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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics Author: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Narrator: Hangwi Lephatsi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 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: South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in an old and dusty box - but the self-evident truths are not, in fact, so indisputable. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. He argues that free education is far from impossible, the ANC's liberation narrative is too idyllic to swallow, land reform is not the first step to chaos, and the media is not free... In this incisive, informed book we find not only challenges to commonly held opinions, but optimism about South Africa's future, and solutions to old problems. A fresh perspective on South African politics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Devuélveme el poder Author: Miriam González Durántez Narrator: Laura Vives Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 13, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Lo que más llama la atención cuando se mira a España desde fuera es la falta de ambición, no a título individual sino como Estado. Tiene un potencial enorme, pero es un país estancado; con conciencia de las reformas que se necesitan hacer, pero sin voluntad política para hacerlas, excepto en casos de extrema urgencia. Devuélveme el poder pone de manifiesto que España requiere un proceso amplio de reformas para salir de casi tres décadas de estancamiento. No son cambios imposibles, ni siquiera son difíciles, y se han hecho ya con éxito en muchos otros países. Pero no son solo reformas económicas, sino también políticas, y empiezan, forzosamente, por limitar el desmesurado poder de los partidos políticos españoles. España necesita una transformación liberal en la que los políticos devuelvan a los ciudadanos un poder que nunca tuvo que ser suyo.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right Author: Brendan O’connor Narrator: Adam Grupper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump’s presidency, the rise of the “alt-right,” and the caging of migrant children and adults in detention centers across the country For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated—and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations—the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O’Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Act now! - Reflexionen in existenziellen Zeiten (Ungekürzt) Author: Donatella Di Cesare, Jean Ziegler, Leoluca Orlando, Graeme Maxton, Franziska Wessel, Fürst Albert Ll, Mojib Lativ, Hanna Poddig, Dennis Meadows, Swetlana Alexijewitsch, Frank Otto, Oliver Neß, Ai Weiwei, Roger Willemsen, Tima Kurdi, Martin Rees Narrator: Barbara Auer, Konstantin Wecker, Franziska Wessel, Mojib Lativ, Hanna Poddig, Frank Otto, Oliver Neß, Walter Sittler, Thomas Thieme Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: January 29, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts haben eine radikal neue Qualität: Klimawandel, Epidemien und Artensterben dokumentieren den planetaren Burn-out. Die Trecks von Millionen Geflüchteten sind das Resultat rücksichtsloser Machtpolitik und Profitorientierung im Zeitalter der kapitalistischen Globalisierung, das zum 'Final Century' zu werden droht. Mehr als ein Dutzend Autoren - von der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin bis zur Aktivistin von 'Fridays for Future' - sind sich einig: Es ist Zeit zu handeln. Jetzt!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/515517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York Author: Matt Palumbo Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Thanks to the policies of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, the glory days of the Empire State and the Big Apple are long behind them. In America’s early days, most immigrants entered America through New York. For many, New York was synonymous with America and the American dream itself—a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. Now, for the first time ever, people are fleeing New York by the millions. Plagued by high taxes, big government, excessive regulations, and other obstacles to liberty, there are few reasons for one to want to remain in the state under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s leadership. And in New York City, which houses nearly half of the state’s population, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been doing everything in his power to accelerate the decline and bring the city back to its pre–Rudy-Giuliani days.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Eleanor y Hick. El romance de la primera dama de los EE.UU. y Lorena Hickok Author: Susan Quinn Narrator: Georgia Tancabel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 18, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: En 1932 cuando su esposo asumía la presidencia de los EE. UU, Eleanor Roosevelt entró en una claustrofóbica existencia de obligaciones como primera dama. Pero de forma inesperada, le llegó un salvavidas en forma de una luchadora reportera de prensa: Lorena Hickok. Ambas mujeres no podrían haber sido más diferentes, pero enseguida se enamoraron. Durante los siguientes treinta años, hasta la muerte de Eleanor, fueron amantes, confidentes, asesoras en temas profesionales y amigas. Durante la Gran Depresión, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la complicada atmósfera de la posguerra, Eleanor Roosevelt y Lorena Hickok se inspiraron mutuamente. Profundamente documentada y narrada con humanidad, la biografía Eleanor y Hick es un vívido retrato de amor y una mirada reveladora de cómo un romance improbable influyó en algunos de los años más importantes de la historia de Estados Unidos.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America Author: Ellis Cose Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Published to coincide with the ACLU’s centennial, a major book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling author For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in residence, serving as an “embedded journalist” with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose’s groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU and Its 100-Year Battle for Our Rights, the most authoritative account ever of America’s premier defender of civil liberties. A vivid work of history and journalism, Democracy, If We Can Keep It is not just the definitive story of the ACLU but also an essential account of America’s rediscovery of rights it had granted but long denied. Cose’s narrative begins with World War I and brings us to today, chronicling the ACLU’s role through the horrors of 9/11, the saga of Edward Snowden, and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. A chronicle of America’s most difficult ethical quandaries from the Red Scare, the Scottsboro Boys’ trials, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, and Vietnam, Democracy, If We Can Keep It weaves these accounts into a deeper story of American freedom—one that is profoundly relevant to our present moment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Progress, Really?: One man's view of social progress in America Author: Peter Serefine Narrator: Peter Serefine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: September 21, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This is a quick read about one perspective on the past, current, and future state of American culture, government, and social standing. The author points out many areas of our country that are straying from its fundamental basis and how continual complacency and acceptance of minority opinions for the sake of appeasing the entitled is quickly leading us toward socialism and overall destruction of the founding fathers' vision.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La difícil vida fácil. Doce testimonios sobre prostitución masculina Author: Iván Zaro Narrator: Enrique Aparicio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 17, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La prostitución masculina es un mundo aparentemente invisible del que muy poco se ha escrito y cuya existencia no se conoce en profundidad. Algunos trabajadores del sexo comparten, por primera vez, sus emociones más íntimas, sus risas y sus llantos, las luces y sombras que forman parte del ser humano. El lector se topará con vidas silenciadas e invisibles envueltas en el estigma social. Esta obra parte de los testimonios de los trabajadores del sexo, que se expresan en primera persona, recobrando así un espacio que algunos agentes sociales han venido usurpando, y demostrando, en algunas ocasiones, el más absoluto desconocimiento sobre las experiencias, las aspiraciones y las reivindicaciones de las personas que ejercen la prostitución. Cada capítulo se centra en los espacios donde suele desarrollarse la prostitución masculina, desde los locales de ocio nocturno a las saunas de clientela exclusivamente masculina; de los pisos de ejercicio gestionados por terceras personas a la prostitución callejera; de la prostitución a través de las nuevas tecnologías e Internet a la industria del sexo y el mundo del porno. También aparecen trabajadores del sexo que ofrecen servicios especiales, como el sadomasoquismo y el travestismo, descubriendo las características de cada uno de estos escenarios y de sus códigos y reglas del juego. Pero, ¿hay vida más allá de la prostitución? A modo de respuesta, podrán conocer a tres hombres que decidieron abandonar el trabajo sexual. Grabado en español ibérico (España).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Self Deception : India's China Policies Author: Arun Shourie Narrator: Simalaya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 15, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all warnings in Tibet and our entire border? What did he do when those assumptions proved wrong? What eventually led to the debacle of 1962? Are the same delusions and mistakes not being repeated now? Why will the consequences be any different? This is a devastating analysis and warning on India's policy and approach regarding China, based on Nehru's notes to his officers, his correspondence, including letters to chief ministers and his speeches in and out of Parliament. ©Harper Collins India 2018