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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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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
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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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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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Thinking Like an Economist
By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive... Read more
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George Soros
By: Peter L. W. Osnos
Narrated by: George Newbern, Petrea Burchard, Shaun Grindell...
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success, he is equally well known as the nemesis of the far right—the target of sustained attacks from nationalists, populists, authoritarian regimes, and anti-Semites—because of his commitment to open... Read more
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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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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
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
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
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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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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
The Conquest Of Bread (Unabridged)
By: Peter Kropotkin
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Conquest of Bread is a political treatise written by the anarchocommunist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Written after a split between anarchists and Marxists at the First International (a 19thcentury association of leftwing radicals), The Conquest of Bread advocates a path to a... Read more
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No More Heroes
By: Jordan Flaherty
Narrated by: Hannah Pepper, T Duncan, Donald Lewis Jr, Ian H...
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"A perfect gift for the age of Trump." - Robin D. G. Kelley, Author, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"In this marvelous, enormously instructive book, Jordan Flaherty explores how we too often allow the struggle for change to be undermined by would-be saviors—and how today’s grassroots social movements, led by communities on the... Read more
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Walking Through the Fire
By: Steve King
Narrated by: Steve King
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Just two weeks after winning reelection to his ninth term in Congress, Steve King was stunned to learn the “Swamp” was poised to unleash a treacherous media blitzkrieg designed to kill his Congressional political career on the spot. The words “They believe they can force you to resign” still ring in his ears today. He knew Democrats and the... Read more
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom (Unabridged)
By: T. E. Lawrence
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is T. E. Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I. The empire had joined the side of Germany and the Central Powers in the war, and Britain hoped that a successful revolt would... Read more
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Malcolm X
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Malcolm X was a widely known African American Muslim minister and civil liberties leader at the time of the civil liberties movement. He was an enthusiastic supporter for Black emancipation and the big promotion of Islam within the Black community till 1964, when he ended up being the Country of Islam's spokesperson.Following his dad's death and... Read more
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Thomas Paine
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Paine was a political activist, theorist, political theorist, and revolutionary who was born in England. He wrote 2 of the most popular handouts at the beginning of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-- 1783) and helped motivate patriots to announce independence from Great Britain in 1776. His... Read more
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Politicians and Rebels
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This book contains 3 titles, which are:Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin was an author, physicist, innovator, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political thinker who resided in America. Franklin was just one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the US Declaration, and the first postmaster general... Read more
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Political Activists
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
You are in luck! The thing is: You just came across a giant combo of a book with various topics in it. This is a great value, and all the topics are about political activists in history. These are the topics we will study:Alexander Hamilton: The American Statesman, Politician, Military Commander, and EconomistBenjamin Franklin: The Great... Read more
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Social Activists
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The following three topics will be covered in this book:
Martin Luther King - From 1955 till his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist clergyman and activist who ended up being the most identifiable voice and leader in the American civil liberties movement. King used nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance... Read more
Martin Luther King
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1955 till his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January fifteenth, 1929-- April 4th, 1968) was an American Baptist clergyman and activist who ended up being the most identifiable voice and leader in the American civil liberties movement. King used nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance civil... Read more
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Mother Teresa
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, typically referred to as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in the Catholic Church, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (today the capital of North Macedonia), which was then part of the Ottoman Empire's Kosovo Vilayet. After eighteen years in Skopje, she went to Ireland and... Read more
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