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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition Author: Jim Fraser Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened twenty years ago? In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or a tire mark. Complex scientific findings must be considered carefully and dispassionately, and communicated with clarity, simplicity, and precision. In this Very Short Introduction, Jim Fraser introduces the concept of forensic science and explains how it is used in the investigation of crime. He begins at the crime scene itself, explaining the principles and processes of crime scene management, and drawing on his own personal experience of high profile cases. Fraser explores how forensic scientists work; from the reconstruction of events to laboratory examinations. He considers the techniques they use, such as fingerprinting, and goes on to highlight the immense impact DNA profiling has had. Providing examples from forensic science cases in the UK, US, and other countries, he considers the techniques and challenges faced around the world. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account developments in areas such as DNA analysis and drug analysis, and the growing field of digital forensics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic Author: Nina Burleigh Narrator: Nina Burleigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering and chaos of the pandemic response was either deliberate or entirely predictable. New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh weaves together the key narrative strands to create an uncompromising and highly informed exposé about our shared global pandemic experience and what it means for our future. Here listeners will learn: ● How the Trump administration packed public health agencies with right wing Christians and their political allies who cared more about gender norms and policing morality than a possible pandemic. ● How America's anti-expertise culture, long nurtured by right wing media and conservative politicians, and now at its apogee, has left countless millions of Americans doubting the efficacy and safety of vaccines.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Retorno a Atenas. La democracia como principio antioligárquico Author: José Luis Moreno Pestaña Narrator: Ricky Delgado Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 25, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué podemos aprender de la democracia griega? Esa fue la cuestión crucial que se hicieron lectores radicales como Foucault, Castoriadis o Rancière en la década de los años setenta. En un contexto de crisis, la vieja democracia ateniense se ofrecía como un marco privilegiado para pensar las posibilidades de la democracia, precisamente allí donde nació nuestra experiencia de la misma. En la revisión y lectura que el pensamiento francés elabora del legado político de la antigua Atenas, el autor contempla la participación democrática como el único remedio contra la degeneración de los expertos en tecnócratas, de los dirigentes en elites, de la ciudadanía en sostén pasivo del secuestro de la esfera pública. Solo desde el retorno a Atenas podremos hablar del final del siglo XX y de nuestro presente en el XXI.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/520463 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction, 3rd Edition Author: Charles Townshend Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For many, the terrorist attacks of September 2001 changed the face of the world, pushing terrorism to the top of political agendas, and leading to a series of world events, including the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan. The recent terror attacks in various European cities have shown that terrorism remains a crucial issue today. Charting a clear path through the efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, Charles Townshend examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence. This new edition analyzes the emergence of terrorism as a political strategy, and discusses the objectives which have been pursued by users of this strategy from French revolutionaries to Islamic jihadists. Considering the kinds of groups and individuals who adopt terrorism, Townshend discusses the emergence of ISIS and the upsurge in individual suicide action, and explores the issues involved in finding a proportionate response to the threat they present, particularly by liberal democratic societies. Analyzing the growing use of knives and other edged weapons in attacks, and the issue of 'cyberterror,' Townshend details the use of counterterrorist measures, from control orders to drone strikes, including the Belgian and French responses to the Brussels, Paris, Nice, and Rouen attacks.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519067 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Understanding Socialism Author: Richard D. Wolff Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. This audio edition also incudes Richard D. Wolff's bestselling essay Understanding Marxism, which asks the question 'Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx?'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation Author: Seth David Radwell Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logical debate. In this investigative tracing of our nation's divergent roots, author Seth David Radwell explains that only reasoned analysis and historical perspective can act as salves for the irrational political discourse that is raging at present. Two disparate Americas have always coexisted, and Radwell discovered that the surprising origin of these dual Americas was not an Enlightenment, but two distinct Enlightenments that have been fiercely competing since the founding of our country. Radwell argues that it is only by embracing Enlightenment principles that we can build a civilized, progressive, and tolerant society. American Schism reveals the roots of the rifts in America since its founding and what is really dividing red and blue America; the core issues that underlie all of today's bickering; and a detailed, effective plan to move forward, commencing what will be a long process of repair and reconciliation. Radwell changes the nature of the political debate by fighting unreason with reason, allowing Americans to firmly ground their differing points of view in rationality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year Author: Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig Narrator: Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 19 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius. “Chilling.” – Anderson Cooper “Jaw-dropping.” – John Berman “Shocking.” – John Heilemann “Explosive.” – Hallie Jackson “Blockbuster new reporting.” – Nicolle Wallace  “Bracing new revelations.” – Brian Williams “Bombshell reporting.” – David Muir The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.   Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously—even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged—economically, medically, and politically—by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of  exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.   A classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction Author: Amanda Tyler Narrator: Callie Beaulieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: July 15, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The concept of habeas corpus—literally, to receive and hold the body—empowers courts to protect the right of prisoners to know the basis on which they are being held by the government and grant prisoners their freedom when they are held unlawfully. It is no wonder that habeas corpus has long been considered essential to freedom. This Very Short Introduction chronicles the storied writ of habeas corpus and how its common law and statutory origins spread from England throughout the British Empire and beyond, witnessing its use today around the world in nations as varied as Canada, Israel, India, and South Korea. Beginning with the English origins of the writ, the book traces its historical development both as a part of the common law and as a parliamentary creation born out of the English Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. The book then takes the story forward to explore how the writ has functioned in the centuries since, including its controversial suspension by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It also analyzes the major role habeas corpus has played in such issues as the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and the US Supreme Court's recognition during the War on Terror of the concept of a 'citizen enemy combatant.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition Author: James Fulcher Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as, 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the tulipomania of 17th century Holland, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and in this new edition, the impact of the global financial crisis that started in 2007-08. James Fulcher looks at the different forms that capitalism takes in Britain, Japan, Sweden, and the United States, and explores whether capitalism has escaped the nation-state by going global. It ends by asking whether there is an alternative to capitalism, discussing socialism, communal and cooperative experiments, and the alternatives proposed by environmentalists.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519134 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions Author: Astra Taylor Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens. Curious and searching, these historically informed and hopeful essays are as engaging as they are challenging and as urgent as they are timeless. Taylor's unique philosophical style has a political edge that speaks directly to the growing conviction that a radical transformation of our economy and society is required.