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Against the Great Reset
By: Michael Walsh
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 18 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2020, prominent business and political leaders gathered for the fiftieth annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, under the rubric of "The Great Reset." In the words of WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset is a "unique window of opportunity" afforded by the worldwide COVID-19 panic to build "a new social contract"... Read more
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Religicide
By: Georgette F. Bennett & Jerry White
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A brave and timely proposal to name, investigate, and ultimately stop a new crime—the mass murder of millions of people for their faith.
Religion-related violence is the fastest spreading type of violence worldwide. Attacks on religious minorities follow a clear pattern and are preceded with early warning signs. Until now, such violence had no... Read more
China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power
By: Michael A. McDevitt
Narrated by: Ian Putnam
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class"... Read more
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El poder de las palabras
By: Simone Weil
Narrated by: Cecilia Bona
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
El síntoma más angustiante de la mayoría de los conflictos que ven el día en la actualidad es su carácter irreal. Tienen aún menos realidad que el conflicto entre griegos y troyanos. En el centro de la guerra de Troya había, al menos, una mujer que era, por cierto, la perfección de la belleza. Para nuestros contemporáneos el lugar de Helena lo... Read more
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Identity and Violence
By: Amartya Sen
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer
In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by... Read more
Trajan
By: Nicholas Jackson
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history.
Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in... Read more
Euromissiles
By: Susan Colbourn
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in... Read more
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Winston Churchill
By: John Perry
Narrated by: Mike Read
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author John Perry explores the life of Sir. Winston Churchill, the man who changed World War II.Winston Churchill captivated the world with his voice and his writings. His books and speeches ooze with patriotism and faith in a just God. But he wasn’t always known for his oratory skills, his faith,... Read more
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His Masterly Pen
By: Fred Kaplan
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 24 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson’s genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a... Read more
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Ami, it's time to go
By: Oskar Lafontaine
Narrated by: Martin Wehrmann
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Die Entspannungspolitik Willy Brandts ist am Ende und ein neues Zeitalter der Aufrüstung und Eskalation hat begonnen. "Von deutschem Boden darf niemals wieder Krieg ausgehen", sagte Brandt einst - heute liefert die Bundesregierung schwere Waffen in die Ukraine und macht sich damit wieder einmal zum Vasallen der USA. In deutschen Leitmedien... Read more
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Superyachten - Luxus und Stille im Kapitalozän (Ungekürzt)
By: Grégory Salle
Narrated by: Johann von Bülow & Britta Steffenhagen
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Abramowitsch hat eine, der Emir von Abu Dhabi auch, Jeff Bezos sowieso: Superyachten sind Ausweis der Zugehörigkeit zum Club der "lucky few". Sie ermöglichen grenzenlose Mobilität und exklusiven Geltungskonsum. Zugleich sind sie schwimmende Umweltsünden. Sie verbrennen Unmengen Treibstoff, ihre Anker zerstören kostbare Flora. Und sie sind... Read more
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Wohlstand der Nationen
By: Adam Smith
Narrated by: Norbert Wendel
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Das Meisterwerk der Wirtschaftsanalyse, das erstmals 1776 von dem schottischen Philosophen und Ökonomen Adam Smith unter dem Originaltitel “The Wealth of Nations” veröffentlicht wurde. Obwohl das Buch bereits vor über 200 Jahren verfasst wurde, sind viele der Aussagen und Analysen von Smith nach wie vor relevant und zutreffend. Mehr noch, sie... Read more
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Among You Taking Notes...
By: Naomi Mitchison
Narrated by: Jacqueline King
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN
'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH
26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a place like this may be that it will keep alive certain ideas of freedom which... Read more
Overreach
By: Owen Matthews
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation... Read more
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Die Welt am Abgrund
By: Dawid Snowden
Narrated by: Dawid Snowden
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Es ist unübersehbar, die Welt steht am Abgrund und wir schauen zu. Wir schauen zu, wie die Luft mit Chemikalien verschmutzt wird, unsere Meere sich zu Mülleimern verwandeln, während immer mehr Menschen und Tiere sterben. Die Wirtschaft wird künstlich gegen die Wand gefahren, um auch den letzten Menschen in die staatliche Abhängigkeit zu... Read more
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Tamerlane: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mongol Conqueror
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until... Read more
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Über Tyrannei
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Ulrich Matthes
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Schau nicht nur zu! Wir sind nicht klüger als die Menschen, die erlebt haben, wie überall in Europa die Demokratie unterging und Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus kamen. Aber einen Vorteil haben wir. Wir können aus ihren Erfahrungen lernen. 20 Lektionen aus dem 20. Jahrhundert 1 Leiste keinen vorauseilenden Gehorsam. 2... Read more
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The Trauma of Caste
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Narrated by: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator... Read more
Witness to Dignity
By: Russell Levenson, Jr.
Narrated by: Russell Levenson, Jr. & Gary Sinise
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the untold, intimate, and eye-witness account of the character, integrity, service, faith, and dignity of former President George H.W. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush by their priest, pastor, and friend. George and Barbara Bush belonged to and were active members of a Houston church for more than 50 years. The rector of that church,... Read more
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Against the Wind
By: Neal Gabler
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 46 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism.
“Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the... Read more
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
By: Torie Bosch
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson & Emily Schwing
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook, Mack Sanderson and Emily Schwing reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that,... Read more
The Peacemaker
By: William Inboden
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 23 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize
One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022
A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom... Read more
We Are Not One People
By: R. Jarrod Atchison & Michael J. Lee
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
E pluribus unum was suggested for the national seal in 1776, but national oneness has been haunted by its opposite ever since. We Are Not One People demonstrates how the persistence of separatist movements in American history reveals as much about the nation's politics as it does the would-be separatists. Each chapter explores how great swaths... Read more
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Free Market
By: Jacob Soll
Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out... Read more