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!Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era

Hendrik Hertzberg (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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#DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election

The most powerful tech companies in the world are determined to stop Donald Trump. Journalist Allum Bokhari has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. He has discovered a dark plot to seize control of the flow of information, and utilize that power to its full extent - to censor, manipulate, and ultimately sway the outcome of democratic elections. His network of whistleblowers inside Google, Facebook and other companies explain how the tech giants now see themselves as 'good censors,' benevolent commissars controlling the information we receive to 'protect' us from 'dangerous' speech. They reveal secret methods to covertly manipulate online information without us ever being aware of it, explaining how tech companies can use big data to target undecided voters. They lift the lid on a plot four years in the making - a plot to use the power of technology to stop Donald Trump's re-election.

Allum Bokhari (Author), Allum Bokhari (Narrator)

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#DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life

Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you’ve wasted the time you had set aside for more important things? Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder, and she did it without throwing away her devices. It's time to switch on airplane mode and settle into Jedediah Bila’s #DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life. In this timely, entertaining and inspiring book, Jedediah Bila chronicles her chaotic, confusing, and all-consuming love-hate relationship with - her cell phone. Stepping back from the whirlwind of texting, social media, and an endless sea of apps, Bila questions how our relationships, character, and sanity have suffered from our deep dive into the digital abyss. Exploring the toll that tech addiction took on her life, Bila reveals her missteps and mistakes, including several upending, life-altering months swirling in an ex-boyfriend’s cell-phone-enabled double life, and how a low-tech millennial later stole her heart. Travel with Jedediah through the embarrassing and catastrophic consequences of Ménage-a-Tech relationships, social media's Perception Deception, and the One-Potato-Chip-Problem of trying to resist Silicon Valley's hypnotic, slot-machine software designed to lure you in. Bila reveals how she navigated away from an unhealthy, oversaturated diet of tech junk food to striking just the right balance with technology to let her unplugged, real-life moments take charge. In #DoNotDisturb, Bila applies her trademark no-nonsense, common-sense, personal responsibility and accountability-centered approach, warning us that if we don’t stop acting like robots, our very humanity is at stake. Through warm anecdotes and cold, hard truths, Bila reveals how she pulled her way out of the tech fog to keep her eyes focused on the life right in front of her. And how you can too.

Jedediah Bila (Author), Jedediah Bila (Narrator)

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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. The authors describe how such hashtags as #MeToo, #SurvivorPrivilege, and #WhyIStayed have challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence; examine the voices and narratives of Black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls, #YouOKSis, and #SayHerName; and explore the creation and use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. They investigate the digital signatures of the 'new civil rights movement'-the online activism, storytelling, and strategy-building that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter-and recount the spread of racial justice hashtags after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile incidents of killings by police. Finally, they consider hashtags created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.

Brooke Foucault Welles, Moya Bailey, Sarah J. Jackson (Author), Lisa Reneé Pitts (Narrator)

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#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with seventeen classmates and faculty dead, they had joined the leadership of a movement to save their own lives, and the lives of all other young people in America. It's a leadership position they did not seek, and did not want--but events gave them no choice. The morning after the massacre, David Hogg told CNN: 'We're children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Get over your politics and get something done.' This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America--with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed. With moral force and clarity, a new generation has made it clear that problems previously deemed unsolvable due to powerful lobbies and political cowardice will be theirs to solve. Born just after Columbine and raised amid seemingly endless war and routine active shooter drills, this generation now says, Enough. This book is their statement of purpose, and the story of their lives. It is the essential guide to the #NeverAgain movement.

David Hogg, Lauren Hogg (Author), David Hogg, Lauren Hogg (Narrator)

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'Ich musste sie kaputt machen': Anatomie eines Jahrhundert-Mörders

Der Name Joachim Georg Kroll steht für eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Kriminalgeschichte. In mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten tötete der Serienmörder mehrere Frauen und Mädchen, bevor er von der Polizei gefasst wurde. Mit analytischer Schärfe untersucht der bekannte Kriminalist Stephan Harbort den Fall des 'Jahrhundertmörders'. Dabei entsteht das beeindruckende Psychogramm eines Mannes, der zeit seines Lebens von seinen Trieben gesteuert wurde.

Stephan Harbort (Author), Markus Böker (Narrator)

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'Salvo que me muera antes': El día en que murió Kichner. La noche que nació el cristinismo

«Muchachos, el próximo presidente voy a ser yo salvo que me muera antes.» Néstor Kirchner a un grupo de dirigentes oficialistas y encuestadores. Residencia de Olivos, dos semanas antes de su muerte. A siete años de aquel miércoles 27 de octubre de 2010, la Argentina sigue sin saber con certeza dónde, a qué hora y de qué murió Néstor Kirchner; tampoco, si se podría haber salvado. Con un estilo que ya es marca -información original y precisa en una narración atrapante-, Ceferino Reato cuenta qué pasó exactamente ese día en El Calafate, explica cómo se reconfiguró el poder político en el país a partir de esa noche y da respuesta a las preguntas pendientes: ¿Cómo se llevaban realmente, puertas adentro, Néstor y Cristina? ¿Cuánto sabía ella del esquema de corrupción organizado por él? ¿Qué pasó en la despedida íntima antes del traslado del cuerpo a Buenos Aires? ¿Por qué el velatorio público se hizo a cajón cerrado? Por primera vez, la trama completa de la tragedia que dio origen al poderoso liderazgo de Cristina Fernández.

