwin Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. Goodwin warns, however, poor women are simply the canaries in the coalmine as some legislators now claim that women’s constitutional rights equal that of embryos and fetuses. In this book, Michele Goodwin brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s reproduction has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for pregnant women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Author: Michele Goodwin Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Author: Michele Goodwin Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. Goodwin warns, however, poor women are simply the canaries in the coalmine as some legislators now claim that women’s constitutional rights equal that of embryos and fetuses. In this book, Michele Goodwin brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s reproduction has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for pregnant women.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/america-s-cultural-revolution-how-the-radical-left-conquered-everything-by-christopher-f-rufo--65206137https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Author: Christopher F. Rufo Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER  America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions. In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective? In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within. America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as: • Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda? • How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without? • Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?  • When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech? • Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?  Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock. Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion’ officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619007Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Author: Christopher F. Rufo Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619007 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Author: Christopher F. Rufo Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER  America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions. In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective? In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America’s institutions to undermine them from within. America’s Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as: • Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda? • How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without? • Why is race the main thing America’s rich, white elite wants to talk about?  • When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech? • Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?  Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock. Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic ‘diversity and inclusion’ officials. Most Americans don’t want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media’s depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you’ve been looking for.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-no-trade-is-free-changing-course-taking-on-china-and-helping-america-s-workers-by-robert-lighthizer--65206127https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers Author: Robert Lighthizer Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and as a private lawyer. As Trade Representative, he fought against globalists, importers, lobbyists, foreign governments and big businesses whose interests diverged from those of the American workers. For decades, unbalanced “free” trade was the preferred option for the most powerful in Washington, and millions of ordinary Americans paid the price. Instead of prioritizing healthy American communities, good jobs, higher wages, and a promising future for our workers, Washington too often cared more about corporate profits, cheap imports and the concerns of foreign governments, including the Chinese. In return, we got cheaper coffee makers and tee shirts, while thousands of factories closed, wages stagnated, communities deteriorated, economic inequality rose in our country, and we racked up trillions of dollars in trade deficits. Part memoir, part history, and part policy analysis, No Trade is Free tells the story of how America found itself at this point and how the Trump administration took on the orthodoxy of the trade establishment, with astonishing results. With in-depth character sketches of some of the most important leaders of our time—from Donald Trump, to Xi Jinping, to Nancy Pelosi, to Andrés Manuel López Obrador—Lighthizer explains how trade negotiations actually work and why leverage is the key to success—no trade is free. This book is a wake-up call to our politicians, thought leaders, but most importantly, everyday Americans. It presents the case against the policies that have weakened America and left our families and communities behind. It argues for a worker-focused trade policy. It tells the story of our fight for every American job and how for the first time, a US administration took on China. But most importantly, it is a guide to the new world economy—one which will require a worker-focused trade policy. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621173Tue, 27 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers Author: Robert Lighthizer Narrator: Charles Constant Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers Author: Robert Lighthizer Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late. One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy that has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and editorialized against the failed policies of one-sided free trade as part of both the Reagan and Trump administrations and as a private lawyer. As Trade Representative, he fought against globalists, importers, lobbyists, foreign governments and big businesses whose interests diverged from those of the American workers. For decades, unbalanced “free” trade was the preferred option for the most powerful in Washington, and millions of ordinary Americans paid the price. Instead of prioritizing healthy American communities, good jobs, higher wages, and a promising future for our workers, Washington too often cared more about corporate profits, cheap imports and the concerns of foreign governments, including the Chinese. In return, we got cheaper coffee makers and tee shirts, while thousands of factories closed, wages stagnated, communities deteriorated, economic inequality rose in our country, and we racked up trillions of dollars in trade deficits. Part memoir, part history, and part policy analysis, No Trade is Free tells the story of how America found itself at this point and how the Trump administration took on the orthodoxy of the trade establishment, with astonishing results. With in-depth character sketches of some of the most important leaders of our time—from Donald Trump, to Xi Jinping, to Nancy Pelosi, to Andrés Manuel López Obrador—Lighthizer explains how trade negotiations actually work and why leverage is the key to success—no trade is free. This book is a wake-up call to our politicians, thought leaders, but most importantly, everyday Americans. It presents the case against the policies that have weakened America and left our families and communities behind. It argues for a worker-focused trade policy. It tells the story of our fight for every American job and how for the first time, a US administration took on China. But most importantly, it is a guide to the new world economy—one which will require a worker-focused trade policy. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-may-dominate-the-world-ambition-anxiety-and-the-rise-of-the-american-colossus-by-sean-a-mirski--65206098https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus Author: Sean A Mirski Narrator: Gary Tiedemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own neighborhood. No great power, that is, except one—the United States.   In We May Dominate the World, Sean A. Mirski tells the riveting story of how the United States became a regional hegemon in the century following the Civil War. By turns reluctant and ruthless, Americans squeezed their European rivals out of the hemisphere while landing forces on their neighbors’ soil with dizzying frequency. Mirski reveals the surprising reasons behind this muscular foreign policy in a narrative full of twists, colorful characters, and original accounts of the palace coups and bloody interventions that turned the fledgling republic into a global superpower.   Today, as China makes its own run at regional hegemony and nations like Russia and Iran grow more menacing, Mirski’s fresh look at the rise of the American colossus offers indispensable lessons for how to meet the challenges of our own century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623548Tue, 27 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus Author: Sean A Mirski Narrator: Gary Tiedemann Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus Author: Sean A Mirski Narrator: Gary Tiedemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own neighborhood. No great power, that is, except one—the United States.   In We May Dominate the World, Sean A. Mirski tells the riveting story of how the United States became a regional hegemon in the century following the Civil War. By turns reluctant and ruthless, Americans squeezed their European rivals out of the hemisphere while landing forces on their neighbors’ soil with dizzying frequency. Mirski reveals the surprising reasons behind this muscular foreign policy in a narrative full of twists, colorful characters, and original accounts of the palace coups and bloody interventions that turned the fledgling republic into a global superpower.   Today, as China makes its own run at regional hegemony and nations like Russia and Iran grow more menacing, Mirski’s fresh look at the rise of the American colossus offers indispensable lessons for how to meet the challenges of our own century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-by-sunder-katwala--65206205https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war Author: Sunder Katwala Narrator: Sunder Katwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with markers of selfhood – faith, race, gender, age, sexuality. Sunder Katwala himself grew up with some questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic child of the NHS, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal to him, but he realised that with that background he could hardly be anything but British, and proud of it too. His timely and clear-eyed analysis seeks to navigate the many crises of this increasingly disunited kingdom: extremism and integration after 7/7; fear of immigration and the deep divides of Brexit; the resurgence of online racism; and the debate over our cultural heritage. Equipped with a nuanced understanding of the subject and a wealth of supporting data, he sets out to foster a more open and tolerant society: one that welcomes alternative ideas and cultures rather than shutting them out. Ultimately, How to be a Patriot is a rousing story of lives lived together and shared values. Far from being divisive, it concludes, an inclusive and confident patriotism is a reminder that our differences need not define us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614309Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war Author: Sunder Katwala Narrator: Sunder Katwala Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war Author: Sunder Katwala Narrator: Sunder Katwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with markers of selfhood – faith, race, gender, age, sexuality. Sunder Katwala himself grew up with some questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic child of the NHS, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal to him, but he realised that with that background he could hardly be anything but British, and proud of it too. His timely and clear-eyed analysis seeks to navigate the many crises of this increasingly disunited kingdom: extremism and integration after 7/7; fear of immigration and the deep divides of Brexit; the resurgence of online racism; and the debate over our cultural heritage. Equipped with a nuanced understanding of the subject and a wealth of supporting data, he sets out to foster a more open and tolerant society: one that welcomes alternative ideas and cultures rather than shutting them out. Ultimately, How to be a Patriot is a rousing story of lives lived together and shared values. Far from being divisive, it concludes, an inclusive and confident patriotism is a reminder that our differences need not define us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-end-times-elites-counter-elites-and-the-path-of-political-disintegration-by-peter-turchin--65206082https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration Author: Peter Turchin Narrator: Robin Mcalpine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works. The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War and it is happening now. But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past. ©2023 Peter Turchin (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624160Tue, 13 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration Author: Peter Turchin Narrator: Robin Mcalpine Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration Author: Peter Turchin Narrator: Robin Mcalpine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. Assembling vast databases mined from 10,000 years of human activity, and then developing new models, he has transformed the way we learn from the past. End Times is the result: a ground-breaking account of how society works. The lessons, he argues, are clear. When the balance of power between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of elites, income inequality surges. The rich get richer, the poor further impoverished. As more people try to join the elite, frustration with the establishment brims over, often with disastrous consequences. Elite overproduction led to state breakdown in imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War and it is happening now. But while we are far along the path toward violent political rupture, Turchin's models also light the way to a brighter future. Drawing insight from those occasions in history where the balance was restored, End Times also points towards a different future: an escape from the patterns of the past. ©2023 Peter Turchin (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-break-the-gamblers-party-animals-and-true-believers-trying-to-win-in-washington-while-america-loses-its-mind-by-ben-terris--65206214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind Author: Ben Terris Narrator: Tim Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C. The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting from exclusive parties, poker nights, fundraisers, secluded farms outside town and the halls of Congress; among the oddballs and opportunists and true believers. This book is about the people who see this moment as an opportunity to bet big—on their country or maybe just on themselves. It will take a close look at Washington’s bold-faced names as they try to get their bearings on the post-Trump (and possibly pre-Trump) landscape. And it will introduce readers to the behind-the-scenes players — MAGA pilgrims and Resistance flamekeepers and shapeshifting veterans — who believe they know what Washington, and America, must do if they’re going to survive, or even thrive. Trump’s arrival in Washington represented a big break in how the city operated. He surrounded himself with outsiders; power structures reorganized around those who knew him or his family and those who could flatter and influence his base. He changed the way the game was played, only it wasn’t actually a game at all. When pro-Trump elements both inside and outside of government plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, the Capitol became a combat zone, then a military fortress.  It was, to put it lightly, a destabilizing time. But how much did the Trump years really change Washington? Has Joe Biden’s presidency heralded a return to normal, as many had hoped? What did ‘normal’ mean before Trump, and what do people think it means now?  The Big Break will follow a cast of D.C. characters in search of answers to these questions. They are a diverse crew—a pollster with a gambling habit, an oil heiress with a big heart, a cowboy lobbyist, a Republican kingmaker who decided to love Trump and his right-hand man who decided he couldn’t any longer. They all share at least one thing in common: They had seen their country go through a Big Break, and they’d come to get theirs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617428Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind Author: Ben Terris Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind Author: Ben Terris Narrator: Tim Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C. The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting from exclusive parties, poker nights, fundraisers, secluded farms outside town and the halls of Congress; among the oddballs and opportunists and true believers. This book is about the people who see this moment as an opportunity to bet big—on their country or maybe just on themselves. It will take a close look at Washington’s bold-faced names as they try to get their bearings on the post-Trump (and possibly pre-Trump) landscape. And it will introduce readers to the behind-the-scenes players — MAGA pilgrims and Resistance flamekeepers and shapeshifting veterans — who believe they know what Washington, and America, must do if they’re going to survive, or even thrive. Trump’s arrival in Washington represented a big break in how the city operated. He surrounded himself with outsiders; power structures reorganized around those who knew him or his family and those who could flatter and influence his base. He changed the way the game was played, only it wasn’t actually a game at all. When pro-Trump elements both inside and outside of government plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, the Capitol became a combat zone, then a military fortress.  It was, to put it lightly, a destabilizing time. But how much did the Trump years really change Washington? Has Joe Biden’s presidency heralded a return to normal, as many had hoped? What did ‘normal’ mean before Trump, and what do people think it means now?  The Big Break will follow a cast of D.C. characters in search of answers to these questions. They are a diverse crew—a pollster with a gambling habit, an oil heiress with a big heart, a cowboy lobbyist, a Republican kingmaker who decided to love Trump and his right-hand man who decided he couldn’t any longer. They all share at least one thing in common: They had seen their country go through a Big Break, and they’d come to get theirs.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-hijacking-a-personal-history-of-forgetting-and-remembering-by-martha-hodes--65206051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today.  A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today.  A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-forgotten-girls-a-memoir-of-friendship-and-lost-promise-in-rural-america-by-monica-potts--65206218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America Author: Monica Potts Narrator: Monica Potts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different? “The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their tumultuous family lives and declining town—broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle-school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for college and fulfilled her dreams, but Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Potts discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had dropped steeply—the sharpest such fall in a century. This decline has been attributed to “deaths of despair”—suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses—but Potts knew their causes were too complex to identify in a sociological study. She had grown up with these women, and when she saw Darci again, she found that her childhood friend—addicted to drugs, often homeless, a single mother—was now on track to becoming a statistic. In this gripping narrative, Potts deftly pinpoints the choices that sent her and Darci on such different paths and then widens the lens to explain why those choices are so limited. The Forgotten Girls is a profound, compassionate look at a population in trouble, and a uniquely personal account of the way larger forces, such as inheritance, education, religion, and politics, shape individual lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617677Tue, 30 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America Author: Monica Potts Narrator: Monica Potts Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America Author: Monica Potts Narrator: Monica Potts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different? “The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their tumultuous family lives and declining town—broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle-school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for college and fulfilled her dreams, but Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not. Years later, working as a journalist covering poverty, Potts discovered what she already intuitively knew about the women in Arkansas: Their life expectancy had dropped steeply—the sharpest such fall in a century. This decline has been attributed to “deaths of despair”—suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses—but Potts knew their causes were too complex to identify in a sociological study. She had grown up with these women, and when she saw Darci again, she found that her childhood friend—addicted to drugs, often homeless, a single mother—was now on track to becoming a statistic. In this gripping narrative, Potts deftly pinpoints the choices that sent her and Darci on such different paths and then widens the lens to explain why those choices are so limited. The Forgotten Girls is a profound, compassionate look at a population in trouble, and a uniquely personal account of the way larger forces, such as inheritance, education, religion, and politics, shape individual lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-dying-colonialism-by-frantz-fanon--65206167https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dying Colonialism Author: Frantz Fanon Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as “primitive,” in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant audiobook; to listen to it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, “having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620063Tue, 23 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dying Colonialism Author: Frantz Fanon Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Dying Colonialism Author: Frantz Fanon Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Frantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon’s incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as “primitive,” in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant audiobook; to listen to it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, “having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-politics-fails-by-ben-ansell--65206070https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A leading political expert explains why systems fail to deliver things we all want—democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity—and what can be done to create a just, equitable, and environmentally sane society. The dawn of the twenty-first century had the promise of a golden age. The economy was stable and growing, social peace seemed possible, and technology appeared benign. The past years have awakened us from this complacency. - We have long known what needs to be done to save the world from climate disaster. Why do we continue on the path of self-destruction? - The immense wealth of the United States should make poverty a historical curiosity. Why is income inequality growing and the scourge of poverty increasing? - The vast majority of people around the world want to live in a society with democratic values. Why is democracy receding? Why is it so hard to get - and keep - the world we want? Ben Ansell, one of the world’s leading experts on the dilemmas facing modern democracies, vividly illustrates how our collective goals - democracy, equality, solidarity, security, and prosperity - are undermined by political traps and why today’s political landscape is so tumultuous. We want equality, but we are loathe to give away our own wealth. We want solidarity but we are much better at receiving it than offering it. We want security but not if it constrains our freedom. And we want to end the climate crisis but we also want a prosperous economy. In every case, we want a collective goal, but are undermined by our individual actions. Our aims are altruistic, our actions governed by self-interest. Ansell then comes full circle and through brilliant storytelling and pathbreaking research vividly  illustrates how we maneuver through the traps of the messy, complicated world of politics that block common sense solutions to the just, equitable, prosperous, and environmentally sane society we all want.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622460Tue, 23 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A leading political expert explains why systems fail to deliver things we all want—democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity—and what can be done to create a just, equitable, and environmentally sane society. The dawn of the twenty-first century had the promise of a golden age. The economy was stable and growing, social peace seemed possible, and technology appeared benign. The past years have awakened us from this complacency. - We have long known what needs to be done to save the world from climate disaster. Why do we continue on the path of self-destruction? - The immense wealth of the United States should make poverty a historical curiosity. Why is income inequality growing and the scourge of poverty increasing? - The vast majority of people around the world want to live in a society with democratic values. Why is democracy receding? Why is it so hard to get - and keep - the world we want? Ben Ansell, one of the world’s leading experts on the dilemmas facing modern democracies, vividly illustrates how our collective goals - democracy, equality, solidarity, security, and prosperity - are undermined by political traps and why today’s political landscape is so tumultuous. We want equality, but we are loathe to give away our own wealth. We want solidarity but we are much better at receiving it than offering it. We want security but not if it constrains our freedom. And we want to end the climate crisis but we also want a prosperous economy. In every case, we want a collective goal, but are undermined by our individual actions. Our aims are altruistic, our actions governed by self-interest. Ansell then comes full circle and through brilliant storytelling and pathbreaking research vividly  illustrates how we maneuver through the traps of the messy, complicated world of politics that block common sense solutions to the just, equitable, prosperous, and environmentally sane society we all want.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow-docket-how-the-supreme-court-uses-stealth-rulings-to-amass-power-and-undermine-the-republic-by-stephen-vladeck--65206110https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic Author: Stephen Vladeck Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings that leave lawyers—and citizens—scrambling.  The Court’s conservative majority has used the shadow docket to green-light restrictive voting laws and bans on abortion, and to curtail immigration and COVID vaccine mandates. But Americans of all political stripes should be worried about what the shadow docket portends for the rule of law, argues Supreme Court expert Stephen Vladeck. In this rigorous yet accessible book, he issues an urgent call to bring the Court back into the light.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623551Tue, 16 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic Author: Stephen Vladeck Narrator: Jonathan Todd...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic Author: Stephen Vladeck Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow docket,” regularly making decisions that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation, through cryptic late-night rulings that leave lawyers—and citizens—scrambling.  The Court’s conservative majority has used the shadow docket to green-light restrictive voting laws and bans on abortion, and to curtail immigration and COVID vaccine mandates. But Americans of all political stripes should be worried about what the shadow docket portends for the rule of law, argues Supreme Court expert Stephen Vladeck. In this rigorous yet accessible book, he issues an urgent call to bring the Court back into the light.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/but-what-can-i-do-why-politics-has-gone-so-wrong-and-how-you-can-help-fix-it-by-alastair-campbell--65206054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It Author: Alastair Campbell Narrator: Alastair Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.' Our politics is a mess. We have leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. And we are confronted with policies that serve the interests of the privileged few. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I do?' That question is the inspiration behind this book. It's a question regularly posed to Alastair Campbell, not least in reaction to The Rest is Politics, the chart-topping podcast he presents with former Tory Cabinet minister Rory Stewart. His answer, typically, is forthright and impassioned. We cannot afford to stand on the sidelines. If we think things need to change, then we need to change them, and that means getting involved. But What Can I Do? provides each of us with the motivation and the tools to make a difference. It explains how we can develop our skills of advocacy and persuasion. It draws on Alastair's long experience to offer practical tips on putting together and leading a campaign team. It provides priceless advice on developing confidence and coping with criticism and setbacks. And it sets out the practical steps by which we can become political players ourselves. Part call to arms, part practical handbook, But What Can I Do? will prove required reading for anyone who wants to make a difference. ©2023 Alastair Campbell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624931Thu, 11 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It Author: Alastair Campbell Narrator: Alastair Campbell Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It Author: Alastair Campbell Narrator: Alastair Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.' Our politics is a mess. We have leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. And we are confronted with policies that serve the interests of the privileged few. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I do?' That question is the inspiration behind this book. It's a question regularly posed to Alastair Campbell, not least in reaction to The Rest is Politics, the chart-topping podcast he presents with former Tory Cabinet minister Rory Stewart. His answer, typically, is forthright and impassioned. We cannot afford to stand on the sidelines. If we think things need to change, then we need to change them, and that means getting involved. But What Can I Do? provides each of us with the motivation and the tools to make a difference. It explains how we can develop our skills of advocacy and persuasion. It draws on Alastair's long experience to offer practical tips on putting together and leading a campaign team. It provides priceless advice on developing confidence and coping with criticism and setbacks. And it sets out the practical steps by which we can become political players ourselves. Part call to arms, part practical handbook, But What Can I Do? will prove required reading for anyone who wants to make a difference. ©2023 Alastair Campbell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/age-of-danger-keeping-america-safe-in-an-era-of-new-superpowers-new-weapons-and-new-threats-by-andrew-hoehn-thom-shanker--65206115https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats Author: Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we can do to fix it. Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues. So what can be done? Enter bestselling author Thom Shanker and defense expert Andrew Hoehn. With decades of national security expertise between them and access to virtually every expert, they look at what’s going wrong in national security and how to make it go right.   Age of Danger looks at the major challenges facing America—from superpowers like Russia and China to emerging threats like pandemics, cybersecurity, climate change, and drones—and reimagines the national security apparatus into something that can truly keep Americans safe. Weaving together expert analysis with exclusive interviews from a new generation of national security leaders, Shanker and Hoehn argue that the United States must create an industrial-grade, life-saving machine out of a system that, for too long, was focused only on deterring adversaries and carrying out global military operations. It is a timely and crucial call to action—a call that if heeded, could save Americans lives, money, and our very future on the global stage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622450Tue, 09 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats Author: Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker Narrator: Eric Jason...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats Author: Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we can do to fix it. Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues. So what can be done? Enter bestselling author Thom Shanker and defense expert Andrew Hoehn. With decades of national security expertise between them and access to virtually every expert, they look at what’s going wrong in national security and how to make it go right.   Age of Danger looks at the major challenges facing America—from superpowers like Russia and China to emerging threats like pandemics, cybersecurity, climate change, and drones—and reimagines the national security apparatus into something that can truly keep Americans safe. Weaving together expert analysis with exclusive interviews from a new generation of national security leaders, Shanker and Hoehn argue that the United States must create an industrial-grade, life-saving machine out of a system that, for too long, was focused only on deterring adversaries and carrying out global military operations. It is a timely and crucial call to action—a call that if heeded, could save Americans lives, money, and our very future on the global stage.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/words-like-loaded-pistols-the-power-of-rhetoric-from-the-iron-age-to-the-information-age-by-sam-leith--65206085https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age Author: Sam Leith Narrator: Alan Medcroft Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “An entertaining history of great oratory” (New Yorker) and a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques   Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us, whether you’re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their vegetables. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?   In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece through the present day. He introduces verbal villains from Hitler to Donald Trump—and the three musketeers: ethos, pathos, and logos. He explains how rhetoric works in speeches from Cicero to Zelensky and pays tribute to the rhetorical brilliance of AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” Before you know it, you’ll be confident in chiasmus and proud of your panegyrics—because rhetoric is useful, relevant, and crucial to understanding the world around us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622454Tue, 09 May 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age Author: Sam Leith Narrator: Alan Medcroft Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age Author: Sam Leith Narrator: Alan Medcroft Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “An entertaining history of great oratory” (New Yorker) and a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques   Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us, whether you’re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their vegetables. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?   In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece through the present day. He introduces verbal villains from Hitler to Donald Trump—and the three musketeers: ethos, pathos, and logos. He explains how rhetoric works in speeches from Cicero to Zelensky and pays tribute to the rhetorical brilliance of AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” Before you know it, you’ll be confident in chiasmus and proud of your panegyrics—because rhetoric is useful, relevant, and crucial to understanding the world around us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mott-street-a-chinese-american-family-s-story-of-exclusion-and-homecoming-by-ava-chin--65206223https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Non-Fiction Book Prize * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.” —Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all. Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City. In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Non-Fiction Book Prize * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.” —Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all. Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City. In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pandora-s-gamble-lab-leaks-pandemics-and-a-world-at-risk-by-alison-young--65206177https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk Author: Alison Young Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China?   This is an obvious question. Yet there’s been an extraordinary effort by government officials in China, as well as leading scientific experts in the United States and around the world, to shut down any investigation or discussion of the lab leak theory. In private, however, some of the world’s elite scientists have seen a lab accident as a very real and horrifying possibility. They know what the public doesn’t. Lab accidents happen with shocking frequency. Even at the world’s best-run labs. That’s among the revelations from Alison Young, the award-winning investigative reporter who has spent nearly 15 years uncovering shocking safety breaches at prestigious U.S. laboratories for USA Today and other respected news outlets.   In Pandora’s Gamble, Young goes deep into the troubling history -- and enormous risks -- of leaks and accidents at scientific labs. She takes readers on a riveting journey around the world to some of the worst lab mishaps in history, including the largely unknown stories of the lab workers at the U.S. Army’s Camp Detrick who suffered devastating infections at alarming rates during World War II. And her groundbreaking reporting exposes for the first time disturbing new details about recent accidents at prestigious laboratories – and the alarming gaps in government oversight that put all of us at risk.    Sourced through meticulous reporting and exclusive interviews with key players including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former CDC Director Tom Frieden and others, Young’s examination reveals that the only thing rare about lab accidents is the public rarely finds out about them. Because when accidents happen, powerful people and institutions often work hard to keep the information secret.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617445Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk Author: Alison Young Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk Author: Alison Young Narrator: Pamela Almand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China?   This is an obvious question. Yet there’s been an extraordinary effort by government officials in China, as well as leading scientific experts in the United States and around the world, to shut down any investigation or discussion of the lab leak theory. In private, however, some of the world’s elite scientists have seen a lab accident as a very real and horrifying possibility. They know what the public doesn’t. Lab accidents happen with shocking frequency. Even at the world’s best-run labs. That’s among the revelations from Alison Young, the award-winning investigative reporter who has spent nearly 15 years uncovering shocking safety breaches at prestigious U.S. laboratories for USA Today and other respected news outlets.   In Pandora’s Gamble, Young goes deep into the troubling history -- and enormous risks -- of leaks and accidents at scientific labs. She takes readers on a riveting journey around the world to some of the worst lab mishaps in history, including the largely unknown stories of the lab workers at the U.S. Army’s Camp Detrick who suffered devastating infections at alarming rates during World War II. And her groundbreaking reporting exposes for the first time disturbing new details about recent accidents at prestigious laboratories – and the alarming gaps in government oversight that put all of us at risk.    Sourced through meticulous reporting and exclusive interviews with key players including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former CDC Director Tom Frieden and others, Young’s examination reveals that the only thing rare about lab accidents is the public rarely finds out about them. Because when accidents happen, powerful people and institutions often work hard to keep the information secret.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-gate-a-true-story-of-courage-and-sacrifice-during-the-collapse-of-afghanistan-by-mitchell-zuckoff--65206174https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan—and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours “Reads like a thriller . . . The Secret Gate is a fast-paced escape narrative, but it is also a morally complex interrogation.”—The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year) When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in a contentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. As evacuation planes departed above, Homeira was caught in the turmoil at the Kabul Airport, trying and failing to secure escape for her and her eight-year-old son, Siawash, along with her parents and the rest of their family.  Meanwhile, a young American diplomat named Sam Aronson was enjoying a brief vacation between assignments when chaos descended upon Afghanistan. Sam immediately volunteered to join the skeleton team of remaining officials at Kabul Airport, frantically racing to help rescue the more than 100,000 stranded Americans and their Afghan helpers. When Sam learned that the CIA had established a secret entrance into the airport two miles away from the desperate crowds crushing toward the gates, he started bringing families directly through, personally rescuing as many as fifty-two people in a single day.  On the last day of the evacuation, Sam was contacted by Homeira's literary agent, who persuaded him to help her escape. He needed to risk his life to get them through the gate in the final hours before it closed forever. He borrowed night-vision goggles and enlisted a Dari-speaking colleague and two heavily armed security contract “shooters.” He contacted Homeira with a burner phone, and they used a flashlight code signal borrowed from boyhood summer camp. For her part, Homeira broke Sam’s rules and withstood his profanities. Together they braved gunfire by Afghan Army soldiers anxious about the restive crowds outside the airport. Ultimately, to enter the airport, Homeira and Siawash would have to leave behind their family and everything they had ever known.  The Secret Gate tells the thrilling, emotional tale of a young man's courage and a mother and son’s skin-of-the-teeth escape from a homeland that is no longer their own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617689Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Sean Pratt Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan—and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours “Reads like a thriller . . . The Secret Gate is a fast-paced escape narrative, but it is also a morally complex interrogation.”—The Washington Post (Best Books of the Year) When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in a contentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. As evacuation planes departed above, Homeira was caught in the turmoil at the Kabul Airport, trying and failing to secure escape for her and her eight-year-old son, Siawash, along with her parents and the rest of their family.  Meanwhile, a young American diplomat named Sam Aronson was enjoying a brief vacation between assignments when chaos descended upon Afghanistan. Sam immediately volunteered to join the skeleton team of remaining officials at Kabul Airport, frantically racing to help rescue the more than 100,000 stranded Americans and their Afghan helpers. When Sam learned that the CIA had established a secret entrance into the airport two miles away from the desperate crowds crushing toward the gates, he started bringing families directly through, personally rescuing as many as fifty-two people in a single day.  On the last day of the evacuation, Sam was contacted by Homeira's literary agent, who persuaded him to help her escape. He needed to risk his life to get them through the gate in the final hours before it closed forever. He borrowed night-vision goggles and enlisted a Dari-speaking colleague and two heavily armed security contract “shooters.” He contacted Homeira with a burner phone, and they used a flashlight code signal borrowed from boyhood summer camp. For her part, Homeira broke Sam’s rules and withstood his profanities. Together they braved gunfire by Afghan Army soldiers anxious about the restive crowds outside the airport. Ultimately, to enter the airport, Homeira and Siawash would have to leave behind their family and everything they had ever known.  The Secret Gate tells the thrilling, emotional tale of a young man's courage and a mother and son’s skin-of-the-teeth escape from a homeland that is no longer their own.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/power-players-sports-politics-and-the-american-presidency-by-chris-cillizza--65206106https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency Author: Chris Cillizza Narrator: Chris Cillizza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, POWER PLAYERS turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House history, including: - Dwight Eisenhower played so much golf he had a putting green built outside the Oval Office! (He also almost died on a golf course while in office.) - How John F. Kennedy’s touch-football games with family were knowing plays to polish the Camelot mystique. - People might not have related to the aloof and awkward Richard Nixon but, hey, he would bowl a few frames just like them. - Ronald Reagan didn’t just play the part of “The Gipper” for the silver screen, but truly adopted the famous footballer’s never-say-die persona. - George H.W. Bush once ran a horseshoe league from the White House – with a commissioner and brackets! (He would later claim to have come up with the fan expression, “You da man.”) - Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Razorback fandom was so intense that he could be found shouting at the referees from a box at the basketball national championship game in 1994.  - George W. Bush’s not only owned the Texas Rangers but also threw out the most iconic first pitch ever in the 2001 World Series.  - What really went down when Barack Obama played pickup hoops with the North Carolina Tarheels. (He later won the state by .3 percent of the vote.) - Donald Trump is the only president ever featured in a professional wrestling storyline—and everything real and fake that went with that. In the pages of POWER PLAYERS, a love of sports shines through as the key to understanding who these presidents really were and how they chose to play by the rules, occasionally bluff or cheat, all the while coaching the country into a few quality wins and some notorious losses.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622444Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency Author: Chris Cillizza Narrator: Chris Cillizza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency Author: Chris Cillizza Narrator: Chris Cillizza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes. POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every modern president has used sports to relate to Joe Q. Public, POWER PLAYERS turns the lens around to examine how sports have shaped our presidents and made for some amazing moments in White House history, including: - Dwight Eisenhower played so much golf he had a putting green built outside the Oval Office! (He also almost died on a golf course while in office.) - How John F. Kennedy’s touch-football games with family were knowing plays to polish the Camelot mystique. - People might not have related to the aloof and awkward Richard Nixon but, hey, he would bowl a few frames just like them. - Ronald Reagan didn’t just play the part of “The Gipper” for the silver screen, but truly adopted the famous footballer’s never-say-die persona. - George H.W. Bush once ran a horseshoe league from the White House – with a commissioner and brackets! (He would later claim to have come up with the fan expression, “You da man.”) - Bill Clinton’s Arkansas Razorback fandom was so intense that he could be found shouting at the referees from a box at the basketball national championship game in 1994.  - George W. Bush’s not only owned the Texas Rangers but also threw out the most iconic first pitch ever in the 2001 World Series.  - What really went down when Barack Obama played pickup hoops with the North Carolina Tarheels. (He later won the state by .3 percent of the vote.) - Donald Trump is the only president ever featured in a professional wrestling storyline—and everything real and fake that went with that. In the pages of POWER PLAYERS, a love of sports shines through as the key to understanding who these presidents really were and how they chose to play by the rules, occasionally bluff or cheat, all the while coaching the country into a few quality wins and some notorious losses.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-ordinary-man-the-surprising-life-and-historic-presidency-of-gerald-r-ford-by-richard-norton-smith--65206191https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford Author: Richard Norton Smith Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn’t know, bringing new and important insights into how Ford kept the nation together and moved it past its most severe political crisis since the Civil War. It will become the definitive work on Ford and his presidency.'' -- Bob Schieffer, CBS News From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. Ford, whose presidency arguably set the course for post-liberal America and a post-Cold War world. For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Smith recreates Ford’s hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early anti-establishment politics and lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, Ford guided the nation through its worst Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and broke the back of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression—accomplishing both with little fanfare or credit (at least until 2001 when the JFK Library gave him its prestigious Profile in Courage Award in belated recognition of the Nixon pardon). Less coda than curtain raiser, Ford's administration bridged the Republican pragmatism of Eisenhower and Nixon and the more doctrinaire conservatism of Ronald Reagan. His introduction of economic deregulation would transform the American economy, while his embrace of the Helsinki Accords hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. This definitive biography, a decade in the making, will change history’s views of a man whose warning about presidential arrogance (“God help the country”) is more relevant than ever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615113Tue, 11 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford Author: Richard Norton Smith Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford Author: Richard Norton Smith Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn’t know, bringing new and important insights into how Ford kept the nation together and moved it past its most severe political crisis since the Civil War. It will become the definitive work on Ford and his presidency.'' -- Bob Schieffer, CBS News From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. Ford, whose presidency arguably set the course for post-liberal America and a post-Cold War world. For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Smith recreates Ford’s hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early anti-establishment politics and lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, Ford guided the nation through its worst Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and broke the back of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression—accomplishing both with little fanfare or credit (at least until 2001 when the JFK Library gave him its prestigious Profile in Courage Award in belated recognition of the Nixon pardon). Less coda than curtain raiser, Ford's administration bridged the Republican pragmatism of Eisenhower and Nixon and the more doctrinaire conservatism of Ronald Reagan. His introduction of economic deregulation would transform the American economy, while his embrace of the Helsinki Accords hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. This definitive biography, a decade in the making, will change history’s views of a man whose warning about presidential arrogance (“God help the country”) is more relevant than ever.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nine-black-robes-inside-the-supreme-court-s-drive-to-the-right-and-its-historic-consequences-by-joan-biskupic--65206196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences Author: Joan Biskupic Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times Editor's Choice ''Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper message of 'Nine Black Robes' is that even with a new president in office we remain captive to the Age of Trump... A quiet urgency ripples through this informative, briskly paced and gracefully written book.'' —New York Times Book Review ''Biskupic opens a window onto the opaque, insular world of the justices to show an institution sinking gradually into crisis . . . Biskupic is a longtime chronicler of the court, and ''Nine Black Robes'' puts on display her connections within its chambers.'' —Washington Post ''[Biskupic] knows how to make news and illuminate the personalities atop the judicial org chart . . . The book reveals unseen sausage-making . . .'' —Wall Street Journal ''Fascinating and informative . . . [Biskupic's] long experience covering the court . . . has put her in an incomparable position to comment on its make-up, historical positions and direction. It has also made her privy to many significant, little-known secrets about Supreme Court personalities and their historical behaviors.'' —The National Book Review CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players. Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women’s abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today’s bench—with its conservative majority—is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years, but the Trump appointments hastened the modern transformation. With unparalleled access to key players, Biskupic shows the tactics of each justice and reveals switched votes and internal pacts that typically never make the light of day, yet will have repercussions for generations to come. Nine Black Robes is the definitive narrative of the country’s highest court and its profound impact on all Americans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618167Tue, 04 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences Author: Joan Biskupic Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences Author: Joan Biskupic Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times Editor's Choice ''Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper message of 'Nine Black Robes' is that even with a new president in office we remain captive to the Age of Trump... A quiet urgency ripples through this informative, briskly paced and gracefully written book.'' —New York Times Book Review ''Biskupic opens a window onto the opaque, insular world of the justices to show an institution sinking gradually into crisis . . . Biskupic is a longtime chronicler of the court, and ''Nine Black Robes'' puts on display her connections within its chambers.'' —Washington Post ''[Biskupic] knows how to make news and illuminate the personalities atop the judicial org chart . . . The book reveals unseen sausage-making . . .'' —Wall Street Journal ''Fascinating and informative . . . [Biskupic's] long experience covering the court . . . has put her in an incomparable position to comment on its make-up, historical positions and direction. It has also made her privy to many significant, little-known secrets about Supreme Court personalities and their historical behaviors.'' —The National Book Review CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players. Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women’s abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today’s bench—with its conservative majority—is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years, but the Trump appointments hastened the modern transformation. With unparalleled access to key players, Biskupic shows the tactics of each justice and reveals switched votes and internal pacts that typically never make the light of day, yet will have repercussions for generations to come. Nine Black Robes is the definitive narrative of the country’s highest court and its profound impact on all Americans.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-plot-to-save-south-africa-the-week-mandela-averted-civil-war-and-forged-a-new-nation-by-justice-malala--65206175https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation Author: Justice Malala Narrator: Nick Boraine, Justice Malala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall…until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela’s popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. Twenty-two-year-old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days—the protests and police brutality, reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat-ready—he was terrified the assassin’s plot might succeed. In The Plot to Save South Africa, Malala “masterfully” (Foreign Affairs) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller, alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting, kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews, he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far-right elements within the South African government in inciting—or even planning—the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on, how did these political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they’d long abhorred—despite provocation and their own failures, doubts, and fears—to keep their country from descending into civil war?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619344Tue, 04 Apr 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation Author: Justice Malala Narrator: Nick Boraine, Justice Malala...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation Author: Justice Malala Narrator: Nick Boraine, Justice Malala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison and was in power sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seemed poised to fall…until a white supremacist shot and killed Mandela’s popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last desperate attempt to provoke civil war. Twenty-two-year-old rookie journalist Justice Malala was one of the first people at the crime scene. And as he covered the growing chaos of the next nine days—the protests and police brutality, reprisal killings and calls for paramilitary units to get combat-ready—he was terrified the assassin’s plot might succeed. In The Plot to Save South Africa, Malala “masterfully” (Foreign Affairs) unspools this political history in the style of a thriller, alternating between the perspectives of participants across the political spectrum in a riveting, kaleidoscopic account of a country on the brink. Through vivid archival research and shocking original interviews, he digs into questions that were never fully answered in all the tumult at the time: How involved were far-right elements within the South African government in inciting—or even planning—the assassination? And as the time bomb ticked on, how did these political rivals work together with opponents whose ideology they’d long abhorred—despite provocation and their own failures, doubts, and fears—to keep their country from descending into civil war?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-politics-fails-the-five-traps-of-the-modern-world-how-to-escape-them-by-ben-ansell--65206241https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem, it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'. Democracy: we all want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any true 'will of the people'. Equality: we want to be treated equally, but equal rights and equal outcomes undermine each other. Solidarity: we want a safety net when times are tough, but often we care about solidarity only when we need it ourselves. Security: we want protecting from harm, but not if it undermines our freedoms. Prosperity: we want to be richer tomorrow, but what makes us richer in the short run makes us poorer over the long haul. You've probably noticed a pattern here, which is that our self-interest undermines our ability to deliver on our collective goals. And these traps reinforce one another, so a polarized democracy can worsen inequality; a threadbare social safety net can worsen crime; runaway climate change will threaten global peace. Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own counterintuitive and pathbreaking research - on why democracy thrives under high inequality, and how increased political and social equality can lead to greater class inequality - Ansell vividly illustrates how we can escape the political traps of our imperfect world. He shows that politics won't end, but that it doesn't have to fail.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615070Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are the problem, it's that our collective goals result in five political 'traps'. Democracy: we all want a say in how we're governed, but it's impossible to have any true 'will of the people'. Equality: we want to be treated equally, but equal rights and equal outcomes undermine each other. Solidarity: we want a safety net when times are tough, but often we care about solidarity only when we need it ourselves. Security: we want protecting from harm, but not if it undermines our freedoms. Prosperity: we want to be richer tomorrow, but what makes us richer in the short run makes us poorer over the long haul. You've probably noticed a pattern here, which is that our self-interest undermines our ability to deliver on our collective goals. And these traps reinforce one another, so a polarized democracy can worsen inequality; a threadbare social safety net can worsen crime; runaway climate change will threaten global peace. Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own counterintuitive and pathbreaking research - on why democracy thrives under high inequality, and how increased political and social equality can lead to greater class inequality - Ansell vividly illustrates how we can escape the political traps of our imperfect world. He shows that politics won't end, but that it doesn't have to fail.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saving-time-discovering-a-life-beyond-the-clock-by-jenny-odell--65206114https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Author: Jenny Odell Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing. Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point where time became money, Odell offers us new models to live by--inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological, and geological time--that make a more humane, more hopeful way of living seem possible. In this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful reframing of time, Jenny Odell takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days, alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding. The stretchy quality of waiting and desire, the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal from injuries--physical or emotional. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life, to imagine a life, identity, and source of meaning outside of the world of work and profit, and to understand that the trajectory of our lives--or the life of the planet--is not a foregone conclusion. In that sense, 'saving' time-recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature-could also mean that time saves us. ©2023 Jenny Odell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620638Thu, 23 Mar 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Author: Jenny Odell Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Author: Jenny Odell Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing. Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point where time became money, Odell offers us new models to live by--inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological, and geological time--that make a more humane, more hopeful way of living seem possible. In this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful reframing of time, Jenny Odell takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days, alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding. The stretchy quality of waiting and desire, the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal from injuries--physical or emotional. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life, to imagine a life, identity, and source of meaning outside of the world of work and profit, and to understand that the trajectory of our lives--or the life of the planet--is not a foregone conclusion. In that sense, 'saving' time-recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature-could also mean that time saves us. ©2023 Jenny Odell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/imitation-democracy-the-development-of-russia-s-post-soviet-political-system-by-dmitrii-furman--65206243https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System Author: Dmitrii Furman Narrator: Rich Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of 'imitation democracy,' marked by 'a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule.' How did this system take shape, how else might it have developed, and what are the prospects for re-envisioning it more democratically in the future? These questions animate Dmitrii Furman's Imitation Democracy, a welcome antidote to books that blandly decry Putin as an omnipotent dictator, without considering his platforms, constituencies, and sources of power. With extensive public opinion polling drawn from throughout the late- and post-Soviet period, Furman offers a definitive account of the formation of the modern Russian political system, casting it into powerful relief through comparisons with other post-Soviet states. Peopled with grey technocrats, warring oligarchs, patriots, and provocateurs, Furman's narrative details the struggles among partisan factions, and the waves of public sentiment, that shaped modern Russia's political landscape, culminating in Putin's third presidential term, which resolves the contradiction between the 'form' and 'content' of imitation democracy, 'the formal dependence of power on elections and the actual dependence of elections on power.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617021Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System Author: Dmitrii Furman Narrator: Rich Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System Author: Dmitrii Furman Narrator: Rich Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of 'imitation democracy,' marked by 'a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule.' How did this system take shape, how else might it have developed, and what are the prospects for re-envisioning it more democratically in the future? These questions animate Dmitrii Furman's Imitation Democracy, a welcome antidote to books that blandly decry Putin as an omnipotent dictator, without considering his platforms, constituencies, and sources of power. With extensive public opinion polling drawn from throughout the late- and post-Soviet period, Furman offers a definitive account of the formation of the modern Russian political system, casting it into powerful relief through comparisons with other post-Soviet states. Peopled with grey technocrats, warring oligarchs, patriots, and provocateurs, Furman's narrative details the struggles among partisan factions, and the waves of public sentiment, that shaped modern Russia's political landscape, culminating in Putin's third presidential term, which resolves the contradiction between the 'form' and 'content' of imitation democracy, 'the formal dependence of power on elections and the actual dependence of elections on power.']]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-con-how-the-consulting-industry-weakens-our-businesses-infantilizes-our-governments-and-warps-our-economies-by-mariana-mazzucato--65206186https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies Author: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington Narrator: Amy Finegan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability, and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown. The “Big Con” describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thrives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis. It is possible because of the unique power that big consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks—as advisors, legitimators, and outsourcers—and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity. In the end, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies. In The Big Con, Mazzucato and Collington throw back the curtain on the consulting industry. They dive deep into important case studies of consultants taking the reins with disastrous results, such as the debacle of the roll out of HealthCare.gov and the tragic failures of governments to respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is an important and exhilarating intellectual journey into the modern economy’s beating heart. With peerless scholarship, and a wealth of original research, Mazzucato and Collington argue brilliantly for building a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618773Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies Author: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies Author: Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington Narrator: Amy Finegan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability, and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown. The “Big Con” describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thrives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis. It is possible because of the unique power that big consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks—as advisors, legitimators, and outsourcers—and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity. In the end, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies. In The Big Con, Mazzucato and Collington throw back the curtain on the consulting industry. They dive deep into important case studies of consultants taking the reins with disastrous results, such as the debacle of the roll out of HealthCare.gov and the tragic failures of governments to respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is an important and exhilarating intellectual journey into the modern economy’s beating heart. With peerless scholarship, and a wealth of original research, Mazzucato and Collington argue brilliantly for building a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-courage-to-be-free-florida-s-blueprint-for-america-s-revival-by-ron-desantis--65206168https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Author: Ron Desantis Narrator: John Pruden, Ron Desantis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 14 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER / #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER / #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: He didn’t want to be part of the leftist elite. His heart was always for the people of Florida, one of the most diverse and culturally rich states in the union. Since becoming governor of the Sunshine State, he has fought—and won—battle after battle, defeating not just opposition from the political left, but a barrage of hostile media coverage proclaiming the end of the world. When he implemented COVID-19 policies based on evidence and focused on freedoms, the press launched a smear campaign against him, yet Florida’s economy thrived, its education system outperformed the nation, and Florida’s COVID mortality rate for seniors was lower than that in thirty-eight states. When he enacted policies to keep leftist political concepts like critical race theory and woke gender ideology out of Florida’s classrooms, the media demagogued his actions, but parents across Florida rallied to his cause. Dishonest attacks from the media don’t deter him. In fact, DeSantis keeps racking up wins for Floridians. In 2022, the governor delivered a historic, record-setting victory, winning by nearly 20 points and more than 1.5 million votes. A firsthand account from the blue-collar boy who grew up to take on Disney and Dr. Fauci, The Courage to Be Free delivers something rare from an elected leader: stories of victory. This book is a winning blueprint for patriots across the country. And it is a rallying cry for every American who wishes to preserve our liberties.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619006Tue, 28 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Author: Ron Desantis Narrator: John Pruden, Ron Desantis Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Author: Ron Desantis Narrator: John Pruden, Ron Desantis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.14 of Total 14 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER / #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER / #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: He didn’t want to be part of the leftist elite. His heart was always for the people of Florida, one of the most diverse and culturally rich states in the union. Since becoming governor of the Sunshine State, he has fought—and won—battle after battle, defeating not just opposition from the political left, but a barrage of hostile media coverage proclaiming the end of the world. When he implemented COVID-19 policies based on evidence and focused on freedoms, the press launched a smear campaign against him, yet Florida’s economy thrived, its education system outperformed the nation, and Florida’s COVID mortality rate for seniors was lower than that in thirty-eight states. When he enacted policies to keep leftist political concepts like critical race theory and woke gender ideology out of Florida’s classrooms, the media demagogued his actions, but parents across Florida rallied to his cause. Dishonest attacks from the media don’t deter him. In fact, DeSantis keeps racking up wins for Floridians. In 2022, the governor delivered a historic, record-setting victory, winning by nearly 20 points and more than 1.5 million votes. A firsthand account from the blue-collar boy who grew up to take on Disney and Dr. Fauci, The Courage to Be Free delivers something rare from an elected leader: stories of victory. This book is a winning blueprint for patriots across the country. And it is a rallying cry for every American who wishes to preserve our liberties.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/private-power-public-purpose-adventures-in-business-politics-and-the-arts-by-thomas-d-aquino--65206226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Private Power, Public Purpose: Adventures in Business, Politics, and the Arts Author: Thomas D'aquino Narrator: Thomas D'aquino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A remarkable memoir by the man at the apex of Canadian power for over fifty years, Private Power, Public Purpose is the ultimate insider's history in the worlds of politics, business, and philanthropy. Private Power, Public Purpose is an ambitious and sweeping first-hand account of the past 50 years of Canadian economic history, told from the front lines…. A highly rewarding read. Stephen Poloz, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and author of The Next Age of Uncertainty In this monumental memoir, Thomas d’Aquino offers personal insights on four decades of bold leadership at the apex of power. A transforming force in redefining the role of business and the shaping of responsible capitalism, Canada’s private sector leader in advancing the free trade agreement with the United States, valiant defender of national unity, and passionate environmentalist, he has been at the centre of every major policy debate that has influenced contemporary Canada. Referred to by his peers as “Canada’s leading business ambassador,” Private Power, Public Purpose chronicles exploits on five continents and describes how he has championed Canada’s place as an economic player on the world stage. His insights on leadership are timeless, honed from relationships with six Canadian prime ministers, over 1000 chief executives, and dozens of global leaders. Beyond business and public policy, Thomas d’Aquino’s fascinating adventures in the world of voluntarism, the arts, and philanthropy reveal a great deal about the soul of this remarkable Canadian.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616429Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Private Power, Public Purpose: Adventures in Business, Politics, and the Arts Author: Thomas D'aquino Narrator: Thomas D'aquino Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Private Power, Public Purpose: Adventures in Business, Politics, and the Arts Author: Thomas D'aquino Narrator: Thomas D'aquino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A remarkable memoir by the man at the apex of Canadian power for over fifty years, Private Power, Public Purpose is the ultimate insider's history in the worlds of politics, business, and philanthropy. Private Power, Public Purpose is an ambitious and sweeping first-hand account of the past 50 years of Canadian economic history, told from the front lines…. A highly rewarding read. Stephen Poloz, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and author of The Next Age of Uncertainty In this monumental memoir, Thomas d’Aquino offers personal insights on four decades of bold leadership at the apex of power. A transforming force in redefining the role of business and the shaping of responsible capitalism, Canada’s private sector leader in advancing the free trade agreement with the United States, valiant defender of national unity, and passionate environmentalist, he has been at the centre of every major policy debate that has influenced contemporary Canada. Referred to by his peers as “Canada’s leading business ambassador,” Private Power, Public Purpose chronicles exploits on five continents and describes how he has championed Canada’s place as an economic player on the world stage. His insights on leadership are timeless, honed from relationships with six Canadian prime ministers, over 1000 chief executives, and dozens of global leaders. Beyond business and public policy, Thomas d’Aquino’s fascinating adventures in the world of voluntarism, the arts, and philanthropy reveal a great deal about the soul of this remarkable Canadian.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/freedom-from-fear-a-12-step-guide-to-personal-and-national-recovery-by-mark-mcdonald--65206052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom from Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Personal and National Recovery Author: Mark Mcdonald Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On the heels of Dr. Mark McDonald’s bestselling book United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, the acclaimed author and psychiatrist follows up with a practical, personal, twelve-step recovery program to defeat fear addiction worldwide. The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has plagued millions since early 2020. In his latest book, Freedom from Fear, Dr. Mark McDonald applies his well-honed psychiatric acuity to the undiagnosed epidemic of fear addiction. Just like a drug, fear becomes an unhealthy mental and emotional dependency that must be broken. In Freedom from Fear, Dr. McDonald presents the essential twelve-step guide to personal and worldwide recovery. His precepts include simple but practical steps like “Face the Mirror,” “Don’t be a Sheep,” “Choose Reality,” “Reject Narcissism,” “Think for Yourself,” “Embrace Adulthood,” “Pay Attention,” and “Embrace Fearless Leadership.” Bold and straightforward, Dr. McDonald once again draws on his experience as a psychiatrist and physician to diagnose this worldwide affliction. In this companion book to United States of Fear, he prescribes the consummate treatment plan for eradicating this Mass Delusional Psychosis once and for all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624441Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom from Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Personal and National Recovery Author: Mark Mcdonald Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom from Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Personal and National Recovery Author: Mark Mcdonald Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On the heels of Dr. Mark McDonald’s bestselling book United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, the acclaimed author and psychiatrist follows up with a practical, personal, twelve-step recovery program to defeat fear addiction worldwide. The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has plagued millions since early 2020. In his latest book, Freedom from Fear, Dr. Mark McDonald applies his well-honed psychiatric acuity to the undiagnosed epidemic of fear addiction. Just like a drug, fear becomes an unhealthy mental and emotional dependency that must be broken. In Freedom from Fear, Dr. McDonald presents the essential twelve-step guide to personal and worldwide recovery. His precepts include simple but practical steps like “Face the Mirror,” “Don’t be a Sheep,” “Choose Reality,” “Reject Narcissism,” “Think for Yourself,” “Embrace Adulthood,” “Pay Attention,” and “Embrace Fearless Leadership.” Bold and straightforward, Dr. McDonald once again draws on his experience as a psychiatrist and physician to diagnose this worldwide affliction. In this companion book to United States of Fear, he prescribes the consummate treatment plan for eradicating this Mass Delusional Psychosis once and for all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everyday-war-the-conflict-over-donbas-ukraine-by-greta-lynn-uehling--65206057https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine Author: Greta Lynn Uehling Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war. Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624463Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine Author: Greta Lynn Uehling Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine Author: Greta Lynn Uehling Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war. Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-minor-revolution-how-prioritizing-kids-benefits-us-all-by-adam-benforado--65206211https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All Author: Adam Benforado Narrator: Adam Benforado Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives—from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice “Compelling . . . an extremely sympathetic and worthy attempt to protect kids . . . [Benforado] has written a book that reads like a manifesto. His ideas are bold, to the point, and ambitious.”—The Atlantic At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, combating indigence, promoting wellness, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance. Each year, we prosecute thousands of kids as adults, while our schools crumble. We deny young people any political power, while we fail to act on the issues that matter most to them: racism, inequality, and climate change. Through unforgettable stories, law professor Adam Benforado draws a vivid portrait of our neglect. We are there when Ariel is placed in an orphanage after her parents are locked away for transporting marijuana, when Harold first gazes in disbelief upon the immaculate lawn of an elite private school after a childhood of asphalt play yards, when Wylie is hit with a paddle by his public-school principal as punishment for taking a moment of silence to protest gun violence. When Tyler runs for governor at age seventeen, we are also there to witness the extraordinary capacities of young people. Our disregard for children’s rights is not simply a moral problem; it’s also an economic and social one. The root cause of nearly every major challenge we face—from crime to poor health to unemployment—can be found in our mistreatment of kids. But in that sobering truth is also the key to changing our fate as a nation. Drawing on the latest research on the value of early intervention, investment, and empowerment, A Minor Revolution makes the urgent case for putting children first—in our budgets and policies, in how we develop products and enact laws, and in our families and communities. Childhood is the window of opportunity for all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617988Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All Author: Adam Benforado Narrator: Adam Benforado Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All Author: Adam Benforado Narrator: Adam Benforado Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A revelatory investigation into how America is failing its children, and an urgent manifesto on why helping them is the best way to improve all of our lives—from the New York Times bestselling author of Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice “Compelling . . . an extremely sympathetic and worthy attempt to protect kids . . . [Benforado] has written a book that reads like a manifesto. His ideas are bold, to the point, and ambitious.”—The Atlantic At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, combating indigence, promoting wellness, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance. Each year, we prosecute thousands of kids as adults, while our schools crumble. We deny young people any political power, while we fail to act on the issues that matter most to them: racism, inequality, and climate change. Through unforgettable stories, law professor Adam Benforado draws a vivid portrait of our neglect. We are there when Ariel is placed in an orphanage after her parents are locked away for transporting marijuana, when Harold first gazes in disbelief upon the immaculate lawn of an elite private school after a childhood of asphalt play yards, when Wylie is hit with a paddle by his public-school principal as punishment for taking a moment of silence to protest gun violence. When Tyler runs for governor at age seventeen, we are also there to witness the extraordinary capacities of young people. Our disregard for children’s rights is not simply a moral problem; it’s also an economic and social one. The root cause of nearly every major challenge we face—from crime to poor health to unemployment—can be found in our mistreatment of kids. But in that sobering truth is also the key to changing our fate as a nation. Drawing on the latest research on the value of early intervention, investment, and empowerment, A Minor Revolution makes the urgent case for putting children first—in our budgets and policies, in how we develop products and enact laws, and in our families and communities. Childhood is the window of opportunity for all of us.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-was-cnn-how-sex-lies-and-spies-undid-the-world-s-worst-news-network-by-kent-heckenlively-cary-poarch--65206194https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Was CNN: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the World's Worst News Network Author: Kent Heckenlively, Cary Poarch Narrator: Chris Abell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A CNN insider reveals what he saw behind the scenes at the cable news giant and the investigation that revealed even more shocking secrets. Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the “fine people” hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN’s rampant political bias for Project Veritas, and saw how the network was dividing the country. When the story was released by Project Veritas, it was seen by millions. This audiobook continues his investigation and uncovers even more shocking information about the behavior of network personnel, CNN’s ties to the Biden White House, CNN’s creation of a terrifying digital warfare capacity, and the possible penetration of CNN by our own intelligence agencies. Cary partnered with two-time New York Times bestselling author, Kent Heckenlively, and together they uncovered even more shocking secrets about “the most trusted name in news.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614622Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Was CNN: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the World's Worst News Network Author: Kent Heckenlively, Cary Poarch Narrator: Chris Abell Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Was CNN: How Sex, Lies, and Spies Undid the World's Worst News Network Author: Kent Heckenlively, Cary Poarch Narrator: Chris Abell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A CNN insider reveals what he saw behind the scenes at the cable news giant and the investigation that revealed even more shocking secrets. Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the “fine people” hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN’s rampant political bias for Project Veritas, and saw how the network was dividing the country. When the story was released by Project Veritas, it was seen by millions. This audiobook continues his investigation and uncovers even more shocking information about the behavior of network personnel, CNN’s ties to the Biden White House, CNN’s creation of a terrifying digital warfare capacity, and the possible penetration of CNN by our own intelligence agencies. Cary partnered with two-time New York Times bestselling author, Kent Heckenlively, and together they uncovered even more shocking secrets about “the most trusted name in news.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-crisis-of-democratic-capitalism-by-martin-wolf--65206208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Author: Martin Wolf Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views, offering a deep and lucid assessment of why the marriage between capitalism and democracy has grown so strained and making clear why a divorce would be an almost unthinkable calamity. Wolf argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth and productivity, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism remains the best system and that citizenship is not just a slogan or a romantic idea; it's the only concept that can save us. This wise and rigorous exploration of the dynamic between democracy and capitalism shows us that our ideals and our interests not only should align - they must do so, for everyone's sake. © Martin Wolf 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617697Thu, 02 Feb 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Author: Martin Wolf Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Author: Martin Wolf Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views, offering a deep and lucid assessment of why the marriage between capitalism and democracy has grown so strained and making clear why a divorce would be an almost unthinkable calamity. Wolf argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth and productivity, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism remains the best system and that citizenship is not just a slogan or a romantic idea; it's the only concept that can save us. This wise and rigorous exploration of the dynamic between democracy and capitalism shows us that our ideals and our interests not only should align - they must do so, for everyone's sake. © Martin Wolf 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bill-of-obligations-the-ten-habits-of-good-citizens-by-richard-haass--65206231https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens Author: Richard Haass Narrator: Richard Haass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Watch the PBS companion documentary “A Citizen’s Guide to Preserving Democracy” “An indispensable guide to good citizenship in an era of division and rancor.” —Anne Applebaum There is no question that the United States faces dangerous threats from without; the greatest peril to the country, however, comes from within. In The Bill of Obligations, bestselling author Richard Haass argues that, to solve our climate of division and safeguard our democracy, the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet the most intractable conflicts often emerge from cases that, as former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out, “are not about right versus wrong. They are about right versus right.” There is a way forward: to place obligations on the same footing as rights. The ten obligations that Haass introduces here reenvision what it means to be an American citizen, to commit to our fellow citizens and counter the growing apathy, anger, and violence that threaten us all. Through an expert blend of civics, history, and political analysis, this book illuminates how Americans across the political spectrum can rediscover how to contribute to and reshape this country’s future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616558Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens Author: Richard Haass Narrator: Richard Haass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616558 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens Author: Richard Haass Narrator: Richard Haass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Watch the PBS companion documentary “A Citizen’s Guide to Preserving Democracy” “An indispensable guide to good citizenship in an era of division and rancor.” —Anne Applebaum There is no question that the United States faces dangerous threats from without; the greatest peril to the country, however, comes from within. In The Bill of Obligations, bestselling author Richard Haass argues that, to solve our climate of division and safeguard our democracy, the very idea of citizenship must be revised and expanded. The Bill of Rights is at the center of our Constitution, yet the most intractable conflicts often emerge from cases that, as former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out, “are not about right versus wrong. They are about right versus right.” There is a way forward: to place obligations on the same footing as rights. The ten obligations that Haass introduces here reenvision what it means to be an American citizen, to commit to our fellow citizens and counter the growing apathy, anger, and violence that threaten us all. Through an expert blend of civics, history, and political analysis, this book illuminates how Americans across the political spectrum can rediscover how to contribute to and reshape this country’s future.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/roe-the-history-of-a-national-obsession-by-mary-ziegler--65206073https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roe: The History of a National Obsession Author: Mary Ziegler Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The leading US expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history What explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the US Supreme Court decision, which decriminalized abortion in 1973 and was overturned in 2022, had a hold on us that was not simply the result of polarized abortion politics. Rather, Roe took on meanings far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. It forced us to confront questions about sexual violence, judicial activism and restraint, racial justice, religious liberty, the role of science in politics, and much more. In this history of what the Supreme Court’s best-known decision has meant, Ziegler identifies the inconsistencies and unsettled issues in our abortion politics. She urges us to rediscover the nuance that has long resided where we would least expect to find it—in the meaning of Roe itself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624477Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roe: The History of a National Obsession Author: Mary Ziegler Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roe: The History of a National Obsession Author: Mary Ziegler Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The leading US expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history What explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the US Supreme Court decision, which decriminalized abortion in 1973 and was overturned in 2022, had a hold on us that was not simply the result of polarized abortion politics. Rather, Roe took on meanings far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. It forced us to confront questions about sexual violence, judicial activism and restraint, racial justice, religious liberty, the role of science in politics, and much more. In this history of what the Supreme Court’s best-known decision has meant, Ziegler identifies the inconsistencies and unsettled issues in our abortion politics. She urges us to rediscover the nuance that has long resided where we would least expect to find it—in the meaning of Roe itself.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-struggle-for-a-decent-politics-on-liberal-as-an-adjective-by-michael-walzer--65206170https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' as an Adjective Author: Michael Walzer Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era There was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. “Liberal” now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a noun but as an adjective—one is a “liberal democrat” or a “liberal nationalist.” Walzer itemizes the characteristics described by “liberal” in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural. Unabashedly asserting that liberalism is a universal set of values (“it must be universal,” he writes, “since it is under attack everywhere”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620059Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' as an Adjective Author: Michael Walzer Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' as an Adjective Author: Michael Walzer Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era There was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. “Liberal” now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a noun but as an adjective—one is a “liberal democrat” or a “liberal nationalist.” Walzer itemizes the characteristics described by “liberal” in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural. Unabashedly asserting that liberalism is a universal set of values (“it must be universal,” he writes, “since it is under attack everywhere”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/america-and-the-art-of-the-possible-restoring-national-vitality-in-an-age-of-decay-by-christopher-buskirk--65206249https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay Author: Christopher Buskirk Narrator: Alex Boyles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Between 1920 and 1950, America saw an unprecedented expansion of wealth and power underwritten by technological innovation, cultural confidence, and victory in war. American elites won World War II, rebuilt the world order with America at its head, inaugurated the jet age, and put a man on the moon. The boom led to a larger, richer middle class that confirmed America’s best ideals. By the early 1970s, that ended. American elites have captured a disproportionate share of the social and economic rewards over the last fifty years. Meanwhile, the middle class has shrunk in size and has become economically insecure, owning a smaller share of national wealth than at any time in the nation’s history. This has happened even while most households have two income earners, versus the single-income households that characterized the period of shared prosperity. At the same time, technological innovation that improves people’s standard of living has dramatically slowed. These trends undermine the basic premise behind the broad acceptance of a meritocratic elite, whose rule is predicated on the belief that if the best rise to the top, their talent and energy will create a rising tide that lifts all boats. We had that once. We can have it again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614605Tue, 10 Jan 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay Author: Christopher Buskirk Narrator: Alex Boyles Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay Author: Christopher Buskirk Narrator: Alex Boyles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Between 1920 and 1950, America saw an unprecedented expansion of wealth and power underwritten by technological innovation, cultural confidence, and victory in war. American elites won World War II, rebuilt the world order with America at its head, inaugurated the jet age, and put a man on the moon. The boom led to a larger, richer middle class that confirmed America’s best ideals. By the early 1970s, that ended. American elites have captured a disproportionate share of the social and economic rewards over the last fifty years. Meanwhile, the middle class has shrunk in size and has become economically insecure, owning a smaller share of national wealth than at any time in the nation’s history. This has happened even while most households have two income earners, versus the single-income households that characterized the period of shared prosperity. At the same time, technological innovation that improves people’s standard of living has dramatically slowed. These trends undermine the basic premise behind the broad acceptance of a meritocratic elite, whose rule is predicated on the belief that if the best rise to the top, their talent and energy will create a rising tide that lifts all boats. We had that once. We can have it again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pacific-power-paradox-american-statecraft-and-the-fate-of-the-asian-peace-by-van-jackson--65206171https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace Author: Van Jackson Narrator: Tim H. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America’s paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this “Asian peace,” and what is America’s role in it? Van Jackson argues that because Washington takes it for granted that the United States is a force for good, successive presidencies have failed to see how American statecraft impedes more durable forms of security and inadvertently embrittles peace. At times, the United States has been the region’s bulwark against instability, but America has been a threat to Asian peace as much as it has been its guarantor. By grappling with how America fits into the Asian story, Van Jackson shows how regional stability has diminished because of U.S. choices and why America’s margin for geopolitical error is less now than ever before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618509Tue, 10 Jan 2023 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace Author: Van Jackson Narrator: Tim H. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace Author: Van Jackson Narrator: Tim H. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new history of Asian peace since 1979 that considers America’s paradoxical role After more than a century of recurring conflict, the countries of the Asia-Pacific region have managed something remarkable: avoiding war among nations. Since 1979, Asia has endured threats, near-miss crises, and nuclear proliferation but no interstate war. How fragile is this “Asian peace,” and what is America’s role in it? Van Jackson argues that because Washington takes it for granted that the United States is a force for good, successive presidencies have failed to see how American statecraft impedes more durable forms of security and inadvertently embrittles peace. At times, the United States has been the region’s bulwark against instability, but America has been a threat to Asian peace as much as it has been its guarantor. By grappling with how America fits into the Asian story, Van Jackson shows how regional stability has diminished because of U.S. choices and why America’s margin for geopolitical error is less now than ever before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rise-of-a-new-left-how-young-radicals-are-shaping-the-future-of-american-politics-by-raina-lipsitz--65206234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics Author: Raina Lipsitz Narrator: Megan Tusing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new progressive generation is on the rise in the United States, reflected in the mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America (90,000 mostly twentysomething members), Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and perhaps most famously of all, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Rise of a New American Left is the first book to look closely at this new politics. Propelled by interviews with AOC and the other key figures and organizations that have shaken up American politics, the book includes portraits of groups like Democratic Socialists of America, the Sunrise Movement, and Justice Democrats, explaining who they are, where they come from, and what they want. Investigating the panoply of strategies employed by the new movements and their relationships to politicians from Bernie Sanders to Nancy Pelosi, the book describes how the generational focus on insurgent electoral campaigns both aims to transform the Democratic Party and threatens to be captured by it. Written with panache by a member of this rising generation, this book immerses the listener in a youth culture the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Sixties.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613920Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics Author: Raina Lipsitz Narrator: Megan Tusing Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics Author: Raina Lipsitz Narrator: Megan Tusing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new progressive generation is on the rise in the United States, reflected in the mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America (90,000 mostly twentysomething members), Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and perhaps most famously of all, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Rise of a New American Left is the first book to look closely at this new politics. Propelled by interviews with AOC and the other key figures and organizations that have shaken up American politics, the book includes portraits of groups like Democratic Socialists of America, the Sunrise Movement, and Justice Democrats, explaining who they are, where they come from, and what they want. Investigating the panoply of strategies employed by the new movements and their relationships to politicians from Bernie Sanders to Nancy Pelosi, the book describes how the generational focus on insurgent electoral campaigns both aims to transform the Democratic Party and threatens to be captured by it. Written with panache by a member of this rising generation, this book immerses the listener in a youth culture the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Sixties.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-nation-so-conceived-abraham-lincoln-and-the-paradox-of-democratic-sovereignty-by-michael-p-zuckert--65206224https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty Author: Michael P. Zuckert Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology. Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States between 1845 and Lincoln's death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a dozen speeches that Lincoln made during his career. This listener-friendly chronological organization is motivated by Zuckert's emphasis on Lincoln as a practical politician who was always fully aware of the political context of the moment. According to Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg, America was new precisely because it was born in dedication to the first premise of the theory of democratic sovereignty: that all men are created equal. Lincoln's thought consisted in an ever-deepening meditation on the grounds and implications of that proposition, both in its constructive and in its destructive potential. A Nation So Conceived is devoted to exploring the paradoxical duality of 'created equal.' In a nearly comprehensive study of Lincoln's thought, Zuckert uses lessons he learned from decades of teaching to reveal how Lincoln understood both its truth and its pathological consequences while offering an assessment of his aims and achievements as a statesman.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613910Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty Author: Michael P. Zuckert Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty Author: Michael P. Zuckert Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln's political thought, Michael Zuckert's A Nation So Conceived argues for a coherent center to Lincoln's political ideology. Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States between 1845 and Lincoln's death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a dozen speeches that Lincoln made during his career. This listener-friendly chronological organization is motivated by Zuckert's emphasis on Lincoln as a practical politician who was always fully aware of the political context of the moment. According to Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg, America was new precisely because it was born in dedication to the first premise of the theory of democratic sovereignty: that all men are created equal. Lincoln's thought consisted in an ever-deepening meditation on the grounds and implications of that proposition, both in its constructive and in its destructive potential. A Nation So Conceived is devoted to exploring the paradoxical duality of 'created equal.' In a nearly comprehensive study of Lincoln's thought, Zuckert uses lessons he learned from decades of teaching to reveal how Lincoln understood both its truth and its pathological consequences while offering an assessment of his aims and achievements as a statesman.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-propagandists-playbook-how-conservative-elites-manipulate-search-and-threaten-democracy-by-francesca-bolla-tripodi--65206173https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy Author: Francesca Bolla Tripodi Narrator: Francesca Bolla Tripodi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Propagandists' Playbook peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and pervasive, while also humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations of two Republican groups over the course of the 2018 Virginia gubernatorial race—including the author's firsthand experience of the 2017 Unite the Right rally—the book considers how Google algorithms, YouTube playlists, pundits, and politicians can manipulate audiences, reaffirm beliefs, and expose audiences to more extremist ideas, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Francesca Tripodi argues that conservatives who embody the Christian worldview give authoritative weight to original texts and interrogate the media using the same tools taught to them in Bible study—for example, using Google to 'fact check' the news. The result of this practice, tied to conservative marketing tactics, is more than a reaffirmation of existing beliefs: it is a radicalization of content and a changing of narratives adopted by the media. Tripodi also demonstrates the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the conservative media ecosystem, as well as its mainstream appeal, scope, and spread.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616907Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy Author: Francesca Bolla Tripodi Narrator: Francesca Bolla...