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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change Author: Alfred W. McCoy Narrator: Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders. During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries. After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, the closing chapters use those hard-won insights to peer through the present and into the future. By rendering often-opaque environmental science in lucid prose, the book explains how climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations, born at the start of this century, during the coming decades that will serve as the signposts of their lives—2030, 2050, 2070, and beyond.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Author: Sally Hayden Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the European Union started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619462 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A LEI Author: Frédéric Bastiat Narrator: Miguel Dias Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: May 4, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Porque é que a instituição que faz cumprir a lei não obedece a lei? Porque é que a lei permite que o estado pratique atividades que são consideradas ilegais para os indivíduos? Estas são algumas das mais intrigantes questões em filosofia político-econômica. Particularmente, a questão da lei que viola a moral é central para a compreensão da filosofia estatista. Bastiat, nesta obra de 1850, discute a crucial questão de como determinar se alguma lei é injusta. Também define as situações em que o estado passa a comportar-se como contraventor. Bastiat discute profundamente, e com grande capacidade de síntese, estas e outras questões neste texto que parece ter sido escrito nos dias de hoje. O ensaio é eterno pois aplica-se sempre que o estado decide obedecer leis diferentes daquelas que os indivíduos devem obedecer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624319 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: In the Classical Tradition Author: Ludwig Von Mises Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In 1927, classical liberalism—based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade—was dying, when one of the twentieth century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism. 'The ultimate outcome of the struggle' between liberalism and totalitarianism, say Mises, 'will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream Author: Dinesh D'Souza Narrator: David Cochran Heath Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 6, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his controversial New York Times bestseller The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza answered the question on everyone’s mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D’Souza explained, is Obama’s fervent anticolonial ideology. Here, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama’s America, D’Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anticolonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our founders would hardly recognize. Obama came into office with an eight-year plan for America, argues D’Souza. If he’s reelected in 2012, he will be able to finish the job—and destroy America’s future. Making the case that Obama must be a one-term president, Obama’s America reveals what unchecked power will do to this great nation and is a must-read for anyone who cares about America and her future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Common Law Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Narrator: Robert Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 2, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite. In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality Author: Chris Mooney Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 10, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it’s just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more. Why won’t Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts? Science writer Chris Mooney explores brain scans, polls, and psychology experiments to explain why conservatives today believe more wrong things, appear more likely than Democrats to oppose new ideas and less likely to change their beliefs in the face of new facts, and sometimes respond to compelling evidence by doubling down on their current beliefs. Certain to spark discussion and debate, The Republican Brain also promises to add to the lengthy list of persuasive scientific findings that Republicans reject and deny.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treatise on Law Author: Thomas Aquinas Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 4, 2012 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism. This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again Author: Donald J. Trump Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 5, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In his blockbuster new book, businessman and entrepreneur Donald J. Trump argues that America is in serious trouble, and that our days as a superpower are numbered. “Our nation has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. It’s time to get tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States,” says Trump. “We need to get serious about the debt, we need to get serious about oil, we need to get serious about job creation, and we need to get serious about our country’s future.” With his trademark candor and charisma, Trump reveals his hard-line, commonsense solutions to the problems plaguing us today and shows how we can put our country back on the path to greatness. Nobody is better at achieving spectacular success than Donald Trump. Here, Trump shows how America can do the same.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spirit of Laws Author: Baron De Montesquieu Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s championship of the nobility and the Parliaments, but above all to the brilliant style of his prose. By the “spirit of laws,” Montesquieu means their raison d’être and the conditions determining their origin, development, and forms. Montesquieu discusses numerous topics, including the general functions of government, relations between the sexes, the morals and customs of the nation, economics and religion, and the theory of law and legislative practice.