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Beware Euphoria
- The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
- By: George Fisher
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
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Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early anti-drug laws in the United States arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how United States drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.
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Beware Euphoria
- The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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White Shoe
- How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
- By: John Oller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with big business and Wall Street the center of the financial world.
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White Shoe
- How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK: Volume 1
- By: Monty Lord
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made perfect sense at the time they were introduced but seen through modern eyes, now appear archaic and draconian. Despite the great efforts of the Law Commission in England and Wales to review and recommend reforms for many of these outdated laws, there are centuries of law that must be painstakingly gone through.
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK: Volume 1
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Series: Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK Series, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-06-23
- Language: English
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The Witness House
- Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
- By: Christiane Kohl
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.
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The Witness House
- Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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America's Rifle
- The Case for the AR-15
- By: Stephen Halbrook
- Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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This book is the definitive work showing the central place of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in the American story. From the founding to the present, rifles and other firearms have played a pivotal role in American history. The story of America’s rifle is largely the story of American history.
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America's Rifle
- The Case for the AR-15
- Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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The Apology of Socrates: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Michael T Downey
- Length: 57 mins
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The Apology of Socrates, by Plato, is the dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defense, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399 BC. Specifically, The Apology of Socrates is a defense against the charges of “corrupting the youth” and “not believing in the same gods as the city, but in other gods which are novel” to Athens.
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The Apology of Socrates: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- Narrated by: Michael T Downey
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 30-10-17
- Language: English
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK: Volume 2
- By: Monty Lord
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made perfect sense at the time they were introduced but seen through modern eyes, now appear archaic and draconian.
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK: Volume 2
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Series: Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK Series, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-06-23
- Language: English
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An Empire of Laws
- Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy
- By: Christian R. Burset
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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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.
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An Empire of Laws
- Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-11-23
- Language: English
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Not Enough
- Human Rights in an Unequal World
- By: Samuel Moyn
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice.
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Not Enough
- Human Rights in an Unequal World
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-06-18
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Trial
- Public Loss, Lessons Learned from The People vs. O.J. Simpson
- By: Jerrianne Hayslett
- Narrated by: Sheila Book
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Now an insider at The People vs. O. J. Simpson reveals the untold story of the most widely followed trial in American history and the indelible impact it has had on the judiciary, the media, and the public. As the Los Angeles Superior Court's media liaison, Jerrianne Hayslett had unprecedented access to the trial - and met with Judge Lance Ito daily - as she attempted, sometimes unsuccessfully, to mediate between the court and members of the media and to balance their interests.
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- By Dinah Stubbs on 25-03-16
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Anatomy of a Trial
- Public Loss, Lessons Learned from The People vs. O.J. Simpson
- Narrated by: Sheila Book
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-08-14
- Language: English
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
- The Compendium
- By: Monty Lord
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
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Have you ever heard a bizarre law and thought, that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an urban myth that became so embellished over time? There are surprisingly, a great many laws still in existence on the statute books today, that would make your jaw drop. Whilst bizarre as these laws may now seem to us, it begs the question, are we in fact unknowingly breaking these laws on a regular basis?
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK
- The Compendium
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Series: Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK Series, Book 1-3
- Length: 25 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 30-06-23
- Language: English
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls barely missed his heart and spinal cord. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age 61, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
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The narrator was engaging.
- By maryamandjam on 28-07-24
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Policing the Open Road
- How Cars Transformed American Freedom
- By: Sarah A. Seo
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 11 hrs
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When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us to accept - and expect - pervasive police power. As Policing the Open Road makes clear, this radical transformation in the nature and meaning of American freedom has had far-reaching political and legal consequences.
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Policing the Open Road
- How Cars Transformed American Freedom
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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The War on Drugs
- A History
- By: David Farber - editor
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the United States government has spent more than a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In a rare multifaceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug-war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy.
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Great Info
- By JONAH8208 on 15-03-22
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The War on Drugs
- A History
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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Plaintiff in Chief
- A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits
- By: James D. Zirin
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Distinguished New York attorney James D. Zirin presents Trump's lengthy litigation history as an indication of his character and morality, and his findings are chilling: if you partner with Donald Trump, you will probably wind up litigating with him. If you enroll in his university or buy one of his apartments, chances are you will want your money back. If you are a woman and you get too close to him, you may need to watch your back. If you make a deal with him, you had better get it in writing. If you are a lawyer, an architect, or even his dentist, you'd better get paid up front.
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Plaintiff in Chief
- A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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Norco '80
- The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
- By: Peter Houlahan
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in US history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, Norco '80 transports the listener back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.
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not a riveting thriller but an interesting story
- By rikki on 16-10-19
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Norco '80
- The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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New Deal Law and Order
- How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
- By: Anthony Gregory
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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New Deal Law and Order follows President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, and their war on crime coalition, which overcame the institutional and political challenges to the legitimacy of national law enforcement. Promises of law and order helped to manage tensions among key Democratic Party factions—organized labor, Black Americans, and white Southerners. Their anticrime program, featuring a strengthened criminal code, an empowered FBI, and the first federal war on marijuana, was essential to the expansion of national authority previously stymied on constitutional grounds.
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New Deal Law and Order
- How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
- A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
- By: Kali Nicole Gross
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial - which spanned several months - were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the Black community to public attention.
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
- A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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The Harm in Hate Speech
- By: Jeremy Waldron
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech - except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.
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A well argued and interesting discussion
- By Joshua on 14-05-19
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The Harm in Hate Speech
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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Organized Crime
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Georgios A. Antonopoulos and Georgios Papanicolaou uncover the reality of organized crime in our world today. Shining a light on the people involved in organized crime, Antonopoulos and Papanicolaou question whether the term "organized" is used to evoke the image, the operations, and power of a legitimate organization, such as a corporation. Discussing whether there are particular crimes that the label "organized crime" applies to, or if any crime can be organized, they also consider what happens when organized crime extends beyond borders.
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Organized Crime
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-07-18
- Language: English
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