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

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction Author: Joseph M. Siracusa Narrator: Corinne Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe, to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization, the management of power relationships has had an immense impact on our recent history. This Very Short Introduction updates the former Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction and illustrates international diplomacy in action, exploring the changes in method at key historical junctures, and highlighting the very different demands that circumstances make on the practice of diplomats. Drawing on the case studies above, it makes sense of the way in which skillful diplomacy, as well as hubris, rashness, and excessive caution, can have important ramifications for the fate of nations. Based on the experiences of diplomatic history, it also locates the universal role of negotiations and identifies the key elements of success. As Joseph M. Siracusa shows, diplomacy was and is an indispensable element of statecraft, and without skillful diplomacy political success may remain elusive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century Author: Jonas Ceika Narrator: Jonas Ceika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Modernity has been defined by humanity’s capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations with bureaucracy and state tyranny, and it's lifeless and drab theoretical accounts, Ceika instead uses the works of Marx and Nietzsche to reconnect socialism with its human element, presenting it as something not only affecting, but created by living, breathing, suffering human individuals. At a time when ecological collapse is hurtling towards us, and capitalism offers no solution except more growth and exploitation, How to Philosophise with a Hammer and Sickle shows us the way forward to a socialism grounded in human experience and accessible to all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution Author: Daniel Robert Mcclure Narrator: Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 8, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting these ideas to take hold and be challenged. Daniel Robert McClure's book follows the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the triumph of neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. From the 1965 debate between William F. Buckley and James Baldwin, through the pages of BusinessWeek and Playboy, to the rise of exploitation cinema in the 1970s, McClure tracks the increasingly shared perception by white males that they had 'lost' their long-standing rights and that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of the 1960s.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/537775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting Time Author: Amy Banks, Isaac Knapper Narrator: Beresford Bennett, Christina Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 5, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Unaware of the danger lurking on the periphery of the French Quarter, Drs. Ronald Banks and John Hakola made a tragic decision on the evening of April 29, 1979, to walk several blocks from the historic district to the Hyatt Regency. Inches from the safety of their hotel, they were accosted by two young men—a scuffle ensued, a shot was fired, and Dr. Banks lay dead on the sidewalk. Fighting Time is a tale of two families whose lives became entangled in that moment of trauma. Isaac Knapper, a sixteen-year-old boy from a nearby housing project, was wrongfully convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In Maine, the Banks family believed justice had been served by Isaac’s conviction, and his exoneration in 1992 unleashed a sea of confusion and grief. In 2015, Dr. Banks’ daughter, Amy, a psychiatrist and trauma specialist, realized it was time to unpack her own family trauma. After learning details of the prosecutorial misconduct, Amy and her sister, Nancy, traveled to New Orleans to meet the man wrongfully convicted of killing their father. In Fighting Time Isaac Knapper and Amy Banks narrate the story of their thirty-sixyear journey from murder to meeting with clarity, humility, and vulnerability.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back Author: Nathan Law, Evan Fowler Narrator: Daniel York Loh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Now we all need to stand firm to defend our freedoms, to ensure truth is not determined by dictators. We are born free and as equals. As long as we believe in that, no one can take it away from us.' What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are? Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind. He remembers what it is like to lack freedom - and his father's precarious three-day escape from China in a small rowing boat. When authoritarianism makes gains around the world, demanding our silence as the price of doing business, it poses a challenge to democracy everywhere. In this passionate rallying cry, Law argues that we must defend our freedom now or face losing it for ever. 'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.' - Jon Snow © Evan Fowler, Nathan Law 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El enemigo conoce el sistema: Manipulación de ideas, personas e influencias después de la economía de la atención Author: Marta Peirano Narrator: Martha Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 4, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Todo lo que no quieres pero necesitas saber sobre el poder, la economía, la sociedad y las telecomunicaciones en la era de la información. «Una de las raras periodistas que realmente se han especializado en la intersección de la tecnología y el poder.» EDWARD SNOWDEN La red no es libre, ni abierta ni democrática. Es un conjunto de servidores, conmutadores, satélites, antenas, routers y cables de fibra óptica controlados por un número cada vez más pequeño de empresas. Es un lenguaje y una burocracia de protocolos que hacen que las máquinas hablen, normas de circulación que conducen el tráfico, microdecisiones que definen su eficiencia. Si la consideramos un único proyecto llamado internet, podemos decir que es la infraestructura más grande jamás construida, y el sistema que define todos los aspectos de nuestra sociedad. Y sin embargo es secreta. Su tecnología está