21 lecciones para el siglo XXI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Luis David García Márquez
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Vuelve Harari Autor de Sapiens, best seller del momento con más de diez millones de copias vendidas en todo el mundo. Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado. Homo Deus, una mirada a nuestro futuro. 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI es una exploración de nuestro presente. ¿Cómo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos... Read more
View audiobookUn espía en México
By: Sophie Morghrani
Narrated by: Adrián Ogazón
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Una fascinante historia real de un agente internacional del servicio secreto, durante la Guerra Fría en Europa. ¿Quién fue Jaroslav Slavik? ¿Acaso Marcel Moghrani... o Marcel Masarovic? ¿Era un espía, un conspirador, una pieza clave del contraespionaje? ¿Cómo llegó a México? ¿Quién estaba detrás de este ingeniero capaz de construir un búnker y... Read more
View audiobookInflation und Strafzinsen
By: Markus Kühn & Stefanie Kühn
Narrated by: Thomas Eufinger
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Inflation und StrafzinsenSie fragen sich, wie Sie trotz hoher Inflation und niedrigster Zinsen Ihr Vermögen aufbauen können? Haben Sie das Gefühl, sich mehr um Ihre Geldanlagen kümmern zu müssen, wissen aber nicht, worauf es ankommt und wo Sie anfangen sollen? Welche Anlagearten sind die richtigen für mich? Mit diesem Hörbuch erhalten Sie einen... Read more
View audiobookThe Children of the Anthropocene
By: Bella Lack
Narrated by: Bella Lack
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis.
This urgent book chronicles the lives of the diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, amplifying the stories of those living at the heart of the... Read more
The Tomorrow Game
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence.
In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community.
At... Read more
For the Good of the World
By: A. C. Grayling
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome themCan we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face?Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries, and antipathies, even as we collectively approach... Read more
View audiobookA New World in Our Hearts
By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
An interview with Noam Chomsky is a bit like throwing batting practice to Babe Ruth. What you lob in, he will hammer out.This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who has been close to Chomsky for roughly half a century and talked with him many hundreds of times, spans a wide range of topics including journalism, science, religion, the... Read more
View audiobookNot My First Rodeo
By: Kristi Noem
Narrated by: Kristi Noem & Charity Spencer
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem tells her rough and tumble story of growing up on a ranch, and how a blessed life of true grit taught her how to lead.
“We don’t complain about things, Kristi. We fix them.” Taking her father’s words to heart, South Dakota's first woman governor Kristi Noem shares heartfelt – and heartbreaking – lessons on making... Read more
How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back
By: Ariel Ezrachi & Maurice E. Stucke
Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.Silicon Valley’s genius combined... Read more
View audiobookRussia Resurrected
By: Kathryn E. Stoner
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Yet twenty-five years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Shah
By: Ray Takeyh
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries
Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad... Read more
The Aristocracy of Talent
By: Adrian Wooldridge
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 18 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The Times (UK) book of the year!
Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right... Read more
The Making of Modern Economics, Fourth Edition
By: Mark Skousen
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 21 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today’s rigorous social science.This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the... Read more
View audiobookWhy We Did It
By: Tim Miller
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism? As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to... Read more
View audiobookStolen Dreams
By: Chris Lamb
Narrated by: Midnite Michael
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon... Read more
View audiobookThe First Chief Justice
By: Mark C. Dillon
Narrated by: Timothy Howard Jackson
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of federalized American law had to be created from scratch. In The First Chief Justice, New York State Appellate Judge Mark C. Dillon uncovers, for the first time, how Jay's personal,... Read more
View audiobookThe Story of China
By: Michael Wood
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 20 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.
After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned... Read more
The Return of the Russian Leviathan
By: Sergei Medvedev
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Russia's relationship with its neighbors and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK, and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How can we... Read more
View audiobookStreets of Gold
By: Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boustan
Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Immigration is a fraught and misunderstood topic in America’s social discourse, with much of what we believe based largely on myth. Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan have spent the last decade searching for the facts. Their pioneering research digs deep into the data on immigration, linking the experiences of immigrants from the nineteenth and... Read more
View audiobookUntil We Have Won Our Liberty
By: Evan Lieberman
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
At a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely watched transitions away from minority rule. South Africa's democratic development has been messy, fiercely contested, and sometimes violent. But as Evan... Read more
View audiobookAngels in Afghanistan
By: Joseph R. Perez Jr.
Narrated by: Joseph R. Perez Jr.
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
During his first deployment to Afghanistan, Joseph Perez saw two angels above a friend who was about to go on a combat patrol. Moments later, his friend was struck by an Improvised Explosive Device. This was the first of several times Perez would see angels in the spiritual realm. Though he shares these experiences and his life’s journey, this... Read more
View audiobookCrossing Borders
By: Ali Noorani
Narrated by: Zac Aleman
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Moving stories of American immigrants and their journeysIn an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their... Read more
View audiobookWalden
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: Drake Johnson
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his... Read more
View audiobookSigmund Freud: Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse. Teil 2
By: Sigmund Freud
Narrated by: Sven Görtz
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen "Einführung in die Psychoanalyse" - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. Hier vorliegend sind die Vorlesungen V - XV über den Traum, mit den Themen: Voraussetzungen und Techniken der Deutung, Manifester Trauminhalt, Kinderträume, die Traumzensur, Die... Read more
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