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Title: Is Free Speech Under Threat?

Author: Suzanne Nossel, Charlotte Lydia Riley

Narrator: Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat? Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years, there has also arisen an uncompromising intolerance – most notably on university campuses and online – that wrongly equates a wide range of offensive speech with violence and seeks to shut it down. This has led to an escalating free speech arms race, from which everyone loses. Charlotte Lydia Riley, historian of empire and editor of The Free Speech Wars, argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before. Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading curator of debate, this book is part of the THINK AGAIN series: short books that present two expert, contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume that can be read from either end. © Suzanne Nossel and Charlotte Lydia Riley 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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Title: The Art Of War: The Classic Work With Comprehensive Annotations From The Greatest Chinese Commentators

Author: Lionel Giles, Sun Tzu

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Release date: October 9, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic anthology, which became known as the Seven Military Classics. In modern Anglophone culture it is often the only strategic text someone has read, supplanting and exceeding the previous dominant strategic text (von Clausewitz’s On War, 1832, tr. 1874). Leaders from Mao Zedong and Takeda Shingen to Võ Nguyên Giáp and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. have explicitly acknowledged the book’s influence on them. This translation is notably the second major version of it in English. It follows a translation by Everard Ferguson Calthrop that Giles found deeply contemptible, as one can see from the introduction. It is important to note that most scholars do not consider the Art of War one of the classic Daoist texts. While it is a product and application of the philosophy, it is more of an exegetical monograph than a consideration of the philosophical underpinnings of Daoism. Much like the Zhuang Zi, it takes the core ideas and realizes them in specific practical situations. It does so with such certainty that many contest it as a ‘true’ Daoist work. As you will see from the discussions embedded elsewhere, the key Daoist texts value contradiction and paradox far too much to be as procedurally simple as the Art of War is. It is not clear that this criticism is fair, however. A much kinder perspective is that Daoism’s great failure is in its apparent lack of any utilitarian or social value. While Confucianism provides a balance, Sun Tzu’s work attempts to build a more practical version of Daoism than the key texts allow for.

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Title: A Life in the American Century

Author: Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For the past eight decades, we have lived in 'the American Century'—a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power—be it political, economic, or military—on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world affairs. His many books on the nature of power and political leadership have rightly earned him his reputation as one of the most influential international relations scholars in the world today. In this deeply personal book, Joseph Nye shares his own journey living through the American century. From his early years growing up on a farm in rural New Jersey to his time in the State Department, Pentagon, and Intelligence Community during the Carter and Clinton administrations where he witnessed American power up close, shaping policy on key issues such as nuclear proliferation and East Asian security. After 9/11 drew the US into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Nye remained an astute observer and critic of the Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies. Today American primacy may be changing, but he concludes with a faint ray of guarded optimism about the future of his country in a richer but riskier world.

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Title: Good as Gold: How to Unleash the Power of Sound Money

Author: Judy Shelton

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

From financial crises, to pandemic price-spikes, to recurring cycles of inflation, everyone agrees: the economy has seen better days. But as soon as pundits and politicians start discussing economics, things get murky. Most books ask more questions than they answer. Most books … but not this one. Judy Shelton—Senior Fellow at Independent Institute, former Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, and critically acclaimed monetary economist—has written a book with answers. And not a moment too soon. With clarity and moral courage, Shelton charts the course to a brighter future. She’s one of the few economists bold enough to challenge the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve, emphasizing how today’s policies enrich elites at the expense of—you guessed it—poor and middle-class Americans. This, Shelton insists, must end. And it can end—easily. But Shelton doesn’t stop there. Her vision is for not only America but also for people around the world. Global, economic upliftment, she insists, need not come at the expense of domestic prosperity. We can have both—but not without a sound and stable US currency. And history is very clear on this point. When the US dollar is backed by gold, America prospers, and so does the rest of the world. In this book, Shelton casts a powerful vision that is as revolutionary as it is time-tested … a vision that shows how the future American dollar can perform as good as gold … or even better. But this is no curmudgeonly demand to return to the gold standard of yore. Neither is it a demand to return to the Bretton Woods era. Instead, Shelton offers something new: an explanation of how we can use gold for a new international monetary order. Step by step, she lays out how gold can provide a universal measure of value across borders, create new financial opportunities, and dramatically increase prosperity around the world. If you care about the poor, rich, and everyone in between, you have to listen to this book … and discover: how price stability functions as the foundation for productive economic growth; how political freedom and economic freedom are fundamentally linked … and how one cannot exist without the other; how to reconcile the stability of America’s domestic currency in a global context; the proper role of government in the economy; and much, much more … Writing with a sober but hopeful voice, Shelton is no ordinary economist. With grace, intellectual rigor, and unmatched passion, this book is a must-listen for anyone invested in the future of the American—and global—economy. You’ll walk away with more answers than questions—a rare experience for anyone who reads about monetary policy.

