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Title: A Political Theory for the Jewish People

Author: Chaim Gans

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Chaim Gans's A Political Theory for the Jewish People examines the two dominant interpretations of Zionism, contrasts them with post-Zionist alternatives, and develops a third model. Proprietary Zionism, Gans argues, is the version that is most popular among the Israeli Jewish public. It conceives of the land of Israel/historic Palestine as the property of the Jewish people. It also conceives of the entire Jewish people as belonging to Israel. Hierarchical Zionism is common among Israel's educated elites and interprets the Jewish right to self-determination as a right to hegemony within the Israeli state. It remains silent on the relationship between Israeli and non-Israeli Jews. Post-Zionist approaches, conversely, critique the rationale for the continued existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish state. Gans disagrees with these approaches, and in their stead advocates egalitarian Zionism, which is based on an egalitarian interpretation of the right to national self-determination. As such, it interprets the historical link between the Jews and the land of Israel in terms of identity rather than property. Ultimately, the book argues that egalitarian Zionism is superior to its rivals both in the authenticity of its relationship to Jewish history and in its implications for denizens of Israel and Jews around the world.

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Title: [Spanish] - Vida: Mi historia a través de la historia

Author: Papa Francisco

Narrator: Josema Soler, Miguel Coll

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: March 20, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

«No hay que olvidar la lección más importante: podemos releer la historia de nuestra vida para hacer memoria y poder transmitir algo a quien nos escucha. Pero para aprender a vivir, todos tenemos que aprender a amar». Francisco El papa Francisco cuenta por primera vez la historia de su vida a través de los acontecimientos que han marcado a la humanidad en los últimos ochenta años. Unas vivencias inéditas en las que comparte los orígenes de las audaces ideas que han sido testigo de su pontificado: Desde sus valientes declaraciones contra la pobreza, su preocupación por la destrucción del medioambiente hasta la exhortación directa a los líderes mundiales en temas como la lucha contra las desigualdades o la carrera armamentística. Jorge Mario Bergoglio acompaña al lector en un viaje extraordinario que comienza con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en 1939 ―cuando el futuro pontífice tenía casi tres años― hasta nuestros días. En sus páginas la voz del papa se alterna con la de un narrador que en cada capítulo reconstruye el escenario histórico en el que se enmarca. En palabras del pontífice: «Vida ve la luz para que, sobre todo los más jóvenes, puedan escuchar la voz de un anciano y reflexionar sobre lo que ha vivido nuestro planeta, para no repetir los errores del pasado. Pensemos, por ejemplo, en las guerras que azotaron y que azotan el mundo. ¡Pensemos en los genocidios, en las persecuciones, en el odio entre hermanos y hermanas de diferentes religiones! ¡Cuánto dolor! Al llegar a cierta edad es importante, incluso para nosotros mismos, volver a abrir el libro de los recuerdos y hacer memoria, para aprender mirando atrás en el tiempo, para encontrar lo que no es bueno, aquello tóxico que hemos vivido junto a los pecados cometidos, pero también para revivir lo bueno que Dios nos ha enviado. Es un ejercicio de descernimiento que deberíamos hacer todos, ¡antes de que sea demasiado tarde!».

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Title: My Right Hand to Goodness: The Life and Times of Crazy Dale Varnam

Author: Lynn Cook Betz

Narrator: Andrea Gallo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Release date: March 19, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Most wonder how Dale Varnam stayed alive. Dale wonders why.Back in the eighties, the quaint fishing village of Varnamtown, North Carolina—full of zany Southern characters—got rich, and so did town clown Dale Varnam, who perfected his own brand of crazy. Dale rose to the top of the heap in the drug smuggling biz, helping the town’s livelihood of shrimping go to pot. Although it’s not big enough to be on most maps, Varnamtown became the second busiest port of entry for illegal drugs on the Eastern Seaboard.Dale Varnam’s misfit persona contradicts any preconceived notions of an international drug smuggler. His “good ol’ southern redneck persona” belies his past … and oh, what a past! During the 1980s, Dale Varnam was newspaper fodder. He was depicted as a “show-off,” “hot dog,” and “homicidal nut case,” until “armed career criminal” became the headline. The prankster extraordinaire now lives in a junkyard morphing into a grandiose roadside attraction of sorts called Ft. Apache, where a sign reads “A crazy place blessed by God’s Grace.” How did Dale get here from what he was?It took two Dales—not just one. “New Dale” dusts off “Old Dale,” who danced with the devil for over twenty years. Between the Dales were ten years he considers a “vacation.” As an informant, he helped bring more than one hundred and fifty of those involved to grand juries resulting in over eighty indictments.Many in Varnamtown succumbed to smuggling. This story does not leave themout; secrets are replaced by revelations, forgiveness, and healing. Forever changed, these God-fearing southern folks got caught up in crime, then caught, before eventually returning to their lives. The widespread corruption of law enforcement and politicians unfurls its tentacles through Dale’s tales.From courting Manuel Noriega and Pablo Escobar to selling cocaine to Disney characters, from Playboy Bunnies mowing his yard to jungle labs where preserved tongues rested in jars, jaw-dropping events punctuate Dale’s story from beginning to end.

