Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe Author: Jesse Watters Narrator: Larry Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country? When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him: First, he liked these people. Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn’t need legislation. They needed a therapist. In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News primetime host takes on Wokeism in a way no one else has. Through a series of (sometimes very) personal interviews with some of the most radical activists in the country, Watters discovers that these activists may be overlooking the most important change they need to make—within themselves. From activists working for climate change salvation, Black supremacy, and social justice to a professional cuddler and a transwoman who identifies as a wolf, Watters shows how many well-intentioned Americans have bought into causes invented and run by people who are illogical, emotional, and ill-informed. Through their stories, Watters uncovers common threads—childhood traumas, broken relationships, and a lack of introspection. What if the people obsessed with the end of the world are just hurting from how this one has treated them? What if that, rather than ideological disagreements, is the deeper root of our country’s political divide? Funny, fresh, and fascinating, Get It Together is sure to spark important conversations, and to inspire us to see one another not as political opponents, but as real and broken human beings.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain Author: Charlotte Lydia Riley Narrator: Charlotte Lydia Riley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 24, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This riveting new history tells the story of Britain's journey from imperial power to a nation divided. After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. From immigration and race riots to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, from the simplistic moral equation of Band Aid to the invasion of Iraq, the imperial mindset has dominated Britain's relationship with itself and the world. In the tragedy of Stephen Lawrence, in Britain's response to radical Islam, even in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, we see how this contradictory relationship has undermined its self-image as a multicultural nation, helping explain the Windrush deportations and Brexit. Drawing on a mass of new research, from personal letters to pop culture, Imperial Island tells a story of immigration and fractured identity, of social strife and communal solidarity, of people on the move and of a people wrestling with their past. It is the story that best explains Britain today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651464 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care Author: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point. As the Stanford health economist Liran Einav and the MIT economist and MacArthur Genius Amy Finkelstein argue, our health care system was never deliberately designed, but rather pieced together to deal with issues as they became politically relevant. The result is a sprawling yet arbitrary and inadequate mess. It has left 30 million Americans without formal insurance. Many of the rest live in constant danger of  losing their coverage if they lose their job, give birth, get older, get healthier, get richer, or move. It's time to tear it all down and rebuild, sensibly and deliberately. Marshaling original research, striking insights from American history, and comparative analysis of what works and what doesn’t from systems around the world, Einav and Finkelstein argue for automatic, basic, and free universal coverage for everyone, along with the option to buy additional, supplemental coverage. Their wholly original argument and comprehensive blueprint for an American universal health insurance system will surprise and provoke. We’ve Got You Covered is an erudite yet lively and accessible prescription we cannot afford to ignore.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Author: Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek Narrator: Liam Gerrard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This major new manifesto offers a 'clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society' and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 2nd Edition Author: Dennis W. Johnson Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The United States, through its local, state, and national contests, holds more elections, more often, than any democracy in the world. But in recent years, there have been troubling signs that our system of campaigns and elections has become much more fragile and vulnerable. More specifically, in the past twenty years, campaigns have changed profoundly: social media and viral messaging compete with traditional media, races once considered local in nature have become nationalized, Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance law now encourage mega-donors, voters are more polarized, party affiliation has waned, and the middle ideological ground has given way to extremist language and voter rage. This new edition of Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers the most up-to-date examination of campaigns, elections, and future threats to voting and democracy. It will also include new data on voter participation, voter fraud, reapportionment post-2020 census, party polarization, campaign finance, and more. Given the fragility of our election process, what are the threats to a healthy American democracy? This is not simply a book on how campaigns are run, but why campaigns and elections are integral components of American democracy and how those fundamental elements may be vulnerable to misuse.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance Author: Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker Narrator: Diana Blue, Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present. They explore the 'birtherism' of Donald Trump and the roots of the racial backlash against President Obama; the specter of family separation on our southern border, with its echoes of similar separations in the era of slavery; as well as the rise of the Christian right, demonstrations in Charlottesville, the death of George Floyd, and the attack on the capital—all of which, they argue, have roots that trace their way to the South. But Tucker and Gaillard see another side too, a legacy rooted in the civil rights years that has given us political leaders like John Lewis, Jimmy Carter, Raphael Warnock, and Stacy Abrams. The authors raise the ironic possibility that the South might lead the way on the path to redemption. They bring a multi-racial perspective and years of political reporting to bear on a critical moment in American history, a time of racial reckoning and of democracy under siege.