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Title: War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict

Author: Nicolas J.S. Davies, Medea Benjamin

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated. Yes, Russia's aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But the West's reneging on promises to halt eastward expansion of NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union played a major part in prompting Putin to act. So did the U.S. involvement in the 2014 Ukraine coup and Ukraine's failure to implement the Minsk peace agreements. The result is a conflict that is increasingly difficult to resolve, one that could conceivably escalate into all-out war between the United States and Russia—the world's two leading nuclear powers. Skillfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, this timely book will be an urgent necessity.

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Title: Diary of an Invasion

Author: Andrey Kurkov

Narrator: David Aranovich

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv. This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a twenty-first-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people. Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.

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Title: Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

Author: Niki Savva

Narrator: Corinne Davies

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting, and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy. By the end, among his detractors—and there were plenty—Morrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon. Morrison failed to accept the mantle of national leadership, or to deal adequately with the challenges of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. He thought reform was a vanity project. He said he never wanted to leave a legacy. He got his wish. Niki Savva, Australia's renowned political commentator, author, and columnist, was there for all of it. In The Road to Ruin, she revealed the ruinous behavior of former prime minister Abbott. In Plots and Prayers, she told the inside story of the coup that overthrew Turnbull and installed his conniving successor, Morrison. Now she lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of a resurgent Labor and the so-called teal independents that culminated in the historic 2022 election. With her typical access to key players, and her riveting accounts of what went on behind the scenes, Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an impeccably sourced political trilogy.

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Title: Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

Author: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Narrator: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in the country, Chicago–Cook County, and she takes listeners inside our so-called halls of justice to witness the types of everyday racial abuses that fester within the courts, often in plain sight. We watch white courtroom professionals classify and deliberate on the fates of mostly black and Latino defendants while racial abuse and due process violations are encouraged and even seen as justified. Prosecutors hang out like frat boys in the judges' chambers while the fates of defendants hang in the balance. Public defenders make choices about which defendants they will try to 'save' and which they will sacrifice. Crook County's powerful and at times devastating narratives reveal startling truths about a legal culture steeped in racial abuse. Gonzalez Van Cleve urges all citizens to take a closer look at the way we do justice in America and to hold our arbiters of justice accountable to the highest standards of equality.

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Title: Estate Planning For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Author: Joseph Mashinski, Jordan S. Simon

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. It's all about drafting wills, dealing with probate, assigning powers of attorney, establishing living trusts, and beyond. Think you don't have enough assets to merit estate planning? Think again. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan, whatever your current financial situation. In easy-to-understand language, you'll learn the ins and outs of estate planning, including what happens to your stuff when you pass away. This new edition is updated for the many recent changes in estate taxes and inheritance law. Make sure your assets get into the pockets of your heirs or wherever you want them to go, and learn how to accomplish it the For Dummies way. ● Understand state and federal estate and inheritance taxes ● Make sure your heirs get as much as they can ● Protect your estate's privacy even after you're gone ● Prevent disagreements and uncertainty among your heirs ● Figure out how to pass on your digital assets This friendly guide is a must for people of any age in the process of planning where their assets ultimately end up.

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Title: The Two Moralities: Conservatives, Liberals and the Roots of Our Political Divide

Author: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The left and right will always have strong policy disagreements, but constructive debate and negotiation are not possible when each side demonizes the other. In this book, social psychologist Ronnie Janoff-Bulman provides a new framework for understanding why and how we disagree. Janoff-Bulman asks listeners to consider the challenging possibility that both liberalism and conservatism are morally based and reflect genuine concern for the country. Moral psychology is an invaluable lens for understanding the roots of political differences. She presents a 'Model of Moral Motives' that maps the most fundamental motivations recognized by psychology—approach and avoidance—onto these differences. Liberal morality focuses on providing for the group's well-being and ensuring social justice. Conservative morality focuses on protecting the group from threats and preserving order. These moralities can account for the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives and for why certain positions resonate on each side of the political spectrum. Why, for example, do conservatives oppose abortion and favor unfettered free markets while liberals favor a woman's right to choose and economic regulation? Understanding that our political differences are rooted in two natural forms of morality can help us begin to detoxify our politics.