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Title: Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega

Author: John Dinges

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Release date: March 19, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A 'carefully researched' account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post). Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

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Title: [German] - Winston Churchill: Biographie

Author: Franziska Augstein

Narrator: Jutta Seifert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Der Held des 20. Jahrhunderts: Er hat Hitler aufgehalten Unter den herausragenden Politikern des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Churchill der schillerndste. Hollywood hat den Adeligen mit der Zigarre längst zu einer Film- und Heldenfigur überhöht. Seine Sätze, dass er etwa »außer Blut, Schweiß und Tränen« nichts zu bieten habe, sind geflügelte Worte. Churchill gilt als einer der größten Redner der Geschichte, hat seinen aufwendigen Lebensunterhalt als Schriftsteller und Journalist bestritten und wurde mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Er galt in den dreißiger Jahren als politisch erledigt, doch da er unermüdlich vor der Bedrohung durch Deutschland gewarnt hat, wurde er über Nacht Premierminister während deutsche Truppen in Frankreich einmarschierten und war Hitlers härtester Gegner.

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Title: Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals

Author: Danni Brooke

Narrator: Emma Carter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Previously published as The Girl for the Job Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke. For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll on her personal life. In her honest, warm and gripping memoir, Danni also reveals why she left the police, how she found a new career (and love) on Channel 4’s Hunted – and why the thrill of covert work has seen her turn her talents to tracking down cyber criminals. What readers are saying about Danni Brooke's unputdownable life story: 'Absolutely brilliant read. I just love real life stories of police and being written by a female this was great!' 'I've enjoyed a lot of UK undercover/ MI5 audiobooks – and this one is right up there' 'There are only a few good books out there on the subject of undercover policing and this is one of them' 'Loved every minute of this book. Fascinating and gripping stories from her time as an undercover cop in a male dominated environment' 'There are some laugh out loud bits, shocking bits, sad parts and things to think . . . What a thrilling, full life Danni has led and still so young'

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Title: In Harm’s Way: The memoir of a child protection lawyer from the most secretive court in England and Wales – the Family Court

Author: Teresa Thornhill

Narrator: Emma Spurgin Hussey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children? Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court. What's it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care? Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption? In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection – in both its social work and legal aspects – often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children. ‘A vivid account of all the terrible things that can happen to children and all the challenges facing lawyers and social workers in our child protection system which is meant to help and protect them but which struggles to do so. It doesn’t have to be this way so what can be done about it?’ Rt Hon Lady Hale DBE, Formerly President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. ‘Should be required reading for those who care about how society treats our most vulnerable citizens.’ Louise Allen, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘This timely book resonated with my experiences as a children’s social worker and probation officer; it’s a refreshingly honest account of our dysfunctional child protection system.’ Joanna Hughes, former children’s social worker and probation officer.

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Title: Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All

Author: Robert Tsai

Narrator: Kaipo Schwab

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: March 12, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In Demand the Impossible, Robert L. Tsai traces lawyer Stephen Bright's remarkable career to explore the legal ideas that were central to his relentless pursuit of equal justice. For nearly forty years, Bright led the Southern Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit that provided legal aid to incarcerated people and worked to improve conditions within the justice system. He argued four capital cases before the US Supreme Court—and won each one, despite facing an increasingly hostile bench. With each victory, he brought to light how the law itself had become corrupted by the country's thirst for severe punishment, exposing prosecutorial misconduct, continuing racial inequality, inadequate safeguards for people with intellectual disabilities, and the shameful quality of legal representation for the poor. Organized around these four major Supreme Court cases, each narrated in vivid and dramatic detail, Tsai's essential account explores the racism built into the criminal justice system and the incredible advancements one lawyer and his committed allies made for equal rights. An electrifying work of legal history, Demand the Impossible reveals how change can be won in even the most challenging times and how seemingly small victories can go on to have outsized effects.

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Title: Royal Audience: The Queen and US Presidents

Author: David Charter

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden—that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of. A fascinating, in-depth look at international relations and interpersonal intrigue, Royal Audience peels back the curtain on the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. as embodied by the Queen herself—charting Elizabeth II's distinctive brand of one-to-one diplomacy through the eyes of those who experienced it firsthand. From horse-riding with Ronald Reagan, to sharing her recipe for scones with Dwight D. Eisenhower, to striking up a kinship with the Bushes and the Obamas, the Queen's interactions with her U.S. counterparts often acted as a restorative tonic for relations between two nations, even when political tensions ran high. Not all royal encounters with U.S. presidents went smoothly, though. Between Jackie Kennedy's complaints about Elizabeth and the Queen Mother's shock at being kissed on the lips by Jimmy Carter, there was never a dull moment. Throughout the years, Queen Elizabeth II's sense of duty and service remained steadfast, and her iconic legacy is unlikely to be repeated.

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Title: The Unconventional Nancy Ruth

Series: Part of A Feminist History Society Book

Author: Dr. Ramona Lumpkin

Narrator: Margaret Lamarre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Born into the prominent Jackman family, Nancy Ruth forged her own unique journey as a philanthropist, feminist politician, and activist. Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. From her religious ministry to rewriting Canada’s national anthem to make it gender-neutral, this outspoken, complicated woman has put her stamp on Canada’s public life. Her generous feminist philanthropy allowed numerous women’s organizations to flourish, and her talents for friendship and for controversy meant the work was serious but never dull. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives in Canada.