Politics & Economy audiobooks
Liberty's Dawn
By: Emma Griffin
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).
This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the... Read more
Share the Dream: Audio Bible Studies
By: Matthew Daniels & Chris Broussard
Narrated by: Matthew Daniels & Chris Broussard
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
EMBRACE A LIFE OF LOVE FOR ALL HUMANITYShare the Dream® is a six-session audio Bible study based on the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. You will look at six biblical principles that shaped Dr. King’s life and motivated him to speak on behalf of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement: love, conscience, freedom, justice,... Read more
View audiobookThe Bone Woman
By: Clea Koff
Narrated by: Clea Koff
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the... Read more
View audiobookEver Wonder Why?
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his... Read more
View audiobookBrothers in the Beloved Community
By: Marc Andrus
Narrated by: Marc Andrus
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: "I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin... Read more
The Great American Transit Disaster
By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth... Read more
From the Beginning to Almost to the End: A Tale of Both Hardship and Success: The Life Story of Orbie L. Mays ENCM (E-9) S/W USN RET.
By: Orbie Lee Mays USN Retired
Narrated by: Edward Hermann
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Orbie Lee Mays USN Retired was born and raised on a farm in the northwest corner of Alabama. His life is one of many hardships and setbacks, and the success he achieved in overcoming them. From the Beginning to Almost to the End shares his journey, from beginning his military career at seventeen to his final rank of E-9 master chief petty... Read more
View audiobookAllen Dulles: The Life of the CIA’s Most Powerful and Notorious Director
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Ross Jenkins
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War, was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents. In fact, only three men held office in this period, and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies.... Read more
View audiobookДолг: первые 5000 лет истории
By: Дэвид Гребер
Narrated by: Олег Булгак
Length: 19 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
«Долг: первые 5000 лет» — это масштабное и новаторское исследование товарно-денежных отношений с древнейших времен до наших дней. Американский антрополог и профессор Лондонской школы экономики Дэвид Гребер описывает, как феномен долговых обязательств проявляется в совершенно разных социальных институтах: от решений правительства до сердечной... Read more
View audiobookCiudad Feliz
By: Charles Montgomery
Narrated by: Martin Untrojb
Length: 19 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Un viaje por todo el mundo y una exploración reveladora de cómo las ciudades pueden hacer -y hacen- que seamos más felices.'Ciudad feliz', de Charles Montgomery, está revolucionando la forma de concebir la vida urbana.Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito... Read more
View audiobookChasing Shadows
By: Miles Johnson
Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Miles Johnson
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
*** CONTAINS AN EXLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR ***
'As breathless, complex and on-the-edge suspenseful as the finest thriller fiction - but it's all real, which makes it truly extraordinary' Lee Child
'McMafia for the new age' Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then took on the West
'Compelling,... Read more
La torre elevada
By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Carlos Álvarez
Length: 19 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Veinte años después del 11-S, y diez de la muerte de Osama bin Laden, La torre elevada sigue siendo la mejor obra escrito sobre el auge del fundamentalismo islámico, la creación de al-Qaeda y los fallos de los servicios de inteligencia que culminaron en el atentado de las Torres Gemelas. Obra ganadora del Premio Pulitzer. «Literatura como... Read more
View audiobookEl progreso improductivo
By: Gabriel Zaid
Narrated by: Diego Santana
Length: 20 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A los ojos del autor nada es más urgente que superar la voluntad ciega del progreso per se. Este libro pone énfasis en el caso mexicano pero aborda un fenómeno característico de la globalidad. Ofrece una recomendación concreta: el saber, el poder y el dinero han de concentrarse en organismos piramidales que abandonen el espejismo del progreso.... Read more
View audiobookOn Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
Narrated by: Jason William Bayless
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic and influential essay, On Liberty, was written by John Stuart Mill and first published in 1859. An English philosopher, Mill painstakingly expounded upon his ideas of liberty, individuality, and authority mainly through a lens influenced by the philosophy of utilitarianism. Read more
View audiobookLos engaños del dinero
By: John R. Searle & Maurizio Ferraris
Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
El dinero es uno de los pilares de la sociedad tal y como la conocemos. Todos lo utilizamos cotidianamente sin que su empleo presuponga ningún conocimiento específico en materia económica; y sin embargo, para entender qué es el dinero y cómo funciona es preciso recurrir a la filosofía, más aún cuando las crisis y las transformaciones históricas... Read more
View audiobookThe Prince
By: Niccolo Machiavelli & W. K. Marriott, translator
Narrated by: Jason William Bayless
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful, and sometimes disturbing and frank, political treatise was written in the early 16th century by Niccolo Machiavelli, a political theorist and Italian diplomat. Machiavelli was writing specifically to Lorenzo De'Medici as an instruction manual for "new princes." His perspective on the aims and glory of princes is a controversial... Read more
View audiobookL'Inflation : causes et répercussions
By: Gérard Bérubé
Narrated by: Danièle Panneton
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
L’essai de vulgarisation économique lançant la maison d’édition Somme toute - Le Devoir La sortie de la crise de la COVID 19 et la reprise abrupte de l'activité économique a causé une montée de l'inflation brusque qui affecte tous les secteurs, à commencer par ceux des matières premières et de l'énergie. Partant de ce constat, cet essai... Read more
View audiobookBeijing Rules
By: Bethany Allen
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal influence worldwide.Bethany Allen, the award-winning China... Read more
View audiobook21st-Century Virtues
By: Lucinda Holdforth
Narrated by: Lucinda Holdforth
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater diversity and inclusion, while our... Read more
View audiobookVictorious in Defeat
By: Alexander V. Pantsov
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 25 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War,... Read more
Courage in the People's House
By: Joe Neguse
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring the remarkable stories of nine US Representatives who helped shape America, Courage in the People’s House is a “reminder of how courage can make a difference, and how, especially in the darkest of times, the lessons of history are most needed” (Booklist).
In this “well-written addition to the history of Congress” (Kirkus Reviews),... Read more
Die DNA der USA
By: Sandra Navidi
Narrated by: Katja Amberger
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Amerika durchlebt ein epochales Gesellschaftsbeben. Mit faschistischen Methoden versuchen die Republikaner, die Demokratie zu kapern und eine autokratische Herrschaft zu etablieren: Sie befeuern die militante Spaltung der Gesellschaft, fördern einen Führerkult, rufen zu Gewalt auf und erschaffen mittels Propaganda eine fiktive Realität. Dabei... Read more
View audiobookZEITEN ENDE - Politik ohne Leitbild, Gesellschaft in Gefahr (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung)
By: Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
Narrated by: Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Sinkende Wahlbeteiligung, Kirchenaustritte, fallende TV-Quoten und Zeitungs-Auflagen: Viele Menschen fühlen sich vom Angebot, das ihnen die politische und mediale Öffentlichkeit in Deutschland macht, nicht mehr angesprochen. Zugleich erhöhen Multi-Krisen und eine immer kaputtere Daseinsvorsorge - Schienenverkehr, die Schulen, die Verwaltung -... Read more
View audiobookWhat Happened When I Was Asleep
By: WILLIAM DINGWALL
Narrated by: Karl Sjoberg
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This book expresses the truth of the world that is being hidden and concealed by those in positions of power. It highlights how we have been denied our basic right of freedom through optimized control from those we see as our leaders. There are truths about the world and the universe as a whole that we are not told or that are hidden from us.... Read more
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