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Title: [German] - Am Ende der gewohnten Ordnung - Warum wir Macht neu denken müssen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Sophie Pornschlegel

Narrator: Verena Wolfien

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Wer die Welt gestalten will, muss über Macht sprechen: Aufruf für ein neues Politikverständnis. Klima-Krise, Krieg, Rechtspopulismus - es ist anstrengend geworden, sich mit Politik zu beschäftigen. Die politischen Herausforderungen auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene sind so zahlreich, dass konstruktive Lösungen aus dem Blick geraten. Denn auf die Aggressionen Russlands und Chinas findet der Westen keine langfristigen Antworten, die Klima-Krise verschärft sich, und die alte internationale Ordnung insgesamt weist immer mehr Risse auf. Um Lösungen für die multiplen Krisen zu finden, so Politikwissenschaftlerin Sophie Pornschlegel, braucht es vor allen anderen Dingen eines: ein neues Verständnis von Macht. Nur mit klarem Blick dafür, was Macht ist, was sie leistet, wer sie hat, und wann sie gefährlich wird, kann die Zukunft gestaltet werden. Mut zur Gestaltung erfordert Macht - aber wieso tut Deutschland sich so schwer, über Macht zu sprechen?Warum treten Rechtspopulisten auf als 'starke Männer', denen die Verteidiger*innen der liberalen Ordnung scheinbar machtlos ausgesetzt sind?Wie können demokratisch legitimierte Staaten autokratischen Regimen machtvoll gegenübertreten, ohne sich selbst zu verleugnen? Um die Schwächen der derzeitigen Macht-Strukturen anzugehen, bedarf es eines radikalen Umdenkens, so Pornschlegel, die als politische Analystin in Brüssel seit Jahren eine gefragte Expertin zum Thema internationale Ordnungen und Macht-Politik ist. Sie analysiert, wie wir in Deutschland, Europa und global zu einem demokratischeren Macht-Verständnis gelangen, das Handlungsoptionen offenhält. Denn nur mit einem neuen Blick auf politische und gesellschaftliche Macht können wir die Probleme der nächsten Jahrzehnte lösen. Und ein demokratisches Gemeinwesen verteidigen, das Menschlichkeit und Respekt in den Mittelpunkt rückt.

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Title: [Spanish] - Salvador Allende. La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular: La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular

Author: Daniel Mansuy

Narrator: Axel Cornelli

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década de 1970 hasta la actualidad. En su último libro, el filósofo y ensayista chileno Daniel Mansuy lleva a cabo un profundo análisis del legado político de Salvador Allende durante los mil días del gobierno de la Unidad Popular. A través de un pormenorizado análisis histórico, el autor explora las disyuntivas políticas y culturales que enfrentó Allende durante su gobierno, y cómo estos problemas desembocaron en la mañana del martes 11 de septiembre de 1973. Además, ofrece una perspectiva reflexiva sobre su legado -simbólicamente situado en el último discurso difundido por Radio Magallanes- y los desafíos que enfrentaron los partidos de izquierda desde el golpe de Estado, durante el proceso de renovación socialista y sobre todo a partir de la transición a la democracia hasta la actualidad para asimilarlo y hacerlo suyo, ofreciendo así un análisis profundo y esclarecedor sobre la compleja historia de la izquierda chilena contemporánea.

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Title: The Isolated Presidency

Author: Jordan T. Cash

Narrator: Joshua Saxon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

How powerful is the President of the United States? For many scholars, this is a question that can be answered only by considering factors outside the office itself, such as the president's popularity, personal clout, political talents, or institutional relationships. In The Isolated Presidency, Jordan T. Cash reframes this question to instead ask what authority is available to all presidents. Drawing on the Constitution itself, Cash argues that the presidency possesses an internal logic derived from its structure, duties, and powers which not only grants the president a unique institutional perspective, but also provides the president with considerable agency and discretion in pursuing agendas. To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Cash examines the 'isolated presidents'—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Stripped of all external supports, these presidents were left with nothing but their constitutional authority to rely on. Through three case studies of isolated presidents, Cash illustrates how the Constitution creates an empowering logic within the presidency which orients presidential behavior and grants every president significant power and agency.

