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  • Dark Heights - Cd Miller

    Dark Heights - Cd Miller
    Dec 30 2024
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    Title: Dark Heights
    Author: Cd Miller
    Narrator: Dion Graham, Julia Whelan, Neil Hellegers
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-30-2024
    Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
    Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

    Summary:
    A determined young actress and a weary, powerful mage fight for survival as a series of horrifying & magical events converge. Strange and terrible things are happening in the town of Park Heights. Unseen, sinister powers have been drawn here and work in secret to change the fate of the world. For Tess Bellamy, who grew up in the town but could never get away, a new friendship with a billionaire's mysterious daughter will challenge everything she knows about her family and herself. For Gabriel Majeaux, a world-weary drifter just passing through, all paths lead back to the war in the shadows he thought he had left behind.
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    Meno di 1 minuto
  • Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool - Keith E. Whittington

    Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool - Keith E. Whittington
    Nov 12 2024
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    Title: Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool
    Author: Keith E. Whittington
    Narrator: Mike Lenz
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 11-12-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: American Politics, Global Politics

    Summary:
    We are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common. In today's partisan environment, it is more vital than ever that government officials, scholars, and ordinary citizens understand what an impeachment can reasonably be expected to accomplish. In this incisive and accessible book, Keith Whittington provides needed clarity on the constitutional power of impeachment. Drawing insights from American and British history, congressional practice, and the language of the Constitution itself, Whittington shows how impeachment is a tool for checking abuses of elective office and defending constitutional norms. While we have come to associate impeachment with the presidency, it can be used to remedy gross misconduct by an array of officers of the federal government. Whittington cautions against abusing this immense and consequential power to settle political scores, demonstrating how it undermines the independence of the branches and makes Congress the seat of political power. A must-listen for the informed citizen, The Impeachment Power argues that impeachment is ultimately a political instrument and gives us the perspective we need to recognize when an impeachment might be useful and when we are better served by looking for alternative ways to solve our political problems.
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    8 ore
  • Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse, 1st Edition - Colleen L. Dunlavy

    Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse, 1st Edition - Colleen L. Dunlavy
    Nov 3 2024
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    Title: Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse, 1st Edition
    Author: Colleen L. Dunlavy
    Narrator: Coleen Marlo
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:30:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 11-03-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

    Summary:
    We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods—from beds to batteries to printer paper—are available in a finite number of 'standard sizes.' What makes these sizes 'standard' is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and consumption in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the US economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes—orchestrated by the federal government—that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and consumption. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less 'Fordist.' An engrossing new work of economic history, Small, Medium, Large will make scholars, students, and general audiences alike think differently about the history of mass production and consumption.
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    7 ore e 30 min
  • HAMAS: The Quest For Power - Beverley Milton-Edwards

    HAMAS: The Quest For Power - Beverley Milton-Edwards
    Oct 8 2024
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    Title: HAMAS: The Quest For Power
    Author: Beverley Milton-Edwards
    Narrator: Hannibal Hills
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 14:45:05
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-08-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science

    Summary:
    Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the PLO? Who supports Hamas and what is its agenda? How powerful has it become and how strong will it remain? With decades of combined experience researching and reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, and around the Middle East, Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell gained unrivaled access to Hamas. Drawing on years of frontline reporting and interviews with members of the group's founding generation and their successors who now lead it, they trace Hamas' path to the shocking attacks of 07 October 2023 and their devastating aftermath. Its critics believe Hamas must be ousted to reach a solution to the Middle East conflict. Hamas's supporters believe it is the solution. Nobody now believes it can be ignored. Based on their landmark 2010 study which has been thoroughly revised and updated, this book brings the story of Hamas up to the present and will be essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East today.
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    14 ore e 45 min
  • Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley - Marietje Schaake

    Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley - Marietje Schaake
    Sep 24 2024
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    Title: Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
    Author: Marietje Schaake
    Narrator: Lorna Bennett
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:01:12
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-24-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Public Policy, Political Ideologies, Computers

    Summary:
    Under the cover of 'innovation,' technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware companies sell intelligence tools to anyone who can afford them. This new reality—where unregulated technology has become a forceful instrument for autocrats worldwide—is terrible news for democracies and citizens. In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how technologies have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies. To reverse this existential power imbalance, Schaake outlines solutions to empower elected officials and citizens alike. Democratic leaders can—and must—resist the influence of corporate lobbying and reinvent themselves as dynamic, flexible guardians of our digital world. Schaake offers a frightening look at our modern tech-obsessed world—and a clear-eyed view of how democracies can build a better future before it is too late.
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    11 ore e 1 min
  • Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy - Bradley Tusk

    Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy - Bradley Tusk
    Sep 17 2024
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    Title: Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy
    Author: Bradley Tusk
    Narrator: Kyle Tait
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:57:28
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-17-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: Current Affairs, American Politics, Political Ideologies

    Summary:
    Gun Control. Abortion. From the halls of Congress, it may seem that Americans are bitterly polarized on the biggest policy issues of the day. But Americans are not as divided as we think, and polls show that most of us largely agree on even the most divisive issues. The problem lies in how we vote. Politics is more extreme because only the most extreme voters turn out in primaries. And with politicians prioritizing reelection above all else, they shun compromise, feed this extremism, and get rewarded for it. If a lot more people vote, the views of the electorate become more mainstream, and our politicians and policies will shift to the center. Mobile voting is the solution. We do just about everything on our phones, and yet we still can't use them to vote. But the technology exists, provides enhanced security over traditional paper ballots, and it could exponentially increase voter turnout. Including essays by Martin Luther King Jr. III, David Hogg, and other prominent political figures, Vote with Your Phone shows us that a solution to restoring faith in our representative democracy is right in the palm of our hands.
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    6 ore e 57 min
  • Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s Heavenly Host - Michael S. Heiser

    Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s Heavenly Host - Michael S. Heiser
    Sep 3 2024
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    Title: Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s Heavenly Host
    Author: Michael S. Heiser
    Narrator: Gordon Greenhill
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:37:08
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-03-2024
    Publisher: ONE Audiobooks
    Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Biblical Studies

    Summary:
    What does the Bible really tell us about the heavenly host? Everyone knows that angels have wings, usually carry harps, and that each of us has our own personal guardian angel, right? We all have some preconceptions about angels from movies, television shows, and other media, but you might be surprised to know that a lot of those notions aren't based on anything from the Bible. If you read Luke 1:26-38 and imagine the angel Gabriel standing before Mary with neatly folded white wings, you're not getting that picture from anything the Bible itself says. What the Bible really says about angels is overlooked or filtered through popular myths. This book was written to help change that. It's a book about the loyal members of God's heavenly host, and while most people associate them with the word "angel," that's just one of many terms the Bible uses for supernatural beings. In The Unseen Realm,Michael Heiser opened the eyes of thousands to seeing the Bible through the supernatural worldview of the ancient world it was written in. In his latest book, Angels, Dr. Heiser reveals what the Bible really says about God's supernatural servants. Heiser focuses on loyal, holy heavenly beings because the Bible has a lot more to say about them than most people suspect. Most people presume all there is to know about angels is what has been passed on in Christian tradition, but in reality, that tradition is quite incomplete and often inaccurate. Angels is not guided by traditions, stories, speculations, or myths about angels. Heiser's study is grounded in the terms the Bible itself uses to describe members of God's heavenly host; he examines the terms in their biblical context while drawing on insights from the wider context of the ancient Near Eastern world. The Bible's view on heavenly beings begins with Old Testament terms but then moves into literature from the Second Temple period-Jewish writings from around the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD. This literature from the time between the Old Testament and the New Testament influenced the New Testament writers in significant ways. With that important background established, the book focuses on what the New Testament tells us about God's holy ones. Finally, the book reflects on common misconceptions about angels and addresses why the topic is still important and relevant for Christians today.
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    7 ore e 37 min
  • Disruption?: The Senate During the Trump Era - Sean M. Theriault

    Disruption?: The Senate During the Trump Era - Sean M. Theriault
    Sep 3 2024
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    Title: Disruption?: The Senate During the Trump Era
    Author: Sean M. Theriault
    Narrator: Dina Pearlman, Perry Daniels
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:30:23
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-03-2024
    Publisher: Kalorama
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, American Politics

    Summary:
    What happens when a tradition-bound institution encounters an iconoclastic president intent on changing how the government operates? In Disruption?, Sean M. Theriault has gathered nineteen leading authors from a range of subfields to provide a compelling understanding for if, how, and to what extent Trump disrupted the Senate. As the authors argue, Trump became trapped in the norms and rules of the Senate on some dimensions, while he became the story to which all senators needed to respond on others. This book shows how multiple facets of the Senate changed during Trump's presidency, including the legislative process, party leadership, roll-call voting, and communications. Comprehensive in its coverage of the period and embedding it in a deep historical context, this book highlights how these changes reflected back on to not only the Trump administration, but also the very legitimacy of the Senate itself.
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    9 ore e 30 min