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Title: A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA

Author: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Narrator: Roger Clark

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The mission of the CIA has always been intelligence. Seventy-five years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of United States foreign relations. That standing diminished when successive American presidents ordered the CIA to exceed its original mission. When they tasked the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments, the United States lost its international standing, and its command of a majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious operations, even the government's embrace of assassination and torture, did not diminish the standing of the CIA in United States public opinion. However, domestic interventions did. CIA spying on domestic protesters led to tighter congressional oversight from the 1970s on. A Question of Standing offers a balanced narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CIA's history. Famous incidents include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the War on Terror, 9/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception, the Iran estimate of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and Fake News. The book also defends the CIA's exposure of foreign meddling in United States elections.

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Title: The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

Author: Father Patrick Desbois

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of World War II's bloodiest chapters. Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. '[T]his modest Roman Catholic priest from Paris, without using much more than his calm voice and Roman collar, has shattered the silence surrounding a largely untold chapter of the Holocaust.' —The Chicago Tribune

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Title: [Spanish] - La comida en la historia argentina

Author: Daniel Balmaceda

Narrator: Nicolás Ginesin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Release date: March 16, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Desconocidas e insólitas historias sobre el origen de la comida en la Argentina. La comida en la historia argentina revisa mitos y leyendas en torno al origen de gran variedad de alimentos, desde las empanadas y las hamburguesas hasta el chivito y el locro, pasando por todo tipo de postres, tortas y otros manjares dulces. Rescata las historias de algunos restoranes emblemáticos y de pioneros como Noel, Magnasco, Saint o Fort, con jugosas anécdotas que vinculan a personalidades de nuestra historia con la comida. Y, además, propone recetas 'históricas' en casi todos los capítulos. A fines del siglo XIX, los dueños de los bares enviaban a sus empleados a juntar granizo para refrescar las bebidas. Cuando Sarmiento intentó incorporar verduras a la dieta diaria, se burlaron de él y lo llamaron 'come pasto'. El postre preferido de Borges era el queso y dulce. No es cierto que el edecán de Julio Roca haya creado el famoso revuelto Gramajo: Félix Luna imaginó la historia al servicio de la ficción. La cuna del dulce de leche pudo haber sido Asia, en vez de la Argentina. A comienzos del siglo XX, los obreros de la construcción almorzaban puchero en medio de la obra. En su primera presentación, a Petrona C. de Gandulfo se le cortó la mayonesa cinco veces. El choripán tal como lo conocemos hoy nació en Córdoba. El pancho arribó a la Argentina desde Francia, no de los Estados Unidos. ¿Y los postres? ¿San Martín tomaba helado?

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Title: 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

Author: Aaron W. Hughes

Narrator: Tyler Hyrchuk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit Series, the patriation of the Constitution, the Multiculturalism Act, the École Polytechnique Massacre, victories for gay rights, Quebec’s second referendum on secession, The Tragically Hip’s farewell concert, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and ongoing Black equality struggles. Each day represents a window on contemporary Canada, jumpstarting reflection and conversation about who we are as a nation and how we got here. 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada is the perfect guide for all those curious about the forces that shape our country and about how we understand our place in the world.

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Title: The American Nation: A History, Vol. 14: Rise of the New West, 1819–1829