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Title: [Spanish] - Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo II: La ambición 1867-1884

Author: Carlos Tello Díaz

Narrator: Miguel ángel álvarez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 32 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Uno de los personajes más fascinantes en la historia de México. Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo es la biografía definitiva sobre esta figura indiscutible de nuestra historia. Sin redimir ni satanizar, este libro es el mayor esfuerzo por contar las cosas como en realidad sucedieron. Al triunfar la República contra la Intervención y el Imperio, los liberales conquistaron el poder en México, pero fueron consumidos por la discordia, divididos con respecto de la reelección del presidente Juárez. Unos estaban a favor; otros estaban en contra. Los que estaban en contra postularon la candidatura de Porfirio Díaz, el general más popular del Ejército de la República, hasta entonces amigo y aliado de don Benito. Así comienzala historia que cuenta La ambición (1867-1884), continuación de La guerra (1830-1867), obra galardonada con el Premio Mazatlán de Literatura. El libro relata los años trágicos de Porfirio en la finca de La Noria; el fracaso de su rebelión contra Juárez; su paso por La Habana, Nueva York y San Francisco; las vicisitudes que vivió hasta triunfar en la revolución que lo llevó a la Presidencia. Narra con detalle la defensa que hizo de la patria frente a la amenaza de guerra con los Estados Unidos y rescata, también,el telegrama en clave donde ordenó reprimir la rebelión de Veracruz, que pasó a la historia con la frase Mátalos en caliente. Esta biografía retrata al rebelde y al estadista, pero también al hombre. Privilegia la voz de los protagonistas de los hechos, que escuchamosa través de sus cartas, sus diarios y sus testimonios, rescatados de los archivos por el historiador Carlos Tello Díaz.

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Title: [German] - Auf eine Currywurst mit Gregor Gysi (Gekürzt)

Author: Hans-Dieter Schütt, Gregor Gysi

Narrator: Hans-Dieter Schütt, Gregor Gysi

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Gregor Gysi - so offen und persönlich wie noch nie Gregor Gysi, Legende der Linkspartei und alternativer Elder Statesman, wird auf seinen Lesereisen seit Jahren von Hans-Dieter Schütt begleitet. So kam es zu den Gesprächen am Imbissstand, die in diesem Buch versammelt sind: Gysi in seinem Element, schlagfertig, pointiert, lebensklug. Über Wodka, Fußball und Ostdeutschland, über die Letzte Generation und die erste deutsche Kanzlerin, über die Medien, Sinnlichkeit und Gott. Gysi on tour durchs Leben - wie es ist, wie es sein sollte und wie wir es verändern könnten.

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Title: Tough Guys in the Room

Author: Howard Jackson

Narrator: Tom Fria

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

‘WEAK IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO REMEMBER ABOUT ME.’ Al Capone. Back then, hot headed gangsters, not so gentle dames and bullet riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not so fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In TOUGH GUYS IN THE ROOM, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events. The crimes and conflict are remembered, and the context that shaped those events and protagonists is explained. The police and the law abiding that made a doomed attempt to impose Prohibition also make an appearance. TOUGH GUYS IN THE ROOM offers a detached and impartial perspective on what happened between the Chicago gangs of the 1920s. There are also some surprises. TOUGH GUYS IN THE ROOM is a must for fans of gangsterdom. This account of what happened in Chicago is kept simple but that does not prevent author Howard Jackson from taking an independent line on the St Valentine’s Day massacre and the character of Al Capone.

