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    Plutocratic Insurgency Reader
    Plutocratic Insurgency Reader ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Serious Money
    Serious Money ab 17.99 € als epub eBook: Walking Plutocratic London. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    The Dominion of the World 1
    The Dominion of the World 1 ab 28.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Plutocratic Plot. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Science Fiction & Fantasy,
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    Clockwork Gypsy: Enchanter Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 499min
    A diabolical plot is afoot to kill thousands by connecting England’s railway lines to a deadly curse. The beautiful and mysterious Mingli Zhao, special inspector from Scotland Yard, enlists the help of Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, who uses his skills with summoning Jewish demons to perform true magic to help solve supernatural crimes. Meanwhile, a Hungarian Romani - part man, part clockwork - will stop at nothing to kill the man he believes is responsible for his hell of an existence that is slowly grinding his mind into the nothingness of gears and pistons. It’s a race against time for Leopold to foil the fiendish plot of the railway barons, fight off a plutocratic society of goblins, struggle to gain the romantic attentions of Miss Zhao...and discover the identity of the Clockwork Gypsy before he kills again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah James Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225544/bk_acx0_225544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Practical Idealism: The Kalergi Plan to Destroy European Peoples , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 283min
    The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: Since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers.Instead of the feudal structure of society, the plutocratic stepped in; birth is no more the decisive factor for social rank, but income is. Today’s plutocracy is mightier than yesterday’s aristocracy: Because nobody is above it but the state, which is its tool and helper’s helper.When there was still true blood nobility, the system of aristocracy by birth was fairer than that of the moneyed aristocracy today: because then the ruling caste had a sense of responsibility, culture, and tradition; whereas the class that rules today is barren of feelings of responsibility, culture, or tradition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Sangmoore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195984/bk_acx0_195984_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ode to Kirihito: New Omnibus Edition
    ARE YOU A BEAST? It may or may not be contagious. There seems to be no cure for it. Yet Monmow Disease, a life-threatening condition that transforms a person into a dog-like beast, is not the only villain in this shocking triumph of a medical thriller by manga-god Osamu Tezuka. Said to have been the personal favorite of the artist, who held a degree in medicine, and surprisingly attentive to Christian themes and imagery, Ode to Kirihito demolishes naive notions about human nature and health and likely preconceptions about the comics master himself. A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest epidemiological mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. From plutocratic Taipei and apartheid South Africa to backwater Syria and metropolitan Osaka, ambition and desire beckon "normal men" to behave uglier than any beast as we examine the true worth of human beings through and beyond appearances.
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    Divine Space Gods II: Revolution for Dummies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
    Keila is the perfect revolutionary:Lacking things like intelligence, sanity or common sense.She has something far more important: Plot armor and the telepathic help of Rangda, the evil space demon!Divine Space Gods II: Revolution for Dummies is dark comedy parody on The Divine Sedition by the same author.It’s the year 2872 and the young, beautiful, and insane Keila Eisenstein is on the run from her long-time stalker, Bjorn Muller. Escaping him for the umpteenth time, Keila crashes down on the asteroid colony Eden, most famous for the long-running reality show The Bronze Age Fools.Convinced that Eden is her destiny, Keila kills The Bronze Age Fools unwitting main star Abraham Goldstein, which forces the show to be cancelled. Keila then fakes her own death by deleting her social media account and instructs her lover Metatron to release a press release blaming the cancellation of The Bronze Age Fools on Bjorn Muller. Bjorn, who is convinced that Keila is dead, as he can’t imaging her willingly deleting her SpaceBook account, goes back to Earth for a holiday. The holiday is ruined as Bjorn is blamed for causing the cancellation of everyone’s favourite show!Being “dead”, Keila builds up a revolutionary movement against the ruling Terran Council. Despite her lack of intelligence or common sense, her plot armour is leading her on the way, and with the help from the evil space demon Rangda, she is poised to free humanity from the oppression of the incompetent array of villains that make up the Terran Council.But, is relying on an evil space demon to free humanity from a group of plutocratic oppressors really a good idea? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elaine Hidayat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143987/bk_acx0_143987_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    A New York Times Best SellerNamed one of The New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2018″Named one of NPR’s “Best Books of 2018”Named one of the Financial Times “Books of the Year”Named one of The Washington Post’s “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Best International Nonfiction” books of 2018One of the GreenBiz “10 Best Climate and Business Books of 2018”800-CEO-READ Business Book of the YearThe New York Times best-selling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.  Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anand Giridharadas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006295/bk_rand_006295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Democracy Rules
    'Lively. . . This is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll . . . A book that encourages thinking, observation and discernment' New York TimesOne of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first centuryEveryone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded on three vital principles: liberty, equality, and also uncertainty. The latter, he argues, is crucial for ensuring democracy's dynamic and creative character. Authoritarians, as well as Big Tech, seek to render politics (and individual citizens) predictable; democracy holds open the possibility that new ideas, movements and identities can be created.Acknowledging fully the dangers posed by populism, by kleptocratic autocracies like Russia's and by the digital authoritarianism of Xi, Müller also challenges the assumptions made by many liberals defending democracy in recent years. He shows how the secession of plutocratic elites in the West has undermined much of democracy's promise. In response, we need to re-invigorate our institutions, especially political parties and professional media, but also make it easier for citizens to mobilize. Taking on many of the most difficult political questions we face, this book is a vital rethinking of what democracy is, and how we can reinvent our social contract.
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    Serious Money (eBook, ePUB)
    The inside story of London's wealthiest residents - and how their money shapes the city for the rest of usLondon is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead?To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. A move behind closed doors takes us ever further into the dark heart of the plutocratic city, from multimillion-pound mansions to high-end hotels and gentlemen's clubs. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, aristocrats, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many, many more.By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat's recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder us that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.
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