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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain Author: Corinne Fowler Narrator: Corinne Fowler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton. Empire transformed rural lives: whether in Welsh sheep farms or Cornish copper mines, it offered both opportunity and exploitation. Fowler shows how the booming profits of overseas colonial activities directly contributed to enclosure, land clearances and dispossession. These histories, usually considered apart, continue to link the lives of their descendants now. To give an honest account, to offer both affection and criticism, is a matter of respect: we should not knowingly tell half a history. This new knowledge of our island stories, once gained, can only deepen Britons' relationship with their beloved landscape. ©2023 Corinne Fowler (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again Author: Robert Kagan Narrator: Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, as he did in 2020, but refuses to accept the result, as he also did in the last election, he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the election results. It will be a short step from there to Republican-dominated states rejecting the legitimacy of the federal government and effectively seceding. The United States at that point will cease to be united, with grave consequences for both Americans and the world. In Rebellion, Kagan dives deeper than the op-eds and think pieces to explore the historical forces that have brought us to this moment—in particular the long history of opposition to liberalism, and to government, that has shaped America’s character from the time of the Revolution to today. Trump’s unique capacity to tap into that tradition of dissent and circumvent the American system has brought us to the edge of dissolution—not for the first time in our history but possibly the last. This is an elegant and deeply informed synthesis of history, contemporary politics, and ideas that sheds light on this crucial moment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe Author: Jesse Watters Narrator: Larry Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country? When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him: First, he liked these people. Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn’t need legislation. They needed a therapist. In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News primetime host takes on Wokeism in a way no one else has. Through a series of (sometimes very) personal interviews with some of the most radical activists in the country, Watters discovers that these activists may be overlooking the most important change they need to make—within themselves. From activists working for climate change salvation, Black supremacy, and social justice to a professional cuddler and a transwoman who identifies as a wolf, Watters shows how many well-intentioned Americans have bought into causes invented and run by people who are illogical, emotional, and ill-informed. Through their stories, Watters uncovers common threads—childhood traumas, broken relationships, and a lack of introspection. What if the people obsessed with the end of the world are just hurting from how this one has treated them? What if that, rather than ideological disagreements, is the deeper root of our country’s political divide? Funny, fresh, and fascinating, Get It Together is sure to spark important conversations, and to inspire us to see one another not as political opponents, but as real and broken human beings.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too Author: Ijeoma Oluo Narrator: Ijeoma Oluo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America. In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them? With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live. This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs Author: Benjamin Herold Narrator: Bethany Smith, Benjamin Herold Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal status quo. In Compton, California, whose suburban roots are now barely recognizable, undocumented Hispanic parents place their gifted son’s future in the hands of educators at a remarkable elementary school. And outside Pittsburgh, a Black mother moves to the same street where author Benjamin Herold grew up, then confronts the destructive legacy left behind by white families like his. Disillusioned braids these human stories together with penetrating local and national history to reveal a vicious cycle undermining the dreams upon which American suburbia was built. For generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. But now, sweeping demographic shifts and the dawning realization that endless expansion is no longer feasible are disrupting this pattern, forcing everyday families to confront a truth their communities were designed to avoid: The suburban lifestyle dream is a Ponzi scheme whose unraveling threatens us all. How do we come to terms with this troubled history? How do we build a future in which all children can thrive?  Drawing upon his decorated career as an education journalist, Herold explores these pressing debates with expertise and perspective. Then, alongside Bethany Smith—the mother from his old neighborhood, who contributes a powerful epilogue to the book—he offers a hopeful path toward renewal. The result is nothing short of a journalistic masterpiece.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine Author: Andrew Roberts, David Petraeus Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES ‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ** FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL ON THE ISRAEL/GAZA CONFLICT ** Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over seventy years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and explore the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies. Among the conflicts examined are the Arab – Israeli wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the two Gulf wars, the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia, and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan, as well as guerrilla conflicts in Africa and South America. Conflict culminates with a bracing look at Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine, yet another case study in the tragic results that occur when leaders refuse to learn from history, and an assessment of the nature of future warfare. Filled with sharp insight and the wisdom of experience, Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as for understanding what the decades ahead will bring.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him Author: David Reynolds Narrator: Ethan Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be ‘great’, to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his actions as a soldier and politician, gilded by his writings as a journalist and historian. But Churchill’s path to greatness was also defined by the leaders he encountered along the way – friends and foes, at home and abroad. Men of power such as Hitler and Mussolini, Roosevelt and Stalin, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain and Charles de Gaulle. And the haunting presence of the adored father who had seen nothing of merit in his troublesome son. In these men Churchill discerned greatness, or its absence, in ways that influenced his own career. This book includes some whom Churchill would not have deemed ‘great’, but who – in our own day – offer alternative mirrors of what that word might mean. Mahatma Gandhi, who infuriated Churchill by exploiting the power of powerlessness. Clement Attlee, whose heretical vision of ‘Great Britain’ was socialist and post-imperial. And his darling Clementine, channelling her ‘pinko’ sentiments to become Winston’s essential helpmate and most devoted critic. Mirrors of Greatness offers vivid new perspectives on Churchill’s life and work, showing how this unique man – with dazzling gifts and jagged flaws – learned from his ‘great contemporaries’ and what they saw in him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business Author: Roxane Gay Narrator: Roxane Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society—state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women’s rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy—alongside more individually personalized matters: can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion section contributor and the publication’s “Work Friend” columnist, she reaches millions of readers with her wise voice and sharp insights. Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay’s best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years. Covering a wide range of topics—politics, feminism, the culture wars, civil rights, and much more—with an all-new introduction in which she reflects on the past decade in America, this sharp, thought-provoking anthology will delight Roxane Gay’s devotees and draw new readers to this inimitable talent.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Author: Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An urgent follow-up to international bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to offer a dire warning about right-wing efforts to undermine multiracial democracy. Exploring the 2024 American election and the Capitol riots, as well as global examples from history including post-1945 Germany and Brazil and Chile during the '60s and '70s, the authors show how ossified political conventions can be pernicious enablers of minority rule, creating a situation in which partisan minorities can consistently thwart and even rule over popular majorities. With its urgent call for a radical reform of our antiquated institutions for the benefit of the majority, and a citizens' movement to put enough pressure on lawmakers to act before it's too late, Tyranny of the Minority is a must-read for every participant in the emerging democratic reform movement. ©2023 Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World Author: Michael Spence, Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian Narrator: Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Offers hope and good sense in equal measure'  Ian Bremmer  'A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world'  Sheryl Sandberg Problems are mounting. We face sputtering growth, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, poor policy responses, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. But a permacrisis need not be permanent. In this book, three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time, Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence, writing with Reid Lidow, explain where we’ve gone wrong and set out what could be done to bring about a brighter future for generations to come. They look beyond today’s headlines and political rhetoric to offer a bold, big-picture vision and nuanced, achievable solutions for fixing our broken approaches to growth, economic management, and governance. The world is changing. What that change looks like is up to us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism Author: Yanis Varoufakis Narrator: Yanis Varoufakis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power. But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison. ‘An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power’ Observer ‘An urgent demand to seize the means of computation’ CORY DOCTOROW A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR © Yanis Varoufakis 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage Author: Philippe Sands Narrator: Philippe Sands, Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies.     Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean.     For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U.S.     When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony.     The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home—or would they remain exiled forever?     Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of accompanying maps from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House Author: Ben Shapiro Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Project President is a hilarious romp through American electoral history. From short, fat, bald John Adams' wig-throwing tantrums during the 1800 election to Abraham Lincoln's decision to grow a beard in 1860; from John F. Kennedy's choice to forgo the fedora at his inauguration to John Kerry's decision to get Botoxed for the 2004 race; from the Golden Age of Facial Hair (1860-1912) to the Age of the Banker (1912-1960); from Washington's false teeth to George W. Bush's workout regimen, Project President tells the story of America's love affair with presidential looks and appearance, why that often matters more than a politico's positions on the issues, and what might well be coming next. 'I'm constantly citing the power of dress. It's semiology: our clothes send a message about how we want to be perceived, and where is this more powerful and evident than in elected offices. In Project President, Ben Shapiro captures presidential semiotics with a potent narrative and deft analysis.  It's simultaneously fascinating and hilarious!' -Tim Gunn Project Runway, Liz Claiborne, Inc.   'Ben Shapiro takes a romp through American history and shows how personality--and even haircuts--have elected or defeated presidential candidates.  It's a tour through history that fans of both parties will enjoy-and can learn from.' -Michael Barone Resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report Co-author, The Almanac of American Politics   'Presidential politics has always been more superficial than we'd like to admit. With a stylish and likeable touch befitting a strong candidate, Ben Shapiro takes us deep into the shallowness that has shaped American history.' -Jonathan Alter Newsweek   'Shapiro deftly explains how height, hair and handsomeness can affect a candidate's campaign as much as issues. A fun, informative read.' -Glenn Beck Nationally syndicated talk show host Host of CNN's The Glenn Beck Show 'A hilarious and illuminating journey through America's centuries-long fascination with presidential image-making. Whether you're left, right, moderate or apathetic, this lively book will get you ready for the packaging of the '08 races.' -Jim Hightower 'This is a perceptive, witty-sometimes hilarious-look at the realities behind the faces and the facades, the slogans and the character assassinations, of each presidential campaign from George Washington to today - with much for us to ponder for tomorrow.' -Sir Martin Gilbert Official biographer of Winston Churchill  'An entertaining and illuminating romp through the politics of symbolism and personality in our presidential politics. If you're thinking of running for president, read this book before you spend a dime on a political consultant.' -Rich Lowry National Review   COLMES: Who do you want [for the Supreme Court]? ANN COULTER: Thank you for asking. I want Ben Shapiro. COLMES: Ben Shapiro. ANN COULTER: Yes. He just finished his first year at Harvard Law, 21 years old. COLMES: You mean for a date or for the court? ANN COULTER: No, for the court. He's my candidate. He's very bright. He's already written one best-selling book. (CROSSTALK) COLMES: You want to put a 21-year-old guy on the court? ANN COULTER: Twenty-one, and he's just finished first year of Harvard Law. COLMES: So you want someone who's going to be on the court for 50, 60 years? Is that - is that the whole idea? ANN COULTER: No, I just happen to like Ben Shapiro. Hannity and Colmes Fox News Channel July 8, 2005

