Showing results by publisher "Ascent Audio" in Politics & Government
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Post-Truth
- By: Lee McIntyre
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial.
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Post-Truth
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2018
- Language: English
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Inflation
- A Guide for Users and Losers
- By: Nicolò Fraccaroli, Mark Blyth
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. But this simple story hides a multitude of beliefs about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down, beliefs that are often wrong, damaging, and have little empirical basis.
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Great explanation about inflation
- By Anonymous on 15-05-2025
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Inflation
- A Guide for Users and Losers
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2025
- Language: English
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America in Retreat
- The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
- By: Bret Stephens
- Narrated by: Bret Stephens, Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin's ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China's attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran's efforts to develop nuclear capabilities.
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America in Retreat
- The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
- Narrated by: Bret Stephens, Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2014
- Language: English
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George Soros
- A Life In Full
- By: Peter L. W. Osnos - editor
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard, Shaun Grindell, Earl McLean, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At age ninety-one, Soros still looms large on the global stage, and yet the man himself is surprisingly little understood. Biographers have attempted to tell the story of George Soros, but no single account of his life can capture his extraordinary, multifaceted character. Now, in this ambitious and revealing new book, Soros's longtime publisher, Peter L. W. Osnos, has assembled an intriguing set of contributors from a variety of different perspectives—public intellectuals, journalists, scholars, and nonprofit leaders—to paint a full picture of the man beyond the media portrayals.
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The true story of George Soros
- By MKB on 03-01-2024
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George Soros
- A Life In Full
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard, Shaun Grindell, Earl McLean, George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2022
- Language: English
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Carbon Removal
- By: Howard J. Herzog, Niall Mac Dowell
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Carbon Removal explores the rapidly evolving world of CDR, presenting the technological pathways of enhancing the land sink, biomass-based carbon capture and storage, engineered removal methods, and ocean-based carbon removal. The authors also discuss the barriers facing CDR as well as the ethical implications of this process. Carbon Removal is a timely, vital book that illuminates the technologies, policies, and markets that can remove carbon from the atmosphere to help us reach our "net-zero" climate targets.
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Carbon Removal
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-2026
- Language: English
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
- By: Alan S. Blinder
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy that hasn't been told before—one that is a pleasure to listen to, and as interesting as it is important.
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2022
- Language: English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare
- (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
- By: Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, James C. Collins, and others
- Narrated by: Linda Jones, Tim Fannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy—with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare
- (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
- Narrated by: Linda Jones, Tim Fannon
- Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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Innovation for the Masses
- How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
- By: Neil Lee
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply asking how we can create more high-tech cities and nations, Innovation for the Masses focuses on places that manage to foster innovation while also delivering the benefits more widely and equally. In this book, economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity.
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Innovation for the Masses
- How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Market in Global International Society
- An English School Approach to International Political Economy
- By: Barry Buzan, Robert Falkner
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as a primary institution in international relations over the past two centuries. It develops a new approach to understanding the relationship between the market and other social and political institutions of global international society.
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The Market in Global International Society
- An English School Approach to International Political Economy
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Social Labs Revolution
- A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
- By: Zaid Hassan, Joi Ito - foreword
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response.
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The Social Labs Revolution
- A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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Proposed Roads to Freedom
- By: Bertrand Russell
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A concise version of Bertrand Russell's political philosophy and thoughts, focusing on his favoring of guild socialism. While Russell believed that pure Anarchism should be the ultimate goal, his realism lead him to favor the guild socialism which he expands upon in this volume. Russell first discusses the various aspects of socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism, focusing also on the major men/movements associated with each school.
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Bertrand Russell is dreaming.
- By William on 04-12-2017
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Proposed Roads to Freedom
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2013
- Language: English
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China and Cybersecurity
- Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain
- By: Jon R. Lindsay - editor, Tai Ming Cheung - editor, Derek S. Reveron - editor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Western political discourse on cybersecurity is dominated by news of Chinese military development of cyberwarfare capabilities and cyber exploitation against foreign governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Western accounts, however, tell only one side of the story. Chinese leaders are also concerned with cyber insecurity, and Chinese authors frequently note that China is also a victim of foreign cyber attacks—predominantly from the United States. China and Cybersecurity is a comprehensive analysis of China's cyberspace threats and policies.
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China and Cybersecurity
- Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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Obfuscation
- A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
- By: Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance - the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy-protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data-collection projects.
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Obfuscation
- A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-12-2015
- Language: English
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The Company That Solved Healthcare
- How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing Better Care, and How Every Company Can Do the Same
- By: John Torinus Jr.
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Company That Solved Health Care describes the fascinating details of Serigraph's program and shows how any company can achieve similar results. This book is a must-listen for any manager responsible for his or her company's health-care expenses, any academic or thinker involved in the health-care debate, and anyone who wants to better understand why health-care costs have been rising and what can be done to achieve price stability while improving patient care.
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The Company That Solved Healthcare
- How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing Better Care, and How Every Company Can Do the Same
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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Affluenza (3rd Edition)
- How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back
- By: Thomas H. Naylor, John de Graaf, David Wann
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague.
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Affluenza (3rd Edition)
- How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2025
- Language: English
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Turning to One Another
- Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
- By: Margaret J. Wheatley
- Narrated by: Margaret J. Wheatley
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change, both locally and globally, that are so badly needed. Such change will not come from governments or corporations but from the ageless process of thinking together in conversation. Turning to One Another encourages this process.
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Turning to One Another
- Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
- Narrated by: Margaret J. Wheatley
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2008
- Language: English
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The Hidden Wealth Nations
- The Scourge of Tax Havens
- By: Gabriel Zucman, Teresa Lavender Fagan - Translator
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world's assets are currently hidden - until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world's money held in tax havens. And it's staggering. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution.
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The Hidden Wealth Nations
- The Scourge of Tax Havens
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2015
- Language: English
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The Future Power
- Its Changing Nature and Use in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Joseph Nye
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In the 16th century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge; 17th-century Netherlands profited from trade and finance; 18th-century France gained from its larger population, while 19th-century British power rested on its primacy in the Industrial Revolution and its navy. In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power resources were measured in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, and numbers of men under arms and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe. But the global information age of the 21st century is quickly rendering these traditional markers of power obsolete, remapping power relationships
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The Future Power
- Its Changing Nature and Use in the Twenty-first Century
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-01-2011
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
- Transportation for a Strong Town
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities.
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
- Transportation for a Strong Town
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2021
- Language: English
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