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Title: We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity

Author: Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.

Narrator: Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families, and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance. Do you think mainstream America needs to find its voice? If so, you’re not alone. The country is under attack by extremists at the fringes who put ideology before sanity and stoke division for their own gain. They are trying to rob America of its common sense and deny empirical truths, and we’re all suffering the consequences. In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense approach to analyze America’s cultural crisis and offers practical, empirically based, action-oriented strategies to restore and support our country’s collective mental health. This compelling work combines a brutally honest look at the sustained attack on the core values that have defined America at its best and offers prescriptive guidance on what you can do in your own life to stop the madness. With his ten working principles for a healthy society, Dr. Phil provides the tools for mainstream America to fight back against the forces of division with sensible and urgently needed advice supported by the latest social, medical, and psychological findings. Dr. Phil demystifies the “tyranny of the fringe” and deconstructs their assault on the principles that made our nation prosperous, free, and powerful. With the hard-earned wisdom of years spent working with Americans of all backgrounds, Dr. Phil charts a course from cancel culture to counsel culture, from fear to acceptance, from victimhood to community, and from the tyranny of the fringe to a more civil society where we heal our divides and every one of us decides to be who we are on purpose. Dr. Phil is here to show us how.

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Title: [German] - Friedrich Schiller: Die Schaubühne als eine moralische Anstalt betrachtet: Ein Grundlagentext der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Ungekürzt gelesen.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 28 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Friedrich Schiller, frisches Mitglied der 'Deutschen Gesellschaft', einer Vereinigung, die sich um die deutsche Sprache bemühte, wollte sich 1784 um die Stelle des Sekretärs der Gesellschaft bewerben. Er hielt bei seiner Bewerbung eben diese Rede über die 'Schaubühne als moralische Anstalt.' Seiner Meinung nach diente die Bühne als eine moralische Anstalt, eine Schule praktischer Weisheit, als gesellschaftspolitische Anstalt, als Instrument der Aufklärung und nicht zuletzt als ästhetische Bildungsanstalt. Wenn er den Posten nach dieser Rede auch nicht bekam, so ist dieser Text doch nach wie vor ein Exempel Schillers Theaterverständnisses - und Bestandteil der Lektürelisten des Deutschunterrichts!

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Title: Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It

Author: Les Leopold

Narrator: Madison Niederhauser

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Layoffs upend people’s lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street’s War on Workers, Les Leopold, co-founder of the Labor Institute, provides a clear lens with which we can see how healthy corporations in the United States have used mass layoffs and stock buybacks to enrich shareholders at the expense of employees. With detailed research and concise language, Leopold explains why mass layoffs occur and how our current laws and regulations allow companies to turn these layoffs into short-term financial gains. Original and insightful, Wall Street’s War on Workers places US labor practices in the broader context of our social and political life, examining the impact financial strip-mining and legalized looting are having on party politics, destroying the integrity of democratic institutions. Leopold expertly lays out how the proliferation of opioids coupled with Wall Street’s destruction of jobs in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin have led to widespread mass layoff fatalism. Democrats have unarguably lost the longstanding support of millions of urban and rural workers, and Leopold points out how party leaders have been wrong about the assumption that the white working class is becoming less progressive and motivated to abandon the Democratic Party by reactionary positions on divisive social issues. With deep analyses, stark examples, and surprisingly simple proactive steps forward, Leopold also asserts that: - Surviving and thriving in a competitive global economy does not require mass layoffs. - A new virulent, financialized version of American capitalism is policy driven. - To end mass layoffs, Wall Street’s domination of our economy must end. - The accepted “wisdom” about white working-class populism is wrong. - Ending stock buybacks and changing corporate officers’ pay structures could eliminate mass layoffs. - Mass layoffs are not the result of inevitable economic “laws” or new technologies like artificial intelligence. Both groundbreaking and urgent, Wall Street’s War on Workers not only offers solutions that could halt mass layoffs but also offers new hope for workers everywhere.

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Title: Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Author: Pamela Palmater

Narrator: Pamela Palmater

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise. Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before. Palmater addresses a range of Indigenous issues — empty political promises, ongoing racism, sexualized genocide, government lawlessness, and the lie that is reconciliation — and makes the complex political and legal implications accessible to the public. From one of the most important, inspiring and fearless voices in Indigenous rights, decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice, earth justice and beyond, Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial future through resistance and resurgence.

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Title: America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators

Author: Jacob Heilbrunn

Narrator: Kent Klineman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon. It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically. America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or the 'illiberal imagination'—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is an unignorable tradition within modern American conservatism—and what it means for us today.