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington Author: Paul Sperry Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The most sinister terrorists won't be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East. They're already here. This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America, an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America into an Islamic state. In this powder keg of a book, you'll learn: - How radical Muslims have penetrated the U.S. military, the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, and even the White House, where subversive Muslims and Arabs have received top-secret clearance. - How they've infiltrated the chaplains program in the federal and state prison systems, a top recruiting ground for al-Qaida. - How they've successfully run influence operations against our political system with the help of both Democrats and Republicans, badgering corporate boards into Islamizing the workplace. - How we've been utterly duped about what the Quran does and doesn't teach. Sadly, much of anti-Western terrorism is simply Islam in practice, the text of the Quran in action.   In a time when religious and political leaders are scrambling to smooth over differences in faith and beliefs, this book gives the terrifying truth about the very real, very deadly agenda of Islam and how it has already infiltrated key American institutions with agents, spies, and subversives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Identity in Crisis: Notes from an Accidental Activist Author: Kat Calvin Narrator: Chanté Mccormick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A trailblazing activist’s passionate and incisive look at why she started a movement to ensure that 26 million Americans have access to the IDs they need to escape poverty and live healthy and productive lives American Identity in Crisis weaves together three remarkable stories: the making of an activist in the wake of the 2016 presidential election; the fight against the onerous rules that are being used to keep vulnerable and targeted populations from participating in all facets of American life -from obtaining jobs and housing to going to the polls- and how we can solve a problem that impacts millions of American adults. Kat Calvin ties all of these threads together in profound ways. In American Identity in Crisis, she takes us on a cross-country tour as she and her team uncover one of the biggest secrets in America and learn how to solve it. We meet veterans, the unhoused, and senior citizens, and learn the story of the fierce advocate who insists on recognizing their humanity and seeing them as souls who are resilient and striving for change.  Told in a voice that is strong and vulnerable; funny and fearless, confident and self-deprecating, American Identity in Crisis is a defense of human dignity and everyone’s right to have access to the pursuit of happiness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro: Manipulación, control y destrucción del ser humano Author: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta Narrator: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Leído por el autor El premiado filósofo, conferenciante internacional y académico Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta nos trae un manifiesto filosófico que pretende animar a los lectores a aprender a pensar por sí mismos y no permitir que la tecnología domine y controle su vida. En un mundo de servicios de streaming a la carta y de interminables contenidos de TikTok, no es ningún secreto que la tecnología está dominando nuestras mentes y comportamiento, lo que en última instancia conducirá a una dominación social y del pensamiento mundial. Eso, si no lo detenemos ahora. Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro es una llamada a vivir la realidad como los seres humanos de pensamiento libre que somos y a evitar caer en el engaño de un mundo virtual que se muestra como una vía de escape fácil de las dificultades de la experiencia humana. En este libro, el Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta presenta los problemas, la gravedad y los efectos de estar dominado cerebralmente por la tecnología, a la vez que presenta como solución un mundo en el que estos problemas se evitan mediante el control personal sobre la tecnología y la mente. Este libro aborda temas como: - Cómo sobrevivir sin tecnología en un mundo tecnológico - Cómo afectan las pantallas al comportamiento - La digitalización de la realidad - Los peligros del metaverso y las comunidades virtuales como vía de escape de la realidad - El rechazo a la tecnología en los debates contemporáneos - Cómo podemos recuperar el control sobre nuestros pensamientos, nuestras vidas y nuestra familia Debemos condicionar la tecnología, no dejar que la tecnología condicione nuestras vidas. Es hora de recuperar el control de tu vida y de tu familia. Los gráficos de acompañamiento se incluyen en la descarga del PDF complementario del audiolibro. Turn off Your Phone and Turn on Your Brain Read by the author Award-winning philosopher, international speaker, and scholar Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta brings us a philosophical manifesto that aims to encourage the readers learn to think for themselves and not allow technology to dominate and control their lives.  In a world of on-demand streaming services and never-ending TikTok content, it is no secret that technology is dominating our minds and behaviors, ultimately leading to world-wide social and thought domination. That’s if we don’t stop it in its tracks right now. Turn off Your Phone and Turn on Your Brain is a call to live reality as the free-thinking human beings we are and avoid falling into the deception of a virtual world that is shown as an easy escape from the difficulties of the human experience.  In this book, Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta presents the problems, severity, and effects of being cerebrally dominated by technology, while at the same time presenting as a solution a world in which these problems are avoided through personal control over technology and the mind.  This book addresses topics such as: - How to survive without technology in a technological world - How screens affect behavior - The digitalization of reality - The dangers of the metaverse and virtual communities as an escape route from reality - The rejection of technology in contemporary discussions - How we can regain control over our thoughts, our lives, and our family

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652400 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Elinor Coleman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between East and West—from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin “A compelling portrait of one of the most important cities in Europe. Full of sharp insights, elegant writing and vivid characters.” —Andrew Roberts, author of The Chief Victor Sebestyen has written a sweeping, colorful and immersive history of the capital of Hungary, from the fifth century to the present day: a metropolis whose location in Europe has marked it as a crucial city—at times rich and prosperous, at times enduring unbearable hardship. It has stood at the center of the world-changing historical developments for hundreds of years: the Muslim invasion, The Reformation, both World Wars, fascism, the Holocaust and Communism. Sebestyen mixes colorful details and anecdotes about the people, streets and neighborhoods of his hometown with its rich cultural legacy of literature, music, and architecture. He shows how its people have shifted culturally, politically and emotionally between East and West, through many revolutions, bloody battles, uprisings, and wars of conquest won and lost. He vividly brings to life the many rulers: the ruthless early Magyar, Hun, and Mongol chieftains, celebrated medieval kings and princes, Ottoman Turks, and the Hapsburgs, including the beloved Empress Elisabeth (“Sisi”). We also learn about colorful figures in politics, the arts and the sciences, among them Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism; film pioneer Alexander Korda who held court with the director of Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, young reporter Billy Wilder, and photographer Robert Capa in the glamorous New York Café still going today; Edward Teller, inventor of the H bomb; and Countess Elisabeth Báthory, a cousin of the King of Poland, who became a serial killer, among many others. Sebestyen’s compelling history of Budapest is a lively page-turner as well as being uniquely revelatory and authoritative account of one of the most important cities of Europe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Sweet It Is: Defending the American Dream Author: Winsome Earle-Sears Narrator: Winsome Earle-Sears Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The first Black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia reveals in her memoir how her Christian faith, unwavering patriotism, and fervent commitment to conservative principles propelled her to serve and sacrifice for her country and a better future. Winsome Earle-Sears sent shock waves across Virginia and the country at large when she pulled off her stunning upset victory in November 2021 and became the first woman lieutenant governor of Virginia and the first Black woman, the first naturalized female citizen, and first female veteran elected to statewide office. She earned intense national coverage because of her unwavering support for Second Amendment rights and her strong commitment to education opportunity for all students. Now in her memoir, How Sweet It Is, Winsome will tell her story and explain how she arrived at that historic moment in time.   