Series: #14 of The American Nation Series

Author: Frederick Jackson Turner

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Rise of the New West 1819–1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner, PhD Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin. Narrated by Joseph Tabler. Volume 14 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. In the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Fourteen: To describe such a movement and its effects. Professor Turner has the advantage to be a descendant of New Yorkers, of New England stock, but native to the west, and living alongside the most complete collection of materials upon the west which has ever been brought together—the Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The aim of the volume is not to show the Rise of the New West as though it were a separate story, but to show how the nation found itself in the midst of questions involving the west, and how all parts of the Union were enriched and stimulated by the appearance of a new section. It opens up new vistas of historical study. From the Author’s Preface: In the present volume I have kept before myself the importance of regarding American development as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces. To make plain the attitude and influence of New England, the middle region, the south, and the west, and of the public men who reflected the changing conditions of those sections in the period under consideration, has been my principal purpose. The limits of the volume have prevented the elaboration of some points well worthy of fuller treatment; and, by the plan of the series, certain aspects of the period have been reserved for other writers. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. Nationalism and Sectionalism (1815–1830)II. New England (1820–1830)III. The Middle Region (1820–1830)IV. The South (1820–1830)V. Colonization of the West (1820–1830)VI. Social and Economic Development of theWest (1820–1830)VII. Western Commerce and Ideals (1820–1830)VIII. The Far West (1820–1830)IX. The Crisis of 1819 and Its Results (1819–1820)X. The Missouri Compromise (1819–1821)XI. Party Politics (1820–1822)XII. The Monroe Doctrine (1821–1823)XIII. Internal Improvements (1818–1824)XIV. The Tariff of 1824 (1820–1824)XV. The Election of 1824 (1822–1825)XVI. President Adams and the Opposition (1825–1827)XVII. Internal Improvements and Foreign Trade (1825–1829)XVIII. Reaction Towards State Sovereignty (1816–1829)XIX. The Tariff of Abominations and the South Carolina Exposition (1827–1828) Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available for the first time in this format for your pleasure and consideration.

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Title: Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge

Author: Dina Porat

Narrator: Julia Farhat

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for “vengeance”) tells the story of “the Avengers” (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity. Had they been successful, they would have poisoned city water supplies and loaves of bread distributed to German POWs, with the aim of killing six million Germans. Kovner and his followers went to great lengths to carry out their plans, going so far as to obtain the schematics for Nuremberg’s municipal water system, secure large quantities of poison, infiltrate a POW camp and the bakery that supplied it, and distribute poisoned bread to prisoners―but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where for decades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group. While the Avengers’ story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution.

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Title: How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Author: Regan Penaluna

Narrator: Angie Kane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities, as well as the culture surrounding it, would slowly grind her down through its misogyny, its harassment, its devaluation of women and their intellect. Where were the women philosophers? One day, Penaluna came across Damaris Cudworth Masham’s name. The daughter of philosopher Ralph Cudworth and a contemporary of John Locke, Masham wrote about knowledge and God, and the condition of women. Masham’s work led Penaluna to other women philosophers: Mary Astell, who made a living writing philosophy; Catharine Cockburn, a philosopher, novelist, and playwright; and the better-known Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote extensively in defense of women’s minds. Together, these women rekindled Penaluna’s love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness. In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of these four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.

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Title: [German] - Aufbruch im Licht der Sterne: Wie Tupaia, Maheine und Mai Captain Cook den Weg durch die Südsee erschlossen

Author: Frank Vorpahl

Narrator: Gordon Piedesack

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Release date: March 9, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Ohne sie wäre kein Europäer lebend zurückgekommen: Tupaia, Maheine, Mai – die Indigenen, die James Cooks Entdeckungen in der Südsee erst möglich machten. James Cook gilt als bedeutendster Entdecker nach Kolumbus. Freilich: Ohne Tupaia, Maheine und Mai wären seine Reisen unmöglich gewesen. Sie führten Cook in die Welt der Südsee ein, bewahrten seine Schiffe vor gefährlichen Korallenriffen und ersparten es ihm, in Neuseeland von den Maori als Eindringling massakriert zu werden. Tupaia, Meisternavigator, Hohepriester und Chefberater der Herrscher Tahitis erstellte eine Seekarte mit mehr als 70 unbekannten Inseln, das erste schriftliche Dokument, das das ungeheure nautische Wissen polynesischer Seefahrer belegt, die auf ihren Übersee-Kanus den Pazifik schon Jahrtausende vor den Europäern befuhren. Kam er in Cooks Beschreibungen etwa nur deshalb kaum vor, weil er an Bord an Skorbut erkrankte und bald darauf starb – Cook aber als der Kapitän in die Seefahrtsgeschichte eingehen wollte, der »keinen einzigen Mann an den Scharbock verloren« hatte? Maheine ermöglichte es Cooks Expedition bei der zweiten Reise, drei Jahre durchzuhalten und Zugang zu wichtigen Kultgegenständen zu bekommen. Mai kam als Einziger bis nach London mit und erlangte dort bizarren Ruhm als »wilder Südseeprinz«. Alle drei hatten Gründe, bei den Engländern mitzusegeln, von denen diese nichts ahnten. Wo findet sich eine angemessene Würdigung der drei?