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy Author: Francesca Bolla Tripodi Narrator: Francesca Bolla Tripodi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Propagandists' Playbook peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and pervasive, while also humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations of two Republican groups over the course of the 2018 Virginia gubernatorial race—including the author's firsthand experience of the 2017 Unite the Right rally—the book considers how Google algorithms, YouTube playlists, pundits, and politicians can manipulate audiences, reaffirm beliefs, and expose audiences to more extremist ideas, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Francesca Tripodi argues that conservatives who embody the Christian worldview give authoritative weight to original texts and interrogate the media using the same tools taught to them in Bible study—for example, using Google to 'fact check' the news. The result of this practice, tied to conservative marketing tactics, is more than a reaffirmation of existing beliefs: it is a radicalization of content and a changing of narratives adopted by the media. Tripodi also demonstrates the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the conservative media ecosystem, as well as its mainstream appeal, scope, and spread.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revolution-and-dictatorship-the-violent-origins-of-durable-authoritarianism-by-steven-levitsky-lucan-way--65206190https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Author: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest—principal sources of authoritarian breakdown.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615959Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Author: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way Narrator: Joe Barrett Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615959 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Author: Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest—principal sources of authoritarian breakdown.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cobalt-cradle-of-the-demon-metals-birth-of-a-mining-superpower-by-charlie-angus--65206165https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower Author: Charlie Angus Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this 'demon metal' has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. The tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settle's adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here—the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment—established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. Charlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame—from the conquistadores to the Western gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world's dominant mining superpower.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619194Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower Author: Charlie Angus Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower Author: Charlie Angus Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this 'demon metal' has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. The tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush at Cobalt has been told as a settle's adventure, but Indigenous people had already been trading in metals from the region for two thousand years. And the events that happened here—the theft of Indigenous lands, the exploitation of a multicultural workforce, and the destruction of the natural environment—established a template for resource extraction that has been exported around the world. Charlie Angus reframes the complex and intersectional history of Cobalt within a broader international frame—from the conquistadores to the Western gold rush to the struggles in the Democratic Republic of Congo today. He demonstrates how Cobalt set Canada on its path to become the world's dominant mining superpower.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gold-oil-and-avocados-a-recent-history-of-latin-america-in-sixteen-commodities-by-andy-robinson--65206116https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities Author: Andy Robinson Narrator: Andre Bellido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this 'pink tide' go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction. Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals what oxen have to do with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, how quinoa explains the mob that descended on Evo Morales, and why oil is the culprit behind the protracted coup in Venezuela. In addition to the usual suspects like gold and bananas which underscored the original plunder of the Americas, Robinson also shows how a new generation of valuable resources—like coltan for smartphones and lithium for electric cars—have become important players in the fate of Latin America. And as the energy transition sets mineral prices soaring, Latin America remains at the mercy of the rollercoaster of commodity prices. Robinson takes listeners from the salt plains of Chile to the depths of the Amazonian jungle to stitch together the story of Latin America's last decade, showing how the imperial plunder of the past carries on today under a new name.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619319Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities Author: Andy Robinson Narrator: Andre Bellido Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities Author: Andy Robinson Narrator: Andre Bellido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this 'pink tide' go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction. Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals what oxen have to do with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, how quinoa explains the mob that descended on Evo Morales, and why oil is the culprit behind the protracted coup in Venezuela. In addition to the usual suspects like gold and bananas which underscored the original plunder of the Americas, Robinson also shows how a new generation of valuable resources—like coltan for smartphones and lithium for electric cars—have become important players in the fate of Latin America. And as the energy transition sets mineral prices soaring, Latin America remains at the mercy of the rollercoaster of commodity prices. Robinson takes listeners from the salt plains of Chile to the depths of the Amazonian jungle to stitch together the story of Latin America's last decade, showing how the imperial plunder of the past carries on today under a new name.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-of-the-blue-the-inside-story-of-the-unexpected-rise-and-rapid-fall-of-liz-truss-by-james-heale-harry-cole--65206128https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss Author: James Heale, Harry Cole Narrator: Emily C Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year A Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 ‘An insightful and at times riotously entertaining account of the lengthy rise and abrupt fall of Britain’s 56th Prime Minister. What was intended as a prologue to her premiership is now a riveting political obituary in which every page drips with the seeds of both triumph and disaster. Cole and Heale have produced a meticulously reported account of Truss’s drive, impulsiveness, eccentricity and ideological certainty which reads like a warning from history. It has elements of tragedy but is frequently very, very funny.’ Tim Shipman 'Make sure you put your seat belt on. Heale and Cole put you in the passenger seat of the fastest car crash in recent political history. It's an unmissable romp through Liz Truss's long journey to the top, fuelled by ambition and espresso. The clues that foretold the extraordinary catastrophe are all there, as the authors reveal in gory detail how Liz Truss nearly had the last laugh, before finally, as her government imploded, the joke was on her.' Laura Kuenssberg Despite being written off and mocked by even her closest colleagues, Liz Truss slowly but determinedly achieved her goal of taking over 10 Downing Street – only to instantly plunge her administration into chaos and announce her resignation after a record-breaking 44 days. How did she do it? And what exactly went so wrong? With unrivalled access and insight, award-winning political journalists Harry Cole and James Heale provide the answers, drawing on interviews with Truss’s friends and supporters, as well as her worst critics and rivals, from Kwasi Kwarteng to Michael Gove. Tracking Truss’s transformation from geeky teenage Lib Dem to Tory PM, with the inside scoop on her first – and only – month in office, Out of the Blue is the unmissable behind-the-scenes account of Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622419Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss Author: James Heale, Harry Cole Narrator: Emily C Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss Author: James Heale, Harry Cole Narrator: Emily C Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year A Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 ‘An insightful and at times riotously entertaining account of the lengthy rise and abrupt fall of Britain’s 56th Prime Minister. What was intended as a prologue to her premiership is now a riveting political obituary in which every page drips with the seeds of both triumph and disaster. Cole and Heale have produced a meticulously reported account of Truss’s drive, impulsiveness, eccentricity and ideological certainty which reads like a warning from history. It has elements of tragedy but is frequently very, very funny.’ Tim Shipman 'Make sure you put your seat belt on. Heale and Cole put you in the passenger seat of the fastest car crash in recent political history. It's an unmissable romp through Liz Truss's long journey to the top, fuelled by ambition and espresso. The clues that foretold the extraordinary catastrophe are all there, as the authors reveal in gory detail how Liz Truss nearly had the last laugh, before finally, as her government imploded, the joke was on her.' Laura Kuenssberg Despite being written off and mocked by even her closest colleagues, Liz Truss slowly but determinedly achieved her goal of taking over 10 Downing Street – only to instantly plunge her administration into chaos and announce her resignation after a record-breaking 44 days. How did she do it? And what exactly went so wrong? With unrivalled access and insight, award-winning political journalists Harry Cole and James Heale provide the answers, drawing on interviews with Truss’s friends and supporters, as well as her worst critics and rivals, from Kwasi Kwarteng to Michael Gove. Tracking Truss’s transformation from geeky teenage Lib Dem to Tory PM, with the inside scoop on her first – and only – month in office, Out of the Blue is the unmissable behind-the-scenes account of Britain’s shortest-serving Prime Minister.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-amnesia-how-we-lost-our-national-memory-and-how-to-recover-it-by-helen-e-krieble--65206242https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Amnesia: How We Lost Our National Memory―and How to Recover It Author: Helen E. Krieble Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: People are who they are because of what they have been through, where they came from, who they learned from, and all the things that have happened to them. The same is true not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, and nations. America, too, has its own unique character, also formed by its memories, history, things it has been through, and what it has learned. If people, communities, or even nations lose their memory, they lose their character. That is why cultures throughout the world work at maintaining their identity and passing traditions along to future generations. But what if a nation purposely decides it no longer wants to remember its history? What if a country imposes amnesia on itself? Helen Krieble argues persuasively that this is precisely what has happened to America. It has lost the memory of its own founding principles, and the sacrifices made over the past 250 years to preserve them. The nation is losing its character. She writes that America cannot be preserved as “the last best hope of Earth” if its own people no longer understand why that is true and are no longer willing to do what it takes to preserve it. “The duties of citizenship are vitally important,” Krieble writes, “but they are not complicated. It is our duty, as the owners, to defend our freedom against all threats, and to pass it along to future generations undiminished.” Americans are failing in that duty, but Krieble says there is still time to cure our national amnesia. It begins with rebuilding our understanding of, and commitment to, those founding principles, regaining our national memory.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614609Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Amnesia: How We Lost Our National Memory―and How to Recover It Author: Helen E. Krieble Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Amnesia: How We Lost Our National Memory―and How to Recover It Author: Helen E. Krieble Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: People are who they are because of what they have been through, where they came from, who they learned from, and all the things that have happened to them. The same is true not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, and nations. America, too, has its own unique character, also formed by its memories, history, things it has been through, and what it has learned. If people, communities, or even nations lose their memory, they lose their character. That is why cultures throughout the world work at maintaining their identity and passing traditions along to future generations. But what if a nation purposely decides it no longer wants to remember its history? What if a country imposes amnesia on itself? Helen Krieble argues persuasively that this is precisely what has happened to America. It has lost the memory of its own founding principles, and the sacrifices made over the past 250 years to preserve them. The nation is losing its character. She writes that America cannot be preserved as “the last best hope of Earth” if its own people no longer understand why that is true and are no longer willing to do what it takes to preserve it. “The duties of citizenship are vitally important,” Krieble writes, “but they are not complicated. It is our duty, as the owners, to defend our freedom against all threats, and to pass it along to future generations undiminished.” Americans are failing in that duty, but Krieble says there is still time to cure our national amnesia. It begins with rebuilding our understanding of, and commitment to, those founding principles, regaining our national memory.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woking-dead-how-society-s-vogue-virus-destroys-our-culture-by-a-j-rice--65206212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture Author: A. J. Rice Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Woking Dead are everywhere. An army of undead ghouls turning millions into mindless, ravenous devourers of all things good and American. Donald J. Trump was the vaccine America needed. He fought for America against the Deep State and the woke maniacs relentlessly destroying everything Americans love. They’re attacking George Washington. They’re attacking Dave Chappelle and Abraham Lincoln. They have taken over the New York Times and the NBA. Trump understood this, and he stood, seemingly alone at times, against the cancel culture hordes clawing to take down the United States from within. Rice understood the importance of Trump and why America needed him. This explains why many of Trump’s closest advisors have sought out A. J. Rice’s media advice and publicity help. If he wasn’t helping you today, chances are he will tomorrow. Rice has fought behind the scenes for years, in ways you saw and heard but never understood—until now. A creative mind behind some of the nation’s most important talk radio stars and the strategist behind the America First books you love to read. Like it or not, his content has been around you in some form for decades. He was in your favorite publications and behind some of America’s most courageous culture warriors and institutions, crafting strategy and winning the battles you care about. You’ve seen A. J. Rice’s work for years … you just never knew it. In The Woking Dead, Rice reveals it all. This bracing, hilarious, biting, hard-hitting collection takes you deep into the fight to make America great again. Rice, a contributor to many popular publications and the CEO of Publius PR in Washington, DC, seeks to save America from Joe Biden and his woke zombie battalions in government, entertainment, academia, sports, and media. The Woking Dead will wake you up to what’s happening in your culture and help you gird your loins for the crazy years ahead.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618526Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture Author: A. J. Rice Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture Author: A. J. Rice Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Woking Dead are everywhere. An army of undead ghouls turning millions into mindless, ravenous devourers of all things good and American. Donald J. Trump was the vaccine America needed. He fought for America against the Deep State and the woke maniacs relentlessly destroying everything Americans love. They’re attacking George Washington. They’re attacking Dave Chappelle and Abraham Lincoln. They have taken over the New York Times and the NBA. Trump understood this, and he stood, seemingly alone at times, against the cancel culture hordes clawing to take down the United States from within. Rice understood the importance of Trump and why America needed him. This explains why many of Trump’s closest advisors have sought out A. J. Rice’s media advice and publicity help. If he wasn’t helping you today, chances are he will tomorrow. Rice has fought behind the scenes for years, in ways you saw and heard but never understood—until now. A creative mind behind some of the nation’s most important talk radio stars and the strategist behind the America First books you love to read. Like it or not, his content has been around you in some form for decades. He was in your favorite publications and behind some of America’s most courageous culture warriors and institutions, crafting strategy and winning the battles you care about. You’ve seen A. J. Rice’s work for years … you just never knew it. In The Woking Dead, Rice reveals it all. This bracing, hilarious, biting, hard-hitting collection takes you deep into the fight to make America great again. Rice, a contributor to many popular publications and the CEO of Publius PR in Washington, DC, seeks to save America from Joe Biden and his woke zombie battalions in government, entertainment, academia, sports, and media. The Woking Dead will wake you up to what’s happening in your culture and help you gird your loins for the crazy years ahead.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scorched-earth-beyond-the-digital-age-to-a-post-capitalist-world-by-jonathan-crary--65206151https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Author: Jonathan Crary Narrator: Gareth Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620838Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Author: Jonathan Crary Narrator: Gareth Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World Author: Jonathan Crary Narrator: Gareth Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Refusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/invasion-the-inside-story-of-russia-s-bloody-war-and-ukraine-s-fight-for-survival-by-luke-harding--65206150https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival Author: Luke Harding Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics “An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.” —Anne Applebaum, New York Times bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe—and the world—Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When, just before dawn on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a series of brutal attacks, Harding was there, on the ground in Kyiv. But this senseless violence was met with astounding resilience—from, among others, the country’s embattled president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy—and the courage of a people preparedi to risk everything to preserve their nation’s freedom. Here are piercing portraits of the leaders on both sides of this monumental struggle, a haunting depiction of the atrocities in Bucha and elsewhere, and an intimate glimpse into the ordinary lives being impacted by the biggest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Harding captures this crucial moment in history with candor, insight, and an unwavering focus on the human stories that lie at its heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619377Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival Author: Luke Harding Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival Author: Luke Harding Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics “An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.” —Anne Applebaum, New York Times bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy In a damning, inspiring, and breathtaking narrative of what is likely to be a turning point for Europe—and the world—Guardian correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Luke Harding reports firsthand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When, just before dawn on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a series of brutal attacks, Harding was there, on the ground in Kyiv. But this senseless violence was met with astounding resilience—from, among others, the country’s embattled president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy—and the courage of a people preparedi to risk everything to preserve their nation’s freedom. Here are piercing portraits of the leaders on both sides of this monumental struggle, a haunting depiction of the atrocities in Bucha and elsewhere, and an intimate glimpse into the ordinary lives being impacted by the biggest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Harding captures this crucial moment in history with candor, insight, and an unwavering focus on the human stories that lie at its heart.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/political-choice-in-a-polarized-america-how-elite-polarization-shapes-mass-behavior-by-joshua-n-zingher--65206125https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior Author: Joshua N. Zingher Narrator: Jonathan Sleep Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team sport—the specifics do not matter as long as you know what side your team is on? Answering these questions requires us to think about how much the average American knows about politics. Many scholars of public opinion believe that the majority of Americans only pay passing attention to politics. Thus the electorate's apparent lack of political competence presents a direct challenge to normative theories of democracy. How are citizens supposed to exert control over the government if they have no idea what is going on? In Political Choice in a Polarized America, Joshua N. Zingher argues that these fears are overblown. Not only do individuals have core beliefs about what the government should or should not do, but individuals have become more likely to support the party that best matches their policy attitudes by both identifying as a member of that party and voting for that party in elections. However, as Zingher demonstrates, voters' ability to match their attitudes to a party or candidate varies according to signals sent by elites and increases as parties become more polarized.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622839Tue, 29 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior Author: Joshua N. Zingher Narrator: Jonathan Sleep Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Choice in a Polarized America: How Elite Polarization Shapes Mass Behavior Author: Joshua N. Zingher Narrator: Jonathan Sleep Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team sport—the specifics do not matter as long as you know what side your team is on? Answering these questions requires us to think about how much the average American knows about politics. Many scholars of public opinion believe that the majority of Americans only pay passing attention to politics. Thus the electorate's apparent lack of political competence presents a direct challenge to normative theories of democracy. How are citizens supposed to exert control over the government if they have no idea what is going on? In Political Choice in a Polarized America, Joshua N. Zingher argues that these fears are overblown. Not only do individuals have core beliefs about what the government should or should not do, but individuals have become more likely to support the party that best matches their policy attitudes by both identifying as a member of that party and voting for that party in elections. However, as Zingher demonstrates, voters' ability to match their attitudes to a party or candidate varies according to signals sent by elites and increases as parties become more polarized.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-boris-johnson-the-award-winning-explosive-account-of-the-pm-s-final-days-by-sebastian-payne--65206197https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Award-Winning, Explosive Account of the PM's Final Days Author: Sebastian Payne Narrator: Sebastian Payne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. Written and read by Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards A New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year 'Revelatory' - The Daily Telegraph 'Delicious detail' - The Times Boris Johnson was touted as the saviour of the country and the Conservative Party, obtaining a huge commons majority and finally 'getting Brexit done'. But, within three short years, he was deposed in disgrace and left the country in crisis. Sebastian Payne tells the essential behind-the-scenes story, charting the series of scandals that felled Johnson: from the blocked suspension of Owen Paterson, through partygate and the final death blow: the Chris Pincher allegations. This is the full narrative of the betrayals, rivalries and resignations that resulted in the dramatic Conservative coup – and set in motion those events that saw the party sink to catastrophic new lows. With unparalleled access to those who were in the room when key decisions were made, Payne tells of the miscalculations and mistakes that led to Boris Johnson’s downfall. This is a gripping and timely look at how power is gained, wielded and lost in Britain today. 'Genuinely page-turning' - Andrew Marr 'Entertaining and illuminating' - Tim Shipman]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617398Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Award-Winning, Explosive Account of the PM's Final Days Author: Sebastian Payne Narrator: Sebastian Payne Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Award-Winning, Explosive Account of the PM's Final Days Author: Sebastian Payne Narrator: Sebastian Payne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. Written and read by Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards A New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year 'Revelatory' - The Daily Telegraph 'Delicious detail' - The Times Boris Johnson was touted as the saviour of the country and the Conservative Party, obtaining a huge commons majority and finally 'getting Brexit done'. But, within three short years, he was deposed in disgrace and left the country in crisis. Sebastian Payne tells the essential behind-the-scenes story, charting the series of scandals that felled Johnson: from the blocked suspension of Owen Paterson, through partygate and the final death blow: the Chris Pincher allegations. This is the full narrative of the betrayals, rivalries and resignations that resulted in the dramatic Conservative coup – and set in motion those events that saw the party sink to catastrophic new lows. With unparalleled access to those who were in the room when key decisions were made, Payne tells of the miscalculations and mistakes that led to Boris Johnson’s downfall. This is a gripping and timely look at how power is gained, wielded and lost in Britain today. 'Genuinely page-turning' - Andrew Marr 'Entertaining and illuminating' - Tim Shipman]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-message-from-ukraine-by-volodymyr-zelensky--65206117https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Message from Ukraine Author: Volodymyr Zelensky Narrator: Greg Kolpakchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when? ©2022 Volodymyr Zelensky (P)2022 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622275Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Message from Ukraine Author: Volodymyr Zelensky Narrator: Greg Kolpakchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Message from Ukraine Author: Volodymyr Zelensky Narrator: Greg Kolpakchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when? ©2022 Volodymyr Zelensky (P)2022 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/postcards-from-absurdistan-prague-at-the-end-of-history-by-derek-sayer--65206169https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Author: Derek Sayer Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some 'end of history,' whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times. In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers—poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians—caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee—not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way, and Václav Havel's greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Prague exposes modernity's dream worlds of progress as confections of kitsch.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619208Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Author: Derek Sayer Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History Author: Derek Sayer Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some 'end of history,' whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times. In a brilliant narrative, Sayer weaves a vivid montage of the lives of individual Praguers—poets and politicians, architects and athletes, journalists and filmmakers, artists, musicians, and comedians—caught up in the crosscurrents of the turbulent half century following the Nazi invasion. This is the territory of the ideologist, the collaborator, the informer, the apparatchik, the dissident, the outsider, the torturer, and the refugee—not to mention the innocent bystander who is always looking the other way, and Václav Havel's greengrocer whose knowing complicity allows the show to go on. Prague exposes modernity's dream worlds of progress as confections of kitsch.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-original-meaning-of-the-fourteenth-amendment-its-letter-spirit-by-evan-d-bernick-randy-e-barnett--65206164https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter & Spirit Author: Evan D. Bernick, Randy E. Barnett Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment's key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment. The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to modify the Constitution and proposes workable doctrines for implementing the key provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619315Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter & Spirit Author: Evan D. Bernick, Randy E. Barnett Narrator: David De Vries Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter & Spirit Author: Evan D. Bernick, Randy E. Barnett Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment's key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment. The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to modify the Constitution and proposes workable doctrines for implementing the key provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/euromissiles-the-nuclear-weapons-that-nearly-destroyed-nato-by-susan-colbourn--65206154https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO Author: Susan Colbourn Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war==highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned. Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617019Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO Author: Susan Colbourn Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO Author: Susan Colbourn Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war==highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned. Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/freedom-s-dominion-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-a-saga-of-white-resistance-to-federal-power-by-jefferson-cowie--65206146https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Author: Jefferson Cowie Narrator: André Chapoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.     American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.    In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621240Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Author: Jefferson Cowie Narrator: André Chapoy Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power Author: Jefferson Cowie Narrator: André Chapoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way.     American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.    In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/china-as-a-twenty-first-century-naval-power-theory-practice-and-implications-by-michael-a-mcdevitt--65206140https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications Author: Michael A. Mcdevitt Narrator: Ian Putnam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a 'great maritime power' and secondly, that the PLA 'become a world-class armed force by 2050.' China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the 'world class' goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first explores the strategic rationale behind Xi's two objectives. McDevitt dubs this China's 'sea lane anxiety' and traces how this has required the PLA Navy to evolve from a 'near seas'-focused navy to one that has global reach; a 'blue water navy.' The more than ten years of anti-piracy patrols in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean has acted as a learning curve accelerator to 'blue water' status. McDevitt then explores the PLA Navy's role in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. He provides a detailed assessment of what the PLAN will be expected to do if Beijing chooses to attack Taiwan potentially triggering combat with America's 'first responders' in East Asia. This book concludes with a forecast of what Xi's vision of a 'world-class navy' might look like in the next fifteen years when the 2035 deadline is reached.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620832Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications Author: Michael A. Mcdevitt Narrator: Ian Putnam Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications Author: Michael A. Mcdevitt Narrator: Ian Putnam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a 'great maritime power' and secondly, that the PLA 'become a world-class armed force by 2050.' China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the 'world class' goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first explores the strategic rationale behind Xi's two objectives. McDevitt dubs this China's 'sea lane anxiety' and traces how this has required the PLA Navy to evolve from a 'near seas'-focused navy to one that has global reach; a 'blue water navy.' The more than ten years of anti-piracy patrols in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean has acted as a learning curve accelerator to 'blue water' status. McDevitt then explores the PLA Navy's role in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. He provides a detailed assessment of what the PLAN will be expected to do if Beijing chooses to attack Taiwan potentially triggering combat with America's 'first responders' in East Asia. This book concludes with a forecast of what Xi's vision of a 'world-class navy' might look like in the next fifteen years when the 2035 deadline is reached.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-injustice-my-battle-to-expose-the-truth-by-john-paul-mac-isaac--65206135https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth Author: John Paul Mac Isaac Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! This is the story of how I tried to get the Hunter Biden laptop evidence to the authorities. My life changed forever on April 12, 2019, when Hunter Biden stumbled into my shop requesting data recovery from one of his liquid-damaged laptops. After his father announced his candidacy for president of the United States, and Hunter failed to pay for and collect his computer, fear for my safety grew. There was paperwork in Hunter's possession giving me permission to examine and copy his data—someone was going to come looking for the laptop, and come looking for me. Concerned that I was sitting on evidence in a criminal investigation, I set out to hand everything over to the FBI. But, feeling betrayed by the FBI's inaction in providing the laptop as evidence during the impeachment trial, I then turned to Congress, and ultimately, to a lawyer for the president, Rudy Giuliani. When the story broke, Big Tech and social and mainstream media blocked the reporting. I was instantly labeled as a hacker and a criminal. My actions were labeled Russian disinformation, and it didn't take long before people started attacking my business and my character, forcing me to close my shop and flee the state.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620841Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth Author: John Paul Mac Isaac Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620841 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth Author: John Paul Mac Isaac Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! This is the story of how I tried to get the Hunter Biden laptop evidence to the authorities. My life changed forever on April 12, 2019, when Hunter Biden stumbled into my shop requesting data recovery from one of his liquid-damaged laptops. After his father announced his candidacy for president of the United States, and Hunter failed to pay for and collect his computer, fear for my safety grew. There was paperwork in Hunter's possession giving me permission to examine and copy his data—someone was going to come looking for the laptop, and come looking for me. Concerned that I was sitting on evidence in a criminal investigation, I set out to hand everything over to the FBI. But, feeling betrayed by the FBI's inaction in providing the laptop as evidence during the impeachment trial, I then turned to Congress, and ultimately, to a lawyer for the president, Rudy Giuliani. When the story broke, Big Tech and social and mainstream media blocked the reporting. I was instantly labeled as a hacker and a criminal. My actions were labeled Russian disinformation, and it didn't take long before people started attacking my business and my character, forcing me to close my shop and flee the state.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/against-the-great-reset-eighteen-theses-contra-the-new-world-order-by-michael-walsh--65206103https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order Author: Michael Walsh Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the fiftieth annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, under the rubric of 'The Great Reset.' In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a 'unique window of opportunity' afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build 'a new social contract' ushering in a utopian era of economic, social, and environmental justice. But beneath their lofty and inspiring words, what are their actual plans? In this timely and necessary book, Michael Walsh has gathered trenchant critical perspectives on the Great Reset from eighteen eminent writers and journalists from around the world. Victor Davis Hanson places the WEF's prescriptions and goals in historical context and shows how American politicians justify destructive policies. Michael Anton explains the socialist history of woke capitalism. James Poulos looks at how Big Tech acts as informal government censors. John Tierney lays out the lack of accountability for the unjustified panic over the virus. David Goldman confronts the WEF's ideas for a fourth industrial revolution with China's commitment to being the leader of a post-western world. And there are many more. Find out what the Great Resetters ultimately have in store for you, and join the intellectual resistance—before it's too late.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622835Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order Author: Michael Walsh Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order Author: Michael Walsh Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the fiftieth annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, under the rubric of 'The Great Reset.' In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a 'unique window of opportunity' afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build 'a new social contract' ushering in a utopian era of economic, social, and environmental justice. But beneath their lofty and inspiring words, what are their actual plans? In this timely and necessary book, Michael Walsh has gathered trenchant critical perspectives on the Great Reset from eighteen eminent writers and journalists from around the world. Victor Davis Hanson places the WEF's prescriptions and goals in historical context and shows how American politicians justify destructive policies. Michael Anton explains the socialist history of woke capitalism. James Poulos looks at how Big Tech acts as informal government censors. John Tierney lays out the lack of accountability for the unjustified panic over the virus. David Goldman confronts the WEF's ideas for a fourth industrial revolution with China's commitment to being the leader of a post-western world. And there are many more. Find out what the Great Resetters ultimately have in store for you, and join the intellectual resistance—before it's too late.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/religicide-confronting-the-roots-of-anti-religious-violence-by-jerry-white-georgette-f-bennett--65206101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence Author: Jerry White, Georgette F. Bennett Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A brave and timely proposal to name, investigate, and ultimately stop a new crime—the mass murder of millions of people for their faith. Religion-related violence is the fastest spreading type of violence worldwide. Attacks on religious minorities follow a clear pattern and are preceded with early warning signs. Until now, such violence had no name, let alone a set of policies designed to identify and prevent it. A unique attempt to create a new moral and legal category alongside other forms of persecution and mass murder, Religicide explores the roots of atrocities such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Bosnian war, and other human rights catastrophes. The authors tap into their decades of activism, interreligious engagement, and people-to-people diplomacy to delve into a gripping examination of contemporary religicides: the Yazidis in Iraq, the Rohingya in Myanmar, Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in China, and the centuries-long efforts to wipe out Indigenous Americans. Yet, even in the face of these horrific atrocities, the authors resist despair. They amplify the voices of survivors and offer a blueprint for action, calling on government, business, civil society, and religious leaders to join in a global campaign to protect religious minorities.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620860Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence Author: Jerry White, Georgette F. Bennett Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence Author: Jerry White, Georgette F. Bennett Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A brave and timely proposal to name, investigate, and ultimately stop a new crime—the mass murder of millions of people for their faith. Religion-related violence is the fastest spreading type of violence worldwide. Attacks on religious minorities follow a clear pattern and are preceded with early warning signs. Until now, such violence had no name, let alone a set of policies designed to identify and prevent it. A unique attempt to create a new moral and legal category alongside other forms of persecution and mass murder, Religicide explores the roots of atrocities such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Bosnian war, and other human rights catastrophes. The authors tap into their decades of activism, interreligious engagement, and people-to-people diplomacy to delve into a gripping examination of contemporary religicides: the Yazidis in Iraq, the Rohingya in Myanmar, Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in China, and the centuries-long efforts to wipe out Indigenous Americans. Yet, even in the face of these horrific atrocities, the authors resist despair. They amplify the voices of survivors and offer a blueprint for action, calling on government, business, civil society, and religious leaders to join in a global campaign to protect religious minorities.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/overreach-the-inside-story-of-putin-s-war-against-ukraine-by-owen-matthews--65206203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Author: Owen Matthews Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russia itself – at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years’ experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle around Ukrainian president and unexpected war hero Volodimir Zelensky. Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded. With its panoramic view, Overreach is an authoritative, unmissable record of a conflict that shocked Europe to its core.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613960Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Author: Owen Matthews Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Author: Owen Matthews Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russia itself – at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years’ experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle around Ukrainian president and unexpected war hero Volodimir Zelensky. Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded. With its panoramic view, Overreach is an authoritative, unmissable record of a conflict that shocked Europe to its core.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-globalization-myth-why-regions-matter-by-shannon-k-o-neil--65206166https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter Author: Shannon K. O’neil Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad more often than not, they looked regional rather than globally. O'Neil details this transformation and the rise of three major regional hubs in Asia, Europe, and North America. Current technological, demographic, and geopolitical trends look only to deepen these regional ties. O'Neil argues that this has urgent implications for the United States. Regionalization has enhanced economic competitiveness and prosperity in Europe and Asia. It could do the same for the United States, if only it would embrace its neighbors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620799Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter Author: Shannon K. O’neil Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter Author: Shannon K. O’neil Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad more often than not, they looked regional rather than globally. O'Neil details this transformation and the rise of three major regional hubs in Asia, Europe, and North America. Current technological, demographic, and geopolitical trends look only to deepen these regional ties. O'Neil argues that this has urgent implications for the United States. Regionalization has enhanced economic competitiveness and prosperity in Europe and Asia. It could do the same for the United States, if only it would embrace its neighbors.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-not-one-people-secession-and-separatism-in-american-politics-since-1776-by-michael-j-lee-r-jarrod-atchison--65206141https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 Author: Michael J. Lee, R. Jarrod Atchison Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths of Americans of every ideological stripe, in good times and bad, in and beyond the South, have disputed the nation's oneness and stressed its divisibility. Trumpeted in American myths, mottos, movies, and songs, separatism is omnipresent in American political culture. Separatist rhetoric has shaped Americans' experience of what it means to be an American, and we can learn much about the durable appeal and enduring fragility of the United States from those who tried to leave it. As one Vermont separatist quips, leaving is as American 'as apple pie.' We Are Not One People is a bold, pathbreaking, and far-reaching account of disunionists from 1776 to the present who wanted, as phrased in the Declaration of Independence, 'to dissolve the political bands' connecting them to other Americans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620831Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 Author: Michael J. Lee, R. Jarrod Atchison Narrator: Danny Campbell...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 Author: Michael J. Lee, R. Jarrod Atchison Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths of Americans of every ideological stripe, in good times and bad, in and beyond the South, have disputed the nation's oneness and stressed its divisibility. Trumpeted in American myths, mottos, movies, and songs, separatism is omnipresent in American political culture. Separatist rhetoric has shaped Americans' experience of what it means to be an American, and we can learn much about the durable appeal and enduring fragility of the United States from those who tried to leave it. As one Vermont separatist quips, leaving is as American 'as apple pie.' We Are Not One People is a bold, pathbreaking, and far-reaching account of disunionists from 1776 to the present who wanted, as phrased in the Declaration of Independence, 'to dissolve the political bands' connecting them to other Americans.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-abortion-was-a-crime-women-medicine-and-law-in-the-united-states-1867-1973-by-leslie-j-reagan--65206252https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Leslie J. Reagan Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-listen book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim 'back alley' operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613881Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Leslie J. Reagan Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Leslie J. Reagan Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When Abortion Was a Crime is the must-listen book on abortion history. Originally published ahead of the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this award-winning study was the first to examine the entire period during which abortion was illegal in the United States, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and ending with that monumental case in 1973. When Abortion Was a Crime is filled with intimate stories and nuanced analysis, demonstrating how abortion was criminalized and policed—and how millions of women sought abortions regardless of the law. With this edition, Leslie J. Reagan provides a new preface that addresses the dangerous and ongoing threats to abortion access across the country, and the precarity of our current moment. While abortions have typically been portrayed as grim 'back alley' operations, this deeply researched history confirms that many abortion providers—including physicians—practiced openly and safely, despite prohibitions by the state and the American Medical Association. With the right to abortion increasingly under attack, this book remains the definitive history of abortion in the United States, offering vital lessons for every American concerned with health care, civil liberties, and personal and sexual freedom.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/capitalism-the-story-behind-the-word-by-michael-sonenscher--65206161https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word Author: Michael Sonenscher Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it. 'Capitalism' was first coined in France in the early nineteenth century. It began as a fusion of two distinct sets of ideas. The first involved thinking about public debt and war finance. The second involved thinking about the division of labor. Sonenscher shows that thinking about the first has changed radically over time. Funding welfare has been added to funding warfare, bringing many new questions in its wake. Thinking about the second set of ideas has offered far less room for maneuver. The division of labor is still the division of labor and the debates and discussions that it once generated have now been largely forgotten. By exploring what lay behind the earlier distinction before it collapsed and was eroded by the passage of time, Sonenscher shows why the present range of received ideas limits our political options and the types of reform we might wish for.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620829Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word Author: Michael Sonenscher Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalism: The Story behind the Word Author: Michael Sonenscher Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it. 'Capitalism' was first coined in France in the early nineteenth century. It began as a fusion of two distinct sets of ideas. The first involved thinking about public debt and war finance. The second involved thinking about the division of labor. Sonenscher shows that thinking about the first has changed radically over time. Funding welfare has been added to funding warfare, bringing many new questions in its wake. Thinking about the second set of ideas has offered far less room for maneuver. The division of labor is still the division of labor and the debates and discussions that it once generated have now been largely forgotten. By exploring what lay behind the earlier distinction before it collapsed and was eroded by the passage of time, Sonenscher shows why the present range of received ideas limits our political options and the types of reform we might wish for.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/virtual-searches-regulating-the-covert-world-of-technological-policing-by-christopher-slobogin--65206153https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing Author: Christopher Slobogin Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A host of technologies—including digital cameras, drones, facial recognition devices, night-vision binoculars, automated license plate readers, GPS, geofencing, DNA matching, datamining, and artificial intelligence—have enabled police to carry out much of their work without leaving the office or squad car, in ways that do not easily fit the traditional physical search and seizure model envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Virtual Searches develops a useful typology for sorting through this bewildering array of old, new, and soon-to-arrive policing techniques. It then lays out a framework for regulating their use that expands the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections without blindly imposing its warrant requirement, and that prioritizes democratic over judicial policymaking. The coherent regulatory regime developed in Virtual Searches ensures that police are held accountable for their use of technology without denying them the increased efficiency it provides in their efforts to protect the public. Whether policing agencies are pursuing an identified suspect, constructing profiles of likely perpetrators, trying to find matches with crime scene evidence, collecting data to help with these tasks, or using private companies to do so, this book provides a template for ensuring their actions are constitutionally legitimate and responsive to the polity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620876Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing Author: Christopher Slobogin Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing Author: Christopher Slobogin Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A host of technologies—including digital cameras, drones, facial recognition devices, night-vision binoculars, automated license plate readers, GPS, geofencing, DNA matching, datamining, and artificial intelligence—have enabled police to carry out much of their work without leaving the office or squad car, in ways that do not easily fit the traditional physical search and seizure model envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Virtual Searches develops a useful typology for sorting through this bewildering array of old, new, and soon-to-arrive policing techniques. It then lays out a framework for regulating their use that expands the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections without blindly imposing its warrant requirement, and that prioritizes democratic over judicial policymaking. The coherent regulatory regime developed in Virtual Searches ensures that police are held accountable for their use of technology without denying them the increased efficiency it provides in their efforts to protect the public. Whether policing agencies are pursuing an identified suspect, constructing profiles of likely perpetrators, trying to find matches with crime scene evidence, collecting data to help with these tasks, or using private companies to do so, this book provides a template for ensuring their actions are constitutionally legitimate and responsive to the polity.