A devout Christian, Winsome is also a true believer in the promise of the American Dream. Her father was approved to immigrate to the U.S.A. and left Jamaica, arriving in America on August 11, 1963, with only $1.75 in his pocket. Winsome joined him when she was just six years old, and ever since she has never ceased enthusiastically bucking conventions, defying expectations, and charging straight toward challenges.   Winsome’s remarkable story is one of faith and family, personal loss and perseverance, philanthropy and patriotism, service and sacrifice. But through it all, her Christian faith sustained her, drove her, and compelled her to give back to her community and her country. Her unyielding belief in the fundamental righteousness of America stands in stark opposition to the increasingly pervasive ideologies that are dividing the country. In How Sweet It Is, Winsome encourages Americans to never stop fighting for their country and shows them how to chart a new path forward.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan Author: Sam Childers Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way. In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to save children in one of the world's most lawless areas. Photos are included in the audiobook companion PDF download. “Another Man’s War is about true terrorism . . . against more than 200,000 children in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan. Sam Childers—a fighter and a preacher (some call him a mercenary)—tirelessly leads a small militia into the jungle, daring to fight against a vicious army outnumbering him one thousand to one. One man can make a huge difference. Sam Childers certainly does.” ?Peter Fonda, actor/filmmaker, best known as star of Easy Rider “The Reverend Sam Childers has been a very close friend to the government of South Sudan for many years and is a trusted friend.” ?President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan “The Reverend Sam Childers is a long time devoted friend to our government and his courageous work is supported by us.” ?President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda “Sam Childers is one of those rare men [who is] willing to do literally whatever it takes to promote the message of Jesus Christ and save children from the tyranny of evil men.” ?John Rich, lead singer and songwriter, Big & Rich

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America Author: H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn J. Edin, Timothy J. Nelson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.  “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)  Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America’s most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there. This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas. Immersing themselves in these communities, pouring over centuries of local history, attending parades and festivals, the authors trace the legacies of the deepest poverty in America—including inequalities shaping people’s health, livelihoods, and upward social mobility for families. Wrung dry by powerful forces and corrupt government officials, the “internal colonies” in these regions were exploited for their resources and then left to collapse.  The unfolding revelation in The Injustice of Place is not about what sets these places apart, but about what they have in common—a history of raw, intensive resource extraction and human exploitation. This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty, with the unrelenting focus on our nation’s places of deepest need.   Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Denise Mina’s Case Histories: A BBC Radio True Crime Series Author: Denise Mina Narrator: Denise Mina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Denise Mina examines the most famous - and infamous - cases in Scottish legal history, and participates in a mock trial Denise Mina is well known for her bestselling 'Tartan Noir' novels. She has twice won the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award, and her 'Paddy Meehan' series has been adapted for BBC TV. Before becoming a novelist, she studied law, and she has a particular interest in true crime. In these six episodes, she uncovers some of Scotland's most dramatic trials that continue to fascinate us years later. Also included is a bonus documentary, The Street Lawyer. The Paisley Snail - 1928. When May Donoghue pours ginger beer into her ice-cream float and a decomposed snail slithers out of the bottle, it sparks a case that will make legal history... Oscar Slater - Rich spinster Marion Gilchrist is brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908. The hunt for her killer leads to Scotland's most dramatic miscarriage of justice: the Oscar Slater trial. The Douglas Cause - In this notorious 18th Century cause célèbre, two leading aristocratic families go head-to-head in a scandalous inheritance battle involving a secret elopement and stolen babies. The Moorov Doctrine - Glasgow, 1930, and a #MeToo-style case of sexual harassment in the workplace establishes one of the most important legal principles in Scottish law today. Madeleine Smith - In 1857, socialite Madeleine Smith is on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her French lover Emile L'Angelier. But did she do it, or not? Burke and Hare - Denise Mina looks at the notorious 19th Century murderers, talking to fellow authors Marisa Haetzman and Ian Rankin about the legalities of body snatching and the legacy of Burke and Hare's grim deeds. The Street Lawyer - Mina joins street lawyer Emmanuel De Abreu and sixth-formers from Glasgow's Lochend Community High School as they take on the roles of defence and prosecution to simulate a famous US murder case. Credits Denise Mina's Case Histories Presented by Denise Mina Legal consultant: Andrew Tickell Produced by Liza Greig Edited by Heather Kane Senior Producer: Lynsey Moyes With Katie Barclay, Alice Bowman, John Cairns, Clare Connelly, Owen Dudley Edwards, Lindsay Farmer, Pamela Ferguson, Michael Fry, Eleanor Gordon, Marisa Haetzman, Martin Hannan, David Hay, Andy Hughes, Helena Kennedy, Bruno Longmore, Hamish MacPherson, Nadine Martin, Mandy McIntosh, Allan Nicol, Janet Philip, Ian Rankin, Alison Rosie and Susanne Tanner First broadcast BBC Radio Scotland, 1 May - 27 December 2019 The Street Lawyer Presented by Denise Mina With Emmanuel De Abreu and pupils from Lochend Community High School First broadcast BBC Radio Scotland, 2 April 2019 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America Author: Matt Lewis Narrator: Chris Abell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From one of America's sharpest conservative journalists is this searing, thought-provoking and hilarious takedown of the ruling class running amok in Washington. These are your elected officials. Some are slyly taking advantage of the system. They are hoping no one is savvy enough to notice. But Matt Lewis has. And this is what he’s learned. Today’s politicians are an unsavory lot—a hybrid of plutocrats and hypocrites. And it’s worse (and more laughable) than you can imagine. Lewis will introduce you to a crop of latte liberals, ivy league populists, insider traders, trust-fund babies, and swamp creatures as he exposes how truly ludicrous money in politics has gotten. In Filthy Rich Politicians, Lewis embarks on an investigative deep dive into the ridiculous state of modern American democracy—a system where the rich get elected and the elected get rich. One of the brightest conservative writers of his generation, Lewis doesn’t just complain: he articulates how Americans can achieve accountability from their elected leaders through radically commonsense reforms. But many of these ruling-class elites have a vested financial interest in rejecting the reforms so desperately needed to rebuild Americans’ trust in the institutions that once made our nation great. This is not an “eat the rich” kind of book, and it is not for those who want to stoke class warfare, topple the whole regime, and burn it all to the ground. This is a must-read book for thoughtful readers who yearn for transparency and will commit to holding their elected leaders accountable to those they are supposed to represent—we the people. The reforms spelled out in this book would incentivize good behavior in our leaders, stymie corruption, and prevent politicians from using the system (and our taxpayer dollars) to feather their filthy rich nests. It is only by taking these steps to reform the system that we can rebuild trust in our institutions and preserve American democracy for future generations. There really is no richer inheritance we could leave them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years Author: Kimberley Strassel Narrator: Stephanie Richardson, Kimberley Strassel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “In the style of a dogged prosecutor, Strassel builds a devastating case against Joe Biden’s record…THE BIDEN MALAISE is must-read ahead of 2024, as conservative voters prepare to make consequential choices.”