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Title: [German] - Wir alle haben ein Recht auf Zukunft - Eine Ermutigung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Alexandra Endres, Roda Verheyen

Narrator: Heike Warmuth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Der Klimawandel zerstört Lebensräume und Existenzgrundlagen vieler Menschen. Doch oft zeigen sich Regierungen unwillig, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen, und Firmen halten profitgetrieben an ihren überkommenen Geschäftsmodellen fest, die die Klimakrise weiter verschärfen. Was, so fragt man sich, lässt sich dagegen tun? Die medienbekannte Rechtsanwältin und Klimaaktivistin Roda Verheyen sagt klar und bestimmt: klagen. Jüngst, im April 2021, erstritt sie vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ihren größten Erfolg; dort wurde entschieden, dass ein 'Recht auf Zukunft' nicht durch mangelnden Klima- und Umweltschutz heute beeinträchtigt werden darf. Die Folge: Die Bundesregierung muss das Klimaschutzgesetz nachbessern. Anhand ihrer eigenen Erfahrungen und wichtigen internationalen Prozessfällen zeigt Roda Verheyen, dass vermeintlich Machtlose durchaus Gestaltungsmacht haben. Denn die Klagen schaffen Öffentlichkeit. Sie machen die Fakten für alle nachlesbar und für alle Gerichte anwendbar. Sie erhöhen den Druck. Jeder von uns, ob Opfer des Klimawandels oder Umweltschützer, sollte daher die Möglichkeit haben, mit Klimaklagen gegen Verantwortliche juristisch vorzugehen und sie zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Dort, wo die Kläger die Prozesse gewinnen, tun sie dies stellvertretend für viele andere, da gerichtliche Urteile Regierungen und Konzerne zum Handeln zwingen - und somit letztlich Veränderung bewirken. Dies ist ein Hörbuch, das Mut macht, im Kampf gegen große Klimasünder auch vor juristischen Mitteln nicht zurückzuschrecken.

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Title: Not so Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

Author: Kenan Malik

Narrator: Homer Todiwala

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms? The ‘culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of ‘race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege. Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long, failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised working class, and questioning fashionable concepts like cultural appropriation. Not So Black and White is both a lucid history rewriting the story of race, and an elegant polemic making an anti-racist case against the politics of identity.

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Title: [German] - Unschuldig verurteilt: Zwei Strafverteidiger über den Albtraum Justizirrtum

Author: Hans Reinhardt, Burkhard Benecken

Narrator: Sebastian Dunkelberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Release date: May 17, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Unschuldig hinter GitternJens Söring wurde in den USA wegen angeblichen Doppelmordes trotz fragwürdiger Beweislage verurteilt – 33 Jahre verbrachte er zu Unrecht im Gefängnis. Ein solches Fehlurteil ist in Deutschland undenkbar? Mitnichten! Zwei der renommiertesten Strafverteidiger Deutschlands packen aus und nehmen das deutsche (Un-)Rechtswesen auseinander.»Im Zweifel gegen den Angeklagten« ist bedauerlicher Alltag in deutschen Strafprozessen. Justizirrtümer sind an der Tagesordnung. Die beiden Strafrechtsexperten Burkhard Benecken und Hans Reinhardt decken auf, warum unschuldige Bürger von der deutschen Strafjustiz reihenweise zu Unrecht verurteilt werden: wie die Polizei versagt, was Richter und Staatsanwälte in der Kantine dealen, wie Pflichtverteidiger unschuldige Mandanten zu falschen Geständnissen zwingen.Die beiden Autoren geben einen erschreckenden Blick hinter die Kulissen. Und fordern die Justiz auf, endlich das Recht auf Gerechtigkeit ernst zu nehmen.-

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Title: Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs

Author: Josh Hawley

Narrator: Josh Hawley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Nationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that the character of men and the male virtue that goes along with it is a necessary ingredient to a functioning society and a healthy, free republic. A free society that despises manhood will not remain free. The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues. Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In a bold new book, he calls on American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens. No republic has ever survived without men of character to defend what is just and true. Starting with the wisdom of the ancients, from the Greek and Roman philosophers to Jesus of Nazareth, and drawing on the lessons of American history, Hawley identifies the defining strengths of men, including responsibility, bravery, fidelity, and leadership. As Theodore Roosevelt declared, the “very existence of the state depends on the character of its citizens…. I am for business. But I am for manhood first.” Hawley shows why the foolhardy assault on masculinity in education, the media, the workplace, and every level of government is an assault on freedom itself. Practical, down to earth, and urgent, Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs is required reading for every American patriot.

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Title: Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

Author: Mark Hollingsworth

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

There's no such thing as a former KGB man. Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world. More disturbingly, it never stopped. Putin is a KGB man through and through. Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation, kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russia's war with Ukraine. It seems frighteningly easy to destabilize Western democracy.

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Title: Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

Author: Philip J. Stern

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Across four centuries, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power. Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. As Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: Harvey S. Firestone. Der amerikanische Kautschuk-König. Eine Biografie.: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #9 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 9 minutes

Release date: May 12, 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 Autoreifengigant Harvey S. Firestone!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: John H. Patterson. Der amerikanische König der NCR-Registrierkassen. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #8 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 12 minutes

Release date: May 12, 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 Registrierkassenpapst John Patterson!

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Title: [German] - Carl Adolf Bratter: Harry F. Sinclair und Edward L. Doheny. Amerikanische Öl- und Räuberbarone. Eine Biografie: Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Series: #7 of Amerikanische Industriemagnaten

Author: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 24 minutes

Release date: May 12, 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 der Ölbarone Harry Sinclair und Edward Doheny!

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Title: Unwritten Law: A BBC Radio True Crime Series

Author: Rib Davis, Helena Kennedy

Narrator: Gavin Muir, Helena Kennedy, Tracy Wiles, Jane Wittenshaw, Tim Treloar, Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Hogan, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Susan Sheridan, Irene Sutcliffe, Full Cast, Jonathan Keeble, Gareth Armstrong, Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 11, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Eight dramatised documentaries of landmark trials that changed the law What do you do when a judge sentences your child to be beaten? If someone who has been stabbed dies after refusing a blood transfusion, is it a straight case of murder? How did a murder case end up changing the law for battered women who kill? In this gripping series, Helena Kennedy, celebrated human rights lawyer, broadcaster and civil liberties expert and playwright Rib Davis bring to life eight groundbreaking twentieth century trials. With the help of a full cast they reveal how the British legal system has been influenced by powerful, human stories that redefined the law to better reflect our modern society. A Case of Blasphemous Obscenity - Mary Whitehouse brings a libel case against the editor of Gay News, for publishing an allegedly obscene poem. A Bunch of Twigs - The parents of four 15-year-old boys, sentenced to be birched, launch an appeal against corporal punishment. The Case of The Ladies' Directory - What is moral? Publishing information on how to contact sex workers brings Fredrick Shaw to court on moral grounds. 85 Burglaries and a Phone Tap - Who's listening? The trial of eight people in 1978 leads to a much more important investigation into State secrecy. I've Only Just Learnt To Cry - The tragic story of Emma Humphries, who in 1985 was tried for the murder of her boyfriend. Only a Phase - A group of young men in 1970s Belfast appeal to the British Government for gay rights. Breaking the Chain - A young Jehovah's Witness is stabbed and dies. The court must decide if it was murder or if she contributed to her own death by refusing a blood transfusion. On Self Deliverance - Murder or 'mercy'? An organisation finds itself in court after offering practical help to those wishing to commit suicide. First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 10-31 July 1998 (Series 1) and 1-22 December 1999 (Series 2) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd