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Title: Among the Trolls: My Journey Through Conspiracyland

Author: Marianna Spring

Narrator: Marianna Spring

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Have you heard that Bill Gates is running a secret genocidal plot? That the war in Ukraine isn't real? Or that people are paid to act out some of the worst attacks imaginable? In Among the Trolls, BBC journalist Marianna Spring meets the people spreading online conspiracy theories - and their victims. Far from a few lone wolves, she uncovers a staggering network of true believers and conspiracy influencers engaged in an international information war. Based on first-hand interviews and original reporting, this eye-opening and unforgettable book reveals the human stories behind the fake accounts.

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Title: Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978

Author: Geoffrey Levin

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Isreal focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinian Sephardic roots, a former Yiddish journalist, anti-Zionist Reform rabbis, and young left-wing Zionist activists, felt drawn to support Palestinian rights by their understanding of Jewish history, identity, and ethics. They sometimes worked with mainstream American Jewish leaders who feared that ignoring Palestinian rights could foster antisemitism, leading them to press Israeli officials for reform. But Israeli diplomats viewed any American Jewish interest in Palestinian affairs with deep suspicion, provoking a series of quiet confrontations that ultimately kept Palestinian rights off the American Jewish agenda up to the present era. In reconstructing this hidden history, Levin lays the groundwork for more forthright debates over Palestinian rights issues, American Jewish identity, and the U.S.-Israel relationship more broadly.

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Title: [German] - 33 politische Situationen - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

Author: Navid Kermani

Narrator: Sonia Mikich, Navid Kermani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Kaum ein Wort in Deutschland hat solches Gewicht: Der Träger des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels Navid Kermani hat sich zu einer der führenden intellektuellen Stimmen seiner Generation entwickelt. Wachsam wie zweifelnd beobachtet er die Gegenwart, berichtet aus Regionen, die nicht im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit stehen, und gibt der öffentlichen Debatte durch seine Analysen eine neue Richtung. Immer wieder vermag er angesichts aktueller Konflikte tiefer liegende Konfliktlinien aufzuzeigen und neue Handlungsoptionen sichtbar werden zu lassen. Der Band 'Was jetzt möglich' ist versammelt die wichtigsten politischen Texte aus drei Jahrzehnten: vom Terror im Nahen Osten über die Krisen Europas und Russlands Überfall auf die Ukraine bis hin zum generischen Maskulinum. Man mag kaum glauben, wie lang Kermani uns schon begleitet, so mitfühlend, so wach, mit einer fast kindlichen Neugierde, schaut er bis heute auf die Welt. Mod.: Sonia Mikich. Ein Gespräch mit Lesung im Rahmen der lit.COLOGNE 2023.

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Title: Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers

Author: Barbara Kellerman

Narrator: Linda Jones

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Leadership from Bad to Worse is about how leadership that is bad, invariably, inexorably, gets worse—unless it is somehow, by someone or something, stopped or slowed. This work draws on four cases of bad leadership—two in political leadership, two in business leadership—to show how it goes from bad to worse. Kellerman finds that bad leadership and bad followership go through four phases of development: 1) Onward and Upward; 2) Followers Join In; 3) Leaders Start In; and 4) Bad to Worse. These findings correctly suggest that the book, in addition to being of theoretical interest, is of practical import. It is intended, deliberately, to serve as an early warning system. By breaking bad leadership and followership into phases—each more ominous and ultimately dangerous than the one preceding—their progression will be easier to predict and detect. And easier, therefore, to slow or, preferably, to stop before they turn toxic. Bad leadership is a social disease. But unlike diseases that are physical or psychological, it remains at the margins of our collective concerns. Leadership from Bad to Worse is, then, a corrective. Knowing that bad leadership can be checked before it corrupts is knowing that bad and then worse can be, if not completely precluded, then sometimes short-circuited.

