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The Outskirts of Hope
By: Jo Ivester
Narrated by: Clare Radix
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“A sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.”―BooklistIn 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for... Read more
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The Life of a Spy
By: Rod Barton
Narrated by: Thomas Burt
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
I was no James Bond with a license to kill, but I did work with the British intelligence services and for the CIA. I had guns pointed at me, death threats issued, a price placed on my head.In 1971, Rod Barton applied for a junior scientist role in the Australian Department of Defence. Little did he know what it entailed: as the Cold War... Read more
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Clement Attlee
By: John Bew
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 22 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
To most, Winston Churchill remains Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Yet while he presided over his country's finest hour, he was not its most consequential leader. In this definitive new biography, John Bew reveals how that designation belongs to Clement Attlee, Churchill's successor, who launched a new era of political, economic, and... Read more
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A Short History of Police and Policing
By: Clive Emsley
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of "policing" that existed... Read more
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Rolling Warrior
By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong.
“If I didn’t fight, who would?”
Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and... Read more
Dissent
By: Jackie Calmes
Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
Length: 17 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring new interviews with his accusers and overlooked evidence of his deceptions, a deeply reported account of the life and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, set against the conservative movement's capture of the courts.
In DISSENT, award-winning investigative journalist Jackie Calmes brings readers closer to the truth of who Supreme Court... Read more
How to Survive America
By: D. L. Hughley & Doug Moe
Narrated by: D. L. Hughley
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
""Dispels the myth that people of color are somehow predisposed to poor health, blaming systemic injustice in the health care system."" —New York Times Book ReviewLegendary comedian D.L. Hughley uses his ""hilarious yet soul-shaking"" (Black Enterprise) humor to confront racism's unjust impact on the health and wellbeing of Blacks and... Read more
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Introduction to Politics 4th Edition
By: Peter Ferdinand, Robert Garner & Stephanie Lawson
Narrated by: Corrie James
Length: 31 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to the subject for first year undergraduate students, with the most global perspective.
Written by three experts in the field, this book takes a balanced approached to the subject, serving as... Read more
Evil Roman Emperors
By: Phillip Barlag
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did with unrestrained power, is plenty weird, salacious and horrifying.
And he is not alone.... Read more
Averting Catastrophe
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full... Read more
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The Constitution
By: Andrew Porwancher
Narrated by: Andrew Porwancher
Length: 1 hour 10 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. Amid the heat of a Philadelphia summer in 1787, the... Read more
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Napoleon
By: Ruth Scurr
Narrated by: Tanya Cubric
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world.
“How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” —Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of Napoleon”The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte... Read more
Nuclear Folly
By: Serhii Plokhy
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear... Read more
Black Garden
By: Thomas de Waal
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. This... Read more
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You Are Here
By: Ryan M. Milner & Whitney Phillips
Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.
Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney... Read more
Last Best Hope
By: George Packer
Narrated by: George Packer
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
This program is read by the author.
In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A... Read more
Dark Quadrant
By: Jonathan Marshall
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From Truman to Trump, the deep corruption of our political leaders unveiled.
Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the twentieth century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trump's assault on traditional ethical... Read more
For Discrimination
By: Randall Kennedy
Narrated by: Amani Starnes
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive reckoning with Affirmative Action, one of America’s most explosively contentious and divisive issues—from “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race and the law.”—The Washington Post
“A clear-eyed take on America’s battle over affirmative action and diversity.... [Kennedy] goes straight at the issue with... Read more
The Dawning of the Apocalypse
By: Gerald Horne
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth".
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved... Read more
Programming The Future
By: Edward Graham
Narrated by: John York
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Have you ever looked at movies depicting the future, both utopias and dystopias alike, and wondered, “Could that truly be our future?”In this book, we will be looking at how technology has progressed through the years to get a glimpse of the future. Here, you will learn how humans lived their lives in the past and how technology has influenced... Read more
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Por favor, cierra los ojos
By: Byung-Chul Han
Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Hoy día, el exceso de información, de transparencia y de rendimiento nos ha conducido a un tiempo incapaz de callar ni de concluir ningún proceso, un tiempo que ya no exhala ningún aroma. Pero el pensamiento no es posible sin silencio. Para poder pensar y concluir, hay que poder cerrar los ojos y contemplar. "Hoy es necesaria una evolución del... Read more
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The Grey Men
By: Ralph Hope
Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found... Read more
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Fractured
By: Jon Yates
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become. Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating... Read more
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Naturalmente urbano
By: Gabi Martínez
Narrated by: Gabi Martínez
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Tras perder la audición de un oído al paso de una ambulancia, Gabi Martínez se preguntó cómo afecta el entorno urbano a nuestra salud. Este audiolibro, narrado por el autor, reflexiona sobre la necesidad de transformación de las ciudades ante un modelo urbano ya caduco y nos cuenta cómo se creó la idea de la supermanzana, uno de los conceptos... Read more
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