―Guy Benson, Fox News & Townhall.com The bestselling author of Resistance (At All Costs) and The Intimidation Game argues that Joe Biden, like Jimmy Carter before him, has mired the country in weakness, inflation and political unease. ​ Whether in politics or policy, the parallels between the Biden and Carter presidencies are now beyond striking. Two presidents—separated by nearly 50 years—beset by the same domestic and foreign policy morasses, politically swamped by a national ennui. However, THE BIDEN MALAISE will examine why such claims overlook important nuances that show President Biden’s blunders are ultimately far worse.  Our current president inherited a better situation along with the lessons of what not to do from Carter's governance. Biden, captive to an ascendent progressive wing of his party, doubled down on Carter’s mistakes and created crises that were as avoidable as they are now severe. From soaring energy prices and inflation to humiliating foreign policy errors, the Biden administration's political mess is self-imposed. His political handling of these fiascoes—like Carter—has only made his situation worse. Democrats risk a public backlash of the sort that opened the way to the Reagan Revolution. Award-winning and bestselling journalist Kim Strassel offers a formula for the GOP to capitalize from this mayhem; one that rekindles the bold and reformist approach of the 80s and 90s, an aspirational agenda that puts Americans back in control of their destiny on issues ranging from healthcare, to energy, to entitlements. THE BIDEN MALAISE is a penetrating look at our current political climate and a book that explains how the GOP can use this opportunity to elect a leader who can restore faith in American exceptionalism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See Author: Richard D Kahlenberg Narrator: Graham Winton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism. While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income.  Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning.  These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, and lock in inequality in our urban and suburban landscapes. Through moving accounts of families excluded from economic and social opportunity as they are hemmed in through “new redlining” that limits the type of housing that can be built, Richard Kahlenberg vividly illustrates why America has a housing crisis. He also illustrates why economic segregation matters since where you live affects access to transportation, employment opportunities, decent health care, and good schools. He shows that housing choice has been socially engineered to the benefit of the affluent, and, that astonishingly the most restrictive zoning is found in politically liberal cities where racial views are more progressive. Despite this there is hope. Kahlenberg tells the inspiring stories of growing number of local and national movements working to tear down the walls that inflicts so much damage on the lives of millions of Americans.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians Author: Nina Shea, Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Christians are the world’s most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others. A woman is caught with a Bible and publicly shot to death. An elderly priest is abducted and never seen again. Three buses full of students and teachers are struck by roadside bombs. These are not casualties of a war. These are Christian believers being persecuted for their faith in the twenty-first century. Many Americans do not understand that Christians today are victims in many parts of the world. Even many Western Christians, who worship and pray without fear of violent repercussions, are unaware that so many followers of Christ live under governments and among people who are often openly hostile to their faith. They think martyrdom became a rarity long ago. Persecuted soundly refutes these assumptions. This book offers a glimpse at the modern-day life of Christians worldwide, recounting the ongoing attacks that rarely make international headlines. As Western Christians pray for the future of Christ’s church, it is vital that they understand a large part of the world’s Christian believers live in danger. Persecuted gives documented accounts of the persecution of Christians in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and former Soviet nations. It contains vivid stories of men and women who suffer abuse because of their faith in Jesus Christ, and tells of their perseverance and courage.. Persecuted is far more than a thorough and moving  study of this global pattern of violence—it is a cry for freedom and a call to action.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America Author: Michael Waldman Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction. In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021­­–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the Court veered from the popular will, provoking controversy, and backlash. And he analyzes the most important new rulings and their implications for the law and for American society. Waldman asks: What can we do when the Supreme Court challenges the country? Over three days in June 2022, the conservative supermajority overturned the constitutional right to abortion, possibly opening the door to reconsider other major privacy rights, as Justice Clarence Thomas urged. The Court sharply limited the authority of the EPA, reducing the prospects for combatting climate change. It radically loosened curbs on guns amid an epidemic of mass shootings. It fully embraced legal theories such as “originalism” that will affect thousands of cases throughout the country. These major decisions—and the next wave to come—will have enormous ramifications for every American. It was the most turbulent term in memory—with the leak of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the first Black woman justice sworn in, and the justices turning on each other in public, Waldman previews the 2022­–2023 term and how the brewing fights over the Supreme Court and its role that already have begun to reshape politics. The Supermajority is “a call to action as much as it is a history of the Supreme Court “ (Financial Times) at a time when the Court’s dysfunction—and the demand for reform—are at the center of public debate.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money Author: George Gilder Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential. Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy. Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and political overreach by leaders who promise to hold back the tides, control the weather, and print prosperity with little clue as to what is actually going on. This divergence did not begin with the Obama administration, the Trump presidency, the Gates Foundation, or George Soros, says leading futurist George Gilder. The cognitive dissonance and its harvest of confusion and despair reflects a deep misunderstanding at the heart of capitalism itself. In Life After Capitalism, national bestselling author George Gilder explains how economics is not an incentive system but an information system. Redefining capitalism for the modern age, he reveals how free enterprise is a mind driven system, material resources are essentially as infinite as atoms, and what governs economic growth is human creativity—not merely a Marxist class struggle for power.