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Lo que la guerra se llevó. Veinte voces retratan medio siglo de conflicto en Colombia

Honra el oficio de ir diciendo la verdad; monta, a la manera de un documental cinematográfico, lo que sucedió en la pesadilla de la guerra contra las Farc (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), y —respetándoles los giros, los tonos y las muletillas— recoge las voces de quienes vieron el horror con sus propios ojos para que nunca más hablemos sin saber sobre lo que ha estado pasando en aquella Colombia tan adentro de Colombia.

Carolina Ardila, Olga Behar, Pablo Navarrete (Author), Adrian Ogazón (Narrator)

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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. Descended from a line of proud black landowners and businessmen, Carlotta was raised to believe that education was the key to success. She embraced learning and excelled in her studies at the black schools she attended throughout the 1950s. With Brown v. Board of Education erasing the color divide in classrooms across the country, the teenager volunteered to be among the first black students–of whom she was the youngest–to integrate nearby Central High School, considered one of the nation’s best academic institutions. But for Carlotta and her eight comrades, simply getting through the door was the first of many trials. Angry mobs of white students and their parents hurled taunts, insults, and threats. Arkansas’s governor used the National Guard to bar the black students from entering the school. Finally, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to establish order and escort the Nine into the building. That was just the start of a heartbreaking three-year journey for Carlotta, who would see her home bombed, a crime for which her own father was a suspect and for which a friend of Carlotta’s was ultimately jailed–albeit wrongly, in Carlotta’s eyes. But she persevered to the victorious end: her graduation from Central. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an inspiring, thoroughly engrossing memoir that is not only a testament to the power of one to make a difference but also of the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history. A Mighty Long Way shines a light on this watershed moment in civil rights history and shows that determination, fortitude, and the ability to change the world are not exclusive to a few special people but are inherent within us all.

Carlotta Walls Lanier, Lisa Frazier Page (Author), Carlotta Walls Lanier (Narrator)

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The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

'Reads like something from a thriller…colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times 'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on one extraordinary story that had never been properly told before' William Dalrymple, Spectator Anita Anand reads her own remarkable story of one Indian's twenty-year quest for revenge, taking him around the world in search of those he held responsible for the Amritsar massacre of 1919, which cost the lives of hundreds. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted him to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, in Sir Michael's mind at least, were a precursor to a second Indian Mutiny. What happened next shocked the world. An unauthorised political gathering in the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the focal point for Sir Michael's law enforcers. Dyer marched his soldiers into the walled garden, filled with thousands of unarmed men, women and children, blocking the only exit. Then, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his men to open fire, turning their guns on the thickest parts of the crowd. For ten minutes, they continued firing, stopping only when 1650 bullets had been fired. Not a single shot was fired in retaliation. According to legend, a young, low-caste orphan, Udham Singh, was injured in the attack, and remained in the Bagh, surrounded by the dead and dying until he was able to move the next morning. Then, he supposedly picked up a handful of blood-soaked earth, smeared it across his forehead and vowed to kill the men responsible, no matter how long it took. The truth, as the author has discovered, is more complex but no less dramatic. She traced Singh's journey through Africa, the United States and across Europe before, in March 1940, he finally arrived in front of O'Dwyer in a London hall ready to shoot him down. The Patient Assassin shines a devastating light on one of the Raj's most horrific events, but reads like a taut thriller, and reveals some astonishing new insights into what really happened.

Anita Anand (Author), Anita Anand (Narrator)

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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about it Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum show how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it. Classic conspiracy theory insists that things are not what they seem and gathers evidence-especially facts ominously withheld by official sources-to tease out secret machinations. The new conspiracism is different. There is no demand for evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of shadowy plotters. Dispensing with the burden of explanation, the new conspiracism imposes its own reality through repetition (exemplified by the Trump catchphrase "a lot of people are saying") and bare assertion ("rigged!"). The new conspiracism targets democratic foundations-political parties and knowledge-producing institutions. It makes it more difficult to argue, persuade, negotiate, compromise, and even to disagree. Ultimately, it delegitimates democracy. Filled with vivid examples, A Lot of People Are Saying diagnoses a defining and disorienting feature of today's politics and offers a guide to responding to the threat.

Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead (Author), Katherine Fenton (Narrator)

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Nomaden der Arbeit: Überleben in den USA im 21. Jahrhundert

Zehntausende Menschen in Amerika sind unterwegs. Sie leben in Wohnmobilen, Vans, Anhängern. Übernachten auf Supermarkt-Parkplätzen, neben den Highways, in der Wüste. Sie schaufeln Zuckerrüben in North Dakota, reinigen Toiletten in den Nationalparks von Kalifornien, arbeiten Zwölf-Stunden-Schichten im Amazon-Versandzentrum im winterlichen Texas. Und sie haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind alt. Der American Dream hat für sie Bingo-Spielen und Gartenpflege vorgesehen. Doch im 21. Jahrhundert, erschüttert von der Finanzkrise der Zehnerjahre, ist der Boden für den sprichwörtlich wohlverdienten Ruhestand weggebrochen. Deshalb ziehen sie als Nomaden der Arbeit von einem saisonalen Tageslohnjob zum nächsten. Jessica Bruder hat sich ihnen ein Jahr lang angeschlossen und ist diesem Treck durch ganz Amerika gefolgt. Nicht nur die stetig wachsende Zahl der Nomaden, auch Bruders Buch hat dazu beigetragen, dieses im Verborgenen, am Rande der Gesellschaft rollende Phänomen in den Fokus zu rücken. Eine nachhallende Reportage über Ausbeutung, Ungerechtigkeit und prekäre Lebensumstände, aber auch über altersweise Beharrlichkeit, Sinn für Gemeinschaft und Abenteuer, wie sie nur ein amerikanischer Highway versprechen kann.

Jessica Bruder (Author), Claudia Burges (Narrator)

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2025 - Der vorletzte Akt: Warum wir Heimat, Freiheit und Sicherheit verlieren

Im Jahr 2001 befand sich für kurze Zeit ein Dokument auf der offiziellen Homepage der NASA, welches aber ebenso schnell wieder verschwand. Offensichtlich war die Veröffentlichung nur ein technischer Fehler. Das Dokument hatte den Titel The Future Is Now! NASA Future Strategic Issues and Warfare - Circa 2025 . Dieses Manifest ist eine Weiterentwicklung des umstrittenen Top Secret - Dokuments Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars . Umstritten deshalb, da die Echtheit nicht bestätigt werden konnte. Die Jahreszahl 2025 ist dem NASA Dokument entlehnt und steht als Synonym für den Tag X. Der Tag, an dem aus dem schleichenden Prozess der Globalisierung (in dem wir uns gerade befinden), die globale Machtübernahme durch die Elite erfolgen soll. Die mit aller Gewalt vorangetriebene Globalisierung, die Pflicht zum Gutmenschentum, repressive Maßnahmen gegen politisch Andersdenkende und die von den Medien unaufhaltsame Gehirnwäsche Deutschland ist bunt , sind nur Nebelkerzen. Es soll vernebeln, worum es eigentlich geht: Der gläserne Mensch, komplette Kontrolle und die totale Unterwerfung der Welt unter der Herrschaft der Finanzelite die Neue Weltordnung (NWO). Was wir bekommen: Freier Transfer von Waren, Kapital und Arbeitskraft Totale Kontrolle der Menschen Kadavergehorsam Monokultur Impfpflicht Künstliche Krankheiten Geburtenkontrolle RFID-Chip implantiert Was wir verlieren: Heimat, Nation und Identität, persönliche Sicherheit und Freiheit, Demokratie, Sozialstaat und Meinungsfreiheit, Rechtsstaat und Privateigentum Intelligenz und Kreativität Vielfalt der Kulturen Bargeld

Joachim Sonntag (Author), Markus Böker (Narrator)

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Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus

