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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language Author: Rosemary Salomone Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca—its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric 'rise of English' has many obvious benefits to communication. But the rise of English has very real downsides at times generating intense legal conflicts. In Europe, imperatives of political integration, job mobility, and university rankings compete with pride in national language and heritage as countries like France attempt to curb its spread. In countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along lines of English proficiency and devalued commonly spoken languages. In Anglophone countries like the United States and England, English isolates us from the cultural and economic benefits of speaking other languages. In The Rise of English, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577921 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia Author: Gregg Mitman Narrator: Amir Abdullah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the early 1920s, Americans owned eighty percent of the world's automobiles and consumed seventy-five percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the US flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation's explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America's rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Here to Security: How Workplace Savings Can Keep America's Promise Author: Robert L. Reynolds Narrator: Scott R. Pollak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: At a time of fierce political divisiveness, From Here to Security is a refreshingly balanced, non-ideological guide to solving what may be our nation's most pressing policy challenge: achieving retirement security for all. A pioneer of the 401(k) system, Robert L. Reynolds eschews radical calls for throwing out the 401(k) entirely and creating a new government-run savings system. Our best course, he shows, is to build on what we have: a flexible, dynamic private-public system of Social Security and more robust workplace savings. From Here to Security provides a clear, powerful new approach to solving America's retirement challenge—based on facts, data, and Reynolds's decades of experience. While fearmongers claim that the US retirement system is on the verge of collapse; Reynolds shows why our system is actually the envy of the world. But From Here to Security is no status quo book. Reynolds lays out an action agenda to dramatically improve our retirement systems—public and private—lift our savings rate, improve people's retirement prospects, spur faster growth—and reboot America's national morale.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape of the Amethyst Author: C.E. Lucas Phillips Narrator: Dennis Kleinman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The astounding true story of the ordeal and escape of the British frigate Amethyst from Chinese Communist batteries in the Yangtze River in April 1949. In the early morning of 20th April 1949, HMS Amethyst was fulfilling orders to travel to Nanking to stand guard for the British Embassy during the height of the Chinese Civil War when she was fired upon by guns from the riverbank. Shells pounded into the ship, killing the commanding officer and destroyed the bridge before the ship grounded on the bank. How did the Amethyst escape the battering of Chinese Communist guns? C. E. Lucas Phillips's Escape of the Amethyst was written with the full assistance of Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO RN, who took over control of the Amethyst, and utilizes a wealth of Admiralty records, much of which was previously classified as Secret, to provide a vivid account of this extraordinary moment in the history of the Royal Navy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems Author: Jenny Schuetz Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. And this divide deepens other inequalities. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Public policies enacted by federal, state, and local governments helped create and reinforce the bad housing outcomes endured by too many people. Taxes, zoning, institutional discrimination, and the location and quality of schools, roads, public transit, and other public services are among the policies that created inequalities in the nation's housing patterns. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition Author: C.T. Vivian Narrator: Matthew J. Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a member of his executive staff, sat down to take stock of the civil rights movement and the progress it had made. His assessment was that it failed, and that the blame lay in the existence of myths about America. As prophetic today as it was fifty years ago, Vivian's voice rings out as a critique and a call to action for a society in deep need of justice and peace. The civil rights struggle that began when Rosa Parks, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, decided to sit in the front of a bus has deeply altered American society and the American conscience. Yet from several perspectives, that movement has resulted in failure. The Black struggle for independence is more of an uphill climb than ever. Why? C. T. Vivian asserts that the civil rights movement failed because it was built on certain myths about America: ● the myth that Americans will do what is right as soon as they know what is right. ● the myth that legislation leads to justice. ● the myth that America is an open society where any minority group can advance. ● the myth that an ethic of love forms the core of the American conscience.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wie kann ich was bewegen? - Die Kraft des konstruktiven Aktivismus Author: Raul Aguayo-Krauthausen, Benjamin Schwarz Narrator: Simone Scheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Immer mehr junge Menschen wollen sich für politische, soziale und ökologische Ziele einsetzen. Raul Krauthausen und Benjamin Schwarz ermutigen durch Gespräche mit erfolgreichen Aktivist*innen und inspirieren zu eigenem Engagement. Lange galt Aktivismus eher als Synonym für krawalligen Protest denn als ernsthafte politische Arbeit. Indem Krauthausen und Schwarz den Begriff des konstruktiven Aktivismus in die Debatte einführen, schaffen sie ein neues Verständnis: Konstruktiver Aktivismus ist ein leidenschaftliches politisches Instrument, das nichts mit schwarzen Blöcken aller Couleur zu tun hat, sondern radikal und konsequent für die konkrete Veränderung aktueller Umstände kämpft. Aber wie schafft man es, wirklich etwas zu bewegen? Welche Aktionen, welches Engagement kann tatsächlich Veränderungen herbeiführen? Dafür gibt es viele gute Beispiele und darum bilden die Gespräche mit konstruktiven Aktivist*innen ein Zentrum des Buches: Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future), Carola Rackete (Seenotretterin), Gerhard Schick (Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende) u.v.a. berichten von ihrer Arbeit, ihren Erfahrungen, auch ihren Ängsten und Niederlagen, vor allem aber darüber, warum Aktivismus eine Bereicherung ist – für die Gesellschaft und für das eigene Leben.Die Buchausgabe zu 'Wie kann ich was bewegen?' ist erschienen in der Edition Körber, Hamburg 2021-

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577036 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All Author: Hal Weitzman Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? This book reveals how a systematic enterprise lies behind the business-friendly corporate veneer, one that has kept the state afloat financially by diverting public funds away from some of the poorest people in the United States and supporting dictators and criminals across the world. Hal Weitzman shows how the de facto capital of corporate America has provided safe haven to money launderers, kleptocratic foreign rulers, and human traffickers, and facilitated tax dodging and money laundering by multinational companies and international gangsters. Revenues from Delaware's business-formation industry, known as the Franchise, account for two-fifths of the state's budget and have helped to keep the tax burden on its residents among the lowest in the United States. Delaware derives enormous political clout from the Franchise, effectively writing the corporate code for the entire country. What's the Matter with Delaware? shows how, in Joe Biden's home state, the corporate laws get written behind closed doors, enabling the rich and powerful to do business in the shadows.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Author: Jayna Brown Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Criminal Fraud and Election Disinformation: Law and Politics Series: Part of Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice Author: Jeremy Horder Narrator: Jonathan Johns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Deliberate mischaracterization of political opponents and their policies has always been a part of politics; however, lying, dishonesty, and distortion of the facts remain morally wrong and have the potential to obstruct important political interests. For example, a false or misleading claim publicized about an election candidate may lead someone to lose an election that they might otherwise have won. So, does—and should—the law seek to provide protection from the risk of this happening? In attempting to answer this question, Jeremy Horder draws a key distinction between what is called 'political viewpoint' fraud and 'electoral participation' fraud. In the interests of protecting freedom of speech, false or misleading claims (disinformation) involving political viewpoint content should be tolerated, not only by the criminal law but also by the internet platforms which host political content. By contrast, in the interests of preserving the integrity of democratic electoral processes, disinformation involving electoral participation information should be prohibited by the criminal law and censored by internet platforms. This book explains how the criminal law in various jurisdictions frequently prohibits false or misleading political claims falling into both categories of disinformation, instead of concentrating on electoral participation fraud.