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A Macat Analysis of John P. Kotter's Leading Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min

Publisher's Weekly called John Kotter's 1996 book Leading Change "a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide" to corporate transformation. A professor at Harvard Business School, Kotter spent years coaching organizations - large and small; successful, less successful, and nearly bankrupt - through their own change processes. Some worked; others didn't. Distilling wisdom from these experiences, Kotter identifies eight common mistakes managers make implementing change. He then uses them to propose an eight-stage model that he argues can lead to successful organizational transformation. Leadership is crucial to change. In Kotter's view, unsuccessful transformations usually result from poor management decisions. Management General named Leading Change the management book of the year in 1996. Nearly 20 years later, would-be change-makers still rely on Kotter's highly listenable, jargon-free combination of visionary guide and practical toolkit. An international best-seller, it remains a "must listen" for anyone who wants to move from thinking about change, to actually making it happen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060843/bk_acx0_060843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min

Economist Amartya Sen's 1997 work Development as Freedom presents a "middle way" approach to how we should look at international development, based on the idea that its success or failure cannot be measured by income alone. Having grown up in India, Sen brings his own understanding of what poverty really means to the issue, arguing that above all, the process and goal of development must be human freedom. He backs up this idea through his concept of "capabilities" - the capacity a person has to do the things he or she believes make for a good life. Only by looking at the "capability set" of groups within different societies is it possible to truly evaluate and compare relative freedoms. And only then can the real impact of development be measured. Sen acknowledges the roles of economic markets and states in expanding freedom, and concludes that democratic control is crucial if development is to succeed in a meaningful way. Development as Freedom is a key text in the field of development economics, because it helped create a way of looking at the subject that pushed well beyond traditional models. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064331/bk_acx0_064331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 98min

C. S. Lewis may be most famous for his fiction, including children's books like the Chronicles of Narnia series. But in his 1952 book Mere Christianity - originally printed as three separate pamphlets in 1942, 1943, and 1944 - this eclectic and learned man documents his complex journey from atheism to faith. Lewis' fresh, lively, and often humorous presentation of Christian doctrine led some to label him the greatest defender of Christianity of the 20th century. Originally written as World War II raged, Mere Christianity is a groundbreaking text challenging the modernism and naturalism of Lewis' day. It demonstrated that an "amateur" theologian, with his simple and straightforward style, could bring to life the fundamentals of Christian doctrine - even in a culture that increasingly dismissed the value of faith and the church. In 2000, the magazine Christianity Today named Mere Christianity top of its list of the best religious books of the 20th century. Accessible to people from all walks of life, the work remains as relevant today as it was during Lewis' own time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062517/bk_acx0_062517_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min

One of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) defines and defends individual liberty, a cornerstone of classical liberal thinking. Defining liberty as freedom from interference by state power or popular moral opinion, Mill justifies the individual's right to this liberty by focusing on the role self-development plays in human well-being. His vision of individual rights extends to include freedom of thought and emotion and the freedom to act together with others. Society should protect the development of individuality to aid both social progress and innovation. On Liberty introduces the influential "harm principle" to guide judgment about when a state or society is justified in intervening in individual affairs. Intervention is justified only when actions cause harm to another person's interests. On Liberty has remained in print ever since it was first published - and the principles Mill outlined over 150 years ago still influence political debate today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060551/bk_acx0_060551_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 110min

Its arguments would go on to shape global economics and influence world leaders in the late 20th century, but Capitalism and Freedom was largely ignored when it was first published in 1962. The first work written for the general public by American economist Milton Friedman, the book argues that a free market with little government interference is the best way to run society. Its ideas were considered to be on the fringes of the economic debate at first, but Capitalism and Freedom introduced a fresh challenge to the dominance of the economic ideas put forward by Englishman John Maynard Keynes. Its theories spurred Friedman's rise to fame and paved the way for the influential body of work that followed. Capitalism and Freedom also inspired Friedman's highly successful book and television series, Free to Choose (1980). These both helped to popularize free-market thinking and made Friedman a household name. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064490/bk_acx0_064490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Hamid Dabashi's Theology of Discontent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min

