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Title: Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War

Author: Michael W. Doyle

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War. With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time. Combining dramatic history with trenchant analysis and landmark theory, Doyle explores the impacts of cyberwarfare, foreign election meddling, and the unprecedented schism of modern politics on American foreign policy. He demonstrates that there can be no success in addressing climate change without China's cooperation, nor any hope of averting nuclear catastrophe without Russia's. In the tradition of Gaddis's The Cold War and Clark's The Sleepwalkers, Cold Peace provides one of the most necessary analyses of global power in decades.

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Title: Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report

Author: Covid Crisis Group

Narrator: Derek Shetterly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times   Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war.    Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer:  What just happened to us, and why?  And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time.   The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to apply it in practice. Improvising to fight this war, many Americans displayed ingenuity and dedication. But they struggled with systems that made success difficult and failure easy.    This book shows how Americans can come together, learn hard truths, build on what worked, and prepare for global emergencies to come.   A joint effort from: Danielle Allen • John M. Barry  • John Bridgeland • Michael Callahan • Nicholas A. Christakis  • Doug Criscitello • Charity Dean • Victor Dzau • Gary Edson • Ezekiel Emanuel • Ruth Faden • Baruch Fischhoff • Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg • Melissa Harvey • Richard Hatchett • David Heymann • Kendall Hoyt  • Andrew Kilianski • James Lawler • Alexander J. Lazar • James Le Duc • Marc Lipsitch • Anup Malani • Monique K. Mansoura • Mark McClellan • Carter Mecher • Michael Osterholm • David A. Relman • Robert Rodriguez • Carl Schramm • Emily Silverman • Kristin Urquiza •  Rajeev Venkayya • Philip Zelikow THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

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Title: Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations

Author: Michael A. Robinson

Narrator: Adam Barr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

As increasingly contentious politics in the United States raise concerns over the 'politicization' of traditionally non-partisan institutions, many have turned their attention to how the American military has been—and will be—affected by this trend. Since a low point following the end of the Vietnam War, the US military has experienced a dramatic reversal of public opinion, becoming one of the most trusted institutions in American society. However, this trend is more complicated than it appears: just as individuals have become fonder of their military, they have also become increasingly polarized from one another along partisan lines. The result is a new political environment rife with challenges to traditional civil-military norms. Michael A. Robinson studies the sources and potential limits of American trust in the armed services, focusing on the interplay of the public, political parties, media outlets, and the military itself on the prospect of politicization and its associated challenges. As democratic institutions face persistent pressure worldwide, Dangerous Instrument provides important insights into the contemporary arc of American civil-military affairs and delivers recommendations on ways to preserve a non-partisan military.

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Title: Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

Author: Mikkael A. Sekeres

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee—tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world. It took a series of tragedies and health crises, as well as patient advocacy, for the government to take responsibility for ensuring the efficacy and safety of drugs and medical devices. Before the FDA existed, drug makers could hawk any potion, claim treatment of any ailment, and make any promise on a label. But then, throughout the twentieth century, the government was forced to take action when children were poisoned by contaminated diphtheria and smallpox vaccines, an early antibiotic contained antifreeze, a drug prescribed for morning sickness in pregnancy caused babies to be born disfigured, and access to AIDS drugs was limited to a few clinical trials while thousands died. Sekeres describes all these events against the backdrop of the contentious 2011 hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin, in which he participated as a panel member.

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Title: Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World

Author: Zahra Biabani

Narrator: Jeed Saddy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Change the way you think about the future. The fate of humanity can be daunting, but we don't need to live in that space. First, we need to change our attitude in order to implement nature-based solutions to deal with climate change. Good news: there are environmental trends and examples to change the way you think about how we can protect the planet. Get to know Zahra Biabani, a climate activist, influencer, CEO, and writer. After unexpectedly establishing a career as an online sustainability educator and influencer, Zahra decided to jump headfirst into the waters of entrepreneurship and authorship. Climate Optimism is her way to spread hope. Inside, you'll find: ● Real stories on environmental sustainability in other countries that are working ● A mix of unique solutions and practical advice on how to face climate change ● Good news on how to change the way you think and feel about the climate crisis If you're looking for a sustainable living book or books for activists centered on environmentalism like A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, The Intersectional Environmentalist, or Sustainable Badass, you'll love Climate Optimism.

