Law Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Direito societário - Parte 5: relações intersocietárias

Os audiolivros da série Direito Societário, de Eduardo Goulart Pimenta, abordam de forma aprofundada todas as questões envolvendo a legislação referente às empresas e sociedades empresárias. Esta parte (5) trata das relações intersocietárias, incluindo os processos de fusão, incorporação, cisão e dissolução. Escute também as outras partes. A parte 1 trata do aspecto econômico, da constituição e dos tipos das personalidades jurídicas. Na parte 2, o autor aborda a questão dos valores mobiliários, incluindo desde temas como bolsa de valores, mercado de derivativos e debêntures até a presença de novas tecnologias no mercado, como o blockchain, os algoritmos e as criptomoedas. A parte 3 foca nos caminhos de controle das sociedades empresárias com as regras para deliberações e direito de voto. Na parte 4, são abordados os principais aspectos ligados à administração, às decisões e à fiscalização.

Eduardo Goulart Pimenta (Author), Sandra Silvério (Narrator)

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Chaos of Brexit: The majority carries the vote

This book has a timely message as the UK attempts to struggle out of the chaos of Brexit. It asks the question, should the majority carry the vote? If the answer to that question is yes then we have a lot to consider. Do our leaders always serve us well? Have they got our interests before their own? Should we just follow like sheep? The author asks some searching questions and finds some disturbing answers. This is a book that needs to be read – before it is too late.

Meverly A. Benjamin (Author), Steve Miller (Narrator)

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Football teams create playbooks, in which they draw up the plays they will use on the field. Playbooks are how teams work and why they win. This book is about a different kind of playbook: the one coaches, teams, universities, police, communities, the media, and fans seem to follow whenever a college football player is accused of sexual assault. It’s a deep dive into how different institutions—the NCAA, athletic departments, universities, the media—run the same plays over and over again when these stories break. If everyone runs his play well, scrutiny dies down quickly, no institution ever has to change how it operates, and the evaporation of these cases into nothingness looks natural. In short, this playbook is why nothing ever changes. Unsportsmanlike Conduct unpacks this societal playbook piece by piece, and not only advocates that we destroy the old plays, but also suggests we replace them with ones that will force us to finally do something about this issue. Political sportswriter and Edge of Sports imprint curator Dave Zirin (the Nation) has never shied away from criticizing that which die-hard sports fans hold dear. The Edge of Sports titles will address issues across many different sports—football, basketball, swimming, tennis, etc.—and at both the professional and nonprofessional/collegiate levels. Furthermore, Zirin brings to the table select stories of athletes’ journeys and what they are facing and how they evolve both in their sport as well as against the greater backdrop of one’s life’s odyssey.

Jessica Luther (Author), Suehyla El-Attar, Suehyla El-Attar Young (Narrator)

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[German] - Jakob: Staffel 01

Bibletuneskids (Author), Johanna Hagedorn, Judith Pantli, Thomas Hagedorn (Narrator)

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[German] - Vom alltäglichen Scheitern: Reale Kriminalfälle aus dem Amtsgericht

'Vom alltäglichen Scheitern' erzählt aus dem Leben eines Gerichtsreporters an einem ganz gewöhnlichen Amtsgericht. Die Kriminalfälle, die dort verhandelt werden, finden maximal eine Erwähnung in der Lokalzeitung, denn hier geht es nicht um Mord und Totschlag oder milliardenschwere Unterschlagungen, hier geht es um menschliche Schicksale – auf Seiten der Opfer, auf Seiten der Täter. Es sind die 'kleinen Geschichten', die dieses Buch anschaulich, unterhaltsam wie informativ schildert, Geschichten, die aufrühren, zornig wie traurig aber auch nachdenklich machen.

Lars Bessel (Author), Lars Bessel (Narrator)

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Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian York charts the war over our digital rights. In Silicon Values, leading campaigner Jillian York looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations' desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. As a result our daily lives, and private thoughts, are being policed in an unprecedented manner. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors? In response to this threat to our democracy, York proposes a user-powered movement against the platforms that demands change and a new form of ownership over our own data.

Jillian York (Author), Megan Tusing (Narrator)

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Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. 'That's not my fingerprint, your honor,' said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a '100-percent identification.' They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100 percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control in the laboratories and at the crime scenes? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods? Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.

