Politics & Economy audiobooks

30 Minuten: Franz Kafkas "Die Verwandlung"

By: Franz Kafka & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen... Read more

Big Caesars and Little Caesars

By: Ferdinand Mount

Narrated by: Paul Blezard

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount, read by Paul Blezard.

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR

Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a... Read more

The War Came To Us

By: Christopher Miller

Narrated by: Craig Van Ness

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The War Came To Us by Christopher Miller, read by Craig Van Ness.

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine’s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a decade.

'Vivid…... Read more

The News Quiz: Another Vintage Collection

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have an appetite for sharp satirical comedy blended with vintage news items, be sure to sample these 14 archive episodes of BBC Radio 4's long-running panel show, chaired by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart and Sandi Toksvig.

This latest smorgasbord of editions, all first broadcast between 1980 and 2012, has for its subjects such delicacies as... Read more

Free Your Mind

By: Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan

Narrated by: Henry Nott

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’ ... Read more

Putin's Prisoner

By: Aiden Aslin & John Sweeney

Narrated by: Paul Slack & Steve John Shepherd

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.

Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege... Read more

Filthy Rich Politicians

By: Matt Lewis

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's sharpest conservative journalists is this searing, thought-provoking and hilarious takedown of the ruling class running amok in Washington. These are your elected officials. Some are slyly taking advantage of the system. They are hoping no one is savvy enough to notice. But Matt Lewis has. And this is what he’s learned. ... Read more

The Hidden History of American Democracy

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy.

In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people.

With the violent... Read more

Platform Capitalism

By: Nick Srnicek

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how... Read more

Asylum Speakers

By: Jaz O'Hara

Narrated by: Jaz O'Hara

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the fascinating details of life under the pharaohs - and their extraordinary legacy - in this comprehensive guide to Egypt's ancient civilization.

Encompassing 3,000 years and 31 Egyptian dynasties, from the time of Narmer to that of Cleopatra, this fresh appraisal of ancient treasures helps you to navigate the political intrigues and... Read more

Blowback

By: Miles Taylor

Narrated by: Miles Taylor

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.”

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous... Read more

Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows how Schelling's framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured... Read more

America's Cultural Revolution

By: Christopher F. Rufo

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America’s most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent... Read more

Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period—as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library—Kennedy... Read more

The Hidden History of American Democracy

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy.

In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people.

With the violent... Read more

You Will Own Nothing

By: Carol Roth

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy.When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum’s predictions for 2030 was “You will own nothing, and be... Read more

La herida perpetua

By: Almudena Grandes

Narrated by: Marta Barriuso & Eugenio Gómez

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro necesario para entender la España de hoy. En enero de 2008, Almudena Grandes iniciaba una colaboración semanal como columnista en el diario El País. En sus textos, la escritora española más reconocida de las últimas décadas recorre con una mirada crítica y aguda la realidad política y social de España. En sus columnas aparecen los... Read more

Faith Under Fire

By: Steve Rabey

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

As World War II raged, millions of men and women confronted injury, destruction, separation from home and loved ones, chaos, and death. These challenges and traumas and many others forced an entire generation of everyday heroes to take stock of their lives. And in the process, many turned to God in ways they never had before.In Faith Under Fire,... Read more

24 Hours in Charlottesville

By: Nora Neus

Narrated by: Amara Jasper

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of racial justice activists who confronted violent white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and stirred the nation

On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to... Read more

Washington’s Marines

By: Major General Jason Q. Bohm, USMC

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The fighting prowess of United States Marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps' humble beginnings and what it achieved during the early years of the American Revolution. That oversight is fully rectified by Jason Bohm's eye-opening Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777.



The story begins... Read more

The Biden Malaise

By: Kimberley Strassel

Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson & Kimberley Strassel

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the style of a dogged prosecutor, Strassel builds a devastating case against Joe Biden’s record…THE BIDEN MALAISE is must-read ahead of 2024, as conservative voters prepare to make consequential choices.”―Guy Benson, Fox News & Townhall.com

The bestselling author of Resistance (At All Costs) and The Intimidation Game argues that Joe... Read more

The Curse of Demagogues

By: Eli Merritt

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Curse of Demagogues: Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a collection of 32 essays by 22 writers that make the case that the pathway back to a healthy American democracy is for citizens to understand demagogues and defend against them.More than any other book in print, The Curse of Demagogues makes the story of Donald... Read more

Notes on Democracy

By: H. L. Mencken

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no harsh bawling from below; there was only a dulcet twittering from above.” When H. L. Mencken wrote Notes on Democracy the country was coping with the aftermath of World War I, contending with Prohibition, and watching the Scopes trial play out;... Read more

The Forest Underground

By: Tony Rinaudo

Narrated by: Tim Dehn

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2022How do you regreen millions of hectares of land without planting a single tree? The remarkable discovery story of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is told in Tony Rinaudo’s new autobiography, The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis, published in 2022 by... Read more