Politics & Economy audiobooks

Best Things First

By: Bjorn Lomborg

Narrated by: Pete Ferrand

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2023 by The Economist.
In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. • If you want to make the world better, Best Things First is the book to read.
World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they... Read more

On Class

By: Deborah Dundas

Narrated by: Deborah Dundas

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn’t make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with the poor and those who are poor about what happens when we don’t talk about poverty or class—and what will happen when we do. Growing up poor, Deborah Dundas knew what it meant to want,... Read more

Sovok

By: Kevin McKinney

Narrated by: Jason Maniccia

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Witness first-hand the transition from Soviet Union to liberated Russia and its return to a regime of tyranny and injustice from the perspective of a foreigner who lived through it. McKinney describes his interactions for over twenty years with dissidents, billionaires, artists, cosmonauts, mob bosses, presidents, prosecutors, and prime... Read more

Las damas del poder

By: Francisco Cruz

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Corrupción, impunidad y nepotismo, tras las mujeres más poderosas de México SOLO HAY ALGUIEN MÁS AMBICIOSO QUE EL PRESIDENTE: LA PRIMERA DAMA Protegidas por el alto mando del país, las verdaderas dueñas del poder siempre han sido las primeras damas: quienes han utilizado a su favor los secretos más confidenciales del Estado para orquestar... Read more

A Life Worth Living

By: Tommy Jessop

Narrated by: Jane Jessop & Tommy Jessop

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, moving and joyous memoir from Tommy Jessop, award-winning actor and activist.

I'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down Syndrome can be exciting and is worth living, so that other people understand and give us the chance to live life to the full and to be fulfilled.

Tommy Jessop is a multi-award winning actor, theatre... Read more

Politics for Everybody

By: Ned O'Gorman

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you’d be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O’Gorman argues just the opposite: Politics for Everybody contends that what we really need to do is... Read more

Política pública social ou marketing político? - Abridged

By: Eliana Rangel de Oliveira

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A autora reconhece a importância do Programa Bolsa Família dentro do campo social, mas analisa a sua influência na ótica do Marketing e lança luz à tese de que o PBF é uma ferramenta de Marketing Político Estratégico que tem como resultado os votos Read more

Causa de muerte: Cuestionar al poder

By: Alejandra Ibarra

Narrated by: Alejandra Ibarra

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Con esta obra Alejandra Ibarra confirma que con la muerte de estos también activistas y defensores de los ciudadanos la libertad de expresión sufre una de las mayores vejaciones. México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se... Read more

The Book That Changed Me: 20 Essays on Influential Literature

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of BBC Radio 3's 'The Essay' strand, The Book That Changed Me features writers, academics and other eminent professionals discussing the literary works that have had the greatest impact on their lives.

This fascinating selection contains some of the best episodes from the series, including legendary songwriter Steve Earle on Truman Capote's... Read more

Too Dumb for Democracy?

By: David Moscrop

Narrated by: David Moscrop

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In this accessible and compelling investigation narrated by the author, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work... Read more

The Secret Listener

By: Yuan-Tsung Chen

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 1949 and 1976, its great opening to the world under Deng, and the... Read more

La travesía del redentor

By: Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui

Narrated by: Hilda Gómez

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

De los mítines a las mañaneras: claves para entender el éxito político de AMLO Sobre Andrés Manuel López Obrador se ha escrito bastante y desde distintas perspectivas, pero en limitadas ocasiones de manera objetiva. Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui se vale de las herramientas de análisis de la Ciencia Política y la Historia para ofrecernos la visión... Read more

We've Got You Covered

By: Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in... Read more

Theoderic the Great

By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in... Read more

Into the Bright Sunshine

By: Samuel G. Freedman

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil... Read more

Losing Our Religion

By: Russell Moore

Narrated by: Russell Moore

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism

American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian... Read more

Cover of Darkness

By: Roderick Chisholm

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A pilot's captivating autobiography that traces the development of night-flying from the early days of the Battle of Britain to the final triumph over Germany.

Perfect for fans of Geoffrey Wellum, Eric Brown, and Norman Hanson.

What was it like to soar through the night sky fighting enemy aircraft in the Second World War?

After completing... Read more

The King of Late Night

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto.

Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights... Read more

Brutal Campaign

By: Robert L. Fleegler

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one... Read more

1978. El año que marchamos a la guerra

By: Guillermo Parvex

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

El mismo autor del exitoso Un veterano de tres guerras entrega este relato que cobra actualidad a 40 años de una guerra que no fue
Mientras estudiaba Periodismo en la Universidad de Chile, Guillermo Parvex fue llamado por el Ejército para recibir instrucción militar específica y ser parte de las milicias chilenas que se dirigirían a la ... Read more

امپراتوری USA

By: دانیله گانزر & سید ابراهیم تقوی

Narrated by: سید ابراهیم تقوی

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

«بیایید ابتدا نگرشمان را درباره‌ی صلح بازنگری کنیم. تعداد بیش از حد زیادی از ما آن را ناممکن می‌پنداریم... اما این پنداری خطرناک و شکست باورانه است. به این نتیجه‌گیری می‌انجامد که جنگ اجتناب ناپذیر است، که بشریت محکوم به نابودی است... اما مشکلات ما ساخته‌ی دست بشر است و لذا می‌تواند به دست بشر حل نیز بشود.»جان اف. کندی (رئیس جمهور ایالات متحده... Read more

Menschenzuchthaltung

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ich frage mich, ob ein Hund sich so lange von Politikern treten lassen würde, wie es die Menschen derzeit tun Respekt, so ein Durchhaltevermögen, eigentlich unbegreiflich. Nach diversen Gesprächen mit befreundeten Psychologen wurde mir klar, dass dieses unterwürfige Verhalten seit Generationen schleichend geprägt und systematisch programmiert... Read more

Hans-Ulrich Rudel: The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Deadliest Stuka Pilot

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people personified the advancements, abilities, and tactical adeptness of the Luftwaffe like Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the most successful dive bomber in the history of warfare. Like hundreds of millions of others born in the early 20th century, his life was shaped by the Second World War, which started when he was just 23. He was born into and... Read more

The Supreme Court

By: Newbury Publishing

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics.In the arguments before the court,... Read more