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Democracy In America — Volume 1 (Unabridged)
By: Alexis de Tocqueville
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 19 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina live with their brother Andrey in a provincial Russian town, and plan to return to Moscow, where they grew up, as soon as they’re able. Olga doesn’t want to continue working at the school where she’s a teacher and occasional headmaster; Masha is... Read more
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Reissleine - Wie ich mich selbst verlor - und wiederfand (ungekürzt)
By: Katja Suding
Narrated by: Katja Suding
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Mit bemerkenswerter Offenheit nimmt uns Katja Suding mit hinter die Kulissen der Politik und ihres Lebens. Ein Erfahrungsbericht über das System Spitzenpolitik, emotionale Achterbahnen und den Mut zum Neuanfang." Brigitte Huber, Chefredakteurin BRIGITTE. 2021 beendet die Bundestagsabgeordnete Katja Suding, stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende der... Read more
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Olaf Scholz - Wer ist unser Kanzler? (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Mark Schieritz
Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Deutschland hat einen neuen Bundeskanzler. Aber wer ist dieser Mann eigentlich? Wofür steht Olaf Scholz? Und was haben wir von ihm als Kanzler zu erwarten? Nach 16 Jahren endet die Ära Merkel. Mit dem neuen Kanzler steht nun erstmals wieder ein Sozialdemokrat an der Spitze des Landes. Für viele kam sein Wahlsieg überraschend, ist Olaf Scholz... Read more
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Los de adelante corren mucho
By: Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra
Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Por qué América es la región más desigual del mundo? ¿Qué explica esta injusta realidad? Todos somos iguales, ¿pero por qué algunos son más iguales que otros? En México -y de hecho en todo el continente americano- la desigualdad ha permitido a unos pocos miles de hombres (rara vez son mujeres)dominar las decisiones políticas y económicas. Las... Read more
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México a cielo abierto
By: J. Jesús Lemus
Narrated by: Rafa Serrano
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Entre 2001 y 2017 las mineras extrajeron de México una cantidad equivalente al doble del oro y la mitad de la plata que los españoles se llevaron en los 300 años que duró la Colonia. La minería es uno de los negocios más jugosos del país... pero no para los trabajadores o las comunidades donde se desarrolla. Deja una utilidad anual de $200,000... Read more
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An Accidental Icon
By: Norman Scott
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin & Norman Scott
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The jaw-dropping and inspiring story of accidental queer icon Norman Scott (the hero of tv drama A Very English Scandal) and the part he played in one of the greatest political scandals of the twentieth century.
In October 1975 an assassin tried to murder Norman Scott on Exmoor but the trigger failed and he only succeeded in shooting Scott's... Read more
Las guerras ocultas del narco
By: Juan Alberto Cedillo
Narrated by: Victor Manuel Espinoza
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Hasta hoy, lo peor de la "guerra antinarco" ha permanecido casi en el silencio o en el terreno del rumor: el grado real de brutalidad, la lógica de los pactos, la crónica de las masacres, la explicación de los ataques... Mediante una investigación documental profundísima y un reporteo riguroso, Juan Alberto Cedillo ofrece una investigación... Read more
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Infocracia
By: Byung-Chul Han
Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Un análisis sagaz del régimen de la información, el nuevo gobierno al que estamos sometidos, por el filósofo más leído del siglo XXI. La digitalización avanza inexorablemente. Aturdidos por el frenesí de la comunicación y la información, nos sentimos impotentes ante el tsunami de datos que despliega fuerzas destructivas y deformantes. Hoy la... Read more
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El exilio
By: Carlos Tello Díaz
Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Length: 18 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Basado fundamentalmente en fuentes primarias, muchas de ellas inéditas, el autor -tataranieto de Porfirio Díaz- narra la historia de dos familias que tuvieron que dejar su país con la Revolución: los Díaz y los Casasús, con particular énfasis en el ex presidente Porfirio Díaz. El exilio: un relato de familia narra los avatares de dos familias... Read more
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The American Crisis (Unabridged)
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The American Crisis is a collection of articles by Thomas Paine, originally published from December 1776 to December 1783, that focus on rallying Americans during the worst years of the Revolutionary War. Paine used his deistic beliefs to galvanize the revolutionaries, for example by... Read more
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The Rights Of Man (Unabridged)
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and... Read more
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The Federalist Papers (Unabridged)
By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 19 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. In early 1787, the Congress of the United States called a meeting of delegates from each state to try to fix what was wrong with the Articles of Confederation. The Articles had created an intentionally weak central government, and that weakness had brought the nation to a crisis in... Read more
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Pandemic Perspectives
By: Howard Burton
Narrated by: Howard Burton
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Directly inspired by award-winning author, physician and self-professed “biology watcher” Lewis Thomas, Howard Burton takes us on a thought-provoking tour of a wide range of social and scientific issues which he encountered through the process of making the documentary film, Pandemic Perspectives. Howard provides unique and fresh insights into a... Read more
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Наш Быкаў. Кніга ўспамінаў
By: Генадзь Бураўкін
Narrated by: Валянцін Аксянцюк
Length: 23 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Кніга ўспамінаў сяброў і блізкіх пра Васіля Быкава. Усяго свае ўспаміны ў кнізе зьмясьцілі каля 40 чалавек. Сярод іх ня толькі беларускія, але і замежныя аўтары. Read more
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art
By: Bénédicte Savoy
Narrated by: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Ronnie Archer-Morgan narrates this major new history of how African nations sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light... Read more
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
By: Olympe de Gouges
Narrated by: Emilie Mauchaussé
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sur un ton énergique, ironique et engagé, l'une des plus grandes voix féminines de la Révolution française, Olympe de Gouges, rédige le premier document à évoquer l'égalité juridique et légale des femmes avec celle des hommes. "Femme, réveille-toi ; le tocsin de la raison se fait entendre dans tout l'univers ; reconnais tes droits. Le puissant... Read more
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Is Science Enough?
By: Aviva Chomsky
Narrated by: Moe Egan
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe
We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we’ve already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting glaciers, the heat waves, and the displaced people fleeing... Read more
Recessional
By: David Mamet
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air.”The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks,... Read more
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent
people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk... Read more
Torn Apart
By: Dorothy Roberts
Narrated by: Dorothy Roberts & Janina Edwards
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change
Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals... Read more
Spin Dictators
By: Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens... Read more
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Fire and Flood
By: Eugene Linden
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Batton Book of the Year Award
From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing... Read more
Amleto Vespa spia in Cina
By: Francesco Totoro
Narrated by: Pierpaolo De Mejo
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
L'intrigante biografia di Amleto Vespa, uno degli agenti segreti italiani più famosi e figura nebulosa come le sue azioni. Abruzzese di nascita, il giovane Amleto lascia L'Aquila agli inizi del Novecento inseguendo il sogno di diventare giornalista. La sua sete di avventura lo spinge fino in Siberia, dove si improvvisa cercatore d'oro ed... Read more
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It's Not Free Speech
By: Michael Bérubé & Jennifer Ruth
Narrated by: David Chandler
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?
The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been... Read more