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Title: Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History

Author: Todd Bensman

Narrator: Frank Block

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The time has come to acknowledge that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border, starting on Inauguration Day in 2021, and millions more will cross over by the end of President Joe Biden's term in 2024. This event is historic by all measures, exceeding even the storied chronicles of Ellis Island, and portends the same permanent change for the nation. Unfortunately, a fog of a fierce partisan information war obscures that it is even happening. Radical ideologues, whose ideas even the modern Democratic Party had always rejected, gained power in 2021 and, with impunity, implemented an extreme reality-divorced theology about immigration. Americans never voted for their experiment or the irrevocable consequences that immediately waylaid a surprised nation. But the American electorate has upcoming chances in the election booth to reclaim their say. This book provides what is needed now: reporting-based analysis that will lay bare this crushing ongoing emergency's causes, dimensions, and chaotic impacts so as to finally illuminate the pathway out of it. It is a true story that can be found nowhere else because it comes from the author's frontline reportage throughout the borderlands and all along the migration trails in Central America from its first days.

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Title: Abortion: a personal story, a political choice

Author: Pauline Harmange

Narrator: Jennifer Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights. Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either 'anti-abortion' or 'pro-choice,' the latter of which focuses on the importance of having the right to choose, rather than on what that right means for real people. In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed account of her abortion. Reminiscent of Annie Ernaux's Happening, Abortion is nuanced, complex, honest, and precise. Harmange gives voice to the emotions, reflections, and contradictions that someone could experience when they choose to terminate a pregnancy. At a time in which women's reproductive rights are being called into question around the world, Abortion is a clarion call, a powerful personal testimony, and a resolutely political vision: to restore power to our experiences, all our experiences, by sharing them, and to transform society for the better.

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Title: Ageing without Ageism?: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals

Author: Axel Gosseries, Greg Bognar

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Release date: August 15, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from twenty-one authors, the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Title: [German] - Die DNA der USA: Wie tickt Amerika?

Author: Sandra Navidi

Narrator: Katja Amberger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Amerika durchlebt ein epochales Gesellschaftsbeben. Mit faschistischen Methoden versuchen die Republikaner, die Demokratie zu kapern und eine autokratische Herrschaft zu etablieren: Sie befeuern die militante Spaltung der Gesellschaft, fördern einen Führerkult, rufen zu Gewalt auf und erschaffen mittels Propaganda eine fiktive Realität. Dabei kooperieren sie mit verschiedenen radikalen Gruppierungen wie extremistischen Christen, Verschwörungstheoretikern und Milizen. Ihr nächster Putschversuch läuft bereits auf Hochtouren. Zahlreiche demokratische Kontrollmechanismen haben sie bereits sabotiert – wie den Supreme Court, den sie de facto »übernommen« haben. Wie es so weit kommen konnte, erläutert Sandra Navidi, die seit über einem Vierteljahrhundert in den USA lebt und auf höchster Ebene vernetzt ist. Höchst aufschlussreich benennt und analysiert sie genau die Aspekte der amerikanischen Geschichte, Kultur und Weltanschauung, die dazu geführt haben, dass viele Amerikaner so anfällig für Desinformation, Propaganda und Extremismus sind. Aus ihrer transatlantischen Perspektive erläutert sie die Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge des Kulturkrieges, des Erstarkens der Rechtsradikalen, des religiösen Fundamentalismus und des Waffenkults. Wie groß die Gefahr eines Bürgerkriegs ist und ob Amerika in den Faschismus taumelt, das erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. *** Amerika – die Supermacht, die sich als außergewöhnlich und unverzichtbar erachtet, ist immer noch das beliebteste Einwanderungsland und die stärkste Wirtschaftsmacht der Welt. Wie ist es möglich, dass eine Nation trotz des großen Potenzials seiner Menschen und seiner vielfältigen Stärken so nah an den gesellschaftlichen und politischen Abgrund geraten ist? Besser als jeder andere analysiert und erklärt die in New York ansässige Juristin und Wirtschaftsexpertin aus ihrer Insiderperspektive die Stellschrauben des Systems, die der Grund dafür sind, dass Amerika in eine existenzielle Krise gestürzt ist. Die DNA der USA ist ein tiefgründiges Porträt einer komplexen Nation.

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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.