Politics & Economy audiobooks

На небе никого - Abridged

By: Ксения Букша

Narrated by: Наталия Казначеева, Григорий Перель, Александр ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

«Книга о людях на войне. В первую очередь о людях, и только потом о войне». Война затрагивает все живое. Последствия Второй мировой — это ужасный шрам на теле всего мира, вечное напоминание о катастрофическом прошлом и фантомная боль, отдающая в сердце. Но на пересечении прозаического повествования и исторических сводок образуется новая... Read more

9/11 With POTUS

By: Chris Carlson

Narrated by: Brett Rockwood

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine, you're with the President in Florida, when America was attacked on 9/11. Buckle your seat belt - You're in the White House Travel Pool. It's gonna get wild! As told by Cameramen, Reporters, and WH Staff - All with the President, The week of 9/11. Revealing stories!News Cameraman, Chris Carlson was there, in the White House Press Pool,... Read more

Rich White Men

By: Garrett Neiman

Narrated by: Greg Littlefield, Robin DiAngelo & Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them.
 
It’s no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth... Read more

In Other Words, Leadership

By: Shannon A. Mullen

Narrated by: Shannon A. Mullen

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A remarkable story of work, worry, art, faith, community, life, and hope. An instant classic.”  — Heather Cox Richardson, author of the New York Times bestseller Democracy Awakening

"A heartfelt and moving story . . . Just as important, it’s also a well-timed lesson in civics."  — Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls

Two unforgettable women from... Read more

We Hold Our Breath

By: Micah Fields

Narrated by: Micah Fields

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas.

When Hurricane Harvey made... Read more

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul

By: Dorcas Cheng-Tozun

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. But what does it look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sustaining justice work can be particularly challenging for the sensitive, and it requires a deep level of self-awareness.



In Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul, writer Dorcas... Read more

Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities

By: Robert Falkner & Barry Buzan

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing... Read more

The People's Justice

By: Amul Thapar

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Justice Clarence Thomas: The compassionate heart beneath the robe.

No Supreme Court justice has come from humbler circumstances than Clarence Thomas, yet critics denounce him as the "cruelest justice," a heartless traitor to his race who cynically sacrifices justice to ideology.

In this provocative new book, Judge Amul Thapar demolishes that... Read more

Secret Power

By: Stefania Maurizi

Narrated by: Ken Loach & Sarah Powell

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021**Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022**Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war... Read more

By All Means Available

By: Michael G. Vickers

Narrated by: Michael G. Vickers

Length: 20 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid insider's account of a life in intelligence, special operations, and strategy from the Cold War to the war with al-Qa’ida • "[An] illuminating and richly detailed memoir." —The New York Times Book Review

"Deeply insightful...A sweeping and breathtaking journey that gives the reader unprecedented access to the courage, sacrifice, and... Read more

Espionage

By: Kristie Macrakis

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today's high-tech world.



Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one of the most intriguing. This book pulls the veil back on the real world of espionage, revealing... Read more

Illegally Yours \ Ilegalmente tuyo (Spanish edition)

By: Rafael Agustin

Narrated by: Felipe Hernandez

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mientras crecía, los padres de Rafa no querían que se sintiera diferente porque, como su mamá le dijo: “Los sueños no deben tener fronteras”. Pero cuando intentó sacar su licencia de conducir en su tercer año de preparatoria, sus padres se vieron forzados a revelarle su estatus migratorio. De pronto, el chico que moldeó todos sus estudios de... Read more

Ketanji

By: Kekla Magoon

Narrated by: TBD

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ketanji has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Read more

El alzamiento

By: Pilar Urbano

Narrated by: Lía Gómez

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La gran periodista Pilar Urbano vuelve después de muchos años con un relato sobre el procés catalán, a partir del juicio en el Tribunal Supremo Bajo el simbólico título de El alzamiento, Pilar Urbano presenta un documento histórico-periodístico, construido con hechos reales, pero sin eludir el matiz subjetivo, lo que le da a su trabajo de... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Eric Johnson

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Communist Manifesto," co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, is a profound critique of capitalism and a blueprint for a new social order, communism. It argues that the proletariat, or working class, will lead the revolution against the capitalist system's inherent class inequalities.Spanning four sections, the manifesto... Read more

Crystallizing Public Opinion

By: Edward Bernays

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bare-Knuckled Truths of Edward Bernays

You may not know Edward Bernays, but Edward Bernays knows you. His 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence and manipulate public attitudes over the past century, and the mass media continues that practice today.

This... Read more

Leviatán

By: Thomas Hobbes

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Leviatán" es una obra clásica de la filosofía política escrita por Thomas Hobbes. En este libro, Hobbes presenta una visión profunda y controversial sobre la naturaleza humana y la organización del Estado. Argumenta que los seres humanos son egoístas por naturaleza y que su afán de poder y supervivencia los lleva a un estado de guerra... Read more

The Becoming

By: Nicole Luongo

Narrated by: Lauren Vandenbrook

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to... Read more

How to Be a Patriot

By: Sunder Katwala

Narrated by: Sunder Katwala

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with markers of... Read more

El descontento democrático

By: Michael J. Sandel

Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El profesor de filosofía más famoso del mundo analiza los peligros a los que se enfrenta la democracia. «Una profunda contribución a nuestra comprensión de los descontentos actuales».
The Wall Street Journal La división, la crispación y la polarización han dado un vuelco al escenario político internacional. El murmullo de descontento que comenzó... Read more

This is Europe

By: Ben Judah

Narrated by: Dan Connolly

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023

'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine,... Read more

Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more

Parachute to Berlin

By: Lowell Bennett

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.



Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian... Read more

Classic Supreme Court Cases

By: Corey Brettschneider

Narrated by: Patty Nieman

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Landmark cases address the origins of judicial review, racial discrimination, civil rights and liberties, The 14th amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and federal government regulatory powers. A recommended classroom resource.

A Penguin Classic

With the Penguin Liberty series by Penguin Classics, we look to the... Read more