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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sense of Balance Author: John Howard Narrator: John Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect the sense of balance in the formulation of public policy that has long defined us as a nation and made Australia an attractive destination for people from across the world. In this book he explores this balance, its foundations and its future. Written against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as some of the more contested political events of recent years - the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, the rise of China, and, within our own country, a carousel of six prime ministers in eleven years - these reflections touch on how Australia has responded to pressure over the last decade or so. Commentary on these subjects from politicians, opinion writers and social media can sometimes seem shrill and divisive. Australia's 25th and second longest serving prime minister has faith that no matter what challenges and extremes threaten to upset our sense of balance, the country's institutions and people will remain robust into the foreseeable future. PRAISE 'John Howard's ongoing and important contribution to this country continues with his latest laser sharp book, A Sense of Balance. No former leader understands the Australian character better than our 25th Prime Minister' Janet Albrechtsen, columnist

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington Author: Gerard N. Magliocca Narrator: Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years. In Washington's Heir, Gerard N. Magliocca gives us the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. Born in 1762, Justice Washington fought in the Revolutionary War, served in Virginia's ratifying convention for the Constitution, and was Chief Justice John Marshall's partner in establishing the authority of the Supreme Court. Though he could only see from one eye, Justice Washington wrote many landmark decisions defining the fundamental rights of citizens and the structure of the Constitution, including Corfield v. Coryell—an influential source for the Congress that proposed the Fourteenth Amendment. As George Washington's personal heir, Bushrod inherited both Mount Vernon and the family legacy of owning other people, one of whom was almost certainly his half-brother or nephew. Yet Justice Washington alone among the Founders was criticized by journalists for selling enslaved people and, in turn, issued a public defense of his actions that laid bare the hypocrisy and cruelty of slavery.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides Author: Thomas J. Dilorenzo Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Another entry in the best-selling, irreverent, hard-hitting Politically Incorrect Guide series! Economics from a rational, conservative viewpoint—that is, a refreshing look at how money actually works from an author who knows the score, and how the law of economics are frequently broken and derailed by pernicious leftists and virtue signaling progressives. Markets Rule. Socialism Sucks. Time to wise up. Think economics is the Dismal Science? No more! Here is the lowdown on the biases, superstitions, and outright falsehoods that permeate and corrupt economics and economic policy. Here’s the skinny on the poisonous effects of socialism and crony capitalism. Even better, here is an irreverent but clear-eyed explanation of how markets and economies work and how government intervention so often doesn’t, routinely makes things worse, and how it’s usually the cause of economic crises in the first place. Here’s how the power of the free market bursts forth and conquers, despite the worms, leeches, slings and arrows of socialism and anarchy trying to do in human creativity and ingenuity at every turn. How the myth of so-called “market failure” is total bunk. Why every attempt by government to stabilize the economy seems to put it in a tailspin instead. How corporations cozy up to big government and use regulation to create monopoly profits. Why “stimulus spending” makes us poor and hands the power-seeking goons of the governing class even more control over our lives. Plus, here’s a chance to supercharge your economic IQ with concentrated wisdom from masters of market scholarship Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and more! A no-nonsense, irreverent guide to economics from a legendary teacher, thinker, and Mises Institute scholar that may be the best book on economics since Adam Smith visited a pin factory, figured out how the division of labor works, and wrote it all down in one handy volume!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment Author: Mary Ziegler Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party 'A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.' —Kirkus Reviews The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business—two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice the strangeness of the pairing. Legal historian Mary Ziegler traces how the anti-abortion movement helped to forge and later upend this alliance. Beginning with the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo, right-to-lifers fought to gain power in the GOP by changing how campaign spending—and the First Amendment—work. The anti-abortion movement helped to revolutionize the rules of money in US politics and persuaded conservative voters to fixate on the federal courts. Ultimately, the campaign finance landscape that abortion foes created fueled the GOP's embrace of populism and the rise of Donald Trump. Ziegler offers a surprising new view of the slow drift to extremes in American politics—and explains how it had everything to do with the strange intersection of right-to-life politics and campaign spending.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592819 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China Author: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a 'superpower marathon.' Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint? The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. China is at a perilous moment: strong enough to violently challenge the existing order, yet losing confidence that time is on its side. Witness its aggression toward Taiwan, its record-breaking military buildup, and its efforts to dominate the critical technologies that will shape the world's future. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real. America, Brands and Beckley argue, will still need a sustainable approach to winning a protracted global competition.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus Author: Gerard Toal Narrator: Christopher Douyard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's 'near abroad'—newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the specter of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula. Crimea's annexation and follow on conflict in eastern Ukraine have generated the greatest geopolitical crisis on the European continent since the end of the Cold War. In Near Abroad, the eminent political geographer Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric that surrounds Russia's interventions in Georgia and Ukraine to study the underlying territorial conflicts and geopolitical struggles. Central to understanding are legacies of the Soviet Union collapse: unresolved territorial issues, weak states and a conflicted geopolitical culture in Russia over the new territorial order. The West's desire to expand NATO contributed to a growing geopolitical contest in Russia's near abroad. This found expression in a 2008 NATO proclamation that Georgia and Ukraine will become members of NATO, a 'red line' issue for Russia. The road to invasion and war in Georgia and Ukraine, thereafter, is explained in Near Abroad.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship Author: Andrew Wilson Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus—from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election. 'Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing how the future of Belarus might be different than its present.'—Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands Protests continue in Belarus in the aftermath of 2020's fraught presidential election. In this updated edition of his exploration of Belarus's complicated road to nationhood since it gained independence in 1991, Andrew Wilson has added two new chapters that reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka's grip on power, the growth of the opposition movement and the violent crackdown that followed the vote. Wilson also examines the prospects for Europe as a whole of either Lukashenka's downfall or his survival with Russian support.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600234 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East Author: C. Brad Faught Narrator: Julian Elfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the Middle East in the wake of the First World War and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The summit established the states of Iraq and Jordan as part of the Sherifian Solution and confirmed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine—the future state of Israel. No other conference had such an enduring impact on the region. C. Brad Faught demonstrates how the conference, although dominated by the British with limited local participation, was an ambitious, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to move the Middle East into the world of modern nationalism. Faught reveals that many officials, including T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, were driven by the determination for state building in the area to succeed. Their prejudices, combined with their abilities, would profoundly alter the Middle East for decades to come.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613398 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Por una democracia progresista: Debatir el presente para un mejor futuro Author: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Narrator: Antonio Raluy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La Revolución Mexicana es indetenible, ya que su propósito siempre ha sido erigir un pueblo esencialmente democrático. Figura central de la transición a la democracia en nuestro país y dirigente de la izquierda mexicana,Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, en este nuevo libro, hace una revisión histórica y crítica del proceso revolucionario iniciado en 1910. Con un desglose de los principales documentos, analiza las diversas etapas, desde los antecedentes, la fase armada (1910-1920), el periodo de estabilización (1920-1934), el momento más alto de las realizaciones revolucionarias (1934- 1940), el declive (1941-1982) y el ciclo del desmantelamiento institucionalizado (1982-2018). Por una democracia progresista demuestra que la Revolución Mexicana es una revolución viva, cuyo propósito sigue siendo la edificación de una amplia, sólida y perdurable democracia. Así, a partir de argumentos rotundos y una consistente visión del futuro, concluye que la nación atraviesa por una crisis institucional donde debe volverse a los principios y a la ideología de la Revolución, pues todavía propone soluciones inmediatas y le resta mucho camino por andar.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Go to College: A Case for Revolution Author: Michael Robillard, M.A., M.A., Phd, Phl Timothy Gordon Ma, Jd. Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An examination of how America’s colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled. From safe-spaces and trigger warnings, to grievance studies and neo-Marxist indoctrination, to sexual degeneracy and hook-up culture, to student loan indentured servitude, to useless degrees with no translatable real-world application, the modern-day American university now functions as the complete inversion of its original purpose. Rather than creating civically minded, competent citizens and adults able to provide for themselves, their families, and their society, America’s universities now function as institutional assembly lines for the production of the new twenty-first century global citizen-serf: atomized, infantilized, dependent, and pacified. This book provides the definitive diagnosis of what exactly happened to America’s universities while giving the reader a blueprint for how young citizens, parents, and local communities alike can safeguard, escape, and begin resisting such pernicious indoctrination and illogical woke nonsense.