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ID: 737912

Title: How to Steal a Presidential Election

Author: Lawrence Lessig, Matthew Seligman

Narrator: Christopher Ragland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:26:52

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, American Politics, Law, Political Ideologies

Summary:

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolenby entirely legal means

Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol might actually prevent a presidential succession was farfetched. Yet perfectly legal ways of overturning election results actually do exist, and they would allow a political party to install its own candidate in place of the true winner.

Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman work through every option available for subverting a presumptively legitimate resultfrom vice-presidential intervention to election decertification and beyond. While many strategies would never pass constitutional muster, Lessig and Seligman explain how some might. They expose correctable weaknesses in the system, including one that could be corrected only by the Supreme Court.

Any strategy aimed at hacking a presidential election is a threat to democracy. This book is a clarion call to shore up the insecure system for electing the president before American democracy is forever compromised.

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Matthew Seligman is a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a partner at Stris & Maher LLP.

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ID: 674865

Title: Once Upon a Time in the North

Author: Philip Pullman

Narrator: David Harewood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:23:35

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A mesmerising episode from the universe of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, giving us an extraordinary insight into this world and its characters.

When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much evidence of the adventure that brought them together.

She discovers that when a young Texan balloonist Lee came down to earth in the harbour of an Arctic town in the North, little did he realise that he is about to be caught in a war between the residents of the town and the huge arctic bears that also live there.

And when Lee meets one of these bears - Iorek - for the first time, they cement a friendship that will continue throughout their lives, as the tensions in the town threaten to erupt ...

©2008 Philip Pullman (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 692525

Title: Matilda

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Daisy Ridley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:10:01

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

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This audio edition of Matilda is narrated by Daisy Ridley (Star Wars, Peter Rabbit), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers.

These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone.

Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind.

But her parents have decided she's just a nuisance who wastes too much time on reading and stories.

And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up.

Now it's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . .

© 1988 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 686039

Title: Moral AI: And How We Get There

Author: Jana Schaich Borg, Vincent Conitzer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Narrator: Rory Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:42:32

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Philosophy, Computers

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A reassuring and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics

Should robots ever be considered free? Will computers transcend human intelligence? And what can we do to make sure AI is safe?

The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals - and AI's presence in our lives will only increase. Some see this as the dawn of new era in innovation and ease; others are alarmed by its destructive potential. But one thing is clear: this is a technology like no other, one that raises profound questions about freedom, justice and the very definition of human agency.

In Moral AI, world-renowned researchers in artificial intelligence and philosophy, Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vince Conitzer tackle these thorny issues head-on. Writing lucidly and calmly, they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field, peeling away the exaggeration and alarm, and offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI programmes. Ultimately, they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethically, but that its potential cannot be achieved without careful reflection on the values we wish to imbue it with.

This is an essential primer for any thinking person.

©2024 Jana Schaich Borg, Vincent Conitzer, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 698137

Title: Dirty Beasts

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Tim Key

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:28:21

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

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This audio edition of Revolting Rhymes is narrated by poet, actor and comedian, Tim Key, and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Crocky-Wock the crocodile to Stingaling the scorpion, described in verse with all Dahl's usual gusto.

Was that CROCKY-WOCK galumphing up the stairs?

Is STINGALING hiding in your bed?

And what foul fate has PIGGY planned for Farmer Bland?

WARNING! This book contains wickedly funny verse, prickly surprises and the most despicable creatures you could ever hope (not) to meet.

©1983 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 685381

Title: Fantastic Mr Fox

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Adrian Lester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:08:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Classics, Humor

Summary:

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This audio edition of Fantastic Mr Fox is narrated by multi-award winning actor Adrian Lester (Hustle, The Day After Tomorrow), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

'On a hill above the valley there was a wood.

In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole.

In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes. . . '

Mr Fox is a very clever fox - every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the nearby farms.

Chickens from Farmer Boggis, ducks and geese from Farmer Bunce, and turkeys from Farmer Bean.

But now the farmers have had enough, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of Mr Fox for good!

But what they don't know is Mr Fox has some help, and a fantastic escape plan of his own...

©1970 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 602645

Title: Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Noel Fielding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:43:06

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: Puffin Books (UK)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Classics, Humor

Summary:

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This audio edition of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is narrated by comedian and presenter Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

'The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . .'

MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats!

AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!).

They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy.

Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?

©2001 Roald Dahl (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 602644

Title: BFG

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Mel Giedroyc

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:00:42

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: Puffin Books (UK)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

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This audio edition of The BFG is narrated by beloved actor and presenter, Mel Giedroyc, and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.'

One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant!

Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children.

But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat.

Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?

©2001 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 692529

Title: Magic Finger

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Zawe Ashton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:30:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics, Humor

Summary:

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This audio edition of The Magic Finger is narrated by actor and playwright Zawe Ashton (Fresh Meat, The Marvels), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

Out the window they flew, far up into the sky, and soon the whole family was flying around and around together.

Every Saturday morning the Gregg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.

Now it's made her so angry that she's PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL.

And very strange things have begun to happen . . .

©2022 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 524945

Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: David Tennant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics, Humor

Summary:

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This audio edition of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is narrated by iconic British actor David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens, Around The World in 80 Days), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects.

Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Gold Ticket from Mr Willy Wonka! Tremendous things are in store for you!

Charlie Bucket's life is about to change forever, thanks to one miraculous moment!

Willy Wonka, chocolate maker extraordinaire, has hidden five golden tickets in five ordinary bars of chocolate, and any child who finds one will get the chance to visit his incredible factory.

And Charlie has found one . . . But so have . . .

Augustus Gloop - a glutton for chocolate

Veruca Salt - a spoiled and selfish brat

Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive gum-chewer

Mike Teavee - a television fiend

With a chocolate river, delectable confectionery and mysterious Oompa Loompas, Mr Wonka's factory is the most wondrous place Charlie has ever seen.

© 1964 The Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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