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Title: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

Author: Nathan Thrall

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Release date: November 16, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, rushes to the chaotic site, only to find Milad has already been taken away. Abed sets off on a journey to learn Milad's fate, navigating a maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must face as a Palestinian. Interwoven with Abed's odyssey are the stories of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and pasts unexpectedly converge: a kindergarten teacher and a mechanic who rescue children from the burning bus; an Israeli army commander and a Palestinian official who confront the aftermath at the scene of the crash; a settler paramedic; ultra-Orthodox emergency service workers; and two mothers who each hope to claim one severely injured boy. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a deeply immersive, stunningly detailed portrait of life in Israel and Palestine, and an illumination of the reality of one of the most contested places on earth. 'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times 'Brims over with just the sort of compassion and understanding that is needed at a time like this … when facts have become weapons in this seemingly endless conflict, this is a book that speaks with deep and authentic truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history' Observer ©2024 Nathan Thrall (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

Author: Adam J. Berinsky

Narrator: Tom Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an 'inside job') and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate. If misinformation crowds out the truth, how can Americans communicate with one another about important issues? In this book, Adam Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them. Drawing on original survey and experimental data, Berinsky shows that a tendency toward conspiratorial thinking and vehement partisan attachment fuel belief in rumors. Berinsky argues that in fighting misinformation, it is as important to target the undecided and the uncertain as it is the true believers. In a world where most people don't pay attention to politics, political leaders are often guilty of disseminating false information—and failing to correct it when it is proven wrong. Berinsky suggests that we should focus on the messenger as much as the message. Just as important as how misinformation is debunked is who does the debunking.

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Title: A Nation of Immigrants

Author: John F. Kennedy

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leaders have embraced, not feared, the diversity which makes America great.” —Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, deserving the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This 60th anniversary edition of his posthumously published, timeless work—with a foreword by Jonathan Greenblatt, the National Director and CEO of the ADL, formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League, and an introduction from Congressman Joe Kennedy III—offers President Kennedy’s inspiring words and observations on the diversity of America’s origins and the influence of immigrants on the foundation of the United States. The debate on immigration persists. Complete with updated resources on current policy, this new edition of A Nation of Immigrants emphasizes the importance of the collective thought and contributions to the prominence and success of the country. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age

Author: Naomi Wolf

Narrator: Carolyn White

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Release date: November 9, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history. In this uncompromising investigation into today’s most urgent issues, Naomi Wolf uses her own wildly politicized pilgrimage—from New York Times bestselling author and high-level Democratic consultant to a journalist cast out from the elite political and social circles she once moved through—as a stunning narrative framework that is both chilling and incisive. Wolf’s sin? Doing the job that good journalists once prided themselves on: asking questions, challenging authority, and, during one of the most politically divisive moments in modern history, exposing the many failures of the public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic by chronicling the dangerous descent of our democracy into tyranny, censorship, and totalitarianism. Unable to remain silent in the shadows and unwilling to collude with the mainstream, Wolf bravely covers topics that few other writers dare to address critically for fear of being deplatformed. Facing the Beast explores reproductive rights, medical freedom, the uncurious thought-policing of the “progressive” left, the Second Amendment, the criminal relationship between the FDA and Pfizer—Wolf’s clear writing repeatedly shines light in the dark corners of our fractured society. A decades-long champion of free speech, freedom of the press, and the Constitution, Wolf found herself not only in the midst of a political rebirth but a spiritual transformation as well—one in which the events of the day could only be described in terms of good, evil, and a metaphysical quest on the nature of reality. For readers of Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, and Bari Weiss, Facing the Beast is a fearless indictment of legacy media and the political class, as well as a brutal reminder that searching for and defending the truth can be dangerous.

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Title: Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America

Author: Ted Cruz

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Release date: November 7, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.53 of Total 15

Ratings of Narrator: 3.6 of Total 5

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In a book both articulate and desperately needed, bestselling author Senator Ted Cruz provides a long overdue argument against the woke takeover of education, big business, the media, and Hollywood.

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Title: [German] - Pulverfass Balkan - Wie Diktaturen Einfluss in Europa nehmen (Ungekürzt)

Author: Florian Bieber

Narrator: Nils Nelleßen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Der nächste Brandherd vor unserer Haustür? Vor über hundert Jahren entzündete sich auf dem westlichen Balkan der Erste Weltkrieg. Verantwortlich dafür waren die Großmächte, die ihr Ringen um Vormacht in der Region austrugen. Heute baut China dort Straßen, Russland spornt Nationalisten an, die Türkei und die Golfstaaten investieren in Moscheen und Hotels. Sie alle sehen darin einen Weg, Einfluss auf Europa zu nehmen. Wiederholt sich die Geschichte? Florian Bieber, einer der besten Kenner des Balkans, schildert die explosive Gemengelage in der Region. Sie ist Schauplatz des neuen globalen Konflikts zwischen dem Westen und der autokratischen Internationale. Zugleich verfolgen die Akteure vor Ort ihre ganz eigene Agenda. Das Hörbuch ist ein Weckruf an Europa, endlich aktiv zu werden. Denn in der Region könnte sich seine Zukunft entscheiden.