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Title: [Spanish] - Tiempo de hormigas: De la importancia de hablar con libertad y sin miedo sobre lo que está ocurriendo hoy en España

Author: Antonio Pérez Henares

Narrator: Enrique Cañizares

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Un libro de alto voltaje político sobre la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España. Antonio Pérez Henares es célebre por la claridad de sus ideas, así como por expresarlas con franqueza y sin andarse con rodeos. En este libro pone encima de la mesa las grandes cuestiones –y grandes tabúes– que preocupan a millones de personas en nuestro país como la manipulación acerca de la historia de España, el paso del feminismo al «hembrismo», la crisis de la verdad en el periodismo, la «progrecracia» o la ecología animalista… Tiempo de hormigas abre un debate sin censura sobre asuntos urgentes, invitándonos a la reflexión, a la vez que realiza un ataque frontal y fulminante contra el «neototalitarismo». «Pues la libertad, “el más preciado bien” en cervantino decir, o esde todos y a todos ampara, o simplemente no existe, no es. Ejerceré, pues, la mía.» La crítica ha dicho: «Antonio Pérez Henares mantiene indomable su espíritu aventurero. Hoy hace frente a la dictadura de la 'progrecracia' y a la censura de lo políticamente correcto con igual determinación.» Marcos Ondarra, El español «Aborda la encrucijada histórica y social en la que se encuentra España.» Cope «Un recorrido por temas como la manipulación de la historia de España, la 'crisis de la verdad' del periodismo y el 'neototalitarismo'.» Europa Press «Una profunda reflexión sobre las amenazas a la libertad.» Cynthia Díaz, Ok Diario Sobre La canción del bisonte: «Entre Ken Follett y Pascal Picq, un gigante del periodismo español como Pérez Henares se ha inventado un nuevo género: la novela policíaca de las cavernas.» Le Point «¿Y si la Prehistoria fue la verdadera Edad de Oro de la humanidad? Una novela que no dejará indiferente a nadie. Reveladora.» Juan Luis Arsuaga Sobre Cabeza de Vaca: «Una aventura fascinante, de principio a fin y de mar a mar, por la inmensidad de una América desconocida y salvaje.» Isabel San Sebastián «Mucho más que una novela: la epopeya de uno de nuestros héroes ignorados, contada por un gran autor que ha seguido sus pasos.» Juan Eslava Galán

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Title: The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street

Author: Rob Wells

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

When Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike out on his own. With a specialized knowledge of finance and close connections to top Washington officials, Kiplinger was uniquely positioned to tell deeper truths about the intersections between government and business. With careful reporting and insider access, he delivered perceptive analysis and forecasts of business, economic, and political news to busy business executives, and the newsletter's readership grew exponentially over the coming decades. More than just a pioneering business journalist, Kiplinger emerged as a quiet but powerful link between the worlds of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and used his Letter to play a little-known but influential role in the New Deal. Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a well-written and deeply researched portrayal of how Kiplinger not only developed a widely read newsletter that launched a business publishing empire but also how he forged a new role for the journalist as political actor.

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Title: This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments

Author: Mckenzie Long

Narrator: Mckenzie Long

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments Starting amid the sagebrush of Bears Ears National Monument on the eve of the Trump Administration's decision to reduce the site by eighty-five percent, McKenzie Long climbs sandstone cliffs, is awed by Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings, and is intrigued by 4,000-year-old petroglyphs. She hikes through remote pink canyons recently removed from the boundary of Grand Staircase–Escalante, skis to a backcountry hut in Maine to view a truly dark night sky, snorkels in warm Hawaiian waters to plumb the meaning of marine preserves, volunteers near the most contaminated nuclear site in the US, and witnesses firsthand the diverse forms of devotion evoked by the Rio Grande. In essays both contemplative and resonant, this book confronts an unjust past and imagines a collaborative future that bears witness to these regions' enduring Indigenous connections. From climate change realities to volatile tensions between economic development and environmental conservation, practical and philosophical issues arise as Long seeks the complicated and often overlooked stories of these incomparable places. Her journey emphasizes in clear and urgent terms the unique significance of, and grave threats to, these contested lands.

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Title: The Case Against the Supreme Court

Author: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrator: Philip Hernandez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure   In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them. Drawing on a wealth of rulings, some famous, others little known, he reviews the Supreme Court’s historic failures in key areas, including the refusal to protect minorities, the upholding of gender discrimination, and the neglect of the Constitution in times of crisis, from World War I through 9/11. No one is better suited to make this case than Chemerinsky. He has studied, taught, and practiced constitutional law for thirty years and has argued before the Supreme Court. With passion and eloquence, Chemerinsky advocates reforms that could make the system work better, and he challenges us to think more critically about the nature of the Court and the fallible men and women who sit on it.

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Title: Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine

Author: Lynne Viola

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers new perspectives on both Stalin's central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing one of the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.