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street Author: Victor Luckerson Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification “Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has been destroyed becomes comprehensible, even hopeful.”—Marcia Chatelain, The New York Times WINNER: The Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The MAAH Stone Book Award; The SABEW Best in Business Book Award; The Lillian Smith Book Award; The Oklahoma Historical Society’s E. E. Dale Award FINALIST: The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become the center of black life in the West. But just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived and small businesses flourished. Ed bought a newspaper to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence and battles against white bigotry, and his son Jim, an attorney, embodied the family’s hopes for the civil rights movement. But by the 1970s urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood. Today the newspaper remains, and Ed’s granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists to revive it once again.  In Built from the Fire, journalist Victor Luckerson tells the true story behind a potent national symbol of success and solidarity and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World Author: Steven Hawley Narrator: Steven Hawley, Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century’s big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation’s rivers in a misguided attempt to turn them into revenue streams. Water control projects’ main legacy will be one of needless ecological destruction, fostering a host of unnecessary injustices. The estimated 800,000 dams in the world can’t be blamed for destroying the earth’s entire biological inheritance, but they play an outsized role in that destruction. Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World is a kind of speed date with the history of water control -- its dams, diversions and canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and delivery complex in an arid world—growing increasingly arid under the ravages of climate chaos—is well beyond the benefits furnished. Success stories from Patagonia and the Blue Heart of Europe point to a possible future where rivers run free and the earth restores itself. * This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF that includes definitions and illustrations from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas Author: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran Narrator: Zac Aleman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of 'extracontinentales'—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal, to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap—the gateway from South to Central America. This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's Darién Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street Is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn't Vote For Author: Vivek Ramaswamy Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda—using your money to do it. Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn’t even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through “passive funds,” as most investors no longer believe anyone can reliably pick stocks. Yet the Big Three have decided that they can reliably pick the right social policies instead. As entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy reveals, the results are all bad—and working their way into every corner of the economy. They force US companies to adopt “racial equity audits” and “emissions caps” while supporting human rights atrocities in China. They coerce Western companies to produce less oil while shifting production to dirtier places like Russia. They allow companies like FTX to take victory laps on good management while collapsing like a house of cards. They charge high fees to mom-and-pop investors for so-called sustainable funds that are effectively identical to lower-fee index funds. Worst of all, they’re celebrated as heroes—at least so far. Capitalist Punishment lifts the veil on the largest fiduciary breaches, antitrust abuses, and First Amendment violations of the twenty-first century, misdeeds that are hiding in plain sight. This isn’t just a threat to capitalism. It’s a threat to democratic self-governance itself. Capitalist Punishment is an easy-to-follow educational tour de force for every participant in financial markets—which, to the surprise of most Americans, includes nearly every single one of them.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War Author: Michael W. Doyle Narrator: Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War. With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time. Combining dramatic history with trenchant analysis and landmark theory, Doyle explores the impacts of cyberwarfare, foreign election meddling, and the unprecedented schism of modern politics on American foreign policy. He demonstrates that there can be no success in addressing climate change without China's cooperation, nor any hope of averting nuclear catastrophe without Russia's. In the tradition of Gaddis's The Cold War and Clark's The Sleepwalkers, Cold Peace provides one of the most necessary analyses of global power in decades.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 Author: Edward J. Larson Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. 'Gut-wrenching. . . . While acknowledging that the study of liberty and slavery in the Revolutionary era remains a 'partisan minefield,' Mr. Larson plunges in, sparing none of the era's most prominent revolutionaries from scrutiny.' —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized for enslaving Black people themselves: George Washington consistently refused to recognize the freedom of those who escaped his Mount Vernon plantation. And we have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding. Indeed throughout Larson's brilliant history it is the voices of Black Americans that prove the most convincing of all on the urgency of liberty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World Author: Zahra Biabani Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Animals & Nature Publisher's Summary: Change the way you think about the future. The fate of humanity can be daunting, but we don't need to live in that space. First, we need to change our attitude in order to implement nature-based solutions to deal with climate change. Good news: there are environmental trends and examples to change the way you think about how we can protect the planet. Get to know Zahra Biabani, a climate activist, influencer, CEO, and writer. After unexpectedly establishing a career as an online sustainability educator and influencer, Zahra decided to jump headfirst into the waters of entrepreneurship and authorship. Climate Optimism is her way to spread hope. Inside, you'll find: ● Real stories on environmental sustainability in other countries that are working ● A mix of unique solutions and practical advice on how to face climate change ● Good news on how to change the way you think and feel about the climate crisis If you're looking for a sustainable living book or books for activists centered on environmentalism like A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, The Intersectional Environmentalist, or Sustainable Badass, you'll love Climate Optimism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust Author: Mikkael A. Sekeres Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee—tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world. It took a series of tragedies and health crises, as well as patient advocacy, for the government to take responsibility for ensuring the efficacy and safety of drugs and medical devices. Before the FDA existed, drug makers could hawk any potion, claim treatment of any ailment, and make any promise on a label. But then, throughout the twentieth century, the government was forced to take action when children were poisoned by contaminated diphtheria and smallpox vaccines, an early antibiotic contained antifreeze, a drug prescribed for morning sickness in pregnancy caused babies to be born disfigured, and access to AIDS drugs was limited to a few clinical trials while thousands died. Sekeres describes all these events against the backdrop of the contentious 2011 hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin, in which he participated as a panel member.