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hillbilly-nationalists-urban-race-rebels-and-black-power-interracial-solidarity-in-1960s-70s-new-left-organizing-by-james-tracy-amy-sonn--65206133https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing Author: James Tracy, Amy Sonnie Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have often been painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. But authors James Tracy and Amy Sonnie disprove that narrative. Through over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619169Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing Author: James Tracy, Amy Sonnie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing Author: James Tracy, Amy Sonnie Narrator: Mike Chamberlain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have often been painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. But authors James Tracy and Amy Sonnie disprove that narrative. Through over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-inconvenient-apocalypse-environmental-collapse-climate-crisis-and-the-fate-of-humanity-by-wes-jackson-robert-jensen--65206108https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity Author: Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable future. Longstanding assumptions about economic growth and technological progress—the dream of a future of endless bounty—are no longer tenable. The climate crisis has already progressed beyond nondisruptive solutions. The end result will be apocalyptic; the only question now is how bad it will be. Jackson and Jensen examine how geographic determinism shaped our past and led to today's social injustice, consumerist culture, and high-energy/high-technology dystopias. The solution requires addressing today's systemic failures and confronting human nature by recognizing the limits of our ability to predict how those failures will play out over time. Though these massive challenges can feel overwhelming, the coauthors weave a secular reading of theological concepts—the prophetic, the apocalyptic, a saving remnant, and grace—to chart a realistic path for humanity not only to survive our apocalypse but also to emerge with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622819Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity Author: Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen Narrator: Graham Rowat...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity Author: Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable future. Longstanding assumptions about economic growth and technological progress—the dream of a future of endless bounty—are no longer tenable. The climate crisis has already progressed beyond nondisruptive solutions. The end result will be apocalyptic; the only question now is how bad it will be. Jackson and Jensen examine how geographic determinism shaped our past and led to today's social injustice, consumerist culture, and high-energy/high-technology dystopias. The solution requires addressing today's systemic failures and confronting human nature by recognizing the limits of our ability to predict how those failures will play out over time. Though these massive challenges can feel overwhelming, the coauthors weave a secular reading of theological concepts—the prophetic, the apocalyptic, a saving remnant, and grace—to chart a realistic path for humanity not only to survive our apocalypse but also to emerge with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-marauders-standing-up-to-vigilantes-in-the-american-borderlands-by-patrick-strickland--65206056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands Author: Patrick Strickland Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the residents organized and spent two years trying to push the new militias out through boycotts and by urging local businesses to ban them. The militias and vigilante groups again raised the stakes, spreading Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories alleging that town residents were complicit in child sex trafficking, prompting fears of vigilante violence. The Marauders flips the standard formula most often applied to stories about immigration and the far right. Too often those stories are told from the perspective of the ones committing the violence. While Strickland doesn't shy away from exploring those dark themes, the far right are not the protagonists of the book. Rather, the people targeted by hate groups, and the individuals who rose up to stop them in their tracks, are the heroes of this dramatic story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625109Tue, 08 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands Author: Patrick Strickland Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands Author: Patrick Strickland Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the residents organized and spent two years trying to push the new militias out through boycotts and by urging local businesses to ban them. The militias and vigilante groups again raised the stakes, spreading Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories alleging that town residents were complicit in child sex trafficking, prompting fears of vigilante violence. The Marauders flips the standard formula most often applied to stories about immigration and the far right. Too often those stories are told from the perspective of the ones committing the violence. While Strickland doesn't shy away from exploring those dark themes, the far right are not the protagonists of the book. Rather, the people targeted by hate groups, and the individuals who rose up to stop them in their tracks, are the heroes of this dramatic story.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-odessa-by-uki-goni--65206217https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Odessa Author: Uki Goñi Narrator: Pat Grimes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of the Vatican and President Juan Perón, Goñi shows how this ratline allowed Adolf Eichmann—the architect of the Final Solution—Josef Mengele, Eric Priebke, and many more, into the country. Both riveting and rigorous, this remarkable investigation sheds vital light on both a disquieting episode in Europe’s history and the ties between Argentinian Catholic Nationalism and Fascist movements in Europe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616717Thu, 03 Nov 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Odessa Author: Uki Goñi Narrator: Pat Grimes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Odessa Author: Uki Goñi Narrator: Pat Grimes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of the Vatican and President Juan Perón, Goñi shows how this ratline allowed Adolf Eichmann—the architect of the Final Solution—Josef Mengele, Eric Priebke, and many more, into the country. Both riveting and rigorous, this remarkable investigation sheds vital light on both a disquieting episode in Europe’s history and the ties between Argentinian Catholic Nationalism and Fascist movements in Europe.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lands-in-between-russia-vs-the-west-and-the-new-politics-of-hybrid-war-by-mitchell-a-orenstein--65206245https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War Author: Mitchell A. Orenstein Narrator: Bob Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the European Union have been dealing with these issues for years. The Lands in Between contends that these 'lands in between' hold powerful lessons for Western countries. For Western politics is becoming increasingly similar to the lands in between, where hybrid warfare has polarized parties and voters into two camps: those who support a Western vision of liberal democracy and those who support a Russian vision of nationalist authoritarianism. Paradoxically, while politics increasingly boils down to a zero sum 'civilizational choice' between Russia and the West, those who rise to the pinnacle of the political system in the lands in between are often non-ideological power brokers who have found a way to profit from both sides, taking rewards from both Russia and the West. Increasingly, the political pathologies of these small, vulnerable, and backwards states in Europe are our problems too. In this deepening conflict, we are all lands in between.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616970Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War Author: Mitchell A. Orenstein Narrator: Bob Johnson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War Author: Mitchell A. Orenstein Narrator: Bob Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the European Union have been dealing with these issues for years. The Lands in Between contends that these 'lands in between' hold powerful lessons for Western countries. For Western politics is becoming increasingly similar to the lands in between, where hybrid warfare has polarized parties and voters into two camps: those who support a Western vision of liberal democracy and those who support a Russian vision of nationalist authoritarianism. Paradoxically, while politics increasingly boils down to a zero sum 'civilizational choice' between Russia and the West, those who rise to the pinnacle of the political system in the lands in between are often non-ideological power brokers who have found a way to profit from both sides, taking rewards from both Russia and the West. Increasingly, the political pathologies of these small, vulnerable, and backwards states in Europe are our problems too. In this deepening conflict, we are all lands in between.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/43-inside-the-george-w-bush-presidency-by-barbara-a-perry-russell-l-riley-michael-nelson--65206209https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 43: Inside the George W. Bush Presidency Author: Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley, Michael Nelson Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. This volume consists of ten chapters, written by some of today's most eminent presidency scholars, examining key topics and themes, including 9/11, the unitary executive, Supreme Court appointments, compassionate conservatism, Cheney's vice presidency, the Iraq War, and the financial crisis of 2008. The essays in this volume take seriously the complexities of a White House trying to respond to the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, examining both the successes and failures of this administration in the first systemic effort to mine the confidential, candid oral history interviews recorded with senior officials from the Bush presidency. The essays are critical, yet balanced, in providing assessments of Bush's controversial victory in 2000; 'endless wars' precipitated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and legislative battles over taxes, education reform, Medicare, and attempts to address the Great Recession. These landmark events are illuminated by conversations with the decision-makers who made history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615919Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 43: Inside the George W. Bush Presidency Author: Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley, Michael Nelson Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 43: Inside the George W. Bush Presidency Author: Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley, Michael Nelson Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. This volume consists of ten chapters, written by some of today's most eminent presidency scholars, examining key topics and themes, including 9/11, the unitary executive, Supreme Court appointments, compassionate conservatism, Cheney's vice presidency, the Iraq War, and the financial crisis of 2008. The essays in this volume take seriously the complexities of a White House trying to respond to the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, examining both the successes and failures of this administration in the first systemic effort to mine the confidential, candid oral history interviews recorded with senior officials from the Bush presidency. The essays are critical, yet balanced, in providing assessments of Bush's controversial victory in 2000; 'endless wars' precipitated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and legislative battles over taxes, education reform, Medicare, and attempts to address the Great Recession. These landmark events are illuminated by conversations with the decision-makers who made history.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/misinformation-nation-foreign-news-and-the-politics-of-truth-in-revolutionary-america-by-jordan-e-taylor--65206207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America Author: Jordan E. Taylor Narrator: Christopher P. Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of early American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Though frequently false, the information that Americans encountered in newspapers, letters, and conversations framed their sense of reality, leading them to respond with protests, boycotts, violence, and the creation of new political institutions. Fearing that their enemies were spreading fake news, American colonists fought for control of the news media. As their basic perceptions of reality diverged, Loyalists separated from Patriots and, in the new nation created by the revolution, Republicans inhabited a political reality quite distinct from that of their Federalist rivals. The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615843Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America Author: Jordan E. Taylor Narrator: Christopher P. Brown Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America Author: Jordan E. Taylor Narrator: Christopher P. Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of early American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. News was the lifeblood of early American politics, but newspaper printers had few reliable sources to report on events from abroad. Though frequently false, the information that Americans encountered in newspapers, letters, and conversations framed their sense of reality, leading them to respond with protests, boycotts, violence, and the creation of new political institutions. Fearing that their enemies were spreading fake news, American colonists fought for control of the news media. As their basic perceptions of reality diverged, Loyalists separated from Patriots and, in the new nation created by the revolution, Republicans inhabited a political reality quite distinct from that of their Federalist rivals. The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/conspiracy-why-the-rational-believe-the-irrational-by-michael-shermer--65206181https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational Author: Michael Shermer Narrator: Michael Shermer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and Vatican conspiracy theories, fears about fluoridated water, speculations about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the notions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false-flag operation and 9/11 was an inside job.In Conspiracy, Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan); and, tragically, some adults do conspire to sexually abuse children. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control play a role in conspiratorial cognition patterns, as do certain personality traits.This engaging book will be an important read for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking.A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615278Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational Author: Michael Shermer Narrator: Michael Shermer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational Author: Michael Shermer Narrator: Michael Shermer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and Vatican conspiracy theories, fears about fluoridated water, speculations about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the notions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false-flag operation and 9/11 was an inside job.In Conspiracy, Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial: elections have been rigged (LBJ's 1948 Senate race); medical professionals have intentionally harmed patients in their care (Tuskegee); your government does lie to you (Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan); and, tragically, some adults do conspire to sexually abuse children. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control play a role in conspiratorial cognition patterns, as do certain personality traits.This engaging book will be an important read for anyone concerned about the future direction of American politics, as well as anyone who's watched friends or family fall into patterns of conspiratorial thinking.A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-the-presidents-how-american-presidents-shaped-the-last-century-by-ronald-gruner--65206160https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century Author: Ronald Gruner Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Rather than a traditional presidential history, We the Presidents focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have shaped today's America, and the world. Many of today's critical issues, including immigration, inflation, income disparity, civil discord, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, all had their roots in earlier presidencies. Ronald Gruner's engaging and straightforward writing describes how presidencies over the last century have shaped today's America from the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020. The award-winning We the Presidents is more than an absorbing read; it is a great education on the issues which have shaped the American century up to the present day when democracy, both in America and around the world, faces yet another crucial test of its resilience and strength. 'Essential reading for every conscientious citizen.' —U.S. Review of Books]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620809Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century Author: Ronald Gruner Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century Author: Ronald Gruner Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Rather than a traditional presidential history, We the Presidents focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have shaped today's America, and the world. Many of today's critical issues, including immigration, inflation, income disparity, civil discord, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, all had their roots in earlier presidencies. Ronald Gruner's engaging and straightforward writing describes how presidencies over the last century have shaped today's America from the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020. The award-winning We the Presidents is more than an absorbing read; it is a great education on the issues which have shaped the American century up to the present day when democracy, both in America and around the world, faces yet another crucial test of its resilience and strength. 'Essential reading for every conscientious citizen.' —U.S. Review of Books]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/justice-in-the-age-of-judgment-from-amanda-knox-to-kyle-rittenhouse-and-the-battle-for-due-process-in-the-digital-age-by-anne-bremner-doug--65206156https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age Author: Anne Bremner, Doug Bremner Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and friends turned to Seattle attorney and media legal analyst Anne Bremner to help win her freedom. The case was dubbed the “trial of the decade” and would coincide with the explosion of social media and a new era of trying cases in public as much as the courtroom. While Italian prosecutors, the press, and online lynch mobs convicted Knox in the court of public opinion, Bremner would draw upon her decades in the courtroom and in front of the camera to turn the tide with a new kind of defense in pursuit of justice. Bremner takes us inside some of the biggest cases of recent times and offers her expert insights and analysis as our legal system faces unprecedented forces fighting to tip the scales of justice their way. Why couldn’t prosecutors convict O.J. Simpson despite all of the evidence seemingly proving he killed his wife Nicole? Could a jury remain unbiased in the face of overwhelming public pressure in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd? Justice in the Age of Judgement is Bremner’s unparalleled and unflinching look at the captivating cases tried on Twitter and TV, where the burden of proof and fundamental legal tenet of “innocent until proven guilty” is under assault from the court of public opinion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616752Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age Author: Anne Bremner, Doug...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age Author: Anne Bremner, Doug Bremner Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and friends turned to Seattle attorney and media legal analyst Anne Bremner to help win her freedom. The case was dubbed the “trial of the decade” and would coincide with the explosion of social media and a new era of trying cases in public as much as the courtroom. While Italian prosecutors, the press, and online lynch mobs convicted Knox in the court of public opinion, Bremner would draw upon her decades in the courtroom and in front of the camera to turn the tide with a new kind of defense in pursuit of justice. Bremner takes us inside some of the biggest cases of recent times and offers her expert insights and analysis as our legal system faces unprecedented forces fighting to tip the scales of justice their way. Why couldn’t prosecutors convict O.J. Simpson despite all of the evidence seemingly proving he killed his wife Nicole? Could a jury remain unbiased in the face of overwhelming public pressure in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd? Justice in the Age of Judgement is Bremner’s unparalleled and unflinching look at the captivating cases tried on Twitter and TV, where the burden of proof and fundamental legal tenet of “innocent until proven guilty” is under assault from the court of public opinion.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-we-hate-understanding-the-roots-of-human-conflict-by-michael-ruse--65206152https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Author: Michael Ruse Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? In this book, Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory. Combining rigorous argument with an engaging and accessible style, Ruse makes frequent use of historical examples, examining the history of two World Wars, and the US offensive against Iraq. He also gives many pertinent and up-to-date examples of prejudice, including the significance of Brexit and the systemic racism that lead to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ruse pays special attention to egregious cases of hatred, such as the treatment of Jews by the Third Reich, and to pressing contemporary issues, including the status of women. Ruse concludes with constructive suggestions for ways in which we might reconcile the contradictory aspects of our nature.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620830Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Author: Michael Ruse Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Author: Michael Ruse Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? In this book, Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory. Combining rigorous argument with an engaging and accessible style, Ruse makes frequent use of historical examples, examining the history of two World Wars, and the US offensive against Iraq. He also gives many pertinent and up-to-date examples of prejudice, including the significance of Brexit and the systemic racism that lead to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ruse pays special attention to egregious cases of hatred, such as the treatment of Jews by the Third Reich, and to pressing contemporary issues, including the status of women. Ruse concludes with constructive suggestions for ways in which we might reconcile the contradictory aspects of our nature.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/camping-grounds-public-nature-in-american-life-from-the-civil-war-to-the-occupy-movement-by-phoebe-s-k-young--65206122https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement Author: Phoebe S.K. Young Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. This book reveals that, for all its appeal, the simplicity of camping is deceptive, its history and meanings far from obvious. Why do some Americans find pleasure in sleeping outside, particularly when so many others, past and present, have had to do so for reasons other than recreation? Never only a vacation choice, camping has been something people do out of dire necessity and as a tactic of political protest. Yet the dominant interpretation of camping as a modern recreational ideal has obscured the connections to these other roles. Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside. It uses extensive research to trace surprising links between veterans, tramps, John Muir, African American freedpeople, Indian communities, and early leisure campers in the nineteenth century; tin-can tourists, federal campground designers, Depression-era transients, family campers, backpacking enthusiasts, and political activists in the twentieth century; and the crisis of the unsheltered and the tent-based Occupy Movement in the twenty-first. These entwined stories show how Americans camp to claim a place in the American republic and why the outdoors is critical to how we relate to nature, the nation, and each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619212Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement Author: Phoebe S.K. Young Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement Author: Phoebe S.K. Young Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. This book reveals that, for all its appeal, the simplicity of camping is deceptive, its history and meanings far from obvious. Why do some Americans find pleasure in sleeping outside, particularly when so many others, past and present, have had to do so for reasons other than recreation? Never only a vacation choice, camping has been something people do out of dire necessity and as a tactic of political protest. Yet the dominant interpretation of camping as a modern recreational ideal has obscured the connections to these other roles. Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside. It uses extensive research to trace surprising links between veterans, tramps, John Muir, African American freedpeople, Indian communities, and early leisure campers in the nineteenth century; tin-can tourists, federal campground designers, Depression-era transients, family campers, backpacking enthusiasts, and political activists in the twentieth century; and the crisis of the unsheltered and the tent-based Occupy Movement in the twenty-first. These entwined stories show how Americans camp to claim a place in the American republic and why the outdoors is critical to how we relate to nature, the nation, and each other.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-iconoclast-shinzo-abe-and-the-new-japan-by-tobias-harris--65206049https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan Author: Tobias Harris Narrator: Ward Sexton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as no leader has done before. Abe has inspired fierce loyalty among his followers, cowing Japan's left with his ambitious economic program and support for the security and armed forces. He has staked a leadership role for Japan in a region being rapidly transformed by the rise of China, and India, while carefully preserving an ironclad relationship with Trump's America. The Iconoclast tells the story of Abe's meteoric rise and stunning fall, his remarkable comeback, and his unlikely emergence as a global statesman laying the groundwork for Japan's survival in a turbulent century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625226Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan Author: Tobias Harris Narrator: Ward Sexton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan Author: Tobias Harris Narrator: Ward Sexton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as no leader has done before. Abe has inspired fierce loyalty among his followers, cowing Japan's left with his ambitious economic program and support for the security and armed forces. He has staked a leadership role for Japan in a region being rapidly transformed by the rise of China, and India, while carefully preserving an ironclad relationship with Trump's America. The Iconoclast tells the story of Abe's meteoric rise and stunning fall, his remarkable comeback, and his unlikely emergence as a global statesman laying the groundwork for Japan's survival in a turbulent century.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-betrayal-how-mitch-mcconnell-and-the-senate-republicans-abandoned-america-by-ira-shapiro--65206188https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America Author: Ira Shapiro Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In two previous highly regarded books on the US Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its raison d'etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America's first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the nightmare scenario: today's Senate, reduced through a long period of decline to a hyper-partisan, gridlocked shadow of its former self, was unable to meet its fundamental responsibility. Shapiro documents the pivotal challenges facing the Senate during the Trump administration, arguing that the body's failure to provide leadership represents the most catastrophic failure of government in American history. The last section covers the Senate's performance during President Biden's first year in office and looks forward to the 2022 Senate elections and beyond.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617018Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America Author: Ira Shapiro Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America Author: Ira Shapiro Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In two previous highly regarded books on the US Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its raison d'etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America's first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the nightmare scenario: today's Senate, reduced through a long period of decline to a hyper-partisan, gridlocked shadow of its former self, was unable to meet its fundamental responsibility. Shapiro documents the pivotal challenges facing the Senate during the Trump administration, arguing that the body's failure to provide leadership represents the most catastrophic failure of government in American history. The last section covers the Senate's performance during President Biden's first year in office and looks forward to the 2022 Senate elections and beyond.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-scheme-how-the-right-wing-used-dark-money-to-capture-the-supreme-court-by-jennifer-mueller-senator-sheldon-whitehouse--65206180https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court Author: Jennifer Mueller, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 'business-friendly' judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an 'amicus brief' signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to 'fast-lane' strategic test cases to the friendly justices. Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to 'covert ops,' ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617112Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court Author: Jennifer Mueller, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Narrator: Charles...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court Author: Jennifer Mueller, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 'business-friendly' judges, including the last three justices of the United States Supreme Court. Whitehouse traces the motive to control the court system back to Lewis Powell's notorious memo, which gave a road map for corporate influence to target the judiciary, and chronicles a hidden-money campaign using an armada of front groups and helped by the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The scheme utilized the Federalist Society as an appointments turnstile, spent secret millions to support the nominees, orchestrated an 'amicus brief' signaling apparatus, and propped up front-group litigants to 'fast-lane' strategic test cases to the friendly justices. Whitehouse finds the same small handful of right-wing billionaires and corporations running operations that he likens to 'covert ops,' ultimately enticing the Senate to break rules, norms, and precedents to confirm wildly inappropriate nominees who would advance the anti-government agenda of a small number of corporate oligarchs.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/agents-of-subversion-the-fate-of-john-t-downey-and-the-cia-s-covert-war-in-china-by-john-delury--65206185https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China Author: John Delury Narrator: Lee Goettl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615918Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China Author: John Delury Narrator: Lee Goettl Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China Author: John Delury Narrator: Lee Goettl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shameless-the-fight-for-adoption-disclosure-and-the-search-for-my-son-by-marilyn-churley--65206095https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son Author: Marilyn Churley Narrator: Ellen Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son. Both a personal and political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother’s struggle with loss, love, secrets, and lies – and an adoption system shrouded in shame.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849Sat, 15 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son Author: Marilyn Churley Narrator: Ellen Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shameless: The Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My Son Author: Marilyn Churley Narrator: Ellen Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son. Both a personal and political story, Shameless is a powerful memoir about a mother’s struggle with loss, love, secrets, and lies – and an adoption system shrouded in shame.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-monetary-and-fiscal-history-of-the-united-states-1961-2021-by-alan-s-blinder--65206220https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 Author: Alan S. Blinder Narrator: Todd Mclaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of US economic policy from Kennedy to COVID—filled with lessons for today In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy that hasn't been told before—one that is a pleasure to listen to, and as interesting as it is important. Focusing on the most significant developments and long-term changes, Blinder traces the highs and lows of monetary and fiscal policy, which have by turns cooperated and clashed through many recessions and several long booms over the past six decades. From the fiscal policy of Kennedy's New Frontier to Biden's responses to the pandemic, the book takes listeners through the stagflation of the 1970s, the conquest of inflation under Jimmy Carter and Paul Volcker, the rise of Reaganomics, and the bubbles of the 2000s before bringing the story up through recent events—including the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and monetary policy during COVID-19.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617256Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 Author: Alan S. Blinder Narrator: Todd Mclaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617256 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 Author: Alan S. Blinder Narrator: Todd Mclaren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of US economic policy from Kennedy to COVID—filled with lessons for today In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy that hasn't been told before—one that is a pleasure to listen to, and as interesting as it is important. Focusing on the most significant developments and long-term changes, Blinder traces the highs and lows of monetary and fiscal policy, which have by turns cooperated and clashed through many recessions and several long booms over the past six decades. From the fiscal policy of Kennedy's New Frontier to Biden's responses to the pandemic, the book takes listeners through the stagflation of the 1970s, the conquest of inflation under Jimmy Carter and Paul Volcker, the rise of Reaganomics, and the bubbles of the 2000s before bringing the story up through recent events—including the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and monetary policy during COVID-19.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/for-a-dollar-and-a-dream-state-lotteries-in-modern-america-by-jonathan-d-cohen--65206198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America Author: Jonathan D. Cohen Narrator: Tom Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities. For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617111Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America Author: Jonathan D. Cohen Narrator: Tom Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America Author: Jonathan D. Cohen Narrator: Tom Lennon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities. For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/understandable-economics-because-understanding-our-economy-is-easier-than-you-think-and-more-important-than-you-know-by-howard-yaruss--65206182https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know Author: Howard Yaruss Narrator: Howard Yaruss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this entertaining and informative guide, author Howard Yaruss breaks down our economic system in a straightforward way, avoiding jargon, formulas, graphs, and other technical material so common in books on this subject. Instead, he creates a compelling and comprehensive picture of our economy using accessible analogies, real-world observations, and entertaining anecdotes. Understandable Economics will enable listeners to answer questions such as: Why is inequality soaring and what can we do about it?; Do tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs or just create more inequality?; Where does money come from, why does it have value, and who controls it?; What does the Fed do and how does it affect our lives?; Could alternative currencies like Bitcoin replace the dollar?; Is our national debt a threat?; Why do so many people believe free trade is good if it causes some people to lose jobs?; Why does the economy regularly turn down and how can we get it back on track?; and many more. Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619176Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know Author: Howard Yaruss Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know Author: Howard Yaruss Narrator: Howard Yaruss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this entertaining and informative guide, author Howard Yaruss breaks down our economic system in a straightforward way, avoiding jargon, formulas, graphs, and other technical material so common in books on this subject. Instead, he creates a compelling and comprehensive picture of our economy using accessible analogies, real-world observations, and entertaining anecdotes. Understandable Economics will enable listeners to answer questions such as: Why is inequality soaring and what can we do about it?; Do tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs or just create more inequality?; Where does money come from, why does it have value, and who controls it?; What does the Fed do and how does it affect our lives?; Could alternative currencies like Bitcoin replace the dollar?; Is our national debt a threat?; Why do so many people believe free trade is good if it causes some people to lose jobs?; Why does the economy regularly turn down and how can we get it back on track?; and many more. Understandable Economics provides the context, tools, and foundational knowledge listeners need to thoroughly understand our economy, determine which policies would work best, and champion those policies effectively.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/internet-for-the-people-the-fight-for-our-digital-future-by-ben-tarnoff--65206159https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future Author: Ben Tarnoff Narrator: Ben Tarnoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone's behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615842Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future Author: Ben Tarnoff Narrator: Ben Tarnoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future Author: Ben Tarnoff Narrator: Ben Tarnoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone's behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burning-down-the-house-how-libertarian-philosophy-was-corrupted-by-delusion-and-greed-by-andrew-koppelman--65206250https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed Author: Andrew Koppelman Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A lively history of American libertarianism and its decay into dangerous fantasy. In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick’s house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political spectrum agreed―some with horror and some with enthusiasm―that this revealed the true face of libertarianism. But libertarianism did not always require callous indifference to the misfortunes of others. Modern libertarianism began with Friedrich Hayek’s admirable corrective to the Depression-era vogue for central-economic planning. It resisted oppressive state power. It showed how capitalism could improve life for everyone. Yet today, it’s a toxic blend of anarchism, disdain for the weak, and rationalization for environmental catastrophe. Libertarians today accept new, radical arguments that crumble under scrutiny; justify dishonest business practices; and promote COVID-19 deniers, which includes many who refuse to wear masks in the name of “freedom.” Andrew Koppelman’s audiobook traces libertarianism’s evolution from Hayek’s moderate pro-market ideas to the romantic fabulism of Murray Rothbard, Robert Nozick, and Ayn Rand, as well as Charles Koch’s promotion of climate change denial. Burning Down the House is the definitive history of an ideological movement that has reshaped American politics.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613630Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed Author: Andrew Koppelman Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed Author: Andrew Koppelman Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A lively history of American libertarianism and its decay into dangerous fantasy. In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick’s house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political spectrum agreed―some with horror and some with enthusiasm―that this revealed the true face of libertarianism. But libertarianism did not always require callous indifference to the misfortunes of others. Modern libertarianism began with Friedrich Hayek’s admirable corrective to the Depression-era vogue for central-economic planning. It resisted oppressive state power. It showed how capitalism could improve life for everyone. Yet today, it’s a toxic blend of anarchism, disdain for the weak, and rationalization for environmental catastrophe. Libertarians today accept new, radical arguments that crumble under scrutiny; justify dishonest business practices; and promote COVID-19 deniers, which includes many who refuse to wear masks in the name of “freedom.” Andrew Koppelman’s audiobook traces libertarianism’s evolution from Hayek’s moderate pro-market ideas to the romantic fabulism of Murray Rothbard, Robert Nozick, and Ayn Rand, as well as Charles Koch’s promotion of climate change denial. Burning Down the House is the definitive history of an ideological movement that has reshaped American politics.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fight-for-privacy-protecting-dignity-identity-and-love-in-the-digital-age-by-danielle-keats-citron--65206192https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age Author: Danielle Keats Citron Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy—encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships. When intimate privacy becomes data, corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test. Social and political forces know how to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents. And as new technologies invite new violations, people have power over one another like never before, from revenge porn to blackmail, attaching life-altering risks to growing up, dating online, or falling in love. A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619164Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age Author: Danielle Keats Citron Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age Author: Danielle Keats Citron Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy—encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships. When intimate privacy becomes data, corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test. Social and political forces know how to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents. And as new technologies invite new violations, people have power over one another like never before, from revenge porn to blackmail, attaching life-altering risks to growing up, dating online, or falling in love. A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/feral-city-on-finding-liberation-in-lockdown-new-york-by-jeremiah-moss--65206109https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Author: Jeremiah Moss Narrator: Jeremiah Moss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating and intimate look at what happened when the pandemic emptied the city―and a rebellious energy reclaimed the streets. Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible. Participating in a historic explosion of protest, resistance, and spontaneity, from queer BLM marches to exuberant outdoor dance parties, he discovers that, without “hyper-normal” people to constrain it, New York can be more creative, connected, humane, and joyful. In this genre-bending work of “autotheory,” Moss gives an account of his renewed sense of place as a transgender man, braiding the narrative with psychoanalysis, literature, and queer theory, as he offers valuable insight into the way public space―and the spaces inside us―are controlled and can be set free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621452Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Author: Jeremiah Moss Narrator: Jeremiah Moss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Author: Jeremiah Moss Narrator: Jeremiah Moss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating and intimate look at what happened when the pandemic emptied the city―and a rebellious energy reclaimed the streets. Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible. Participating in a historic explosion of protest, resistance, and spontaneity, from queer BLM marches to exuberant outdoor dance parties, he discovers that, without “hyper-normal” people to constrain it, New York can be more creative, connected, humane, and joyful. In this genre-bending work of “autotheory,” Moss gives an account of his renewed sense of place as a transgender man, braiding the narrative with psychoanalysis, literature, and queer theory, as he offers valuable insight into the way public space―and the spaces inside us―are controlled and can be set free.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wagner-putins-geheime-armee-ein-insiderbericht-russlands-brutale-schattenarmee-und-seine-soldner-by-marat-gabidullin--65206102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator: Torben Liebrecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: »Unser Geschäft ist der Tod und das Geschäft läuft gut.« PMC (Private Military Company) WAGNER ist ein privates russisches Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen, dessen Einheiten verdeckt operieren und als besonders brutal gelten. WAGNER war während der russischen Machtübernahme auf der Krim sowie in Syrien, im Sudan, in Mali aktiv und ist es aktuell auch in der Ukraine. Der private Charakter von Putins Schattenarmee WAGNER hat den Vorteil, dass offizielle Aufträge abgestritten und jegliche Konventionen oder Völkerrecht ignoriert werden können und auch Verluste dieser Einheiten keine Rolle spielen. Finanzielle und politische Interessen vermischen sich. Die Verbindungen der WAGNER-Gründer zu Putin sind offensichtlich. Obwohl WAGNER-Soldaten kein Teil der russischen Streitkräfte sind, werden verdiente Kräfte mit Orden dekoriert. Der WAGNER-Söldner Marat Gabidullin gibt erstmals einen Einblick in das Innenleben der WAGNER-Truppe. Die Schilderungen von Marat Gabidullin werden durch ein Vorwort der französischen Journalistinnen Ksenia Bolchakova und Alexandra Jousset eingebunden, die auch einen Dokumentarfilm über ihn und die Gruppe WAGNER gedreht haben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741Tue, 04 Oct 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator: Torben Liebrecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: »Unser Geschäft ist der Tod und das Geschäft läuft gut.« PMC (Private Military Company) WAGNER ist ein privates russisches Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen, dessen Einheiten verdeckt operieren und als besonders brutal gelten. WAGNER war während der russischen Machtübernahme auf der Krim sowie in Syrien, im Sudan, in Mali aktiv und ist es aktuell auch in der Ukraine. Der private Charakter von Putins Schattenarmee WAGNER hat den Vorteil, dass offizielle Aufträge abgestritten und jegliche Konventionen oder Völkerrecht ignoriert werden können und auch Verluste dieser Einheiten keine Rolle spielen. Finanzielle und politische Interessen vermischen sich. Die Verbindungen der WAGNER-Gründer zu Putin sind offensichtlich. Obwohl WAGNER-Soldaten kein Teil der russischen Streitkräfte sind, werden verdiente Kräfte mit Orden dekoriert. Der WAGNER-Söldner Marat Gabidullin gibt erstmals einen Einblick in das Innenleben der WAGNER-Truppe. Die Schilderungen von Marat Gabidullin werden durch ein Vorwort der französischen Journalistinnen Ksenia Bolchakova und Alexandra Jousset eingebunden, die auch einen Dokumentarfilm über ihn und die Gruppe WAGNER gedreht haben.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-psychologie-der-massen-massenpsychologie-und-ich-analyse-zwei-standardwerke-der-sozialpsychologie-von-gustave-le-bon-und-siegm--65206195https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Zwei Standardwerke der Sozialpsychologie von Gustave le Bon und Siegmund Freud Series: #24 of Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse Author: Sigmund Freud, Gustave Le Bon Narrator: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Zwei Hörbücher in einer Box! 1. Psychologie der Massen: Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon beschrieb 1895 in seinem Standardwerk diese Mechanismen. Es ist erstaunlich und spricht für den Autor, dass die eingängig erklärte Analyse zeitlos wirkt und die Hörer den Eindruck gewinnen, das Buch sei tatsächlich viel jünger. 2. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Was ist eine Masse? Laut Sigmund Freud ein 'provisorisches Wesen, das aus heterogenen Elementen besteht, die sich für einen Augenblick miteinander verbunden haben.' Doch wie verhält sich der Einzelne innerhalb dieser Masse? Aufbauend auf Gustave le Bons Grundlagenwerk kommt Freud zu äußerst interessanten Schlussfolgerungen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616483Fri, 30 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Zwei Standardwerke der Sozialpsychologie von Gustave le Bon und Siegmund Freud...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Zwei Standardwerke der Sozialpsychologie von Gustave le Bon und Siegmund Freud Series: #24 of Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse Author: Sigmund Freud, Gustave Le Bon Narrator: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Zwei Hörbücher in einer Box! 1. Psychologie der Massen: Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon beschrieb 1895 in seinem Standardwerk diese Mechanismen. Es ist erstaunlich und spricht für den Autor, dass die eingängig erklärte Analyse zeitlos wirkt und die Hörer den Eindruck gewinnen, das Buch sei tatsächlich viel jünger. 2. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Was ist eine Masse? Laut Sigmund Freud ein 'provisorisches Wesen, das aus heterogenen Elementen besteht, die sich für einen Augenblick miteinander verbunden haben.' Doch wie verhält sich der Einzelne innerhalb dieser Masse? Aufbauend auf Gustave le Bons Grundlagenwerk kommt Freud zu äußerst interessanten Schlussfolgerungen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-operations-operational-art-and-military-disciplines-by-b-a-friedman--65206239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines Author: B. A. Friedman Narrator: Derek Dysart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615828Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines Author: B. A. Friedman Narrator: Derek Dysart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines Author: B. A. Friedman Narrator: Derek Dysart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/captive-genders-trans-embodiment-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-expanded-second-edition-by-cece-mcdonald--65206233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition Author: Cece Mcdonald Narrator: Adi Cabral Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/ queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation, to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning, Kalaniopua Young, and Janetta Louise Johnson and Toshio Meronek.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613409Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition Author: Cece Mcdonald Narrator: Adi Cabral Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition Author: Cece Mcdonald Narrator: Adi Cabral Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/ queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation, to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning, Kalaniopua Young, and Janetta Louise Johnson and Toshio Meronek.