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Title: [Spanish] - Capitalismo progresista: La respuesta a la era del malestar

Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Narrator: Carlos Olalla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Un brillante y provocador manifiesto para salvar al capitalismo de sí mismo. Todos tenemos la sensación de que el sistema económico se inclina a favor de las grandes empresas. Unas pocas corporaciones dominan sectores enteros; la industria financiera regula la economía a su antojo; los gobiernos negocian acuerdos comerciales que en absoluto benefician a los intereses de los ciudadanos; y las tecnológicas custodian celosamente una ingente cantidad de datos personales sin supervisión y trafican con ellos. Las nuevas tecnologías, lejos de ayudar, tienden a empeorar las cosas, contribuyendo a disparar la desigualdad, ralentizar el crecimiento y fomentar el desempleo. Pese a todo, Joseph Stiglitz, premio Nobel de Economía, insiste en que, aunque no nos lo parezca, tenemos el poder de reconstruir los cimientos del capitalismo. En este oportuno libro, identifica las verdaderas fuentes de la prosperidad económica compartida, basadas en la investigación, la educación y el imperio de la ley. Consciente de los peligros del fundamentalismo de mercado, y de la amenaza al poder judicial, las universidades y los medios de comunicación, instituciones que durante mucho tiempo han sido la base de la prosperidad y la democracia, nos descubre cómo hemos llegado a esta situación y marca el camino para combatir algunos de los mayores desafíos de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho... «Stiglitz es un extraño salvador del capitalismo: lo quiere salvar de sí mismo, y su recomendación es redimirlo socializándolo.» Carlos Rodríguez Braun, El Cultural de El Mundo «Una defensa autorizada de la intervención del gobierno utilizando la economía convencional y una explicación de cómo construir una sociedad más justa sin sacrificar el crecimiento.» Gavin Jacobson, Financial Times «Sus recetas radicales.» Gerard Baker, The Times «Capitalismo progresista aporta ideas y ambiciones a los trabajos previos de Stiglitz.» Daniel W. Drezner, The New York Times «Urgente. Si no abordamos el aumento de la desigualdad causada por la globalización mal administrada y la liberalización financiera, el discurso demagógico encontrará una audiencia receptiva.» The New Yorker «Un libro donde se huele el miedo. [...] Junto con su contenido urgente y necesario,hace que el libro nos parezca la obra más importante de Stiglitz en este s. XXI. [...] Capitalismo progresista llega en el momento justo.» Francisco Martínez Hidalgo, Fantasymundo «Stiglitz es un economista increíblemente brillante.» Paul Krugman «Junto con Krugman y Piketty, Stiglitz forma el triunvirato de los principales críticos económicos del capitalismo global.» Andrew Anthony, The Guardian

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Title: [Spanish] - Estados Fallidos: El abuso de poder y ataque a la democracia

Author: Noam Chomsky

Narrator: Sergio Lonardi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha. Estados fallidos son, para Chomsky, los que carecen de capacidad para proteger a sus ciudadanos de la violencia y se consideran más allá del derecho. Estados Unidos supone un peligro cada vez mayor para sus habitantes y el mundo en general, ya que sus propias instituciones democráticas atraviesan una grave crisis y sus políticas y prácticas sitúan el mundo al borde del desastre nuclear y medioambiental. Contundente, lúcido y meticulosamente documentado, Estados fallidos ofrece un exhaustivo análisis de una superpotencia global que desde hace tiempo se arroga el derecho de remodelar otras naciones. En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha.

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Title: [German] - Meine Mutter hätte es Krieg genannt

Author: Vera Politkowskaja, Sara Giudice

Narrator: Heidi Jürgens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Nach ihrer Ermordung am 7. Oktober 2006 wird die Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja auf einen Schlag zur weltweiten Symbolfigur für den Kampf um Gerechtigkeit und Meinungsfreiheit. Bis heute gilt sie als eine der wichtigsten Kritikerinnen von Putins Russland. In diesem Buch erzählt ihre Tochter zusammen mit der Journalistin Sara Giudice erstmals die Geschichte ihrer Mutter: persönlich, bewegend und erschreckend aktuell. Als Anna Politkowskaja starb, war ihre Tochter Vera 26 Jahre alt. Mit diesem Buch setzt sie dem Vermächtnis ihrer Mutter ein Denkmal. Sie zeigt, wie deren kompromissloser politischer Kampf bis in die innersten Familienstrukturen hineinreichte, und auch, welche Schatten er warf. Vera Politkowskaja seziert die Mechanismen des russischen Machtapparates und rückt unsere aktuellen politischen Debatten in ein neues Licht. Indem sie einen Blick zurück auf den letzten großen Russischen Krieg in Tschetschenien wirft, ergründet sie auch den Krieg unserer Tage.

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Title: [Spanish] - Salvador Allende. La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular: La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular

Author: Daniel Mansuy

Narrator: Axel Cornelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década de 1970 hasta la actualidad. En su último libro, el filósofo y ensayista chileno Daniel Mansuy lleva a cabo un profundo análisis del legado político de Salvador Allende durante los mil días del gobierno de la Unidad Popular. A través de un pormenorizado análisis histórico, el autor explora las disyuntivas políticas y culturales que enfrentó Allende durante su gobierno, y cómo estos problemas desembocaron en la mañana del martes 11 de septiembre de 1973. Además, ofrece una perspectiva reflexiva sobre su legado -simbólicamente situado en el último discurso difundido por Radio Magallanes- y los desafíos que enfrentaron los partidos de izquierda desde el golpe de Estado, durante el proceso de renovación socialista y sobre todo a partir de la transición a la democracia hasta la actualidad para asimilarlo y hacerlo suyo, ofreciendo así un análisis profundo y esclarecedor sobre la compleja historia de la izquierda chilena contemporánea.