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In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his anti-Semitic ideas. Michael Brenner provides a gripping account of how Bavaria's capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution. In an electrifying narrative that takes listeners from Hitler's return to Munich following the armistice to his calamitous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Brenner demonstrates why the city's transformation is crucial for understanding the Nazi era and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Brenner describes how Hitler and his followers terrorized Munich's Jews and were aided by politicians, judges, police, and ordinary residents. He shows how the city's Jews responded to the anti-Semitic backlash in many different ways-by declaring their loyalty to the state, by avoiding public life, or by abandoning the city altogether. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown documents, In Hitler's Munich reveals the untold story of how a once-cosmopolitan city became, in the words of Thomas Mann, 'the city of Hitler.'

Michael Brenner (Author), Julian Elfer (Narrator)

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Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Pres

A fascinating history celebrating Black players in Major League Baseball from the 1800s through today, with special insight into what the future may hold. In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier, Rocco Constantino chronicles the history of generations of ballplayers, showing how African Americans have influenced baseball from the 1800s to the present. He details how the color line was drawn, efforts made to erode it, and the progress towards Jackie Robinson's debut-including a pre-integration survey in which players unanimously promoted integration years before it actually happened. Personal accounts and colorful stories trace the exponential growth of diversity in the sport since integration, from a boom in participation in the 1970s to peak participation in the early 1990s, but also reveal the current downward trend in the number of African American players to percentages not seen since the 1960s. Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier not only explores the stories of icons like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Satchel Paige but also considers contributions made by players like Vida Blue, Mudcat Grant, and Dwight Gooden. Exclusive interviews with former players and individuals involved in the game, including the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, add first-hand expert insight into the history of the topic and what the future holds.

Rocco Constantino (Author), William Andrew Quinn (Narrator)

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Camisas azules, manos negras: El saqueo de Pemex desde Los Pinos

Los nombres de Marta Sahagún, Manuel Bribiesca Sahagún, Juan Camilo Mouriño, Juan Bueno Torio, Felipe Calderón y César Nava, entre otros, tienen algo en común: el saqueo y desvío de los bienes de la empresa más importante de México. 'La inclinación de miembros del pan al latrocinio y al abuso alcanza hasta a los mejores, o quienes parecían ostentar ese título hasta que la indagación persistente de Ana Lilia Pérez los puso en su lugar.' Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa. Hablar de Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) durante las administraciones panistas es sinónimo de corrupción: presidentes de la República que ordenan la asignación de contratos para beneficio de sus a llegados, secretarios de Estado que influyen en las asignaciones para sus empresas familiares y las de los amigos que financian sus campañas políticas, gobernadores que cabildean negocios para trasnacionales, legisladores dueños de pequeños negocios que se transforman en grandes fortunas, directores que reciben sobornos de contratistas. Corrupción e impunidad en Pemex van de la mano. Entre diciembre de 2000 y 2009, de manera directa o a través de sus emisarios, Vicente Fox Quesada, Marta Sahagún y sus hijos Manuel y Jorge Bribiesca, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, César Nava Vázquez, Juan Camilo Mouriño, Juan Bueno Torio, Jorge Nordhausen, Diego Fernández de Cevallos, Francisco Barrio Terrazas, Eduardo Romero Ramos, RosendoVillarreal, Jesús Reyes Heroles, Raúl Muñoz Leos, Luis Ramírez Corzo, Carlos Morales Gil, Rafael Beverido Lomelín, Néstor García Reza, entre otros personajes, incluido el temible Guillermo González Calderoni, protector y socio de los cárteles de Juárez y del Golfo, cruzaron el umbral del edificio corporativo en Marina Nacional en busca de jugosos negocios. Muchos de ellos trascendieron en escándalo. En todos privó la impunidad. Camisas azules, manos negras es un crudo testimonio que comprende nueve años de investigación de una periodista dedicada a escrutar la corrupción en Pemex, soportada con fuentes vivas y documentales de alto nivel, expedientes de auditorías clasificados como confidenciales en la Secretaría de la Función Pública y la Auditoría Superior de la Federación; así como decenas de entrevistas, testimonios y recorridos por las regiones petroleras en tierra y en plataformas, además de las revelaciones de altos funcionarios de los gobiernos de Vicente Fox y Felipe Calderón, que desnudan los negocios privados de los hombres públicos.

