Politics & Economy audiobooks

Millionaire

By: Janet Gleeson

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to issue paper money with the credit based on the value of land. But Queen Anne was not about to take... Read more

Once a Bitcoin Miner

By: Ethan Lou

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes listeners on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild... Read more

A More Perfect Union

By: Adam Russell Taylor

Narrated by: Terrence Kidd

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community, which animated and galvanized the civil... Read more

The Centrist Solution

By: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this era of extremism, our largest problems remain unsolved and our international leadership is compromised. Having two fiercely opposed political parties is what John Adams, the second President of the United States, dreaded "as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." If American government is to work, it must do so in the... Read more

In Trump's Shadow

By: David M. Drucker

Narrated by: David M. Drucker

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump’s four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however,... Read more

Too Famous

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

If you can judge an audiobook by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic.

Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their... Read more

We're Speaking

By: Hitha Palepu

Narrated by: Hitha Palepu

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspirational lessons about life, work, and overcoming adversity—drawn from Kamala Harris's norm-shattering ascent to Vice President of the United States.
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Kamala Harris is one of our country's most awe-inspiring political figures, dawning on a new age as the first—but not last—Black and Asian-American female Vice President. Having spent her... Read more

Deutschland 2050 - Wie der Klimawandel unser Leben verändern wird (Ungekürzt)

By: Toralf Staud & Nick Reimer

Narrated by: Christian Erdmann

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Aprikosen aus Hamburg, öffentliche Kühlräume für Berlin. Steppenlandschaft in Brandenburg, Tigermückenplagen im Rheinland. Starkregen und Sturzfluten, Waldsterben, ausgetrocknete Seen. Der Klimawandel wird Deutschland schon bis 2050 tiefgreifend verändern. Was genau uns erwartet, beschreibt dieses Buch auf der Basis neuester... Read more

Gevangenisdagboek II - Vagevuur

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Huub Dikstaal

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dag 22, donderdag 9 augustus 2001, 10.21 uur Een schitterende dag; een dag om naar cricket te kijken, Pimm's te drinken, zandkastelen te bouwen, het gras te maaien. Geen dag om 180 kilometer te reizen in een zweetkist. Ik heb 21 dagen en veertien uur in Belmarsh gezeten en nu word ik op transport gezet naar harer majesteits gevangenis Wayland,... Read more

Mighty

By: Shirin Taherzadeh

Narrated by: Shirin Taherzadeh

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Told through the eyes of a traveller, a doctor, an aristocrat, a writer, a young boy, a wealthy woman, and a little girl, ‘Mighty’ consists of seven stories about ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. His extraordinary life of love, justice, compassion and humility will inspire children to be of service to the world. Read more

On Property

By: Rinaldo Walcott

Narrated by: David Andrew Reid

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From plantation rebellion to prison labour’s super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish... Read more

Sam le Pompier - Un concert enflammé

By: Mattel

Narrated by: Jake Meniani

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Il y a de l'ambiance dans le garage de Max et Elvis ! Le plus célèbre duo de rock and roll de Pontypandy répète pour le grand concert de ce soir. Quand soudain une dispute éclate entre les deux musiciens. Ils refusent désormais de jouer ensemble...Pour assurer le spectacle, Max décide de créer une machine pour jouer de la guitare à la place... Read more

Kreisläufe des Klimawandels

By: The Dalai Lama & Greta Thunberg

Narrated by: Eve Lamell & Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Klima-Feedback-Loops sind sich selbst verstärkende Kreisläufe. Drehen sie sich zu lange, können wir sie selbst dann nicht mehr stoppen, wenn wir jede CO2-Emission einstellen. Dann machen sie diesen Planeten ganz von selbst unbewohnbar. Und einige dieser Loops drehen sich bereits… Greta Thunberg und der Dalai Lama zeigen in diesem auf einem... Read more

Breaking Cadence

By: Rosa del Duca

Narrated by: Rosa del Duca

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when her college peers are debating what to major in, going to parties, and working jobs they can quit without threat of prosecution, Rosa is a secret traitor. She is a conscientious objector stuck in a National Guard uniform during the War on Terror. When the call comes to ship out, she faces the biggest quandary of her life: stay in... Read more

Links blinken, rechts abbiegen

By: Eva Schweitzer

Narrated by: Sabrina Gander

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Antideutschen sind eine kleine, aber schrille Politsekte, die so weit links ist, dass sie schon wieder rechts angelangt ist. Einige waren mal Funktionäre von K-Gruppen, andere kommen vom Schwarzen Block oder sind bloß Anti-Ostdeutsche, die Kleinbürger verachten. Sie haben viele Sympathisanten in den Medien. Das verleiht ihnen mehr Einfluss,... Read more

Whatever Happened to Tradition?

By: Tim Stanley

Narrated by: Tim Stanley

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Whatever Happened to Tradition? written and read by Tim Stanley.

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us.

The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of... Read more

Stars and Spies

By: Christopher Andrew & Julius Green

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.

Throughout history, there has been a consistent crossover between show business and espionage, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and... Read more

On The Ground

By: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley

Narrated by: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Audrey Gillan revisits her time on the ground with the British Army in Iraq, and the infamous friendly fire incident that killed Matty Hull

'A remarkable listen: detailed, unflinching and revealing about the ripple effects of a wholly avoidable tragedy'Financial Times

Award-winning journalist Audrey Gillan was embedded with British troops during... Read more

Known and Strange Things

By: Teju Cole

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus

Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and... Read more

Seed Money

By: Bartow J. Elmore

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.

Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago,... Read more

Abundance

By: Pablo J. Boczkowski

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive... Read more

In the Camps

By: Darren Byler

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history

Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps... Read more

Not So Black and White

By: Reggie Dabbs & John Driver

Narrated by: Reggie Dabbs & John Driver

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on Good Morning America! Read by the authors.Reggie Dabbs and John Driver--a Black man and a white man, and longtime friends--engage in a courageous, respectfully honest, challenging exploration of racism in America, including how Black and white Christians can come together to fight the evils of racism within our hearts and our systems,... Read more

The War on the Uyghurs

By: Sean R. Roberts

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The first account of one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. This book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China’s actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress... Read more