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Title: The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

Author: Sebastian Edwards

Narrator: Andrew Joseph Perez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that 'If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave.' More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of the spread and consequences of the free-market thinking that dominated economic policymaking around the world in the second half of the twentieth century—but is now on the retreat. In 1955, the United States State Department launched the 'Chile Project' to train Chilean economists at the University of Chicago. After General Augusto Pinochet overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile's 'Chicago Boys' implemented the purest neoliberal model for the next seventeen years, undertaking a package of privatization and deregulation, creating a modern capitalist economy, and sparking talk of a 'Chilean miracle.' But under the veneer of success, a profound dissatisfaction with the inequalities caused by neoliberalism was growing. In 2019, protests erupted throughout the country, and in 2022 Boric began his presidency with a clear mandate: to end neoliberalismo. The Chile Project provides an important new perspective on the history of neoliberalism and its global decline today.

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Title: The Struggle for Law in the Oceans: How an Isolationist Narrative Betrays America

Author: John Norton Moore

Narrator: Bob Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

During the 1970s and 1980s the United States led the world in negotiating one of the most important treaties in history, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Through these negotiations the United States secured the largest area of maritime jurisdiction in the world—an area larger than the continental United States itself—and protected navigational freedom, so critical for Naval mobility. Today UNCLOS is in force for 168 countries and the European Union. Isolationist arguments, however, have for a quarter-century prevented the Senate from voting on the Convention. This book discusses the robust reasons favoring the Convention, and offers a sharp critical examination of the arguments still being made against it. John Norton Moore posits that isolationist obstruction has cost the United States two deep seabed mine sites, 'USA-2' and 'USA-3,' for a loss of a half trillion dollars in strategic minerals, and shows how a continuation of this narrative threatens the loss of 'USA-1' and 'USA-4' for another half trillion dollars—all while China has acquired four deep seabed sites and the Russian Federation three. In this groundbreaking and vigorously argued work, Moore asserts that it is time to accede to the Convention, as has been urged for decades by presidents from both sides of the political divide.

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Title: [German] - Das Ende der Geduld (ungekürzt)

Author: Kirsten Heisig

Narrator: Dunja Hayali

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Mehr Konsequenz im Umgang mit jugendlichen Gewalttätern: Jugendliche Gewalttäter - sie werden immer brutaler und jünger. Viele Menschen meiden mittlerweile bestimmte Straßen, Plätze und Stadtviertel sowie nächtliche Fahrten in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Eltern und Lehrer fürchten die Gewalt in ihren Schulen, Polizei und Sozialarbeiter kommen an ihre Grenzen. Die unbequeme und mutige Berliner Jugendrichterin Kirsten Heisig war schon lange nicht mehr bereit, dies hinzunehmen: 'Wenn wir nicht rasch und konsequent handeln, wenn wir unsere Rechts- und Werteordnung nicht entschlossen durchsetzen, werden wir den Kampf gegen die Jugendgewalt verlieren.' In den letzten Jahren haben sich die von ihr zu Recht angeprangerten Zustände republikweit nicht verbessert, sondern verschärft. Der unkontrollierte Zustrom von unbegleiteten jungen Flüchtlingen in den letzten zwei Jahren wird die Situation weiterhin verschärfen. Das ebenso provokante wie sachkundige Buch von Kirsten Heisig erschien bereits im Jahr 2010 und war ein Bestseller. Doch ist es heute aktueller denn je. Ergänzt mit einem Vorwort von Oberstaatsanwalt Rudolf Hausmann.

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Title: [German] - Die Geografie der Zukunft - Wie der Kampf um Vorherrschaft im All unsere Welt verändern wird (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Tim Marshall

Narrator: Julian Mehne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Marshall erklärt meisterhaft, was man wissen muss.' Peter Frankopan Spionagesatelliten in der Umlaufbahn des Mondes. Bodenschätze im Weltraum, wertvoller als das Bruttoinlandsprodukt der meisten Länder. Menschen auf dem Mars in den nächsten zehn Jahren. Das ist keine Science-Fiction, sondern Astropolitik. Der Mensch ist unterwegs ins All - und wir nehmen unsere Machtkämpfe mit. Bald wird das Geschehen im Universum die Weltgeschichte genauso prägen wie die Berge, Flüsse und Meere auf der Erde. Politik-Experte Tim Marshall legt die geopolitischen Realitäten offen: Er zeigt, wie das Rennen um die besten Plätze im All aktuell aussieht, wie Russland, China und die USA vorangehen und welche strategischen Ziele dahinterstehen. Eine unverzichtbare Lektüre über Macht, Politik und die Zukunft der Menschheit.