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations Author: Michael A. Robinson Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the 'politicization' of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many have turned their attention to how the American military has been—and will be—affected by this trend. Since a low point following the end of the Vietnam War, the US military has experienced a dramatic reversal of public opinion, becoming one of the most trusted institutions in American society. However, this trend is more complicated than it appears: just as individuals have become fonder of their military, they have also become increasingly polarized from one another along partisan lines. The result is a new political environment rife with challenges to traditional civil-military norms. Michael A. Robinson studies the sources and potential limits of American trust in the armed services, focusing on the interplay of the public, political parties, media outlets, and the military itself on the prospect of politicization and its associated challenges. As democratic institutions face persistent pressure worldwide, Dangerous Instrument provides important insights into the contemporary arc of American civil-military affairs and delivers recommendations on ways to preserve a non-partisan military.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Tiempo de hormigas: De la importancia de hablar con libertad y sin miedo sobre lo que está ocurriendo hoy en España Author: Antonio Pérez Henares Narrator: Enrique Cañizares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Un libro de alto voltaje político sobre la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España. Antonio Pérez Henares es célebre por la claridad de sus ideas, así como por expresarlas con franqueza y sin andarse con rodeos. En este libro pone encima de la mesa las grandes cuestiones –y grandes tabúes– que preocupan a millones de personas en nuestro país como la manipulación acerca de la historia de España, el paso del feminismo al «hembrismo», la crisis de la verdad en el periodismo, la «progrecracia» o la ecología animalista… Tiempo de hormigas abre un debate sin censura sobre asuntos urgentes, invitándonos a la reflexión, a la vez que realiza un ataque frontal y fulminante contra el «neototalitarismo». «Pues la libertad, “el más preciado bien” en cervantino decir, o esde todos y a todos ampara, o simplemente no existe, no es. Ejerceré, pues, la mía.» La crítica ha dicho: «Antonio Pérez Henares mantiene indomable su espíritu aventurero. Hoy hace frente a la dictadura de la 'progrecracia' y a la censura de lo políticamente correcto con igual determinación.» Marcos Ondarra, El español «Aborda la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España.» Cope «Un recorrido por temas como la manipulación de la historia de España, la 'crisis de la verdad' del periodismo y el 'neototalitarismo'.» Europa Press «Una profunda reflexión sobre las amenazas a la libertad.» Cynthia Díaz, Ok Diario Sobre La canción del bisonte: «Entre Ken Follett y Pascal Picq, un gigante del periodismo español como Pérez Henares se ha inventado un nuevo género: la novela policíaca de las cavernas.» Le Point «¿Y si la Prehistoria fue la verdadera Edad de Oro de la humanidad? Una novela que no dejará indiferente a nadie. Reveladora.» Juan Luis Arsuaga Sobre Cabeza de Vaca: «Una aventura fascinante, de principio a fin y de mar a mar, por la inmensidad de una América desconocida y salvaje.» Isabel San Sebastián «Mucho más que una novela: la epopeya de uno de nuestros héroes ignorados, contada por un gran autor que ha seguido sus pasos.» Juan Eslava Galán

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments Author: Mckenzie Long Narrator: Mckenzie Long Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Travel Tips Publisher's Summary: One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments Starting amid the sagebrush of Bears Ears National Monument on the eve of the Trump Administration's decision to reduce the site by eighty-five percent, McKenzie Long climbs sandstone cliffs, is awed by Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings, and is intrigued by 4,000-year-old petroglyphs. She hikes through remote pink canyons recently removed from the boundary of Grand Staircase–Escalante, skis to a backcountry hut in Maine to view a truly dark night sky, snorkels in warm Hawaiian waters to plumb the meaning of marine preserves, volunteers near the most contaminated nuclear site in the US, and witnesses firsthand the diverse forms of devotion evoked by the Rio Grande. In essays both contemplative and resonant, this book confronts an unjust past and imagines a collaborative future that bears witness to these regions' enduring Indigenous connections. From climate change realities to volatile tensions between economic development and environmental conservation, practical and philosophical issues arise as Long seeks the complicated and often overlooked stories of these incomparable places. Her journey emphasizes in clear and urgent terms the unique significance of, and grave threats to, these contested lands.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine Author: Lynne Viola Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers new perspectives on both Stalin's central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing one of the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: China's Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order Author: Isaac B. Kardon Narrator: Chris Monteiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing 'the rules' of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea. Conflicts over specific rules lie at the heart of the disputes, which are about much more than sovereignty over islands and rocks in the South and East China Seas. Instead, the main contests concern the strategic maritime space associated with those islands. To consolidate control over this vital maritime space, China's leaders have begun to implement 'China's law of the sea': building domestic legal institutions, bureaucratic organizations, and a naval and maritime law enforcement apparatus to establish China's preferred maritime rules on the water and in the diplomatic arena. Isaac B. Kardon examines China's laws and policies to defend, exploit, study, administer, surveil, and patrol disputed waters. He also considers other claimants' reactions to these Chinese practices, because other states must acquiesce for China's preferences to become international rules. China's maritime disputes offer unique insights into the nature and scope of China's challenge to international order.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Case Against the Supreme Court Author: Erwin Chemerinsky Narrator: Philip Hernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure   In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them. Drawing on a wealth of rulings, some famous, others little known, he reviews the Supreme Court’s historic failures in key areas, including the refusal to protect minorities, the upholding of gender discrimination, and the neglect of the Constitution in times of crisis, from World War I through 9/11. No one is better suited to make this case than Chemerinsky. He has studied, taught, and practiced constitutional law for thirty years and has argued before the Supreme Court. With passion and eloquence, Chemerinsky advocates reforms that could make the system work better, and he challenges us to think more critically about the nature of the Court and the fallible men and women who sit on it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center Author: John Kekes Narrator: Ian M. Hawkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States' 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a reasoned case for moderation and the defense of a political system that has endured because it has balanced the often-conflicting claims of justice, liberty, equality, prosperity, and security. That balance is now threatened by extremists who ignore all else but their grievances. They are blind to the destructive consequences of their attacks on the conditions on which the well-being of all Americans, including their own, depends. The aim of Moderate Conservatism is to protect the United States' political system. It is a defense of what Americans have and are in danger of losing. Central to it is the rarely conscious patriotism of many millions of citizens who live private lives, earn a living, raise a family, and rely on the political system to protect the conditions in which they can continue to do so. They sustain life as Americans know it. And that life is now threatened by the destructive attacks of extremists. The United States is in urgent need of the balance and moderation this book describes and defends.