Una Mirada A La Historia Tomo 3
By: Onofre Quezada
Narrated by: Anonimo
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Mirar la historia es sin duda alguna una gran forma de crecer como personas, ya que en la historia nos encontramos con hechos reales que vivieron otras personas pero que de esas experiencias terminamos aprendiendo mucho por ello es que a través de este libro amigo lector comparto contigo sobre: nacionalismos y revoluciones liberales 1830 y 1848,... Read more
War Is a Racket
By: Smedley Butler
Narrated by: John Greenman
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, "I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I... Read more
View audiobookReflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
By: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Narrated by: Jeff Edward Dumas
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth was a treatise written by French Enlightenment philosopher and civil servant Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. "This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, written by the Celebrated Smith" - Condorcet's Life of Turgot. Read more
View audiobookReport of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms
By: Nicholas F. Brady
Narrated by: Patrick McHaffie
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("Dow") fell 769 points or 31 percent. On October 19, 1987, alone, the Dow fell by 508 points or 22.6 percent. Since the early 1920's, only the drop of 12.8 percent in the Dow on October 28, 1929 and the fall of... Read more
View audiobookThe Poverty of Philosophy
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Trayvin Leroy
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The Poverty of Philosophy is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. Read more
View audiobookA Nurse’s War
By: Patricia Malcolmson & Robert Malcolmson
Narrated by: Emma Pallant
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone ‘Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.’ Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital The second world... Read more
View audiobookPyramid of Lies
By: Duncan Mavin
Narrated by: Duncan Mavin
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris that nearly brought down the British government.
'The British version of Bad Blood . . . [but] better' – The Sunday Times
'Terrific' – The Observer, Book of the Week
In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill Capital collapsed, going into administration. As it unravelled,... Read more
Paper Cuts
By: Ted Kessler
Narrated by: Ted Kessler
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!'
Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher
Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death... Read more
Devil-Land
By: Clare Jackson
Narrated by: Emma Gregory
Length: 24 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history
Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious... Read more
The Mandela Brief
By: Thomas Grant
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, the greatest living barrister.
Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize... Read more
Crowned Hudds
By: Michael Dines
Narrated by: Roy Hudd, June Whitfield, Chris Emmett, Jon Glo...
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A historical comedy romp sketch show starring Roy Hudd
A hilarious comedy show from the 1990s, featuring famous historical moments retold with a modern twist by outstanding classic comedy performers, including the tales of King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Helen of Troy and King Charles II. Silly and knowing, Crowned Hudds is perfect for fans of Like... Read more
Killer in the Kremlin
By: John Sweeney
Narrated by: John Sweeney
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of... Read more
British Traitors
By: Gordon Kerr
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Capital punishment was abolished for murder in Great Britain in 1969, but remained as the punishment for high treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of betraying your country. But even with the threat of the noose hanging over them, many still chose the path of treachery during the cataclysmic events of... Read more
View audiobookWar Transformed
By: Mick Ryan
Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy, and the forces that must execute that strategy. Emphasizing the impacts of technology, new era strategic competition, demography, and climate change, Mick Ryan uses historical and... Read more
View audiobookEating While Black
By: Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and... Read more
View audiobookRevival Fire
By: Wesley L. Duewel
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Fire blazes from heaven, and a stone altar erupts in flame. So begins a spiritual awakening, the kindling of a revival fire still burning today.Beginning with Elijah and God's tremendous one-day revival of Israel, Wesley Duewel tells stories of revivals spanning the globe from America to China to Africa, all brought by obedience and heartfelt... Read more
View audiobookThe Listeners
By: Brian Hochman
Narrated by: Phil Thron
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century—and they have spied on their... Read more
View audiobookDaughters of the Church
By: Ruth A. Tucker & Walter L. Liefeld
Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
Length: 24 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history.The very fact that listeners may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been... Read more
View audiobookEntitled
By: Chris Bryant
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed,... Read more
View audiobookBad Gays
By: Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
Narrated by: Ben Allen
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Letters to the Twelve Prophets
By: Dr. John Goldingay
Narrated by: Alan Irving & Angharad Price
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Understand the Prophets Like Never Before with Amazing Insights from One of Today's Foremost Old Testament ScholarsFor many Christians reading the Old Testament, trying to understand Israel's prophets is like listening to just one side of a phone conversation--you only get half the idea of it. You hear the answer, but how do you know what... Read more
View audiobookQueens of the Wild
By: Ronald Hutton
Narrated by: Gary Paul Williams
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day
In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags,... Read more
Why They Stay
By: Anne Michaud
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hillary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket.Veteran political journalist Anne... Read more
View audiobookRum Rebels
By: Martyna Halas & René van Hoven
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Once known as a sailor's drink, rum has matured into a refined spirit. In some Caribbean countries, rum is offered as a libation to the gods. In others, it is aged and savored on the rocks. But in the most magical places, rum is distilled by women.
The art of cocktails, rum, and women. Rum has been the drink of rebels since the Old World. Now,... Read more