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Title: [German] - Der neue Kulturkampf: Wie eine woke Linke Wissenschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft bedroht

Author: Susanne Schröter

Narrator: Nina Bartlett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Release date: February 29, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Identitätspolitik, Cancel Culture und Wokeness – was an den Universitäten seinen Ausgang nahm, beeinflusst mittlerweile nicht nur Medien, Kultureinrichtungen und Bildungsinstitutionen, sondern ist auch in der Politik und Wirtschaft angekommen. Angetreten, um gegen Rassismus und Diskriminierung zu kämpfen und sich für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt einzusetzen, bewirkt eine woke Linke das genaue Gegenteil. Mit Sprachregelungen, der Tabuisierung gesellschaftlicher Missstände vor allem im Bereich der Migration oder der Reduzierung der Wissenschaft auf eine Erfüllungsgehilfin der Politik verhindert sie eine offene demokratische Auseinandersetzung. Susanne Schröter, oft genug selbst Ziel woker Angriffe, analysiert die Ideologie der woken Linken und beschreibt, wie diese versucht, in zentralen Bereichen der Gesellschaft die Deutungshoheit zu erobern.

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Title: American Presidents in Diplomacy and War: Statecraft, Foreign Policy, and Leadership

Author: Thomas R. Parker

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power. In this book, Thomas R. Parker reveals how America's most successful leaders manage events instead of allowing events to control them. Parker explores how the U.S. presidency, from the days of the early Republic to the present, shaped the world. Ranging from George Washington to George H. W. Bush, Parker shows how successful statecraft requires the understanding of complex situations, the prudent evaluation of various courses of action, the ability to adapt and to anticipate, and personal determination. Parker compares each of these leaders to their contemporaries—reasonable political leaders who nonetheless made serious mistakes, such as Thomas Jefferson and Barack Obama—to examine the dangers of being unable to strike the right balance of aggressiveness and caution and to examine the costs of inexperience and ambivalence toward military power. The book concludes by discussing the increasingly complex international situation of today, particularly the manifold challenges posed by China and Russia to U.S. foreign policy, and the continued necessity of effective statecraft.

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Title: Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

Author: Barbara Mcquade

Narrator: Barbara Mcquade

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few. American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid developments in artificial intelligence threaten to make the problems even worse by amplifying false claims and manufacturing credibility. In Attack from Within, legal scholar and analyst Barbara McQuade, shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it. Disinformation is designed to evoke a strong emotional response to push us toward more extreme views, unable to find common ground with others. The false claims that led to the breathtaking attack on our Capitol in 2020 may have been only a dress rehearsal. Attack from Within shows us how to prevent it from happening again, thus preserving our country's hard-won democracy.

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Title: Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation

Author: Peter D. Thomas

Narrator: John Keating

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world. From the International Women's Strike and Occupy, to #BlackLivesMatter and direct action against the climate emergency, a series of common questions have re-emerged as immediate and practical challenges. How should radical political movements relate to the state? What makes emancipatory politics fundamentally different from both technocratic and populist models of 'politics as usual'? Which forms of organization are most likely to deepen and extend the dynamics that led to the emergence of these movements in the first place? To investigate the goal, nature, method, and organizational forms of radical political engagement against the neoliberal consensus, Peter D. Thomas draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Communist Party leader and political theorist best known for his ideas about hegemony. Offering a new reading of Gramsci, Thomas contends that hegemony is a process of differentiation in which political culture is always changing, and always with the goal of moving toward expanded freedom. Over the course of the book, Thomas looks at the way in which various theorists have approached the dilemma of how to engage productively in radical politics and explains why hegemony is a method of doing politics rather than an end goal.

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Title: Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2nd ed. Edition

Author: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane subject. This engaging book clarifies both the basic terms and the major conflicts surrounding these fascinating areas of law, offering a layman's introduction to copyright, patents, trademarks, and other forms of knowledge falling under the purview of intellectual property rights. Using vivid examples, noted media expert Siva Vaidhyanathan illustrates the powers and limits of intellectual property, distilling with grace and wit the complex tangle of laws, policies, and values governing the dissemination of ideas, expressions, inventions, creativity, and data collection in the modern world. Through compelling case studies, including those of Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Sony, Amazon, and Google Books, Vaidhyanathan shows that the modern intellectual property systems reflect three centuries of changes in politics, economics, technologies, and social values. Although it emerged from a desire to foster creativity while simultaneously protecting it, intellectual property today has fundamentally shifted to a political dimension.

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Title: The Federal Courts: An Essential History

Author: N.E.H Hull, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Peter Charles Hoffer

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 50 minutes

Release date: February 27, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, more importantly, this is a story of the courts' development and their vital part in America's history. The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts' decisions in turn shaped American politics. The Federal Courts is an essential account of the branch that provides what Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. called 'a magic mirror, wherein we see reflected our own lives.'