Ceferino Reato (Author), Ezequiel Romero (Narrator)

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'Wenn Deutschland so scheiße ist, warum sind Sie dann hier?': Ein Strafrichter urteilt

Amtsgericht Zwickau, Ende 2017: Als sich ein Flüchtling aus Libyen wegen Gewalt- und Beleidigungsdelikten vor Gericht verantworten muss und über 'Scheißdeutschland' schimpft, fragt ihn der Amtsrichter Stephan Zantke: 'Wenn es bei uns so scheiße ist, warum sind Sie dann hier?' Dieser Satz macht Zantke über Nacht berühmt. Bringt er doch auf den Punkt, was längst Alltag in deutschen Gerichtssälen ist: dass der Respekt vor Justiz und Staat immer mehr verloren geht. In diesem Buch berichtet Zantke von seinen drastischsten Fällen und gibt Einblicke in deutsche Parallelwelten und kriminelle Milieus. Er zeigt, wie nah uns das Verbrechen eigentlich ist. Und wie machtlos der Staat oftmals bleibt. Der Richter wirft einen schonungslosen Blick auf eine überforderte Justiz und Kriminelle, die sich die Schwäche des Staates zunutze machen. Eine nachdenklich stimmende Analyse. Und ein Plädoyer für ein überfälliges Umdenken.

Stephan Zantke (Author), Michael A. Grimm (Narrator)

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'Wir werden gewinnen': Frankreich

Die Attentäter von Paris zielten auf ein junges, lässiges Paris und meinten unser aller Alltag in der offenen Gesellschaft: Ein falscher Frühling beherrscht Paris im November, seit Wochen ist das Wetter mild, die Abende sind lau, die Straßen belebt, die Terrassen voll, als käme nicht bald der Winter. In leichten Jacken sitzen 80 000 Menschen unter freiem Himmel im Stade de France, als sich am vergangenen Freitag die heimische und die deutsche Fußball-Nationalmannschaft zu den Hymnen am Mittelkreis aufstellen. Die Marseillaise erklingt, das alte Kriegslied, Frankreichs Hymne: '... Gegen uns wurde der Tyrannei blutiges Banner erhoben! Hört ihr im Land das Brüllen der grausamen Krieger? Sie rücken uns auf den Leib, eure Söhne, eure Frauen zu köpfen!' Historische Verse, sie werden gleich auf grauenhafte Weise aktuell. Dies ist die Vertonung des Titelthemas der SPIEGEL-Ausgabe 48/2015. Sie entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Blindenstudienanstalt e.V.

Der Spiegel (Author), Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt E.V. (Narrator)

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... Y ahí lo dejo. Crónica de un proceso

Conoce la verdadera historia detrás del Procés, y del cerebro jurídico que se encuentra detrás de la salida de Puigdemont, y del resto de diputados, de España. El abogado Gonzalo Boye es el cerebro jurídico que ha llevado el caso de los políticos catalanes que se exiliaron de forma precipitada y urgente, por instrucciones suyas, cuando se supo que la juez Lamela iba a encausar e inmediatamente encarcelar a todos los que ella consideraba responsables de los supuestos delitos de sedición y rebelión tras el resultado del referéndum ilegal celebrado en Catalunya el 1 de octubre de 2017. En este libro cuenta con todo detalle de qué manera improvisada, porque no había tiempo para nada, aconsejó a los políticos huir de España, y como fue luego organizando la defensa de sus representados gracias a su conocimiento de la jurisprudencia internacional. Bélgica, Alemania, Escocia... Todos los escenarios europeos donde se va a seguir librando la defensa de los políticos independentistas, los abogados y la táctica empleada en todos los casos, se cuentan desde la perspectiva del cerebro que ha llevado la estrategia hasta ahora exitosa de la defensa de esos políticos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Gonzalo Boye, nació en 1965 en Viña Del Mar (Chile) habiendo vivido en Alemania, Inglaterra y España; casado y padre de tres hijas. Pasó 7 años 11 meses y 23 día en prisión, tiempo que aprovechó para realizar la carrera de derecho y desde 2003 ejerce como abogado especializado en derecho penal y penal internacional. Ha sido miembro del Independent Fact Finding Committee de la Liga de Estados Árabes, del Comité de la FIFA para el conflicto entre Palestina e Israel, es Director Jurídico de la Federación Palestina de Fútbol y asesora, en materia de derecho internacional, a diversos gobiernos. Desde octubre de 2017 coordina la defensa internacional de los miembros del Gobierno del President Carles Puigdemont que se encuentran en el exilio. Este es su cuarto libro que publica en este sello editorial.

Gonzalo Boye (Author), Jesús Brotóns (Narrator)

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10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Imposter

Following up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, author Benjamin Wiker brings us another must read for conservatives and booklovers everywhere. Offering a 'CliffsNotes guide' to some of the most important literary works of our time, Benjamin Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. This book features a range of works, from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist Papers to more popular classics like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. Through these works, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time, as well as the true meaning of conservatism. Written with an educational purpose and a witty tone, this is a must read for conservatives, republicans, and booklovers everywhere. 'Sprightly, witty, engaging....Professor Wiker recommends actually reading the books'but his own book is a whole lot more fun.''Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Benjamin Wiker, Benjamin Wiker, Ph. D. (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

Benjamin Wiker, Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D. (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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