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Title: Politics of Disinformation

Author: Pere Masip, Eva Campos Dominguez, Bella Palomo, Dolors Palau Sampio, Guillermo Lopez Garcia

Narrator: Asa Siegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Discover a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theories of disinformation, and their impact, from leading voices in the field Politics of Disinformation delivers a thorough discussion of the overwhelming problem of modern fake news in the political arena. The book reviews fundamental theoretical concepts of disinformation and analyzes the impact of new techniques of misinformation and the dissemination of false information in the public space. A group of distinguished authors provide case studies to illustrate the effect of disinformation all around the world; including, but not limited to Europe, the Middle East, and South America. The chapters include examination of topics such as the rise of populism, the increasing political influence of social networks, the use of fact checking to combat fake news and echo chambers, and comparative analyses of how disinformation affects conservatives and liberals. A final case study examines all of these factors as they relate to the recent Spanish election of 2019 and how they affected the results.

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Title: [Spanish] - Antología

Author: Antonio Gramsci

Narrator: Fernando Acaso Bellon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 11 minutes

Release date: December 29, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Manuel Sacristán realizó en esta 'Antología' una selección de los más destacados e importantes textos que conforman el corpus gramsciano desde los primeros años formativos de Antonio Gramsci hasta su propia muerte en 1937. Para la construcción de esta obra, Sacristán, posiblemente el más destacado intelectual español de izquierdas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, sigue dos reglas: primera, no separar completamente los textos 'personales' de Gramsci de los textos públicos, sino considerar que la cronología es más fuerte razón de homogeneidad que el género literario; y segunda, acentuar la temática en la que se realiza la unidad de la 'obra', que no es otra que la literatura política.

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Title: Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

Author: Gordon S. Wood

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Release date: December 28, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism—the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced institutions that have lasted for over two centuries. In this new book, eminent historian Gordon S. Wood distills a lifetime of work on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era. In concise form, he illuminates critical events in the nation's founding, ranging from the imperial debate that led to the Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in 1787. Among other topics, he discusses slavery and constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the major tripartite institutions of government, the demarcation between public and private, and the formation of states' rights.

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Title: Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us

Author: Christie Blatchford

Narrator: Kathleen Gati

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal actions of the occupiers included throwing a vehicle over an overpass, the burning down of a hydro transformer which caused a three-day blackout, the torching of a bridge and the hijacking of a police vehicle. During the very worst period, ordinary residents living near the site had to pass through native barricades, show native-issued 'passports', and were occasionally threatened with body searches and routinely subjected to threats. Much of this lawless conduct occurred under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched: They too had been intimidated. Arrests, where they were made, weren't made contemporaneously, but weeks or monthlater. The result was to embolden the occupiers and render non-native citizens vulnerable and afraid. Eighteen months after the occupation began, a home builder named Sam Gualtieri, working on the house he was giving his daughter as a wedding present, was attacked by protesters and beaten so badly he will never fully recover from his injuries. The occupation is now in its fifth year. Throughout, Christie Blatchford has been observing, interviewing, and investigating with the tenacity that has made her both the doyen of Canadian crime reporters and a social commentator beloved for her uncompromising sense of right and wrong.   In Helpless she tells the full story for the first time - a story that no part of the press or media in Canada has been prepared to tackle with the unflinching objectivity that Christie Blatchford displays on every page. This is a book whose many revelations, never before reported, will shock and appall. But the last word should go to the author:   'This book is not about aboriginal land claims. The book is not about the wholesale removal of seven generations of indigenous youngsters from their reserves and families - this was by dint of federal government policy - or the abuse dished out to many of them at the residential schools into which they were arbitrarily placed or the devastating effects that haunt so many today. This book is not about the dubious merits of the reserve system which may better serve those who wish to see native people fail than those who want desperately for them to succeed. I do not in any way make light of these issues, and they are one way or another in the background of everything that occurred in Caledonia.   'What Helpless is about is the failure of government to govern and to protect all its citizens equally.'

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Title: After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division

Author: Samuel Goldman

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Nationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end of the Cold War. In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep challenges that face any contemporary effort to revive social cohesion at the national level. Noting the obstacles standing in the way of basing any unifying political project on a singular vision of national identity, Goldman highlights three pillars of mid-twentieth-century nationalism, all of which are absent today: the social dominance of Protestant Christianity, the absorption of European immigrants in a broader white identity, and the defense of democracy abroad. Most of today's nationalists fail to recognize these necessary underpinnings of any renewed nationalism, or the potentially troubling consequences that they would engender. To secure the general welfare in a new century, the future of American unity lies not in monolithic nationalism. Rather, Goldman suggests we move in the opposite direction: go small, embrace difference as the driving characteristic of American society, and support political projects grounded in local communities.

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Title: Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Author: Stephen Biddle

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle upturns this distinction, arguing that there is actually nothing intrinsic separating state or nonstate military behavior. Through an in-depth look at nonstate military conduct, Biddle shows that many nonstate armies now fight more 'conventionally' than many state armies. Biddle frames nonstate and state methods along a continuum, spanning Fabian-style irregular warfare to Napoleonic-style warfare involving massed armies, and he presents a systematic theory to explain any given nonstate actor's position on this spectrum. Showing that most warfare for at least a century has kept to the blended middle of the spectrum, Biddle argues that material and tribal culture explanations for nonstate warfare methods do not adequately explain observed patterns of warmaking. Investigating a range of historical examples from Lebanon and Iraq to Somalia, Croatia, and the Vietcong, Biddle demonstrates that viewing state and nonstate warfighting as mutually exclusive can lead to errors in policy and scholarship.

