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Title: 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

Author: Aaron W. Hughes

Narrator: Tyler Hyrchuk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit Series, the patriation of the Constitution, the Multiculturalism Act, the École Polytechnique Massacre, victories for gay rights, Quebec’s second referendum on secession, The Tragically Hip’s farewell concert, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and ongoing Black equality struggles. Each day represents a window on contemporary Canada, jumpstarting reflection and conversation about who we are as a nation and how we got here. 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada is the perfect guide for all those curious about the forces that shape our country and about how we understand our place in the world.

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Title: Scalia: Rise to Greatness: 1936 - 1986

Author: James Rosen

Narrator: John Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Release date: March 7, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era. With SCALIA: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986, the opening installment in a two-volume biography, acclaimed reporter and bestselling historian James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the life of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose singular career in government—including three decades on the Supreme Court—shaped American law and society in the twenty-first century. A decade in the making, Rise to Greatness tells the story of the kid from Queens who became the first Italian American on the Court and one of the most profoundly influential figures of our time. This volume takes us from Scalia’s birth to his ascension to the Court, providing a fresh and probing look at his Catholic upbringing and education; his stints in academia and published works, some of them obscure and long-overlooked; and his service in the Nixon and Ford administrations, when Scalia played a central role in reforming the U.S. intelligence community and in the approval of sensitive covert operations.   Deeply researched and based on unparalleled access to documentary and personal sources, and written with an intellectual rigor and wit befitting its subject, Rosen’s narrative reads like a novel while presenting startling new insight into the life, mind, career, faith, and legacy of the man whom family and friends called “Nino.” The result is a compelling portrait of an American legend with whom the author personally corresponded, broke bread, drank wine, and braved the streets of the capital as a (nervous) passenger in the justice’s famously speedy BMW. Rosen has unearthed previously unpublished writing from every phase of Scalia’s career, including private Supreme Court emails, and has interviewed Scalia’s family, classmates, students, colleagues from the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, priests, poker buddies, hunting companions, and fellow judges and justices.  Rise to Greatness is a landmark of modern biography, a rich and moving study, accessible to lay readers, that brings to life a towering figure of American history. It is the book Scalia fans, and all citizens interested in history and the law, have long awaited.

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Title: [German] - Andrew Carnegie: Das gemeinschaftliche Interesse von Arbeit und Kapital: Eine Ansprache an Arbeiter bei der Eröffnung der Carnegie-Bibliothek in Braddock, Pennsylvania

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 38 minutes

Release date: March 3, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Auf Grund einer nicht unbeträchtlichen Erfahrung stelle ich hier fest: der Kapitalist kennt die Rechte und Ansprüche des Arbeiters nicht, und der Arbeiter kennt die Nöte und Gefahren der Kapitalisten nicht. Darin liegt die wahre Ursache aller zwischen beiden aufkommenden Reibungen.' 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. 'Das gemeinschaftliche Interesse von Arbeit und Kapital' ist eine Rede, die er einst vor Arbeitern seines Unternehmens anlässlich der Eröffnung einer von ihm gestifteten Bibliothek in Pennsylvania hielt. Ein faszinierendes Zeitdokument, das die Sichtweise eine Self-made-Milliardärs aus den Boomzeiten der Industrialisierung schildert!

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Title: [German] - 30 Minuten: Johann Wolfgang von Goethes 'Iphigenie auf Tauris': Weltliteratur kompakt: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Jürgen Fritsche

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 33 minutes

Release date: March 3, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Johann Wolfgang von Goethes klassischem Drama 'Iphigenie auf Tauris'. 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!

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Title: [Spanish] - Un mensaje desde Ucrania

Author: Volodímir Zelenski

Narrator: Javier Portugués (portu), Antonio Martínez Asensio

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Release date: February 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

El primer libro del Presidente Volodímir Zelenski. Las palabras de un hombre. El mensaje de un pueblo. Una llamada urgente a las armas por parte del líder ucraniano cuyo inquebrantable valor frente a la invasión rusa ha inspirado al mundo y le ha convertido de la noche a la mañana en un faro global de la democracia. Con una introducción del propio Volodímir Zelenski y sus discursos de guerra más potentes, este libro relata la historia de Ucrania a través de las palabras de su presidente. Es la historia de una nación que se defiende con uñas y dientes de la agresión rusa. Y es la historia de un pueblo que lidera el mundo en la lucha por la democracia. Pero, sobre todo, es un grito de guerra para que todos nos levantemos y luchemos por la Libertad. Si no es ahora, ¿cuándo? *Todos los ingresos que el presidente perciba de este libro se destinarán a United24, una iniciativa suya para recolectar donaciones en apoyo a Ucrania.

