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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 1, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post–Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate forgotten spy stories for the first time. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Judgements that Changed India Author: Zia Mody Narrator: Beneifer Mirza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 30, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This book presents a compilation of 10 essays on some of the most influential judgments’ that were passed by the Supreme Court of India and proved to be life-altering for the common man and the democracy of the nation. These judgments by the Indian Judiciary proved that the nation’s legal system is not as irresolute as often cited. The author attempts to paint the complete picture of some of the most controversial cases, like Maneka Gandhi versus the Union Bank of India, the Union Carbide Corporation versus Union of India, Mohammed Ahmed Khan versus Shah Bano Begam and Olga Tellis versus the Bombay Municipal Corporation among others. From the matter of environmental jurisprudence and custodial deaths to the controversial topic of reservations, the author deals extensively with each case in the 10 essays and points out the effects that the Supreme court’s final verdicts produced. The book describes how the Indian judicial system is capable of impacting the lives of the millions that thrive under this democracy and succeeds in restoring the reader’s faith on the legal system of the nation. The internal affairs that go about in each case, which otherwise escape scrutiny, have been shed light on through the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/388296 to listen full audiobooks. Title: E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776 Author: William E. Nelson Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 24, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From their inception, the colonies exercised a range of approaches to the law. While New England based its legal system around the word of God, Maryland followed the common law tradition, and New York adhered to Dutch law. Over time, though, the British crown standardized legal procedure to more uniformly and efficiently exert control over the Empire. But, while the common law emerged as the dominant system across the colonies, its effects were far from what English rulers had envisioned. E Pluribus Unum highlights the political context in which the common law developed and how it influenced the United States Constitution. In practice, the triumph of the common law over competing approaches gave lawyers more authority than governing officials. By the end of the eighteenth century, many colonial legal professionals began to espouse constitutional ideology that would mature into the doctrine of judicial review. In turn, laypeople came to accept constitutional doctrine by the time of independence in 1776. Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment of the United States. Not simply a masterful legal history of colonial America, Nelson's magnum opus fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the sources of both the American Revolution and the Founding.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/388310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism Author: Joshua Muravchik Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 24, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in 'science.' Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to 'the New Man' inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siècle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. It was an astonishing denouement but what followed was no less astonishing. After the hiatus of a couple of decades, new voices were raised, as if innocent of all that had come before, proposing to try it all over again. Joshua Muravchik traces the pursuit of this phantasm, presenting sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse, as well as those who are trying to revive it today. Heaven on Earth is a story filled with character and event which at the same time gives us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside down—and for a time succeeded.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cult of the Constitution Author: Mary Anne Franks Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 24, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain constitutional rights above all others, benefit the most powerful members of society, and undermine the integrity of the document as a whole. The conservative fetish for the Second Amendment (enforced by groups such as the NRA) provides an obvious example of constitutional fundamentalism; the liberal fetish for the First Amendment (enforced by groups such as the ACLU) is less obvious but no less influential. Economic and civil libertarianism have increasingly merged to produce a deregulatory, 'free-market' approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The worship of guns, speech, and the Internet in the name of the Constitution has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence. But the Constitution itself contains the antidote to fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution lays bare the dark, antidemocratic consequences of constitutional fundamentalism and urges listeners to take the Constitution seriously, not selectively.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness Author: Kenneth M. Pollack Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 24, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for this pattern. Reliance on Soviet military methods, the poor civil-military relations of the Arab world, the underdevelopment of the Arab states, and patterns of behavior derived from the wider Arab culture, have all been suggested as the ultimate source of Arab military difficulties. Armies of Sand, Kenneth M. Pollack's powerful and riveting history of Arab armies from the end of World War Two to the present, assesses these differing explanations and isolates the most important causes. Over the course of the book, he examines the combat performance of fifteen Arab armies and air forces in virtually every Middle Eastern war, from the Jordanians and Syrians in 1948 to Hizballah in 2006 and the Iraqis and ISIS in 2014-2017. He then compares these experiences to the performance of the Argentine, Chadian, Chinese, Cuban, North Korean, and South Vietnamese armed forces in their own combat operations during the twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/385941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity For the Many, Not Just the Few Author: Ted Howard, Marjorie Kelly Narrator: Tiffany Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 23, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. Seventy-one percent of the American people say the economy is rigged against them, and they're right. Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard describe the current economic system as the Extractive Economy-it enables the financial elite to extract maximum gain for themselves, heedless of any damage to people or planet. As an alternative, they offer the Democratic Economy, which is responsive to the concerns of ordinary people and balances human consumption with the regenerative capacity of the earth. Kelly and Howard lay out seven principles of a Democratic Economy: Community, Inclusion, Place (keeping wealth local), Good Work (putting labor before capital), Democratized Ownership, Ethical Finance, and Sustainability. The book pairs each principle with a portrait of a place where it is being put into practice, from Pine Ridge to Portland to Cleveland to Preston, England, and more. This is a powerful, coherent, and achievable vision of an economy that serves the many, not the few.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ley Orgánica 3/2007 para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres Author: Aprende La Ley Narrator: Aprende La Ley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 18, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Con este audiolibro podrás estudiar y repasar todas las veces que necesites, la estructura, el índice sistemático, los títulos completos y las disposiciones de la Ley Orgánica 3/2007, de 22 de marzo, para la igualdad efectiva de mujeres y hombres.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Public Opinion Author: Walter Lippmann Narrator: John Klickman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 18, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An instrumental work on today's outlook on the dominance of media in democracy, Public Opinion, is a key work by author Walter Lippmann. Does the manufacturing of consent amount to a democracy in the way democracy is practiced? Does the mass media have a control over the public opinion? These are questions that are more important today with the emergence of new technologies like the internet, and older technologies, like television, which are being politically dominated by an opportunistic media. Public Opinion is a highly recommended work for those who are interested in understanding the role of media and public opinion in politics and also those who enjoy the writings of Walter Lippmann.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: September 11: The 9/11 Conspiracy Author: Albert Jack Narrator: Albert Jack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 16, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the internationally best selling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order and many more; The events of 9/11 2001 must not be forgotten because the consequences and still revolving around the world today. The events that took place on September 11, 2001 were the most important of our generation. Possibly the most important of our lifetimes and certainly the since the bombing of Pearl Harbour and the Second World War. But they will definitely not be the Crime of the Century. There is much more to come, although hopefully not in my lifetime. For over a decade we have been told on every news program, every radio bulletin, in speeches, statements & announcements, front page stories, magazine articles, Government policy announcements and by every government official throughout the West; that the world has changed. And we have to react with it. We are told that 9/11 has changed the course of our domestic and foreign policy. (It certainly has) Our civil liberties must be amended with the changing times. Those responsible and their allies must be hunted down and punished, however loosely connected they are, regardless of the cost, either in human or financial measure. The event must not be forgotten. It should dominate debate, both public and private. We must reconfigure, adapt, refocus, reprioritise and come together as one, with our allies, to defend our freedoms and liberties. And we should do everything we can to make sure it never happens again. And that means we must rely on the elected policy makers, who are advised by experts with minds immeasurably greater than ours. And then do as we are told and pay for it. Really, how does a projectile manage to hit the Pentagon in Washington DC? How can that even happen, never mind New York for the moment. How do Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble manage to pull that off? So find out who really was responsible and why...?