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Title: [German] - Andrew Carnegie: Geschäft: Ein Business-Ratgeber für junge Studierende

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 51 minutes

Release date: April 7, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Ich habe niemals gefunden, dass jemand auch nur zwei verschiedenen Arten von Gschäften gleich gut verstanden hätte; solch ein Mann ist eben so schwer zu finden wie jemand, der mit gleicher Vollkommenheit in zwei Sprachen denkt.' Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919), der seinerzeit einer der drei reichsten Amerikaner war, schrieb einen der ersten Ratgeber für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg: 'The Empire of Business'. In diesem Bestseller erklärt er, wie man es nach oben schaffen kann – und begründete damit das Genre der 'How-to'-Literatur. Als armes Einwandererkind aus Schottland war er geradezu Sinnbild für den Mythos des 'From rags to riches': Vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär. 'Geschäft' sowie das angehängte Kapitel 'Der dreibeinige Stuhl' offenbart das Business-Selbstverständnis eines der reichsten self-made men: Sich auf eine Sache konzentrieren, alles darauf setzen, und die gleichberechtigen Elemente der Arbeit niemals vernachlässigen: Kapital, geschäftliche Tüchtigkeit und Arbeitskraft. Faszinierend!

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Title: How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft

Author: Rory Cormac

Narrator: Barnaby Edwards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft... Fascinating' Jonathan Rugman 'Rich in anecdote and detail.' The Times Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret statecraft and the hidden hand to navigate these uncertain waters. From poisonings to electoral interference, subversion to cyber sabotage, states increasingly operate in the shadows, while social media has created new avenues for disinformation on a mass scale. This is covert action: perhaps the most sensitive - and controversial - of all state activity. However, for all its supposed secrecy, it has become surprisingly prominent - and it is something that has the power to affect all of us. In an enthralling and urgent narrative packed with real-world examples, Rory Cormac reveals how such activity is shaping the world and argues that understanding why and how states wield these dark arts has never been more important.

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Title: The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China

Author: Xin Zhang

Narrator: David Lee Huynh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an 'Asian culture' of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China. Xin Zhang's groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China's prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city. Far from passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. The Global in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities.

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Title: Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses

Author: Jaclyn Schildkraut

Narrator: April Doty

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This book is an informed and informative resource for understanding the reasons for and consequences of mass shootings in America. It includes essays from experts in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, and psychology about key issues surrounding the phenomenon of mass shootings and a collection of opinion pieces that provide insights into debates surrounding gun laws and other issues related to mass shootings. The title also features an encyclopedia section containing entries on every mass shooting in the United States from 1966 to 2016 for easy reference and a collection of illuminating and historically important primary documents pertaining to mass shooting events and the broader problem of violence in American society. Accessible, authoritative, and comprehensive, Mass Shootings in America will assist a wide range of listeners, including budding scholars, seasoned researchers, and members of the general public, to a better understanding of mass shootings and their causes as well as steps that might be taken to reduce their severity and frequency. Contains mature themes.

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Title: The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

Author: Matt Zwolinski, John Tomasi

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Leon Nixon traces the history of libertarian thought from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo Libertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women's rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Today, this movement founded on the principle of individual liberty finds itself divided by both progressive and reactionary elements vying to claim it as their own. The Individualists is the untold story of a political doctrine continually reshaped by fierce internal tensions, bold and eccentric personalities, and shifting political circumstances. Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi trace the history of libertarianism from its origins as a radical progressive ideology in the 1850s to its crisis of identity today. They examine the doctrine's evolution through six defining themes: private property, skepticism of authority, free markets, individualism, spontaneous order, and individual liberty. They show how the movement took a turn toward conservativism during the Cold War, when the dangers of communism at home and abroad came to dominate libertarian thinking. Zwolinski and Tomasi reveal a history that is wider, more diverse, and more contentious than many of us realize. A groundbreaking work of scholarship, The Individualists uncovers the neglected roots of a movement that has championed the poor and marginalized since its founding, but whose talk of equal liberty has often been bent to serve the interests of the rich and powerful.