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Title: A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir

Author: A.S. Dulat

Narrator: Showrein Roy Chaudhuri

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

No Indian spymaster has, until now, written a memoir. A.S. Dulat is the first to do so, and in A Life in the Shadows he does it with considerable elan. He is one of India's most successful spymasters, his name synonymous with the Kashmir issue. His methods of engagement and accommodation with all people and perspectives from India's most conflicted state are legendary. The author of two bestselling books, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years (2014) and The Spy Chronicles: R&AW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace (2018), Dulat's views on India, Pakistan and Kashmir are well-known and sought after. Yet very little is known about him, primarily because the former spymaster has been notoriously private about his personal life. In this unusual and unique memoir, Dulat breaks that silence for the first time. This is not a traditional, linear narrative as much as a selection of stories from across space and time. Still bound by the rules of secrecy of his trade, he tells a fascinating story of a life richly lived and insightfully observed. From a Partition-bloodied childhood in Lahore and New Delhi to his early years as a young intelligence officer; from meetings with international spymasters to travels around the world; from his observations on Kashmir-political and personal-post the abrogation of Article 370, to his encounters with world leaders, politicians and celebrities; moving from Bhopal to Nepal and from Kashmir to China, Dulat tells the story of his life with remarkable honesty, verve and wit.

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Title: [German] - Nudge (aktualisierte Ausgabe): Wie man kluge Entscheidungen anstößt

Author: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Narrator: Peter Wolter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Der Klassiker der Verhaltensökonomie vollständig aktualisiert Seit der Erstveröffentlichung von Nudge im Jahr 2008 und dem Nobelpreis für Richard Thaler 2017 ist dieses Hörbuch zu einem Klassiker geworden. Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt, Geschäftsleute, politische Entscheidungsträger, Wissenschaftler, engagierte Bürger, Verbraucher und Verhaltensökonomen haben sich davon inspirieren lassen. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie wir eine durchdachte Entscheidungsarchitektur nutzen können, um bessere Entscheidungen für uns selbst, unsere Familien und unsere Gesellschaft zu treffen. Jetzt haben Richard Thaler und Cass Sunstein das Hörbuch überarbeitet und dabei ihre Erfahrungen innerhalb und außerhalb der Regierung in den letzten zwölf Jahren sowie eine Fülle neuer Forschungsergebnisse eingebracht. Diese aktualisierte Ausgabe bietet sowohl eingefleischten Fans als auch Neulingen eine Fülle neuer Einblicke in ein breites Spektrum von Themen, mit denen wir in unserem täglichen Leben konfrontiert sind: Gesundheit, persönliche Finanzen, Klimawandel und 'Sludge' (Papierkram und andere Belästigungen, die uns davon abhalten, das zu bekommen, was wir wollen) und das alles unter Einhaltung einer der Grundregeln des Anstupsens: Haben Sie Spaß!

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Title: Against Democracy

Author: Jason Brennan

Narrator: Christopher Ragland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Christopher Ragland, who presents a bracingly provocative critique of one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But Jason Brennan says they are all wrong. In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results—and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government. But democracy is the rule of the ignorant and the irrational, and it all too often falls short. Furthermore, no one has a fundamental right to any share of political power, and exercising political power does most of us little good. On the contrary, a wide range of social science research shows that political participation and democratic deliberation actually tend to make people worse—more irrational, biased, and mean. Given this grim picture, Brennan argues that a new system of government—epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable—may be better than democracy, and that it's time to experiment and find out. A challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable, Against Democracy is essential reading for scholars and students of politics across the disciplines. Featuring a new preface that situates the book within the current political climate and discusses other alternatives beyond epistocracy, Against Democracy is a challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable.

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Title: Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary

Author: Catherine Fogarty

Narrator: Catherine Fogarty

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including overcrowding, harsh punishment and extreme isolation. But when another group of convicts turned their pent-up rage towards some of the weakest prisoners, tensions inside the old stone walls erupted, with tragic consequences. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates were finally forced to surrender. Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential reading for our times.

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Title: [German] - 30 Minuten: Johann Wolfgang von Goethes 'Götz von Berlichingen': Weltliteratur kompakt: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!

Author: Jürgen Fritsche, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 38 minutes

Release date: February 17, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen Literatur auffrischen wollen! Diese Ausgabe widmet sich Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Sturm-und-Drang-Drama 'Götz von Berlichingen'. 30 Minuten: Schneller hören – mehr wissen!