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1947-1957, India: The Birth of a Republic

The first decade after India's independence, 1947-1957, was probably the most crucial in the nation's history. Opening a window to this period, this book weaves a story out of the complex ideas and events that have largely remained beneath the surface of public discourse. The transfer of power, the framing of the Constitution and the formation of the governance machinery; the clash of ideas and ideologies among parties and personalities; the beginning of the disintegration of the Congress and the consolidation of political forces in the opposition; Nehru's grappling with existential problems at home and his quest for global peace; the interplay between democratic ideals and ruthless power play-all these factors impinged on each other and shaped the new republic in its formative decade. Thought-provoking, argumentative and unputdownable, 1947-1957, India: The Birth of a Republic is a must-read for anyone interested in Indian political history.

Chandrachur Ghose (Author), Dev J Haldar (Narrator)

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[German] - Hedwig Dohm: Die Mütter: Ein Essay. Ungekürzt gelesen.

Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin, Frauenrechtlerin und eine der ersten feministischen Theoretikerinnen. Die Großmutter von Katia Mann, der Gattin Thomas Manns, war sie obendrein. Im Jahr 1903 veröffentlichte sie ihr Essay 'Die Mütter', in dem sie auf vielfältige Weise unter anderem folgende Themen beleuchtet: das überladene Mutterideal; Einflüsse, die auf Kinder wirken; freie Berufswahl der Frau; Erziehungsfragen. . Cover-Illustration von Lea Pfeiffer

Hedwig Dohm (Author), Lea Pfeiffer (Narrator)

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The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval-with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis-the Fourth Turning-when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world-and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America's past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras-or "turnings"-that comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Neil Howe, William Strauss (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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[Russian] - Держава

«Держава» — діалог Платона, присвячений проблемі ідеальної держави. Він був створений у 360 р. до н.е. На думку Платона, держава є втіленням ідеї справедливості. В діалогові вперше чітко вказані філософи як люди, здатні осягнути те, що завжди тотожне самому собі. Діалог містить систематику й короткий критичний аналіз різновидів державного устрою (ідеальна «держава майбутнього», котра поки не існує, до нього не входить), розташованих Платоном за мірилом поступової деградації, що має вигляд еволюції в часі, але незворотність такої еволюції прямо не стверджується, а саме питання невідворотності деградації не поставлене чітко, тож маючи бажання, цю деградацію можна вважати лише описом певної тенденції, вельми подібної до занепаду ладу первісної демократії. Ось це мірило типів держави (від найкращої до найгіршої): Аристократія й Монархія, Тимократія, Олігархія, Демократія, Тиранія. Платон — автор багатьох філософських праць: «Хармід», «Евтідем», «Евтифрон», «Критіас», «Мінос», «Еріксіас», «Алківіад Перший», «Сократова Апологія», «Гіппій Великий» тощо. Переклад українською Ярослава Мішанича

платон (Author), артем окороков (Narrator)

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[Marathi] - Bharat Marga भारत मार्ग: Strategies for an Uncertain World जगातील अनिश्चितता आणि भारताची

The world order is constantly evolving and thus change can be considered a constant factor. But the impact of the pandemic caused by the Corona virus, the developments in Afghanistan, the Ukraine conflict and the serious conflict between the major powers have given this evolution a sharp edge. 'One change and four tremors creating a new picture. These 'four shocks' in their own way have contributed to global anxiety and insecurity in various ways. Inevitably, the world has high expectations from India in this period of great upheaval, and India is leading the way to become a leading global leader. जागतिक व्यवस्था ही कायम उत्क्रांत होत असते आणि त्याअर्थाने बदलाला एक स्थिर घटक मानता येईल. पण कोरोना विषाणूमुळे निर्माण झालेल्या महामारीचा परिणाम, अफगाणिस्तानमधील घडामोडी, युक्रेन संघर्ष आणि प्रमुख शक्तींमधील गंभीर संघर्ष ह्यामुळे ह्या उत्क्रांतीला एक तीक्ष्ण धार दिली गेली आहे. 'एक बदल आणि चार हादरें एक नवे चित्र निर्माण करत आहे.आपापल्या परीने ह्या 'चार धक्यांनी' जागतिक चिंता आणि असुरक्षिततेमध्ये विविध प्रकारांनी भर टाकली आहे. प्रचंड उलथापालथीच्या ह्या काळात अपरिहार्यपणे जगाला भारताकडून मोठ्या अपेक्षा आहेत आणि त्यातून एक अग्रगण्य जागतिक नेतृत्व बनण्याच्या मार्गावर भारत अग्रेसर होत आहे.

