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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World Author: Deirdre N. Mccloskey, Art Carden Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism. For listeners looking for a distillation of McCloskey's magisterial work, Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich is what you've been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy's key ideas and its most provocative arguments. Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to The Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey's influential explanation of how we got rich.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Roe: An American Story Author: Joshua Prager Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers—a previously unseen trove—and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America.Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River, where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe.Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption.Prager found those women, including the youngest—Baby Roe—now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception.The Family Roe abounds in such revelations—not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics Author: Stephen Breyer Narrator: Jim Seybert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 52 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view, the confirmation process is just an exercise in partisan agenda-setting, and the jurists are no more than “politicians in robes”?their ostensibly neutral judicial philosophies mere camouflage for conservative or liberal convictions. Stephen Breyer, drawing upon his experience as a Supreme Court justice, sounds a cautionary note. Mindful of the Court’s history, he suggests that the judiciary’s hard-won authority could be marred by reforms premised on the assumption of ideological bias. Having, as Hamilton observed, “no influence over either the sword or the purse,” the Court earned its authority by making decisions that have, over time, increased the public’s trust. If public trust is now in decline, one part of the solution is to promote better understandings of how the judiciary actually works: how judges adhere to their oaths and how they try to avoid considerations of politics and popularity. Breyer warns that political intervention could itself further erode public trust. Without the public’s trust, the Court would no longer be able to act as a check on the other branches of government or as a guarantor of the rule of law, risking serious harm to our constitutional system.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Contra el fascismo Author: Umberto Eco Narrator: Eugenio Barona Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 9, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Las catorce claves de Umberto Eco para reconocer el fascismo: un manifiesto urgente. «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez.» Irene Vallejo «Uno de los pensadores más influyentes de nuestro tiempo.» Los Angeles Times «El fascismo eterno aún nos rodea, aunque lleve traje de paisano. Puede volver en cualquier momento, aunque se disfrace de las formas más inocuas. Nuestro deber es detectarlo, quitarle la máscara y denunciar en voz alta cada una de sus gestas.» En esta conferencia dirigida a los alumnos de una universidad norteamericana en 1995, Umberto Eco alertaba frente a la sombra alargada de un fenómeno que no se restringe al ámbito político ni tiene fecha de caducidad, porque tras un régimen y una ideología hay siempre un cierto modo de pensar y de sentir, un sustrato cultural que puede ser el germen de una nueva ola fascista. El gran pensador de nuestro tiempo, aquel que nos enseñó a «reflexionar antes de pensar», nos ofrece catorce claves para reconocer el fantasma del «fascismo eterno» y nos brinda instrumentos para que el presente y el futuro no se parezcan a nuestro peor pasado. La crítica ha dicho... «El fascismo es un monstruo con muchas caras. Hace casi 25 años, Umberto Eco advertía sobre esta cuestión que a día de hoy ha adquirido una importancia caudal y una urgencia realmente inquietante.» Diari de Girona «Una invitación a la memoria, para que nunca demos algo por superado.» Furio Colombo, Il Fatto Quotidiano «Muy convincente y con la clase de destellos de inteligencia y conocimiento que los lectores esperan de una de las mentes más brillantes de Italia.» Library Journal «Eco mezcla recuerdos personales de su juventud bajo el régimen fascista y analiza estructuralmente los catorce arquetipos del fascismo primitivo y eterno.» Babelio «Cabe enel bolsillo de una americana, tiene 61 páginas y concreción suficiente para funcionar como un ibuprofeno.» Karina Sainz Borgo, Voz Pópuli «Sesenta y cuatro páginas fáciles de leer que nos recuerdan que el fascismo tiene más de una cara y que puede volver a surgir bajo otros hábitos.» France Inter «Umberto Eco sugiere que existe un fascismo eterno cuyas características, aunque en aparencia contradictorias o inocentes, siguen entre nosotros.» Il Manifesto «Eco explica el nexo inseparable entre libertad y Liberación (del fascismo).» Paolo di Paolo, L'Espresso «Un genio inagotable, voraz, que construye y deconstruye sin cesar, de inteligencia deslumbrante y humorística cuando hace falta.» Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Un manifiesto urgente, y yo añadiría que necesario, en la actualidad que vivimos.» Jesús Cabaleiro Larrán, Periodistas en Español