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Title: [German] - Andrew Carnegie: Reichtum und sein Gebrauch: Ein Business-Ratgeber für junge Menschen

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 49 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Was also ist Reichtum? Wie entsteht er und wie verteilt er sich?' Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919), der seinerzeit einer der drei reichsten Amerikaner war, schrieb einen der ersten Ratgeber für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg: 'The Empire of Business'. In diesem Bestseller erklärt er, wie man es nach oben schaffen kann – und begründete damit das Genre der 'How-to'-Literatur. Als armes Einwandererkind aus Schottland war er geradezu Sinnbild für den Mythos des 'From rags to riches': Vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär. 'Reichtum und sein Gebrauch' ist ein hochinteressanter Einblick in die Gedankenwelt eines Mannes, dessen unumstößliche Überzeugung es war, dass die Wenigen an der Spitze aufgrund ihrer exzeptionellen Fähigkeiten besser als der Staat dazu geeignet sind, die Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft und ihrer Mitglieder positiv zu beeinflussen. Ein faszinierendes Zeitdokument!

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Title: [German] - René Descartes: Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie: Ein Klassiker der philosophischen Literatur. Ungekürzt gelesen

Author: René Descartes

Narrator: Sven Görtz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Cogito, ergo sum: Ich denke, also bin ich.' Einer der wohl berühmtesten Sätze der Philosophiegeschichte stammt von René Descartes. In seinem Grundlagenwerk denkt er in sechs Meditationen über Metaphysik und Erkenntnistheorie nach. Themen sind der Zweifel, die Natur des menschlichen Geistes, das Dasein Gottes, das Wahre und das Falsche, die materiellen Dinge und die Verschiedenheit von Geist und Körper. Ein wahrhaftiges Grundlagenwerk der Philosophie!

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Title: Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

Author: Aubrey Fox, Greg Berman

Narrator: Tim Fannon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media. But is this actually the best way to make the world a better place?In Gradual, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox argue that, contrary to the aspirations of activists on both the right and the left, incremental reform is the best path forward. They begin by emphasizing that the very structure of American government explicitly and implicitly favors incrementalism. Particularly in a time of intense polarization, any effort to advance radical change will inevitably engender significant backlash. As Berman and Fox make clear, polling shows little public support for bold change. The public is, however, willing to endorse a broad range of incremental reforms that, if implemented, would reduce suffering and improve fairness. To illustrate how incremental changes can add up to significant change over time, Berman and Fox provide portraits of “heroic incrementalists” who have produced meaningful reforms in a variety of areas, from the expansion of Social Security to more recent efforts to reduce crime and incarceration.Gradual is a bracing call for a “radical realism” that prioritizes honesty, humility, nuance, and respect in an effort to transcend political polarization and reduce the conflict produced by social media.

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Title: The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Donald A. Ritchie

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for forty years, takes listeners on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. He also explores the essential necessity of compromise to accomplish anything significant in the legislative arena. However, recent events show that political polarization has hardened and produced gridlock. The 2020 election also produced a more diverse membership in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, and ideology, with primary elections resulting in the defeat of moderate candidates, making bipartisan compromise harder to achieve. Among the most significant events, the Senate ignored President Obama's last nomination to the Supreme Court and then adopted a 'nuclear option' to streamline future Supreme Court confirmations. The House also twice impeached President Trump, processes that starkly expose the differences between the majority-rule requirements of the House and the super-majority requirements of the Senate. This new edition explains how the parties have changed in light of the unprecedented politics of the past four years, culminating in the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how this development has affected both the House and the Senate.

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Title: I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

Author: N. Leigh Hunt

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song 'I Don’t Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer . . . I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story of America's First Modern School Shooting sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day, presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time. N. Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree. Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences. Contains mature themes.