Brandon L. Garrett (Author), Joel Richards (Narrator)

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The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. This powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the United States. Ian Millhiser, Vox's Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what those six justices are likely to do with their power. It is true that the right to abortion is in its final days, as is affirmative action. But Millhiser shows that it is in the most arcane decisions that the Court will fundamentally reshape America, transforming it into something far less democratic, by attacking voting rights, dismantling and vetoing the federal administrative state, ignoring the separation of church and state, and putting corporations above the law. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right--its agenda is to shape the very nature of America's government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws.

Ian Millhiser (Author), D.H. Lawrence, David H. Lawrence (Narrator)

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Bitte Recht einfach! Vorsorgen - Warum Vorsorgevollmacht, Patientenverfügung und Testament nicht auf

,,Ach, dieses leidige Thema. Das machen wir irgendwann.' So oder so ähnlich denken viele Menschen, wenn es um Vorsorgemaßnahmen für Krankheits- oder Todesfälle geht. Und ehe man es sich versieht, ist der Ernstfall eingetreten und man hat - du errätst es sicher - nicht vorgesorgt. Schon hängt das Amtsgericht in deiner Privatsache drin und die dadurch ausgelöste, zusätzliche Behördenrennerei ist erst recht nicht das, was man in solchen Situationen braucht. Dieses Buch soll dir kein schlechtes Gefühl vermitteln, sondern dir im lockeren Gesprächston vermitteln, welche Vorsorgemaßnahmen es gibt und wie du den eventuellen Ernstfall schon im Vorfeld bürokratisch lösen kannst. Darüber hinaus erfährst du auch, ob die einzelnen Maßnahmen mit Kosten verbunden sind und sogar konkret, wie hoch diese Kosten sein könnten. Nach dem Lesen hast du dir einen Überblick über die Themen Vorsorgevollmacht, Patientenverfügung, Erbrecht und Testamente und die damit verbundenen Kosten verschafft und kommst ins Handeln, weil du weißt, wie wichtig die richtige Vorsorge ist und vor allem, wie du sie angehen könntest.

Pia-Rhona Saxe (Author), Pia-Rhona Saxe (Narrator)

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Stolen Identity

Your personal identity describes who you are, who you aspire to be, or who people perceive you to be. The majority of us have been told in our lives at one time or another that we can be whoever or whatever we want to be, but what happens when someone else makes that decision for you without your honest consent? Typically in our society when someone's identity is stolen, there are a series of laws and agencies in place to remedy that issue; however, when it is the lawmaker that is the thief of your identity what recourse do you have? Who do you tell? Who can help you? Who will believe you? Stolen Identity is a story about a young man's battle with a dysfunctional family, a faulty criminal justice system, and oppressive society to distinguish who he really is from who they have labeled him as and virtually created him to be.

Roshawn C. Evans (Author), Gregory D. Anderson Jr. (Narrator)

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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

"Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice."-from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent-and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun. Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let us do whatever the right protects. And judges, for their part, seem unable to imagine two rights coexisting-reducing the law to winners and losers. The resulting system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them. As renowned legal scholar Jamal Greene argues, we need a different approach-and in How Rights Went Wrong, he proposes one that the Founders would have approved. They preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges, he explains. Only because of the Founders' original sin of racial discrimination-and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court-did courts gain such outsized power over Americans' rights. In this paradigm-shifting account, Greene forces readers to rethink the relationship between constitutional law and political dysfunction and shows how we can recover America's original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century. Audiobook read by Ryan Vincent Anderson.

Jamal Greene (Author), Ryan Vincent Anderson (Narrator)

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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun. Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let us do whatever the right protects. And judges, for their part, seem unable to imagine two rights coexisting—reducing the law to winners and losers. The resulting system of legal absolutism distorts our law, debases our politics, and exacerbates our differences rather than helping to bridge them. As renowned legal scholar Jamal Greene argues, we need a different approach—and in How Rights Went Wrong, he proposes one that the Founders would have approved. They preferred to leave rights to legislatures and juries, not judges, he explains. Only because of the Founders’ original sin of racial discrimination—and subsequent missteps by the Supreme Court—did courts gain such outsized power over Americans’ rights. In this paradigm-shifting account, Greene forces readers to rethink the relationship between constitutional law and political dysfunction and shows how we can recover America’s original vision of rights, while updating them to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century. Audiobook read by Ryan Vincent Anderson.

Jamal Greene (Author), Ryan Vincent Anderson (Narrator)

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