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ID: 490355

Title: Forged in War: How a Century of War Created Todays Information Society

Author: R. David Lankes

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:44:05

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, Science & Technology, Business Development, Computers

Summary:

Many of what we think of as Information Age tools and media-computers, cell phones, the Internet, encryption, and more-evolved directly out of modern warfare. These tools started with World War I, accelerated through World War II and the Cold War, and now play a center role in both declared and non-declared conflicts like election interference and cyberbattles.

We buy phones and smart speakers because they are new and unlock great potential. Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa help us do our work and answer that one piece of trivia that bugs us. Yet these devices are data gatherers. They collect, repackage, and monetize our questions, purchases, photographs, web surfing to form a data industry now larger than the oil industry.

Well over 100 years ago the data industry put in place a business model that trades our attention for news and entertainment. That model has evolved into a complex art and science of message targeting and content ownership that has splintered communities while simultaneously concentrating media ownership to a few massive corporations. Forged in War takes a critical look at the systems we use and how we ended up in a society that values data over personal liberty and commerce over the public good.

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ID: 514026

Title: History Shock: When History Collides with Foreign Relations

Author: John Dickson

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:54:36

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, World, Global Politics

Summary:

For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer. Dickson organizes History Shock around a country-by-country series of lively personal experience vignettes, followed by compelling historical analysis of the ways in which his inadequate understanding of the host country's history lead to history shock: where dramatically different interpretations of history blocked diplomatic understanding and cooperation.

John Dickson offers these stories to highlight the interaction between history and foreign relations and to underscore the costs of not knowing the history of our partners and adversaries, much less our own. In both Mexico and Canada in particular our lack of knowledge and understanding of how our long history of military interventions continues to complicate our efforts at developing mutually beneficial relationships with our two closest neighbors. In Nigeria and South Africa, Dickson experienced firsthand how the history of racism in the United States plays out on a world stage and clouds our ability to effectively work with key African nations.

The Foreign Service has long sought to provide some form of 'operating manual' for its officers. Dickson provides not only a model for such case studies, but also recommendations for strengthening historical literacy in the Foreign Service.

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ID: 538608

Title: Fly Paper: A Nolan Novel

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:12:15

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Noir

Summary:

Making a score and settling one at the same time is a rare opportunity, enough to bring Nolan out of criminal retirement but he didnt count on the hillbillies or the skyjacker

Nolan is a pro, a veteran of mob vendettas and decades of high-tension heists. All he wants in his advancing middle age is his slice of the American piea way to make capitalism pay without having to drag guns into it. But a bullet-scarred life does not come without its bad karma, and Nolanand his young cohort Jon, whose own dream is to confine the violence to the comics he drawsoften find themselves facing old enemies and new temptations.

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ID: 512154

Title: Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet

Author: Sandra Goldmark

Narrator: Eva Wilhelm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:58:37

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Home & Garden, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems.

Since founding Fixup, a pop-up repair shop that brought her coverage in the New York Times, Salon, New York Public Radio, and more, Sandra Goldmark has become a leader in the movement to demand better 'stuff.' She doesn't just want to help us clear clutter-she aims to move us away from throwaway culture, to teach us to reuse and repurpose more thoughtfully, and to urge companies to produce better stuff. Although her goal is ambitious, the solution to getting there is surprisingly simple and involves all of us: have good stuff, not too much, mostly reclaimed, care for it, and pass it on.

Fixation charts the path to the next frontier in the health, wellness, and environmental movements-learning how to value stewardship over waste. We can choose quality items designed for a long lifecycle, commit to repairing them when they break, and shift our perspective on reuse and 'preowned' goods. Goldmark shares examples of forward-thinking companies that are thriving by conducting their businesses sustainably and responsibly.

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ID: 514037

Title: Corrupted Angel

Author: Nicole Fox

Narrator: Alex Kydd, Amelie Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:20:38

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

I found my angel. Then I broke her wings.

Alexis should've never set foot in my world.

Men like me stain girls like her. We take their innocence and tear it to shreds.

