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The Wake-Up Call
- Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West - and How to Fix It
- Gesprochen von: Kristin Scott Thomas
- Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 27 Min.
- Kategorien: Politik & Sozialwissenschaften, Politik & Regierungen

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Good government is now the difference between living and dying....
The COVID crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US and the UK has been consumed with inward-facing struggles, countries like South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan as well as China have made extraordinary advances economically, technologically and politically.
In this beautifully crafted essay, Micklethwait and Wooldridge explain how we ended up in this mess and explore the possible routes out. If Western governments respond creatively to the crisis, they will have a chance of reversing decades of decline; if they dither and delay while Asia continues to improve, the prospect of a new Eastern-dominated world order will increase. The big question facing the world is whether the West can rise to the challenge as it has before.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- Geschrieben von: Fareed Zakaria
- Gesprochen von: Fareed Zakaria
- Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 24 Min.
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
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- Gesprochen von: Tom Burgis
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They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.
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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- Geschrieben von: Bjorn Lomborg
- Gesprochen von: Jim Seybert
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The New York Times best-selling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good.
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A Promised Land
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Fühlt sich an, als hätte man selbst kandidiert!
- Von Leseratte Am hilfreichsten 29.11.2020
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Rage
- Geschrieben von: Bob Woodward
- Gesprochen von: Robert Petkoff
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Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest. Woodward, the number-one international best-selling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency.
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Akribisch, spannend und aufrichtig
- Von KS&Jones Am hilfreichsten 07.10.2020
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West
- Geschrieben von: Catherine Belton
- Gesprochen von: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
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In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the free-wheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs who in turn subverted their country's economy and legal system and expanded its influence in the West.
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Excellent
- Von Hans-Joachim Bobsin Am hilfreichsten 19.01.2021
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- Geschrieben von: Fareed Zakaria
- Gesprochen von: Fareed Zakaria
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
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- Gesprochen von: Tom Burgis
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They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London. They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.
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False Alarm
- How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- Geschrieben von: Bjorn Lomborg
- Gesprochen von: Jim Seybert
- Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 18 Min.
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The New York Times best-selling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good.
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A Promised Land
- Geschrieben von: Barack Obama
- Gesprochen von: Barack Obama
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Fühlt sich an, als hätte man selbst kandidiert!
- Von Leseratte Am hilfreichsten 29.11.2020
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Rage
- Geschrieben von: Bob Woodward
- Gesprochen von: Robert Petkoff
- Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 22 Min.
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Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest. Woodward, the number-one international best-selling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency.
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Akribisch, spannend und aufrichtig
- Von KS&Jones Am hilfreichsten 07.10.2020
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West
- Geschrieben von: Catherine Belton
- Gesprochen von: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
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In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton tells the untold story of the rise of Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him. Delving deep into the workings of Putin's Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the free-wheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs who in turn subverted their country's economy and legal system and expanded its influence in the West.
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- Von Hans-Joachim Bobsin Am hilfreichsten 19.01.2021
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Geschrieben von: Simon Sinek
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Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.
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Very good message, but highly repetitive
- Von Martin B. Am hilfreichsten 21.08.2018
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Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- Geschrieben von: Anne Applebaum
- Gesprochen von: Anne Applebaum
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From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else.
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Very Interesting and Topical Work
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- A Story of the Future
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It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
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Beängstigend und alarmierend, was da auf....
- Von MBookfielder Am hilfreichsten 26.06.2019
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Strafe
- Geschrieben von: Ferdinand von Schirach
- Gesprochen von: Ferdinand von Schirach
- Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 21 Min.
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Ferdinand von Schirach beschreibt in seinem neuen Buch "Strafe" zwölf Schicksale. Wie schon in den beiden Titeln "Verbrechen" und "Schuld" zeigt er, wie schwer es ist, einem Menschen gerecht zu werden und wie voreilig unsere Begriffe von "gut" und "böse" oft sind. Ferdinand von Schirach verurteilt nie. In ruhiger, distanzierter Gelassenheit und zugleich voller Empathie erzählt er von Einsamkeit und Fremdheit, von dem Streben nach Glück und dem Scheitern. Seine Geschichten sind Erzählungen über uns selbst.
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- Von Gandalf Am hilfreichsten 21.03.2018
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- Geschrieben von: Michael Shellenberger
- Gesprochen von: Stephen Graybill
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Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die", contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
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missinformation and denial
- Von Jule Roberts Am hilfreichsten 06.10.2020
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Capital and Ideology
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- Gesprochen von: Rick Adamson
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Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
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Great book, but no great Audiobook
- Von Ein Kunde Am hilfreichsten 07.05.2020
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- Geschrieben von: Rutger Bregman
- Gesprochen von: Thomas Judd, Rutger Bregman
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 36 Min.
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It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.
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Expanding you world view
- Von Anonymer Hörer Am hilfreichsten 20.07.2020
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- Geschrieben von: John Bolton
- Gesprochen von: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- Spieldauer: 20 Std. und 52 Min.
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As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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Coward Bolton
- Von bimbamdoria Am hilfreichsten 15.07.2020
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The Mirror and the Light
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3
- Geschrieben von: Hilary Mantel
- Gesprochen von: Ben Miles
- Spieldauer: 38 Std. und 11 Min.
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England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army.
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Third part of Cromwell trilogy
- Von Roberta Am hilfreichsten 20.04.2020
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Künstliche Intelligenz und der Sinn des Lebens
- Ein Essay
- Geschrieben von: Richard David Precht
- Gesprochen von: Richard David Precht
- Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 47 Min.
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Der bekannteste Philosoph Deutschlands über die Moral der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Während die drohende Klimakatastrophe und der enorme Ressourcenverbrauch der Menschheit die Lebensgrundlagen unseres Planeten zerstören, machen sich Informatiker und Ingenieure daran, die Entwicklung einer Künstlichen Intelligenz voranzutreiben, die alles das können soll, was Menschen auch können - nur vielfach "optimierter". Ausgehend von völlig falschen Annahmen soll den Maschinen sogar eine menschenähnliche Moral einprogrammiert werden.
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Einseitig und fehlerhaft informiert
- Von Max Am hilfreichsten 17.07.2020
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Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Geschrieben von: Max Tegmark
- Gesprochen von: Rob Shapiro
- Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 29 Min.
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How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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very interesting topic could be done shorter
- Von frenchp Am hilfreichsten 29.10.2017
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The Entrepreneurial State
- Geschrieben von: Mariana Mazzucato
- Gesprochen von: Amy Finegan
- Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 41 Min.
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According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk taker of all?
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