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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News Author: Kathryn Cramer Brownell Narrator: Patricia Shade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today's rampant polarization and scandal politics—the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is. She describes how cable innovations took on network broadcasting using market forces, giving rise to a more decentralized media world. Brownell shows how cable became an unstoppable medium for political communication that prioritized cult followings and loyalty to individual brands, fundamentally reshaped party politics, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval. 24/7 Politics reveals how cable TV created new possibilities for antiestablishment voices and opened a pathway to political prominence for seemingly unlikely figures like Donald Trump by playing to narrow audiences and cultivating division instead of common ground.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694313 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know® Author: Mark A.R. Kleiman, Beau Kilmer, Jonathan P. Caulkins Narrator: Kevin T. Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Should we legalize marijuana? If we legalize, what in particular should be legal? Just possessing marijuana and growing your own? Selling and advertising? If selling becomes legal, who gets to sell? Corporations? Co-ops? The government? What regulations should apply? How high should taxes be? Different forms of legalization could bring very different results. This second edition of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know® discusses what is happening with marijuana policy, describing both the risks and the benefits of using marijuana, without taking sides in the legalization debate. The book details the potential gains and losses from legalization, explores the 'middle ground' options between prohibition and commercialized production, and considers the likely impacts of legal marijuana on occasional users, daily users, patients, parents, and employers—and even on drug traffickers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us Author: Carrie Gress, Ph.D. Narrator: Monroe Jillian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life, while simultaneously devaluing the typical attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702692 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Premoniciones: Cuando la alerta climática lo justifica todo (When the Climate Alert Justifies Everything) Author: Alfonso Tarancón, Javier Del Valle Narrator: Fernando Simón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Algo catastrófico está a punto de suceder; la Tierra se está convirtiendo en la nueva religión a la que los políticos deben rendir culto en las cumbres del clima y en sus discursos diarios. Si en la Edad Media se visitaban líderes religiosos, ahora se visitan plantas de reciclaje y de energías renovables. En lugar de advertir que el fin del mundo llegará tras desatar la cólera de Dios, se pregona el fin del planeta por la insensatez del ser humano. De unos años a esta parte, el cambio climático se ha convertido en un argumento polémico de constante aparición en medios, al que se le tiende a achacar el origen de la práctica totalidad de nuestros problemas actuales. Pero ¿está justificada tan abrumadora presencia? Y lo que es más importante, ¿cuánto de premonición y cuánto de rigor científico hay en este fenómeno? En 'Premoniciones', los científicos Alfonso Tarancón y Javier del Valle arrojan una buena dosis de cordura sobre un tema que, a pesar del empeño por parte de ciertos sectores en afirmar lo contrario, no está ni mucho menos claro. En sus páginas, examinan las variaciones del clima a lo largo de los siglos, y dilucidan la a menudo inexistente relación entre multitud de problemas medioambientales, sociales o económicos. Una fresca y necesaria mirada a un fenómeno que la ciencia no respalda con la rotundidad que muchos dan por sentada.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Wars Author: Michael Mann Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace.' But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results. Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe—from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo Author: Clea Koff Narrator: Clea Koff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff’s grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. The Bone Woman is Koff’s unflinching, riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, as she shares what she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, and what she learned about the world. Yet even as she recounts the hellish nature of her work and the heartbreak of the survivors, she imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and a sense of justice. A tale of science in service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ciudad Feliz: Transformar la vida a través del diseño urbano Author: Charles Montgomery Narrator: Martin Untrojb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 4, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Un viaje por todo el mundo y una exploración reveladora de cómo las ciudades pueden hacer -y hacen- que seamos más felices.'Ciudad feliz', de Charles Montgomery, está revolucionando la forma de concebir la vida urbana.Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito como la panacea para la crisis medioambiental y de recursos de nuestro tiempo. ¿Pero es mejor o peor para nuestra felicidad? ¿Son el metro, las aceras y las torres de apartamentos una mejora respecto a la dependencia del coche en los suburbios?El galardonado periodista Charles Montgomery encuentra respuestas a estas preguntas en la intersección entre el diseño urbano y la emergente ciencia de la felicidad, durante un estimulante viaje por algunas de las ciudades más dinámicas del mundo. Conoce al visionario alcalde que introdujo un autobús 'sexy' para aliviar la ansiedad por el estatus en Bogotá; al arquitecto que trasladó las lecciones de las ciudades medievales de la Toscana a la ciudad de Nueva York de hoy en día; al activista que convirtió las autopistas urbanas de París en playas; y a un ejército de suburbanistas estadounidenses que han modificado el diseño de sus propias calles y barrios.Con nuevos conocimientos de psicología, neurociencia y los propios experimentos urbanos de Montgomery, 'Ciudad feliz' revela cómo las ciudades pueden moldear nuestros pensamientos y nuestro comportamiento. El mensaje es tan sorprendente como esperanzador: si adaptamos las ciudades y nuestras propias vidas a la felicidad, podemos afrontar los urgentes retos de nuestra época. La ciudad feliz puede salvar el mundo y todos podemos ayudar a construirla.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La torre elevada: Al-Qaeda y los orígenes del 11-S Author: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Carlos álvarez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Veinte años después del 11-S, y diez de la muerte de Osama bin Laden, La torre elevada sigue siendo la mejor obra escrito sobre el auge del fundamentalismo islámico, la creación de al-Qaeda y los fallos de los servicios de inteligencia que culminaron en el atentado de las Torres Gemelas. Obra ganadora del Premio Pulitzer. «Literatura como verdad.» Antonio Muñoz Molina La torre elevada narra la increíble historia de varios hombres cuyos destinos se entrecruzan y confluyen de forma dramática el 11 de septiembre de 2001. Con una precisión poco común, sustentada en más de quinientas entrevistas realizadas a lo largo de cinco años, nos describe el auge del fundamentalismo islámico, la creación de al-Qaeda y los errores cometidos por los confiados servicios de inteligencia que culminaron en el atentado de las Torres Gemelas. Lawrence Wright recrea de modo excepcional la transformación de Osama bin Laden y Ayman al-Zawahiri de combatientes idealistas e incompetentes en Afganistán a líderes del grupo terrorista más temido de la historia; y sigue de cerca a John O'Neil, jefe de la sección de contraterrorismo del FBI y uno de los pocos agentes estadounidenses que comprendió, ya en los años noventa, la magnitud de la amenaza que representaba dicha organización. Lleno de información, con una profunda perspectiva histórica, este es el mejor libro escrito sobre los orígenes de al-Qaeda y la muerte de Bin-Laden. Críticas: «El libro del año.» John Le Carré «Ganó el Premio Pulitzer. Su fuerza tremenda reside en el relato de los hechos y de sus orígenes, de los procesos mediante los cuales hombres corrientes eligen matar y morir en nombre de delirios arcaicos; y de cómo las ideas más dementes llegan a convertirse paso a paso en actos que cambian el curso del mundo y que podían haberse evitado.» Antonio Muñoz Molina «La torre elevada es el mejor libro que se ha escrito sobre Bin Laden, su relación con al-Zawahiri y el 11-S.» El País

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Author: Josh Mensch, Brad Meltzer Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A major international bestseller. The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied leaders desperately needed to meet face-to-face and discuss their strategy. Facing extreme danger, they travelled to Tehran to meet in secret. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own covert plan took shape-an assassination plot. A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles, and political intrigue, The Nazi Conspiracy details this pivotal meeting of the Big Three and the deadly Nazi scheme that could've changed history. In page-turning detail, it shows the greatest political minds of the twentieth century at work and reveals how they strategized to defeat the enemy, all whilst coming close to world-shattering disaster.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured Author: Jordan S. Rubin Narrator: Stephen Bowlby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Inside a drug war so screwy that people don't know what's illegal—until it's too late. Bizarro is a must-listen tale of the unprecedented prosecution of Burton Ritchie and Ben Galecki, the Florida-based founders of a sprawling 'spice' (synthetic cannabinoid) operation. With this book, journalist and former New York City narcotics prosecutor Jordan S. Rubin exposes a Reagan-era law called the Analogue Act, which targets dealers selling drugs that are 'substantially similar' to controlled substances—an unwieldy law that produces erratic results in court. Rubin brings listeners deep inside the synthetic war, exploring how Ritchie and Galecki landed in its crosshairs and why one of the DEA's own chemists may have been their best chance at freedom, until he was arrested too. This stranger-than-fiction narrative is backed by thousands of pages of court records and exclusive interviews with defendants, lawyers, law enforcement, celebrities, and more. Bizarro reveals the world of underground chemists making drugs faster than the government can ban them, dealers making millions in a gray market, and a justice system run amok.