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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fire in the Streets: How You Can Confidently Respond to Incendiary Cultural Topics Author: Douglas R. Groothuis Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'What can we do amidst all the controversies over race and gender in society today? Do we have anything constructive to offer the world? As Jesus's followers, we do, and this book shows the way. A dangerous and revolutionary philosophy is responsible for the street fires in America. It fuels the actions of Black Lives Matter and Antifa. It invades curricula in public schools and in our military. It is in our churches. You have heard the phrase “white privilege,” the need for “safe spaces” on campuses, and perhaps the tongue-twister “intersectionality.” Behind all of these is an ideology called critical theory, which is a form of cultural Marxism that divides society into the oppressed and the oppressors. It claims that America is “systemically racist” and founded on slavery. It believes that the voices of minorities should trump the perspective of dominant culture. Unfortunately, this flawed perspective is overtaking our culture and infiltrating many of our churches. In this book, we consider the importance of critical theory, explain its origins, question its aims, and subject it to a logical critique. Listeners will -Gain a better understanding of critical theory; -See how it is permeating many aspects of society; -Discover how it opposes a Christian worldview; -Learn how to counter it constructively. A biblical alternative to matters of justice and politics is available, one that is right and true, one based on the ideals of the American founding. Find it in these pages.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women Author: Lecia Michelle Narrator: Julienne Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: You've read White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist, but what comes next? The answer lies in this clear, actionable guide providing an invaluable four-week program for becoming an ally who makes a real difference in the racial justice fight. Black women have always been the driving force behind real change in this country—especially when it comes to racial justice work. But they shouldn't have to do it alone. If you're ready to stop standing on the sidelines and become anti-racist instead of passively 'not racist,' then this book is what you need. You'll discover: how to have difficult conversations about white supremacy, racism, and white privilege; how to listen to criticism without defensiveness; why it's harmful to ignore race or claim to be colorblind; and how to expand your racial justice circle by joining groups led by Black women and cultivating a group of like-minded allies. Racism can only be defeated if white people educate themselves and actively engage in antiracism work, especially in their inner circles. With this book, you'll learn how to change from someone who defends and protects racism to someone who fights against it. And you'll become an example to others that true allies are made, not born.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime Author: Kristian Williams Narrator: Al Kessel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence. In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between 'gangs' of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and conflict more common, Williams's analysis is a crucial corrective to our usual ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice Author: Eric A. Davidson Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Since it was first proposed in the US House of Representatives, the Green New Deal has been hotly debated. The intent was not simply to fight climate change or address a specific environmental concern, but rather to tackle how climate change and other environmental challenges affect the economy, the vulnerable, and social justice—and vice versa. In Science for a Green New Deal, Eric Davidson dissects this legislative resolution. He also shows how green new deal thinking offers a framework for a convergence of the natural sciences, social science, economics, and community engagement to develop holistic policy solutions to the most pressing issues of our day. Davidson weaves the case for linkages among multiple global crises, including a pandemic that has reversed progress on fighting poverty and hunger, an acceleration of climate change, and a renewed awareness of profound social injustices highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement. Illustrating these points with his personal life experiences as a child growing up in Montana and as a famed researcher leading a large scientific society, Davidson relates these complex challenges to our everyday lives and decision-making. Science for a Green New Deal is a realistic and optimistic look at how we can attain a more sustainable, prosperous, and just future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump Author: Anthony J. Badger Narrator: Christopher Douyard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From FDR to Clinton, Democratic leaders have promised a New South—a model of social equality and economic opportunity. So how did the region become the stronghold of conservative Republicans in thrall to Donald Trump? After a lifetime studying Southern politics, Anthony Badger has come to a provocative conclusion: white liberals failed because they put their faith in policy solutions as an engine for social change and were reluctant to confront directly the explosive