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gone-viral-how-covid-drove-the-world-insane-by-justin-hart--65206202https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane Author: Justin Hart Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Data and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, epidemiologists, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic and diagnoses the societal destruction that the massive overresponse to the COVID virus has wreaked, as well as what can be done to stop the madness and bring the world back to a modicum of rationality. WORST. DISEASE. EVER. Someone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agoraphobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and unelected officials are creating a biometric police state. Oh wait. It’s not a nightmare. It’s our daily lives! In truth, much of this insanity didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic (it was already latent in big government and big corporations) and it won’t end there. COVID-19’s greatest threat turned out to be … mental. All we had to fear was fear itself—and boy did some of us fear! The very idea of the virus weakened the immune system of America and revealed a decaying underbelly of confusion, panic, unease, and cowardice few of the strong ones suspected existed. What a horrible wake-up call! In a spate of anxious dread and gleeful power-grabbing, our health overlords threw away the pandemic response handbook and tried—beyond all reason—to protect, well, everyone. From massive over-testing to universal retail plexiglass to stay-at-home orders to stay-away-from-school orders to masking mandates to vaccine mandates to some of the worst restrictions on civil liberties in American history, this is an epic story that poses big questions about America’s future as a free society. And the odd thing is, as Justin Hart shows, the actual disease was, as pandemics go, not that threatening; most people were at minimal risk. What is really scary is the total overreaction of half the country, many governments, that lost all sense of perspective. Hart offers a hopeful prescription on how we might face the madness down and claw our way back to sanity!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615638Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane Author: Justin Hart Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane Author: Justin Hart Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Data and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, epidemiologists, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic and diagnoses the societal destruction that the massive overresponse to the COVID virus has wreaked, as well as what can be done to stop the madness and bring the world back to a modicum of rationality. WORST. DISEASE. EVER. Someone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agoraphobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and unelected officials are creating a biometric police state. Oh wait. It’s not a nightmare. It’s our daily lives! In truth, much of this insanity didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic (it was already latent in big government and big corporations) and it won’t end there. COVID-19’s greatest threat turned out to be … mental. All we had to fear was fear itself—and boy did some of us fear! The very idea of the virus weakened the immune system of America and revealed a decaying underbelly of confusion, panic, unease, and cowardice few of the strong ones suspected existed. What a horrible wake-up call! In a spate of anxious dread and gleeful power-grabbing, our health overlords threw away the pandemic response handbook and tried—beyond all reason—to protect, well, everyone. From massive over-testing to universal retail plexiglass to stay-at-home orders to stay-away-from-school orders to masking mandates to vaccine mandates to some of the worst restrictions on civil liberties in American history, this is an epic story that poses big questions about America’s future as a free society. And the odd thing is, as Justin Hart shows, the actual disease was, as pandemics go, not that threatening; most people were at minimal risk. What is really scary is the total overreaction of half the country, many governments, that lost all sense of perspective. Hart offers a hopeful prescription on how we might face the madness down and claw our way back to sanity!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-connected-community-discovering-the-health-wealth-and-power-of-neighborhoods-by-john-mcknight-cormac-russell--65206097https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods Author: John Mcknight, Cormac Russell Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village! We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away? Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighborhoods. He and John McKnight, the cooriginator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with his or her neighbors to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures. You will learn to take action on what you already deeply know-that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623565Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods Author: John Mcknight, Cormac Russell Narrator: Janina Edwards...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods Author: John Mcknight, Cormac Russell Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village! We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away? Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighborhoods. He and John McKnight, the cooriginator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with his or her neighbors to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures. You will learn to take action on what you already deeply know-that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-arno-la-doma-del-elefante-by-natalio-grueso--65206068https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623575 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Arno. La doma del elefante Author: Natalio Grueso Narrator: Sergio Mejía Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: El joven Arno acaba de ser ordenado sacerdote. Convertido ya en el Padre Arno, viaja a Roma para incorporarse a su nuevo puesto como agente de los servicios secretos vaticanos, los más antiguos y desconocidos del mundo. En las oficinas de la Agencia, entre los aposentos privados de Su Santidad y la Capilla Sixtina, Arno recibe de manos de su jefe, el cínico e inteligentísimo cardenal Rúspoli, el encargo de su primera misión: deberá viajar a la India, y hacerse con un manuscrito recién descubierto y atribuido al apóstol Tomás. Al llegar a su exótico destino se encontrará con un mundo mágico en vías de extinción, a punto de lograr su independencia del imperio británico y al borde de una terrible guerra civil, que marcará el comienzo de una nueva era en la que el equilibrio entre Oriente y Occidente cambiará por completo. Sus pesquisas le llevarán a enfrentarse con un misterio para el que nadie le había prevenido, una espiral de asesinatos, secretos ancestrales y juegos de alta política. ¿Puede alguien matar por unos simples manuscritos o en realidad todo se reduce a una espiral de violencia, dinero y sexo? Arno deberá utilizar todo su talento para salir bien parado de esta misión, salvar su fe... y su propia vida.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623575Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623575 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Arno. La doma del elefante Author: Natalio Grueso Narrator: Sergio Mejía Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623575 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Arno. La doma del elefante Author: Natalio Grueso Narrator: Sergio Mejía Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: El joven Arno acaba de ser ordenado sacerdote. Convertido ya en el Padre Arno, viaja a Roma para incorporarse a su nuevo puesto como agente de los servicios secretos vaticanos, los más antiguos y desconocidos del mundo. En las oficinas de la Agencia, entre los aposentos privados de Su Santidad y la Capilla Sixtina, Arno recibe de manos de su jefe, el cínico e inteligentísimo cardenal Rúspoli, el encargo de su primera misión: deberá viajar a la India, y hacerse con un manuscrito recién descubierto y atribuido al apóstol Tomás. Al llegar a su exótico destino se encontrará con un mundo mágico en vías de extinción, a punto de lograr su independencia del imperio británico y al borde de una terrible guerra civil, que marcará el comienzo de una nueva era en la que el equilibrio entre Oriente y Occidente cambiará por completo. Sus pesquisas le llevarán a enfrentarse con un misterio para el que nadie le había prevenido, una espiral de asesinatos, secretos ancestrales y juegos de alta política. ¿Puede alguien matar por unos simples manuscritos o en realidad todo se reduce a una espiral de violencia, dinero y sexo? Arno deberá utilizar todo su talento para salir bien parado de esta misión, salvar su fe... y su propia vida.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/disgrace-global-reflections-on-sexual-violence-by-joanna-bourke--65206221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence Author: Joanna Bourke Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence—including institutions, ideologies, and practices—but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal, and rape—and violence-free world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613811Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence Author: Joanna Bourke Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence Author: Joanna Bourke Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence—including institutions, ideologies, and practices—but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal, and rape—and violence-free world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-dinero-para-la-cultura-by-gabriel-zaid--65206118https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dinero para la cultura Author: Gabriel Zaid Narrator: Diego Santana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Uno de los mayores poetas y ensayistas vivos de este país reúne en su nuevo libro todo lo que ha investigado, reflexionado y escrito sobre la cultura, entendida ésta como el gran ejercicio de la libertad humana y el origen y la culminación del desarrollo. Hay cinco fuentes de financiamiento para la cultura: el sacrificio personal, la familia, los mecenas, el Estado y el mercado. Todas tienen consecuencias felices o lamentables, que el autor señala en general y en numerosos casos concretos, de manera crítica y también proponiendo soluciones. Lo mejor es que todas convivan en la animación y dispersión de imprentas, librerías, editoriales, revistas, cafés, tertulias, salones, academias; teatros, grupos de músicos, cantantes y danzantes; galerías, talleres de arquitectos, pintores, escultores y orfebres; microempresas de discos, radio, cine y televisión; páginas web. Las influencias dominantes del siglo XX (Marx, Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Chaplin, Le Corbusier) nacieron de la libertad creadora de personas que trabajaban por su cuenta (en su casa, su consultorio, su estudio, su taller). Influyeron por la importancia de su obra, no por su posición como profesores, investigadores, clérigos, funcionarios o ejecutivos. La cultura libre (anárquica, fragmentada, diversa y dispersa) no parece una institución, pero lo es. Desde el Renacimiento, su animación ha sido el centro sin centro de la cultura moderna. Merece público, aplausos y dinero.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622896Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dinero para la cultura Author: Gabriel Zaid Narrator: Diego Santana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Dinero para la cultura Author: Gabriel Zaid Narrator: Diego Santana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Uno de los mayores poetas y ensayistas vivos de este país reúne en su nuevo libro todo lo que ha investigado, reflexionado y escrito sobre la cultura, entendida ésta como el gran ejercicio de la libertad humana y el origen y la culminación del desarrollo. Hay cinco fuentes de financiamiento para la cultura: el sacrificio personal, la familia, los mecenas, el Estado y el mercado. Todas tienen consecuencias felices o lamentables, que el autor señala en general y en numerosos casos concretos, de manera crítica y también proponiendo soluciones. Lo mejor es que todas convivan en la animación y dispersión de imprentas, librerías, editoriales, revistas, cafés, tertulias, salones, academias; teatros, grupos de músicos, cantantes y danzantes; galerías, talleres de arquitectos, pintores, escultores y orfebres; microempresas de discos, radio, cine y televisión; páginas web. Las influencias dominantes del siglo XX (Marx, Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Chaplin, Le Corbusier) nacieron de la libertad creadora de personas que trabajaban por su cuenta (en su casa, su consultorio, su estudio, su taller). Influyeron por la importancia de su obra, no por su posición como profesores, investigadores, clérigos, funcionarios o ejecutivos. La cultura libre (anárquica, fragmentada, diversa y dispersa) no parece una institución, pero lo es. Desde el Renacimiento, su animación ha sido el centro sin centro de la cultura moderna. Merece público, aplausos y dinero.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rebel-how-to-overthrow-the-emerging-oligarchy-by-douglas-carswell--65206111https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: How to Overthrow the Emerging Oligarchy Author: Douglas Carswell Narrator: Mike Read Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Politics has never been more unpredictable. Radical populists and insurgents have turned politics-as-usual on its head. 'Rebel' explores how we got here, where we are heading and what we can do about it. Douglas Carswell argues that these insurgencies are a reaction against the emergence of a political and economic oligarchy that has subverted our democracy and stifled our market system. 'Politics,' he writes, 'is a cartel. Like the economy, it is rigged in the interests of a few.' This leaves our liberal, democratic order – the mechanism that has allowed a historically unprecedented proportion of humanity to flourish – facing a twin assault: oligarchs on the one hand, radical populists on the other. In the face of these twin threats, Carswell mounts a robust defence of the liberal, democratic order. Drawing on his first-hand experience in taking on – and beating – the established political parties, he proposes a profound reform of politics and capitalism to free us from the cartels, listing the practical steps needed to make this revolutionary change happen. - Douglas Carswell grew up in Uganda. Elected to Parliament four times, for two different parties, he ended up as an independent MP. He stood down from Parliament in 2017, having accomplished what he went into politics to achieve. He is the author of 'The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain' (with Daniel Hannan) and 'The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621941Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: How to Overthrow the Emerging Oligarchy Author: Douglas Carswell Narrator: Mike Read Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebel: How to Overthrow the Emerging Oligarchy Author: Douglas Carswell Narrator: Mike Read Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Politics has never been more unpredictable. Radical populists and insurgents have turned politics-as-usual on its head. 'Rebel' explores how we got here, where we are heading and what we can do about it. Douglas Carswell argues that these insurgencies are a reaction against the emergence of a political and economic oligarchy that has subverted our democracy and stifled our market system. 'Politics,' he writes, 'is a cartel. Like the economy, it is rigged in the interests of a few.' This leaves our liberal, democratic order – the mechanism that has allowed a historically unprecedented proportion of humanity to flourish – facing a twin assault: oligarchs on the one hand, radical populists on the other. In the face of these twin threats, Carswell mounts a robust defence of the liberal, democratic order. Drawing on his first-hand experience in taking on – and beating – the established political parties, he proposes a profound reform of politics and capitalism to free us from the cartels, listing the practical steps needed to make this revolutionary change happen. - Douglas Carswell grew up in Uganda. Elected to Parliament four times, for two different parties, he ended up as an independent MP. He stood down from Parliament in 2017, having accomplished what he went into politics to achieve. He is the author of 'The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain' (with Daniel Hannan) and 'The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-regresion-educativa-la-hostilidad-de-la-4y-contra-la-ilustracion-by-gilberto-guevara-niebla--65206069https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La regresión educativa: La hostilidad de la 4y contra la ilustración Author: Gilberto Guevara Niebla Narrator: Patricia Durán, Humberto Solórzano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Esta obra reúne 14 ensayos que analizan críticamente la política educativa del actual gobierno. Aparecen, así, los oscuros balances de la reforma al artículo 3° constitucional, el surgimiento de las universidades Benito Juárez, el nuevo esquema de becas, los recortes en la SEP, el aumento de la desigualdad, el golpe de la pandemia y la asfixia de la austeridad… Entre diciembre de 2018 y julio de 2019 fui subsecretario de Educación Básica. Pero desde mi posición privilegiada fui testigo del impacto brutal de la política de austeridad. También comprobé el estilo autoritario de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “La educación de México experimenta un retroceso. El gobierno federal actual eliminó la reformaeducativa de 2013, pero no produjo un nuevo proyecto; en cambio, puso en práctica políticas que dañan la oferta educativa. El presidente volvió la espalda a la educación persiguiendo un objetivo político, en el sentido populista, mezquino, del término.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622901Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La regresión educativa: La hostilidad de la 4y contra la ilustración Author: Gilberto Guevara Niebla Narrator: Patricia Durán, Humberto...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La regresión educativa: La hostilidad de la 4y contra la ilustración Author: Gilberto Guevara Niebla Narrator: Patricia Durán, Humberto Solórzano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Esta obra reúne 14 ensayos que analizan críticamente la política educativa del actual gobierno. Aparecen, así, los oscuros balances de la reforma al artículo 3° constitucional, el surgimiento de las universidades Benito Juárez, el nuevo esquema de becas, los recortes en la SEP, el aumento de la desigualdad, el golpe de la pandemia y la asfixia de la austeridad… Entre diciembre de 2018 y julio de 2019 fui subsecretario de Educación Básica. Pero desde mi posición privilegiada fui testigo del impacto brutal de la política de austeridad. También comprobé el estilo autoritario de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “La educación de México experimenta un retroceso. El gobierno federal actual eliminó la reformaeducativa de 2013, pero no produjo un nuevo proyecto; en cambio, puso en práctica políticas que dañan la oferta educativa. El presidente volvió la espalda a la educación persiguiendo un objetivo político, en el sentido populista, mezquino, del término.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-somos-la-revolucion-by-joshua-wong-jason-y-ng--65206065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Somos la revolución Author: Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng Narrator: Miguel Coll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Un manifiesto necesario para una democracia global. Una impactante historia al estilo David y Goliat sobre un joven activista de Hong Kong, quien con tan solo veintidós años está sacudiendo e inspirando al mundo entero. A los catorce años Joshua Wong ya hizo historia. Mientras los adultos guardaban silencio, Joshua escenificó la primera protesta de estudiantes en Hong Kong en contra del sistema de educación nacional, y ganó. Desde entonces, Joshua ha fundado Demosisto, ha liderado la Revolución de los Paraguas y ha encabezado las protestas contra la ley de extradición en las que han participado, tomando las calles de Hong Kong, 1,7 millones de personas, un cuarto de la población total del país. Sus acciones han provocado la atención del mundo entero, una nominación al Premio Nobel de la Paz y más de cien días de prisión. Esta es la historia de Joshua contada por vez primera, directamente desde la primera línea del activismo. Recopilando sus cartas escritas en la prisión y sus reflexiones personales, Somos la revolución es el grito a la guerra de Joshua para que todos nos levantemos y luchemos por nuestras libertades. Este libro está narrado en castellano. - Joshua Wong nació en 1996. Ha sido nombrado por TIME, Fortune y Forbes como uno de los líderes más influyentes de la actualidad. En 2018 fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz por su papel como líder en la Revolución de los Paraguas. Es el secretario general de Demosisto, una organización pro-democracia que fundó en el año 2016 y que defiende la auto-determinación para Hong Kong. Joshua saltó a la escena política en 2011, con tan solo catorce años, cuando fundó Escolarismo, ganando las protestas contra las fuerzas del sistema chino de educación nacional en Hong Kong. Ha sido arrestado por el Estado chino en varias ocasiones por sus protestas y su activismo y ha sido encarcelado durante más de cien días. Ha sido objeto de dos documentales.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622624Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Somos la revolución Author: Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng Narrator: Miguel Coll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Somos la revolución Author: Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng Narrator: Miguel Coll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Un manifiesto necesario para una democracia global. Una impactante historia al estilo David y Goliat sobre un joven activista de Hong Kong, quien con tan solo veintidós años está sacudiendo e inspirando al mundo entero. A los catorce años Joshua Wong ya hizo historia. Mientras los adultos guardaban silencio, Joshua escenificó la primera protesta de estudiantes en Hong Kong en contra del sistema de educación nacional, y ganó. Desde entonces, Joshua ha fundado Demosisto, ha liderado la Revolución de los Paraguas y ha encabezado las protestas contra la ley de extradición en las que han participado, tomando las calles de Hong Kong, 1,7 millones de personas, un cuarto de la población total del país. Sus acciones han provocado la atención del mundo entero, una nominación al Premio Nobel de la Paz y más de cien días de prisión. Esta es la historia de Joshua contada por vez primera, directamente desde la primera línea del activismo. Recopilando sus cartas escritas en la prisión y sus reflexiones personales, Somos la revolución es el grito a la guerra de Joshua para que todos nos levantemos y luchemos por nuestras libertades. Este libro está narrado en castellano. - Joshua Wong nació en 1996. Ha sido nombrado por TIME, Fortune y Forbes como uno de los líderes más influyentes de la actualidad. En 2018 fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz por su papel como líder en la Revolución de los Paraguas. Es el secretario general de Demosisto, una organización pro-democracia que fundó en el año 2016 y que defiende la auto-determinación para Hong Kong. Joshua saltó a la escena política en 2011, con tan solo catorce años, cuando fundó Escolarismo, ganando las protestas contra las fuerzas del sistema chino de educación nacional en Hong Kong. Ha sido arrestado por el Estado chino en varias ocasiones por sus protestas y su activismo y ha sido encarcelado durante más de cien días. Ha sido objeto de dos documentales.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-khalistan-conspiracy-a-former-r-aw-officer-unravels-the-path-to-1984-by-g-b-s-sidhu--65206124https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 Author: G.B.S. Sidhu Narrator: Adwait Karambelkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a timeline that moves from seven years before to a decade after 1984, the book strives to answer critical questions that continue to linger till today. The narrative moves from Punjab to Canada, the US, Europe and Delhi, looking to sift the truth from political obfuscation and opportunism, examining the role that the ruling party allegedly played, and the heart-rending violence that devoured thousands of innocent lives in its aftermath.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622311Wed, 21 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 Author: G.B.S. Sidhu Narrator: Adwait Karambelkar Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 Author: G.B.S. Sidhu Narrator: Adwait Karambelkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a timeline that moves from seven years before to a decade after 1984, the book strives to answer critical questions that continue to linger till today. The narrative moves from Punjab to Canada, the US, Europe and Delhi, looking to sift the truth from political obfuscation and opportunism, examining the role that the ruling party allegedly played, and the heart-rending violence that devoured thousands of innocent lives in its aftermath.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-virus-and-the-host-protect-yourself-from-infectious-disease-by-reducing-toxicity-improving-immunity-and-minimizing-chronic-illness-by--65206123https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virus and the Host: Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic Illness Author: Chris Chlebowski Narrator: Nolan Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: There will almost certainly be more pandemics in our future. Yet, during the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public-health official took the simple step of telling Americans what we all need to hear: robust good health?healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and freedom from stealth infection and chronic disease?is our best defense against infectious viral disease. The way our bodies interact with infectious disease is complicated?both a function of the “germ” and the “terrain”?the virus and the host. In The Virus and the Host, Dr. Chlebowski succinctly describes emerging science on the virome and how toxic exposure, chronic inflammation, infections, and chronic diseases interact and predispose us to poor outcomes from acute viral infection. He then clearly outlines the tools needed for better health, including these: -The best nutrients to supercharge your immunity -How to harness the power of botanical medicine -How to detoxify simply and safely at home -Valuable information on simple treatment and recommended diagnostic tests for given conditions As we move forward from the tragedy of COVID-19, it is essential that we come together to learn from our mistakes and work hard?and work together?to prevent a similar crisis in the future. When the next pandemic hits, we need to be better prepared. Now is the time to do something, and it is the best investment we can make so that when the next one hits we can keep our loved ones and ourselves safe and healthy. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620550Wed, 21 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virus and the Host: Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic Illness Author: Chris...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Virus and the Host: Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic Illness Author: Chris Chlebowski Narrator: Nolan Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 21, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: There will almost certainly be more pandemics in our future. Yet, during the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public-health official took the simple step of telling Americans what we all need to hear: robust good health?healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and freedom from stealth infection and chronic disease?is our best defense against infectious viral disease. The way our bodies interact with infectious disease is complicated?both a function of the “germ” and the “terrain”?the virus and the host. In The Virus and the Host, Dr. Chlebowski succinctly describes emerging science on the virome and how toxic exposure, chronic inflammation, infections, and chronic diseases interact and predispose us to poor outcomes from acute viral infection. He then clearly outlines the tools needed for better health, including these: -The best nutrients to supercharge your immunity -How to harness the power of botanical medicine -How to detoxify simply and safely at home -Valuable information on simple treatment and recommended diagnostic tests for given conditions As we move forward from the tragedy of COVID-19, it is essential that we come together to learn from our mistakes and work hard?and work together?to prevent a similar crisis in the future. When the next pandemic hits, we need to be better prepared. Now is the time to do something, and it is the best investment we can make so that when the next one hits we can keep our loved ones and ourselves safe and healthy. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/indispensable-nation-american-foreign-policy-in-a-turbulent-world-by-robert-j-lieber--65206244https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World Author: Robert J. Lieber Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today The United States remains “the indispensable nation.” In this book, the distinguished international relations theorist and foreign policy specialist Robert Lieber argues that in a world full of revisionist powers, America’s role is more important than ever. No other country is capable of playing that role. America remains the essential pillar of the postwar liberal order. It is a center of both political and financial stability, and it promotes important values that the revisionist powers do not.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614613Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World Author: Robert J. Lieber Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614613 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World Author: Robert J. Lieber Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today The United States remains “the indispensable nation.” In this book, the distinguished international relations theorist and foreign policy specialist Robert Lieber argues that in a world full of revisionist powers, America’s role is more important than ever. No other country is capable of playing that role. America remains the essential pillar of the postwar liberal order. It is a center of both political and financial stability, and it promotes important values that the revisionist powers do not.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-petroleum-papers-inside-the-far-right-conspiracy-to-cover-up-climate-change-by-geoff-dembicki--65206215https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change Author: Geoff Dembicki Narrator: Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world—the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, Dembicki draws from confidential oil industry documents to uncover for the first time how companies like Exxon, Koch Industries, and Shell built a global right-wing echo chamber to protect oil sands profits—a misinformation campaign that continues to this day. He also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: a Seattle lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco and is now going after Big Oil, a Filipina activist whose family drowned in a climate disaster, and a former Exxon engineer pushed out for asking hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice—and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615820Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change Author: Geoff Dembicki Narrator: Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change Author: Geoff Dembicki Narrator: Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world—the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, Dembicki draws from confidential oil industry documents to uncover for the first time how companies like Exxon, Koch Industries, and Shell built a global right-wing echo chamber to protect oil sands profits—a misinformation campaign that continues to this day. He also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: a Seattle lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco and is now going after Big Oil, a Filipina activist whose family drowned in a climate disaster, and a former Exxon engineer pushed out for asking hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice—and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cannibal-capitalism-how-our-system-is-devouring-democracy-care-and-the-planet-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-nancy-fraser--65206155https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It Author: Nancy Fraser Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life—guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616851Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It Author: Nancy Fraser Narrator: Kate...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It Author: Nancy Fraser Narrator: Kate Udall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life—guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-history-of-neoliberalism-how-reaganism-gutted-america-and-how-to-restore-its-greatness-by-thom-hartmann--65206129https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness Series: #8 of The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series Author: Thom Hartmann Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it. While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future. This book traces the history of neoliberalism-which applies to a set of capitalistic philosophies favoring free trade, financial austerity, and deregulation-up to the present. Hartmann explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. He outlines the impact that it has had on America, looking at different sectors, including healthcare, unemployment, and education. Hartmann highlights how America can go one of two ways: continue going down the road to neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by the GOP, or choose to return to FDR's Keynesian economics, raise taxes on the rich, reverse free trade, and create a more pluralistic society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621279Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness Series: #8 of The Thom Hartmann Hidden History...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness Series: #8 of The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series Author: Thom Hartmann Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it. While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future. This book traces the history of neoliberalism-which applies to a set of capitalistic philosophies favoring free trade, financial austerity, and deregulation-up to the present. Hartmann explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. He outlines the impact that it has had on America, looking at different sectors, including healthcare, unemployment, and education. Hartmann highlights how America can go one of two ways: continue going down the road to neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by the GOP, or choose to return to FDR's Keynesian economics, raise taxes on the rich, reverse free trade, and create a more pluralistic society.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-verlust-warum-nicht-nur-meiner-mutter-das-vertrauen-in-unser-land-abhandenkam-by-anita-blasberg--65206126https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Verlust: Warum nicht nur meiner Mutter das Vertrauen in unser Land abhandenkam Author: Anita Blasberg Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Immer weniger Deutsche vertrauen noch den Institutionen dieses Landes - weder den Parteien noch den Medien, noch nicht einmal der Wissenschaft. Doch kann eine Demokratie so noch funktionieren? Anita Blasberg, preisgekrönte Journalistin, ergründet eine der dringlichsten Fragen unserer Zeit: den Vertrauensverlust in den eigenen Staat. Packend und schonungslos rekonstruiert sie die schrittweise Erosion des Vertrauens in den letzten dreißig Jahren - am Beispiel ihrer eigenen Mutter und entlang historischer Bruchstellen und Protagonisten. Da ist ein Uni-Absolvent, der achtzig ostdeutsche Betriebe in zwei Jahren verkauft; da ist eine Klinikärztin, die ihre Patienten schneller entlassen soll, als ihr lieb ist; da sind Politiker, die nach der Finanzkrise ihre eigene Ohnmacht bestaunen und dann fast alles beim Alten belassen. Die Autorin stellt fest: Viele Menschen trauen den Regierenden gar nicht mehr zu, Probleme wirklich lösen zu können oder zu wollen. So wie ihre Mutter. Durch die Gespräche mit ihr wird das Buch persönlich. Doch vor allem zeichnet es ein nachhaltiges Bild der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte - es offenbart die tiefer liegenden Gründe für die Entfremdung vieler Bürger von der Politik.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622735Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Verlust: Warum nicht nur meiner Mutter das Vertrauen in unser Land abhandenkam Author: Anita Blasberg Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Verlust: Warum nicht nur meiner Mutter das Vertrauen in unser Land abhandenkam Author: Anita Blasberg Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Immer weniger Deutsche vertrauen noch den Institutionen dieses Landes - weder den Parteien noch den Medien, noch nicht einmal der Wissenschaft. Doch kann eine Demokratie so noch funktionieren? Anita Blasberg, preisgekrönte Journalistin, ergründet eine der dringlichsten Fragen unserer Zeit: den Vertrauensverlust in den eigenen Staat. Packend und schonungslos rekonstruiert sie die schrittweise Erosion des Vertrauens in den letzten dreißig Jahren - am Beispiel ihrer eigenen Mutter und entlang historischer Bruchstellen und Protagonisten. Da ist ein Uni-Absolvent, der achtzig ostdeutsche Betriebe in zwei Jahren verkauft; da ist eine Klinikärztin, die ihre Patienten schneller entlassen soll, als ihr lieb ist; da sind Politiker, die nach der Finanzkrise ihre eigene Ohnmacht bestaunen und dann fast alles beim Alten belassen. Die Autorin stellt fest: Viele Menschen trauen den Regierenden gar nicht mehr zu, Probleme wirklich lösen zu können oder zu wollen. So wie ihre Mutter. Durch die Gespräche mit ihr wird das Buch persönlich. Doch vor allem zeichnet es ein nachhaltiges Bild der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte - es offenbart die tiefer liegenden Gründe für die Entfremdung vieler Bürger von der Politik.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-colonialismo-y-derechos-humanos-apuntes-para-una-historia-criminal-del-mundo-by-eugenio-raul-zaffaroni--65206162https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Colonialismo y Derechos Humanos: Apuntes para una historia criminal del mundo Author: Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Narrator: Diego Longstaff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 12, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni encara una historia implacable del patrimonio cultural criminal de la humanidad que hace del colonialismo su hilo conductor y llama a la resistencia y a la lucha por los Derechos Humanos desde el espíritu del Sur. Las feroces atrocidades que, en las formas de subhumanización, explotación, matanza y genocidio, conforman el patrimonio cultural criminal de la humanidad son el punto de partida de este audiolibro que se niega al olvido o a la racionalización y ubica en perspectiva histórica la sucesión de crímenes de los que da prolija cuenta. Historiográficamente preciso, conceptualmente reflexivo y filosóficamente innovador, Zaffaroni propone un recorrido crítico asociado a los múltiples modos en que el colonialismo ha encontrado expresión fáctica, narrativa e ideológica, al tiempo que se pregunta por su relación con los Derechos Humanos, celebrados en su origen como triunfo de la misma civilización que tendió la mano al patriarcado, la misoginia, la discriminación, el racismo y el clasismo. Implacable en su exhumación de mojones de la experiencia criminal mundial que van del descuartizamiento de África al tardocolonialismo financiero contemporáneo, pasando por los colonialismos británico en India y Oceanía o francés en Indochina, los crímenes de la expansión norteamericana y rusa, las matanzas de las repúblicas oligárquicas de América, las guerras del Congo, Argelia, Madagascar, Camerún, Malvinas, Irak, Libia y los Balcanes, entre otras aberraciones, esta obra es también un llamado a la resistencia y a la lucha de las culturas victimizadas que convergen en el espíritu del Sur.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620570Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Colonialismo y Derechos Humanos: Apuntes para una historia criminal del mundo Author: Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Narrator: Diego Longstaff...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Colonialismo y Derechos Humanos: Apuntes para una historia criminal del mundo Author: Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Narrator: Diego Longstaff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 12, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni encara una historia implacable del patrimonio cultural criminal de la humanidad que hace del colonialismo su hilo conductor y llama a la resistencia y a la lucha por los Derechos Humanos desde el espíritu del Sur. Las feroces atrocidades que, en las formas de subhumanización, explotación, matanza y genocidio, conforman el patrimonio cultural criminal de la humanidad son el punto de partida de este audiolibro que se niega al olvido o a la racionalización y ubica en perspectiva histórica la sucesión de crímenes de los que da prolija cuenta. Historiográficamente preciso, conceptualmente reflexivo y filosóficamente innovador, Zaffaroni propone un recorrido crítico asociado a los múltiples modos en que el colonialismo ha encontrado expresión fáctica, narrativa e ideológica, al tiempo que se pregunta por su relación con los Derechos Humanos, celebrados en su origen como triunfo de la misma civilización que tendió la mano al patriarcado, la misoginia, la discriminación, el racismo y el clasismo. Implacable en su exhumación de mojones de la experiencia criminal mundial que van del descuartizamiento de África al tardocolonialismo financiero contemporáneo, pasando por los colonialismos británico en India y Oceanía o francés en Indochina, los crímenes de la expansión norteamericana y rusa, las matanzas de las repúblicas oligárquicas de América, las guerras del Congo, Argelia, Madagascar, Camerún, Malvinas, Irak, Libia y los Balcanes, entre otras aberraciones, esta obra es también un llamado a la resistencia y a la lucha de las culturas victimizadas que convergen en el espíritu del Sur.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-american-judicial-system-a-very-short-introduction-by-charles-l-zelden--65206235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Judicial System: A Very Short Introduction Author: Charles L. Zelden Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: At some point, everyone living in the US has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal trial, or serving on a jury. Others are caught up in the criminal justice system—as defendants, as victims, as witnesses, as jurors, or as relatives of a victim or a defendant. For still others, contact comes via an important policy issue affecting their lives in the hands of judges and justices sitting in judgment in marble temples to the law. Yet whatever the level of contact, the American judicial system affects peoples' lives. What courts and judges do matters. This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system. This Very Short Introduction explains the 'where,' 'when,' and 'who' of American courts. It also makes clear the 'how' and 'why' behind the law as it affects everyday people. It is, in a word, a starting place to understanding the third branch of American government at both the state and federal levels; a guide to those wishing to know the basics of the American judicial system; and a cogent synthesis of how the various elements that make up the law and legal institutions fit together.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613784Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Judicial System: A Very Short Introduction Author: Charles L. Zelden Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Judicial System: A Very Short Introduction Author: Charles L. Zelden Narrator: Tristan Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: At some point, everyone living in the US has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal trial, or serving on a jury. Others are caught up in the criminal justice system—as defendants, as victims, as witnesses, as jurors, or as relatives of a victim or a defendant. For still others, contact comes via an important policy issue affecting their lives in the hands of judges and justices sitting in judgment in marble temples to the law. Yet whatever the level of contact, the American judicial system affects peoples' lives. What courts and judges do matters. This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system. This Very Short Introduction explains the 'where,' 'when,' and 'who' of American courts. It also makes clear the 'how' and 'why' behind the law as it affects everyday people. It is, in a word, a starting place to understanding the third branch of American government at both the state and federal levels; a guide to those wishing to know the basics of the American judicial system; and a cogent synthesis of how the various elements that make up the law and legal institutions fit together.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/command-the-politics-of-military-operations-from-korea-to-ukraine-by-lawrence-freedman--65206225https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Author: Lawrence Freedman Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare. © Lawrence Freedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Author: Lawrence Freedman Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Author: Lawrence Freedman Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political. Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare. © Lawrence Freedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-cloudmoney-cash-karte-oder-krypto-warum-die-abschaffung-des-bargelds-unsere-freiheit-gefahrdet-by-brett-scott--65206131https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Cloudmoney: Cash, Karte oder Krypto: Warum die Abschaffung des Bargelds unsere Freiheit gefährdet Author: Brett Scott Narrator: Simon Diez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Warum die totale Digitalisierung des Geldes gefährlich ist Nicht erst seit der Corona-Krise bezahlen immer mehr Menschen bargeldlos mit Karte oder App. Corona hat die Entwicklung deutlich beschleunigt. Nutznießer sind vor allem die großen IT-Unternehmen wie Amazon und Google und die Großen der Finanzindustrie, die unter dem Banner des Fortschritts schon seit Längerem die bargeldlose Gesellschaft propagieren. Der englische Finanzexperte und Aktivist Brett Scott zeigt, dass und wie Big Tech und Big Finance immer enger zusammenrücken und mithilfe der allgegenwärtigen digitalen Geräte ihre Macht über uns gefährlich ausbauen, zum Nachteil unserer Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Eine augenöffnende Analyse und ein Weckruf, die als unausweichlichen Fortschritt dargestellte Welt des digitalen Gelds, das Scott »Cloudmoney« nennt, nicht widerspruchslos hinzunehmen. Mit einem Vorwort des Autors zur deutschen Ausgabe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620989Wed, 07 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Cloudmoney: Cash, Karte oder Krypto: Warum die Abschaffung des Bargelds unsere Freiheit gefährdet Author: Brett Scott Narrator: Simon Diez...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Cloudmoney: Cash, Karte oder Krypto: Warum die Abschaffung des Bargelds unsere Freiheit gefährdet Author: Brett Scott Narrator: Simon Diez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Warum die totale Digitalisierung des Geldes gefährlich ist Nicht erst seit der Corona-Krise bezahlen immer mehr Menschen bargeldlos mit Karte oder App. Corona hat die Entwicklung deutlich beschleunigt. Nutznießer sind vor allem die großen IT-Unternehmen wie Amazon und Google und die Großen der Finanzindustrie, die unter dem Banner des Fortschritts schon seit Längerem die bargeldlose Gesellschaft propagieren. Der englische Finanzexperte und Aktivist Brett Scott zeigt, dass und wie Big Tech und Big Finance immer enger zusammenrücken und mithilfe der allgegenwärtigen digitalen Geräte ihre Macht über uns gefährlich ausbauen, zum Nachteil unserer Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Eine augenöffnende Analyse und ein Weckruf, die als unausweichlichen Fortschritt dargestellte Welt des digitalen Gelds, das Scott »Cloudmoney« nennt, nicht widerspruchslos hinzunehmen. Mit einem Vorwort des Autors zur deutschen Ausgabe.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-babylon-bee-guide-to-democracy-by-the-babylon-bee--65206176https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy Series: #2 of Babylon Bee Guides Author: The Babylon Bee Narrator: P. J. Ochlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this book, America's favorite satirists take you into a world you might have thought was beyond parody—politics. From closed-door meetings of bureaucrats deciding the fates of millions to preposterous lies from the campaign trail, The Bee skewers our political overlords with matchless wit. In this guide, you’ll learn how to rig an election, how to stage an insurrection, which political party you should join, and more—everything you need to fully participate in the worst political system of all time (except for all the others).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616725Tue, 06 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy Series: #2 of Babylon Bee Guides Author: The Babylon Bee Narrator: P. J. Ochlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy Series: #2 of Babylon Bee Guides Author: The Babylon Bee Narrator: P. J. Ochlan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this book, America's favorite satirists take you into a world you might have thought was beyond parody—politics. From closed-door meetings of bureaucrats deciding the fates of millions to preposterous lies from the campaign trail, The Bee skewers our political overlords with matchless wit. In this guide, you’ll learn how to rig an election, how to stage an insurrection, which political party you should join, and more—everything you need to fully participate in the worst political system of all time (except for all the others).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-traicion-a-la-patria-by-mauricio-weibel--65206112https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Traición a la patria Author: Mauricio Weibel Narrator: Marcelo Pintos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La historia secreta del 'Milicogate'. El millonario desfalco a los gastos reservados del cobre, por el periodista que destapó el caso. Un relato que comenzó con el embargo de armas que Estados Unidos impuso a la dictadura militar por las violaciones a los derechos humanos, que prosiguió en las fábricas de fusiles de Colonia Dignidad y que desembocó en un casino, donde el cabo Juan Carlos Cruz gastó más de dos mil millones de pesos. Chile destinó 20 mil millones de dólares a la compra de armas entre los años 2000 y 2015. Con ese dinero se podrían financiar 30 hospitales, mil liceos de excelencia, 300 centros deportivos comunales o 35 mil viviendas para erradicar todos los campamentos del país. Pero no, los recursos de la Ley Reservada del Cobre, que entrega para gastos militares el 10% de las ganancias del mineral, no pueden ser revisados y se mantienen en absoluto secreto. Este oscurantismo es el que permitió el mayor caso de corrupción en la memoria del Ejército y quizá de toda la democracia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619393Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Traición a la patria Author: Mauricio Weibel Narrator: Marcelo Pintos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619393 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Traición a la patria Author: Mauricio Weibel Narrator: Marcelo Pintos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La historia secreta del 'Milicogate'. El millonario desfalco a los gastos reservados del cobre, por el periodista que destapó el caso. Un relato que comenzó con el embargo de armas que Estados Unidos impuso a la dictadura militar por las violaciones a los derechos humanos, que prosiguió en las fábricas de fusiles de Colonia Dignidad y que desembocó en un casino, donde el cabo Juan Carlos Cruz gastó más de dos mil millones de pesos. Chile destinó 20 mil millones de dólares a la compra de armas entre los años 2000 y 2015. Con ese dinero se podrían financiar 30 hospitales, mil liceos de excelencia, 300 centros deportivos comunales o 35 mil viviendas para erradicar todos los campamentos del país. Pero no, los recursos de la Ley Reservada del Cobre, que entrega para gastos militares el 10% de las ganancias del mineral, no pueden ser revisados y se mantienen en absoluto secreto. Este oscurantismo es el que permitió el mayor caso de corrupción en la memoria del Ejército y quizá de toda la democracia.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-inevitable-globalizacion-enfoque-cultural-y-economico-del-escenario-mundial-by-oscar-sanchez-benavides-jaime-cordero-cabrer--65206092https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La inevitable globalización: Enfoque cultural y económico del escenario mundial Author: Oscar Sánchez Benavides, Jaime Cordero Cabrera, Julio Corcuera Portugal Narrator: Roberto Sánchez Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Barreras y distancias van quedando atrás. Día a día vivimos interconectados con los demás habitantes del mundo a través de un chat, una red social, una compra electrónica, una venta de productos nativos, una clase virtual o un club de fans oficial. Estamos sumergidos, sin querer, en un proceso que no termina y lo llamamos globalización. Sin embargo, este fenómeno que nos interconecta trae consigo una serie de retos y desafíos que afectan el modelo económico, el comercio mundial y los patrones de convivencia tal cual los conocemos. Paradójicamente, mientras más «cerca» estamos, gracias al avance tecnológico, más alejados nos encontramos para establecer relaciones humanas. La inevitable globalización es un compendio de ocho artículos dividido en dos partes. En los primeros artículos, Oscar Sánchez Benavides, Julio Corcuera Portugal, Jorge Illa Boris y Daniel Flores Bueno reflexionan sobre los orígenes del término y las características de anteriores procesos de globalización, así como el actual, los efectos de las crisis económicas desde fines del siglo XX, la trazabilidad para conocer el origen de los productos que consumimos y la historia de un emprendedor peruano conocido a nivel internacional que descubrió el mundo en un atlas. La segunda parte del libro está enfocada en las paradojas y trascendencias de una cultura interconectada bajo las perspectivas de Irma del Águila Peralta, Gisella López Lenci, Bruno Rivas Frías y Jaime Cordero Cabrera, quienes analizan los atentados en París en el año 2015, Los Beatles como un fenómeno decisivo en la globalización de la música, cinco películas de Hollywood que cuestionan los alcances de una interconexión tan celebrada y la dimensión global que ha alcanzado el fútbol en los últimos años. Todos los artículos que componen esta publicación son el resultado de las reflexiones que los autores realizaron en clases con sus estudiantes y otros docentes universitarios, a lo largo de dos años y medio de trabajo.