What WE Lost
By: Tawfiq S. Rangwala
Narrated by: Martin Luther King III
Length: 18 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
WE Charity had changed the game. In its 25 years, the international development charity and youth empowerment movement impacted lives the world over. Innovation was at its core: while most charities focus on making the world a better place for our children, WE Charity focused on making better children for our world. Founded by the ubiquitous... Read more
View audiobookEl Poder (Power)
By: Pedro Baños
Narrated by: Martin Untrojb
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Astucia, prudencia... Pedro Baños multiplica las enseñanzas de Maquiavelo y las actualiza cuando la realidad estratégica, que conoce tan bien, lo exige. ¿Cómo se alcanza el poder? ¿Cómo conservarlo? El poder cambia de forma o pasa de manos, pero siempre está ahí, muy presente. Nicolás Maquiavelo escribió 'El Príncipe' pensando en los gobernantes... Read more
View audiobookSin más amigos que las montañas (No Friend But the Mountains)
By: Behrouz Boochani
Narrated by: Paris Roa
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
El 2013 Behrouz Boochani fue ilegalmente detenido en la isla de Manus, un centro de detención de inmigrantes cerca de la costa de Australia. En la cárcel, donde ha pasado seis años, sin herramientas ni espacio para la creación, Boochani escribió heroicamente a través de WhatsApp este libro. Un libro sobre la violencia y las injusticias que se... Read more
View audiobookGive Me Liberty
By: David E. Hoffman
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.
Oswaldo Payá was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, promising to create a “free, democratic, and just Cuba.”... Read more
Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime
By: James Kelman & Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
“The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point where you say, yes, stop, now I shall move on.”This exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence—spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade more—is... Read more
View audiobook634 Maneras de matar a Fidel (634 Ways to Kill Fidel)
By: Fabian Escalante
Narrated by: Juan Manuel Vargas
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Expansivo recuento de los diversos, creativos, frecuentemente extraños y sin embargo increíblemente inquietantes intentos de asesinar a Fidel Castro.
Fabián Escalante, el fundador de los servicios de seguridad cubanos y jefe del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado Cubano provee un lúcido recuento en primera persona de sus experiencias... Read more
Uncle Sam's Plantation
By: Star Parker
Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare addict who was chewed up and spit out by the ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much needed light on the bungled bureaucratic attempts to end... Read more
View audiobookFinancial Cold War
By: James A. Fok
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 17 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising tensions between China and the United States have kept the financial markets on edge as a showdown between the world's two largest economies seems inevitable. But what most people fail to recognize is the major impact that the financial markets themselves have had on the creation and acceleration of the conflict.
In Financial Cold War,... Read more
Warfighter
By: Col Jesse L. Johnson
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In Warfighter, Colonel Jesse L. Johnson, one of the most decorated living American veterans, recounts the action-packed true-life tale of a man who stood and fought at the crossroads of history. Spanning forty years of conflict, from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iran and Iraq, never has a modern military memoir covered such a vast... Read more
View audiobookThe Dictator's Handbook
By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Now featuring a new chapter on the rise of illiberalism worldwide.
The essential book that lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.
As featured in the viral video “Rules for Rulers,” which has been viewed over fifteen million times.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair... Read more
Opium Nation
By: Fariba Nawa
Narrated by: Holly Adams
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart—from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides—while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land.
Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal exploration of Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country,... Read more
The Fight to Save the Town
By: Michelle Wilde Anderson
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership and offers “a welcome reminder of what government can accomplish if given the chance” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Decades of cuts to local government... Read more
Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships
By: Gary Chapman & Clarence Shuler
Narrated by: Gary Chapman & Clarence Shuler
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the authors.We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.Everyone wants to do something to improve race relations, but many of us don't know where to start. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, lifelong friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler will show you how. Through important lessons they have learned, you will learn... Read more
View audiobookTransition Economies
By: Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet... Read more
View audiobookForging the Anglo-American Alliance
By: Tyler R. Bamford
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history. In just eighteen months, the US and British armies integrated their planning, intelligence, and command structures more thoroughly than any previous alliance.
How did these two... Read more
Beef, Bible and bullets
By: Richard Lapper
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Backed by Brazil’s wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain’s brand of controversial, aggressive rhetoric, the divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro’s tens of... Read more
View audiobookSplintered
By: Jonathan Butcher
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Critical race theory has hijacked the US education system on every level. Parents, students, educators, and policymakers must know and support the truth about American history and reject this divisive and anti-American theory’s obsession with skin color and prejudice.The problem with our nation’s schools today is not just the low test scores in... Read more
View audiobookHostages No More
By: Betsy DeVos
Narrated by: Betsy DeVos
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos.
Long before she was tapped by President Trump to serve as secretary of education, DeVos established herself as one of the country’s... Read more
How Politics Works
By: DK
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzgerald
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A jargon-free guide to every aspect of politics, from political philosophy to 21st-century activism
Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique guide. How Politics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of... Read more
Created Equal
By: Michael Pack & Mark Paoletta
Narrated by: Charles Constant, Shamaan Casey & Pamela Klein
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomas's rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court Justice. Companion to blockbuster documentary Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, but a fascinating stand alone listen, as well!
*The... Read more
The Hong Kong Diaries
By: Chris Patten
Narrated by: Chris Patten
Length: 25 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this... Read more
The Two Michaels
By: Fen Osler Hampson & Mike Blanchfield
Narrated by: Miles Meili
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Landing in Vancouver on a flight from Hong Kong on December 2018, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian authorities with an American extradition warrant. The US Department of Justice accused Meng of fraud and bypassing sanctions against Iran. Nine days later, in an act of retaliation, China arrested two... Read more
View audiobookDemocracy Under Fire
By: Lawrence R. Jacobs
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Trump even ran for President, his disdain for the rules, procedures, and norms of American democracy and the US Constitution was well-known and led prominent Republicans to repudiate him as "unfit" for the GOP nomination. Given the clear-eyed assessment of candidate Trump, why did the Republican Party nominate him as its presidential... Read more
View audiobookChasseur de terroristes
By: Lionel D. & Annemie Bulté
Narrated by: François Hatt
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Un témoignage exceptionnel, qui vous plonge dans les coulisses de cette unité d'élite de la police. Belgique, le 15 janvier 2015. À Verviers, les hommes des Unités spéciales partent à l'assaut d'une maison ouvrière dans laquelle trois terroristes préparent un attentat. La fusillade qui s'ensuit intervient une semaine après l'attentat... Read more
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