racial politics dividing their constituents. After World War II, many Americans believed that if the edifice of racial segregation, white supremacy, and voter disfranchisement could be dismantled across the South, the forces of liberalism would prevail. Hopeful that economic modernization and education would bring about gradual racial change, Southern moderates were rattled when civil rights protest and federal intervention forced their hand. Most were fatalistic in the face of massive resistance. When the end of segregation became inevitable, it was largely driven by activists and mediated by Republican businessmen. Badger considers the dilemmas liberals faced across the South, arguing that their failure cannot be blamed simply on entrenched racism. Conservative triumph was not inevitable, he argues, before pointing to specific false steps and missed opportunities.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension Author: Hesha Abrams Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Holding the Calm is a practical and immediately useful guide that meticulously lays out twenty concrete, easy-to-use tools for defusing tension, settling cases, resolving disputes, and rechanneling arguments. Conflict can be destructive. Thousands of years of history have shown that human beings have always struggled to resolve disputes calmly and nonviolently. Now our society has less respect for its institutions and authority figures than ever because most people don't know how to lead out of a conflict stalemate. But, says Hesha Abrams, it doesn't have to be this way. Holding the Calm is the ultimate guide to help mediators of all kinds develop workable, immediate conflict management skills to approach workplace issues, lawsuits, marriage disputes, and everyday arguments. It is chock full of tools and techniques designed to facilitate civilized discussions involving drastically opposing viewpoints. The book's short chapters are written in an easy, accessible format to impart rich skills, anecdotes, and lessons that will arm leaders with the best approaches to conflict. This book teaches readers how to pick the right solution for the right situation-like when to turn lemons into lemonade and when to reach for the tequila and salt. Reading group discussion guide available in book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - G/GESCHICHTE - Zwischen Galeere und Harem: Weiße Sklaven - Der Menschenhandel mit Europäern Author: G Geschichte Narrator: Karsten Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Wussten Sie, dass Miguel de Cervantes fünf Jahre lang als Sklave in Nordafrika vegetierte, bevor er seinen weltberühmten Romanhelden Don Quijote gegen Windmühlen kämpfen ließ? Dass er nur einer von rund 3,7 Millionen Europäern war, die in der Neuzeit, also seit 1500, versklavt wurden? Dass weite Küstenabschnitte in Italien menschenleer waren, weil die Bewohner aus Angst vor den Sklavenjägern ihre Dörfer am Meer verließen? Das millionenfache Leid der »weißen Sklaven« – den Begriff prägte der US-Senator und Anti-Sklaverei-Kämpfer Charles Sumner 1847 – ist heute weitgehend vergessen. Dabei zeigt es einmal mehr, was eine Versklavung für die Betroffenen bedeutet und was für ein Horror die Institution Sklaverei ist. Denn für die einzelne Person war es gleich, ob sie aus einem Dorf in Westafrika als Sklave nach Amerika verschleppt wurde oder aus einem Dorf in England nach Nordafrika.-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It Author: Jon Danielsson Narrator: Bruce Mann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk—the peril posed by our own behavior. Jón Daníelsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices. He asserts that the widespread belief that risk originates outside the financial system frustrates our ability to measure and manage it, and the likely consequences of new regulations will help alleviate small-scale risks but, perversely, encourage excessive risk taking. Daníelsson uses lessons from past and recent crises to show that diversity is the best way to safeguard our financial system.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights Author: Valena Beety Narrator: Raechel Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beety's client Leigh Stubbs—a young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbs's harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system. Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety's own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Masculinity: How Incels, Fundamentalists and Authoritarians Mobilise for Patriarchy Author: Susanne Kaiser Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Men with assault rifles, balaclavas, and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos. The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one another only online in the Manosphere. These were men with a common interest, followers of a male-supremacist ideology, who rioted in order to fight for their privilege. Before then, the world had looked on as devastating attacks were carried out by incels: those who seek to gain unfettered access to women's bodies by redrawing the hierarchy of the sexes in order to ensure the subjugation of women. For all of these men, masculinity is a political project, and the events at the Capitol were one episode in a growing movement. From the US and Canada to New Zealand, from Poland to Brazil, right-wing extremists, religious fundamentalists, and male supremacists are coming together in order to translate their reactionary dreams of male domination into politics, underscoring the masculine roots of the authoritarian backlash.