Wir kƶnnen auch anders
By: Maja Gƶpel
Narrated by: Nina West
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Menschheit befindet sich in einem gewaltigen Transformationsprozess. Die Menge dessen, was anzupacken, zu reparieren und neu auszurichten ist, scheint Ć¼bergroĆ. Wie finden wir Kompass, KreativitƤt und Courage, um diese Herausforderungen weniger zu bekƤmpfen als viel mehr zu gestalten? Und: wer ist eigentlich wir und warum ist das so... Read more
View audiobookNever Will I Die
By: Toby Gutteridge & Michael Calvin
Narrated by: Toby Gutteridge & Matt Chambers
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
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There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic, yet surgically precise. I slumped silently on to my knees and toppled forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads had seen enough death to assume mine was instantaneous. The lights were out. That's him gone.
Toby Gutteridge... Read more
La polis literaria
By: Rafael Rojas
Narrated by: Sergio MejĆa
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
AmĆ©rica Latina viviĆ³ intensamente la Guerra FrĆa en la polĆtica, pero tambiĆ©n en la cultura. La RevoluciĆ³n cubana jugĆ³ un papel central en aquel conflicto, en buena medida, por haber sido un movimiento polĆtico que en el lapso de una dĆ©cada recorriĆ³ casi todas las facetas de la izquierda regional. La polis literaria nos muestra ese camino y pone... Read more
View audiobookPutins Krieg - Wie die Menschen in der Ukraine fĆ¼r unsere Freiheit kƤmpfen (UngekĆ¼rzte Autorinnenlesung)
By: Katrin Eigendorf
Narrated by: Katrin Eigendorf
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Die bekannte ZDF-Korrespondentin Katrin Eigendorf berichtet seit vielen Jahren regelmƤĆig aus der Ukraine. So auch wƤhrend der dramatischen Tage und Wochen nach dem 24. Februar 2022, als Wladimir Putin mit seinem grausamen Angriff auf die Ukraine den Krieg zurĆ¼ck nach Europa getragen hat. Angesichts der Bilder aus Mariupol, Charkiw und Kyiw ist... Read more
View audiobookĀæHablamos del suicidio? (Let's Talk About Suicide?)
By: Carmen Sanchez Alegre
Narrated by: Soraya Padrao
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"A Carmen se le derrumba todo su mundo cuando se entera de que su hermano Carlos se ha suicidado. A partir de ahĆ, tanto ella como el resto de su familia emprenden un camino de aceptaciĆ³n y adaptaciĆ³n a esa nueva realidad, transitando las diferentes fases del duelo. De ese modo, la autora narra sus experiencias y sentimientos ante el... Read more
View audiobookEl muro (The Wall)
By: Jaime Rocha
Narrated by: Walter Krochmal
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Tras su misiĆ³n narrada en el best seller Ā«OperaciĆ³n El Dorado CanyonĀ», el agente del CNI JuliĆ”n Roig tiene que viajar de urgencia a Marruecos para acabar siendo destinado en la embajada de EspaƱa en Praga en el tumultuoso 1989.
Durante esos cinco aƱos vivirƔ todo tipo de misiones entre la vida y la muerte y para las que su pericia, su agilidad... Read more
A Woman of Adventure
By: Annette B. Dunlap
Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure. She could fire a rifle and sit a horse as well as any man. The Quaker community of Whittier, California, where she lived as a teen, reinforced the egalitarian spirit of her upbringing. But history had other ideas for... Read more
View audiobookSam il Pompiere - Un concerto infuocato
By: Mattel
Narrated by: Luca Luciani
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Mike ed Elvis stanno facendo le prove per il concerto di questa sera. Elvis ĆØ alla chitarra. Mike alla batteria. Improvvisamente, perĆ², non si trovano d'accordo e il duo si divide. Che fare? Entrambi desiderano intrattenere il pubblico e, separatamente, fanno programmi nuovi...Sam il Pompiere e i suoi marchi associati sono proprietĆ di Prism Art... Read more
View audiobookScrieri Ć®ndrÄzneČe
By: Wael El-Manzalawy
Narrated by: Doina Pantaz
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Scrierile Ć®ndrÄzneČe sunt scrieri foarte scurte, dar acestea pot introduce idei foarte importante. Nu este uČor de elaborat asemenea scrieri succinte. Scrierile lungi au un mai mult spaČiu de a progresa. AceastÄ carte electronicÄ conČine cĆ¢teva scrieri succinte, cum ar fi āLumea dupÄ Coronavirusā, āCÄlÄtoria Ć®Či recreeazÄ gĆ¢ndireaā, āApa... Read more
View audiobookOperation Pineapple Express
By: Scott Mann
Narrated by: Scott Mann
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comradeāand 500 other Afghansābeing targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of Americaās withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In April 2021, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The... Read more
Just Dope
By: Allison Margolin
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement.
Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether youāre popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra jolt of caffeine, unwinding with a perfectly rolled... Read more
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry David Thoreauās āCivil Disobedienceā is a political treatise against slavery, war, and an argument that individuals not cede excessive power to government.A masterpiece of American individualism, the essay is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of political and philosophical writings ever produced by an... Read more
View audiobookMĆ©xico en el precipicio
By: Macario Schettino
Narrated by: Victor Duroc
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Ā«ĀæPor quĆ© llegamos a este precipicio?Ā» parecen preguntarse los mexicanos ante el desastre. La respuesta de Macario Schettino se reduce a un nombre: AndrĆ©s Manuel LĆ³pez Obrador. El autoritarismo, los atavismos, las ocurrencias y el desprecio por instituciones que han sido creadas a lo largo de dĆ©cadas, han llevado al paĆs a una ruina no solo... Read more
View audiobookHouse on Fire
By: David N. Cicilline
Narrated by: Erik Passoja & David N. Cicilline
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Congressman David Cicilline offers his provocative takes on Republicans, Democrats, and the world of politics in the wake of Donald Trump.Ā
The rioters were still in the Capitol, shattering the door to the House Chamber and bellowing āHang Mike Pence,ā when David Cicilline, safely locked inside his office, began writing the articles of... Read more
The Constitution in Jeopardy
By: Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville
Narrated by: Jim Seybert, Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.
Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanismāthe nation's first everāhas inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia... Read more
Partisans
By: Nicole Hemmer
Narrated by: Nicole Hemmer
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold new history of modern conservatismĀ that finds its origins in theĀ populist right-wing politics of the 1990sĀ
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Ronald ReaganĀ hasĀ longĀ beenĀ lionized forĀ building aĀ conservativeĀ coalitionĀ sustained byĀ anĀ optimistic vision ofĀ AmericanāÆexceptionalism, small government,Ā andĀ free markets.Ā ButĀ as historian Nicole Hemmer reveals,Ā the Reagan... Read more
Ugly Freedoms
By: Elisabeth R. Anker
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These "ugly freedoms" legitimate the right to... Read more
View audiobookDegenerations of Democracy
By: Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar & Char...
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat but not the root cause. More basic are social and economic transformations eroding the foundations of democracy, ruling elites trying to lock in their own privilege, and cultural perversions like making individualistic freedom the enemy of democracy's other crucial ideals of equality and... Read more
View audiobookClassified
By: David E. Bernstein
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
A call for the separation of race and state, backed by a deep dive into the surreal world of racial classification in America.Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, they are ubiquitous in American life. Applying for a job, mortgage, university admission, citizenship, government... Read more
View audiobookTechnologies of Human Rights Representation
By: Alexandra S. Moore & James Dawes
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of... Read more
View audiobookThe Religion of American Greatness
By: Paul D. Miller
Narrated by: Mike Lenz
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, or something... Read more
View audiobookSocial Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy
By: Lee C. Bollinger & Geoffrey R. Stone
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 17 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of "bad" speech on the internet within the American context.
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speechāhate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violenceāon the internet, and in particular speech on social media... Read more
The Birth Certificate
By: Susan J. Pearson
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow "birthers" reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn't an American citizen, it... Read more
View audiobookRadical Equations
By: Charles E. Cobb, Jr. & Robert P. Moses
Narrated by: Langston Darby
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the... Read more
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