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Title: Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

Author: Susan L. Shirk

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war. As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. Those who implement Xi's directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Understanding the domestic roots of China's actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.

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Title: Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems

Author: William D. Eggers, Donald F. Kettl

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Our government is in crisis, mired in bureaucracy and often unable to fix tough problems. This book provides an essential new model for transforming the system and getting things done. COVID. Climate change. Refugee resettlement. Global supply chains. We're facing a new generation of complex problems, stretching across the public and private sectors. Historically we've looked to government for big solutions, but the reality is, the government we have now is a poor match for the problems we face. We need a fresh, new approach. As William D. Eggers and Donald F. Kettl show in this indispensable book, we need a government of bridgebuilders—public managers and leaders who collaborate with partners, both inside and outside government, to get the job done. They manage horizontally instead of vertically, they see their role as connectors, and they identify which players have the assets needed to solve the problems at hand. Each chapter examines one of the ten core principles of bridgebuilding and features practical tips and dynamic cases of how effective leaders have put each principle to work. Also included is a special section on creating a hundred-day bridgebuilding plan.

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Title: Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law

Author: Anne Norton

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished revolutions; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. This is an ethic for those who hold fast to the rights they have by nature. Democracy is always a risky business; full of promise and danger. The promise is the freedom to rule ourselves. The danger is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the unruly, fear of one another, fear of anarchy. The fearful look for a strong hand, a powerful leader, a protector, a gun. Anarchy leads to courage, to self-reliance, self-discipline, self-rule, and solidarity. Anarchy is the nursery of democracy. It is not anarchy we have to fear, it is authoritarianism. We have been taught to see the people as a problem to be managed. Anne Norton sees them as a source of strength. Anarchic democracy grows wild: springing from the everyday actions of ordinary human beings. Liberalism and conservatism alike have turned away from the democratic, to institutions, rules, and regulations. Anne Norton turns to anarchic people who practice democratic ethics.

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Title: [German] - Weltunordnung - Die globalen Krisen und die Illusionen des Westens (ungekürzt)

Author: Carlo Masala

Narrator: Patrick Imhof

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Release date: May 8, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Carlo Masala warnt in diesem Hörbuch vor den Illusionen des Westens: der Illusion, die Globalisierung würde automatisch zur Verbreitung der Demokratie führen, der Illusion einer zunehmenden Verrechtlichung der internationalen Beziehungen, aber auch der Illusion, durch militärische Interventionen ließen sich Demokratie und Stabilität exportieren. Seit der Niederlage in Afghanistan und Putins Krieg gegen die Ukraine stehen die Grundlagen westlicher Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik auf dem Prüfstand. Was muss sich ändern, damit wir in der neuen Weltunordnung bestehen können?

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: John und Horace Dodge. Amerikanische Revolutionäre des Automobils. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #6 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 12 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte von den Automobilrevolutionären John und Horace Dodge!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: Henry Ford. Der amerikanische Automobilkönig. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #5 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

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Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte vom König des Automobils, Henry Ford!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: William Andrews Clark. Amerikanischer Kupfer- und Räuberbaron. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #4 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 10 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte von Kupferkaiser William Andrews Clark!

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Title: [Spanish] - Civilización: Occidente y el resto

Author: Niall Ferguson

Narrator: Edson Matus

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

La versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla. Por el contrario, los belicosos países de Europa occidental, Inglaterra, Escocia, Castilla, Aragón, Francia y Portugal, eran pobres y atrasados, debilitados por las epidemias, las pésimas condiciones sanitarias y las guerras incesantes. En cuanto a Norteamérica, en el siglo XV era un espacio poco habitado y anárquico en comparación con los impresionantes y organizados imperios de los incas y los aztecas. La idea de que Occidente pudiera llegar a dominar al resto del mundo durante el siguiente medio milenio le hubiera parecido ilusoria. Y, sin embargo, eso fue lo que ocurrió. ¿Qué permitió a la civilización de Europa occidental dominar a los aparentemente superiores imperios orientales? Según Niall Ferguson, Occidente logró desarrollar seis poderosos instrumentos, la competencia, la ciencia, el imperio de la ley, la medicina, la sociedad de consumo y la ética del trabajo. La cuestión fundamental hoy día es si Occidente ha perdido el monopolio de estos seis resortes del poder global. Para averiguarlo, Civilización nos lleva a un extraordinario viaje alrededor del mundo, del Gran Canal en Nankín al palacio de Topkapi en Estambul, del Machu Picchu en los Andes a la isla del Tiburón en Namibia; de las altas torres de Praga a las iglesias secretas de Wenzhou. Es la historia de los barcos de vela, los misiles, los títulos de propiedad, las vacunas, los pantalones vaqueros y las biblias chinas. Es la versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro agudo y rabiosamente actual. Ferguson, dotado de una mente perspicaz, sabe cómo llegar al núcleo de las cosas y lo hace con gran pulso narrativo.» Andrew Marr, Financial Times «Civilización es otra obramaestra... una gran fuerza guía la exposición y cada página revela datos fascinantes.» Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times «Erudito y, a la vez, ameno.» Mario Vargas Llosa, El País «Uno de los historiadores más reconocidos del mundo.» Hamish McRae, Independent

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Title: Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution

Author: Hadley Arkes

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Originalism Is Not Enough The Founding Fathers held certain truths to be "self-evident." Do we? In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that "originalism" alone is an inadequate answer to the judicial activism of the left. Without recourse to "mere Natural Law"—the moral principles knowable by all—our legal and constitutional system is doomed to incoherence. With the demise of Roe v. Wade, conservatives savored a landmark victory in the long campaign to reclaim the courts. But on questions as momentous as marriage, equality under the law, and "transgenderism," our judicial system is still arrayed against them. Why aren’t they winning? The answer, says Arkes, is that conservatives have missed the forest for the trees. For fifty years, they have emphasized originalism, a fine tactic but a terrible strategy for saving the rule of law. When liberals "discovered" hitherto-unknown rights in the emanations and penumbras of a "living constitution," conservatives retreated to the text. But the men who framed and ratified the Constitution never meant to confine our rights to its words. They fought a revolution to vindicate "self-evident" moral truths about human nature and the preexisting rights given to us by "Nature and Nature’s God." Until we rediscover Natural Law, nothing will stop the imposition of a perverse moral vision on our institutions and our lives. Brilliant in its analysis, essential in its argument, Mere Natural Law is a must read for everyone who cares about the Constitution, morality, and the rule of law.

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Title: Serenity in the Storm: Living Through Chaos by Leaning on Christ

Author: Kayleigh Mcenany

Narrator: Kayleigh Mcenany

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Kayleigh McEnany brings to life the key cultural and political issues of our time, analyzing world events through the lens of faith and providing listeners with Serenity in the Storm. Our world, without question, is experiencing aberrational times. The life-altering realities of COVID-19 that I worked through as White House press secretary were just the start of it. What followed was a series of history-defining events. From the fall of Afghanistan to the nationwide crime wave, we've all endured painful images of death, destruction, and chaos. Meanwhile, radical teachings on gender and race have infiltrated our nation's schools, poisoning the minds of our children—all at a time when our country feels more divided than ever before. Along with these twenty-first century realities can come a feeling of despair and discouragement. Indeed, I hear it all the time as I crisscross the country: Americans feel disheartened and seek hope. Taking a similar format to my New York Times bestselling book, For Such a Time as This, I analyze our domestic and international challenges through the lens of faith. Though we have lived through dark times, the storms we face have prompted many great leaders to rise to the moment and have left a yearning in the human heart for a Savior, Jesus Christ, who is walking alongside us every step of the way.