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Title: [Portuguese] - Joe Biden: A vida, as ideias e os desafios do presidente da nação mais poderosa do mundo

Author: Evan Osnos

Narrator: Sidney Ferreira

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Release date: September 11, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Esta biografia é um exame conciso, brilhante e contundente da bem-sucedida busca de Joe Biden, ao longo de uma vida inteira, pela presidência dos Estados Unidos. Aqui, o premiado jornalista Evan Osnos revela o papel do político como vice-presidente de Barack Obama, detalha a difícil decisão de se lançar candidato no pleito de 2020 e os bastidores da luta pela nomeação do Partido Democrata e da disputa contra Donald Trump pela Casa Branca. Com amplo acesso a Biden e munido de conversas reveladoras com mais de cem entrevistados — entre eles o ex-presidente Barack Obama, adversários e familiares do político —, Osnos revela também os problemas que atormentaram Biden e os desafios que enfrentará ao assumir as rédeas de uma nação extremamente polarizada e vitimada pela Covid-19. Também nos mostra como o presidente eleito pode ser o homem certo para a missão, com sua humanidade, sua longa experiência política, suas conexões e, principalmente, sua autenticidade. Esta edição conta com o prefácio do jornalista Marcelo Lins.

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Title: Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

Author: Tamara Leitner

Narrator: Tamara Leitner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award–winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons. In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims—more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began. She needed to question a failed system. She needed to know the women whose lives were irrevocably altered. And she needed to face the root of her obsession with Hull and his crimes. In interviewing, befriending, and profoundly connecting with Hull’s survivors, Tamara crafts a unique true-crime narrative. It not only reveals the struggles of the justice system to help victims of sexual violence but explores how these resilient women—and Tamara herself—strove to reclaim their power in the wake of indelible trauma.

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Title: [Italian] - Canapa. Una storia incredibile

Author: Matteo Gracis

Narrator: Omar Maestroni

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Una pianta che da migliaia di anni fa parte della vita degli umani, ma che da circa novant'anni è diventata oggetto delle attenzioni di quasi tutte le forze di polizia del mondo, un'icona del male nell'immaginario collettivo. Un ragazzo che incontra quella pianta, e suoi prodotti, quando sono avvolti di quell'aura illecita che attrae e respinge, ma che non, sempre fa riflettere. Due storie che si intrecciano, perché mentre il ragazzo cresce e cresce la sua consapevolezza, insieme si sviluppa anche la curiosità sul perché di quei divieti, sul motivo per cui quella pianta è bandita dall'agricoltura, dall'industria, dalla farmacopea; luoghi in cui aveva dimorato per secoli. Così l'autore, parallelamente al suo percorso che lo ha portato prima a fondare un sito con l'obbiettivo di stimolare la discussione verso politiche di liberalizzazione della pianta, e poi a creare e dirigere Dolce Vita, la più importante rivista italiana nel settore degli 'stili di vita alternativi', ci racconta la tormentata vicenda del più controverso vegetale nella storia della nostra civiltà, cercando nuove domande e ottenendo alcune significative risposte. Questa nuova edizione 2023 contiene due nuovi capitoli.

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Title: [German] - Kulturstadtbanause: Die Geschichte von Unterdrückung, Hoffnung und Freiheit

Author: Steffen Andritzke

Narrator: Steffen Andritzke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Release date: October 15, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Diese Autobiographie ist eine Erinnerung an den Alltag in der DDR, an das Leben in Weimar in der Vorwendezeit und an die vielen Erlebnisse und Drangsalierungen im real existierenden Sozialismus durch die Stasi und den totalitären SED – Staat. Außerdem schloss sich der Autor Hooligan Gruppen in Ost- und später dann in Westdeuschland an und konsumierte harte Drogen wie Kokain und LSD. Andritzkes Rückblick ist eine bittere Anklage gegen alle Regime dieser Welt und ein laut schallender Lobgesang auf die Freiheit. Nicht zuletzt ist das Buch Motivation für alle, deren Leben in krummen Bahnen verlaufen ist: Für einen Neustart ist es nie zu spät.