Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

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

The Digital Factory

By: Moritz Altenried

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism.
 
The workers of today’s digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers.... Read more

Karel Čapek: Das Jahr des Gärtners

By: Karel Čapek

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Heute, am 30. März, um 10 Uhr vormittags, öffnete sich hinter meinem Rücken die erste Blüte des Goldbechers. Drei Tage bewachte ich seine größte Knospe, die einer kleinen goldenen Hülse ähnelt, um nur ja diesen historischen Augenblick nicht zu versäumen; er trat ein, während ich zum Himmel hinaufsah, ob es regnen werde." Karel Čapek (1890 –... Read more

William Wilberforce

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

For two hundred years, British slave ships plied in the Middle Passage, taking African men, women, and children to their doom. Ending slavery in the mighty British Empire seemed like an impossible dream, but once William Wilberforce resolved to represent the abolitionists in Parliament, he would fight to the bitter end - for nearly half a... Read more

Andrew Carnegie: Das ABC des Geldes

By: Andrew Carnegie

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wenn die Leute also mehr Geld für den Wertumlauf verlangen – das will sagen: eine größere Menge des Artikels, den sie für den Austausch aller anderen Artikel nötig haben – so ist leicht zu ersehen, dass nicht Geld im eigentlichsten Sinne des Wortes verlangt wird, sondern Kredit." Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919), der seinerzeit einer der drei... Read more

Las siete mafias chilangas

By: Sandra Romandía

Narrated by: Rafa Serrano

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

La vida cotidiana de los chilangos no está regida por las leyes. Está regida por las mafias. Día a día, lo sepan o no, los habitantes de la capital del país se someten a los dictados de mafiosos del agua, gangsters de los mercados, pandilleros del comercio, líderes de ambulantes, transportistas piratas, cárteles inmobiliarios, sindicatos... Read more

Harmonies of Political Economy

By: Frederic Bastiat

Narrated by: Ethan Williams

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Harmonies of Political Economy" is a major work by the French economist Frederic Bastiat, who lived from 1801 to 1850. The book, which was first published in 1850, explores the principles of economic theory and argues that free markets are the most effective way to promote economic growth and prosperity.Bastiat believed that government... Read more

Haitian Migrants

By: Berlin Julien Theodore

Narrated by: Coby Allen

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will address the background and legal framework for U.S. interdiction policy and the protection screenings applied to interdicted Haitian migrants. It will also explore the protection screenings applied to other migrants on the high seas and analyze whether the screening policy should be changed to a
universal standard by which all... Read more

The Essential Natural Law (Essential Scholars)

By: Samuel Gregg

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thought in the broad Western tradition as the idea of natural law. It is also true that the understanding of natural law and its influence on specific norms and institutions—rights, justice, private property, rule of law, limited government, etc.—is... Read more

Haitian Nobility

By: Berlin Julien Theodore

Narrated by: Coby Allen

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The main focus of this text details the establishment of the Haitian Nobility from the Empire and Kingdom of Haiti. The text highlights the lives of Emperors Jacques the First, Henry the First and Soulouque the First. Emperor Jacques the First ruled over the First Empire of Haiti from 1804 until his assassination in 1806. His Royal Majesty,... Read more

John Adams

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Written for readers age 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!

John's heart sank. A British man-of-war was plowing through the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean in hot pursuit of his ship. If the British caught up with the Boston, John would be hanged. He had proudly signed the Declaration of Independence and was carrying the colonies' secret papers.... Read more

Verraten und verheizt

By: Otto Fr. Rossegg

Narrated by: Klaus G. Förg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Otto Fr. Rossegg verhört in der Slowakei als Dolmetscher für den deutschen Heimatschutz Partisanen, die, von sowjetischen Agenten angestachelt, gegen die slowakische Regierung kämpfen. Zum Wehrdienst verpflichtet, muss Odo (wie Otto auch genannt wird) als Volksdeutscher der Waffen- SS beitreten und wird an der Selbstfahrlafette "Hummel"... Read more

Mach keinen Quatsch

By: Janosch Kühn, Oliver Löffler & Daniel Stammler

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

»Mach keinen Quatsch« ist die unglaubliche und atemberaubende Erzählung von drei Jungen aus der Provinz, die eines der erfolgreichsten deutschen Start-ups aufgebaut haben. Daniel, der Stratege. Janosch, der Strippenzieher. Und Oliver, der gelassene Coder. Ihre Freundschaft hält den Laden zusammen. Was sie nicht können, lernen sie schnell. No... Read more

Campaigns, Elections, and the Threat to Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States, through its local, state, and national contests, holds more elections, more often, than any democracy in the world. But in recent years, there have been troubling signs that our system of campaigns and elections has become much more fragile and vulnerable. More specifically, in the past twenty years, campaigns have changed... Read more

How China Escaped Shock Therapy

By: Isabella M. Weber

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the first post-Mao decade, China's reformers were sharply... Read more

Ideological Fixation

By: Azar Gat

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the "death of ideology," ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting "fake news" and "alternative facts." The... Read more

Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Two

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Narrated by: Charity Spencer

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insights show us how difficult even the simplest chores or tasks were for the early pioneers, yet through it all she continued to see each situation as an adventure--as if... Read more

10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Narrated by: Tyler Hyrchuk

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the... Read more

Bootstrapped

By: Alissa Quart

Narrated by: Beth Hicks

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own... Read more

In Search of Amrit Kaur

By: Livia Manera Sambuy

Narrated by: Christina Cole

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself at a museum in Mumbai, enthralled by a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian... Read more

The Teachers

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

***A National Bestseller***

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
 
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always... Read more

At Canaan's Edge

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Leon Nixon & Janina Edwards

Length: 34 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history.

The final volume of Taylor... Read more

The Dance of Illusion

By: Evelyn Pretkus

Narrated by: Evelyn Pretkus

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

How does a good girl, a Christian woman, who was born and raised Catholic, end up forty years later feeling separate from God, isolated from family, friends, and any sense of community? Seventeen years of the author's spiritual journey within is vulnerably and ever so tenderly told. The Dance of Illusion covers the topic of courage, change, and... Read more