Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction Author: Gregory Claeys Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System of Logic (1843) and the Principles of Political Economy (1848). Today Mill is chiefly identified with On Liberty (1859), perhaps the definitive text of modern liberal statement of its subject, and probably the single most important work of modern political thought. Mill was also the first major male feminist thinker of the period (author of The Subjection of Women, 1869), and the first, as an MP, to introduce a bill for female enfranchisement before Parliament. This Very Short Introduction offers a brief survey of the life and key ideas of this most influential Victorian British writer. Moving chronologically, Gregory Claeys outlines the philosophical background out of which Mill developed, chiefly through the ideas of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. He demonstrates how Mill's personal life, especially his 'mental crisis' of 1827, and his relationship with Harriet Taylor, were integral to his intellectual development. Throughout Claeys considers Mill's key works set within the context of his lesser writings and correspondence, and discusses the more controversial aspects of his thought concerning religion, secularism, and birth control.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Power: How Local Parties Shape Elections Author: Michael G. Miller, Conor M. Dowling, David Doherty Narrator: Joe Hempel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An insider's look into the largely anonymous volunteers in local party organizations who make decisions in elections with profound implications for American democracy. Although scholars have long recognized that local American parties play an important role in elections, surprisingly little is known about the individuals who lead these typically small, volunteer-based organizations. As David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller show in Small Power, local party leaders influence the electoral process in myriad ways: They recruit and support candidates, interface with state-wide and federal campaigns, and get out the vote in their communities. Drawing from a survey of over 850 Democratic and Republican local party chairs, a nationally representative sample of voters, and dozens of in-depth interviews, the authors describe how parties are organized, who party chairs are, and how they serve the party. Leveraging novel experiments that illuminate how chairs make choices about which individuals to recruit as candidates—as well as whether those choices reflect voters' preferences—Small Power sheds new light on how seemingly mundane local decisions can shape party goals, influence candidate pipelines, and affect who ends up winning elections.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders Author: Ari Rabin-Havt Narrator: Peter Berkrot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The man behind the enigmatic progressive icon—an unparalleled and intimate account of Bernie Sanders from one of his most trusted confidants. Bernie Sanders inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect—yet, curiously, we know little about who the man really is, with Sanders deliberately keeping the focus on his policies. Now, with The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt takes us where no profiles or televised interview have been able to go. As a close advisor and deputy campaign manager on Sanders's most recent—and likely last—presidential campaign, the tireless Rabin-Havt spent more hours between 2017 and 2020 with the Vermont senator than anyone else. Traveling the country for rallies and to support striking workers, the two visited thirty-six states, drove tens of thousands of miles, and ate in countless chain restaurants. One result was a meteoric and galvanizing presidential campaign. Another is The Fighting Soul, an unforgettable chronicle of life on the road with Sanders and the first in-depth portrait of this fiercely independent, and famously private, left-wing firebrand.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? Author: Morvan Lallouet, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Ben Noble Narrator: Rob Heaps Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport control set the stage for an explosive showdown with Vladimir Putin. But Navalny means very different things to different people. To some, he is a democratic hero. To others, he is betraying the Motherland. To others still, he is a dangerous nationalist. Navalny explores the many dimensions of his political life, from his pioneering anti-corruption investigations to his ideas and leadership of a political movement. It also looks at how his activities and the Kremlin's strategies have shaped one another. Navalny makes sense of this divisive character, revealing the contradictions of a man who is the second most important political figure in Russia—even when behind bars. In order to understand modern Russia, you need to understand Alexei Navalny.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Majority Minority Author: Justin Gest Narrator: Clark Cornell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about largescale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of individual people's reactions, which tend to be instinctively defensive and intolerant. To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Justin Gest looks to the past. In Majority Minority, Gest wields historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors produce different social outcomes. Gest concludes that states hold great power to shape public responses and perceptions of demographic change through political institutions and the rhetoric of leaders. Through subsequent survey research, Gest also identifies novel ways that leaders can leverage nationalist sentiment to reduce the appeal of nativism—by framing immigration and demographic change in terms of the national interest.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Rauchentwöhnung mit Hypnose & Visualisierung: In wenigen Minuten zum Nichtraucher Author: Norman Wiehe Narrator: Norman Wiehe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 22, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Rauchentwöhnung mit Hypnose & Visualisierung. In nur wenigen Minuten wirst auch Du zum Nichtraucher, wenn Du willst. Die Methode ist wissenschaftlich erwiesen und hat sich hundertfach bewährt. Denn Rauchen ist eine schlechte Angewohnheit, die sich nicht einfach vergessen oder unterdrücken lässt. Eine Gewohnheit muss man auflösen oder verändern. Hier erweist sich die Hypnose als die effektivste Methode. Sie wirkt schnell, sicher und kommt ohne Nebenwirkungen aus. Mit diesem Hörbuch, erhältst Du eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung und geführte Übungen, um Nichtraucher zu werden. Wenn Du mit dem Rauchen aufhören willst und sie aufmerksam anwendest, wirst Du mit ihr Erfolg haben. Das menschliche Gehirn lernt durch Wiederholung. Wende die geführten Übungen so oft an, bis Dein Rauchverlangen komplett verschwunden ist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare Author: David L. Sloss Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare. Tyrants on Twitter is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to subvert the liberal international order. In addition to examining the 2016 US election, David L. Sloss explores Russia's use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe, as well as China's use of social media and other digital tools to meddle in Western democracies and buttress autocratic rulers around the world. Sloss calls for cooperation among democratic governments to create a new transnational system for regulating social media to protect Western democracies from information warfare. Drawing on his professional experience as an arms control negotiator, he outlines a novel system of transnational governance that Western democracies can enforce by harmonizing their domestic regulations. And drawing on his academic expertise in constitutional law, he explains why that system—if implemented by legislation in the United States—would be constitutionally defensible, despite likely First Amendment objections. With its critical examination of information warfare and its proposal for practical legislative solutions to fight back, this is a must-listen in a time when disinformation campaigns threaten to undermine democracy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World Author: Eliza Reid Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone? Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women—the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Reid's own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become a first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar ('extraordinary women') to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as 'equal' than we may understand.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide Author: Pamela Cooper-White Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How do we overcome polarization in American society? How do we advocate for justice when one side won't listen to the other and cycles of outrage escalate? These questions have been pressing for years, but the emergence of a vocal, virulent Christian nationalism have made it even more urgent that we find a way forward. In three brief, incisive chapters Pamela Cooper-White uncovers the troubling extent of Christian nationalism, explores its deep psychological roots, and discusses ways in which advocates for justice can safely and effectively attempt to talk across the deep divides in our society.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy Author: Dmitry Adamsky Narrator: Noah Michael Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia. From portable churches to the consecration of weapons systems, the Russian Orthodox Church has been integrated into every facet of the armed forces to become a vital part of Russian national security, politics, and identity. This extraordinary intertwining of church and military is nowhere more visible than in the nuclear weapons community, where the priesthood has penetrated all levels of command and the Church has positioned itself as a guardian of the state's nuclear potential. Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy considers how, since the Soviet collapse in 1991, the Church has worked its way into the nuclear forces, the most significant wing of one of the world's most powerful military organizations. Dmitry Adamsky describes how the Orthodox faith has merged with Russian national identity as the Church continues to expand its influence on foreign and domestic politics. The Church both legitimizes and influences Moscow's assertive national security strategy in the twenty-first century. This book sheds light on the role of faith in modern militaries and highlights the implications of this phenomenon for international security. Ultimately, Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy interrogates the implications of the confluence of religion and security for other members of the nuclear club, beyond Russia.