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Title: The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis

Author: Seamus O'mahony

Narrator: Seamus O'mahony

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Release date: March 9, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent disciple. Clever, self-confident and intensely ambitious, Jones promoted psychoanalysis as a kind of secular religion. Meanwhile, his intimate friend Wilfred Trotter - a celebrated surgeon who saved the life of George V, and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile - refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism. A quintessentially English figure, Trotter was unimpressed by slick medical careerists, distrusted grand theories and lacked pomposity and self-regard. From the first psychoanalytic congress in Salzburg in 1908 to the illness of King George in the late 1920s and the meeting of Freud and Trotter in 1939, Seamus O'Mahony tells the story of these three figures and their intertwined lives with his customary wit and erudition. Not only the story of the development of psychoanalysis, this is a book about the sexual obsessions of intellectual and bohemian circles in London, Cambridge and Vienna, of Bloomsbury, of doctors in pursuit of wealth and fame. It covers a pivotal thirty years in European history, and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential.

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Title: [Spanish] - La plata, la espada y la piedra: Tres pilares cruciales en la historia de América Latina

Author: Marie Arana

Narrator: Malena Rospigliosi Bonilla

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Una lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad. «Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y Marie Arana lo hace con precisión académica, rigor moral y elegancia de estilo. Para cualquiera que esté interesado en entender —entender de verdad— qué es América Latina y de dónde viene, La plata, la espada y la piedra tiene que ser el primer paso». Juan Gabriel Vásquez Marie Arana, en un ejercicio por comprender el origen de las heridas aún abiertas de América Latina, entreteje con maestría las biografías de tres latinoamericanos contemporáneos con mil años de vívida historia. Sus vidas representan las tres fuerzas motrices que han moldeado, desde hace siglos, el carácter de una región: la explotación, la violencia y la religión. Así pues, conocemos a Leonor Gonzáles, una minera que vive en una pequeña comunidad situada a cinco mil metros de altitud en la cordillera andina del Perú y que, como sus antepasados desde tiempos inmemoriales, trabaja escarbando las entrañas de la tierra para extraer pepitas de oro. A su alrededor, el analfabetismo, la desnutrición y las enfermedades reinan como hace quinientos años. Y ahora, al igual que entonces, la supervivencia de su gente depende de un vasto mercado mundial cuyas fluctuaciones se controlan en lugares remotos. A Carlos Buergos, un cubano que luchó en la guerra civil de Angola y que ahora vive en una tranquila comunidad a las afueras de Nueva Orleans. Carlos fue uno de los cientos de delincuentes que Cuba expulsó a Estados Unidos en 1980. Su historia es un eco de la violencia que ha atravesado Latinoamérica desde la época precolombina hasta la actual lucha contra el narcotráfico. Por último, a Xavier Albó, un sacerdote jesuita de Barcelona que emigró a Bolivia. Xavier se considera indio de cabeza y corazón y, por ello, es muy conocido en su país de adopción. Y aunque su objetivo se encuentra en las antípodas del proselitismo, es heredero de un pasado accidentado en el que los sacerdotes marcharon junto a los conquistadores con la misión de evangelizar el Nuevo Mundo. Desde entonces, la Iglesia católica ha desempeñado un papel central en la vida política de América Latina. El resultado, en una perfecta combinación entre el ensayo histórico, el reportaje y el análisis político, es el retrato vibrante de un continente cuya identidad ha sido siempre compleja. La crítica ha dicho: «La plata, la espada y la piedra, como bien señala Arana, no es una historia completa ni definitiva de América Latina. Tampoco es una crónica periodística. Es más bien un híbrido, que combina la erudición del análisis histórico con la profundidad del buen reportaje y una aguda comprensión del contexto político [...] una voz informada y autorizada que merece ser ampliamente escucha». Álvaro Enrigue «[Una] historia impresionantemente concisa y a la vez exhaustiva. Una obra profundamente conmovedora y relevante que proporciona nuevas líneas de reflexión». Kirkus Reviews «Una historia de América Latina de gran alcance [...]. Tan cautivadora como exhaustiva [...] Una maravilla». Publishers Weekly