Politics & Economy audiobooks

She Persisted: Pura Belpré

By: Meg Medina, Marilisa Jiménez García & Chelsea C...

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & Chelsea Clinton

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Pura Belpré!

Pura Belpré grew up in Puerto Rico surrounded by stories. When she moved to New York and was offered the chance to work at the New York Public... Read more

Rewired

By: Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel & Eric Lamarre

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology to continuously create great customer experiences, lower unit costs, and generate value. It's the capabilities of... Read more

Hacer disidencia

By: Eric Sadin

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Ante los continuos desengaños políticos, los nuevos modelos de sometimiento del neoliberalismo y la complicidad de nuestros dirigentes para que nada de esto cambie, el mayor reto que se nos presenta hoy en día es despertar de nuestro estado de parálisis y movilizar nuestras propias fuerzas. Hacer disidencia supone romper con muchos... Read more

Settling the Boom

By: Mary E. Thomas & Bruce Braun

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom



Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities,... Read more

Great Strategic Rivalries

By: James Lacey

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 28 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring rivalries can end in one of three ways: a series of exhausting conflicts in which one side... Read more

Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro

By: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta

Narrated by: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Leído por el autorEl premiado filósofo, conferenciante internacional y académico Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta nos trae un manifiesto filosófico que pretende animar a los lectores a aprender a pensar por sí mismos y no permitir que la tecnología domine y controle su vida.En un mundo de servicios de streaming a la carta y de interminables contenidos... Read more

How States Think

By: John J. Mearsheimer & Sebastian Rosato

Narrated by: Mack Sanderson

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?
To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is... Read more

The Last Politician

By: Franklin Foer

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins & Franklin Foer

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden’s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation’s history.

"You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but either way,... Read more

Civil War by Other Means

By: Jeremi Suri

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln's vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the... Read more

Silent Cry

By: Dorothy J. Newton

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up. But she became the first in her family to graduate from college and moved out of poverty. She then began to live out her dreams in Dallas of a better home and life when she married celebrity superstar football player Nate Newton.... Read more

No Silly Questions

By: Zara Seidler & Sam Koslowski

Narrated by: Sam Koslowski & Zara Seidler

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the news cycle and a bit lost without the background to everything that's going on?

You care what's happening in the world - but you can't help feeling you missed the part where the key stuff got explained. What's a budget deficit? How does voting actually work? What's the deal with the UN? And what does net zero... Read more

Budapest

By: Victor Sebestyen

Narrated by: Elinor Coleman

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between East and West—from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin

“A compelling portrait of one of the most important cities in Europe. Full of sharp insights,... Read more

The Zelensky Effect

By: Olga Onuch & Henry E. Hale

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride.' Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their... Read more

Beyond the Wall

By: Katja Hoyer

Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany, "a fascinating, sparkling book, filled with insights" (Peter Frankopan)
 
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the... Read more

El espía que robó la bomba atómica

By: Ann Hagedorn

Narrated by: Carlos Garza

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

. Aunque nació en Iowa en 1913, George Koval vivió por ocho años en la URSS, lugar en el que se crio bajo el yugo de la ideología soviética. Sus cualidades lo convertían en el candidato ideal para el Ejército Rojo: una afición al beisbol, una doble nacionalidad y una mente brillante. Con el comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la inteligencia... Read more

The End of Reality

By: Jonathan Taplin

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society.

At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and... Read more

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

By: Fredrik deBoer

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, “one of the sharpest and funniest writers on the internet” (The New York Times).

In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the... Read more

Not the Camilla We Knew

By: Rachael Hanel

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles... Read more

Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor

By: Claudia Romo Edelman & Nathalie Alonso

Narrated by: Diana Pou

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor.

Read about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world, in this gripping biography written by Claudia Romo Edelman and... Read more

O Príncipe (resumo) - Abridged

By: Nicolau Maquiavel

Narrated by: Sidney Ferreira

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tendo o príncipe necessidade de saber usar bem a natureza do animal, deve escolher a raposa e o leão, pois o leão não sabe se defender dos laços (das armadilhas) e a raposa não sabe se defender da força bruta dos lobos. Portanto, é preciso ser raposa, para conhecer as armadilhas, e leão, para aterrorizar os lobos.""Um príncipe não deve ter... Read more

ESG - Der Inflationsbeschleuniger

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Betrachtet man den globalen Wahnsinn, der von den politischen Machthabern und Großkonzernen dieser Welt und den im Hintergrund agierenden Endzeitsekten ausgeht, dann kann man sich als Mensch mit gesundem Menschenverstand nur noch an den Kopf fassen und sich immer wieder fragen, wie geistesabwesend die Menschheit im Grunde ist, dass sie diese... Read more

Our Voices From The Heart

By: Patricia Anderson AO & Professor Megan Davis

Narrated by: Patricia Anderson AO & Professor Megan Davis

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO.
The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itself standing on the edge of a... Read more

Die Konsensfabrik

By: Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman

Narrated by: Markus Böker

Length: 23 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit "Manufacturing Consent" legten Edward S. Herman und Noam Chomsky im Jahr 1988 ein umfassendes Werk zur Funktionsweise der Massenmedien in kapitalistischen Demokratien vor, das heute als eine der meistgelesenen Studien zum Thema gilt. Fein und detailliert zeigen die Autoren, wie die Medien einen gesellschaftlichen Konsens herstellen, der den... Read more

Durchs irre Germanistan: Notizen aus der Ampel-Republik

By: Henryk M. Broder & Mohr

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Man kratzt sich am Kopf. War Deutschland nicht eben noch das beliebteste Land der Welt, beneideter Exportweltmeister und begehrter Investitionsstandort mit einer funktionierenden Verwaltung und bestens ausgebildeten Fachkräften? Der Dreiklang aus Demokratie, Marktwirtschaft und einer Arbeitsdisziplin, die im Rest der Welt zugleich gefürchtet und... Read more