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622483Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La inevitable globalización: Enfoque cultural y económico del escenario mundial Author: Oscar Sánchez Benavides, Jaime Cordero Cabrera,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La inevitable globalización: Enfoque cultural y económico del escenario mundial Author: Oscar Sánchez Benavides, Jaime Cordero Cabrera, Julio Corcuera Portugal Narrator: Roberto Sánchez Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Barreras y distancias van quedando atrás. Día a día vivimos interconectados con los demás habitantes del mundo a través de un chat, una red social, una compra electrónica, una venta de productos nativos, una clase virtual o un club de fans oficial. Estamos sumergidos, sin querer, en un proceso que no termina y lo llamamos globalización. Sin embargo, este fenómeno que nos interconecta trae consigo una serie de retos y desafíos que afectan el modelo económico, el comercio mundial y los patrones de convivencia tal cual los conocemos. Paradójicamente, mientras más «cerca» estamos, gracias al avance tecnológico, más alejados nos encontramos para establecer relaciones humanas. La inevitable globalización es un compendio de ocho artículos dividido en dos partes. En los primeros artículos, Oscar Sánchez Benavides, Julio Corcuera Portugal, Jorge Illa Boris y Daniel Flores Bueno reflexionan sobre los orígenes del término y las características de anteriores procesos de globalización, así como el actual, los efectos de las crisis económicas desde fines del siglo XX, la trazabilidad para conocer el origen de los productos que consumimos y la historia de un emprendedor peruano conocido a nivel internacional que descubrió el mundo en un atlas. La segunda parte del libro está enfocada en las paradojas y trascendencias de una cultura interconectada bajo las perspectivas de Irma del Águila Peralta, Gisella López Lenci, Bruno Rivas Frías y Jaime Cordero Cabrera, quienes analizan los atentados en París en el año 2015, Los Beatles como un fenómeno decisivo en la globalización de la música, cinco películas de Hollywood que cuestionan los alcances de una interconexión tan celebrada y la dimensión global que ha alcanzado el fútbol en los últimos años. Todos los artículos que componen esta publicación son el resultado de las reflexiones que los autores realizaron en clases con sus estudiantes y otros docentes universitarios, a lo largo de dos años y medio de trabajo.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-history-of-the-five-eyes-the-untold-story-of-the-shadowy-international-spy-network-through-its-targets-traitors-and-spies-by-r--65206248https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies Author: Richard Kerbaj Narrator: Richard Kerbaj Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds completely new light on the most important intelligence alliance in the world' -- Tim Shipman, author of All Out War The Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is a riveting and exclusive narrative of the most powerful and least understood intelligence alliance, which has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956. Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual censorship channels to tell the definitive account of authoritative but unauthorised stories of the Western world's most powerful but least known intelligence alliance made up of the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. As Kerbaj shows, spy stories are never better than when they are true - and these span from 1930s Nazi spy rings to the most recent developments in Ukraine and China. Through personal interviews with world leaders - including British Prime Ministers Theresa May and David Cameron - and more than 100 intelligence officials, this book explores the complex personalities who helped shape the Five Eyes. They include a Scotland Yard detective who became a spymaster and inspired the first exchanges between MI5 and the FBI. An American home economics teacher who helped create one of the most effective programmes to counter Soviet espionage. The CIA's lone officer in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. GCHQ's chief during the Edward Snowden intelligence leak. And the Australian politician turned diplomat whose tip-off to the FBI instigated the inquiry into Russia's meddling in the US presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Richard Kerbaj is able to draw from deep inside the secret corridors of power and his unparalleled access spans all 5 countries. Some of the people he has interviewed include former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, CIA director General David Petraeus, MI5 director-general Eliza Manningham-Buller, NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, British National Security Advisor Kim Darroch, ASIO chief Mike Burgess, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's chief Richard Fadden, and Ciaran Martin, the official who oversaw Britain's assessments on whether the Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei, should have had a role in the creation of the UK's 5G network. This page-turning book will lift the lid on spy stories from across the English-speaking world, question the future of the alliance, and our place within it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614420Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies Author: Richard...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies Author: Richard Kerbaj Narrator: Richard Kerbaj Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds completely new light on the most important intelligence alliance in the world' -- Tim Shipman, author of All Out War The Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is a riveting and exclusive narrative of the most powerful and least understood intelligence alliance, which has been steeped in secrecy since its formation in 1956. Richard Kerbaj, an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, bypasses the usual censorship channels to tell the definitive account of authoritative but unauthorised stories of the Western world's most powerful but least known intelligence alliance made up of the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. As Kerbaj shows, spy stories are never better than when they are true - and these span from 1930s Nazi spy rings to the most recent developments in Ukraine and China. Through personal interviews with world leaders - including British Prime Ministers Theresa May and David Cameron - and more than 100 intelligence officials, this book explores the complex personalities who helped shape the Five Eyes. They include a Scotland Yard detective who became a spymaster and inspired the first exchanges between MI5 and the FBI. An American home economics teacher who helped create one of the most effective programmes to counter Soviet espionage. The CIA's lone officer in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. GCHQ's chief during the Edward Snowden intelligence leak. And the Australian politician turned diplomat whose tip-off to the FBI instigated the inquiry into Russia's meddling in the US presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Richard Kerbaj is able to draw from deep inside the secret corridors of power and his unparalleled access spans all 5 countries. Some of the people he has interviewed include former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, CIA director General David Petraeus, MI5 director-general Eliza Manningham-Buller, NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers, British National Security Advisor Kim Darroch, ASIO chief Mike Burgess, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's chief Richard Fadden, and Ciaran Martin, the official who oversaw Britain's assessments on whether the Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei, should have had a role in the creation of the UK's 5G network. This page-turning book will lift the lid on spy stories from across the English-speaking world, question the future of the alliance, and our place within it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shallow-graves-my-life-as-a-forensic-scientist-on-britain-s-biggest-cases-by-ray-fysh--65206210https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases Author: Ray Fysh Narrator: Michael Chance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko... The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen. Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show, only in existence to confirm or eliminate evidence. But by the mid 90s Ray and his team had made huge progress in their field, contributing to the UK becoming a world-leading innovator in forensic techniques, with Ray himself being named as Special Adviser to the Forensic Science Service. As the SA, Ray worked alongside Senior Investigating Officers from day one of a case, directing his team to identify forensic opportunities and harvest case-cracking clues. As Ray looks back over his career at the cases he worked on, the reader is given unparalleled insight into the highs and lows of an astonishing career, the historic classist snobbery of the Met and the stunning realities of crime and forensics]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614421Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases Author: Ray Fysh Narrator: Michael Chance Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases Author: Ray Fysh Narrator: Michael Chance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko... The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen. Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show, only in existence to confirm or eliminate evidence. But by the mid 90s Ray and his team had made huge progress in their field, contributing to the UK becoming a world-leading innovator in forensic techniques, with Ray himself being named as Special Adviser to the Forensic Science Service. As the SA, Ray worked alongside Senior Investigating Officers from day one of a case, directing his team to identify forensic opportunities and harvest case-cracking clues. As Ray looks back over his career at the cases he worked on, the reader is given unparalleled insight into the highs and lows of an astonishing career, the historic classist snobbery of the Met and the stunning realities of crime and forensics]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-las-redes-de-poder-en-espana-by-andres-villena--65206107https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las redes de poder en España Author: Andrés Villena Narrator: Emilio Bianchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Quién manda en España? ¿Por qué mandan los que ocupan puestos de poder en los ministerios, secretarías de Estado, direcciones generales? ¿Qué redes de intereses les unen entre sí? Más allá de las ''puertas giratorias'', unos grupos pequeños de altos funcionarios, personas vinculadas al poder real, sobre todo al económico, TOMAN LAS DECISIONES Y LO HACEN SIN RESPONDER ANTE LOS CIUDADANOS NI ESCUCHARLES. Porque las élites de poder no se presentan a las elecciones ni defienden un programa electoral. Los que mandan de verdad defienden sus intereses personales, los de sus amigos y los de las grandes corporaciones. Se interrelacionan formando red. Por primera vez, un libro pone estas redes al desnudo y nos cuenta con ejemplos concretos las relaciones que unen a las élites que nos gobiernan. Este libro está narrado en castellano. - Andrés Villena nació en Elche (1980), pero ha vivido la mayor parte de su vida en Málaga. Es sociólogo y periodista. Se doctoró (cum laude) en Sociología por la Universidad de Málaga, y ha obtenido sendos masters en Sociología Aplicada y Sociología de los Problemas sociales. Y es además licenciado en Economía y Ciencias de la Comunicación. Ha trabajado como columnista y redactor en diversos medios como ElPlural, Diario Público, Informativos Tele5, The Huffingtonpost y la revista CTXT, entre otros. Actualmente es asesor y coordinador de Comunicación de la alcaldía del Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619439Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las redes de poder en España Author: Andrés Villena Narrator: Emilio Bianchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las redes de poder en España Author: Andrés Villena Narrator: Emilio Bianchi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Quién manda en España? ¿Por qué mandan los que ocupan puestos de poder en los ministerios, secretarías de Estado, direcciones generales? ¿Qué redes de intereses les unen entre sí? Más allá de las ''puertas giratorias'', unos grupos pequeños de altos funcionarios, personas vinculadas al poder real, sobre todo al económico, TOMAN LAS DECISIONES Y LO HACEN SIN RESPONDER ANTE LOS CIUDADANOS NI ESCUCHARLES. Porque las élites de poder no se presentan a las elecciones ni defienden un programa electoral. Los que mandan de verdad defienden sus intereses personales, los de sus amigos y los de las grandes corporaciones. Se interrelacionan formando red. Por primera vez, un libro pone estas redes al desnudo y nos cuenta con ejemplos concretos las relaciones que unen a las élites que nos gobiernan. Este libro está narrado en castellano. - Andrés Villena nació en Elche (1980), pero ha vivido la mayor parte de su vida en Málaga. Es sociólogo y periodista. Se doctoró (cum laude) en Sociología por la Universidad de Málaga, y ha obtenido sendos masters en Sociología Aplicada y Sociología de los Problemas sociales. Y es además licenciado en Economía y Ciencias de la Comunicación. Ha trabajado como columnista y redactor en diversos medios como ElPlural, Diario Público, Informativos Tele5, The Huffingtonpost y la revista CTXT, entre otros. Actualmente es asesor y coordinador de Comunicación de la alcaldía del Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wir-konnen-auch-anders-aufbruch-in-die-welt-von-morgen-by-maja-gopel--65206075https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wir können auch anders: Aufbruch in die Welt von morgen Author: Maja Göpel Narrator: Nina West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Die Menschheit befindet sich in einem gewaltigen Transformationsprozess. Die Menge dessen, was anzupacken, zu reparieren und neu auszurichten ist, scheint übergroß. Wie finden wir Kompass, Kreativität und Courage, um diese Herausforderungen weniger zu bekämpfen als viel mehr zu gestalten? Und: wer ist eigentlich wir und warum ist das so wichtig? Die Art, wie wir leben, wird sich fundamental verändern. Bisherige Selbstverständlichkeiten in Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Politik, Gesellschaft und Technologie zerbröseln. Doch dieses Buch macht Mut: Auf Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse verdeutlicht Maja Göpel, wie wir solche komplexen Entwicklungen verstehen und dieses Wissen für eine bessere Welt nutzen können. Denn in der Geschichte hat es immer wieder Große Transformationen gegeben. Sie wurden von uns Menschen ausgelöst also können wir sie auch gestalten. Unser Fenster zur Zukunft steht offen wie nie. Mit dieser Haltung ist Strukturwandel keine Zumutung, sondern eine Chance. Es ist Zeit, dass wir jeder Einzelne von uns, aber auch die Gesellschaft als Ganzes uns erlauben, neu zu denken, zu träumen und eine radikale Frage stellen: Wer wollen wir sein?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621252Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wir können auch anders: Aufbruch in die Welt von morgen Author: Maja Göpel Narrator: Nina West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wir können auch anders: Aufbruch in die Welt von morgen Author: Maja Göpel Narrator: Nina West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Die Menschheit befindet sich in einem gewaltigen Transformationsprozess. Die Menge dessen, was anzupacken, zu reparieren und neu auszurichten ist, scheint übergroß. Wie finden wir Kompass, Kreativität und Courage, um diese Herausforderungen weniger zu bekämpfen als viel mehr zu gestalten? Und: wer ist eigentlich wir und warum ist das so wichtig? Die Art, wie wir leben, wird sich fundamental verändern. Bisherige Selbstverständlichkeiten in Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Politik, Gesellschaft und Technologie zerbröseln. Doch dieses Buch macht Mut: Auf Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse verdeutlicht Maja Göpel, wie wir solche komplexen Entwicklungen verstehen und dieses Wissen für eine bessere Welt nutzen können. Denn in der Geschichte hat es immer wieder Große Transformationen gegeben. Sie wurden von uns Menschen ausgelöst also können wir sie auch gestalten. Unser Fenster zur Zukunft steht offen wie nie. Mit dieser Haltung ist Strukturwandel keine Zumutung, sondern eine Chance. Es ist Zeit, dass wir jeder Einzelne von uns, aber auch die Gesellschaft als Ganzes uns erlauben, neu zu denken, zu träumen und eine radikale Frage stellen: Wer wollen wir sein?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-hablamos-del-suicidio-una-realidad-escondida-contada-a-traves-de-una-historia-real-a-hidden-truth-told-through-a-real-story--65206163https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - ¿Hablamos del suicidio?: Una realidad escondida contada a través de una historia real (A Hidden Truth Told Through a Real Story) Author: Carmen Sanchez Alegre Narrator: Soraya Padrao Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'A Carmen se le derrumba todo su mundo cuando se entera de que su hermano Carlos se ha suicidado. A partir de ahí, tanto ella como el resto de su familia emprenden un camino de aceptación y adaptación a esa nueva realidad, transitando las diferentes fases del duelo. De ese modo, la autora narra sus experiencias y sentimientos ante el acontecimiento traumático con el fin de representar un rayo de esperanza para personas en situación idéntica, al mismo tiempo que reclama mayor intervención, con protocolos sanitarios, por parte de los gobernantes.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618961Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - ¿Hablamos del suicidio?: Una realidad escondida contada a través de una historia real (A Hidden Truth Told Through a Real Story) Author:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - ¿Hablamos del suicidio?: Una realidad escondida contada a través de una historia real (A Hidden Truth Told Through a Real Story) Author: Carmen Sanchez Alegre Narrator: Soraya Padrao Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'A Carmen se le derrumba todo su mundo cuando se entera de que su hermano Carlos se ha suicidado. A partir de ahí, tanto ella como el resto de su familia emprenden un camino de aceptación y adaptación a esa nueva realidad, transitando las diferentes fases del duelo. De ese modo, la autora narra sus experiencias y sentimientos ante el acontecimiento traumático con el fin de representar un rayo de esperanza para personas en situación idéntica, al mismo tiempo que reclama mayor intervención, con protocolos sanitarios, por parte de los gobernantes.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-muro-by-jaime-rocha--65206145https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El muro Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Walter Krochmal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Tras su misión narrada en el best seller «Operación El Dorado Canyon», el agente del CNI Julián Roig tiene que viajar de urgencia a Marruecos para acabar siendo destinado en la embajada de España en Praga en el tumultuoso 1989.Durante esos cinco años vivirá todo tipo de misiones entre la vida y la muerte y para las que su pericia, su agilidad mental y su inteligencia serán definitorias. Los servicios de inteligencia occidentales, la Iglesia Católica, el sindicato polaco Solidaridad, el dramaturgo checo Vaclav Hável y el eslovaco Alexander Dubcek son solo algunos de los coprotagonistas de «El Muro», una obra revolucionaria que cuenta cómo funcionan los servicios de inteligencia más importantes del mundo en un contexto tan relevante como la caída del Muro de Berlín.En todo este marco, Roig deberá desplazarse de nuevo a España para interceptar un contenedor lleno de explosivos Semtex, listo para ser usado por ETA, esclarecer el asesinato de dos agentes de la STASI y para otras misiones tan delicadas, adrenalínicas y arriesgadas como la relacionada con el Papa Wojtyla y el pueblo checoslovaco. «El Muro» no solo es la obra definitiva de agentes secretos y espionaje, también es un libro donde cada misión es más real de lo que podamos creer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618963Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El muro Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Walter Krochmal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 31, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El muro Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Walter Krochmal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Tras su misión narrada en el best seller «Operación El Dorado Canyon», el agente del CNI Julián Roig tiene que viajar de urgencia a Marruecos para acabar siendo destinado en la embajada de España en Praga en el tumultuoso 1989.Durante esos cinco años vivirá todo tipo de misiones entre la vida y la muerte y para las que su pericia, su agilidad mental y su inteligencia serán definitorias. Los servicios de inteligencia occidentales, la Iglesia Católica, el sindicato polaco Solidaridad, el dramaturgo checo Vaclav Hável y el eslovaco Alexander Dubcek son solo algunos de los coprotagonistas de «El Muro», una obra revolucionaria que cuenta cómo funcionan los servicios de inteligencia más importantes del mundo en un contexto tan relevante como la caída del Muro de Berlín.En todo este marco, Roig deberá desplazarse de nuevo a España para interceptar un contenedor lleno de explosivos Semtex, listo para ser usado por ETA, esclarecer el asesinato de dos agentes de la STASI y para otras misiones tan delicadas, adrenalínicas y arriesgadas como la relacionada con el Papa Wojtyla y el pueblo checoslovaco. «El Muro» no solo es la obra definitiva de agentes secretos y espionaje, también es un libro donde cada misión es más real de lo que podamos creer.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ugly-freedoms-by-elisabeth-r-anker--65206199https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ugly Freedoms Author: Elisabeth R. Anker Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These 'ugly freedoms' legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in practices and situations often dismissed as demeaning, offensive, gross, and ineffectual but that provide sources of emancipatory potential. She analyzes both types of ugly freedom at work in a number of texts and locations, from political theory, art, and film to food, toxic dumps, and multispecies interactions. Whether examining how Kara Walker's sugar sculpture A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby reveals the importance of sugar plantations to liberal thought or how the impoverished neighborhoods in The Wire blunt neoliberalism's violence, Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616984Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ugly Freedoms Author: Elisabeth R. Anker Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ugly Freedoms Author: Elisabeth R. Anker Narrator: Chelsea Stephens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These 'ugly freedoms' legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in practices and situations often dismissed as demeaning, offensive, gross, and ineffectual but that provide sources of emancipatory potential. She analyzes both types of ugly freedom at work in a number of texts and locations, from political theory, art, and film to food, toxic dumps, and multispecies interactions. Whether examining how Kara Walker's sugar sculpture A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby reveals the importance of sugar plantations to liberal thought or how the impoverished neighborhoods in The Wire blunt neoliberalism's violence, Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unthinkable-by-j-kyle-bachus--65206147https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable Author: J. Kyle Bachus Narrator: J. Kyle Bachus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take. —Jack Canfield In the aftermath of unthinkable loss or catastrophic injury caused by the negligence of others, shock, uncertainty, and anger set in. You can't change what happened, but you can control your next steps with a plan—one that will help your family tackle the challenges ahead and ease the overwhelming burden. Few understand this more than nationally recognized lawyer Kyle Bachus. With more than twenty-five years of experience representing families in catastrophic injury and death cases, Kyle gained first-hand knowledge of his clients’ experiences when his own mother was struck and killed in a crosswalk. Now, in Unthinkable, Kyle provides a practical roadmap for navigating a path that no one chooses. He takes you through the process in chronological order, from what to expect in the police investigation to your rights as a victim and claiming victim’s compensation. You’ll gain the tools you need to handle numerous issues and unforeseen questions in the aftermath of tragedy, including insight into your options for holding those at fault accountable through the civil justice system. An invaluable asset for anyone struggling with next steps (or knows someone who is), Unthinkable is the guidance you need to control what you can, gain peace of mind, and focus on what truly counts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622111Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable Author: J. Kyle Bachus Narrator: J. Kyle Bachus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unthinkable Author: J. Kyle Bachus Narrator: J. Kyle Bachus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take. —Jack Canfield In the aftermath of unthinkable loss or catastrophic injury caused by the negligence of others, shock, uncertainty, and anger set in. You can't change what happened, but you can control your next steps with a plan—one that will help your family tackle the challenges ahead and ease the overwhelming burden. Few understand this more than nationally recognized lawyer Kyle Bachus. With more than twenty-five years of experience representing families in catastrophic injury and death cases, Kyle gained first-hand knowledge of his clients’ experiences when his own mother was struck and killed in a crosswalk. Now, in Unthinkable, Kyle provides a practical roadmap for navigating a path that no one chooses. He takes you through the process in chronological order, from what to expect in the police investigation to your rights as a victim and claiming victim’s compensation. You’ll gain the tools you need to handle numerous issues and unforeseen questions in the aftermath of tragedy, including insight into your options for holding those at fault accountable through the civil justice system. An invaluable asset for anyone struggling with next steps (or knows someone who is), Unthinkable is the guidance you need to control what you can, gain peace of mind, and focus on what truly counts.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/romanian-scrieri-indraznete-by-wael-el-manzalawy--65206130https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621165 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Romanian] - Scrieri Îndrăznețe Author: Wael El-Manzalawy Narrator: Doina Pantaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Scrierile îndrăznețe sunt scrieri foarte scurte, dar acestea pot introduce idei foarte importante. Nu este ușor de elaborat asemenea scrieri succinte. Scrierile lungi au un mai mult spațiu de a progresa. Această carte electronică conține câteva scrieri succinte, cum ar fi „Lumea după Coronavirus”, „Călătoria îți recreează gândirea”, „Apa înghețată”, „Coșmarul” și altele.Scrierile îndrăznețe sunt scrieri foarte scurte, dar acestea pot introduce idei foarte importante. Nu este ușor de elaborat asemenea scrieri succinte. Scrierile lungi au un mai mult spațiu de a progresa. Această carte electronică conține câteva scrieri succinte, cum ar fi „Lumea după Coronavirus”, „Călătoria îți recreează gândirea”, „Apa înghețată”, „Coșmarul” și altele. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621165Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621165 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Romanian] - Scrieri Îndrăznețe Author: Wael El-Manzalawy Narrator: Doina Pantaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 4 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621165 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Romanian] - Scrieri Îndrăznețe Author: Wael El-Manzalawy Narrator: Doina Pantaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Scrierile îndrăznețe sunt scrieri foarte scurte, dar acestea pot introduce idei foarte importante. Nu este ușor de elaborat asemenea scrieri succinte. Scrierile lungi au un mai mult spațiu de a progresa. Această carte electronică conține câteva scrieri succinte, cum ar fi „Lumea după Coronavirus”, „Călătoria îți recreează gândirea”, „Apa înghețată”, „Coșmarul” și altele.Scrierile îndrăznețe sunt scrieri foarte scurte, dar acestea pot introduce idei foarte importante. Nu este ușor de elaborat asemenea scrieri succinte. Scrierile lungi au un mai mult spațiu de a progresa. Această carte electronică conține câteva scrieri succinte, cum ar fi „Lumea după Coronavirus”, „Călătoria îți recreează gândirea”, „Apa înghețată”, „Coșmarul” și altele. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>35znecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-kindheit-6-7-ein-manifest-by-michael-huter--65206121https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kindheit 6.7: Ein Manifest Author: Michael Hüter Narrator: Angie Marina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: KINDHEIT 6.7, jahrelang investigativ recherchiert, ist eine Geschichte der Kindheit und zugleich Zivilisationskritik. Ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer und Manifest für ein wieder menschenwürdiges und 'artgerechtes' Aufwachsen von Kindern, für eine neue Wertschätzung der familialen Sozialisation und für vollständige Bildungsfreiheit. 'Endlich ein Buch, das so fundiert so viele Argumente zusammenträgt, die alle deutlich machen, dass es mit unserem Bildungssystem so wie bisher nicht weitergehen kann. Hoffentlich wird es möglichst bald zur Pflichtlektüre für alle Erziehungs- und Bildungsverantwortlichen und zur Lieblingslektüre für Eltern'. Gerald Hüther, Neurobiologe 'Kindheit 6.7' ist ein Meisterwerk, das eben nicht 'nur' eine Fülle recherchierter Realitäten übermittelt, sondern auch mit nachvollziehbaren Deutungen bereichert... Dr. H.-J. Maaz, Psychoanalytiker Das Buch ist in Erstauflage 2018 im Verlag Edition Liberi & Mundo erschienen und seit November 2018 Bestseller in Deutschland. Die Hörbuchfassung ist im August 2022 erschienen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621248Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kindheit 6.7: Ein Manifest Author: Michael Hüter Narrator: Angie Marina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kindheit 6.7: Ein Manifest Author: Michael Hüter Narrator: Angie Marina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: KINDHEIT 6.7, jahrelang investigativ recherchiert, ist eine Geschichte der Kindheit und zugleich Zivilisationskritik. Ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer und Manifest für ein wieder menschenwürdiges und 'artgerechtes' Aufwachsen von Kindern, für eine neue Wertschätzung der familialen Sozialisation und für vollständige Bildungsfreiheit. 'Endlich ein Buch, das so fundiert so viele Argumente zusammenträgt, die alle deutlich machen, dass es mit unserem Bildungssystem so wie bisher nicht weitergehen kann. Hoffentlich wird es möglichst bald zur Pflichtlektüre für alle Erziehungs- und Bildungsverantwortlichen und zur Lieblingslektüre für Eltern'. Gerald Hüther, Neurobiologe 'Kindheit 6.7' ist ein Meisterwerk, das eben nicht 'nur' eine Fülle recherchierter Realitäten übermittelt, sondern auch mit nachvollziehbaren Deutungen bereichert... Dr. H.-J. Maaz, Psychoanalytiker Das Buch ist in Erstauflage 2018 im Verlag Edition Liberi & Mundo erschienen und seit November 2018 Bestseller in Deutschland. Die Hörbuchfassung ist im August 2022 erschienen.]]>185tercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-klassiker-des-politischen-denkens-die-grosse-horbuch-box-ein-grundlagenwerk-der-politik-by-platon-georg-buchner-max-weber-imm--65206247https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Klassiker des politischen Denkens: Die große Hörbuch Box: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Politik Series: #24 of Klassiker des politischen Denkens: Die große Hörbuch Box Author: Platon, Georg Büchner, Max Weber, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Sun Tzu Narrator: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Was macht einen gerechten Staat aus? Was schafft Wohlstand, was Frieden, was müssen wir Menschen lernen? Unsere Box vereint diese Grundlagentexte der politischen Theorie: Die Kunst des Krieges (Sun Tzu), Die Apologie des Sokrates (Platon), Der Fürst (N. Machiavelli), Der Weg zum Wohlstand (B. Franklin), Was ist Aufklärung? (I. Kant), Der hessische Landbote (G. Büchner), Das kommunistische Manifest (K. Marx / F. Engels), Die protestantische Ethik (M. Weber)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613618Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Klassiker des politischen Denkens: Die große Hörbuch Box: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Politik Series: #24 of Klassiker des politischen Denkens:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Klassiker des politischen Denkens: Die große Hörbuch Box: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Politik Series: #24 of Klassiker des politischen Denkens: Die große Hörbuch Box Author: Platon, Georg Büchner, Max Weber, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Sun Tzu Narrator: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Was macht einen gerechten Staat aus? Was schafft Wohlstand, was Frieden, was müssen wir Menschen lernen? Unsere Box vereint diese Grundlagentexte der politischen Theorie: Die Kunst des Krieges (Sun Tzu), Die Apologie des Sokrates (Platon), Der Fürst (N. Machiavelli), Der Weg zum Wohlstand (B. Franklin), Was ist Aufklärung? (I. Kant), Der hessische Landbote (G. Büchner), Das kommunistische Manifest (K. Marx / F. Engels), Die protestantische Ethik (M. Weber)]]>185chnercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-cancelacion-el-pecado-original-de-amlo-by-javier-jimenez-espriu--65206178https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La cancelación: El pecado original de AMLO Author: Javier Jiménez Espriú Narrator: Bern Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Las razones de la polémica decisión de cancelar el NAICM, expuestas por uno de sus principales protagonistas. La decisión de cancelar el aeropuerto que había empezado a construirse en Texcoco durante la administración de Peña Nieto, sin duda fue “el sello, el punto de partida, el pecado original” del gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. En este libro documentado con suficiencia y por tanto valioso para el debate público, quien fuera secretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes revela los pormenores de tal determinación tan polémica, sosteniendo que desde su concepción el NAICM fue un proyecto sin futuro, plagado de anomalías estructurales que tarde o temprano lo harían estallar. Todo lo que afirma Jiménez Espriú está sustentado como es debido, de tal forma que aquí se encuentra con todos sus pormenores la historia de cómo y porqué se determinó la cancelación, a pesar de sus consecuencias; esto último ha hecho que gran parte de la opinión pública consideré este asunto como un expediente abierto. Así, el libro tendrá un primer círculo de lectores formado por analistas, expertos en el tema, académicos, profesores, estudiantes y ciudadanos en general, todos ellos interesados en el debate. Pero también despertará el interés de un círculo más amplio constituido por quienes siempre apoyaron la decisión presidencial.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618450Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La cancelación: El pecado original de AMLO Author: Javier Jiménez Espriú Narrator: Bern Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La cancelación: El pecado original de AMLO Author: Javier Jiménez Espriú Narrator: Bern Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Las razones de la polémica decisión de cancelar el NAICM, expuestas por uno de sus principales protagonistas. La decisión de cancelar el aeropuerto que había empezado a construirse en Texcoco durante la administración de Peña Nieto, sin duda fue “el sello, el punto de partida, el pecado original” del gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. En este libro documentado con suficiencia y por tanto valioso para el debate público, quien fuera secretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes revela los pormenores de tal determinación tan polémica, sosteniendo que desde su concepción el NAICM fue un proyecto sin futuro, plagado de anomalías estructurales que tarde o temprano lo harían estallar. Todo lo que afirma Jiménez Espriú está sustentado como es debido, de tal forma que aquí se encuentra con todos sus pormenores la historia de cómo y porqué se determinó la cancelación, a pesar de sus consecuencias; esto último ha hecho que gran parte de la opinión pública consideré este asunto como un expediente abierto. Así, el libro tendrá un primer círculo de lectores formado por analistas, expertos en el tema, académicos, profesores, estudiantes y ciudadanos en general, todos ellos interesados en el debate. Pero también despertará el interés de un círculo más amplio constituido por quienes siempre apoyaron la decisión presidencial.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-poder-y-la-republica-una-transicion-secuestrada-by-porfirio-munoz-ledo--65206172https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El poder y la república: Una transición secuestrada Author: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Narrator: Carlos álvarez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “La transformación que experimenta el país desde 2018 ha consolidado la libertad de expresión. Su mayor ganancia es el debate público sobre los grandes temas nacionales; su saldo negativo es la proliferación ilimitada de la injuria, la descalificación y los frutos podridos de la discriminación y el odio.” -Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Desde Morena, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo es la mayor voz crítica de Andrés Manuel López Obrador.En los últimos meses, la distancia entre ambos se ha incrementado. La voz de Muñoz Ledo -el principal representante de la socialdemocracia en México-se ha ido afilando, y cada día cobra una relevancia mayor para entender quéocurre en el movimiento que hoy gobierna México, lo que ha de venir y lo que debe cambiar para que la Cuarta Transformación esté a la altura de sus votantes y de sus promesas. “Éste no es un documento de ruptura de Muñoz Ledo con la Cuarta Transformación, pero sí es una declaración de distancia. […] Es sin duda un acto reflexivo leal, pero es también una crítica honesta.” -Ricardo Raphael, del Prólogo]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618457Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El poder y la república: Una transición secuestrada Author: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Narrator: Carlos álvarez Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El poder y la república: Una transición secuestrada Author: Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Narrator: Carlos álvarez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “La transformación que experimenta el país desde 2018 ha consolidado la libertad de expresión. Su mayor ganancia es el debate público sobre los grandes temas nacionales; su saldo negativo es la proliferación ilimitada de la injuria, la descalificación y los frutos podridos de la discriminación y el odio.” -Porfirio Muñoz Ledo Desde Morena, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo es la mayor voz crítica de Andrés Manuel López Obrador.En los últimos meses, la distancia entre ambos se ha incrementado. La voz de Muñoz Ledo -el principal representante de la socialdemocracia en México-se ha ido afilando, y cada día cobra una relevancia mayor para entender quéocurre en el movimiento que hoy gobierna México, lo que ha de venir y lo que debe cambiar para que la Cuarta Transformación esté a la altura de sus votantes y de sus promesas. “Éste no es un documento de ruptura de Muñoz Ledo con la Cuarta Transformación, pero sí es una declaración de distancia. […] Es sin duda un acto reflexivo leal, pero es también una crítica honesta.” -Ricardo Raphael, del Prólogo]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-sancao-premial-no-brasil-estudos-da-funcao-promocional-do-direito-na-atividade-negocial-by-fabio-martins-bonilha-curi--65206132https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Sanção Premial no Brasil: estudos da função promocional do Direito na atividade negocial Author: Fabio Martins Bonilha Curi Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A obra objetiva compreender, classificar e identificar modelos de fomento existentes em leis nacionais direcionadas às atividades negociais. Após classificar os modelos existentes, analisar-se-á o que se entende como principais modelos existentes no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, quais sejam: (i) as leis de incentivo fiscal federais que estimulam práticas sociais por meio da redução da carga tributária; (ii) a lei anticorrupção que concede redução de punição para pessoas jurídicas que criem mecanismos de integridade (programas de compliance); e (iii) as leis federais que concedem extinção ou redução de penas a pessoas jurídicas que cometeram ilícitos de interesse econômico (ilícitos anticoncorrenciais, atos de corrupção ou ilícitos em licitações e contratos públicos), por meio de instrumentos negociais denominados acordos de leniência.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620967Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Sanção Premial no Brasil: estudos da função promocional do Direito na atividade negocial Author: Fabio Martins Bonilha Curi Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Sanção Premial no Brasil: estudos da função promocional do Direito na atividade negocial Author: Fabio Martins Bonilha Curi Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A obra objetiva compreender, classificar e identificar modelos de fomento existentes em leis nacionais direcionadas às atividades negociais. Após classificar os modelos existentes, analisar-se-á o que se entende como principais modelos existentes no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, quais sejam: (i) as leis de incentivo fiscal federais que estimulam práticas sociais por meio da redução da carga tributária; (ii) a lei anticorrupção que concede redução de punição para pessoas jurídicas que criem mecanismos de integridade (programas de compliance); e (iii) as leis federais que concedem extinção ou redução de penas a pessoas jurídicas que cometeram ilícitos de interesse econômico (ilícitos anticoncorrenciais, atos de corrupção ou ilícitos em licitações e contratos públicos), por meio de instrumentos negociais denominados acordos de leniência.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-principe-by-nicolas-maquiavelo--65206120https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Príncipe Author: Nicolás Maquiavelo Narrator: Lisa Bartk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Si vale más ser amado que temido, o temido que amado. Nada mejor que ser ambas cosas a las vez, pero puesto que es difícil reunirlas y que siempre ha de faltar una, declaro, que es mejor ser temido que amado ante un pueblo'. El príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo; es considerada como una guía para gobernar y uno de los tratados mas sublimes de la historia en el arte del poder. El príncipe es un tratado de doctrina política, y compuesto por Nicolás Maquiavelo en el año 1513 mientras se encontraba en San Casciano confinado por la acusación de haber conspirado en contra de los Médici. Nicolás dedicó la obra a Lorenzo II de Medici, Hijo de Pedro II de Médici, con la esperanza de reconquistar el encargo de secretario de la republica. Se trata sin lugar a dudas, de su obra con mas renombre, aquella con la cual a nacido el sustantivo; Maquiavelismo y el adjetivo Maquiavélico. Sumérgete a escuchar la manera en que este diplomático desentraña la naturaleza humana a la hora de llegar al poder.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621176Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Príncipe Author: Nicolás Maquiavelo Narrator: Lisa Bartk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Príncipe Author: Nicolás Maquiavelo Narrator: Lisa Bartk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Si vale más ser amado que temido, o temido que amado. Nada mejor que ser ambas cosas a las vez, pero puesto que es difícil reunirlas y que siempre ha de faltar una, declaro, que es mejor ser temido que amado ante un pueblo'. El príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo; es considerada como una guía para gobernar y uno de los tratados mas sublimes de la historia en el arte del poder. El príncipe es un tratado de doctrina política, y compuesto por Nicolás Maquiavelo en el año 1513 mientras se encontraba en San Casciano confinado por la acusación de haber conspirado en contra de los Médici. Nicolás dedicó la obra a Lorenzo II de Medici, Hijo de Pedro II de Médici, con la esperanza de reconquistar el encargo de secretario de la republica. Se trata sin lugar a dudas, de su obra con mas renombre, aquella con la cual a nacido el sustantivo; Maquiavelismo y el adjetivo Maquiavélico. Sumérgete a escuchar la manera en que este diplomático desentraña la naturaleza humana a la hora de llegar al poder.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nehru-and-bose-parallel-lives-by-rudrangshu-mukherjee--65206113https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru,' wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose's untimely death in 1945 and to recount soon after, 'I used to treat him as my younger brother'?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620383Tue, 23 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru,' wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted Nehru to weep when he heard of Bose's untimely death in 1945 and to recount soon after, 'I used to treat him as my younger brother'?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-iosi-el-espia-arrepentido-by-miriam-lewin-horacio-lutzky--65206183https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Iosi. El espía arrepentido Author: Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La increíble historia del espía que la Policía infiltró en la colectividad judía y cuya información pudo servir para perpetrar el atentado a la AMIA. Para salvar su vida y gracias al fiscal Alberto Nisman, que meses después aparecería muerto, entró al Programa de Testigos protegidos. 'Realicé mi tarea mejor que nadie. Dominé el hebreo y me convertí en un sólido conocedor de la religión, la cultura, la historia y las tradiciones judías. Durante casi quince años me integré paciente y hábilmente a agrupaciones sionistas y organicé actividades. No hay institución judía a la que no haya podido entrar sin ser revisado -aun armado-, incluso después de los atentados a la Embajada de Israel y la AMIA. También pude saludar a conocidos en la Embajada y pasear por sus pasillos, los mismos que cuidan los míticos miembros del Shin Bet. Pude hacerlo porque soy Iosi. Se trataba de una labor sin horarios y sin descanso. Como dicen en 'la cole': no es fácil ser judío.' «Iosi (José Pérez) es oficial de inteligencia de la Policía Federal, y sus superiores le dieron la misión de fisgonear en la colectividad judía cómo marchaba 'El Plan Andinia', una superchería ultramontana que sostiene que Israel pretende crear un segundo estado en la Patagonia. Aprendió hebreo y lo necesario para pasar como uno más de la comunidad, dirigió instituciones, se casó con una judía, levantó planos de la AMIA y sus puntos sensibles, que acaso sirvieron para perpetrar el atentado: vio a sus superiores manipular esa documentación tiempo antes de la explosión en la calle Pasteur. Iosi terminó hurgando sobre sí mismo y confesó todo a los periodistas Miriam Lewin y Horacio Lutzky, quienes indagaron durante años la historia y pudieron escribir este relato original y sensacional.» Isidoro Gilbert]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616453Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Iosi. El espía arrepentido Author: Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Iosi. El espía arrepentido Author: Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La increíble historia del espía que la Policía infiltró en la colectividad judía y cuya información pudo servir para perpetrar el atentado a la AMIA. Para salvar su vida y gracias al fiscal Alberto Nisman, que meses después aparecería muerto, entró al Programa de Testigos protegidos. 'Realicé mi tarea mejor que nadie. Dominé el hebreo y me convertí en un sólido conocedor de la religión, la cultura, la historia y las tradiciones judías. Durante casi quince años me integré paciente y hábilmente a agrupaciones sionistas y organicé actividades. No hay institución judía a la que no haya podido entrar sin ser revisado -aun armado-, incluso después de los atentados a la Embajada de Israel y la AMIA. También pude saludar a conocidos en la Embajada y pasear por sus pasillos, los mismos que cuidan los míticos miembros del Shin Bet. Pude hacerlo porque soy Iosi. Se trataba de una labor sin horarios y sin descanso. Como dicen en 'la cole': no es fácil ser judío.' «Iosi (José Pérez) es oficial de inteligencia de la Policía Federal, y sus superiores le dieron la misión de fisgonear en la colectividad judía cómo marchaba 'El Plan Andinia', una superchería ultramontana que sostiene que Israel pretende crear un segundo estado en la Patagonia. Aprendió hebreo y lo necesario para pasar como uno más de la comunidad, dirigió instituciones, se casó con una judía, levantó planos de la AMIA y sus puntos sensibles, que acaso sirvieron para perpetrar el atentado: vio a sus superiores manipular esa documentación tiempo antes de la explosión en la calle Pasteur. Iosi terminó hurgando sobre sí mismo y confesó todo a los periodistas Miriam Lewin y Horacio Lutzky, quienes indagaron durante años la historia y pudieron escribir este relato original y sensacional.» Isidoro Gilbert]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-tactics-of-social-democracy-in-the-democratic-revolution-by-lenin--65206142https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy In The Democratic Revolution Author: Lenin Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution is one of the most important of Lenin's early writings. It was written in June and July 1905, while the Russian Revolution of 1905 was taking place. Lenin's preface poses these questions: 'in educating and organizing the working class;...where should we place the main political emphasis in this work of education and organization? On the trade unions and legally existing associations, or on an insurrection, on the work of creating a revolutionary army and a revolutionary government?' The history of social democracy stretches back to the 19th-century socialist movement. It came to advocate an evolutionary and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism, using established political processes, in contrast to the revolutionary socialist approach to transition associated with orthodox Marxism. In the early post-war era in Western Europe, social democratic parties rejected the Stalinist political and economic model then-current in the Soviet Union, committing themselves either to an alternative path to socialism or to a compromise between capitalism and socialism. In this period, social democrats embraced a mixed economy based on the predominance of private property, with only a minority of essential utilities and public services under public ownership. Social democrats promoted Keynesian economics, state interventionism, and the welfare state while placing less emphasis on the goal of replacing the capitalist system (factor markets, private property, and wage labor) with a qualitatively different socialist economic system.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620141Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy In The Democratic Revolution Author: Lenin Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy In The Democratic Revolution Author: Lenin Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution is one of the most important of Lenin's early writings. It was written in June and July 1905, while the Russian Revolution of 1905 was taking place. Lenin's preface poses these questions: 'in educating and organizing the working class;...where should we place the main political emphasis in this work of education and organization? On the trade unions and legally existing associations, or on an insurrection, on the work of creating a revolutionary army and a revolutionary government?' The history of social democracy stretches back to the 19th-century socialist movement. It came to advocate an evolutionary and peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism, using established political processes, in contrast to the revolutionary socialist approach to transition associated with orthodox Marxism. In the early post-war era in Western Europe, social democratic parties rejected the Stalinist political and economic model then-current in the Soviet Union, committing themselves either to an alternative path to socialism or to a compromise between capitalism and socialism. In this period, social democrats embraced a mixed economy based on the predominance of private property, with only a minority of essential utilities and public services under public ownership. Social democrats promoted Keynesian economics, state interventionism, and the welfare state while placing less emphasis on the goal of replacing the capitalist system (factor markets, private property, and wage labor) with a qualitatively different socialist economic system.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-die-ukraine-und-wir-deutschlands-versagen-und-die-lehren-fur-die-zukunft-by-sabine-adler--65206228https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Ukraine und wir: Deutschlands Versagen und die Lehren für die Zukunft Author: Sabine Adler Narrator: Sabine Adler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Der Krieg in der Ukraine stellt das politische und wirtschaftliche Handeln Deutschlands auf den Prüfstand. Jahrzehntelang wurde über den zweitgrößten Staat Europas hinweggeschaut und Russland hofiert. Mit fatalen Folgen. Deutschland hat versagt, konstatiert die Osteuropa-Expertin Sabine Adler. Ihre Analyse nimmt nicht nur die Ukraine und den aktuellen Krieg in den Blick, sondern vor allem Deutschlands Rolle - wirtschaftlich, politisch, medial - in Bezug auf das von Russland überfallene Land. Als langjährige und hellsichtige Beobachterin zieht sie eine kritische Bilanz: politische Versäumnisse, Lobbyismus, Doppelmoral und ein verlogener Pazifismus waren über weite Strecken bestimmend. Zeit, daraus zu lernen und einen radikalen Kurswechsel einzuleiten! »Selten treffen langjährige Kenntnis vor Ort und Vertrautheit mit der Geschichte des Schauplatzes so sehr aufeinander wie in Sabine Adlers Ukraine-Buch. Besonders für das deutsche Publikum eine längst fällige Lektüre!« Karl Schlögel]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617061Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Ukraine und wir: Deutschlands Versagen und die Lehren für die Zukunft Author: Sabine Adler Narrator: Sabine Adler Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Ukraine und wir: Deutschlands Versagen und die Lehren für die Zukunft Author: Sabine Adler Narrator: Sabine Adler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Der Krieg in der Ukraine stellt das politische und wirtschaftliche Handeln Deutschlands auf den Prüfstand. Jahrzehntelang wurde über den zweitgrößten Staat Europas hinweggeschaut und Russland hofiert. Mit fatalen Folgen. Deutschland hat versagt, konstatiert die Osteuropa-Expertin Sabine Adler. Ihre Analyse nimmt nicht nur die Ukraine und den aktuellen Krieg in den Blick, sondern vor allem Deutschlands Rolle - wirtschaftlich, politisch, medial - in Bezug auf das von Russland überfallene Land. Als langjährige und hellsichtige Beobachterin zieht sie eine kritische Bilanz: politische Versäumnisse, Lobbyismus, Doppelmoral und ein verlogener Pazifismus waren über weite Strecken bestimmend. Zeit, daraus zu lernen und einen radikalen Kurswechsel einzuleiten! »Selten treffen langjährige Kenntnis vor Ort und Vertrautheit mit der Geschichte des Schauplatzes so sehr aufeinander wie in Sabine Adlers Ukraine-Buch. Besonders für das deutsche Publikum eine längst fällige Lektüre!