Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future Author: Ben Tarnoff Narrator: Ben Tarnoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone's behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed Author: Andrew Koppelman Narrator: Richard Ferrone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A lively history of American libertarianism and its decay into dangerous fantasy. In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick’s house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. Observers across the political spectrum agreed―some with horror and some with enthusiasm―that this revealed the true face of libertarianism. But libertarianism did not always require callous indifference to the misfortunes of others. Modern libertarianism began with Friedrich Hayek’s admirable corrective to the Depression-era vogue for central-economic planning. It resisted oppressive state power. It showed how capitalism could improve life for everyone. Yet today, it’s a toxic blend of anarchism, disdain for the weak, and rationalization for environmental catastrophe. Libertarians today accept new, radical arguments that crumble under scrutiny; justify dishonest business practices; and promote COVID-19 deniers, which includes many who refuse to wear masks in the name of “freedom.” Andrew Koppelman’s audiobook traces libertarianism’s evolution from Hayek’s moderate pro-market ideas to the romantic fabulism of Murray Rothbard, Robert Nozick, and Ayn Rand, as well as Charles Koch’s promotion of climate change denial. Burning Down the House is the definitive history of an ideological movement that has reshaped American politics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age Author: Danielle Keats Citron Narrator: Chloe Cannon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy—encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships. When intimate privacy becomes data, corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test. Social and political forces know how to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents. And as new technologies invite new violations, people have power over one another like never before, from revenge porn to blackmail, attaching life-altering risks to growing up, dating online, or falling in love. A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Author: Jeremiah Moss Narrator: Jeremiah Moss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An exhilarating and intimate look at what happened when the pandemic emptied the city―and a rebellious energy reclaimed the streets. Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible. Participating in a historic explosion of protest, resistance, and spontaneity, from queer BLM marches to exuberant outdoor dance parties, he discovers that, without “hyper-normal” people to constrain it, New York can be more creative, connected, humane, and joyful. In this genre-bending work of “autotheory,” Moss gives an account of his renewed sense of place as a transgender man, braiding the narrative with psychoanalysis, literature, and queer theory, as he offers valuable insight into the way public space―and the spaces inside us―are controlled and can be set free.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator: Torben Liebrecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: »Unser Geschäft ist der Tod und das Geschäft läuft gut.« PMC (Private Military Company) WAGNER ist ein privates russisches Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen, dessen Einheiten verdeckt operieren und als besonders brutal gelten. WAGNER war während der russischen Machtübernahme auf der Krim sowie in Syrien, im Sudan, in Mali aktiv und ist es aktuell auch in der Ukraine. Der private Charakter von Putins Schattenarmee WAGNER hat den Vorteil, dass offizielle Aufträge abgestritten und jegliche Konventionen oder Völkerrecht ignoriert werden können und auch Verluste dieser Einheiten keine Rolle spielen. Finanzielle und politische Interessen vermischen sich. Die Verbindungen der WAGNER-Gründer zu Putin sind offensichtlich. Obwohl WAGNER-Soldaten kein Teil der russischen Streitkräfte sind, werden verdiente Kräfte mit Orden dekoriert. Der WAGNER-Söldner Marat Gabidullin gibt erstmals einen Einblick in das Innenleben der WAGNER-Truppe. Die Schilderungen von Marat Gabidullin werden durch ein Vorwort der französischen Journalistinnen Ksenia Bolchakova und Alexandra Jousset eingebunden, die auch einen Dokumentarfilm über ihn und die Gruppe WAGNER gedreht haben.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Zwei Standardwerke der Sozialpsychologie von Gustave le Bon und Siegmund Freud Series: #24 of Psychologie der Massen / Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse Author: Sigmund Freud, Gustave Le Bon Narrator: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Zwei Hörbücher in einer Box! 1. Psychologie der Massen: Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon beschrieb 1895 in seinem Standardwerk diese Mechanismen. Es ist erstaunlich und spricht für den Autor, dass die eingängig erklärte Analyse zeitlos wirkt und die Hörer den Eindruck gewinnen, das Buch sei tatsächlich viel jünger. 2. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Was ist eine Masse? Laut Sigmund Freud ein 'provisorisches Wesen, das aus heterogenen Elementen besteht, die sich für einen Augenblick miteinander verbunden haben.' Doch wie verhält sich der Einzelne innerhalb dieser Masse? Aufbauend auf Gustave le Bons Grundlagenwerk kommt Freud zu äußerst interessanten Schlussfolgerungen.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines Author: B. A. Friedman Narrator: Derek Dysart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Expanded Second Edition Author: Cece Mcdonald Narrator: Adi Cabral Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex. Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/ queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation, to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. This expanded second edition includes a new foreword from CeCe McDonald and essays by Chelsea Manning, Kalaniopua Young, and Janetta Louise Johnson and Toshio Meronek.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane Author: Justin Hart Narrator: Axel Bosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Data and marketing consultant and statistical sage to presidential candidates, governors, businesses, and the real powers-that-be, epidemiologists, Justin Hart catalogs in a terrifying-but-sprightly manner the folly and psychosis produced by the pandemic and diagnoses the societal destruction that the massive overresponse to the COVID virus has wreaked, as well as what can be done to stop the madness and bring the world back to a modicum of rationality. WORST. DISEASE. EVER. Someone broke America. In this nightmare, neighbors have turned into agoraphobes, teachers fear their students, children are muzzled, citizens are censored, dystopian fictions have become reality, and unelected officials are creating a biometric police state. Oh wait. It’s not a nightmare. It’s our daily lives! In truth, much of this insanity didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic (it was already latent in big government and big corporations) and it won’t end there. COVID-19’s greatest threat turned out to be … mental. All we had to fear was fear itself—and boy did some of us fear! The very idea of the virus weakened the immune system of America and revealed a decaying underbelly of confusion, panic, unease, and cowardice few of the strong ones suspected existed. What a horrible wake-up call! In a spate of anxious dread and gleeful power-grabbing, our health overlords threw away the pandemic response handbook and tried—beyond all reason—to protect, well, everyone. From massive over-testing to universal retail plexiglass to stay-at-home orders to stay-away-from-school orders to masking mandates to vaccine mandates to some of the worst restrictions on civil liberties in American history, this is an epic story that poses big questions about America’s future as a free society. And the odd thing is, as Justin Hart shows, the actual disease was, as pandemics go, not that threatening; most people were at minimal risk. What is really scary is the total overreaction of half the country, many governments, that lost all sense of perspective. Hart offers a hopeful prescription on how we might face the madness down and claw our way back to sanity!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods Author: John Mcknight, Cormac Russell Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village! We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away? Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighborhoods. He and John McKnight, the cooriginator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with his or her neighbors to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures. You will learn to take action on what you already deeply know-that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal.