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Title: Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Author: Carly Goodman

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that. Dreamland tells the surprising story of this unlikely government program and its role in American life as well as the global story of migration. Historian Carly Goodman takes listeners from Washington, DC, where proponents deployed a colorblind narrative about our 'nation of immigrants' to secure visas for white immigrants, to the African countries where it flourished and fostered dreams of going to America. From the post office to the internet, aspiring emigrants, visa agents, and others embraced the lottery and tried their luck in a time of austerity and limits. Rising African immigration to the United States has enriched American life, created opportunities for mobility, and nourished imagined possibilities. But the promise of the American dream has been threatened by the United States' embrace of anti-immigrant policies and persistent anti-Black racism.

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: Andrew Carnegie. Amerikanischer Stahlbaron und Philantrop. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #2 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 11 minutes

Release date: April 28, 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 Stahlbaron Andrew Carnegie!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: John D. Rockefeller. Amerikanischer Ölmilliardär und Philantrop. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #1 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 15 minutes

Release date: April 28, 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 Öltycoon John D. Rockefeller!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: Charles M. Schwab. Amerikanischer Stahl- und Räuberbaron. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #3 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 28, 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 Stahlkönig Charles M. Schwab!

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Title: The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

Author: Aaron Vansintjan, Andrea Vetter, Matthias Schmelzer

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological progress. Yet growing evidence shows that continued economic growth cannot be made compatible with sustaining life and is not necessary for a good life for all. This book provides a vision for postcapitalism beyond growth. It discusses the political economy and the politics of a non-growing economy. It charts a path forward through policies that democratize the economy, 'now-topias' that create free spaces for experimentation, and counter-hegemonic movements that make it possible to break with the logic of growth. Degrowth perspectives offer a way to step off the treadmill of an alienating, expansionist, and hierarchical system.

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Title: Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach: America's Techno-Spy Empire

Author: Kristie Macrakis

Narrator: Wendy Tremont King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates how America's technophiles inadvertently created a global espionage empire: one based on technology, not land. Author Kristie Macrakis shows how in the process of staking out the globe through technology, US intelligence created the ability to collect a massive amount of data. But did it help? Featuring the sites visited during her research and stories of the people who created the techno-spy empire, Macrakis guides the listener from its conception in the 1950s to its global reach in the Cold War and Global War on Terror. In an age of ubiquitous technology, Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach exposes the perils of relying too much on technology while demonstrating how the US carried on the tradition of British imperial espionage. Listeners interested in the history of espionage and technology as well as those who work in the intelligence field will find the revelations and insights in Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach fascinating and compelling.

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Title: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

Author: Erik Linstrum

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed 'postwar,' it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat endings or declarations of victory. Age of Emergency traces facts and feelings about violence as torture, summary executions, collective punishments, and other ruthless methods were employed in 'states of emergency.' It examines how Britons at home learned to live with colonial warfare by examining activist campaigns, soldiers' letters, missionary networks, newspaper stories, television dramas, sermons, novels, and plays. Some contemporaries cast doubt on facts about violence. Still others aestheticized violence by celebrating visions of racial struggle or dramatizing the grim fatalism of dirty wars. Through their voices, Erik Linstrum narrates what violence looked, heard, and felt like as an empire ended, a history with unsettling echoes in our own time. Vividly analyzing how far-off atrocities became domestic problems, Age of Emergency shows that the compromising entanglements of war extended far beyond the conflict zones of empire.

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Title: The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities

Author: Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, Jeffrey R. Brown

Narrator: Derek Dysart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the twentieth century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the twenty-first. American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of US urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about. The authors chronicle how the ways that we both raise and spend transportation revenue have shaped our transportation system and the lives of those who use it, from the era before the automobile to the present day. They focus on how the development of one revolutionary type of road—the freeway—was inextricably intertwined with money. With the nation's transportation finance system at a crossroads today, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportation in the future. The authors draw on these lessons to offer ways forward to pay for transportation more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, and increase environmental sustainability and urban livability.

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Title: Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem

Series: #1 of CRIME AMD PUBLIC POLICY

Author: Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and property values. How can police departments find the right balance between over- and under-policing of high-violence areas? What are the best practices for police to preempt and deter gun violence, while engendering support and cooperation from the public? Drawing on fifty years of research and practical experience, Policing Gun Violence argues that it is possible for the police to create greater public safety while respecting the rights of individuals and communities. While gun violence can be attributed to various systemic causes, Anthony A. Braga and Philip J. Cook make the case that violence is itself a root cause of social disparity and future violence. Effective law enforcement is a vital component of a just society. They review and synthesize the evidence in several key areas: enforcement of gun laws, policing hot spots, controlling high-risk groups through focused deterrence, enhancing investigations to increase the arrest and conviction rate, preventing officer-involved shootings, and disrupting underground gun markets. Policing Gun Violence serves as a guide to how the police can better utilize their considerable resources to make cities safer.

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Title: [Spanish] - V13: Crónica judicial

Author: Emmanuel Carrère

Narrator: Luis David García Márquez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

V13: viernes 13 de noviembre de 2015. En tres puntos diferentes de París se producen atentados yihadistas. El más grave es el de la sala Bataclan, donde están actuando los Eagles of Death Metal. El resultado de los ataques en el corazón de Francia es de ciento treinta muertos y más de cuatrocientos heridos. Años después, durante nueve meses –entre septiembre de 2021 y junio de 2022–, se celebra el juicio en el Palacio de Justicia de la capital. Hay catorce acusados: el principal es el único superviviente de entre los terroristas de Estado Islámico que participaron en la masacre. Sobrevivió porque no detonó su cinturón con explosivos. ¿Falló el mecanismo? ¿Tuvo miedo? ¿O quizá un fugaz momento de arrepentimiento y humanidad? El resto son colaboradores en distintos grados. Y además están los testigos –que cuentan historias de una gran crudeza–, los familiares de los fallecidos, los severos fiscales, los abogados defensores, que utilizan argucias para tratar de salvar a sus clientes, el tribunal, que debe emitir sentencia… La justicia evalúa con frialdad la barbarie. Emmanuel Carrère cubre el juicio y envía sus crónicas semanales a L'Obs. Esos textos son la base de este libro. En sus páginas encontramos la narración del juicio, la voz de las víctimas, los advenedizos que han tratado de hacerse pasar por víctimas, los héroes que ayudaron a detener a los criminales, los corrillos de los abogados, los detalles entre bambalinas… La dimensión humana y la dimensión política. El resultado: un volumen sobrecogedor y un testimonio necesario. El periodismo hecho literatura a través de la perspicaz mirada de Carrère.