Politics & Economy audiobooks

Sätze, die die Welt verändern - Eine Gedankenreise von Sokrates bis Nietzsche (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Bruno Preisendörfer

Narrated by: Julian Mehne

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Es gibt diese Sätze, die jeder kennt. Kein Wunder, dass sie unser Weltbild bis heute beeinflussen. Nur: Kaum jemand weiß, woher sie stammen, wie sie ursprünglich gemeint waren - und was ihnen im Laufe der Zeit zugestoßen ist. Bruno Preisendörfer begibt sich auf eine erstaunliche und spannende Spurensuche. Berühmten Zitaten geht es oft wie... Read more

Shitmoves - Vom Manipulieren und Manipuliertwerden (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)

By: Iris Gavric & Matthias Renger

Narrated by: Iris Gavric & Matthias Renger

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie wir Manipulation erkennen und Menschen ehrlich für uns gewinnen Shitmoves sind manipulative Techniken, die im Gespräch anstelle von sachlichen Argumenten zum Einsatz kommen, mit einem einzigen Zweck: gewinnen um jeden Preis. Und seien wir mal ehrlich: Wir alle haben schon mal den einen oder anderen Shitmove eingesetzt, sind Opfer oder... Read more

Logik der Angst - Die rechtsextreme Gefahr und ihre Wurzeln (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Peter R. Neumann

Narrated by: Tim Gössler

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Mordserie des NSU (2000-2006), der Terroranschlag von Anders Breivik (2011), das Attentat in München (2016), das Massaker von Christchurch, der Mord an Walter Lübcke (2019), die Anschläge von Halle (2019) und Hanau (2020): Rechtsextreme Gewalt beschäftigt uns schon lange - und in den letzten Jahren besonders massiv. Mit Wahlerfolgen... Read more

Direkt vor unseren Augen - Wie Pädokriminelle im Internet vorgehen - und wie wir Kinder davor schützen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Daniel Moßbrucker

Narrated by: Elmar Börger

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Experte klärt darüber auf, wie Eltern ihre Kinder vor sexualisierter Gewalt im Internet schützen können Kaum ein Thema erschüttert Menschen so sehr wie sexualisierte Gewalt gegen Kinder - und kaum ein Thema wird so häufig verdrängt. Dabei schätze die UN schon 2009, dass weltweit in jeder Sekunde 750.000 Pädokriminelle online sind - Tendenz... Read more

Neue Weltmacht Indien

By: Oliver Schulz

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die unbekannte Supermacht - ein neuer Partner für den Westen?

An Indien scheiden sich die Geister. Obwohl oder gerade weil kaum jemand im Westen dieses widersprüchliche Land versteht. Zwischen Slums und Prunk, zwischen Yoga und Hightech, zwischen Bollywoodkultur und Kastenwesen ist uns das Land, dessen Bedeutung für die Weltgemeinschaft immer... Read more

ملخص كتاب لورانس في بلاد العرب

By: سكوت اندرسون

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

الحرب والخديعة والحماقة الإمبريالية، وصناعة الشرق الأوسط الحديث. ما الذي يدفع عميلًا بريطانيا محنّكا، للتآمر ضد بلده، لصالح العرب؟ كيف تمكن هذا العميل من اكتساب ثقة قادة الحجاز، والتجول في قلب الأراضي المقدسة، بل قيادة قوات عربية من شتى القبائل في بعض الأحيان؟ Read more

Dark Victory

By: Dan E. Moldea

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Founded in 1924, the Music Corporation of America got its start booking acts into speakeasies run by such notorious Chicago mobsters as Al Capone. How then, in only a few decades, did MCA become the driving force behind music publishing, radio, recording artists, Hollywood, and the burgeoning television industry? Enter Ronald Reagan.



By the late... Read more

Mini Big Ideas

By: Jonny Thomson

Narrated by: Jonny Thomson

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed author of MINI PHILOSOPHY, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks.

Every so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything. Vaccinations. Relativity. Fascism. Can we imagine a world before the invention of writing? What would Christianity have looked like without with a concept of hell? Sometimes... Read more

All She Lost

By: Dalal Mawad

Narrated by: Dalal Mawad

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents All She Lost written and read by Dalal Mawad.

