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Title: [German] - Der Wirtschafts-Virus: Wie Corona die Welt verändert und was das für Sie bedeutet

Author: Markus Gürne, Bettina Seidl

Narrator: Hans Henrik Wöhler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Nicht nur Menschen haben sich mit Covid19 angesteckt, auch die Wirtschaft ist infiziert. Das Virus trifft durch Handelskriege und Zölle geschwächte Unternehmen, und Deutschland als Exportweltmeister bekommt das doppelt zu spüren. Jeder Einzelne von uns ist betroffen. Die Frage, wie es weitergeht, ist Gesprächsthema Nummer eins: Ist unsere Firma stark genug, das zu überstehen? Wie lange funktioniert das Modell Kurzarbeit? Verliere ich meinen Arbeitsplatz? Ist mein Erspartes in Gefahr, meine Altersvorsorge? Wie hilft uns eigentlich die EZB - oder hilft die nur den Banken? Wie viel Geld hat unser Staat noch in petto? Wird uns diese Krise so lange nachhängen wie schon die Finanzkrise? Müssen wir komplett neu denken? Weg vom immer schneller, besser, globalisierter? Das sind die Fragen, die Markus Gürne, Leiter der ARD-Börsenredaktion, beantwortet.

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Title: The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

Author: Roman Krznaric

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness “The most important question we must ask ourselves is: Are we being good ancestors?” So said Jonas Salk, who cured polio in 1953. Salk saved millions of lives, but he refused to patent his cure or make any money from it. His radical rethinking of what we owe future generations should be an inspiration to us all, but it has hardly taken hold: Businesses can barely see past the next quarter; politicians can’t see past the next election. Markets spike, then they crash in speculative bubbles. We rarely stop to consider whether we’re being good ancestors … but the future depends on it. Here, leading public intellectual, philosopher, and bestselling author Roman Krznaric explains six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future—such as adopting Deep Time Humility (recognizing our lives as a cosmic eyeblink) and Cathedral Thinking (starting projects that will take more than one lifetime to complete). His aim is to inspire a “time rebellion”—to shift our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future.

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Title: Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow

Author: Ramesh Srinivasan

Narrator: Ramesh Srinivasan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us for a more democratic internet In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it’s a one-way, top-down process. We’re not asked for our input or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It’s time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca, East and West Africa, China, Scandinavia, North America, and elsewhere, visiting the “design labs” of rural, low-income, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Eric Holder, Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Lessig, and the founders of Reddit, as well as community organizers, labor leaders, and human rights activists. To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.

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Title: Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy

Author: Stephen Wertheim

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the US foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of US supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.

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Title: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Author: Alexander Keyssar

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution. Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these efforts—one as recently as 1970—came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains. Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral College’s tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2020 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has failed. Reasons include the complexity of the electoral system’s design, the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, importantly, the South’s prolonged backing of the Electoral College, grounded in its desire to preserve white supremacy in the region. The commonly voiced explanation that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence proves to have been true only occasionally. Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, and considers alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century.

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Title: The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights

Author: William F. Schulz, Sushma Raman

Narrator: Erica Sullivan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Release date: October 20, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being. A rights revolution is under way. Today the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is exploding—not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What new rights, for example, are needed if we understand gender to be nonbinary? Does living in a corrupt state violate our rights? And emerging technologies demand that we think about old rights in new ways: When biotechnology is used to change genetic code, whose rights might be violated? What rights, if any, protect our privacy from the intrusions of sophisticated surveillance techniques? Drawing on their vast experience as human rights advocates, William Schulz and Sushma Raman challenge us to think hard about how rights evolve with changing circumstances, and what rights will look like ten, twenty, or fifty years from now. Against those who hold that rights are static and immutable, Schulz and Raman argue that rights must adapt to new realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance. To preserve and promote the good society—one that protects its members’ dignity and fosters an environment in which people will want to live—we must at times rethink the meanings of familiar rights and consider the introduction of entirely new rights. Now is one of those times. The Coming Good Society details the many frontiers of rights today and the debates surrounding them. Schulz and Raman equip us with the tools to engage the present and future of rights so that we understand their importance and know where we stand.

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Title: Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth

Author: Theresa Payton

Narrator: Theresa Payton, Christopher Lane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating yet bone-chilling tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots. Finally, Payton offers readers telltale signs that their most fundamental beliefs are being meddled with and actions they can take or demand that corporations and elected officials must take before it is too late. Payton reveals: - How digital voting machines, voting online, and automatic registration may boost turnout but make us more vulnerable to cyberattacks. - How trolls from Russia and other nations actively stoke discord among Americans in falsely-generated controversies over race relations, vaccinations, fracking, and other social issues. - Whether what we have uncovered from the Mueller investigation so far is only what they wanted us to know.

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Title: Abandoned: America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection

Author: Anne Kim

Narrator: Janet Song

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: February 11, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A deeply affecting exposé of America’s hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But nearly five million young people—or a stunning 11.7 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four—experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams. Journalist Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities almost nonexistent. She then describes a growing awareness—including new research from the field of adolescent brain science—that “emerging adulthood” is just as crucial a developmental period as early childhood, and she profiles an array of unheralded programs that provide young people with the supports they need to achieve self-sufficiency. A major work of deeply reported narrative nonfiction, Abandoned joins the small shelf of books that change the way we see our society and point to a different path forward.

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Title: The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives

Author: Peter Hasson

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For better or for worse, Google and social media—“Big Tech,” collectively—have become the new public square. Unfortunately, this public square has a watchful referee standing behind them, ready and waiting to blow the whistle if they veer too far from the preferred narrative. Americans have given these companies enormous power to select the information they read, share and discuss with their neighbors and friends. We’ve gotten so used to it, we forget to notice that Big Tech is sifting through the available information and narrowing—and prioritizing—our choices. What happens when that power is weaponized for political ends? Although Big Tech positioned itself initially as providing politically neutral platforms, the truth is that this is no longer the case—far from it. Daily Caller reporter Peter Hasson reveals in The Manipulators that Big Tech is using its huge financial and technological power to severely restrict access to conservative voices and ideas and to rig public debate in favor of America’s political left wing. This happens in two ways: 1) By censoring and suppressing right-of-center voices and ideas, which restricts access to information that counters the progressive narrative 2) By purposefully amplifying left-wing voices and ideas, which creates the false impression that public consensus lines up with progressive orthodoxy.

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Title: [French] - Le Prince

Author: Nicolas Machiavel

Narrator: Jacques Hadjaje

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2020

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

' Le Prince ' est un traité politique écrit au début du XVIe siècle par Nicolas Machiavel, homme politique et écrivain florentin. Ce livre montre comment devenir prince, et le rester. D'aucuns pourrait dire que les princes d'alors sont les dirigeants d'aujourd'hui. Machiavel analyse des exemples de l'histoire antique et de l'histoire italienne de l'époque, et en tire des enseignements. Cet ouvrage est universel et intemporel car il ne donne pas de conseils moraux. Le seul objectif est de conquérir le pouvoir puis de le conserver, par tous les moyens. ' Le Prince ' est une œuvre classique, en philosophie politique. Son écriture se situe dans le contexte de l'instauration d'une monarchie à Florence par les Médicis. Cinq siècles après son écriture, sa justesse, sa force et sa vision en font une œuvre de référence pour qui s'intéresse à la vie politique.