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NOT Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions Author: Philip K. Howard Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.' Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Schools can't work, bad cops can't be fired, and politicians sell their souls for union support. With this searing five-point indictment, Philip K. Howard argues that union controls have disempowered elected executives and should be unconstitutional. Elected officials answer to public employees. Basic tools of good government have been eliminated. There's no accountability, detailed union entitlements make government largely unmanageable and unaffordable, and public policies are driven by what is good for public employees, not what is good for the public. Public unions keep it that way by brute political force—harnessing the huge cohort of public employees into a political force dedicated to preventing the reform of government. The solution, Howard argues, is not political but constitutional. America's republican form of government requires an executive branch that is empowered to implement public policies, not one shackled to union controls. Public employees have a fiduciary duty to serve the public and should not be allowed to organize politically to harm the public.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Global gescheitert?: Der Westen zwischen Anmaßung und Selbsthass Author: Susanne Schröter Narrator: Sandra Ragg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Susanne Schröters messerscharfe Analyse über den Westen – Spiegel-Bestseller Selten schien der Westen so geschlossen wie zu Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs. Die Werte der Freiheit und Demokratie galt es gegen ein autokratisches System zu verteidigen. Doch hinter der vermeintlichen Geschlossenheit zeigten sich schnell die ersten Bruchstellen. Wie werden wirtschaftliche Zwänge mit politischen Zielen in Einklang gebracht? Wie viel sind dem Westen die eigenen Ideale wert? Dass sich dahinter ein tiefgreifendes strukturelles Problem des Westens verbirgt, zeigt die Ethnologin und Islamexpertin Susanne Schröter in ihrem neuen Buch. Angesichts der jüngsten Konflikte in der Ukraine, in Afghanistan und Mali sowie der Planlosigkeit westlicher Regierungen im Umgang mit Migrationsbewegungen, Islamismus und Cancel Culture diagnostiziert sie einen zwischen Hybris und Selbsthass gefangenen Westen, der unentwegt die Werte der Demokratie beschwört, sie aber gleichzeitig immer dann verrät, wenn es darauf ankommt. Befindet sich der Westen auf dem besten Weg, die eigene innen- wie außenpolitische Glaubwürdigkeit zu verspielen? In ihrem analytisch klugen und thesenstarken Buch gibt Susanne Schröter die Antwort.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drawing Lines: Why Conservatives Must Begin to Battle Fiercely in the Arena of Ideas Author: Kira Davis Narrator: Madeline Mccray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 25, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: It is time to draw our lines in the sand as Christians and Conservatives by engaging in public conversations with truth and conviction. Kira Davis has built a brand on reaching out to the other side, on giving people space to be wrong, the space to discuss, the space to tolerate. Unfortunately, the people controlling the public conversations right now will have none of it. We're seeing the lengths they will go to and the lies they let stand in service of crushing 50 percent of this nation. They seek unity through complete elimination of the other side. There are times for compromise and times to draw a line in the sand; the latter has arrived. It is time to draw our lines as Christians and Conservatives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Medios y cloacas: Así conspira el Estado profundo contra la democracia Author: Pablo Iglesias Narrator: Concha Luna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este volumen reúne artículos y entrevistas sobre medios y política publicados por Pablo Iglesias durante el último año. La mayoría proceden de la revista CTXT y algunos vienen del programa La Base, pódcast que Iglesias dirige en Público. El libro analiza la estructura de la derecha mediática y las alcantarillas del Estado y reflexiona sobre la situación del periodismo en nuestro país. Incluye una larga entrevista inédita de Vanesa Jiménez a Iglesias. Prefacio de Miguel Mora, prólogo de Manuel Levin y epílogo de Inna Afinogenova.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sam el Bombero - ¡Al rescate del caballo! Author: Mattel Narrator: Carles Lladó Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Trevor Evans estaba enseñando a los pequeños a interpretar correctamente un mapa; así siempre podrían orientarse, incluso en lugares desconocidos. Se dividieron en dos grupos: por un lado, James y Sarah; por el otro, Mandy y Norman. Debían hallar el camino más rápido que llevara a la cima más alta de Pontypandy. Sin embargo, Norman no consideró necesario usar el mapa, y en su camino hacia la cima encontraron un hermoso caballo... Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Únete a Sam el bombero en sus fantásticas aventuras con el jefe Steele, Elvis, Tom, Penny y toda la tropa de Pontypandy. Sam saluda a todo el mundo mientras conduce por las concurridas calles de la ciudad con Júpiter, Venus, Mercurio, Neptuno y el resto de geniales vehículos de rescate. Cuando suena la alarma, Sam el bombero acude al lugar enseguida, ya sea si se escapa un pingüino del zoo, si una calabaza gigante da problemas o si un concierto y un partido de fútbol acaban en llamas. ¡Ya lo ves, Sam nuestro héroe es! Sam el bombero es una serie de dibujos animados creada en 1987 para la televisión británica. La idea que dio lugar a la serie nació de dos antiguos bomberos, Dave Gingell y David Jones, los cuales formaron equipo con el escritor Rob Lee y juntos dieron lugar a Sam el bombero. Sam el bombero y sus marcas asociadas son propiedad de Prism Art & Design Limited. © 2021 Prism Art & Design Limited.