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Lei de Parcelamento do Solo Comentada : aprovação de loteamentos convencionais ou de acesso controlado e condomínios de casas ou lotes Author: Jamilson Lisboa Sabino Narrator: Equipe Multicast Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 8, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Comentamos a Lei de Parcelamento do Solo Urbano, Lei nº 6.766/79, artigo por artigo, conforme a interpretação doutrinária e jurisprudencial. Conceituamos parcelamento do solo, loteamento, desmembramento, desdobro, condomínio de casas e condomínio de lotes. A definição de perímetro urbano, zona urbana, zona de expansão urbana, zona de urbanização específica. A exigência de áreas públicas no projeto de loteamento ou condomínio e a desafetação e alienação dessas áreas. O projeto de aprovação de loteamentos e condomínios, o licenciamento ambiental, o registro no Cartório de Imóveis, são abordados detalhadamente. Os contratos celebrados entre o loteador e os adquirentes possuem uma nova ordenação jurídica com as alterações implementadas na lei e são criteriosamente explicados.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Author: Dara Horn Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease the living.Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the “righteous Gentile” Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of “Never forget,” is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enemies and Allies: An Unforgettable Journey inside the Fast-Moving & Immensely Turbulent Modern Middle East Author: Joel C. Rosenberg Narrator: Michael Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Christian Book Award Finalist - Audio - 2022!!! Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its military forces in the Mideast and focusing on matters closer to home. Where’s it all heading? New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg, based in Jerusalem, skillfully and clearly explains the sometimes-encouraging, sometimes-violent, yet rapidly shifting landscape in Israel and the Arab/Muslim world. Enemies and Allies will take readers behind closed doors in the Middle East and introduce them to the very kings and crown princes, presidents and prime ministers who are leading the change. Includes exclusive, never-before-published quotes, insights, and analysis from the author’s conversations with some of the most complex and controversial leaders in the world: - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) - Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - Jordan’s King Abdullah II - United Arab Emirates’ Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) - Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Israeli president Reuven Rivlin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: International Relations: A Very Short Introduction Author: Christian Reus-Smit Narrator: Johnathan Rufus Welsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 31, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of empires to today's world of sovereign states, which are enmeshed in a complex array of international institutions, all exercising degrees of political authority. The new global organization of political authority has far-reaching consequences. This Very Short Introduction untangles this complex world, providing an accessible framework for understanding the contours of global political change. Christian Reus-Smit treats theory as an indispensable tool for grasping international relations, but demystifies theorizing, introducing it as an everyday human practice. He surveys a range of theories, from realism to feminism: reading them as contrasting perspectives on the global organization of political authority. Historically, such organization has been shaped by diverse social forces, four of which are discussed in detail: shifting patterns of warfare, changing economic conditions, struggles for rights, and the politics of culture. Reus-Smit concludes with a reflection on the future of international relations in an era of profound global change.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El cártel negro: Cómo el crimen organizado se ha apoderado de Pemex Author: Ana Lilia Pérez Narrator: Liliana Barba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 26, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Esta valiosa investigación ha sido el punto de partida para la estrategia del gobierno de López Obrador contra el huachicoleo. 'El cártel negro es el trabajo más amplio, mejor documentado y más descarnado acerca de la grave incursión de la delincuencia organizada en Pemex. Ana Lilia Pérez, una periodista fuerte, incisiva y acuciosa, presenta en este libro la que probablemente sea su más acabada y potente investigación periodística.' Carmen Aristegui Durante los gobiernos de Vicente Fox Quesada y Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, se desarrolla el 'cártel negro', un conglomerado de funcionarios, trabajadores, empresarios, contratistas, inspectores, contralores, agentes aduanales, dirigentes y miembros del sindicato petrolero, políticos,ordeñadores, tapineros, huachicoleros, extorsionadores, defraudadores, contrabandistas y lavadores de dinero que, alineados con los traficantes de droga, se consolidan como una organización empresarial paralela a Pemex, al grado de competirle en el mercado nacional e internacional de los combustibles. En estas páginas se documentan escrupulosamente las acciones del crimen organizado en la industria petrolera de México: la creación de compañías fachada, los contratos simulados, la ordeña de pozos y ductos, así como el saqueo en las áreas con mayor blindaje. Es un trabajo periodístico decisivo que se ha construido a partir de informes confidenciales, bitácoras del área de seguridad de Pemex, auditorías de la Secretaría de la Función Pública, testimonios de testigos protegidos y, sobre todo, de expedientes reservados en términos de seguridadnacional que la autora logró desclasificar tras una larga batalla. Así se devela cómo la empresa petrolera quedó de rodillas ante la mafia. El cártel negro es una ventana al fangoso inframundo en el que se convirtió a Pemex, producto de muchos años de saqueo, corrupción e impunidad.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Building Community Food Webs Author: Ken Meter Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the US are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai'i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota.