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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كافكا الأعمال الكاملة ج2 Author: فرانز كافكا Narrator: حمدي التايه Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 29, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: الأعمال الكاملة للكاتب الألماني فرانز كافكا في ثلاثة أجزاء، ترجم جزءين عن اللغة التشيكية د.خالد البلتاجي، وتضم ١٢ عملاً بين القصة والرواية، منها 'المسخ'، 'في مستعمرة العقاب'، و'سور الصين العظيم'، و'أبحاث كلب'، و'فنان الجوع' و 'وطن الفئران'، و'التحول' فضلا عن أجزاء من أعمال لم تكتمل مثل (صراع)، و (في مستعمرة العقاب) وغيرها، والجزء الثالث يضم أعمالاً لم تترجم من قبل للعربية وهي قصصه القصيرة جداً، ومسرحية تعبيرية وقصص وجدت في يومياته بعد وفاته، ترجمها عن الألمانية يسري خميس.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572167 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كل الأشياء Author: بثينة العيسى Narrator: بثينة شية Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 28, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ' هذا ما يحدث للكاتب الذي يزعج السلطة، إنه يتحول إلى موعظة؛ أنت لا تستطيع، مهما فعلت، أن تفلت من النظام. كل شيء تفعله يمنح الشرعية لخصمك، خصمك أكبر منك، هذه اللعبة أكبر منك، وأنت مثل أطفال السياسة إياهم. لو أنه كتب شيئاً يومها، لكان كتب عن الآلة الصماء التي تسحق القلب. الآلة التي وجد نفسه أحد تروسها. لو أنه كتب لاعترف بالأمر ببساطة .. لا يوجد أبطال، وكلنا تروس '

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart Author: Jamal Greene Narrator: Ryan Vincent Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun. Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let us do whatever the right protects. And judges, for their part, seem unable to imagine two rights coexisting—reducing the law to winners and losers. The resulting system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them. As renowned legal scholar Jamal Greene argues, we need a different approach—and in How Rights Went Wrong, he proposes one that the Founders would have approved. They preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges, he explains. Only because of the Founders’ original sin of racial discrimination—and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court—did courts gain such outsized power over Americans’ rights. In this paradigm-shifting account, Greene forces readers to rethink the relationship between constitutional law and political dysfunction and shows how we can recover America’s original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century. Audiobook read by Ryan Vincent Anderson.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century Author: Josh Rogin Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters Author: David Mountain Narrator: Alex Wyndham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking. The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations. Today history is often used to justify xenophobia, nationalism and inequality as we cling to grand origin stories and heroic tales of extraordinary men. Exploring myths, mysteries and misconceptions about the past – from the legacies of figures like Pythagoras and Christopher Columbus, to the realities of life in the gun-toting Wild West, to the archaeological digs that have upset our understanding of the birth of civilisation – David Mountain reveals how ongoing revolutions in history and archaeology are shedding light on the truth. Full of adventures, and based on detailed research and interviews, Past Mistakes will make you reconsider your understanding of history – and of the world today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life Author: Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Tackling the myth of a post-racial society Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.” And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed. That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest Author: Lawrence Roberts Narrator: Kiff Vandenheuvel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it. Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. It began with a bombing inside the U.S. Capitol—a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe’s guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the military. Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. As a young female public defender led a thrilling legal battle to free the detainees, Nixon and his men took their first steps down the road to the Watergate scandal and the implosion of the presidency.   Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569042 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy Author: Larry Tye Narrator: Ben Jaeger-Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever review of his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings In the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use “McCarthyism” to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a weapon of polarizing slander. From 1950 to 1954, McCarthy destroyed many careers and even entire lives, whipping the nation into a frenzy of paranoia, accusation, loyalty oaths, and terror. When the public finally turned on him, he came crashing down, dying of alcoholism in 1957. Only now, through bestselling author Larry Tye’s exclusive look at the senator’s records, can the full story be told. Demagogue is a masterful portrait of a human being capable of immense evil, yet beguiling charm. McCarthy was a tireless worker and a genuine war hero. His ambitions knew few limits. Neither did his socializing, his drinking, nor his gambling. When he finally made it to the Senate, he flailed around in search of an agenda and angered many with his sharp elbows and lack of integrity. Finally, after three years, he hit upon anti-communism. By recklessly charging treason against everyone from George Marshall to much of the State Department, he became the most influential and controversial man in America. His chaotic, meteoric rise is a gripping and terrifying object lesson for us all. Yet his equally sudden fall from fame offers reason for hope that, given the rope, most American demagogues eventually hang themselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump Author: Sam Koppelman, Neal Katyal Narrator: Christopher Ryan Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 26, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why President Trump has left us with no choice but to remove him from office, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal. No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving—held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues in Impeach, if President Trump is not held accountable for repeatedly asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, this could very well mark the end of our democracy. To quote President George Washington’s Farewell Address: “Foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.” Impeachment should always be our last resort, explains Katyal, but our founders, our principles, and our Constitution leave us with no choice but to impeach President Trump—before it’s too late.  Read by Christopher Ryan Grant CHRISTOPHER RYAN GRANT  is an actor and voice artist based in New York City. As well as narrating numerous audiobooks, and lending his voice to video games, animated shows, and radio/TV campaigns, he has also appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh starring Denzel Washington and the Tony Award winning Million Dollar Quartet. He has been seen on stage recently in Coriolanus at Shakespeare in the Park, at The Public, Lincoln Center, New World Stages, Yale  Rep, Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), The MUNY, and at NY Stage & Film among many others. Film/TV credits include Rolling on the Floor Laughing, Hard Times For Softcore, How You Are To Me, “The Other Two”, and “Nella the Princess Knight”.