Hiking the Horizontal
By: Liz Lerman
Narrated by: Liz Lerman
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the... Read more
View audiobookAfter the Protests Are Heard
By: Sharon D. Welch
Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Women's March in DC to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump's America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and... Read more
View audiobookThe Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden
By: Peter L. Bergen
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the “riveting” (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today.
In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergan provides the first... Read more
Honor Bound
By: Amy McGrath & Chris Peterson
Narrated by: Amy McGrath
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring story of the first female Marine to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18—and the transformative events that led to her bold decision to take on the most powerful man in the U.S. Senate.
Amy McGrath grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, a childhood shaped by love of country, baseball (the Cincinnati Reds), and, from the age of twelve, a... Read more
Mythos 9/11
By: Mathias Bröckers
Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Die Anschläge des 11.9.2001 dürften als das Jahrhundertverbrechen in die Geschichte eingehen. Wie aber kann es sein, dass auch nach zwanzig Jahren noch immer an der offiziellen Wahrheit festgehalten wird, obwohl bis heute die objektiven Unstimmigkeiten an dieser Version erdrückend sind? Die Kommission zur Klärung der Ereignisse legte einen... Read more
View audiobookAuf der Spur des Bösen
By: Axel Petermann
Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein kaltblütiger Serienmörder. Eine verstümmelte Frauenleiche in einem Plastiksack. Ein erschossener US-Amerikaner im Zug. Kriminalhauptkommissar Axel Petermann ist Deutschlands bekanntester Profiler. Er beschreibt seine schwierigsten Fälle. Dabei gewährt er Einblicke in die Methoden der Profiler und erklärt, was die Spuren am Tatort über die... Read more
View audiobookTito
By: Lana Sokolaj
Narrated by: Corrado Niro
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
La vita di una delle figure più centrali e controverse del Novecento. Josip Broz, detto Tito, è stato per decenni a capo della Jugoslavia. Partendo dalla resistenza partigiana durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, passando per l'unione della penisola balcanica, fino alla Guerra Fredda, Tito è stato protagonista di molti tra i più importanti eventi... Read more
View audiobookThe Montreal Shtetl
By: Zelda Abramson & John Lynch
Narrated by: Margot Dionne
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America... Read more
View audiobookThe New Nomads
By: Felix Marquardt
Narrated by: Felix Marquardt
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.
We've got it all wrong.
Far from being... Read more
Ascona (ungekürzt)
By: Edgar Rai
Narrated by: Dietmar Wunder
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In der Nacht vor Hitlers Ernennung zum Reichskanzler flieht Erich-Maria Remarque von Berlin ins Schweizer Exil am Lago Maggiore. Wenig später brennen seine Romane auf dem Scheiterhaufen der Nazis. Remarque stoßen die politischen Vorgänge in tiefe Ratlosigkeit, künstlerisch quält er sich seit Jahren mit einem neuen Roman herum. Seine Depression... Read more
View audiobookThe Ark Of The Oven Mitt
By: James Gordon
Narrated by: James Gordon
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A story about the power of stories! It's a novel. It's an album. It's "The Ark Of The Oven Mitt"
A Reporter for a Canadian music magazine is asked to do a ‘where-are-they-now’ story about ‘Miles and Myles’, a popular band in the ‘80s.
Maddie Myles, the charismatic lead singer, leaves her partner and the band at the height of its fame, and... Read more
Toxic
By: Richard Flanagan
Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters?
But what are... Read more
The Authoritarian Moment
By: Ben Shapiro
Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent... Read more
View audiobookVirus
By: Nina Burleigh
Narrated by: Nina Burleigh
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering... Read more
View audiobookThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations
By: David S. Landes
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 21 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, bestselling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and... Read more
View audiobookMy Bondage and My Freedom
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous anti-slavery writers in American history. Following 20 years of enslavement in Maryland, Douglass made a daring bid for freedom in 1838, travelling north via the ‘underground railroad’ before arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would settle. It was not long... Read more
View audiobookPrivacy is Power
By: Carissa Véliz
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited . . . It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy.
Governments and hundreds of corporations are spying on you, and everyone you know. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you've explicitly asked them... Read more
The Partisan Gap
By: Laurel Elder
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices
From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures... Read more
Putin’s Playbook
By: Rebekah Koffler
Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals.In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how... Read more
View audiobookGlobalization
By: Manfred B. Steger
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization.
In... Read more
U.S. Presidential Debates
By: Diana Carlin
Narrated by: Diana Carlin
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. The quadrennial televised faceoffs are now an... Read more
View audiobookThe Tightening Dark
By: Sam Farran & Benjamin Buchholz
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This riveting memoir follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and thirty-year US Marine veteran who suffered a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen—and remained loyal to his country through it all. As air strikes carpeted Yemen's capital, Sam Farran was one of only a few Americans in the war-ravaged country. He was there to... Read more
View audiobookDie erdrückte Freiheit
By: Wolfgang Kubicki
Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Mit der Corona-Pandemie wurden die schwersten Grundrechtseingriffe in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik vorgenommen. Freiheitsrechte gerieten nicht nur durch politische Entscheidungen, sondern auch durch eine große gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung unter Druck. WOLFGANG KUBICKI will sich der Frage widmen, wieso die Idee der Freiheit so schnell in... Read more
View audiobookGlobal Economic Boom & Bust Cycles
By: Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti
Narrated by: Alan K Courtright
Length: 22 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
For over two decades, author Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti has been closely following many of the issues discussed in Global Economic Boom and Bust Cycles. As a self-proclaimed futurist and economic thinker, Khafra sees a world bordering on economic calamity but also understands that our world has the technological genius to create the conditions for a... Read more
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