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sam el Bombero - Desaparición en el zoo Author: Mattel Narrator: Carles Lladó Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Una mañana, mientras que Mandy y Norman disfrutaban en la playa, descubrieron por casualidad un pingüino que se había escapado del zoo. Mandy quería devolverlo, pero Norman no estaba de acuerdo; quería darle un nuevo hogar: su propia casa. Sin embargo, no todo salió como esperaban... Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Únete a Sam el bombero en sus fantásticas aventuras con el jefe Steele, Elvis, Tom, Penny y toda la tropa de Pontypandy. Sam saluda a todo el mundo mientras conduce por las concurridas calles de la ciudad con Júpiter, Venus, Mercurio, Neptuno y el resto de geniales vehículos de rescate. Cuando suena la alarma, Sam el bombero acude al lugar enseguida, ya sea si se escapa un pingüino del zoo, si una calabaza gigante da problemas o si un concierto y un partido de fútbol acaban en llamas. ¡Ya lo ves, Sam nuestro héroe es! Sam el bombero es una serie de dibujos animados creada en 1987 para la televisión británica. La idea que dio lugar a la serie nació de dos antiguos bomberos, Dave Gingell y David Jones, los cuales formaron equipo con el escritor Rob Lee y juntos dieron lugar a Sam el bombero. Sam el bombero y sus marcas asociadas son propiedad de Prism Art & Design Limited. © 2021 Prism Art & Design Limited.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sam el Bombero - Un partidazo de fútbol Author: Mattel Narrator: Carles Lladó Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: December 7, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Pontypandy se preparaba para el evento deportivo del año: el partido de fútbol que enfrentaba a los bomberos y a los conductores de autobús de la ciudad. Norman le había prometido a Rosalia que la ayudaría con su puesto de pizzas, pero era incapaz de centrarse en algo más que en el partido. De pronto, el horno de pizzas se puso tan caliente que poco después todo el estadio de Pontypandy acabó envuelto por las llamas. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Únete a Sam el bombero en sus fantásticas aventuras con el jefe Steele, Elvis, Tom, Penny y toda la tropa de Pontypandy. Sam saluda a todo el mundo mientras conduce por las concurridas calles de la ciudad con Júpiter, Venus, Mercurio, Neptuno y el resto de geniales vehículos de rescate. Cuando suena la alarma, Sam el bombero acude al lugar enseguida, ya sea si se escapa un pingüino del zoo, si una calabaza gigante da problemas o si un concierto y un partido de fútbol acaban en llamas. ¡Ya lo ves, Sam nuestro héroe es! Sam el bombero es una serie de dibujos animados creada en 1987 para la televisión británica. La idea que dio lugar a la serie nació de dos antiguos bomberos, Dave Gingell y David Jones, los cuales formaron equipo con el escritor Rob Lee y juntos dieron lugar a Sam el bombero. Sam el bombero y sus marcas asociadas son propiedad de Prism Art & Design Limited. © 2021 Prism Art & Design Limited.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Escritos de um professor atarefado II: edição bilíngue português-espanhol Author: Ajamir Brito De Melo Narrator: Voz Sintética Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: São dois artigos bem didáticos sobre a temática da legislação de Direito Internacional dos Conflitos Armados e sua aplicação em dois momentos distintos: primeiro, nos conflitos do Iraque e da Síria e no segundo momento, aqui na América do Sul, a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança (conhecida também como Guerra do Paraguai), enquanto na Europa era criada a Primeira Convenção de Genebra (A Primeira Convenção de Genebra, acordada em 1864, representou simbolicamente o nascimento do Direito Internacional Humanitário/DIH). Destaque para a versão desses artigos na língua espanhola.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blocking Public Participation: The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression Author: Byron Sheldrick Narrator: Miles Meili Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often launched against those protesting, boycotting, or participating in some form of political activism. A common feature of SLAPPs is that their intention is rarely to win the case or secure a remedy; rather, the suit is brought to create a chill on political expression. Blocking Public Participation examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs, and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement. The resource imbalance between plaintiffs and defendants allows plaintiffs to tie up defendants in complex and costly legal processes. The book also examines the dangers SLAPPs pose to political expression and to the quality and integrity of our democratic political institutions. Finally, the book examines the need to regulate SLAPPs in Canada and assesses various regulatory proposals. In Canada, considerable attention has been paid to the “legalization of politics” and the impact on the Charter in diverting political activism into the judicial arena. SLAPPs, however, are an under-studied element of this process, and in their obstruction of political engagement through recourse to the courts they have profound implications for democratic practice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wut (ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Julian Mehne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 19, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Ein Präsident im Visier der Journalistenlegende: Donald Trump zwischen Corona, Wirtschaftskrise und wachsendem Widerstand Donald Trump hat die USA in eine tiefe Krise geführt. Bob Woodward weist nach: Bereits im Januar 2020 wusste Trump, dass die Corona-Epidemie zur größten Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit während seiner Präsidentschaft wird. Gesundheitssystem und Wirtschaft sind am Rande des Zusammenbruchs. Zugleich versammeln sich Hunderttausende auf den Straßen, um gegen den immer offener ausbrechenden Rassismus zu demonstrieren. Wie reagiert der US-Präsident? Pulitzer-Preisträger Bob Woodward hat 18 Interviews mit dem Präsidenten geführt, Hunderte von Stunden mit Mitarbeitern und Opponenten gesprochen, um das Portrait eines Mannes zu zeichnen, der zwischen Verdrängung, Angriff und - man staune - Momenten des Zweifels schwankt.