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Title: Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism

Author: Allissa V. Richardson

Narrator: Machelle Williams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities—using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates. This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media, and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is the first book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people—slavery, lynching, and police brutality—and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism. What results is a stunning genealogy—of how the slave narratives of the 1700s inspired the Abolitionist movement; how the black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and Civil Rights movements; and how the smartphones of today have powered the anti-police brutality movement.

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Title: [Spanish] - ¡Crear o morir!

Author: Andrés Oppenheimer

Narrator: Juan Antonio Rojas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Release date: December 16, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Con un sorprendente optimismo sobre el futuro de América Latina, Andrés Oppenheimer revela en este libro las claves del éxito en el siglo XXI, en que la innovación y la creatividad serán los pilares del progreso. ¿Qué debemos hacer como personas y países para avanzar en la economÌa de la innovación? ¿Qué debemos hacer para producir innovadores de talla mundial, como Steve Jobs? Para averiguarlo, Oppenheimer el periodista latinoamericano más galardonado a escala internacional explora los secretos de las brillantes trayectorias de varios innovadores en la actualidad. Entre otros, analiza casos como el de Pep Guardiola, el entrenador de futbol que llevó al club Barcelona a su época más gloriosa; el chef Gastón Acurio, quien convirtió a la comida peruana en un motor de crecimiento económico; el estadounidense Bre Pettis, un ex profesor que está revolucionando la industria de las impresoras 3D, o Sir Richard Branson, el magnate británico que está creando una industria de turismo espacial. A partir de esas historias, con su lucidez y amenidad habitual, Oppenheimer extrae conclusiones concretas para ayudarnos a detonar el gran potencial creativo hispanoamericano. Comentarios sobre libros anteriores de Andrés Oppenheimer: 'Oppenheimer ocupa un lugar único en la prensa de las Américas. Sus trabajos periodísticos fijan la agenda del debate político.' -Le Monde- 'Leer un libro como este de Andrés Oppenheimer es un bálsamo. Sacude nuestro provincialismo sin desanimarnos.' -Fernando Henrique Cardoso, ex presidente de Brasil-

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Title: [Spanish] - Mares de cocaína: Las rutas náuticas del narcotráfico

Author: Ana Lilia Pérez

Narrator: Liliana Barba

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Release date: December 16, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

El trabajo más ambicioso de Ana Lilia Pérez, autora de El cártel negro. 'En la actualidad, es común que los delincuentes operen con rostro de naviero, armador, marino, empresario importador o agente aduanal... No existe en el mundo puerto infranqueable para las mafias.' Tras el éxito de Camisas azules, manos negras (caso Oceanografía) y El cártel negro, Ana Lilia Pérez regresa con el que tal vez sea el trabajo más ambicioso de su carrera: Mares de cocaína, una estremecedora investigación acerca del tráfico de drogas que se lleva a cabo en cientos de rutas náuticas a escala internacional, donde incluso algunos cárteles mexicanos ya han impuesto el pago de piso. Con una sólida trayectoria periodística como carta de navegación, la autora viajó por mares y puertos de todo el orbe para escrutar las formas en que las mafias han infiltrado las más importantes vías de comercio marítimo. Así, descubre el andamiaje que emplean las organizaciones criminales para hacer que la droga -la cocaína, en especial- llegue lo mismo a los elegantes barrios neoyorquinos que a las calles de Barcelona o los pueblos costeros del Mediterráneo, a los consumidores mexicanos, los asiduos visitantes de la Costa Azul, los jóvenes surfistas de Australia, los paupérrimos halcones africanos, los junkies germanos o los hooligans británicos. Por medio de un exhaustivo trabajo de campo y numerosas fuentes de información que incluyen entrevistas con agentes de inteligencia del más alto nivel, este libro se revela imprescindible para conocer la industria ilegal más poderosa del siglo XXI: un multimillonario negocio cuyos tentáculos se expanden cada vez más.

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Title: [Spanish] - No es cuento, es Historia II

Author: Ines Quintero

Narrator: Andrea Méndez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

No es cuento, es historia es producto de la inteligencia de la historiadora Inés Quintero, que creó en las ondas hertzianas micros sobre el pasado de Venezuela. Ahora, Inés Quintero, fiel su público, ha recopilado en un segundo volumen, No es cuento, es historia II. Como ocurre con el primer tomo, aquí también se disfrutan momentos divertidos y asombrosos de nuestra historia, con la frescura, inteligencia y sentido del humor de esta académica tan prestigiosa y tan hábil para comunicarse con el gran público. El protagonismo de las mujeres; indígenas, esclavos y mestizos; constructores de la República, escritores y humanistas; son algunos de los temas y personajes que se pasean por este delicioso viaje por el tiempo. No faltan la vida cotidiana y las conductas escandalosas. Todo lo que parece insólito está documentado. Y revela un país entrañable que en muchos casos sigue padeciendo males endémicos. Al viajar al pasado, descubrimos venezolanos que padecían a sus gobiernos y debían pelear para sobrevivir, llevar el pan a la casa o enamorarse de la mujer (o el hombre) equivocado. Como ya lo hemos dicho, celebramos otro libro de Inés Quintero, detective de lo que hemos sido y no menos sagaz intérprete de lo que terminamos siendo.