She thinks she's tough. She thinks she can handle me. But she doesn't know just how deep my darkness goes.

It was for the best that I claimed her for a night and left her behind. Anything more than that would have been cruel.

I thought I'd seen the last of Alexis Wright.

So imagine my surprise two years later when the door to my office opens . . . and she walks in. The girl I ravaged. The girl I devoured.

Now that she's in front of me again, I have just two questions for her: First-what is she doing here? And second . . . what does she mean, 'our baby'?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 512131

Title: Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger

Author: Katie S. Martin

Narrator: Amanda Ronconi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:42

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. These groups provide billions of meals a year to people in need. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong?

In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed. The key is to focus on the root causes of hunger. When we shift our attention to strategies that build empathy, equity, and political will, we can implement real solutions.

Martin shares those solutions in a warm, engaging style, with simple steps that anyone working or volunteering at a food bank or pantry can take today. Some are short-term strategies to create a more dignified experience for food pantry clients: providing client choice, where individuals select their own food, or redesigning a waiting room with better seating and a designated greeter. Some are longer-term: increasing the supply of healthy food, offering job training programs, or connecting clients to other social services.

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ID: 512155

Title: Modified: Manipulated Series Books 1-3

Author: Harper North

Narrator: Em Eldridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:38:46

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

What if the sky was deadly?

Fin has never stepped foot on the surface of the Earth. Working the mines, deep below, has been the only life she's ever known. The underground is nothing more than an existence of sweat and monotony in service to the Enhanced Human Coalition-the genetically-modified who control the underground from the world above. Every Dweller underground understands that you serve the EHC up top, or you don't eat.

Two hundred years after the planet's magnetic poles began to flip, Earth's surface has become irradiated and unsustainable. As the land, water, and even the air grew toxic, the underprivileged were doomed to a life of hard labor underground, while the Enhanced Human Coalition on the surface enjoy their spoils.

But now, Fin and her friends discover a stolen piece of EHC tech that modifies genetics, giving them the abilities of those up top-varied levels of increased strength, intelligence, and adaptation to the surface's harsh conditions. The theft of this technology triggers a manhunt, forcing them to flee to the most dangerous place they could possibly go . . . aboveground.

Can she save a world broken in two?

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ID: 493930

Title: Moonsinger's Quest

Author: Andre Norton

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:14:25

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Two outstanding and moving novels concluding Andre Norton's legendary Moonsinger series together in one volume.

In Flight to Yiktor, Farree is a hunchback orphan in the slum of a tough, lawless world on the edge of the known galaxy. His only friend? A war-beast rescued from starvation and the fighting pits with whom he has a telepathic connection.

In Dare to Go A-Hunting, Farree has discovered a portion of his true heritage as one of the ancient Little People, the Faery Folk, of legend-but so far as he knows, he is the only one of his kind to survive. Then his compatriots, star-traveler Krip Vorlund and psychic sorceress Lady Maelen, the Moonsinger, find a clue on a distant frontier outpost world which points to the location of Farree's birthplace. But others are looking for that place, as well. And those others do not mean the inhabitants well. Now Farree must find and defend a family and people he does not remember, but who hold the key to his own strange destiny.

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ID: 514121

Title: Flotilla Attack

Author: Duncan Harding

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:29:52

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, War & Military

Summary:

GATEWAY TO HELL

HMS Rose had a history of tragedy. The old sailors, who could remember her past, said that she was jinxed and ought never sail again. But in the last days of 1940, as the phony war drew to an end, Britain needed every ship she could lay her hands on, to challenge the might of Hitler's Kriegsmarine.

So it was that Lieutenant-Commander John Lamb found himself commanding the old destroyer Rose, with a crew of misfits and troublemakers, and set sail across the dark and icy seas in a desperate race to prevent the German invasion of Norway . . .

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ID: 502331

Title: Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11

Author: Lindsay Thomas

Narrator: Karen Peakes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:12:18

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science, Survival, Literary Criticism

Summary:

Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security.

Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts-as well as plenty of science fiction-she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others.

Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction.

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