‘Poignant and compelling… will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power’ – Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm

'Essential and urgent' – Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black Wave

Lebanon and the wider Middle... Read more

ملخص كتاب عشر خرافات عن إسرائيل

By: إيلان بابي

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

في هذا الكتاب يفنّد الكاتب والمؤرخ والباحث الإسرائيلي llan Pappé، عشرة من أهم الخرافات التي تروج لها الدولة الصهيونية، وتستخدمها في تضليل العالم أجمع عن حقيقة الصراع في أرض فلسطين. Read more

Fraudcoin

By: Rune Østgård

Narrated by: Emma Willmott

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Fraudcoin is an excellent book exploring the role of inflation on politics and world history. Inflation is largely a political decision that impacts all aspects of society and can bring down mighty empires, yet there is little debate about why inflation occurs and the immense repercussions. This book is an important contribution toward educating... Read more

ملخص كتاب حروب الأشباح

By: ستيف كول

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

يتتبع هذا الكتاب أكثر الفترات سخونة في الحرب الباردة، وما تلاها من سنوات، شهدت توترًا في العلاقات بين الغرب والدول الإسلامية، كما كانت البداية لحرب طويلة شنتها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية على الإرهاب، حربٌ بدأت من بداية التسعينيات في القرن الماضي حتى وقتنا هذا، ولا يبدو أنها ستنتهي قريبًا. Read more

ملخص كتاب ماذا يريد العم سام

By: نعوم تشومسكي

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

مؤلف الكتاب هو Avram Noam Chomsky عالم اللغويات الأمريكي والناشط و السياسي المشهور، كتب تشومسكي أكثر من مئة كتاب بين اللغة والسياسة ووسائل الإعلام، ووصف بالشخصية الثقافية الأبرز حول العالم وفقًا لاستطلاع للرأي عام ألفين وخمسة. هو ابن أحد الباحثين اليهود، نشأ في بيئة محفزة فكريًّا، ودرس الفلسفة والمنطق واللغات في جامعة بنسلفانيا، حيث ولى اهتماما... Read more

Free For All

By: Gavin Francis

Narrated by: Gavin Francis

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it.

Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS. Now, Britain's best-loved institution is under greater threat than ever, besieged by a deadly combination of underfunding, understaffing and the predatory private sector.

In the wake of the... Read more

ملخص كتاب خوف: ترامب في البيت الأبيض

By: بوب ودورد

Narrated by: Sahla Books

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

في كتابه "الخوف: ترامب في البيت الأبيض"، الذي أصدره في سبتمبرعام ألفين وثمانية عشر، يثير الصحفي بوب ودورد الجدل مجددًا بمحاولته كشف الجانب الشخصي والخفي للرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب وطريقته الارتجالية في إدارة شؤون أقوى دولة في العالم. يروي "بوب ودورد" في كتابه شهادات شخصيات حيوية وقريبة من فريق ترامب الرئاسي، توضح كيف يتعامل معه فريقه. Read more

Whose America?

By: Jonathan Zimmerman

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. 

In this expanded edition of his 2002 book, Zimmerman surveys how battles over public education have become conflicts at the heart of American national identity.
 
Critical Race Theory. The 1619 Project. Mask mandates. As the headlines remind us, American public education is still wracked... Read more

The Adversity of Diversity

By: Carol M. Swain & Mike Towle

Narrated by: Carol M. Swain & Freddy Richardson

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace... Read more

Gallop Toward the Sun

By: Peter Stark

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh—and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion—from the New York Times bestselling author of Astoria

“Taut, multi-layered . . . a much-needed reevaluation of this crucial period of our nation’s history.”—Laurence... Read more

Alexandra Petri's US History

By: Alexandra Petri

Narrated by: Alexandra Petri

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed!



Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri's "historical fan... Read more

1923

By: Mark William Jones

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Germany’s fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923—and how pro-democracy forces fought back

In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland, rampant inflation, radical violence, and finally Hitler’s infamous “beer hall putsch.” Fanning the flames of anti-government and... Read more

It Stops Here

By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson

Narrated by: Rueben George

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an... Read more

The Capital Order

By: Clara E. Mattei

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. Today, an important question remains: What if solvency was never the goal?



In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual... Read more

Propaganda (Ungekürzt)

By: Edward L. Bernays

Narrated by: Rob Hackemesser

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Wissen Sie, was Propaganda ist? Haben Sie in Ihrem täglichen Leben Beispiele dafür gesehen? Denken Sie an die Werbung, die Sie täglich sehen. Werden darin emotionale Anreize, Angstappelle oder prominente Befürworter eingesetzt? Auffällige Werbeslogans von einem bekannten Sportartikelhersteller oder einer Fastfood-Kette oder emotionale Appelle... Read more

Hamilton

By: R.B. Bernstein

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) was a key founding father—a politician, a constitutional thinker, and the nation’s first secretary of the treasury. He led the effort to write the brilliant defense and exposition of the Constitution, The Federalist, and later, as the nation’s first treasury secretary, he pioneered efforts to interpret the... Read more