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Title: Euroshock: How the Largest Debt Restructuring in History Helped Save Greece and Preserve the Eurozone

Author: Charles H. Dallara

Narrator: Bryan Tudor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning to recover from the global financial crisis that had shaken global markets and had led to a sharp recession. At the same time, Europe was entering a new phase of economic stress. By the spring of 2011, the European economy had exploded into a full-blown crisis with Greece at the center. The euro, a currency just over a decade old, was under severe pressure and there was growing speculation about Greece leaving the Eurozone and thereby fracturing the common currency, leading potentially to an unraveling of the euro. Against this backdrop, urgent negotiations were launched to pull Greece and Europe back from the brink of disaster. This is the inside story of those negotiations.

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Title: From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security: 75 Years of Research and Development at Sandia National Laboratories

Author: Justin Quinn Olmstead, Leland Johnson

Narrator: Derek Shetterly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Sandia National Laboratories is one of the primary providers of the science, technology, and engineering capabilities needed to ensure both US and global security. Its mandate has moved far beyond its original weapons-centered mission—the development of nuclear weapons—and now encompasses complex economic, energy, environmental, and nonproliferation issues. From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security chronicles the history of Sandia, from its origins during World War II to its current multifaceted role at the forefront of innovation.

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Title: From Enlightenment To Revolution: Pitt, Burke & Robespierre, 1766-1794

Series: #12 of History's Great Speeches

Author: Maximillian Robespierre, William Pitt, Edmund Burke

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine constitutionalism; Burke, the consummate parliamentarian, speaking for the glory of empire; and Robespierre, the legendary and controversial frontman of the French Revolution. William Pitt The Elder speaks about the need for key changes to the body politic. The first speech here predates the interregnum, being from 1738, when he was merely thirty, and covers a key factor in Britain’s colonial problems for the next two centuries, being the complete internal corruption of the army. Edmund Burke represents the height of Royalist sympathy as the age of revolution gets underway. He speaks on the need for conciliation with America after the disaster of the Stamp Act and revolution, on the need to punish Warren Hastings for treating his Asian holdings as his own empire to fill with his own corruption, and on the end of an era with the passing of Marie Antoinette. Finally, the age of revolution, both industrial and political, has begun. Robespierre argues for the dignity of man; for rejecting the divinity of royal authority in favour of that of the human spirit; against the death penalty, as being below the dignity of a truly humanist state; on enemies, internal and external, who push the people to reject their own interests for those of the powerful. This is but a small selection of the man’s incredible output - in 1791 alone, he gave three hundred and twenty-eight speeches. Spitting bile and flame in his last speech, which closes this volume, Robespierre truly inaugurates the era when revolution against centuries-old powers brought their end, and their nations found their renewal.

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Title: Demosthenes: History's Greatest Orator, 344-324BCE

Series: #11 of History's Great Speeches

Author: Demosthenes

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Demosthenes is generally acknowledged as the greatest orator in history. He overcame a stammer and the theft of his inheritance by his legal guardians to become as foundational to oratory as his contemporaries Plato and Aristotle are to philosophy. Much like a major contemporary political figure, he overcame a stammer on his journey to greatness, with “inarticulate and stammering pronunciation.” He was known as “a water drinker”; a stern and serious presence at all times. His great battle was against the waning of Athenian democracy, which slowly disintegrated into oligarchy and treason over his lifetime. As a legislator, ambassador, and leader he fought against the inexorable rise of Philip of Macedon and, later, Philip’s son Alexander. Fighting for the peace, democracy and equality that Athenian ancestors brought to all Greece, his tale ends in ruin as Athens finally falls, after more than thirty years trying to hold the line. In historical terms, many of the patterns, descriptions and arguments presented here will seem eerily familiar, like listening to Songs In The Key Of Life for the first time. Every part of it has been reused a thousand times by people ever since its creation, so you are intimately familiar with the style, even if you have never come across it before. After a prestigious career of public service, the tide turned against him. An accusation of bribery leads to his most famous speech, On The Crown. This defense of his career as the tides turned against him has been described as “the greatest speech of the greatest orator in the world.” After his conviction, he escaped from prison and went on the run. He was exiled, brought back, then sentenced to death; eventually, fleeing the city again, this time to the island of Kalaureia (modern-day Poros). Discovered by Archias, he asked for time to write a letter to his family, and took poison from a reed.

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Title: [German] - Rudolf Steiner: Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Anthroposophie und der Waldorfpädagogik

Author: Rudolf Steiner

Narrator: Tim Eriksson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Release date: October 6, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Seine Waldorfpädagogik entwickelte Rudolf Steiner ab dem Jahr 1919 - doch die wesentlichen Grundlagen derselben behandelt er schon in seinem Aufsatz 'Die Erziehung des Kindes vom Gesichtspunkte der Geisteswissenschaft', den er im Jahr 1907 verfasste. Aus gutem Grund ein Grundlagenwerk der Waldorfpädagogik!

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Title: [German] - Rudolf Steiner: Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?: Ein Grundlagenwerk der Anthroposophie

Author: Rudolf Steiner

Narrator: Tim Eriksson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Release date: October 5, 2024

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Nachdem Rudolf Steiner im Jahre 1904 die Erstausgabe seines Werkes 'Theosophie' präsentiert hatte, folgte rasch darauf das Werk 'Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?', eine außerordentlich detaillierte Einführung in die Ideenwelt der Anthroposophie.Das Buch wurde ein außerordentlich großer Erfolg und erschien in mehreren Auflagen.