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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das einzige Buch, das du über Finanzen lesen solltest: Der entspannte Weg zum Vermögen Von den Machern des YouTube-Erfolgs »Finanzfluss« Author: Thomas Kehl, Mona Linke Narrator: Sebastian Waldemer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Ab sofort gibt es keine Ausreden mehr, den Vermögensaufbau zu vertagen. Nie war es so einfach wie heute, sein Geld trotz Nullzinsen gewinnbringend anzulegen. Das Buch von den Machern des erfolgreichen YouTube-Kanals »Finanzfluss« holt die Leser ab und gibt Impulse, Verantwortung für die eigene finanzielle Situation zu übernehmen und Begeisterung für die persönliche Vermögensbildung zu entfachen. Der ehemalige Investmentbanker Thomas Kehl und die Journalistin Mona Linke erklären, wie man mithilfe von Aktien und ETFs passiv ein Vermögen aufbauen kann, ohne dabei viel Risiko einzugehen, und wie das genau funktioniert. Ein Empowerment-Programm und Schnellkurs in Sachen Vermögensaufbau für alle verständlich, motivierend und vor allem wirksam!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy Author: Robert Kuttner Narrator: Robert Kuttner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author and political journalist Robert Kuttner assesses the promise and peril of this critical juncture. Biden, like FDR in his time, faces multiple challenges. Roosevelt had to make terrible compromises with racist legislators to win enactment of his program. Biden, to achieve the necessary governing coalition, needs to achieve durable multiracial coalitions. Roosevelt had to conquer fascism in Europe; Biden must defeat it at home. And after four decades of neoliberal policy disasters reflecting Wall Street's political influence, Biden needs to go beyond what even FDR achieved, to restore a democratic economy of broad possibility. From a writer with an unparalleled understanding of the history and politics that have made this moment possible, this book is the essential guide to what is at stake for Joe Biden, for America, and for our democracy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577860 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War Author: Robert H. Latiff Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of science fiction writers. In a world where these complex technologies clash with escalating international tensions, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the United States and its adversaries, our globally deployed and thinly stretched military, the capacity for advanced technology to catalyze violence, and the American public's lack of familiarity with these topics. Future Peace describes the many provocations to violence and how technologies are abetting those urges, and it explores what can be done to mitigate not only dangerous human behaviors but also dangerous technical behaviors. Latiff concludes that peace is possible but will require intense, cooperative efforts on the part of technologists, military leaders, diplomats, politicians, and citizens. This compelling and timely book will captivate general listeners, students, and scholars of global affairs, international security, arms control, and military ethics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Author: Cathy O'neil Narrator: Cathy O'neil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 21, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric. We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These 'weapons of math destruction' score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health. O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change. 'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Financial Times 'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year © Cathy O'Neil 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong Author: Louisa Lim Narrator: Louisa Lim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories.   Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition: Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine Author: Timothy Snyder Narrator: Timothy Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 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 essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author. In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the original essays from On Tyranny with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about this war. 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 here in the United States and around the world. Linking past and present, speaking only from notes, he guides the listener into the larger moral universe of On Tyranny.       This edition also includes On Tyranny, the bestselling essay collection that illustrates how various countries and governments have managed to protect against totalitarianism throughout history despite ever-present threats from many factions. Snyder cautions that unless we learn from these disruptive and disturbing occurrences, they will continue. This important call to arms and roadmap for resistance provides invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. “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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575758 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Brief History of Equality Author: Thomas Piketty Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Maquiavelo: Una guía contemporánea de lectura sobre lo político y el Estado Author: Israel Covarrubias Narrator: Antonio Raluy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Podemos criticar a Maquiavelo e incluso mostrar sus limitaciones, pero no puede estudiarse política sin comenzar por él. Vilipendiado por la Iglesia, tergiversado por estadistas y líderes sociales, reconocido como fuente primigenia de la política moderna, Nicolás Maquiavelo goza de ese raro privilegio de no sucumbir a la usura del tiempo. La vida -y sobre todo la obra del florentino- muestra una vigencia creciente. Autor necesario para cualquier curso de teoría política, su obra en conjunto muestra los ángulos clave del precioso arte de la vida en común, por lo que acercarse a él se vuelve una fuente obligada de conocimiento y reflexión creativa. Maquiavelo Una guía contemporánea de lectura sobre lo político y el Estado es un estudio colectivo que analiza uno de los conflictos centrales de la cosa pública desde el siglo XVI: el desarrollo histórico de aquello que a partir de entonces comenzamos a llamar Estado. Ofrece, además, herramientas conceptuales, históricas y politológicas para ir al encuentro de la figura y la obra de Maquiavelo y su tiempo. Podemos criticarlo, desarticular la lógica de los distintos regímenes de su discurso, incluso mostrar sus limitaciones «científicas», pero no podemos comenzar sin él.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship Author: Hawa Allan Narrator: Hawa Allan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the Act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South. During the civil rights movement, it enabled the protection of black students who attended previously segregated educational institutions. Most recently, the Insurrection Act has been the vehicle for presidents to call upon federal troops to suppress so-called 'race riots' like those in Los Angeles in 1992, and for them to threaten to do so in other cases of racial justice activism. Allan's distinctly literary voice underscores her paradigm-shifting reflections on the presence of fear and silence in history and their shadowy impact on the law. Throughout, she draws revealing insight from her own experiences as one of the only black girls in her leafy Long Island suburb, as a black lawyer at a predominantly white firm, and as a thinker about the use and misuse of appeals to law and order.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future Author: Daniel S. Cohan Narrator: Ray Greenley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy Professor of environmental engineering Daniel Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of climate change will first require American diplomacy, technological innovation, and policy to catalyze decarbonization globally. Combining his own expertise along with insights from more than a hundred interviews with diplomats, scholars, and clean-technology pioneers, Cohan identifies flaws in previous efforts to combat climate change. He highlights opportunities for more successful strategies, including international 'climate clubs' and accelerated development of clean energy technologies. Grounded in history and emerging scholarship, this book offers a forward-looking vision of solutions to confronting climate gridlock and a clear-eyed recognition of the challenges to enacting them.