Politics & Economy audiobooks

China After Mao

By: Frank Dikötter

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents China After Mao by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh.

“A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of China’s rise.”—Financial Times

From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth­-shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao... Read more

Dictatorland

By: Paul Kenyon

Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod.

A Financial Times Book of the Year

'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express
'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times
'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of... Read more

Estado e ideologia - Abridged

By: Alaor Caffé Alves

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 24 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O Estado normalmente aparece na figura do Presidente da República, dos Ministros, das Forças Armadas, da polícia, dos deputados, do poder judiciário, das repartições públicas etc. Porém o Estado não são esses elementos empiricamente concretos e separados. Sua essência e unidade, na verdade, são invisíveis aos sentidos do corpo. O que é o Estado,... Read more

UN Agenda 2030

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Agenda 2030, die 2015 auf dem Gipfeltreffen der Vereinten Nationen in New York ausgerufen wurde, ist ein "Weltzukunftsvertrag", dem sich die nationalen Regierungen unterwerfen sollen. Diese Agenda umfasst 17 sogenannte "Nachhaltigkeitsziele", die nur auf den ersten Blick gut aussehen. Beschäftigt man sich eingehender mit ihnen, kommt man... Read more

Popular Presidents

By: Susan Hill

Narrated by: Susan Hill

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the American presidents and how they lived. Read more

President Garfield

By: CW Goodyear

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.

In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to... Read more

Sisters in Captivity

By: Colin Burgess

Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.

During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events... Read more

The Denniston Rose

By: Jenny Pattrick

Narrated by: Jennifer Ward-Lealand

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the... Read more

Controversial Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. Read more

A Patriot's Promise

By: Senior Master Sergeant (Ret.) Israel "DT" Del T...

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the Air Force.

When Israel “DT” Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside IED in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was... Read more

The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis

By: Felice Hardy

Narrated by: Toni Green

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

'A fabulous story guaranteed to capture people’s imagination' Mail on Sunday'Stunningly descriptive, compelling writing. I was moved close to tears on several occasions.' Peter James, international bestselling crime writerIn 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl,... Read more

The Doctor's In: Treating America's Greatest Cyber Security Threat

By: Alan D. Weinberger

Narrated by: Roy Stinson

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

About the BookMany have compared the “Roaring Twenties” from the last century, to the 2020s of the 21st century. The new freedoms of this era (similar to 100 years ago) have caused disruptions, mainly as the Internet ‘flattens’ our world and accelerates outcomes that can be felt around the globe. One certainty, no matter how the new economic,... Read more

Revelaciones al final de una guerra

By: Humberto De La Calle Lombana

Narrated by: Ricardo Alanis

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Narración de los hechos que vivió y cómo los vivió Humberto de La Calle, jefe negociador del gobierno durante el proceso de paz en La Habana. En medio de los diálogos de La Habana, Humberto de la Calle reunía sus notas de trabajo en rigurosos diarios, consciente de estar registrando en su misma fuente el curso de la historia. En los márgenes de... Read more

FOREX Trading For Beginners

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: JOHN ROBERTS

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As a beginner, you may feel overwhelmed with the numerous terminologies, strategies, and platforms available. However, with the right knowledge and guidance, Forex trading can be a lucrative investment opportunity.Forex trading involves the buying and selling of currencies in the foreign exchange market. The market operates 24 hours a day, five... Read more

Manifiesto del Partido Comunista (Versión Íntegra)

By: Karl Marx y & F. Engels

Narrated by: Vanesa Amezquita

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sumérgete en una experiencia auditiva inolvidable con "Manifiesto del Partido Comunista (Versión Íntegra)" de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels. Esta obra maestra del pensamiento revolucionario, fiel al texto original, es un fascinante estudio de las teorías y críticas de Marx y Engels al sistema capitalista.
Disfrute de una calidad de audio... Read more

America's Philosopher

By: Claire Rydell Arcenas

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. America’s Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history.
 
The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues... Read more

Memoirs of a Soldier and an Ambassador for Christ

By: Lloyd C. Glover

Narrated by: Mad Mac

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Memoirs of a Soldier and an Ambassador for Christ "God Gave Me an Assignment"This is a fabulous book that explores the life story of Lloyd C. Glover, a Soldier and an Ambassador for Christ. This book covers sixty years of his life looking back at the start of his relationship with God and the history of his life and how his childhood growing up... Read more

Becoming Us

By: Jake Graf & Hannah Graf

Narrated by: Jake Graf & Sara Dunham

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - Guardian

This is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, doing jobs they love and expecting their second child. But their journey there has been an extraordinary one.

Becoming Us is the inspiring and at times... Read more

The Decade in Tory

By: Russell Jones

Narrated by: Chris Devon

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and an unrelenting stream of ineffectual, divisive bum-slurry oozing from 10 Downing Street.

The... Read more

Diario de Londres

By: Diego Gómez Pickering

Narrated by: Diego Jáuregui

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Diego Gómez Pickering nos regala en este libro sus apuntes de los días que vivió como embajador en Reino Unido. Historia, paisajes, retratos, literatura y política son sólo algunos de los recorridos que encontraremos en Diario de Londres, unas deliciosas viñetas que nos despertarán el deseo de saber más sobre la Gran Bretaña. Con una prosa... Read more

Las operaciones secretas de la policía federal

By: J. Jesús Esquivel

Narrated by: René García

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

¿CUÁL FUE EL PAPEL DE LA POLICÍA FEDERAL ANTES DE QUE SE INTEGRARA A LA GUARDIA NACIONAL? ¿CÓMO PARTICIPÓ EN ALGUNAS DE LAS OPERACIONES CONTRA EL CRIMEN MÁS RELEVANTES DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS? A nivel nacional e internacional, persiste la noción de que las instituciones policiacas de México son corruptas. Nada menos, en el léxico del trasiego de... Read more

Small Farm Republic

By: John Klar

Narrated by: John Klar

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From farmer, lawyer, and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams and social-justice platitudes of the dominant, Liberal “Green” agenda—offering a healthy way forward for everyone. While many on the Left have taken up the mantle of creating a “green” future through... Read more

Traición en Palacio

By: Hernán Gómez Bruera

Narrated by: Erick Trujillo & Hernán Gómez Bruera

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Antes de finalizar el tercer año de su gobierno, Andrés Manuel López Obrador apartó de su equipo disfrazando el hecho como una salida amistosa a Julio Scherer Ibarra, uno de sus hombres de mayor confianza, e hijo de uno de los periodistas más reconocidos en la historia reciente de México. Nunca se explicaron los verdaderos motivos, y este... Read more

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up

By: Wes Streeting

Narrated by: Wes Streeting

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring, witty East End growing up memoir by leading Labour MP Wes Streeting, vividly portraying the power of family and education to help him escape poverty and transform his life.

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bill, an unsuccessful armed robber, spent time behind bars, as... Read more