Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Making of Black Lives Matter

By: Christopher J. Lebron

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J.... Read more

Los sueños de la niña de la montaña

By: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Narrated by: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento... Read more

Merchants of Doubt

By: Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

Narrated by: Liza Seneca

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway, read by Liza Seneca.

Featuring a new Foreword by former Vice President Al Gore

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Important and timely. We ignore this message at our peril."—Elizabeth Kolbert

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world,... Read more

Abolish the Monarchy

By: Graham Smith

Narrated by: Sam Swann

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) But it doesn't have to be this way.

They say Britain should be proud to have the mother of parliaments, a shining beacon of democracy and an example to other nations. But there's an elephant in the room.

At the heart of power is... Read more

Don't Even Think About It

By: George Marshall

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Don't Even Think About It by George Marshall, read by John Lee.

An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change

From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?

“Please... Read more

Bipin

By: Rachna Bisht Rawat

Narrated by: Kulvin Suri

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of 8 December 2021, India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, and his wife, Madhulika, said goodbye to their daughter, Tarini, and dogs, and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Around 11.48 a.m., they boarded an Mi-17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington, where Gen. Rawat was... Read more

Why Congress

By: Phillip A. Wallach

Narrated by: Brian Wiggins

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Like it or not, our country’s future depends on Congress. The Founding Fathers made a representative, deliberative legislature the indispensable pillar of the American constitutional system, giving it more power and responsibility than any other branch of government. Yet today, contempt for Congress is nearly universal. To a large extent, even... Read more

Worst Cases

By: Lee Clarke

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails... Read more

Contrato Social

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

El "Contrato Social" es una obra filosófica escrita por Jean-Jacques Rousseau, publicada por primera vez en 1762. En este libro, Rousseau presenta su teoría política sobre el origen y la naturaleza del gobierno legítimo.Rousseau comienza su obra afirmando que los hombres nacen libres, pero en todas partes están encadenados. Argumenta que la... Read more

The Force Behind the Forces

By: Swapnil Pandey

Narrated by: Angira Mukherjee

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Who continues to pay the costs of war long after our soldiers are gone?There are many stories of courageous heroes at the borders, but how much do we know about the women standing strong behind them?The Force behind the Forces is a collection of seven true stories of eternal love, courage and sacrifice. Written by an army wife, Swapnil Pandey,... Read more

A Wing and a Prayer

By: Harry H. Crosby

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the "Bloody Hundredth" a legend.



Harry H. Crosby—soon to... Read more

Facing the Climate Emergency, Second Edition

By: Margaret Klein Salamon

Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Overwhelmed by climate anxiety? Transform your angst into action to become the hero humanity needs A lifeline for those suffering from climate anxiety, Facing the Climate Emergency combines expertise in clinical psychology and disruptive climate activism to help readers transform their fear and grief into courage and heroism. The second... Read more

Memory Royalties

By: Todd Rustman

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Having money doesn’t make people happy. It’s what we do with it that matters. And yet the wealth-generating industry of investing and financial planning focuses almost exclusively on using wealth to create more wealth.
Is that really the point of life? To see how rich you can be when you die?
In Memory Royalties, Todd Rustman shines an evocative... Read more

Country Capitalism

By: Bart Elmore

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America—to... Read more

Sobre la Libertad

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill fue un filósofo y economista británico del siglo XIX, conocido por sus contribuciones en el ámbito del utilitarismo y la defensa de la libertad individual. En su obra "Sobre la libertad" ("On Liberty"), Mill desarrolla una argumentación en favor de la libertad individual y la limitación de la interferencia del gobierno en la... Read more

Diary of an Invasion

By: Andrey Kurkov

Narrated by: David Aranovich

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.



This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a... Read more

We Need to Talk About Inflation

By: Stephen D. King

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers—and our abject failure to learn from history



From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. But now people the world over are confronting a poisonous new... Read more

In the Mind of Stalin

By: James Greensmith

Narrated by: John Applemore

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK’s wartime leader, described Russia as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. The same can certainly be said of Stalin. How can this paradox of a man, who on the one hand had once exhibited great tenderness and kindness to his daughter Svetlana, and... Read more

Jacob Riis's Camera

By: Alexis O'Neill

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Riis was determined to improve the living conditions of the poor—to fill their dark, ramshackle places with sunlight and soft, green grass. Places where children could play. After immigrating to New York City and working as a news reporter, Jacob was deeply affected by the poverty surrounding him, especially in the tenements:• Cramped... Read more

Life After Capitalism

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential.



Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.



Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and... Read more

War in Ukraine

By: Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more... Read more

Captured by Love

By: Lee Ellis & Greg Godek

Narrated by: Lee Ellis, Greg Godek & Michael Orenstein

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazon Best Seller in Military Families and Survival Biographies & Memoirs

2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Nonfiction Cover Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Interior Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Military History

2023 Best Book Award Finalist in Military History

2023 Foreword... Read more

Wie Psychopathen denken

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Sportler, ein Hausarzt und ein Liebhaber – Mörder wie Oscar Pistorius, Harold Shipman und John Cannan haben gezeigt, dass in jedem Menschen ein psychopathischer Killer stecken kann. Der weltbekannte britische Kriminologe Christopher Berry-Dee hat zehn inhaftierte Psychopathen, darunter auch berüchtigte Serienmörder, zu ihren Motiven befragt.... Read more

Corrupción y Política

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

La corrupción política se refiere a los actos deshonestos o delictivos cometidos por funcionarios y autoridades públicas que abusan de su poder e influyen a realizar un mal uso intencional de los recursos financieros y humanos a los que tienen acceso, anticipando sus intereses personales o los de sus allegados, para conseguir una ventaja... Read more