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    Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic biological research, and even life-saving vaccines come naturally to many progressives. These are positions supported by little more than junk-science and paranoid thinking. Now for the first time, science writers Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the curtain on the left’s fear of science. As Science Left Behind reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation. The results: public health crises, damaging and misguided policies, and worst of all, a new culture war over basic scientific factsin which the left is just as culpable as the right. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017177/bk_adbl_017177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    Since the day Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, the left has waged a demented war against him. Liberals used to pride themselves on their ultra-hipness, but Trump has turned them into weeping little girls in pink party dresses. The very people who once mocked right-wingers for (allegedly) overreacting to every little thing are now the ones hyperventilating and hatching insane conspiracy theories.During the campaign, and even more so after his victory, the left went nuts. Everything Trump does sends them into a moral panic. Everything is a constitutional crisis.Members of the self-proclaimed "Resistance" - journalists, politicians, professors, judges, comedians, movie stars, Twitter pundits, even Oprah and Lindsey Vonn! - are literally shaking because Trump is literally Hitler!Now Ann Coulter skewers the various elements of "The Resistance" - the pussy-hat brigade, the Russian-collusion witch hunters, the media alarmists, the campus hysterics, and more. They talk about Russia? They're the ones meddling with our democracy by trying to overturn the results of the election with their relentless attacks.The biggest result of the Trump era may be our cultural institutions' total loss of credibility.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Coulter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004114/bk_peng_004114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Comments on the Society of the Spectacle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 144min
    First published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle, has since acquired cult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the revolutionary events of May 1968 in France, Debord’s pitiless attack on commodity fetishism and capitalism continues to burn brightly in today’s age of satellite television and the soundbite. In Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, published twenty years later, Debord returns to the themes of his previous analysis and demonstrates how they were all the more relevant in a period where the “integrated spectacle” was dominant. Resolutely refusing to be reconciled to the system, Debord trenchantly slices through the obfuscation and tinfoil mystification offered by journalists and pundits to show how aspects of reality as diverse as terrorism and the environment, the Mafia and the media, were caught up in the logic of the spectacular society.   Pointing the finger clearly at those who benefit from the logic of domination, Debord’s final triumphant work conveys the revolutionary impulse at the heart of Situationism and later movements such as Occupy, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Bufton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113058/bk_acx0_113058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
    Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half truths. Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits. In order to illuminate the fallacies of economism, James Kwak first offers a primer on supply and demand, market equilibrium, and social welfare: the underpinnings of most popular economic arguments. Then he provides a historical account of how economism became a prevalent mode of thought in the United States - focusing on the people who packaged Econ 101 into sound bites that were then repeated until they took on the aura of truth. He shows us how issues of moment in contemporary American society - labor markets, taxes, finance, health care, and international trade, among others - are shaped by economism, demonstrating in each case with clarity and élan how, because of its failure to reflect the complexities of our world, economism has had a deleterious influence on policies that affect hundreds of millions of Americans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004897/bk_rand_004897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min
    Al Franken, "one of our savviest satirists" ( People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year. Once again, the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, leaving the powers-that-be in tatters and his audience in hysterics. Al Franken thrives on being in the opposition, and now that the Republican party controls both the Oval Office and Congress, the gloves are off and the satire is fast and furious. Franken's specialty is using his targets' own words to make comedic and political points. Finding logical inconsistencies, factual errors, and doublespeak wherever he looks, Franken takes on and destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media, hoists the Bush White House on its own rhetorical petard, and punctures the mean-spirited sanctimony of such media darlings as Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, and host of post-Limbaugh talk-radio gasbags. Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always uproarious, Lies is sure to raise hackles and spark hilarity inside the Beltway and from sea to shining sea. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al Franken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000125/bk_high_000125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 105min
    When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling's The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the "three tribal coalitions" that make up America's political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are "like tribes speaking different languages. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization." Now available as a newly revised and expanded edition, Kling's book could not be any more timely, as Americans - whether as media pundits or conversing at a party - talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions. The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to how to lower the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and our ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides. Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives, nuances, and thinking into the important issues we must together share and resolve. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David L. White. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088199/bk_acx0_088199_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 885min
    Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the poorest countries in the world sparked fierce debates. These debates, however, took place with very few hard facts. China's tradition of secrecy about its aid fueled rumors and speculation, making it difficult to gauge the risks and opportunities provided by China's growing embrace.This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are doing, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy. Drawing on three decades of experience in China and Africa and hundreds of interviews in Africa, China, Europe, and the US, Brautigam shines new light on a topic of great interest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/014082/bk_tant_014082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 529min
    Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road.Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the bicycle through popular songs, merit badge pamphlets, advertising, films, newspapers, and sitcoms. Those associations shaped the actions of government and the courts when they intervened in bike policy through lawsuits, traffic control, road building, taxation, rationing, import tariffs, safety education, and bike lanes from the 1870s to the 1970s.Today, cycling in American urban centers remains a challenge as city planners, political pundits, and residents continue to argue over bike lanes, bike-share programs, law enforcement, sustainability, and public safety. Combining fascinating new research from a wide range of sources with a true passion for the topic, Longhurst shows us that these battles are nothing new; in fact they're simply a continuation of the original battle over who is - and isn't - welcome on our roads.The book is published by University of Washington Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chuck Galco. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195575/bk_acx0_195575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The American Testament: A House Divided, Again , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 700min
    By the year 2084, after decades of ever-increasing political infighting, tensions have reached the boiling point in the United States. Politicians and pundits continue to one-up each other and seek ratings by generating the latest outrage. Years of hostile words has finally turned into actions as a series of tragic events tear the country in two. America in 2084 is managed primarily as three districts. The creation of the districts was part of a national compromise to reorder society after the financial system could no longer support the federal debt. The novel follows characters on both sides of the conflict, similar to The Killer Angels and A Game of Thrones, to honestly share the contrasting motivations, hopes, and fears which is almost impossible to find today from any one source. Echoes from American history and haunting recycled characters from the Bible anchor a novel exploring 2019 issues set in an age of advanced artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Politics and technology in America are dangerously progressing to a fire triangle of social justice, religion, and technology. Unless tangible change is realized, we are on a tragic crash course toward a second civil war. The nation imploding is a testament to previous generations choosing to be divided. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maxx Pinkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201323/bk_acx0_201323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    COVID-19: Illness & Illumination: A Hypnotic Exploration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 578min
    These chronicles mix physics, medicine, hypnotherapy, technology, culture, learning, politics, and the news surrounding the coronavirus from March through June of 2020. This is the first phase of the pandemic, before the expected second infection, and before any vaccine.This mixing of perspectives is unusual. Few authors have the background to support it. Fewer recognize that integrating many perspectives is necessary to understand what has and is continuing to happen. The virus is not one thing having many impacts; it is many things happening with the virus at the center.The situation cannot be understood without considering the chaotic forces and policies that formed it. There is no “one story”; no one authoritative point of view; no single, resolving explanation. Any such orderly presentation of events - and there will be many as various pundits, experts, and spokespeople present their cases - is one slice through a multidimensional event.Much of what becomes evident has been brewing for years - maybe centuries - hidden in policies, bureaucracies, attitudes, economies, cultures, ecological injury, and other dynamics whose combustible elements were either segregated, inactive, unrecognized, or mutating toward this trigger point.Each section in this audiobook ends with a hypnotic session presenting the material in a manner that engages your emotions and detaches you from your senses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Stoller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231054/bk_acx0_231054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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