In his 1997 work Theology of Discontent, American Iranian Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 would not have happened had it not been for the influential ideas of eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the four decades before it occurred. Dabashi surveys these thinkers' contributions to the development of Iran's system of Islamic beliefs. He says this ideology was shaped both according to Iranians' perception of themselves and according to their perception of the West. A fierce desire to resist control and reject any possible imposition of Western imperialism led to the country's revolutionary spirit against a West-friendly monarchy. One of Dabashi's arguments - that thinkers who may often oppose each other's views will still come together to ensure their mutual survival - has proved useful outside the context of the Iranian Revolution. It has provided a way of understanding Muslim-Western relations that have seemingly stalled in the post-9/11 world. This has given Theology of Discontent a certain timelessness and has confirmed it as an important work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/060557/bk_acx0_060557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Hannah Arendt's 'The Human Condition' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min

In her 1958 work The Human Condition, German-born political theorist Hannah Arendt asks two fundamental questions: "Under what conditions do politics emerge?" and "Under what conditions can politics be eliminated?" In searching for answers she turns some long-established thinking on its head. Ancient political philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle believed that a life spent thinking was more important than an active life of labor, work, and action. But Arendt argues that political action is every bit as important as political thinking. Basing her theories on how human beings actually experience politics, Arendt is at pains to explain her firm belief that it is an important arena for people to act in. She also focuses on plurality - where different ideas and lifestyles can peacefully coexist - as one of the basic conditions of humanity. More than 50 years after its publication, The Human Condition is still referenced frequently, and Arendt occupies 24th place in the 2007 Times Higher Education list of "most cited authors of books in the humanities." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063905/bk_acx0_063905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 110min

David Hume's book tackling the subject of belief in God is among the most influential in Western philosophy. Published in 1779, three years after Hume's death, without featuring the author's name, the book was deeply controversial in its day. It is now considered a masterpiece and Hume is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers writing in English. A cleverly crafted fictional conversation, Dialogues deals with justifying belief in God. On the one hand is the argument that a universe that looks designed must have a designer, and also the argument that the universe has what is known as an uncaused first cause, and that can only be God. On the other hand is the argument that if there is evil in the world, then there cannot be a God. Through these debates Hume weaves the question of whether we can truly know God's nature. Dialogues is an elegant exploration of Hume's empiricism, the theory that knowledge can only be built on what we experience through our senses. More than 200 years after the work was first published, Hume's beautifully shaped arguments are still in use among 21st-century philosophers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062173/bk_acx0_062173_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min

Sociologist Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss first published Structural Anthropology in his native French in 1958. Not only did the book transform the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement (called structuralism) that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation. Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language based not just on definitions, but also on the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss's insight was to see that this concept of structuralism in linguistics could be applied to anthropology as well. He saw that while some cultures are very different from others, they all seem to have certain internal structural relationships in common. By tracing these structures across cultures, he tried to answer nothing less than the eternal question: "What is man?" Structural Anthropology has been both highly praised and harshly criticized, but even Lévi-Strauss's critics recognize the importance of his work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064328/bk_acx0_064328_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Macat Analysis of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 91min

Under the title "Civil Disobedience", American author Henry David Thoreau's essay was originally published in 1866, four years after his death in 1862. It is based on a lecture, "Resistance to Civil Government", that Thoreau gave many years earlier, in 1848. "Civil Disobedience" asked when an individual should actively oppose a government and its justice system. Thoreau's answer was that opposition was legitimate whenever government actions or institutions were unacceptable to an individual's conscience. But he went further, saying anyone who believed something to be wrong had a duty to resist it actively. These ideas were completely at odds with the prevailing opinions of the day - that it was the duty of every citizen to support the state. Thoreau was himself an activist. Opposing both slavery and the Mexican-American War, he refused to pay his taxes and was jailed as a result. While Thoreau was not widely known during his lifetime, the ideas he put forward in "Civil Disobedience" became highly influential in the 20th century when they were taken up by people including Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela as a means of opposing their own governments. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064484/bk_acx0_064484_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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