Politics & Economy audiobooks

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Natur

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Wände der Bienenzelle stoßen in dem Winkel aufeinander, der mit dem geringsten Aufwand von Wachs die größte Festigkeit gibt; der Knochen und der Kiel des Vogels geben die größte Flugkraft bei dem geringsten Gewicht. In der Beredsamkeit ist dieses kunstvolle Auslassen ein Hauptgeheimnis starker Wirkung, und im allgemeinen ist es ein Beweis... Read more

Stefan Zweig: Freud – Die Heilung durch den Geist

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Stefan Zweig war nicht nur meisterhafter Novellist, er schrieb auch ungeheuer lesenswerte biographische Miniaturen. Im Werk "Die Heilung durch den Geist" erzählt er von drei Autoren, deren Heilmethoden spirituell-analytischer Art waren. In diesem Hörbuch geht es um den Begründer der Psychoanalyse, Sigmund Freud. In einer biographischen... Read more

Living in the Future

By: Victoria W. Wolcott

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
 
Utopian thinking is often dismissed as unrealistic, overly idealized, and flat-out impractical—in short, wholly divorced from the urgent conditions of daily life. This... Read more

World Citizen, Journeys of a Humanitarian

By: Jane Olson

Narrated by: Jane Olson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

These stories are about light and hope in the midst of unimaginable human suffering in war zones and places of extreme poverty around the world. Important lessons from a childhood in rural western Iowa are woven throughout, as are examples of human strength and resiliency. Each chapter can be read as a complete experience. Intimate details... Read more

Die Moskau-Connection

By: Markus Wehner & Reinhard Bingener

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

DER PIPELINE-DEAL: HINTER DEN KULISSEN EINES VERHÄNGNISVOLLEN NETZWERKS

Deutschland hat über viele Jahre die Gefahr ignoriert, die von Putins Regime ausging. Es hat die Warnungen seiner europäischen Nachbarn in den Wind geschlagen und sich von Gas und Öl aus Russland immer abhängiger gemacht. Die Folge ist eine schwere Wirtschaftskrise, die den... Read more

50 States of Mind

By: Ryan Bernsten

Narrated by: Ryan Bernsten

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Is America as divided as it seems? As a graduate student at Oxford, Ryan Bernsten undertook a 23,000-mile journey through all 50 states to look beyond the news cycles and see his home country from the ground. Following in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, Bernsten leads with the desire to listen and find common humanity in Americans he... Read more

Frederick Douglass

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother during infancy, then taken from his grandparents at the age of six to serve at the “Great House” on the Wye Plantation in Maryland. He never imagined the cruelties he would witness or the indignities of his family being treated like cattle to be sold, divided, and... Read more

Der Zinseszins-Millionär und Reiche Kinder ganz einfach 2-Bücher-in-1

By: Joe Correa

Narrated by: Dirk Jacobs

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Zinseszins-Millionär braucht keine speziellen Fähigkeiten oder einen hohen IQ. Die Person lernt einfach das Geheimnis des Zinseszinses und dieses sinnvoll zu nutzen. Würden Sie mir glauben, wenn ich sage, dass jeder ein Zinseszins-Millionär werden kann? Alles was Sie brauchen ist: ein monatliches Einkommen, das Sie jeden Monat sparen können,... Read more

The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)

By: Douglas J. Den Uyl, Jacob T. Levy & Chris W. Su...

Narrated by: Michael Lenz

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth century—the ideas we often now refer to as “classical liberalism”—emerged out of major debates and developments from the late 1600s to the late 1700s, part of the broad European intellectual movement of that era that came to be known as “the... Read more

La crise de l'esprit

By: Paul Valéry

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Au lendemain de la première Guerre Mondiale, c'est face au constat d'une Europe dévastée sur les plans économique, politique, idéologique et intellectuel, que Paul Valéry, dans une réflexion qui reste d'actualité, s'interroge sur le devenir de la civilisation européenne :"L’idée de culture, d’intelligence, d’œuvres magistrales est pour nous dans... Read more

Psicologia Social e Lutas Anticapitalistas - Abridged

By: Rogério Lustosa Bastos

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O livro que agora chega às mãos dos/as leitores/as é o resultado de um esforço coletivo dos/as professores/as Rogério Lustosa Bastos, Lizete Quelha de Souza, Mably Trindade, José Augusto Bisneto, João Batista Rezende e do assistente social Roberto Rodrigues Ribeiro. O título desta coletânea – Psicologia Social e Lutas Anticapitalistas:... Read more

Parents of the World, Unite!

By: Ian Prior

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This essential playbook reveals the winning strategies for successfully fighting a radical woke agenda in your kids’ schools. Ian Prior is one of the most articulate and successful parent-activists in the United States. Armed with 12 inspiring battle-tested rules and revealing stories about sparring with self-righteous Woke neighbors (the... Read more

Reagan's Revolution

By: Craig Shirley

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that Reagan's revolution did not begin when he took office in 1980, but in his failed presidential challenge to Gerald Ford in 1975-1976. This is the remarkable... Read more

Awakening to China's Rise

By: Hugo Meijer

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Awakening to China's Rise provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of how Europe's major powers have responded to the re-emergence of China as a great power in world politics since the end of the Cold War. To do so, it puts forward a unique cross-regional comparison of how the major European powers (France, Germany, and the United... Read more

Walk the Walk

By: Neil Gross

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of the most interesting sociologists of his generation” and a former cop, the story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.

What should we do about the police? After the murder of George Floyd, there’s no institution more... Read more

Xi Jinping

By: Stefan Aust & Adrian Geiges

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families still struggle with malnutrition.



Today, Xi... Read more

Moderate Conservatism

By: John Kekes

Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Moderate Conservatism: Reclaiming the Center by John Kekes is a response to attacks on the United States' 300-year-old constitutional democracy by extremists on the left and the right. It makes a reasoned case for moderation and the defense of a political system that has endured because it has balanced the often-conflicting claims of justice,... Read more

Crooked

By: Nathan Masters

Narrated by: David H Lawrence XVII

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down


Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of... Read more

Birchers

By: Matthew Dallek

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
 
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity,... Read more

The Essential Robert Nozick (Essential Scholars)

By: Aeon J. Skoble

Narrated by: Nichalia Schwartz

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Nozick was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who is most famous for his contributions to political philosophy. His 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia helped establish the classical liberal or libertarian perspective as a viable alternative to redistributive egalitarian liberalism and to socialism. Despite many... Read more

Inventing the Future

By: Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism

Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains... Read more

Geld spielt keine Rolle (Ungekürzt)

By: Anna Mayr

Narrated by: Anna Mayr

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Geld gab es in ihrer Familie immer zu wenig. Als Kind fragte sie sich deshalb, wie manche achtlos hunderte Euro für Taschen, Schuhe, Steaks ausgeben können, während es gleichzeitig so viele Menschen gibt, für die 100 Euro ein kleines Vermögen sind. Inzwischen ist sie selbst eine von denen geworden, die verschwenderisch Geld ausgeben: 60 Euro für... Read more

Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K Rosa

Narrated by: Lily Lefkow

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heteronormative, we must have babies and buy a... Read more

Jenseits von Putin

By: Gesine Dornblüth & Thomas Franke

Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Russland am 24. Februar 2022 die Ukraine angriff, schien das großen Teilen der russischen Gesellschaft egal zu sein. Das ist nicht überraschend. Seit Jahren wird das russische Expansionsstreben davon begleitet, dass gesellschaftlich das Recht des Stärkeren gilt. Gewalt wird von vielen als Mittel der Politik akzeptiert.
Gesine Dornblüth und... Read more