Gegen den Big-Other-Kapitalismus ist Big Brother harmlos. Die Menschheit steht am Scheideweg, sagt die Harvard-Ökonomin Shoshana Zuboff. Bekommt die Politik die wachsende Macht der High-Tech-Giganten in den Griff? Oder überlassen wir uns der verborgenen Logik des Überwachungskapitalismus? Wie reagieren wir auf die neuen Methoden der Verhaltensauswertung und -manipulation, die unsere Autonomie bedrohen? Akzeptieren wir die neuen Formen sozialer Ungleichheit? Ist Widerstand ohnehin zwecklos? Zuboff bewertet die soziale, politische, ökonomische und technologische Bedeutung der großen Veränderung, die wir erleben. Sie zeichnet ein unmissverständliches Bild der neuen Märkte, auf denen Menschen nur noch Quelle eines kostenlosen Rohstoffs sind - Lieferanten von Verhaltensdaten. Noch haben wir es in der Hand, wie das nächste Kapitel des Kapitalismus aussehen wird. Meistern wir das Digitale oder sind wir seine Sklaven? Es ist unsere Entscheidung! Zuboffs Buch liefert eine neue Erzählung des Kapitalismus. An ihrer Deutung kommen kritische Geister nicht vorbei.

Shoshana Zuboff (Author), Sebastian Pappenberger (Narrator)

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Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie, read by John Sessions. 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice in future' ANTONY BEEVOR On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, 'peace for our time'. Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, it sweeps from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us into the backrooms of 10 Downing Street and Parliament, where a small group of rebellious MPs, including the indomitable Winston Churchill, were among the few to realise that the only choice was between 'war now or war later'. And we enter the drawing rooms and dining clubs of fading imperial Britain, where Hitler enjoyed surprising support among the ruling class and even some members of the Royal Family. Drawing on deep archival research, including previously unseen sources, this is an unforgettable portrait of the ministers, aristocrats and amateur diplomats who, through their actions and inaction, shaped their country's policy and determined the fate of Europe. Both sweeping and intimate, Appeasing Hitler is not only eye-opening history but a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism - and the calamity that results from failing to do so.

Tim Bouverie (Author), John L. Sessions, John Sessions (Narrator)

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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite; how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' THE TIMES.

Fintan O'toole (Author), Sam Devereaux (Narrator)

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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. This history shows from the bottom up how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own ships, electing their officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order. The real lives of this motley crew-which included cross-dressing women, people of color, and the'outcasts of all nations'-are far more compelling than contemporary myth.

Marcus Rediker (Author), Cornell Womack (Narrator)

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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation-democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history-from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America's constant expansion-fighting wars and opening markets-served as a "gate of escape," helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country's problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Greg Grandin (Author), Eric Pollins (Narrator)

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El país de la desmemoria: Del genocidio franquista al silencio interminable

Un relato periodístico contra el olvido en el país de la desmemoria. La memoria histórica de nuestro país desde un enfoque periodístico. Prólogo de Baltasar Garzón. En la investigación que titulaEl país de la desmemoria, Juan Miguel Baquero utiliza nuevos testimonios, incontables datos y sincera pasión para denunciar la estrategia de terror desencadenada por Franco desde que dio el golpe de Estado contra la República hasta su muerte. Y da cuenta de lo muchísimo que queda por investigar, y por juzgar, sobre las víctimas del franquismo en este país que no quiere hacer frente a la verdad. En su prólogo, Baltasar Garzón escribe: 'Me conmueve el niño Alejandro cuya historia cuenta al inicio este libro; le dijeron que cuando los aviones bombardearan se tirase a la cuneta y tapara su cuerpecito con una manta. Como ese niño real, nuestra sociedad se ha cubierto durante todos estos años con una frágil colcha que, al ser retirada, deja ver la cara fea de un régimen franquista que mató, hizo desaparecer, humilló, torturó y encarceló; que robó niños; que asoló con el terror para lograr la sumisión y no levantó la bota hasta bien entrada la década de los 70.'

Juan Miguel Baquero (Author), Xavier Borràs (Narrator)

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