« Karl Schlögel]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-suppression-of-truth-in-the-united-states-and-the-world-by-martin-k-ettington--65206138https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Suppression of Truth in the United States and the World Author: Martin K Ettington Narrator: Martin K Ettington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In today’s world we live in a culture of truth suppression. This is true in representative democracies like the United States as well as full totalitarian dictatorships like Communist China. This book covers many areas of major lies like Global Warming, perverted doctrines taught in schools, Politics, News Suppression, Communist China, limitations in Spirituality, deficit spending, and problems with globalism. There are many different types of truth suppression and as much as we would like to think that we live in an advanced culture and world, this effort by different entities to suppress truth affects our lives negatively in many ways. The most direct effect is that we live in fear of the future of our world which is a big lie. This suppression also keeps us from fully realizing our spiritual natures and that we do have the ability to accomplish amazing things when we live with full honesty in our lives. I believe that individuals are closest to a state of happiness when they live their lives in truth. (See my book “A New Paradigm of Truth and Happiness” for more information.) There are actions we can take to correct this situation but they are mass actions which need many persons involved to have a real effect. A list of these actions are given later in this book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620193Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Suppression of Truth in the United States and the World Author: Martin K Ettington Narrator: Martin K Ettington Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Suppression of Truth in the United States and the World Author: Martin K Ettington Narrator: Martin K Ettington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In today’s world we live in a culture of truth suppression. This is true in representative democracies like the United States as well as full totalitarian dictatorships like Communist China. This book covers many areas of major lies like Global Warming, perverted doctrines taught in schools, Politics, News Suppression, Communist China, limitations in Spirituality, deficit spending, and problems with globalism. There are many different types of truth suppression and as much as we would like to think that we live in an advanced culture and world, this effort by different entities to suppress truth affects our lives negatively in many ways. The most direct effect is that we live in fear of the future of our world which is a big lie. This suppression also keeps us from fully realizing our spiritual natures and that we do have the ability to accomplish amazing things when we live with full honesty in our lives. I believe that individuals are closest to a state of happiness when they live their lives in truth. (See my book “A New Paradigm of Truth and Happiness” for more information.) There are actions we can take to correct this situation but they are mass actions which need many persons involved to have a real effect. A list of these actions are given later in this book.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-willkommen-in-der-zukunft-meine-entfuhrung-durch-aliens-ein-galaktischer-krieg-und-die-geburt-der-neuen-zeit-by-megan-rose--65206193https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WILLKOMMEN IN DER ZUKUNFT: Meine Entführung durch Aliens, ein Galaktischer Krieg und die Geburt der Neuen Zeit Author: Megan Rose Narrator: Conny Krause, Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: DAS WIRKEN DER ERDALLIANZ & DIE BEFREIUNG UNSERES PLANETEN Dies ist die Geschichte von Megan Rose, die zweimal von böswilligen Außerirdischen entführt und von friedliebenden nordischen Außerirdischen gerettet wurde. Sie blieb in Kontakt mit ihren Rettern und schildert in diesem Buch die Geschichte des verdeckten galaktischen Krieges auf dem Planeten Erde, wie er ihr von ihren nordischen Sternenfreunden erklärt wurde. Den Menschen auf der Erde wurde fälschlicherweise vorgegaukelt, dass es keine Außerirdischen gibt. Dabei ist das Wissen um außerirdisches Leben in diesem Sonnensystem für das Verständnis der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Erde unerlässlich. Wenn die Menschheit von der Existenz außerirdischen Lebens erfährt und ihre gleichwertige Partnerschaft mit den Sternengeschwistern antritt, beginnt ein neues Zeitalter für alle Bewohner des Planeten und dieser Galaxis. Willkommen in der Zukunft. »Megans Kontakte zu Val Nek von der Galaktischen Föderation der Welten sind wirklich bemerkenswert hinsichtlich des Umfangs und der Breite der Informationen.« - Aus der Einleitung des Bestsellerautors Michael E. Salla Megan Rose wurde in Nordvirginia geboren und wuchs in einem Vorort von Washington/DC auf. Nach einer Ausbildung zur Krankenpflegerin am State College of Florida führte ihre Leidenschaft, sich um andere zu kümmern, sie zu einer Karriere auf der Intensivstation eines Krankenhauses in Südflorida. Zu ihrer wahren Natur erwacht, machte sie sich als Medium selbstständig und verließ das Krankenhaus für ein neues Abenteuer. Auch ihre aktuelle Tätigkeit übt sie mit der größten Liebe aus. Ihr Engagement für Heilung dauert an.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618580Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WILLKOMMEN IN DER ZUKUNFT: Meine Entführung durch Aliens, ein Galaktischer Krieg und die Geburt der Neuen Zeit Author: Megan Rose Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WILLKOMMEN IN DER ZUKUNFT: Meine Entführung durch Aliens, ein Galaktischer Krieg und die Geburt der Neuen Zeit Author: Megan Rose Narrator: Conny Krause, Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: DAS WIRKEN DER ERDALLIANZ & DIE BEFREIUNG UNSERES PLANETEN Dies ist die Geschichte von Megan Rose, die zweimal von böswilligen Außerirdischen entführt und von friedliebenden nordischen Außerirdischen gerettet wurde. Sie blieb in Kontakt mit ihren Rettern und schildert in diesem Buch die Geschichte des verdeckten galaktischen Krieges auf dem Planeten Erde, wie er ihr von ihren nordischen Sternenfreunden erklärt wurde. Den Menschen auf der Erde wurde fälschlicherweise vorgegaukelt, dass es keine Außerirdischen gibt. Dabei ist das Wissen um außerirdisches Leben in diesem Sonnensystem für das Verständnis der Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Erde unerlässlich. Wenn die Menschheit von der Existenz außerirdischen Lebens erfährt und ihre gleichwertige Partnerschaft mit den Sternengeschwistern antritt, beginnt ein neues Zeitalter für alle Bewohner des Planeten und dieser Galaxis. Willkommen in der Zukunft. »Megans Kontakte zu Val Nek von der Galaktischen Föderation der Welten sind wirklich bemerkenswert hinsichtlich des Umfangs und der Breite der Informationen.« - Aus der Einleitung des Bestsellerautors Michael E. Salla Megan Rose wurde in Nordvirginia geboren und wuchs in einem Vorort von Washington/DC auf. Nach einer Ausbildung zur Krankenpflegerin am State College of Florida führte ihre Leidenschaft, sich um andere zu kümmern, sie zu einer Karriere auf der Intensivstation eines Krankenhauses in Südflorida. Zu ihrer wahren Natur erwacht, machte sie sich als Medium selbstständig und verließ das Krankenhaus für ein neues Abenteuer. Auch ihre aktuelle Tätigkeit übt sie mit der größten Liebe aus. Ihr Engagement für Heilung dauert an.]]>185hrungcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-china-by-henry-kissinger--65206206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - China Author: Henry Kissinger Narrator: Roger Vidal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La visión sobre China de una de las grandes figuras de la política internacional en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y Premio Nobel de la Paz. Cualquier intento de comprender el futuro papel de China en el mundo comienza con el reconocimiento de su historia: ningún otro país puede reivindicar una relación tan poderosa con su pasado y sus principios tradicionales, y son muy pocas las sociedades que han alcanzado una dimensión y una sofisticación comparables. Henry Kissinger fue el gran artífice de la apertura de China al mundo con su visita en 1971 como secretario de Estado, y la preparación de la que al año siguiente llevaría a cabo el presidente Nixon. Desde entonces, la relevancia de China en el mundo no ha dejado de crecer. Kissinger ha ayudado a configurar las relaciones de China con Occidente, y ha escrito por fin la historia de un país que conoce íntimamente. En este libro, Kissinger revisa los episodios clave de la política internacional china desde la época clásica hasta nuestros días y examina su estrategia diplomática en momentos tan fundamentales como los primeros encuentros entre el país asiático y las modernas potencias europeas, la creación y el colapso de la alianza chino-soviética, la guerra de Corea, el viaje histórico de Richard Nixon a Pekín y las tres crisis en el estrecho de Taiwán. Y, a partir de documentos históricos y de las conversaciones mantenidas con los líderes chinos durante los últimos cuarenta años, examina el modo en que China ha abordado la diplomacia, la estrategia y la negociación a lo largo de su historia, y reflexiona sobre sus consecuencias en el balance global del poder en el siglo XXI.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613729Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - China Author: Henry Kissinger Narrator: Roger Vidal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - China Author: Henry Kissinger Narrator: Roger Vidal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La visión sobre China de una de las grandes figuras de la política internacional en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y Premio Nobel de la Paz. Cualquier intento de comprender el futuro papel de China en el mundo comienza con el reconocimiento de su historia: ningún otro país puede reivindicar una relación tan poderosa con su pasado y sus principios tradicionales, y son muy pocas las sociedades que han alcanzado una dimensión y una sofisticación comparables. Henry Kissinger fue el gran artífice de la apertura de China al mundo con su visita en 1971 como secretario de Estado, y la preparación de la que al año siguiente llevaría a cabo el presidente Nixon. Desde entonces, la relevancia de China en el mundo no ha dejado de crecer. Kissinger ha ayudado a configurar las relaciones de China con Occidente, y ha escrito por fin la historia de un país que conoce íntimamente. En este libro, Kissinger revisa los episodios clave de la política internacional china desde la época clásica hasta nuestros días y examina su estrategia diplomática en momentos tan fundamentales como los primeros encuentros entre el país asiático y las modernas potencias europeas, la creación y el colapso de la alianza chino-soviética, la guerra de Corea, el viaje histórico de Richard Nixon a Pekín y las tres crisis en el estrecho de Taiwán. Y, a partir de documentos históricos y de las conversaciones mantenidas con los líderes chinos durante los últimos cuarenta años, examina el modo en que China ha abordado la diplomacia, la estrategia y la negociación a lo largo de su historia, y reflexiona sobre sus consecuencias en el balance global del poder en el siglo XXI.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-georg-simmel-die-grossstadte-und-das-geistesleben-ein-grundlagenwerk-der-soziologie-by-georg-simmel--65206251https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben Author: Georg Simmel Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Georg Simmel (1858 - 1918), war Philosoph und Soziologe. Sein Essay über die 'Großstädte und das Geistesleben' war bahnbrechend - weil es eingänglich schildert, wie die Großstadt auf das Individuum wirkt. Ein faszinierendes, zeitloses Werk.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613548Fri, 05 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben Author: Georg Simmel Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Georg Simmel (1858 - 1918), war Philosoph und Soziologe. Sein Essay über die 'Großstädte und das Geistesleben' war bahnbrechend - weil es eingänglich schildert, wie die Großstadt auf das Individuum wirkt. Ein faszinierendes, zeitloses Werk.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-georg-simmel-zur-psychologie-des-geldes-ein-grundlagenwerk-der-soziologie-by-georg-simmel--65206219https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes Author: Georg Simmel Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Georg Simmel (1858 - 1918), war Philosoph und Soziologe. Sein Essay über die 'Pychologie des Geldes' war bahnbrechend - weil wissenschaftlich und zugleich allgemeinverständlich! Ein faszinierendes, zeitloses Werk.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613547Fri, 05 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes Author:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Soziologie Series: #24 of Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie des Geldes Author: Georg Simmel Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 5, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Georg Simmel (1858 - 1918), war Philosoph und Soziologe. Sein Essay über die 'Pychologie des Geldes' war bahnbrechend - weil wissenschaftlich und zugleich allgemeinverständlich! Ein faszinierendes, zeitloses Werk.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-nueva-disputa-sobre-el-futuro-ideas-viejas-para-un-mexico-moderno-by-luis-rubio--65206253https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La nueva disputa sobre el futuro: Ideas viejas para un Mexico moderno Author: Luis Rubio Narrator: Luis Pineda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué nos quedará después de AMLO y el covid? Andrés Manuel López Obrador le gusta mirar hacia atrás. Asegura que su gobierno será equiparable a la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolución… Culpa a las administraciones pasadas de situaciones surgidas en su sexenio… Y propone soluciones de 1970 para los problemas actuales del país. El presidente de México llegó al poder haciendo promesas magníficas,pero callando las vías y métodos que usaría para cumplirlas. Hoy, que ha transcurrido casi la mitad de su gobierno, no sólo ha revelado sus fórmulas y propuestas, sino que sus ideas y recetas ya fueron probadas -y algunas veces reprobadas- por la realidad. En esta obra, Luis Rubio analiza las decisiones que ha tomado López Obrador, enumera los precedentes que ha habido (y cuálesfueron los resultados) y, con datos en mano, explica qué México se está configurando hoy. Encuentra, así, que tenemos un presidente más preocupado por el pasado que dedicado a construir el futuro, y cuyas acciones lo asemejan mucho más a Luis Echeverría que a Benito Juárez.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614412Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La nueva disputa sobre el futuro: Ideas viejas para un Mexico moderno Author: Luis Rubio Narrator: Luis Pineda Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La nueva disputa sobre el futuro: Ideas viejas para un Mexico moderno Author: Luis Rubio Narrator: Luis Pineda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué nos quedará después de AMLO y el covid? Andrés Manuel López Obrador le gusta mirar hacia atrás. Asegura que su gobierno será equiparable a la Independencia, la Reforma y la Revolución… Culpa a las administraciones pasadas de situaciones surgidas en su sexenio… Y propone soluciones de 1970 para los problemas actuales del país. El presidente de México llegó al poder haciendo promesas magníficas,pero callando las vías y métodos que usaría para cumplirlas. Hoy, que ha transcurrido casi la mitad de su gobierno, no sólo ha revelado sus fórmulas y propuestas, sino que sus ideas y recetas ya fueron probadas -y algunas veces reprobadas- por la realidad. En esta obra, Luis Rubio analiza las decisiones que ha tomado López Obrador, enumera los precedentes que ha habido (y cuálesfueron los resultados) y, con datos en mano, explica qué México se está configurando hoy. Encuentra, así, que tenemos un presidente más preocupado por el pasado que dedicado a construir el futuro, y cuyas acciones lo asemejan mucho más a Luis Echeverría que a Benito Juárez.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-voto-en-contra-by-jose-ramon-cossio--65206213https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Voto en contra Author: José Ramón Cossío Narrator: Adrián Ogazón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones. En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la privacidad, la inclusión, el valor de los tratados internacionales e incluso el 'derecho a la irreverencia', entre muchos otros. Y poco a poco, gracias a jueces como José Ramón Cossío, las perspectivas más progresistas han ido ganando terreno. En esta obra, el exministro explica con sencillez y pasión algunos de los votos más importantes de su carrera: aquéllos en los que discrepó con la mayoría, pero que a la larga permitieron más derechos, más democracia, más pluralidad. Voto en contra revela, así, un país dinámico, vibrante y complejo, en el que la inteligencia y las instituciones pueden librar y ganar las batallas más trascendentes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614411Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Voto en contra Author: José Ramón Cossío Narrator: Adrián Ogazón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Voto en contra Author: José Ramón Cossío Narrator: Adrián Ogazón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones. En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la privacidad, la inclusión, el valor de los tratados internacionales e incluso el 'derecho a la irreverencia', entre muchos otros. Y poco a poco, gracias a jueces como José Ramón Cossío, las perspectivas más progresistas han ido ganando terreno. En esta obra, el exministro explica con sencillez y pasión algunos de los votos más importantes de su carrera: aquéllos en los que discrepó con la mayoría, pero que a la larga permitieron más derechos, más democracia, más pluralidad. Voto en contra revela, así, un país dinámico, vibrante y complejo, en el que la inteligencia y las instituciones pueden librar y ganar las batallas más trascendentes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-ser-liberal-una-opcion-razonada-by-federico-reyes-heroles--65206200https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser liberal: Una opción razonada Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: «Si una persona niega la ciencia y los relevos sucesivos de verdades relativas, estará imposibilitada para comprender la mecánica liberal.» Liberal y liberalismo son palabras que se usan con demasiada frecuencia y poca precisión en la prensa y en los debates políticos contemporáneos. En algunos casos se utilizan con un sentido positivo incuestionable, y en otros, con un dejo de sorna o desconfianza. En este libro, Federico Reyes Heroles se pregunta qué es ser liberal, fuera de partidos y coyunturas. Y para contestar esta pregunta, más que volver a contar cronológica o escolarmente la historia del liberalismo, ofrece guías de razonamiento, preguntas clave: ¿es el liberalismo una ideología o una escuela de pensamiento? ¿Cuál es la relación del liberalismo con la verdad y con la ciencia? En la geometría política de derecha e izquierda, ¿dónde se sitúa el liberal? ¿Aspira el liberalismo a alguna clase de utopía o estado de perfección? Ser liberal es también la crónica de una convicción vital. Federico Reyes Heroles revisita autores fundamentales -Adam Smith, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke- y clásicos contemporáneos -Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Martha Nussbaum- para establecer las coordenadas de este sistema de pensamiento contrario a la paz aparente o engañosa que ofrecen los dogmas. Nos recuerda que el liberalismo es una actitud de apertura al cambio y el cuestionamiento permanentes, una cultura sustentada en el valor de la discusión, la hermandad con la ciencia y la empatía.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614410Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser liberal: Una opción razonada Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ser liberal: Una opción razonada Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: «Si una persona niega la ciencia y los relevos sucesivos de verdades relativas, estará imposibilitada para comprender la mecánica liberal.» Liberal y liberalismo son palabras que se usan con demasiada frecuencia y poca precisión en la prensa y en los debates políticos contemporáneos. En algunos casos se utilizan con un sentido positivo incuestionable, y en otros, con un dejo de sorna o desconfianza. En este libro, Federico Reyes Heroles se pregunta qué es ser liberal, fuera de partidos y coyunturas. Y para contestar esta pregunta, más que volver a contar cronológica o escolarmente la historia del liberalismo, ofrece guías de razonamiento, preguntas clave: ¿es el liberalismo una ideología o una escuela de pensamiento? ¿Cuál es la relación del liberalismo con la verdad y con la ciencia? En la geometría política de derecha e izquierda, ¿dónde se sitúa el liberal? ¿Aspira el liberalismo a alguna clase de utopía o estado de perfección? Ser liberal es también la crónica de una convicción vital. Federico Reyes Heroles revisita autores fundamentales -Adam Smith, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke- y clásicos contemporáneos -Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Martha Nussbaum- para establecer las coordenadas de este sistema de pensamiento contrario a la paz aparente o engañosa que ofrecen los dogmas. Nos recuerda que el liberalismo es una actitud de apertura al cambio y el cuestionamiento permanentes, una cultura sustentada en el valor de la discusión, la hermandad con la ciencia y la empatía.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soli-sorabji-biography-life-and-times-an-authorized-biography-by-abhinav-chandrachud--65206237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soli Sorabji Biography: Life And Times: An Authorized Biography Author: Abhinav Chandrachud Narrator: Vivek Bhatia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The first authorized biography of Soli Sorabjee ‘A gripping life story of a Goliath who strode the Indian legal canvass for nearly seventy years.’ – Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General of India ‘Superbly researched, this book by Abhinav Chandrachud is a must read. ‘ – Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General in the Supreme Court of India How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahá’í and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government? How does a boy with a broken leg, who studied in a Gujarati-medium school, and lost his father at the age of nineteen, go on to mount a heroic defense of the Janata government’s decision to dissolve Congress state legislatures (in 1977) in the Supreme Court? How does a newspaper columnist who admires Nehru, who criticizes the BJP for being ‘obsessed’ with ‘demolishing mosques’ and advises them to replace ‘Hindutva’ with ‘Bharatva’ or ‘Indianness’, get chosen by Prime Minister Vajpayee to represent the government in the Supreme Court in many cases, including the Ayodhya case? How does a lawyer with a humdrum customs and excise law practice, whose grandfather sold horsedrawn carriages in Bombay, become a U.N. human rights rapporteur, and repeatedly defend the fundamental right to free speech and expression in the Supreme Court of India? Definitive, comprehensive and absolutely unputdownable, this first biography of Soli Sorabjee opens a window into the life and times of one of India’s foremost constitutional experts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615297Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soli Sorabji Biography: Life And Times: An Authorized Biography Author: Abhinav Chandrachud Narrator: Vivek Bhatia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soli Sorabji Biography: Life And Times: An Authorized Biography Author: Abhinav Chandrachud Narrator: Vivek Bhatia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The first authorized biography of Soli Sorabjee ‘A gripping life story of a Goliath who strode the Indian legal canvass for nearly seventy years.’ – Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General of India ‘Superbly researched, this book by Abhinav Chandrachud is a must read. ‘ – Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General in the Supreme Court of India How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahá’í and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government? How does a boy with a broken leg, who studied in a Gujarati-medium school, and lost his father at the age of nineteen, go on to mount a heroic defense of the Janata government’s decision to dissolve Congress state legislatures (in 1977) in the Supreme Court? How does a newspaper columnist who admires Nehru, who criticizes the BJP for being ‘obsessed’ with ‘demolishing mosques’ and advises them to replace ‘Hindutva’ with ‘Bharatva’ or ‘Indianness’, get chosen by Prime Minister Vajpayee to represent the government in the Supreme Court in many cases, including the Ayodhya case? How does a lawyer with a humdrum customs and excise law practice, whose grandfather sold horsedrawn carriages in Bombay, become a U.N. human rights rapporteur, and repeatedly defend the fundamental right to free speech and expression in the Supreme Court of India? Definitive, comprehensive and absolutely unputdownable, this first biography of Soli Sorabjee opens a window into the life and times of one of India’s foremost constitutional experts.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-me-hijack-your-mind-restart-your-life-with-freedom-by-vandana-saxena-poria-alyque-padamsee--65206187https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Hijack Your Mind: Restart Your Life With Freedom Author: Vandana Saxena Poria, Alyque Padamsee Narrator: Vinifer Gandhi, Mishal Varma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this one-of-its-kind book by the late Alyque Padamsee, he invites us to re-examine and think afresh about some of our most deeply held beliefs, from love, marriage, terrorism, leadership, money, gender, faith to education. Let Me Hijack Your Mind is Alyque's parting gift to Indians, exhorting them to throw out the old and embrace new ways of approaching everything, which will lead them towards a more exciting and contented life-and a better society and country. It is a way to open windows in their mind to think about life aside from greed, power and money. This is a book designed to throw everyone off-balance in a good way, because it is crammed with fresh ideas on how to live, how to dream and how to completely reset our mindset and attitudes. As Alyque says in his inimitable style: 'Get people out of stuffy thinking.'Some of the provocative questions he asks are:- Why should marriage be 'till death do us part'?- Why are terrorists breaking the law of their very own holy books?- Why are multinational companies obsessed with GNP (Gross National Product) instead of GNH (Gross National Happiness)?- Why do men fear women? And why do women hate themselves?A fun, racy and often shocking read, the book busts some of the most well-known taboos, includes life hacks drawing on his experiences in advertising and theatre, as well as new 'commandments' for the present generation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615299Tue, 02 Aug 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Hijack Your Mind: Restart Your Life With Freedom Author: Vandana Saxena Poria, Alyque Padamsee Narrator: Vinifer Gandhi, Mishal Varma Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let Me Hijack Your Mind: Restart Your Life With Freedom Author: Vandana Saxena Poria, Alyque Padamsee Narrator: Vinifer Gandhi, Mishal Varma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this one-of-its-kind book by the late Alyque Padamsee, he invites us to re-examine and think afresh about some of our most deeply held beliefs, from love, marriage, terrorism, leadership, money, gender, faith to education. Let Me Hijack Your Mind is Alyque's parting gift to Indians, exhorting them to throw out the old and embrace new ways of approaching everything, which will lead them towards a more exciting and contented life-and a better society and country. It is a way to open windows in their mind to think about life aside from greed, power and money. This is a book designed to throw everyone off-balance in a good way, because it is crammed with fresh ideas on how to live, how to dream and how to completely reset our mindset and attitudes. As Alyque says in his inimitable style: 'Get people out of stuffy thinking.'Some of the provocative questions he asks are:- Why should marriage be 'till death do us part'?- Why are terrorists breaking the law of their very own holy books?- Why are multinational companies obsessed with GNP (Gross National Product) instead of GNH (Gross National Happiness)?- Why do men fear women? And why do women hate themselves?A fun, racy and often shocking read, the book busts some of the most well-known taboos, includes life hacks drawing on his experiences in advertising and theatre, as well as new 'commandments' for the present generation.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-o-teletrabalho-home-office-no-poder-judiciario-brasileiro-desafios-economicos-regulatorios-e-socioambientais-by-luciana-far--65206236https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O teletrabalho/home office no Poder Judiciário brasileiro: desafios econômicos, regulatórios e socioambientais Author: Luciana Faria De Carvalho Narrator: Equipe Multcast Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este livro analisa o teletrabalho/home office no Poder Judiciário brasileiro e seus desafios contemporâneos, numa perspectiva dialógica, nos aspectos econômicos, regulatórios e socioambientais. A obra traz a identificação dos principais desafios econômicos do Poder Judiciário, por meio da análise econômica do direito, apontando as externalidades positivas e negativas, a redução de custos e otimização do tempo pela utilização do teletrabalho. Analisa, ainda, desafios regulatórios como as metas de desempenho de servidores, o direito subjetivo ao teletrabalho e o custeio dos equipamentos laborais. Por fim, traz os desafios socioambientais como a necessidade de inclusão social, as questões de gênero, o direito à desconexão laboral e a qualidade de vida dos servidores e magistrados em teletrabalho no Poder Judiciário. Demonstra que, de acordo com dados do CNJ, o Poder Judiciário aumentou sua produtividade com o teletrabalho compulsório e emergencial durante a Pandemia de Covid-19, que acelerou o uso de tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), na sociedade em rede, após o advento do marco civil da internet e do marco teórico da LGPD, projetando o Judiciário para a 4ª Revolução Industrial. Traz como contribuição a necessidade da análise do direito sob o viés interdisciplinar, situando o teletrabalho na CLT com interfaces do direito estrangeiro e a regulação, no campo administrativo, por meio das resoluções do CNJ e dos tribunais.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616208Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O teletrabalho/home office no Poder Judiciário brasileiro: desafios econômicos, regulatórios e socioambientais Author: Luciana Faria De...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O teletrabalho/home office no Poder Judiciário brasileiro: desafios econômicos, regulatórios e socioambientais Author: Luciana Faria De Carvalho Narrator: Equipe Multcast Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este livro analisa o teletrabalho/home office no Poder Judiciário brasileiro e seus desafios contemporâneos, numa perspectiva dialógica, nos aspectos econômicos, regulatórios e socioambientais. A obra traz a identificação dos principais desafios econômicos do Poder Judiciário, por meio da análise econômica do direito, apontando as externalidades positivas e negativas, a redução de custos e otimização do tempo pela utilização do teletrabalho. Analisa, ainda, desafios regulatórios como as metas de desempenho de servidores, o direito subjetivo ao teletrabalho e o custeio dos equipamentos laborais. Por fim, traz os desafios socioambientais como a necessidade de inclusão social, as questões de gênero, o direito à desconexão laboral e a qualidade de vida dos servidores e magistrados em teletrabalho no Poder Judiciário. Demonstra que, de acordo com dados do CNJ, o Poder Judiciário aumentou sua produtividade com o teletrabalho compulsório e emergencial durante a Pandemia de Covid-19, que acelerou o uso de tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), na sociedade em rede, após o advento do marco civil da internet e do marco teórico da LGPD, projetando o Judiciário para a 4ª Revolução Industrial. Traz como contribuição a necessidade da análise do direito sob o viés interdisciplinar, situando o teletrabalho na CLT com interfaces do direito estrangeiro e a regulação, no campo administrativo, por meio das resoluções do CNJ e dos tribunais.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-comercio-eletronico-e-servicos-digitais-dos-conceitos-internacionais-e-desenvolvimento-normativo-no-bloco-europeu-as-perspec--65206157https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Comércio Eletrônico e Serviços Digitais: dos conceitos internacionais e desenvolvimento normativo no bloco europeu às perspectivas do acordo Mercosul – União Europeia Author: Júlio César Parente Patrocínio Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: O ambiente digital não tem fronteiras. A todo instante surge um novo modelo de negócio, produto ou serviço tecnológico. Junto com as facilidades e soluções que o desenvolvimento tecnológico traz, surgem também novos problemas, conflitos e litígios nas relações sociais e econômicas. As leis de diversos países muitas das vezes não conseguem acompanhar a rapidez do dinamismo digital. Ainda não há um consenso nas organizações internacionais de comércio sobre o conceito de serviços digitais e comércio eletrônico. É nesse cenário que a União Europeia-UE tem elaborado constantemente normas que regulam o ambiente digital, garantindo e aliando segurança jurídica e padronização das regras com a praticidade dessas novas relações sociais e de comércio, estimulando a inovação e o crescimento econômico. Enquanto não há consenso em relação ao tema na OMC e na OCDE, a UE vem influenciando legislações em todo o mundo e incluindo capítulos sobre comércio eletrônico em seus acordos comerciais de integração profunda com terceiros países. O livro analisa as diversas normas da UE que regulam o ambiente online, tais como: proteção de dados pessoais, comércio eletrônico, contrato eletrônico, publicidade, serviços digitais, direitos dos consumidores, tributação, assinatura e identificação eletrônica. Traz diversas jurisprudências do Tribunal de Justiça e dos tribunais nacionais da UE. É demonstrada a influência da UE no Mercosul, realizando análise das leis e jurisprudências dos países mercosulinos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619373Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Comércio Eletrônico e Serviços Digitais: dos conceitos internacionais e desenvolvimento normativo no bloco europeu às perspectivas do...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Comércio Eletrônico e Serviços Digitais: dos conceitos internacionais e desenvolvimento normativo no bloco europeu às perspectivas do acordo Mercosul – União Europeia Author: Júlio César Parente Patrocínio Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 29, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: O ambiente digital não tem fronteiras. A todo instante surge um novo modelo de negócio, produto ou serviço tecnológico. Junto com as facilidades e soluções que o desenvolvimento tecnológico traz, surgem também novos problemas, conflitos e litígios nas relações sociais e econômicas. As leis de diversos países muitas das vezes não conseguem acompanhar a rapidez do dinamismo digital. Ainda não há um consenso nas organizações internacionais de comércio sobre o conceito de serviços digitais e comércio eletrônico. É nesse cenário que a União Europeia-UE tem elaborado constantemente normas que regulam o ambiente digital, garantindo e aliando segurança jurídica e padronização das regras com a praticidade dessas novas relações sociais e de comércio, estimulando a inovação e o crescimento econômico. Enquanto não há consenso em relação ao tema na OMC e na OCDE, a UE vem influenciando legislações em todo o mundo e incluindo capítulos sobre comércio eletrônico em seus acordos comerciais de integração profunda com terceiros países. O livro analisa as diversas normas da UE que regulam o ambiente online, tais como: proteção de dados pessoais, comércio eletrônico, contrato eletrônico, publicidade, serviços digitais, direitos dos consumidores, tributação, assinatura e identificação eletrônica. Traz diversas jurisprudências do Tribunal de Justiça e dos tribunais nacionais da UE. É demonstrada a influência da UE no Mercosul, realizando análise das leis e jurisprudências dos países mercosulinos.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-lawyers-in-heaven-by-henry-milner--65206179https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Lawyers in Heaven Author: Henry Milner Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The life of a criminal defence lawyer is shrouded in mystery. Outsiders might wonder about how to deal with potentially dangerous clients; what happens behind the scenes when building a defence; and, that age-old moral dilemma, how a lawyer can defend someone they think is guilty. But what is life really like for those tasked with representing the shadowy underbelly of society? For over forty years, criminal defence solicitor Henry Milner has been the go-to lawyer for some of Britain's most notorious criminals including Kenneth Noye and the Brink's-Mat robbers, Freddie Foreman, John 'Goldfinger' Palmer and the gang behind the Millennium Dome raid. Here, the lawyer referred to in the Sunday Times as 'The Mr Big of Criminal Briefs' offers a fascinating insight into life at the top of the profession, lifting the lid on the psychology of those who end up on the wrong side of the law and those who defend them. By turns shocking and hilarious, this remarkable memoir takes us deep into the enigmatic criminal underworld, delivering a wry personal commentary on the most extraordinary aspects of a life spent amongst the accused. 'A fascinating read as a top-class criminal defence lawyer tells the story of his top-class clients and their top-class crimes'. JAMES MORTON author of Krays: The Final Word “A no-holds-barred exposé.” ANDY MCNAB “An entertaining and revealing insight into the world of the criminal defence lawyer and the inside stories behind some of the Old Bailey s most famous cases.” DUNCAN CAMPBELL, journalist and author of Underworld: The definitive history of Britain's organised crime “A fascinating read and brilliantly written.” CLARE MONTGOMERY QC “Henry Milner's colourful account of a career over decades as a criminal defence solicitor evokes a bygone era of the criminal justice system. In a highly readable style with plenty of wry self-deprecating humour, Milner gives a compelling insight into a life defending some of the big-league criminal names. A must-read.” FRANCES GIBB, former legal editor,The Times “What a great read and testament to a stellar career” CRISPIN AYLETT QC]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614946Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Lawyers in Heaven Author: Henry Milner Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Lawyers in Heaven Author: Henry Milner Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The life of a criminal defence lawyer is shrouded in mystery. Outsiders might wonder about how to deal with potentially dangerous clients; what happens behind the scenes when building a defence; and, that age-old moral dilemma, how a lawyer can defend someone they think is guilty. But what is life really like for those tasked with representing the shadowy underbelly of society? For over forty years, criminal defence solicitor Henry Milner has been the go-to lawyer for some of Britain's most notorious criminals including Kenneth Noye and the Brink's-Mat robbers, Freddie Foreman, John 'Goldfinger' Palmer and the gang behind the Millennium Dome raid. Here, the lawyer referred to in the Sunday Times as 'The Mr Big of Criminal Briefs' offers a fascinating insight into life at the top of the profession, lifting the lid on the psychology of those who end up on the wrong side of the law and those who defend them. By turns shocking and hilarious, this remarkable memoir takes us deep into the enigmatic criminal underworld, delivering a wry personal commentary on the most extraordinary aspects of a life spent amongst the accused. 'A fascinating read as a top-class criminal defence lawyer tells the story of his top-class clients and their top-class crimes'. JAMES MORTON author of Krays: The Final Word “A no-holds-barred exposé.” ANDY MCNAB “An entertaining and revealing insight into the world of the criminal defence lawyer and the inside stories behind some of the Old Bailey s most famous cases.” DUNCAN CAMPBELL, journalist and author of Underworld: The definitive history of Britain's organised crime “A fascinating read and brilliantly written.” CLARE MONTGOMERY QC “Henry Milner's colourful account of a career over decades as a criminal defence solicitor evokes a bygone era of the criminal justice system. In a highly readable style with plenty of wry self-deprecating humour, Milner gives a compelling insight into a life defending some of the big-league criminal names. A must-read.” FRANCES GIBB, former legal editor,The Times “What a great read and testament to a stellar career” CRISPIN AYLETT QC]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-money-die-7-einfachen-schritte-zur-finanziellen-freiheit-by-tony-robbins--65206222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Money: Die 7 einfachen Schritte zur finanziellen Freiheit Author: Tony Robbins Narrator: Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Mehr als 10 Jahre sind seit seiner letzten Veröffentlichung in Deutschland vergangen, jetzt meldet sich Anthony Robbins zurück. Als Personal Trainer beriet er Persönlichkeiten wie Bill Clinton und Serena Williams sowie ein weltweites Millionenpublikum, nun widmet er seine Aufmerksamkeit den Finanzen. Basierend auf umfangreichen Recherchen und Interviews mit mehr als 50 Starinvestoren, wie Warren Buffett oder Star-Hedgefondsmanager Carl Icahn, hat Robbins die besten Strategien für die private finanzielle Absicherung entwickelt. Sein Werk bündelt die Expertise erfolgreicher Finanzmarktakteure und seine Beratungserfahrung. Selbst komplexe Anlagestrategien werden verständlich erläutert, ohne an Präzision einzubüßen. In 7 Schritten zur finanziellen Unabhängigkeit - praxisnah und für jeden umsetzbar.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613992Fri, 22 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Money: Die 7 einfachen Schritte zur finanziellen Freiheit Author: Tony Robbins Narrator: Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Money: Die 7 einfachen Schritte zur finanziellen Freiheit Author: Tony Robbins Narrator: Michael J. Diekmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Mehr als 10 Jahre sind seit seiner letzten Veröffentlichung in Deutschland vergangen, jetzt meldet sich Anthony Robbins zurück. Als Personal Trainer beriet er Persönlichkeiten wie Bill Clinton und Serena Williams sowie ein weltweites Millionenpublikum, nun widmet er seine Aufmerksamkeit den Finanzen. Basierend auf umfangreichen Recherchen und Interviews mit mehr als 50 Starinvestoren, wie Warren Buffett oder Star-Hedgefondsmanager Carl Icahn, hat Robbins die besten Strategien für die private finanzielle Absicherung entwickelt. Sein Werk bündelt die Expertise erfolgreicher Finanzmarktakteure und seine Beratungserfahrung. Selbst komplexe Anlagestrategien werden verständlich erläutert, ohne an Präzision einzubüßen. In 7 Schritten zur finanziellen Unabhängigkeit - praxisnah und für jeden umsetzbar.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-gsg-9-ein-deutscher-mythos-by-martin-herzog--65206229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - GSG 9: Ein deutscher Mythos Author: Martin Herzog Narrator: Martin Herzog Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Am 18. Oktober 1977 wurde in der Wüste Somalias ein deutscher Mythos geboren: Auf dem Flughafen von Mogadischu befreite die GSG9 aus einer entführten Lufthansa-Maschine 86 Menschen. Es war der erste große Einsatz der Antiterroreinheit, und er machte sie schlagartig weltbekannt. Der Mythos zerbrach 16 Jahre später auf dem Bahnhof von Bad Kleinen, als die Festnahme von RAF-Mitgliedern mit zwei Toten endete, und eine Staatskrise auslöste. 50 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung erzählt Martin Herzog von den Anfängen der GSG9, von Erfolgen und Fehlschlägen, aber auch von fragwürdigen Indienstnahmen durch Außenpolitik und Geheimdienste. Gestützt auf Archivrecherchen und Interviews mit Zeitzeug:innen liegt damit erstmals eine fundierte Geschichte dieser mythenumrankten Polizeieinheit vor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613620Wed, 20 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - GSG 9: Ein deutscher Mythos Author: Martin Herzog Narrator: Martin Herzog Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 52 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - GSG 9: Ein deutscher Mythos Author: Martin Herzog Narrator: Martin Herzog Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Am 18. Oktober 1977 wurde in der Wüste Somalias ein deutscher Mythos geboren: Auf dem Flughafen von Mogadischu befreite die GSG9 aus einer entführten Lufthansa-Maschine 86 Menschen. Es war der erste große Einsatz der Antiterroreinheit, und er machte sie schlagartig weltbekannt. Der Mythos zerbrach 16 Jahre später auf dem Bahnhof von Bad Kleinen, als die Festnahme von RAF-Mitgliedern mit zwei Toten endete, und eine Staatskrise auslöste. 50 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung erzählt Martin Herzog von den Anfängen der GSG9, von Erfolgen und Fehlschlägen, aber auch von fragwürdigen Indienstnahmen durch Außenpolitik und Geheimdienste. Gestützt auf Archivrecherchen und Interviews mit Zeitzeug:innen liegt damit erstmals eine fundierte Geschichte dieser mythenumrankten Polizeieinheit vor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-violencia-domestica-e-a-teoria-da-acao-comunicativa-uma-via-possivel-para-brasil-e-portugal-by-ariane-simioni--65206184https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Violência doméstica e a Teoria da Ação Comunicativa: uma via possível para Brasil e Portugal Author: Ariane Simioni Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 18, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Violência doméstica e a Teoria da Ação Comunicativa: uma via possível para Brasil e Portugal tem um viés não convencional de abordagem da violência doméstica em ambos os países. A partir de um acurado mergulho da temática no contexto do constitucionalismo contemporâneo, realiza-se um estudo comparado acerca dos mecanismos jurídico-institucionais de proteção da mulher no Brasil e em Portugal. Analisam-se dados recentes sobre essa violência nos países e apresentam-se propostas de soluções dialogicamente construídas. A abordagem histórico-constitucional usada é uma diferenciadora se comparada às demais pesquisas existentes no mercado editorial ou acadêmico. Outro ponto de destaque é a fundamentação teórica a partir da teoria da ação comunicativa, de Jürgen Habermas. Noções como espaço público, discursividade, prática comunicativa, assumem singular adequação frente à temática central. Logo, trata-se de um universo imerso em uma construção dialógica entre os agentes racionais. Torna-se cada vez mais importante compreender a dinâmica das relações sociais que engendra processos discriminatórios, repressivos e mesmo criminógenos contra mulheres, em especial contra as imigrantes. Assim, a obra possui relevância para os pesquisadores, professores e estudantes de Teoria do Estado, Teoria da Democracia, Direito Internacional e Direito Constitucional, podendo ser aplicada tanto na graduação como na pós-graduação em Direito e áreas afins.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614572Mon, 18 Jul 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Violência doméstica e a Teoria da Ação Comunicativa: uma via possível para Brasil e Portugal Author: Ariane Simioni Narrator: Voz...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Violência doméstica e a Teoria da Ação Comunicativa: uma via possível para Brasil e Portugal Author: Ariane Simioni Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 18, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Violência doméstica e a Teoria da Ação Comunicativa: uma via possível para Brasil e Portugal tem um viés não convencional de abordagem da violência doméstica em ambos os países. A partir de um acurado mergulho da temática no contexto do constitucionalismo contemporâneo, realiza-se um estudo comparado acerca dos mecanismos jurídico-institucionais de proteção da mulher no Brasil e em Portugal. Analisam-se dados recentes sobre essa violência nos países e apresentam-se propostas de soluções dialogicamente construídas. A abordagem histórico-constitucional usada é uma diferenciadora se comparada às demais pesquisas existentes no mercado editorial ou acadêmico. Outro ponto de destaque é a fundamentação teórica a partir da teoria da ação comunicativa, de Jürgen Habermas. Noções como espaço público, discursividade, prática comunicativa, assumem singular adequação frente à temática central. Logo, trata-se de um universo imerso em uma construção dialógica entre os agentes racionais. Torna-se cada vez mais importante compreender a dinâmica das relações sociais que engendra processos discriminatórios, repressivos e mesmo criminógenos contra mulheres, em especial contra as imigrantes. Assim, a obra possui relevância para os pesquisadores, professores e estudantes de Teoria do Estado, Teoria da Democracia, Direito Internacional e Direito Constitucional, podendo ser aplicada tanto na graduação como na pós-graduação em Direito e áreas afins.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau--65206158https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Drake Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615536Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Drake Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 27, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Drake Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-new-world-order-by-h-g-wells--65206105https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New World Order Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Brandon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The New World Order is a non-fiction book written by H.G. Wells and was published by Secker & Warburg in January 1940. In The New World Order, Wells proposed a framework of international functionalism that could guide the world towards achieving world peace. To achieve these ends, Wells asserted that a socialist and scientifically planned world government would need to be formed to defend human rights. Wells's motivation for writing The New World Order was based upon the outbreak of World War II. Wells was concerned that the Allies had no clear statement of aims for fighting in the war and that this would lead to the continuation of the pre-existing balance of power. In The New World Order, Wells writes that without a revolution in international affairs and the establishment of human rights, then further destructive wars were inevitable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622270Wed, 15 Jun 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New World Order Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Brandon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New World Order Author: H.G. Wells Narrator: Brandon Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The New World Order is a non-fiction book written by H.G. Wells and was published by Secker & Warburg in January 1940. In The New World Order, Wells proposed a framework of international functionalism that could guide the world towards achieving world peace. To achieve these ends, Wells asserted that a socialist and scientifically planned world government would need to be formed to defend human rights. Wells's motivation for writing The New World Order was based upon the outbreak of World War II. Wells was concerned that the Allies had no clear statement of aims for fighting in the war and that this would lead to the continuation of the pre-existing balance of power. In The New World Order, Wells writes that without a revolution in international affairs and the establishment of human rights, then further destructive wars were inevitable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-return-of-the-state-and-why-it-is-essential-for-our-health-wealth-and-happiness-by-graeme-garrard--65206104https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness Author: Graeme Garrard Narrator: Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory. Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first. Today, the state is essential to the health and welfare of everyone except the rich and powerful. Yet it is being rolled back and whittled away, leaving the well-being of most of us at the mercy of unaccountable private powers that are increasingly free from external control. As Garrard shows, the state is the only realistic way of promoting the public good in our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623775Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness Author: Graeme Garrard Narrator: Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness Author: Graeme Garrard Narrator: Thom Rivera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory. Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first. Today, the state is essential to the health and welfare of everyone except the rich and powerful. Yet it is being rolled back and whittled away, leaving the well-being of most of us at the mercy of unaccountable private powers that are increasingly free from external control. As Garrard shows, the state is the only realistic way of promoting the public good in our time.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/science-in-an-age-of-unreason-by-john-staddon--65206134https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Science in an Age of Unreason Author: John Staddon Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renowned psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action. Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to “health and safety”—are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. These foregone conclusions may be comforting, but each capitulation to modernity’s whims threatens the integrity of scientific inquiry. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? In Science in an Age of Unreason, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today’s scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Staddon answers pressing questions, including: Is science, especially the science of evolution, a religion? Can ethics be derived from science at all? How sound is social science, particularly surrounding today’s most controversial topics? How can passions be separated from facts? Informed by decades of expertise, Science in an Age of Unreason is a clarion call to rebirth academia as a beacon of reason and truth in a society demanding its unconditional submission.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622401Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Science in an Age of Unreason Author: John Staddon Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Science in an Age of Unreason Author: John Staddon Narrator: Ralph Lister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renowned psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and Nicholas Wade will adore this trenchant meditation and call to action. Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers—especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to “health and safety”—are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. These foregone conclusions may be comforting, but each capitulation to modernity’s whims threatens the integrity of scientific inquiry. Can true, fact-based discovery be redeemed? In Science in an Age of Unreason, legendary professor of psychology and biology, John Staddon, unveils the identity crisis afflicting today’s scientific community, and provides an actionable path to recovery. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Staddon answers pressing questions, including: Is science, especially the science of evolution, a religion? Can ethics be derived from science at all? How sound is social science, particularly surrounding today’s most controversial topics? How can passions be separated from facts? Informed by decades of expertise, Science in an Age of Unreason is a clarion call to rebirth academia as a beacon of reason and truth in a society demanding its unconditional submission.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-exception-empire-and-the-deep-state-by-aaron-good--65206072https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State Author: Aaron Good Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, Aaron Good takes a deep-politics approach. The term “deep state” was badly misappropriated during the Trump era. In the simplest sense, it here refers to all those institutions that collectively exercise undemocratic power over state and society. To trace how we arrived at this point, American Exception explores various deep state institutions and history-making interventions. Key institutions involve the relationships between the overworld of the corporate rich, the underworld of organized crime, and the national security actors that mediate between them. History-making interventions include the toppling of foreign governments, the launching of aggressive wars, and the political assassinations of the 1960s. In its long history before World War II, the United States had a deep political system, a system of governance in which decision-making and enforcement were carried out within—and outside of—public institutions. It was a system that always included some degree of secretive collusion and law-breaking. After World War II, US elites decided to pursue global dominance over the international capitalist system. Setting aside the liberal rhetoric, this project was pursued in a manner that was by and large imperialistic rather than progressive. To administer this covert empire, US elites created a massive national security state characterized by unprecedented levels of secrecy and lawlessness. The “Global Communist Conspiracy” provided a pretext for exceptionism—an endless “exception” to the rule of law. What gradually emerged after World War II was a tripartite state system of governance. The open democratic state and the authoritarian security state were both increasingly dominated by an American deep state. Aaron Good concludes by assessing the prospects for a revival of US democracy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622402Tue, 07 Jun 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State Author: Aaron Good Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State Author: Aaron Good Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, Aaron Good takes a deep-politics approach. The term “deep state” was badly misappropriated during the Trump era. In the simplest sense, it here refers to all those institutions that collectively exercise undemocratic power over state and society. To trace how we arrived at this point, American Exception explores various deep state institutions and history-making interventions. Key institutions involve the relationships between the overworld of the corporate rich, the underworld of organized crime, and the national security actors that mediate between them. History-making interventions include the toppling of foreign governments, the launching of aggressive wars, and the political assassinations of the 1960s. In its long history before World War II, the United States had a deep political system, a system of governance in which decision-making and enforcement were carried out within—and outside of—public institutions. It was a system that always included some degree of secretive collusion and law-breaking. After World War II, US elites decided to pursue global dominance over the international capitalist system. Setting aside the liberal rhetoric, this project was pursued in a manner that was by and large imperialistic rather than progressive. To administer this covert empire, US elites created a massive national security state characterized by unprecedented levels of secrecy and lawlessness. The “Global Communist Conspiracy” provided a pretext for exceptionism—an endless “exception” to the rule of law. What gradually emerged after World War II was a tripartite state system of governance. The open democratic state and the authoritarian security state were both increasingly dominated by an American deep state. Aaron Good concludes by assessing the prospects for a revival of US democracy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience-by-henry-david-thoreau--65206074https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” is a political treatise against slavery, war, and an argument that individuals not cede excessive power to government. A masterpiece of American individualism, the essay is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of political and philosophical writings ever produced by an American. Thoreau wrote the essay because of his opposition to slavery and the Mexican–American War. When the government engages in actions that are unjust, he believed that citizens should completely withdraw their support of the government and stop paying taxes, even if it results in imprisonment or violence. People who said they have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, suffragist Alice Paul, and authors Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and William Butler Yeats.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621464Tue, 31 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” is a political treatise against slavery, war, and an argument that individuals not cede excessive power to government. A masterpiece of American individualism, the essay is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of political and philosophical writings ever produced by an American. Thoreau wrote the essay because of his opposition to slavery and the Mexican–American War. When the government engages in actions that are unjust, he believed that citizens should completely withdraw their support of the government and stop paying taxes, even if it results in imprisonment or violence. People who said they have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, suffragist Alice Paul, and authors Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and William Butler Yeats.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-apologies-why-civilization-depends-on-the-strength-of-men-by-anthony-m-esolen--65206139https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men Author: Anthony M. Esolen Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: No more apologies for being a man! Bestselling social commentator Anthony Esolen draws on timeless wisdom to defend the masculine virtues of strength, drive, ambition, and determination in building and upholding civilization itself. It’s time to end the apology tour for traditional masculinity. A generation of young men and boys are being raised in self-loathing, taught that the core of their identity as men is not only abhorrent, but the fountainhead of humanity’s ills. In No Apologies, veteran author and professor Anthony Esolen issues a powerful defense of the virtues of masculine strength. From the thankless brute force that erected buildings, paved roads, and cleared ground, to the boundless energy of youth that compelled centuries of global exploration, to the father’s embodied authority as protector, director, and exemplar of law and justice, Esolen shows how civilization has rested upon the strength of men. Wizened, accessible, and powerfully articulated, Esolen draws on two millennia of historical thought, citing giants like Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Twain, Solzhenitsyn, and others in a vigorous and timely defense of the masculine ethos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620336Tue, 24 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men Author: Anthony M. Esolen Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men Author: Anthony M. Esolen Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: No more apologies for being a man! Bestselling social commentator Anthony Esolen draws on timeless wisdom to defend the masculine virtues of strength, drive, ambition, and determination in building and upholding civilization itself. It’s time to end the apology tour for traditional masculinity. A generation of young men and boys are being raised in self-loathing, taught that the core of their identity as men is not only abhorrent, but the fountainhead of humanity’s ills. In No Apologies, veteran author and professor Anthony Esolen issues a powerful defense of the virtues of masculine strength. From the thankless brute force that erected buildings, paved roads, and cleared ground, to the boundless energy of youth that compelled centuries of global exploration, to the father’s embodied authority as protector, director, and exemplar of law and justice, Esolen shows how civilization has rested upon the strength of men. Wizened, accessible, and powerfully articulated, Esolen draws on two millennia of historical thought, citing giants like Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Twain, Solzhenitsyn, and others in a vigorous and timely defense of the masculine ethos.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blm-the-making-of-a-new-marxist-revolution-by-mike-gonzalez--65206204https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution Author: Mike Gonzalez Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United States—all supposedly racist—be overhauled. The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 633 related riots that followed Floyd’s death took organizational muscle. The movement’s grip on institutions from the classroom to the ballpark required ideological commitment. That muscle and commitment were provided by the various Black Lives Matter organizations. This audiobook examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds and exposing their agendas—something the media has so far refused to do. These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life. Along with their fellow activists, they make savvy use of social media to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue-tumblings, and riots. In 2020, they seized upon the video showing George Floyd’s suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency. Certainly, no person of good will could object to the proposition that “black lives matter” as much as any other human life. But Americans need to understand how their laudable moral concern is being exploited for purposes that a great many of them would not approve.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618498Tue, 17 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution Author: Mike Gonzalez Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution Author: Mike Gonzalez Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United States—all supposedly racist—be overhauled. The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 633 related riots that followed Floyd’s death took organizational muscle. The movement’s grip on institutions from the classroom to the ballpark required ideological commitment. That muscle and commitment were provided by the various Black Lives Matter organizations. This audiobook examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds and exposing their agendas—something the media has so far refused to do. These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life. Along with their fellow activists, they make savvy use of social media to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue-tumblings, and riots. In 2020, they seized upon the video showing George Floyd’s suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency. Certainly, no person of good will could object to the proposition that “black lives matter” as much as any other human life. But Americans need to understand how their laudable moral concern is being exploited for purposes that a great many of them would not approve.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/conservatism-a-rediscovery-by-yoram-hazony--65206189https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conservatism: A Rediscovery Author: Yoram Hazony Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The idea that American conservatism is identical to “classical” liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken. The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain—the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations and became the model for national freedom for the entire world. Conservatism: A Rediscovery explains how Anglo-American conservatism became a distinctive alternative to divine-right monarchy, Puritan theocracy, and liberal revolution. After tracing the tradition from the Wars of the Roses to Burke and across the Atlantic to the American Federalists and Lincoln, Hazony describes the rise and fall of Enlightenment liberalism after World War II and the present-day debates between neoconservatives and national conservatives over how to respond to liberalism and the woke left. Going where no political thinker has gone in decades, Hazony provides a fresh theoretical foundation for conservatism. Rejecting the liberalism of Hayek, Strauss, and the “fusionists” of the 1960s, and drawing on decades of personal experience in the conservative movement, he argues that a revival of authentic Anglo-American conservatism is possible in the twenty-first century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618539Tue, 17 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conservatism: A Rediscovery Author: Yoram Hazony Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 42 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conservatism: A Rediscovery Author: Yoram Hazony Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The idea that American conservatism is identical to “classical” liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken. The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain—the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations and became the model for national freedom for the entire world. Conservatism: A Rediscovery explains how Anglo-American conservatism became a distinctive alternative to divine-right monarchy, Puritan theocracy, and liberal revolution. After tracing the tradition from the Wars of the Roses to Burke and across the Atlantic to the American Federalists and Lincoln, Hazony describes the rise and fall of Enlightenment liberalism after World War II and the present-day debates between neoconservatives and national conservatives over how to respond to liberalism and the woke left. Going where no political thinker has gone in decades, Hazony provides a fresh theoretical foundation for conservatism. Rejecting the liberalism of Hayek, Strauss, and the “fusionists” of the 1960s, and drawing on decades of personal experience in the conservative movement, he argues that a revival of authentic Anglo-American conservatism is possible in the twenty-first century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-abolition-of-sex-how-the-transgender-agenda-harms-women-and-girls-by-kara-dansky--65206148https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls Author: Kara Dansky Narrator: Kara Dansky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! The so-called “transgender” agenda is a misogynistic assault on the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and is being fueled by a massive, vicious, and well-funded industry. Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the “transgender” agenda, or the so-called “gender identity” movement, poses to all of us—especially women and girls—nor do they understand the extent to which it is taking over US law and civil society. The simple truth is that “gender identity” functions to abolish sex, and all of our civic institutions—government, media, academia, and business—have been completely captured by it. We have been told that “transgender” is a word to describe a marginalized group of people who are in need of civil rights protection; it is not. Instead, it is an incoherent word that is being used to advance a much broader agenda. There are many people—including people on the political left—who understand the threat that enshrining “gender identity” in law and society poses, but they are silenced when they try to speak out. This book shines a light on the truth about “gender identity,” the “transgender” agenda, the very real threats that they pose to all of society—specifically to the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and what the global Women’s Human Rights Campaign is doing to fight back.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618489Tue, 17 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls Author: Kara Dansky Narrator: Kara Dansky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Abolition of Sex: How the “Transgender” Agenda Harms Women and Girls Author: Kara Dansky Narrator: Kara Dansky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight! The so-called “transgender” agenda is a misogynistic assault on the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and is being fueled by a massive, vicious, and well-funded industry. Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the “transgender” agenda, or the so-called “gender identity” movement, poses to all of us—especially women and girls—nor do they understand the extent to which it is taking over US law and civil society. The simple truth is that “gender identity” functions to abolish sex, and all of our civic institutions—government, media, academia, and business—have been completely captured by it. We have been told that “transgender” is a word to describe a marginalized group of people who are in need of civil rights protection; it is not. Instead, it is an incoherent word that is being used to advance a much broader agenda. There are many people—including people on the political left—who understand the threat that enshrining “gender identity” in law and society poses, but they are silenced when they try to speak out. This book shines a light on the truth about “gender identity,” the “transgender” agenda, the very real threats that they pose to all of society—specifically to the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls—and what the global Women’s Human Rights Campaign is doing to fight back.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taming-the-rascal-multitude-essays-interviews-and-lectures-1997-2014-by-noam-chomsky--65206143https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997–2014 Author: Noam Chomsky Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place. Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide a historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation. or how-to, for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to listen to, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618540Tue, 17 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997–2014 Author: Noam Chomsky Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618540 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taming the Rascal Multitude: Essays, Interviews, and Lectures 1997–2014 Author: Noam Chomsky Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As Noam Chomsky writes about something—US foreign policy, corporate policies, an election, or a movement—he is not only quite specific in recounting the topic and its facts but also exercises blisteringly relentless logic to discern the interconnections between the evidence and broader themes involved. This may seem mundane, but virtually every time, even aside from the details of the case in question, the process, the steps, the ways of linking one thing to another illustrate what it means to be a thinking, critical subject of history and society, in any time and place. Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide a historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation. or how-to, for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to listen to, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-list-mi5-and-british-intellectuals-in-the-twentieth-century-by-david-caute--65206227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century Author: David Caute Narrator: Dennis Kleinman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century In the popular imagination, MI5—or the Security Service—is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the country’s national security, from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War to Soviet spies during the Cold War and today’s domestic extremists. Yet, aided by the release of official documents to the National Archives, David Caute argues in this radical and revelatory history of the Security Service that suspicion often fell on those who posed no threat to national security. Instead, this “other history” of MI5, ignored in official accounts, was often fueled by the political prejudices of MI5’s personnel and involved a huge program of surveillance against anyone who dared question the status quo. Caute, a prominent historian and expert on the history of the Cold War, tells the story of the massive state operation to track the activities of a range of journalists, academics, scientists, filmmakers, writers, and others who, during the twentieth century, the Security Service perceived as a threat to the national interest. Those who were tracked include such prominent figures as Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Benjamin Britten, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Foot, Harriet Harman, and others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617269Tue, 10 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century Author: David Caute Narrator: Dennis Kleinman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617269 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century Author: David Caute Narrator: Dennis Kleinman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century In the popular imagination, MI5—or the Security Service—is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the country’s national security, from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War to Soviet spies during the Cold War and today’s domestic extremists. Yet, aided by the release of official documents to the National Archives, David Caute argues in this radical and revelatory history of the Security Service that suspicion often fell on those who posed no threat to national security. Instead, this “other history” of MI5, ignored in official accounts, was often fueled by the political prejudices of MI5’s personnel and involved a huge program of surveillance against anyone who dared question the status quo. Caute, a prominent historian and expert on the history of the Cold War, tells the story of the massive state operation to track the activities of a range of journalists, academics, scientists, filmmakers, writers, and others who, during the twentieth century, the Security Service perceived as a threat to the national interest. Those who were tracked include such prominent figures as Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Benjamin Britten, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Foot, Harriet Harman, and others.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-false-cause-fraud-fabrication-and-white-supremacy-in-confederate-memory-by-adam-h-domby--65206149https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory Author: Adam H. Domby Narrator: Jack De Golia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, original, and highly readable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memory The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious goal but it was founded on falsehoods. The False Cause focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and have been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day. Domby explores how fabricated narratives about the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery―as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies―were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history’s greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white Southerners. Domby shows how the dubious concept of “Black Confederates” was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as “loyal slaves.” The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617270Tue, 10 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory Author: Adam H. Domby Narrator: Jack De Golia Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory Author: Adam H. Domby Narrator: Jack De Golia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A fascinating, original, and highly readable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memory The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious goal but it was founded on falsehoods. The False Cause focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and have been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day. Domby explores how fabricated narratives about the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery―as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies―were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history’s greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white Southerners. Domby shows how the dubious concept of “Black Confederates” was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as “loyal slaves.” The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elite-capture-how-the-powerful-took-over-identity-politics-and-everything-else-by-olufemi-o-taiwo--65206240https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with “identity politics” itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and become the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615600Tue, 03 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smth Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with “identity politics” itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and become the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-spy-in-plain-sight-the-inside-story-of-the-fbi-and-robert-hanssen-america-s-most-damaging-russian-spy-by-lis-wiehl--65206238https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy Author: Lis Wiehl Narrator: Lis Wiehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades. As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience and the ingrained lessons of her upraising to bear on her remarkable exploration of the case, interviewing numerous FBI and CIA agents both past and present as well as the individuals closest to Hanssen. She speaks with his brother-in-law, his oldest and best friend, and even his psychiatrist. In all her conversations, Wiehl is trying to figure out how he did it—and at what cost. But she also pursues questions urgently relevant to our national security today. Could there be another spy in the system? Could the presence of a spy be an even greater threat now than ever before, with the greater prominence cyber security has taken in recent years? Wiehl explores the mechanisms and politics of our national security apparatus and how they make us vulnerable to precisely this kind of threat.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615628Tue, 03 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy Author: Lis Wiehl Narrator: Lis Wiehl Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy Author: Lis Wiehl Narrator: Lis Wiehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades. As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience and the ingrained lessons of her upraising to bear on her remarkable exploration of the case, interviewing numerous FBI and CIA agents both past and present as well as the individuals closest to Hanssen. She speaks with his brother-in-law, his oldest and best friend, and even his psychiatrist. In all her conversations, Wiehl is trying to figure out how he did it—and at what cost. But she also pursues questions urgently relevant to our national security today. Could there be another spy in the system? Could the presence of a spy be an even greater threat now than ever before, with the greater prominence cyber security has taken in recent years? Wiehl explores the mechanisms and politics of our national security apparatus and how they make us vulnerable to precisely this kind of threat.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-govern-the-globe-world-orders-and-catastrophic-change-by-alfred-w-mccoy--65206230https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change Author: Alfred W. McCoy Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615659Tue, 03 May 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change Author: Alfred W. McCoy Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change Author: Alfred W. McCoy Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-fourth-time-we-drowned-seeking-refuge-on-the-world-s-deadliest-migration-route-by-sally-hayden--65206246https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Author: Sally Hayden Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the European Union started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614525Tue, 26 Apr 2022 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Author: Sally Hayden Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Author: Sally Hayden Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the European Union started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-a-lei-by-frederic-bastiat--65206144https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A LEI Author: Frédéric Bastiat Narrator: Miguel Dias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: May 4, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Porque é que a instituição que faz cumprir a lei não obedece a lei? Porque é que a lei permite que o estado pratique atividades que são consideradas ilegais para os indivíduos? Estas são algumas das mais intrigantes questões em filosofia político-econômica. Particularmente, a questão da lei que viola a moral é central para a compreensão da filosofia estatista. Bastiat, nesta obra de 1850, discute a crucial questão de como determinar se alguma lei é injusta. Também define as situações em que o estado passa a comportar-se como contraventor. Bastiat discute profundamente, e com grande capacidade de síntese, estas e outras questões neste texto que parece ter sido escrito nos dias de hoje. O ensaio é eterno pois aplica-se sempre que o estado decide obedecer leis diferentes daquelas que os indivíduos devem obedecer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619462Fri, 04 May 2018 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A LEI Author: Frédéric Bastiat Narrator: Miguel Dias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: May 4, 2018...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A LEI Author: Frédéric Bastiat Narrator: Miguel Dias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: May 4, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Porque é que a instituição que faz cumprir a lei não obedece a lei? Porque é que a lei permite que o estado pratique atividades que são consideradas ilegais para os indivíduos? Estas são algumas das mais intrigantes questões em filosofia político-econômica. Particularmente, a questão da lei que viola a moral é central para a compreensão da filosofia estatista. Bastiat, nesta obra de 1850, discute a crucial questão de como determinar se alguma lei é injusta. Também define as situações em que o estado passa a comportar-se como contraventor. Bastiat discute profundamente, e com grande capacidade de síntese, estas e outras questões neste texto que parece ter sido escrito nos dias de hoje. O ensaio é eterno pois aplica-se sempre que o estado decide obedecer leis diferentes daquelas que os indivíduos devem obedecer.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/liberalism-in-the-classical-tradition-in-the-classical-tradition-by-ludwig-von-mises--65206089https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: In the Classical Tradition Author: Ludwig Von Mises Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In 1927, classical liberalism—based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade—was dying, when one of the twentieth century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism. 'The ultimate outcome of the struggle' between liberalism and totalitarianism, say Mises, 'will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624319Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: In the Classical Tradition Author: Ludwig Von Mises Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: In the Classical Tradition Author: Ludwig Von Mises Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In 1927, classical liberalism—based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade—was dying, when one of the twentieth century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism. 'The ultimate outcome of the struggle' between liberalism and totalitarianism, say Mises, 'will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/obama-s-america-unmaking-the-american-dream-by-dinesh-d-souza--65206060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream Author: Dinesh D'Souza Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his controversial New York Times bestseller The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza answered the question on everyone’s mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D’Souza explained, is Obama’s fervent anticolonial ideology. Here, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama’s America, D’Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anticolonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our founders would hardly recognize. Obama came into office with an eight-year plan for America, argues D’Souza. If he’s reelected in 2012, he will be able to finish the job—and destroy America’s future. Making the case that Obama must be a one-term president, Obama’s America reveals what unchecked power will do to this great nation and is a must-read for anyone who cares about America and her future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624324Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream Author: Dinesh D'Souza Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream Author: Dinesh D'Souza Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his controversial New York Times bestseller The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza answered the question on everyone’s mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D’Souza explained, is Obama’s fervent anticolonial ideology. Here, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama’s America, D’Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anticolonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our founders would hardly recognize. Obama came into office with an eight-year plan for America, argues D’Souza. If he’s reelected in 2012, he will be able to finish the job—and destroy America’s future. Making the case that Obama must be a one-term president, Obama’s America reveals what unchecked power will do to this great nation and is a must-read for anyone who cares about America and her future.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-common-law-by-oliver-wendell-holmes--65206063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Common Law Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Narrator: Robert Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite. In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624312Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Common Law Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Narrator: Robert Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Common Law Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Narrator: Robert Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite. In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-republican-brain-the-science-of-why-they-deny-science-and-reality-by-chris-mooney--65206119https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality Author: Chris Mooney Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 10, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it’s just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more. Why won’t Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts? Science writer Chris Mooney explores brain scans, polls, and psychology experiments to explain why conservatives today believe more wrong things, appear more likely than Democrats to oppose new ideas and less likely to change their beliefs in the face of new facts, and sometimes respond to compelling evidence by doubling down on their current beliefs. Certain to spark discussion and debate, The Republican Brain also promises to add to the lengthy list of persuasive scientific findings that Republicans reject and deny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622175Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality Author: Chris Mooney Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality Author: Chris Mooney Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 10, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it’s just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more. Why won’t Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts? Science writer Chris Mooney explores brain scans, polls, and psychology experiments to explain why conservatives today believe more wrong things, appear more likely than Democrats to oppose new ideas and less likely to change their beliefs in the face of new facts, and sometimes respond to compelling evidence by doubling down on their current beliefs. Certain to spark discussion and debate, The Republican Brain also promises to add to the lengthy list of persuasive scientific findings that Republicans reject and deny.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/treatise-on-law-by-thomas-aquinas--65206067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treatise on Law Author: Thomas Aquinas Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 4, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism. This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624169Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treatise on Law Author: Thomas Aquinas Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 4, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treatise on Law Author: Thomas Aquinas Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 4, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism. This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/time-to-get-tough-making-america-1-again-by-donald-j-trump--65206058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again Author: Donald J. Trump Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 5, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his blockbuster new book, businessman and entrepreneur Donald J. Trump argues that America is in serious trouble, and that our days as a superpower are numbered. “Our nation has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. It’s time to get tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States,” says Trump. “We need to get serious about the debt, we need to get serious about oil, we need to get serious about job creation, and we need to get serious about our country’s future.” With his trademark candor and charisma, Trump reveals his hard-line, commonsense solutions to the problems plaguing us today and shows how we can put our country back on the path to greatness. Nobody is better at achieving spectacular success than Donald Trump. Here, Trump shows how America can do the same.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624580Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again Author: Donald J. Trump Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again Author: Donald J. Trump Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 5, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his blockbuster new book, businessman and entrepreneur Donald J. Trump argues that America is in serious trouble, and that our days as a superpower are numbered. “Our nation has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. It’s time to get tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States,” says Trump. “We need to get serious about the debt, we need to get serious about oil, we need to get serious about job creation, and we need to get serious about our country’s future.” With his trademark candor and charisma, Trump reveals his hard-line, commonsense solutions to the problems plaguing us today and shows how we can put our country back on the path to greatness. Nobody is better at achieving spectacular success than Donald Trump. Here, Trump shows how America can do the same.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-spirit-of-laws-by-baron-de-montesquieu--65206077https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spirit of Laws Author: Baron De Montesquieu Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s championship of the nobility and the Parliaments, but above all to the brilliant style of his prose. By the “spirit of laws,” Montesquieu means their raison d’être and the conditions determining their origin, development, and forms. Montesquieu discusses numerous topics, including the general functions of government, relations between the sexes, the morals and customs of the nation, economics and religion, and the theory of law and legislative practice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624341Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spirit of Laws Author: Baron De Montesquieu Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 24 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spirit of Laws Author: Baron De Montesquieu Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s championship of the nobility and the Parliaments, but above all to the brilliant style of his prose. By the “spirit of laws,” Montesquieu means their raison d’être and the conditions determining their origin, development, and forms. Montesquieu discusses numerous topics, including the general functions of government, relations between the sexes, the morals and customs of the nation, economics and religion, and the theory of law and legislative practice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/utopia-by-thomas-more--65206079https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Utopia Author: Thomas More Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist. Locating his island in the New World, More bestowed it with everything to support a perfectly organized and happy people. The name of this fictitious place, Utopia, coined by More, passed into general usage and has been applied to all such ideal fictions, fantasies, and blueprints for the future, including works by Rabelais, Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, and several by H. G. Wells, including hisA Modern Utopia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624078Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Utopia Author: Thomas More Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2008 Genres: Current...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624078 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Utopia Author: Thomas More Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist. Locating his island in the New World, More bestowed it with everything to support a perfectly organized and happy people. The name of this fictitious place, Utopia, coined by More, passed into general usage and has been applied to all such ideal fictions, fantasies, and blueprints for the future, including works by Rabelais, Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, and several by H. G. Wells, including hisA Modern Utopia.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-origins-of-totalitarianism-by-hannah-arendt--65206053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Origins of Totalitarianism Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an 'ideological weapon for imperialism,' begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I. In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes as two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of the Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda, and the use of terror essential to this form of government. In her brilliant concluding chapter, she discusses the nature of individual isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624447Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Origins of Totalitarianism Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Origins of Totalitarianism Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an 'ideological weapon for imperialism,' begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I. In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which she adroitly recognizes as two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of the Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda, and the use of terror essential to this form of government. In her brilliant concluding chapter, she discusses the nature of individual isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blowback-the-costs-and-consequences-of-american-empire-by-chalmers-johnson--65206081https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by US servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia’s financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from 9/11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624431Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The term “blowback,” invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by US servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia’s financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from 9/11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/america-alone-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-by-mark-steyn--65206094https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Author: Mark Steyn Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It’s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do. Liberals tell us that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. If you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention. In this hilarious New York Times bestseller, provocative columnist Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought, and flair for the apocalyptic to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic terrorism. He addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides, and gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom—alone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623975Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Author: Mark Steyn Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Author: Mark Steyn Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It’s the end of the world as we know it. Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer of a muezzin. Europeans already do. Liberals tell us that “diversity is our strength”—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides that sharia law doesn’t violate the “separation of church and state,” and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. If you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention. In this hilarious New York Times bestseller, provocative columnist Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought, and flair for the apocalyptic to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic terrorism. He addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides, and gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom—alone.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-the-constitution-by-kevin-r-c-gutzman--65206091https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida’s presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it’s the Constitution. Author and law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law” imposed upon us since then. Instead of the intended system of state-level decision makers and elected officials, judges have given us a centralized system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies. The Constitution guarantees our rights and freedoms, but activist judges are threatening those very rights because of the Supreme Court’s willingness to substitute its own opinions for the perfectly constitutional laws enacted by “we, the people” through our elected representatives. As Professor Gutzman shows, constitutional law is supposed to apply the Constitution’s plain meaning to prevent judges, presidents, and congresses from overstepping their authority. If we want to return to the Founding Fathers’ vision of the Republic, if we want the Constitution enforced in the way it was explained to the people at the time of its ratification, then we have to overcome the “received wisdom” about what constitutional law is. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is an important step in that direction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623895Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman Narrator: Tom Weiner...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida’s presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it’s the Constitution. Author and law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law” imposed upon us since then. Instead of the intended system of state-level decision makers and elected officials, judges have given us a centralized system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies. The Constitution guarantees our rights and freedoms, but activist judges are threatening those very rights because of the Supreme Court’s willingness to substitute its own opinions for the perfectly constitutional laws enacted by “we, the people” through our elected representatives. As Professor Gutzman shows, constitutional law is supposed to apply the Constitution’s plain meaning to prevent judges, presidents, and congresses from overstepping their authority. If we want to return to the Founding Fathers’ vision of the Republic, if we want the Constitution enforced in the way it was explained to the people at the time of its ratification, then we have to overcome the “received wisdom” about what constitutional law is. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is an important step in that direction.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nemesis-the-last-days-of-the-american-republic-by-chalmers-johnson--65206090https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestsellingBlowbacktrilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic. In his prophetic bookBlowback, Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. InThe Sorrows of Empire, he explored how the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our security. Now, inNemesis, he shows how American imperialism undermines the republic itself, both economically and politically. Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of our dependence on a permanent war economy and what it will mean when the globe's sole 'hyperpower,' no longer capable of paying for the vaulting ambitions of its leaders, becomes the greatest hyper-debtor of all time. In his stunning conclusion, Johnson suggests that the crisis of a financial breakdown could ultimately prove to be the only path to a renewed nation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623990Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic Author: Chalmers Johnson Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestsellingBlowbacktrilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic. In his prophetic bookBlowback, Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. InThe Sorrows of Empire, he explored how the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our security. Now, inNemesis, he shows how American imperialism undermines the republic itself, both economically and politically. Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of our dependence on a permanent war economy and what it will mean when the globe's sole 'hyperpower,' no longer capable of paying for the vaulting ambitions of its leaders, becomes the greatest hyper-debtor of all time. In his stunning conclusion, Johnson suggests that the crisis of a financial breakdown could ultimately prove to be the only path to a renewed nation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-truth-about-muhammad-founder-of-the-world-s-most-intolerant-religion-by-robert-spencer--65206064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion Author: Robert Spencer Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam—perhaps the first such portrait in half a century—unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect our world today. Spencer details Muhammad’s development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur’an’s teachings on warfare against unbelievers developed, with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage. Spencer also gives the truth about Muhammad’s convenient “revelations” justifying his own licentiousness; his joy in the brutal murders of his enemies; and above all, his clear marching orders to his followers to convert non-Muslims to Islam—or force them to live as inferiors under Islamic rule.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623950Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion Author: Robert Spencer Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion Author: Robert Spencer Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam—perhaps the first such portrait in half a century—unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect our world today. Spencer details Muhammad’s development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur’an’s teachings on warfare against unbelievers developed, with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage. Spencer also gives the truth about Muhammad’s convenient “revelations” justifying his own licentiousness; his joy in the brutal murders of his enemies; and above all, his clear marching orders to his followers to convert non-Muslims to Islam—or force them to live as inferiors under Islamic rule.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/america-s-secret-war-inside-the-hidden-worldwide-struggle-between-america-and-its-enemies-by-george-friedman--65206100https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and its Enemies Author: George Friedman Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2004 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Dubbed by Barron’s as “The Shadow CIA,” Stratfor is one of the world’s most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. Here, drawing on Stratfor’s vast information-gathering network, George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover: the startling truth behind America’s foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. In America’s Secret War, Friedman identifies the United States’ most dangerous enemies, delves into presidential strategies of the last quarter century, and reveals the real reasons behind the attack of September 11 and the Bush administration’s motivation for the war in Iraq. Here, in eye-opening detail, is an insightful picture of today’s world that goes far beyond what is reported in the news media.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623858Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:22:15 +0000Maeve NikolausPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and its Enemies Author: George Friedman Narrator: Brian Emerson Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and its Enemies Author: George Friedman Narrator: Brian Emerson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 1, 2004 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Dubbed by Barron’s as “The Shadow CIA,” Stratfor is one of the world’s most respected private global intelligence firms with an unmatched ability to provide clear perspective on the current geopolitical map. Here, drawing on Stratfor’s vast information-gathering network, George Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover: the startling truth behind America’s foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. In America’s Secret War, Friedman identifies the United States’ most dangerous enemies, delves into presidential strategies of the last quarter century, and reveals the real reasons behind the attack of September 11 and the Bush administration’s motivation for the war in Iraq. Here, in eye-opening detail, is an insightful picture of today’s world that goes far beyond what is reported in the news media.]]>185cleanfull