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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity Author: Robert Chao Romero Narrator: Andre Bellido Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new. For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American dictatorships, US imperialism in Central America, the oppression of farmworkers, or the current exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Christianity has played a significant role in that movement at every stage. Robert Chao Romero, the son of a Mexican father and a Chinese immigrant mother, explores the history and theology of what he terms the 'Brown Church.' Romero considers how this movement has responded to these and other injustices throughout its history by appealing to the belief that God's vision for redemption includes not only heavenly promises but also the transformation of every aspect of our lives and the world. Walking through this history of activism and faith, listeners will discover that Latina/o Christians have a heart after God's own.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America Author: Beth Hoffman Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late forties, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. The couple also must balance the books, hoping that farming isn't a romantic fantasy that takes every cent of their savings. Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Political Parties: Why They Formed, How They Function, and Where They're Headed Author: John Kenneth White, Matthew R. Kerbel Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed—often vehemently—over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable form of governance. While Hamilton wanted to marry freedom to a strong, active federal government with an energetic president who would act on behalf of all citizens, Jefferson believed that freedom should be allied to local civic virtue, with governmental responsibilities placed primarily at the local level. Today, Hamiltonian nationalism finds its home in the Democratic Party, while Republicans have espoused Jeffersonian localism since 1964. Using this historical framework, American Political Parties examines a range of topics including marketing and social media, campaign finance, reforms in the presidential nominating process, political demography, and third parties. In this new edition, the authors describe four possible futures in the wake of the 2020 election and why Americans believed it was 'the most important' election in their lifetimes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know Author: Erica Chenoweth Narrator: Erica Chenoweth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. It was been a central form of resistance in the 1989 revolutions and in the Arab Spring, and it is now being practiced widely in Trump's America. If we are going to understand the manifold protest movements emerging around the globe, we need a thorough understanding of civil resistance and its many dynamics and manifestations. In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Chenoweth—one of the world's leading scholars on the topic—explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings and various ongoing movements in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive yet pithy overview of this enormously important subject.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism Author: Joseph Darda Narrator: Andrew Joseph Perez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal 'frontlash,' from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism Author: Murray Bookchin Narrator: James R. Cheatham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, these essays take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions Author: Michael Savage Narrator: Vince Wallace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder- Michael Savage has the cure. With grit, guts, and gusto, talk radio sensation Michael Savage leaves no political turn unstoned as he savages today's most rabid liberalism. In this paperback edition of his third New York Times bestseller, Savage strikes at the root of today's most pressing issues, including: Homeland security: 'We need more Patton and less patent leather . . . Real homeland security begins when we arrest, interrogate, jail, or deport known operatives within our own borders . . . One dirty bomb can ruin your whole day.' Illegal immigration: 'I envision an Oil for Illegals program . . . The president should demand one barrel of oil from Mexico for every illegal that sneaks into our country.' Lawsuit abuse: 'Lawyers are like red wine. Everything in moderation. Today we have far too many lawyers, and we're suffering from cirrhosis of the economy.' 'Pure Savage. Very effective, very timely, very hot.' American Compass Book Club An accompanying table and appendix are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny and On Ukraine: Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original On Tyranny, read by the author. In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Timothy Snyder combines the original On Tyranny (2017) - twenty lessons on how history can instruct our response to the rise of tyranny around the world today - with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia's war on Ukraine. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy around the world. Linking past and present, and speaking only from notes, Snyder delivers an important call to arms and roadmap for resistance, providing invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. This is the long view we all need, given to us right now by a leading expert. 'Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings' Masha Gessen, about On Tyranny © Timothy Snyder 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - KO Auswitchz Author: José Ignacio Pérez Narrator: Miguel Coll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: La sobrecogedora historia real de los presos que tuvieron que boxear para sobrevivir en el infierno nazi; en el mayor matadero de inocentes jamás conocido... Auschwitz. Cuentan que allí, al otro lado, detrás de la alambrada, justo ahí donde el hombre nunca fue hombre, sino bestia, una vez un nazi preguntó: ¿Quién sabe boxear? Unos dijeron que sí y otros dijeron que no; pero ya fuera sí o no... Allí no era vivir, sino morir. Cuentan que allí, donde el hombre por no tener no tenía ni nombre, sólo era número, triángulo o estrella y un color, un SS aburrido, cansado de matar, buscaba diversión; un rato de asueto para distraer el sopor de asesinar. Y entonces volvió a preguntar: ¿Quién sabe boxear? Y cuentan que allí, detrás de la alambrada, donde los presos no eran presos, sino carne de cañón; seres humanos, más de un millón, todos asesinados y convertidos en humo, ceniza y carbón; unos hombres buenos subieron al ring por obligación, para entretener al maldito SS que buscaba diversión. Y quizá esa fue su salvación, porque allí, entre mugre, hambruna, enfermedad y mucha mezquindad, en los combates de boxeo se ganaba un poco de sopa, mantequilla y pan. Así lo recuerdan Noah Klieger y los otros 'boxeadores de Auschwitz'. Sobrecogedores testimonios de los que se pusieron los guantes para sobrevivir en el campo de concentración nazi. Noah, aquel nonagenario con la mirada clara y la piel marcada por la desgracia. Manchada por ese tatuaje infame y añejo, desgastado, que empañaba su antebrazo. 1-7-2-3-4-5, el número de la muerte. Noah, el superviviente que durante su visita a Madrid, un día del mes de enero de 2018, vestía todo de gris, claro, oscuro y marengo, quizá como un recuerdo de lo que le tocó vivir. Tiempos color ceniza. Su cuerpo de nonagenario estaba encogido, encorvado por la edad, pero su mente despejada. Dispuesta para recordar. Noah, el que cuenta que allí, al otro lado, detrás de la alambrada, un día escuchó: O sabes boxear o vas a la cámara de gas. En este libro se narra la desgarradora historia de los presos que tuvieron que boxear para sobrevivir en Auschwitz, un relato concebido con los recuerdos de Noah Klieger, Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, Jacko Razon, Judah Vandervelde, Solomon Roth, Salamo Arouch, Andrzej Rablin... y muchos más. - José Ignacio Pérez nació en Madrid en mayo de 1980. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha desarrollado casi la totalidad de su trayectoria profesional en el diario MARCA. Tras unos primeros años en el periódico local Sur Madrid, medio en el que ejerció como Redactor jefe, vinculó su carrera al rotativo deportivo, donde actualmente forma parte de MARCA.com. K.O. Auschwitz. La vida en un guante es su primer libro, que nace del reportaje 'Los púgiles de Auschwitz' publicado en MARCA en 2019, por el cual fue galardonado por partida doble con los premios Online Journalism Awards, en la categoría Deportes, entregado por la Online News Association (ONA) y el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Deportivo Manuel Alcántara.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought Author: Kavitha Iyer Narrator: Shivani Vakil Savant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada -- a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region -- has seen a surge in farmer suicides. At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss. Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass -- a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.