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Author: Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This major new manifesto offers a 'clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society' and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Awakening to China's Rise: European Foreign and Security Policies toward the People's Republic of China Author: Hugo Meijer Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Awakening to China's Rise provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of how Europe's major powers have responded to the re-emergence of China as a great power in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To do so, it puts forward a unique cross-regional comparison of how the major European powers (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) have confronted Chinese assertiveness both in the Asia-Pacific and in Europe. Firstly, it analyzes their response to China's increasingly muscular regional posture in the Asia-Pacific through the development of diplomatic and security initiatives with partners in the region. Secondly, it delineates how they have confronted China's inroads into Europe, looking at the measures that they have taken to tackle Chinese investments in, and supply of, technologies in strategic sectors such as critical national infrastructures, dual-use technologies, and in the digital domain, including Huawei's 5G networks. A longstanding assumption in the IR literature has been that European foreign policies toward the People's Republic of China have been driven by a 'naïve' and self-interested focus on the economic opportunities presented by such a vast market, overlooking security considerations. This book challenges this belief through a detailed examination of the policies of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from 1989 to the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World Author: Stefan Aust, Adrian Geiges Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families still struggle with malnutrition. Today, Xi Jinping faces a series of monumental challenges that would make other global leaders tremble: a trade war with the USA, political unrest in Hong Kong, accusations of genocide in Xinjiang, stuttering economic growth, and a devastating global pandemic that originated inside China. But who is Xi Jinping and what does he really want? To rejuvenate China and bring economic prosperity to all its people? To challenge American supremacy and turn China into the world's dominant power? Avoiding both sycophantic flattery and outright condemnation, this new biography by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges gets inside the head of one of the world's most mysterious leaders. Skillfully unraveling the hidden story of Xi Jinping's life and career, from his early childhood to his rise to the pinnacles of the Party and the State, they flesh out his views and uncover how he became the most powerful man in the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars Author: Azar Gat Narrator: Shawn K. Jain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the 'death of ideology,' ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting 'fake news' and 'alternative facts.' The other side is widely viewed as malicious, irrational, or downright stupid, and, often, as barely legitimate. The zeal of the opposing sides is often scarcely less than that which characterized the religious ideologies of old. Indeed, historical religious ideologies have largely been replaced by 'secular religions' or 'religion substitutes.' Ideology consists of normative prescriptions regarding how society should be shaped, together with an interpretive roadmap indicating how this normative vision can be implemented in reality. Ideological Fixation is the result of tensions and conflicts between these two elements. The book focuses on ideologies' factual claims about the world, typically subordinate to, and often distorted by, their normative commitment. In exploring this phenomenon, the book combines insights from evolutionary psychology regarding the nature of some of our deepest proclivities with a broad sweep through history and around the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 2nd Edition Author: Dennis W. Johnson Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The United States, through its local, state, and national contests, holds more elections, more often, than any democracy in the world. But in recent years, there have been troubling signs that our system of campaigns and elections has become much more fragile and vulnerable. More specifically, in the past twenty years, campaigns have changed profoundly: social media and viral messaging compete with traditional media, races once considered local in nature have become nationalized, Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance law now encourage mega-donors, voters are more polarized, party affiliation has waned, and the middle ideological ground has given way to extremist language and voter rage. This new edition of Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers the most up-to-date examination of campaigns, elections, and future threats to voting and democracy. It will also include new data on voter participation, voter fraud, reapportionment post-2020 census, party polarization, campaign finance, and more. Given the fragility of our election process, what are the threats to a healthy American democracy? This is not simply a book on how campaigns are run, but why campaigns and elections are integral components of American democracy and how those fundamental elements may be vulnerable to misuse.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 30 Minuten: Friedrich Schillers 'Wilhelm Tell': Weltliteratur kompakt: Schneller hören – mehr wissen! Author: Jürgen Fritsche, Friedrich Schiller Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Friedrich Schillers Drama aus der Epoche der Klassik, 'Wilhelm Tell'. 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century Author: David Allen Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: No major arena of US governance is more elitist than foreign policy. International relations barely surface in election campaigns, and policymakers take little input from Congress. For much of the twentieth century, officials, activists, and academics worked to foster an informed public that would embrace participation in foreign policy as a civic duty. Every Citizen a Statesman recounts an abandoned effort to create a democratic foreign policy. Taking the lead alongside the State Department were philanthropic institutions like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and the Foreign Policy Association, a nonprofit founded in 1918. In cities across the country, hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in homes and libraries to learn and talk about pressing global issues. But by the 1960s, officials were convinced that strategy in a nuclear world was beyond ordinary people, and foundation support for outreach withered. The local councils increasingly focused on those who were already engaged in political debate and otherwise decried supposed public apathy, becoming a force for the very elitism they set out to combat. The result, David Allen argues, was a chasm between policymakers and the public that has persisted since the Vietnam War, insulating a critical area of decision-making from the will of the people.