Ana Lilia Pérez (Author), Lili Barba, Liliana Barba (Narrator)

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La batalla cultural: Reflexiones críticas para una Nueva Derecha

El afamado escritor, politólogo, y conferencista Agustín Laje presenta La batalla cultural: Reflexiones críticas para una Nueva Derecha - un manifiesto que informará, animará y facultará a los "guerrilleros culturales" para no bajar los brazos en la batalla que sigue perjudicando a nuestras familias y a la sociedad en general. En el mundo contemporáneo, la sociedad y la cultura cambian a gran velocidad. La voluntad de dirigir esos cambios está en la base de las batallas culturales que hoy se viven en todas partes. Bien investigado y argumentado inteligentemente, este libro define el concepto de batalla cultural y muestra hasta qué punto la cultura ha llegado a ser el botín principal del poder, cómo se han desarrollado estas batallas desde los tiempos modernos hasta la actual posmodernidad y cómo enfrentarlas. En este libro, Agustín Laje: - Explica qué es la batalla cultural, cómo darla, y cuales son su características - Analiza cómo la nueva izquierda entendió este fenómeno, frente a una derecha que menospreció el poder de la cultura - Examina cómo entendió este fenómeno la nueva izquierda, frente a una derecha que menospreció el poder de la cultura - Pretende brindar las herramientas necesarias para el nacimiento de una nueva derecha Este libro está dirigido a: - Las familias que son el principal blanco de ataque en este momento, que se sienten fragmentadas, amedrentadas y que quieren hacer algo más para convertirse en agentes de batalla cultural - A los Jóvenes que cursan sus estudios y que entienden que en sus universidades cada vez hay menos educación y más adoctrinamiento - A todo aquel que se preocupa por los asuntos políticos y mundiales de gran magnitud que crean conflictos en la sociedad "La lucha política y la lucha cultural son las dos caras de una misma moneda. Si no hay política sin hegemonía, entonces tampoco hay política sin batalla cultural", dice Laje. "La batalla cultural terminará mostrándose como la madre de todas las batallas." The Culture Battle Famed writer, political scientist, and lecturer Agustín Laje presents The Culture Battle: Critical Reflections for a New Right - a manifesto that will inform, encourage and empower the "cultural guerrillas" not to give up in the battle that continues to harm our families and society in general. In the contemporary world, society and culture are changing at great speed. The will to lead these changes is at the basis of the cultural battles that are being fought everywhere today. Well researched and intelligently argued, this book defines the concept of cultural battle and shows to what extent culture has become the main spoils of power, how these battles have developed from modern times to today's postmodernity and how to face them. In this book, Agustín Laje: - Explains what the culture battle is, how to wage it, and what its characteristics are - Analyzes how the new left understood this phenomenon, in the face of a right wing that underestimated the power of culture - Examines how the new left understood this phenomenon, in the face of a right wing that underestimated the power of culture - Aims to provide the necessary tools for the birth of a new right wing

Agustin Laje (Author), Jesús Molina (Narrator)

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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, 'politically correct' theory is repeatedly confronted with facts-and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites-the anointed-often consider themselves 'thinking people,' but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against those assertions.

Thomas Sowell (Author), Jim Seybert (Narrator)

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The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance

America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how the government and corporate America misuse our personal data and shows how we can reclaim our privacy. Most Americans are worried about how companies like Facebook invade their privacy and harvest their data, but many people don't fully understand the details of how their information is being adapted and misused. In this thought-provoking and accessible book, Thom Hartmann reveals exactly how the government and corporations are tracking our every online move and using our data to buy elections, employ social control, and monetize our lives. Hartmann uses extensive, vivid examples to highlight the consequences of Big Data on all aspects of our lives. He traces the history of surveillance and social control, looking back to how Big Brother invented whiteness to keep order and how surveillance began to be employed as a way to modify behavior. As he states, "The goal of those who violate privacy and use surveillance is almost always social control and behavior modification." Along with covering the history, Hartmann shows how we got to where we are today, how China-with its new Social Credit System-serves as a warning, and how we can and must avoid a similarly dystopian future. By delving into the Constitutional right to privacy, Hartmann reminds us of our civil right and shows how we can restore it.

Thom Hartmann (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face the accusations of assault and then sent to US. At this point, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, started his investigation into how the US and UK governments were working together to ensure a conviction. His findings are explosive, revealing that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias, collusion and manipulated evidence. Melzer also gathered together consolidated medical evidence that proves that Assange has suffered prolonged psychological torture. Melzer's compelling investigation puts the UK and US state into the dock, showing how, through secrecy, impunity and, crucially, public indifference, unchecked power reveals a deeply undemocratic system. Furthermore, the Assange case sets a dangerous precedent: once telling the truth becomes a crime, censorship and tyranny will inevitably follow.