S. Jaishankar (Author), Yogesh Rangnekar (Narrator)

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Reform or Revolution

'Reform or Revolution' by Rosa Luxemburg is a seminal work in political theory that explores the fundamental question of whether social change is best achieved through gradual reforms or revolutionary upheavals. Luxemburg critically examines the limitations of reformist approaches within the capitalist system, arguing that true liberation requires a radical transformation of the existing socio-economic order. Through a nuanced analysis of class struggle, imperialism, and the dynamics of capitalism, Luxemburg presents a compelling argument that challenges prevailing notions of incremental change. This work remains a key text for those interested in understanding the complex interplay between reformist and revolutionary strategies in the pursuit of social justice.

Rosa Luxemburg (Author), Peter Coates (Narrator)

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The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread is an 1892 book by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. Peter Kropotkin was born a Russian prince whose father owned 1,200 serfs. But he became a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist, biologist, geographer and philosopher. The Conquest of Bread has become a classic of political anarchist literature. It was heavily influential on both the Spanish Civil War and the Occupy movement. In the work, Kropotkin goes on to propose a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organization already exist, both in evolution and in human society.

Peter Kropotkin (Author), Kenneth Elliot (Narrator)

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You Can't Say That!:

This book is about freedom and the right to have an opinion. A concept that has been fought over for centuries. Whilst we think of Australia as being a free society, You Can't Say That! challenges this notion, arguing that the freedoms all Australians once enjoyed have been systematically eroded over last few decades, and how, as a nation, we must fight to get them back. Let this book guide you to a place where you ask: • Who are my masters? • How much do I desire to fit into the current trend of 'progressive' thought and 'woke' ideas which are fast becoming societal norms? • How far am I willing to go to accept the current trends of collectivism, conformity, hypocrisy and cancel culture? The Purpose of You Can't Say That! is to encourage discussion and debate in the current stifling politically correct environment, as well as providing a platform for those fighting to gain back their basic rights for freedom of speech. If you are tired of the opinions of elitist bullies telling you what you must say and think, taking over all debates in the mainstream media and within our institutions, then you can read this book and feel empowered that you in fact CAN say that.

Melinda Richards (Author), Melinda Richards (Narrator)

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From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a 'colony' that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.

Kirsten Schultz (Author), Alex Picard (Narrator)

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An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years' War as the world's most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some colonies remained under English law, while others retained much of their previous legal regimes. As legal historian Christian R. Burset argues, determining how much English law a colony received depended on what kind of colony Britain wanted to create. Policymakers thought English law could turn any territory into an anglicized, commercial colony; legal pluralism, in contrast, would ensure a colony's economic and political subordination. Britain's turn to legal pluralism thus reflected the victory of a new vision of empire-authoritarian, extractive, and tolerant-over more assimilationist and egalitarian alternatives. Among other implications, this helps explain American colonists' reverence for the common law: it expressed and preserved their equal status in the empire. This book, the first empire-wide overview of law as an instrument of policy in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers an imaginative rethinking of the relationship between tolerance and empire.

Christian R. Burset (Author), Perry Daniels (Narrator)

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Sugar and Slate

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, intimate memoir from writer and academic Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean As the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams's childhood world was one of mixed messages dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half-Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all.' Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, from the small north Wales town of her birth to Africa, the Caribbean and back to Wales. This is both a personal memoir and a story that speaks to the wider experience of mixed-race Britons. It is a story of Welshness and a story of Wales and above all a story for those of us who look over our shoulder across the sea to some other place. A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation. ©2023 Charlotte Williams (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Charlotte Williams (Author), Bernadine Evaristo, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies (Narrator)

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The Subversive Seventies

In The Subversive Seventies, Michael Hardt sets out to show that popular understandings of the political movements of the seventies-often seen as fractious, violent, and largely unsuccessful-are not just inaccurate, but foreclose valuable lessons for the political struggles of today. While many accounts of the 1970s have been written about the regimes of domination that emerged throughout the decade, Hardt approaches the subversive from the perspectives of those who sought to undermine the base of established authority and transform the fundamental structures of society. In so doing, he provides a novel account of the theoretical and practical projects of liberation that still speak to us today, too many of which have been all but forgotten. The movements of the seventies responded directly to emerging neoliberal frameworks and other structures of power that continue to rule over us today. They identified and confronted political problems that remain central for us. The 1970s, in this sense, marks the beginning of our time. Looking at a wide range of movements around the globe, from the United States, to Guinea Bissau, South Korea, Chile, Turkey, and Italy, The Subversive Seventies provides a reassessment of the political action of the 1970s that sheds new light not only on our revolutionary past but also on what liberation can be and do today.

Michael Hardt (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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