Politics & Economy audiobooks

Edward Snowden's Revelations and Vladimir Putin's Chess Game

By: Berlin Julien Theodore

Narrated by: Frank Rodriguez

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This book 'Edward Snowden's Revelations and Vladimir Putin's Chess Game' tells the fascinating tale of one of the most incredible events in American history. It will take you through the deepest darkest secrets of world politics and how Superpower countries are plotting in this game, trying to over one another while using others as Pawns in the... Read more

Pandemic Diaries

By: Isabel Oakeshott & Matt Hancock

Narrated by: Matt Hancock

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Hancock served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021, leading the UK government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the biggest health crisis the country, and the world, has faced for generations.

This unique book, based on the author's contemporaneous records of those extraordinary months, candidly recounts... Read more

Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 109 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as-well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. It rapidly acquired readership throughout the world when published,... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the... Read more

Capital: Volume 3

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 46 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove conclusively that capitalism is inherently unworkable as a permanent system for society. Here, Marx asserts that... Read more

Capital: Volumes 1, 2, & 3

By: Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 104 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Volume 1: Living in exile in England,... Read more

V13

By: Emmanuel Carrère

Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

V13: viernes 13 de noviembre de 2015. En tres puntos diferentes de París se producen atentados yihadistas. El más grave es el de la sala Bataclan, donde están actuando los Eagles of Death Metal. El resultado de los ataques en el corazón de Francia es de ciento treinta muertos y más de cuatrocientos heridos. Años después, durante nueve meses... Read more

The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism

By: Carter Heyward

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hear the call to overcome today's culture of hate and bring healing and hope into our life together. While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly... Read more

Lieutenant General James Longstreet

By: F. Gregory Toretta

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological developments, of which the rifled musket and cannon, rail transport, and the telegraph were a few. Longstreet adapted to these technological changes and... Read more

Namwayut—We Are All One

By: Robert Joseph

Narrated by: Evan Adams

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, 2023

We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one.

Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his... Read more

Power Players

By: Chris Cillizza

Narrated by: Chris Cillizza

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes.

POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country... Read more

Between Good and Evil

By: Mellissa Fung

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.” —Louise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novelsBehind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko HaramIn April 2014,... Read more

Free to Obey

By: Johann Chapoutot

Narrated by: Cory J. Herndon

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany’s defeat, after a few years in hiding, he emerged in the... Read more

Exposing Pay

By: Peter Bamberger

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Pay equity has become a hot topic in recent years with pay transparency viewed as an important way to narrow gender and racial pay gaps. However, pay transparency policies and practices remain highly controversial, with divergent attitudes based largely on conjecture or anecdote.



In Exposing Pay, Peter Bamberger provides evidence-based insights... Read more

You Can't Joke About That

By: Kat Timpf

Narrated by: Kat Timpf

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public.In You Can’t Joke About That, Kat Timpf shows why much... Read more

Finding My Way

By: Robin F. Schepper

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal memoir about finding family and belonging from White House staffer Robin F. Schepper. 
Growing up torn between her single Pan Am–stewardess mom and brothel-owning grandmother in 1960s New York City, Robin F. Schepper never imagined that she’d one day have an office in the East Wing of the White House. Her childhood in a German... Read more

Not Funny

By: Jena Friedman

Narrated by: Jena Friedman

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a “smart and thoughtful and even a little offensive” (Sacha Baron Cohen) collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.

Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being... Read more

The Brushstrokes of Life

By: Anne Neilson

Narrated by: Madison Lawrence & Frances Quiles

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Here’s a secret: God has deposited a gift inside of you. Acclaimed angel artist Anne Neilson wants to help you find yours as she shares her personal story of passion and purpose and how faith radiates from every canvas of her life. The Brushstrokes of Life will help you see there are no coincidences with God.Anne Neilson... Read more

Democracy

By: Jason Brennan

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short, accessible book, leading democratic theorist Jason Brennan guides listeners through the evolution of the concept of democracy and actual democratic practice over time to help them understand the foundations of this longstanding and yet newly fragile political system.



In his wide-ranging tour of the concept, Brennan will examine... Read more

The Opium Queen

By: Gabrielle Paluch

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling empire grew, she became so powerful... Read more

Old Breed General

By: Amy Rupertus Peacock & Don Brown

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Marine general William H. Rupertus is best known today for writing the Corps' Rifleman's Creed. Rupertus was one of the outstanding Marines of the twentieth century, but he died in 1945, so his story has never been told.



Rupertus "made his bones" in the USMC's "savage wars of peace" before World War II: Haiti for three years after World War I,... Read more

Wie man einen Drachen tötet

By: Michail Chodorkowski

Narrated by: Oliver Dupont

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Spätestens seit dem Beginn von Wladimir Putins zunehmend aggressivem Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Ukraine im Februar 2022 ist klar: Eine friedliche Weltordnung MIT Putin ist kaum denkbar. Doch wie kann ein totalitäres Regime beendet werden? Durch wen? Eher von innen oder von außen? Gäbe es überhaupt eine Chance auf einen einigermaßen friedlichen... Read more

The Essential Ronald Coase (Essential Scholars)

By: L. Lynne Kiesling

Narrated by: Michael Lenz

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Coase (1910-2013) was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His influence is due largely to two publications, the only two cited in the announcement of his Nobel Prize: “The Nature of the Firm” (1937) and “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960). These two articles are among the most-cited works in economics. The ideas... Read more

Big Men Fear Me

By: Mark Bourrie

Narrated by: Tom Lute

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric... Read more