Nils Melzer (Author), Gareth Richards (Narrator)

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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

Brought to you by Penguin. Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight back Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as best-selling author Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is increasingly being weaponized -- used as a way to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals. Shaming children for not being able to afford school lunches or adults for not being able to find work lets us off the hook as a society. After all, why pay higher taxes to fund programmes for people who are fundamentally unworthy? O'Neil explores the machinery behind all this shame, showing how governments, corporations and the healthcare system capitalize on it. There are damning stories of rehab clinics, reentry programs, drug and diet companies, and social media platforms -- all of which profit from 'punching down' on the vulnerable. Woven throughout The Shame Machine is the story of O'Neil's own struggle with body image and her recent weight-loss surgery, which awakened her to the systematic shaming of fat people seeking medical care. With clarity and nuance, O'Neil dissects the relationship between shame and power. Whom does the system serve? How do current incentive structures perpetuate the shaming cycle? And, most important, how can we all fight back? © Cathy O'Neil 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Cathy O'neil (Author), Cathy O'neil (Narrator)

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Mobilität für alle: ... auf Knopfdruck

Der Zugang zu Mobilität hat nachweislich maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den individuellen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg: Wer mobil ist, findet leichter einen Arbeitsplatz, verdient mehr und ist zufriedener. Unser aktuelles Mobilitätsverhalten führt allerdings zu großen Belastungen von Umwelt und Infrastruktur mit negativen Auswirkungen auf unser aller Lebensqualität. Andreas Herrmann, Frank Huber und Johann Jungwirth entwickeln daher praktikable Wege, Mobilität klimagerecht umzugestalten. Dazu berichten sie von revolutionären Geschäftsmodellen neuer Player auf dem Mobilitätsmarkt. Sicher ist: Das Auto als Lieblingsspielzeug der Deutschen wird bald zum Auslaufmodell. Stattdessen wird Mobilität in Zukunft mehr und mehr zu einem Service, der sich bei Bedarf auf Knopfdruck buchen lässt.

Andreas Herrmann, Frank Huber, Johann Jungwirth (Author), Josef Vossenkuhl (Narrator)

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Wer schweigt, stimmt zu: Über den Zustand unserer Zeit. Und darüber, wie wir leben wollen

Zwischen Wahn und Hoffnung Ein kämpferischer Text über den Zustand der Zeit. Und darüber, wie wir leben wollen. Wie wollen wir eigentlich leben? Nach zwei Jahren Pandemie, in zermürbten Gesellschaften, verformten Demokratien, polarisierten Debatten, erschöpfen Volkswirtschaften und eingeschränkten Freiheitsrechten, liegt diese Frage mitten auf dem europäischen Tisch! Ulrike Guérot hat ein wütendes Essay für all diejenigen geschrieben, die nicht so leben wollen wie in den letzten zwei Jahren; die einem Virus nicht noch ein demokratischen System hinterher schmeißen, und die ihre Freiheit nicht für eine vermeintliche Sicherheit verspielen wollen. Ein Buch gegen den transhumanistischen Zeitgeist, der mit einer als Lebensrettung maskierten Kontrollpolitik genau das verspielt, was das Mysterium des Lebens ausmacht.

Ulrike Guérot (Author), Marla Weiss (Narrator)

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The Prince

Given the tumultuous political era in which he lived, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), the Italian Renaissance author, philosopher, historian and diplomat, had a front-row seat to observe the political machinations, power struggles and dynastic changes in Renaissance Europe. He would compile these observations in 'The Prince,' which would swiftly gain a reputation both as a simple treatise on how to achieve and wield political power as well as an immoral, by-the-numbers account of how tyrants can seize and maintain dictatorships. As a result of the teachings in this book, Machiavelli's very name has become an adjective - 'Machiavellian' - that has come to denote political deception, cold-blooded calculation and the use of treachery as a means to seize power. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format, translated from the Italian by Luigi Ricci.

Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Joseph Wycoff (Narrator)

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Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power

The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple-by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia from one of the staunchest Republican strongholds to the nation's most watched battleground state-and ground zero for the disinformation wars certain to plague statewide and national elections in the future. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein charts how progressive activists and organizers worked to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new voters and how Joe Biden's victory in Georgia may shape Democratic strategy for years to come. He also chronicles how Georgia's Republicans countered with a move to the far right that culminated in state leaders defying Donald Trump's demands to overturn his defeat. Bluestein tells the story of all the key figures in this election, including Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp, David Perdue, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, and Kelly Loeffler, through hundreds of interviews with the people closest to the election. Flipped also features such fascinating characters as political activist turned U.S. congresswoman Nikema Williams; perma-tanned baseball star turned lieutenant governor Geoff Duncan; and the volunteers and voters who laid the groundwork for Biden's triumphant Georgia campaign. Flipped tells a story that will resonate through the rest of the decade and beyond, as most political experts see Georgia headed toward years of close elections, and Democrats have developed a deep bench of strong candidates to challenge a still deeply entrenched GOP. Interest in the state only figures to increase if and when Stacey Abrams mounts a rematch against Governor Brian Kemp in the fall of 2022 and Trump promotes his own slate of candidates against Republicans who stood against his efforts to overturn Georgia's election.

Greg Bluestein (Author), Holter Graham (Narrator)

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