The Economy of Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary... Read more
View audiobookIn Search of Common Ground
By: Bastian Berbner
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
As heard on NPR’s “This American Life,” unlikely friendships challenge every kind of bias, to offer hope that our societies can healMuch has been written about our polarized media, social bubbles, and intractable biases. Award-winning journalist Bastian Berbner circled the world to find a different narrative. In Search of Common Ground is his... Read more
View audiobookThe Persuaders
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and... Read more
View audiobookIn the Mouth of the Wolf
By: Katherine Corcoran
Narrated by: Gigi Saul Guerrero
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
“Chilling and nuanced … a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust."--Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review
"Epic ... deeply reported and riveting."--NPR Online
Former AP Mexico bureau... Read more
¿Quién es Kamala Harris?
By: Kirsten Anderson & Who HQ
Narrated by: Jane Santos
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
La inspiradora historia de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris contada en el nuevo formato Who HQ que aborda temas de actualidad.
El 7 de noviembre de 2020, Kamala Harris, una senadora de California, se convirtió en la primera mujer y la primera persona afroamericana y surasiática-estadounidense en ser elegida para la vicepresidencia. Si bien su... Read more
The Betrayal
By: Ira Shapiro
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In two previous highly regarded books on the US Senate, Ira Shapiro chronicled the institution from its apogee in the 1970s through its decline in the decades since. Now, Shapiro turns his gaze to how the Senate responded to the challenges posed by the Trump administration and its prospects under President Biden. The Founding Fathers gave the US... Read more
View audiobook¿Quién es Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
By: Kirsten Anderson & Who HQ
Narrated by: Julieth Restrepo
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
La inspiradora historia de la mujer más joven jamás elegida para el Congreso, contada en el nuevo formato Who HQ Now para temas de actualidad.
El 26 de junio de 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, una camarera de Nueva York de veintiocho años, se convirtió en la mujer más joven elegida para formar parte del Congreso. Su victoria conmocionó al mundo... Read more
And There Was Light
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Jon Meacham
Length: 17 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.
“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winner of the Gilder... Read more
Lady Susan's - Sommergeschichten
By: Lady Susan
Narrated by: Lady Susan
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Lady Susan liest ihre eigenen Geschichten für Groß und Klein, für Jung und Alt. Diese Sommergeschichten sind Teil einer Reihe von Geschichten für jede Jahreszeit. Read more
View audiobookPutinland
By: Leonid Wolkow
Narrated by: Oliver Dupont
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Was der Westen nicht wissen wollte: die brisante Analyse des »Außenministers der russischen Opposition« Unter Putin hat sich Russland zu einer imperialistischen Diktatur verwandelt, die die Werte und das Lebensmodell des Westens bedroht. Wie das passiert ist und warum Europa es bis zuletzt ignoriert hat - das analysiert Leonid Wolkow, ein... Read more
View audiobookLady Susan's - Wintergeschichten
By: Lady Susan
Narrated by: Lady Susan
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Lady Susan liest ihre eigenen Geschichten für Groß und Klein, für Jung und Alt. Diese Wintergeschichten sind der Auftakt zu einer Reihe von Geschichten für jede Jahreszeit. Read more
View audiobookAgents of Subversion
By: John Delury
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a... Read more
View audiobookShameless
By: Marilyn Churley
Narrated by: Ellen Davis
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister... Read more
View audiobookDon't Count Me Out
By: Rafael Alvarez
Narrated by: Lee Osorio
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilitation field.
Rafael Alvarez's recounting of White's... Read more
Wer rettet Amerika?
By: Claudia Buckenmaier
Narrated by: Lisa Rauen
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Als Joe Biden als Präsident der USA antrat, hofften viele, dass er die zerrissene Nation einen, ihre Wunden heilen könnte. Heute sind die gesellschaftlichen Gräben tiefer denn je. Rechte Gruppen haben sich weiter radikalisiert, Donald Trump bereitet seine Rückkehr ins Weiße Haus vor, und das Misstrauen gegenüber Politik und Staat ist so groß wie... Read more
View audiobookForex Trading QuickStart Guide
By: Troy Noonan
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FOREX TRADING– INCLUDES A COMPREHENSIVE ONLINE LIBRARY OF TRADING DIGITAL TOOLS!
The ONLY Forex Trading Book Complete With a Library of FREE Digital Trading Tools Including the Author’s Own Trade Analyzer and a Powerful Trading IndicatorBillions of dollars are moving through the forex market every hour. Are you... Read more
Revenge
By: Michael Cohen
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The man the New York State Attorney General credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump — New York Times number one bestselling author Michael Cohen — tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you — and what really happened to him — when a President who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his... Read more
View audiobookThe Inevitable Revolution
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The Inevitable Revolution is an essay about abolishing the law of violence and replacing it with the law of love. It is a text on civil disobedience, pacifism, and anarchism, and it is Tolstoy's last non-fiction work detailing his final opinions on political, economic, and religious issues.
In it, he criticizes prisons, parliaments, wars,... Read more
In Our Time: 25 Thinkers Who Shaped Modern Philosophy
By: Melvyn Bragg
Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Melvyn Bragg and guests chart 500 years of Western philosophy through its most influential ideas and theorists
'Listen to this and you'll never regret it' The Independent
First aired in 1998, In Our Time has become one of Radio 4's most beloved and enduring shows, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million. Each week, Melvyn Bragg... Read more
Wrath
By: Peter W. Wood
Narrated by: Richmond Goss
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn’t always so. “Happy Days Are Here Again” was FDR’s campaign song in 1932. By contrast, candidate Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige’s “Work That” (“Let ‘em get mad / They gonna hate anyway”). Both the left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their supporters.... Read more
View audiobookDe macht van het verleden
By: Ivo van de Wijdeven
Narrated by: Chris Kijne
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Een blik in het brein van Poetin en andere potentatenVladimir Poetin houdt van geschiedenis. Zijn vurige redevoeringen zitten er vol mee. Velen verklaren hem voor gek, maar in vaardige handen is het verleden een wapen zonder weerga. Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan en andere ambitieuze leiders weten dat ook en maken er sluw gebruik van. Dat... Read more
View audiobookIf We Act Now - the surprisingly simple steps we can take to avoid the worst of climate crisis
By: Thomas Hebsgaard, Rasmus Thirup Beck & Mads Nyvold
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Join us on a journey around the globe and meet the enthusiasts, technologies, and decision-makers that are proving that humans are indeed capable of saving us from ourselves. The challenges may be great, but there are a number of opportunities to stall climate change – perhaps even reverse it. This book offers a glimpse of how to do just that.... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret Apparatus
By: Cynthia Farahat
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Secret Apparatus” is a clandestine incubator for Islamic terrorism, and it exports its “industry of death” to destroy the world through infiltration, disinformation, and jihad.
The world’s most dangerous terrorist group is not hiding in the caves of the Hindu Kush or in the Saharan wilderness—it operates inside the... Read more
Pandemic Politics
By: Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman & ...
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton explores how the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy
COVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized... Read more