oculta, enterrada, sumergida o camuflada; sus algoritmos son opacos; sus microdecisiones son irrastreables. Los centros de datos que almacenan y procesan la información están ocultos y protegidos por armas, criptografía, propiedad intelectual y alambre de espino. La infraestructura crítica de nuestro tiempo está fuera de nuestra vista. No podemos comprender la lógica, la intención y el objetivo de lo que no vemos. Todas las conversaciones que tenemos sobre esa infraestructura son en realidad conversaciones sobre su interfaz, un conjunto de metáforas que se interpone entre nosotros y el sistema. Un lenguaje diseñado, no para facilitar nuestra comprensión de esa infraestructura, sino para ofuscarla. El enemigo conoce el sistema pero nosotros no. Este libro te ayudará a conocerlo, y a comprender por qué la herramienta más democratizadora de la historia se ha convertido en una máquina de vigilancia y manipulación de masas al servicio de regímenes autoritarios. Solo así podremos convertirla en lo que más falta noshace: una herramienta para gestionar la crisis que se avecina de la manera más humana posible. No tenemos un segundo que perder. La crítica ha dicho... «Marta Peirano es una de las voces más respetadas en nuestro país sobre privacidad y seguridad en internet.» Manuel Ángel Méndez, El Confidencial «Este nuevo ensayo de Marta Peirano dibuja el retrato de una derrota cuya épica reside en el mérito de contar lo que ha pasado y cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí para que el bando perdedor -al que usted pertenece, a no ser que sea un ejecutivo de Facebook o Google- adquiera conciencia sobre como 'el enemigo' ejerce un control y una influencia que va desde lo más pequeño -qué haces y cómo utilizas tu móvil- hasta lo más grande.» Daniel J. Ollero, El Mundo «En el libro de Peirano hay frases que son como pintadas subversivas [...] Tambiénlas hay con tanta sustancia que tienes que releerlas para asimilar toda su pólvora.» Sergi Pàmies, La Vanguardia «Un volumen de ágil lectura y profundamente documentado.» Pablo Romero, Público

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine Author: Andrew Cockburn Narrator: Qarie Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers of Islamists. US soldiers are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to act as the righteous arbiters of the rule of law. In this book, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the intentions behind Washington's martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer's urgent financial requirements; the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 because it will do us good at budget time. After years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: squalid and, at the same time, terrifyingly dangerous.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote Author: John Fund, Hans Von Spakovsky Narrator: Robert Rivington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Behind the deeply contentious 2020 election stands a real story of a broken election process. Election fraud that alters election outcomes and dilutes legitimate votes occurs all too often, as is the bungling of election bureaucrats. Our election process is full of vulnerabilities that can be?and are?taken advantage of, raising questions about, and damaging public confidence in, the legitimacy of the outcome of elections. This book explores the reality of the fraud and bureaucratic errors and mistakes that should concern all Americans and offers recommendations and solutions to fix those problems.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent Author: David Harsanyi Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why should America try to be more like countries that are worse in nearly every way?  Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia and cultural surrender. Yet American politicians, technocrats, academics, and pundits argue, with increasing popularity, that Americans should look across the Atlantic for solutions to the nation’s problems, including on issues like health care, the welfare state, immigration, and a bloated bureaucracy. In Eurotrash, David Harsanyi argues we are looking in the wrong place. By every economic and societal measure, the United States is more tolerant than Europe. It is more welcoming of immigrants, but also far more successful at assimilating them. Minorities do far better in United States. Our economy is dominant. Only one European company appears in top 10 corporate powerhouses in the world and only seven in the top 50. Americans make up nearly half of the list. Americans are far more charitable and happier than Europeans. Our slightly lower life expectancy and our slightly higher infant mortality rate are not a result of substandard care, but a statistical misunderstanding based on the fact we treat every life as one worth saving. In this biting, fast-moving, and well-researched polemic, Harsanyi debunks prevailing notions about European supremacy and makes an unapologetic case for American exceptionalism, offering insight and reasoned arguments to counter current policy prescriptions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Presidency of George W. Bush Author: John Robert Greene Narrator: Christopher Grove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic study to analyze the entirety of his presidency—domestic, social, economic, and national security policies—as well as the administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror. In so doing, John Robert Greene argues persuasively that the judgment of most scholars—that the Bush administration was a complete failure—has been made in haste and without the benefit of primary sources. This book is the first scholarly work to make wide use of the documents at the George W. Bush Presidential Library, many of which have only recently been made available to researchers through the Freedom of Information Act. John Robert Greene offers a balanced assessment and nuanced conclusions supported by documentary evidence. Yet in doing so he does not absolve the Bush administration of its shortcomings. On the other side of the balance sheet, however, the evidence also makes it eminently clear that the Bush administration was responsible for many positive achievements. In sum, the actions of this presidency continue to affect the presidencies of each of his successors as well as the trajectory of world history to the present day.