Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503794 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - The Much-Anticipated Sequel to the Global Bestseller Prisoners of Geography

Author: Tim Marshall

Narrator: Tim Marshall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 22, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 18

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I can't imagine reading a better book this year’ Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space. Find out why Europe’s next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks as trouble brews in the Sahel; why the Middle East must look beyond oil and sand to secure its future; why the eastern Mediterranean is one of the most volatile flashpoints of the twenty-first century; and why the Earth’s atmosphere is set to become the world’s next battleground. Delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity’s past, present – and future. ‘Another outstanding guide to the modern world. Marshall is a master at explaining what you need to know and why.’ Peter Frankopan   AS READ BY THE AUTHOR Includes pdf with maps.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499298 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War

Author: Michael S. Sherry

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that 'the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,' and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the 'war on crime' had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504990 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister

Author: Alan Duncan

Narrator: Alan Duncan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

‘Sensational … One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published … As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s’ DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘pooper-scooper’. For two years, he deputised for the then Foreign Secretary, now Prime Minister. Few are more attuned to Boris’s strengths and weaknesses as a minister and his suitability for high office than the man who helped clear up his mistakes. Riotously candid, these diaries cover the most turbulent period in recent British political history – from the eve of the referendum in 2016 to the UK’s eventual exit from the EU. As two prime ministers fall, two general elections unfold and a no-confidence vote is survived, Duncan records a treasure-trove of insider gossip, giving biting and often hilarious accounts of petty rivalries, poor decision-making, big egos, and big crises. Nothing escapes Alan’s acerbic gaze. Across these unfiltered daily entries, he builds a revealing and often profound picture of UK politics and personalities. A rich seam of high politics and low intrigue, this is an account from deep inside the engine room of power.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509860 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Ayodhya: The Dark Night - The Secret History of Rama's Appearance In Babri Masjid

Author: Krishna Jha, Dhirendra K. Jha

Narrator: Pallavi Bharti

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Release date: April 14, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

22 December 1949: A conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little-known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Rama inside it. While it is known that the Hindu Mahasabha had a role in placing the idol in the mosque, the larger plot and the chain of events that led to that act have never been subject to rigorous scrutiny. Krishna Jha and Dhirendra K. Jha bring together the disparate threads of the buried narrative for the first time. Ayodhya: The Dark Night uncovers, in vivid detail, what really transpired on the fateful night that was to leave a permanent scar on the Indian polity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/510115 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The End of Asylum

Author: Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Donald Trump's 2016 campaign centered around immigration issues such as his promise to build a border wall separating the US and Mexico. While he never built a physical wall, he did erect a legal one. Over the past three years, the Trump administration has put forth regulations, policies, and practices all designed to end opportunities for asylum seekers. If left unchecked, these policies will effectually lead to the end of asylum, turning the United States into a country with one of the most restrictive asylum systems. In The End of Asylum, three experts in immigration law offer a comprehensive examination of the rise and demise of the US asylum system. Beginning with the Refugee Act of 1980, they describe how Congress adopted a definition of refugee based on the UN Refugee Convention and prescribed equitable and transparent procedures for a uniform asylum process. The authors then chart the evolution of this process, showing how Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses tweaked the asylum system but maintained it as a means of protecting victims of persecution—until the Trump administration. By expanding his executive reach, twisting obscure provisions in the law, undermining past precedents, and creating additional obstacles for asylum seekers, Trump's policies have effectively ended asylum.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509465 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Grow Up

Author: Dr. Everett Piper

Narrator: Dr. Everett Piper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The “snowflake” rebellion and its juvenile temper tantrums are far from over. As the pampered and bubble-wrapped adolescents of Berkeley and Brown graduate, petulant progressivism is taking root in our nation’s corporations, courts, and even our Congress. A simple glance at the daily news reveals we now stand on the cliff of a cultural crisis where vitriol has replaced virtue, identity politics trumps principle, character no longer matters, and elected leaders act more like spoiled children than mature adults. In Grow Up, the nearly two-decades-long president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University and the national bestselling author of Not a Daycare, Dr. Everett Piper, presents common-sense solutions to the lunacy Americans face on the news, in the classroom, and from the mouths of elected officials in a powerful reminder that, in the end, civilization relies on adults.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502046 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

Author: Karen Petrou

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Release date: April 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy. Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot richer while the middle class shrank and economic and wealth inequality skyrocketed. In Engine of Inequality, Karen Petrou offers pragmatic solutions for creating more inclusive monetary policy and equality-enhancing financial regulation as quickly and painlessly as possible. This groundbreaking book: presents practical ways America can and should tackle economic inequality with fast-acting results; provides revealing examples of exactly how bad economic inequality in America has become no matter how hard we all work; demonstrates that increasing inequality is disastrous for long-term economic growth, political action, and even personal happiness; discusses who shares the blame for our economic inequality; and much more. Engine of Inequality is a must-listen for leaders, policymakers, regulators, media professionals, and all Americans wanting to ensure that the nation’s financial policy will be a force for promoting economic equality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501544 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: What's Luck Got To Do With It?: How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream

Author: Edward D. Kleinbard

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs. In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans. What's Luck Got To Do With It? combines insights from economics, philosophy, and social psychology to argue for government's proper role in addressing the inequity of brute luck. Kleinbard shows how well-designed public investment can blunt the worst effects of existential bad luck that private insurance cannot reach and mitigate inequality by sharing the costs across the entire risk pool, which is to say, all of us. The benefits, as Kleinbard shares in a wealth of data, are economic as well as social: a more inclusive economy, higher national income, and greater life satisfaction for millions of Americans. Like it or not, our lives and opportunities are determined largely by luck. Kleinbard shows that while we can't undo every instance of misfortune, we can offer a path to not just a fairer America, but greater economic growth, more broadly shared.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499428 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics

Author: Robert Ford, Maria Sobolewska

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Long-term social and demographic changes—and the conflicts they create—continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book, Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarization and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over immigration, identity, and diversity. They argue that choices made by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilized these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union, culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in which we live.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/502139 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Imagine It!: A Handbook for a Happier Planet

Author: Laurie David, Heather Reisman

Narrator: Lennox Yearwood, Heather Reisman, Laurie David

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The most accessible and actionable handbook for those looking for concrete steps to begin living more sustainably, from climate activists Laurie David and Heather Reisman “An excellent how-to guide [and] a great read for everyone from the socially conscious family to the most ardent climate activist.”—Former Vice President Al Gore Imagine It! is a handbook for those who want to begin or advance a journey toward living in better balance with our planet. It inspires, supports, and offers easy ways to replace old, planet-hurting habits with new healthy ones. In Imagine It!, the documentary filmmakers behind Writing on the Wall, Fed Up, The Biggest Little Farm, The Social Dilemma, and the Academy Award–winning An Inconvenient Truth highlight the need to change some of our food, clothing, and transportation habits and meaningfully lower our use of plastic, paper, water, and harmful chemicals. They call the changes in these areas lifestyle shifts, and there is a chapter devoted to each one of them in the book. Each begins with a short story on the shift being explored, and then provides clear steps for replacing old habits with new ones to create lasting change. Laurie David and Heather Reisman are no strangers to exposing hard truths and helping audiences understand their part in bringing about change. They know a cleaner, healthier world is ours for the taking—and to start, we just have to Imagine It! * This audiobook includes a downloaable PDF including Appendices of Draft Advocacy Letter; Glossary; Young Activists to Follow on Social Media; Environmental Groups; Websites Worth Visiting; Recommended TV, Films, and Documentaries; Recommended Books; and Some of Our Favorite Products.