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Title: Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation

Author: Kyle Edward Williams

Narrator: Jon Vertullo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism. In this vivid and surprising history, we meet twentieth-century activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were 'business statesmen' who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his oft-forgotten contemporary, Henry Manne, whose theories justified the ruthless tactics of a growing class of corporate raiders. But Kyle Edward Williams reveals that before the 'activist investor' emerged as a capitalist archetype, Civil Rights groups used a similar playbook for different ends, buying shares to change a company from within. As a rising tide of activists pushed corporations to account for societal harms from napalm to environmental pollution to inequitable hiring, a new idea emerged: that managers could maximize value for society while still turning a maximal profit. This elusive ideal, 'stakeholder capitalism,' still dominates our headlines today. Williams's necessary history equips us to reconsider democracy's tangled relationship with capitalism.

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Title: Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care

Author: Jared Mcdonald

Narrator: Christopher P. Brown

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The 2020 presidential election in the United States marked, for many, a return to 'compassionate politics.' Joe Biden had run on a platform of empathy, emphasizing his personal history as a means of connecting with everyone, from American workers who had lost jobs to military families who had lost loved ones. Although perceptions of candidate compassion are broadly understood to influence vote choice, less understood is the question of how candidates convince voters they truly 'care about people like them.' In Feeling their Pain, Jared McDonald provides a framework for understanding why voters view some politicians as more compassionate than others. McDonald shows that perceptions of compassion in candidates for public office are based on the number and intensity of commonalities that bind citizens to political leaders. Commonalities can come in many forms, such as a shared experience, a shared emotion, or a shared identity. Compassion may be universal, such as when candidates convey empathy to all individuals who are struggling. Or compassion may be exclusionary, such as when candidates express a preference for some groups over others. Thus, the way campaigns choose to wield compassion in their messaging strategies has important implications not only for election outcomes, but for American political polarization as well.

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Title: [German] - Deals mit Diktaturen: Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik

Author: Frank Bösch

Narrator: Thomas Höricht

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

MIT DIKTATOREN REDEN. EINE ANDERE GESCHICHTE DER BUNDESREPUBLIK Der Umgang mit Diktatoren – von rechten Generälen über kommunistische Generalsekretäre bis hin zu den Autokraten der „Dritten Welt“ – hat die bundesdeutsche Demokratie von Anfang an herausgefordert. Frank Bösch zeigt auf der Grundlage umfassender Archivrecherchen, welche Interessen dabei öffentlich und in den Hinterzimmern im Spiel waren und über welche offiziellen und obskuren Kanäle Deals eingefädelt wurden. Er beschreibt, wie die Öffentlichkeit beeinflusst wurde, wie sie reagierte und wie unter gesellschaftlichem Druck allmählich Werte und Sanktionen eine größere Rolle spielten. Seine fulminante Darstellung ist eine Augen öffnende „andere“ Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Dezember 1964: Der kongolesische Ministerpräsident Tschombé wird feierlich in Berlin empfangen. Demonstranten stürmen über die Absperrungen. Den „Mörder von Lumumba“ trifft eine Tomate „voll in die Fresse“, wie Rudi Dutschke mit Genugtuung notiert. Für Dutschke war dies der „Beginn unserer Kultur-Revolution“. Nachdem in den fünfziger Jahren die „Kaiser“ aus Iran und Äthiopien bejubelt worden waren, führten in den Sechzigern Proteste von oppositionellen Migranten, antikolonialen Gruppen oder auch von Amnesty International zu einer stärker wertebasierten Diplomatie mit Diktatoren: Handel ja, aber bitte auch Freilassung einzelner Oppositioneller. Frank Bösch zeigt in seinem glänzend geschriebenen Buch, wie sich in den Jahrzehnten nach dem Nationalsozialismus im Umgang mit Diktaturen wirtschaftliche, politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Interessen zu einem Schlingerkurs verschränkten, dessen Widersprüche und Folgen uns bis heute beschäftigen.

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Title: Cyber Wargaming: Research and Education for Security in a Dangerous Digital World

Author: Nina A. Kollars

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Government, industry, and academia need better tools to explore threats, opportunities, and human interactions in cyberspace. The interactive exercises called cyber wargames are a powerful way to solve complex problems in a digital environment that involves both cooperation and conflict. Cyber Wargaming is the first book to provide both the theories and practical examples needed to successfully build, play, and learn from these interactive exercises. The contributors to this book explain what cyber wargames are, how they work, and why they offer insights that other methods cannot match. The lessons learned are not merely artifacts of these games—they also shed light on how people interpret and interact with cyberspace in real life. This book covers topics such as cyber action during conventional war, information effects in conflict scenarios, individual versus group decision-making, the intersection of cyber conflicts and nuclear crises, business resilience, emerging technologies, and more. Cyber Wargaming will be a vital resource for listeners interested in security studies and wargame design in higher education, the military, and the private sector.

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Title: We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America

Author: Annette Lareau, Blair Sackett

Narrator: Angela Scappatura

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 13, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Resettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small things—one person, one encounter—can make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees' experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, 'you see the American story.' For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings listeners into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.