Politics & Economy audiobooks

Die neue Protestkultur

By: Tareq Sydiq

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Druck der Straße wächst: Bauernproteste, Klimastreiks oder Proteste gegen unterdrückende Regimes – der Politikwissenschaftler Tareq Sydiq beleuchtet die neue Protestkultur

Sie haben Regime gestürzt, Grenzen geöffnet und Rechte erkämpft – Proteste haben in der Geschichte schon einige Steine ins Rollen gebracht.
In der Gegenwart scheinen sie... Read more

Taken As Red

By: Anushka Asthana

Narrated by: Anushka Asthana

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

How Labour took power, how the Tories lost it, and what to expect 'Taken As Red stands out for its balance and the depth of its reporting' The Guardian Featuring exclusive interviews with more than 100 political insiders including Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Kwasi Kwarteng,... Read more

Самодержец пустыни. Барон Р. Ф. Унгерн-Штернберг и мир, в котором он жил

By: Леонид Юзефович

Narrated by: Алексей Багдасаров

Length: 22 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Уникальное историческое исследование о судьбе и жизни одного из самых загадочных персонажей русской истории ХХ века — барона Романа Федоровича Унгерн-Штернберга, который послужил прототипом Черного барона Юнгерна, защитника «Внутренней Монголии» в «Чапаеве и пустоте» Виктора Пелевина. События происходят в начале ХХ века, когда... Read more

Emperor of the Seas

By: Jack Weatherford

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents… Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford, read by Mark Elstob

Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

Genghis Khan built... Read more

Putins Gift

By: Gesine Dornblüth & Thomas Franke

Narrated by: Vlad Chiriac

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Weltweit tobt ein Kampf zwischen Autoritarismus und Demokratie. Moskau führt ihn erbittert. Die Mächtigen im Kreml versuchen immer aggressiver, die Staaten in ihrem ehemaligen Einflussgebiet zu unterwandern und schwache Demokratien zu zerstören. Das russische Gift zersetzt Gesellschaften, indem es vorhandene Schwachstellen nutzt und Gräben... Read more

Kosciuszko

By: Anthony Sharwood

Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why he's the hero the world needs right... Read more

Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It

By: Mark Coeckelbergh

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it?



In this compelling and balanced book, Mark Coeckelbergh reveals the key risks posed by AI for... Read more

Geopolitics and Democracy

By: Peter Trubowitz & Brian Burgoon

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A large, widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On issues ranging from immigration and international trade to national security, new political parties on the left and the right are rejecting the core foreign policy principles that Western governments... Read more

America First

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

Hitler's invasion of... Read more

The Tech Coup

By: Marietje Schaake

Narrated by: Lorna Bennett

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global financial system. Spyware... Read more

Fentanyl Nation

By: Ryan Hampton

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis.

The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents, suicide, or gun violence. Fentanyl—a potent, inexpensive,... Read more

Civil Wars

By: Monica Duffy Toft

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the study of civil wars has been one of the largest growing segments of the international relations field. Their causes are complex, ranging from fights over access to housing, jobs, and land or other resources, to political contests over offices,... Read more

10/7

By: Lee Yaron

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.

On October 7, 2023—the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot—the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air,... Read more

Book and Dagger

By: Elyse Graham

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the... Read more

Money Capital

By: Patrick Bolton & Haizhou Huang

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience—including the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 and the economic development of China—contradict this basic prediction. In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel... Read more

Family Abolition

By: M.E. O’Brien

Narrated by: Charli Burrow

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In a capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future?



In Family Abolition, author... Read more

Reconstruction Updated Edition

By: Eric Foner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 31 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the ""preeminent historian of Reconstruction"" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's ""masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history"" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction... Read more

The Generational Assault on Christianity, Free Speech and Democracy in America

By: Christopher Arthur Rockefeller

Narrated by: John Campbell

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A Political Commentary Narrative Novel: A warm and touching novel that encourages embracing traditional Christian American values, highest morals and ethics, family values, working together (not separately) as American citizens toward common, sensible and benevolent goals and aspirations with courage and resolve and unhindered, undefeatable... Read more

Italy Reborn

By: Mark Gilbert

Narrated by: Michael Langan

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy was admitted to the United Nations, the nation had contested three acrimonious but free general elections, had a flourishing press, and was a leader in the rebuilding of Europe.



This is the dramatic story told... Read more

All the Presidents' Money

By: Megan Gorman

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Was Harry Truman really our poorest president or simply a man up at 2 a.m. struggling with financial anxiety? Did Calvin Coolidge get bad advice from his stockbroker to buy stocks in 1930 as the market continued to crash? Is it true George Washington enhanced his net worth by marrying up?

We often think of the US presidents as being above the... Read more

Path to Zero

By: Tucker Perkins

Narrated by: Tucker Perkins

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tucker Perkins’s Path to Zero shows how we can reverse climate change and create a cleaner environment for future generations by putting aside our biases and working together for change.Climate catastrophe-inspired narratives like “Electrify Everything!” have a grip on people’s minds. The simplicity of the solution to the most complex endeavor... Read more

آقوال سائیکل کا نٹشیل: انسانی تہذیب کی 84 سالہ تال (2024)

By: Amjad Farooq

Narrated by: Amjad Farooq

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

گزشتہ چند دشکوں کے دوران دنیا کا زیادہ تر حصہ تیزی سے تنزلی کا شکار رہا ہے اور ہر گزرتے سال کے ساتھ ایسا لگتا ہے کہ ایک نئے نادر پر پہنچ رہا ہے جس کا کوئی خاتمہ نظر نہیں آتا؛ کسی کو حیرت ہے کہ کیا یہ ایک نیا نورمل ہے یا چل رہا پاگلپن آخر کار ختم ہو جائے گا تاکہ ایک نئی چمکدار صبح شروع ہو سکے۔خوشقسمتی سے، قدرت ماں نے ہمیں "آقوال سائیکل" نام کے... Read more

The Gates of Gaza

By: Amir Tibon

Narrated by: Amir Tibon

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023 by Tibon’s own father—an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that led to Hamas’s attacks that day.
 
On the morning... Read more

Your Leadership Diamond

By: Paul Mitchell

Narrated by: Paul Mitchell

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s the point of making the numbers but not making a difference?
What’s the point of being a brilliant leader in the workplace but a failure at home?
What’s the point of building great relationships but underdelivering on promised outcomes?
Paul Mitchell reveals how in a period of just seven weeks, you can take your leadership to a whole new... Read more