Politics & Economy audiobooks

너무 과한데 만족을 모르는 : 트럼프에 관한 가장 치명적이고 은밀한 정신분석 보고서

By: 메리 트럼프

Narrated by: 최하나

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"어떻게 우리 가문은 세상에서 가장 위험한 인물을 길러냈는가?" 트럼프의 유일한 여조카가 55년간 남몰래 기록해온 삼촌의 비밀 "도널드를, 그리고 우리 가족 모두를 이곳으로 이끈 것이 무엇인지 이해하려면 먼저 내 할아버지 프레드와 그의 '인정 욕구'를 살펴보는 작업부터 시작해야 한다. 할아버지는 이 인정 욕구를 통해 도널드의 무모한 과장법과 노력 없이 얻은 자신감을 부추겼다. 도널드는 자신의 병적인 나약함과 불안정함을 그 뒤로 철저히 숨겼다." 이 책의 서두에서 메리 트럼프는 이렇게 밝히고 있다. '천재'와 '괴짜' 사이에서 아슬아슬하게 줄타기를 하고 있는 제45대 미국 대통령 도널드 트럼프의 '진짜... Read more

Move

By: Parag Khanna

Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*

A “provocative” (Booklist) and compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change.

In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has... Read more

The Wires of War

By: Jacob Helberg

Narrated by: Jesse Einstein

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy.

From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal... 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

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

Churchill's Shadow

By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 23 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British... Read more

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

By: Slavenka Drakulic

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks... Read more

To Rescue the Republic

By: Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney

Narrated by: Bret Baier

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant ""To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book."" —Douglas BrinkleyAn epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil... Read more

Desperate

By: Kris Maher

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Appalachian coal country, this “superb” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community.

For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn’t look, smell, or taste right. Could the water be... Read more

American Made

By: Farah Stockman

Narrated by: Farah Stockman

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Americans lose their jobs?  In American Made, an illuminating story of ruin and reinvention, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Farah Stockman gives an up-close look at the profound role work plays in our sense of identity and belonging, as she follows three workers whose lives unravel when the factory they have dedicated so... 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

Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds

By: Mondiant Dogon

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus • A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection • Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing

A stunning and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate... Read more

Midnight in Washington

By: Adam Schiff

Narrated by: Adam Schiff

Length: 18 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those forces remain as potent as ever—from the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump

“Engaging and informative . . . a manual for... 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

Mutual Aid

By: Dean Spade

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or... Read more

Defiant

By: Wade Hudson

Narrated by: Wade Hudson

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man growing up in the South during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. For fans of It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime, Stamped, and Brown Girl Dreaming.

"With his compelling... Read more

Plastic Soup Surfer

By: Merijn Tinga

Narrated by: Merjin Tinga

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Plastic Soup Surfer is het bijzondere verhaal van bioloog en kunstenaar Merijn Tinga, die in actie komt om aandacht te vragen voor het wereldwijde plasticprobleem. Zo surft hij langs de Nederlandse Noordzeekust op een kitesurfboard en peddelt hij de Rijn af op een supboard, beide gemaakt van plastic zwerfafval. Zijn opmerkelijke reis, begonnen... Read more

E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson & Matt Eversmann

Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Betsy Foldes Meiman...

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.  The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.

“The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.”
–Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical... Read more

Forcing Justice

By: Henry David Thoreau & Mohandas K. Gandhi

Narrated by: Aidan Anderson, Dan Woods & Albert A. Anderson

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Can justice be forced on individuals and communities? The essays in this collection by Henry David Thoreau urge us to consider the difficult matter of how to counter the specific injustice manifested in the practice of buying and selling human beings and how to implement laws and practices that help establish justice. Of the many philosophical... Read more

Sam le Pompier - Un super match de football

By: Mattel

Narrated by: Jake Meniani

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Aujourd'hui, tous les habitants de Pontypandy se sont réunis pour le match de football de l'année : les pompiers contre les conducteurs de bus. La tension est à son comble ! Les joueurs se donnent à fond et la foule est en délire, quand soudain la pelouse du terrain prend mystérieusement feu... Heureusement, Sam et Elvis sont déjà sur place et... Read more

El poder corrompe

By: Gabriel Zaid

Narrated by: Noé Velázquez

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

La corrupción no fue una característica lamentable del llamado Sistema Político Mexicano: fue el Sistema Político Mexicano. La corrupción de los poderes públicos es una tradición universal y milenaria. En México, tuvo un papel histórico: apaciguar a los caudillos insurgentes del siglo XIX y revolucionarios del XX, entronizando al presidente como... Read more

Sam le Pompier - Canoë à la Dérive !

By: Mattel

Narrated by: Jake Meniani

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Aujourd'hui, c'est la grande course en canoë à Pontypandy. Ben et Anna rament à toute allure pour remporter la victoire. La compétition est rude ! Mais soudain, les deux sportifs sont emportés jusqu'au large par le courant : impossible de rejoindre le port à la force des bras. Il faut appeler Sam au plus vite !Accompagnez Sam le Pompier lors de... Read more

The Habit of Excellence

By: Lt Col Langley Sharp

Narrated by: Lt Col Langley Sharp

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The official British Army book on what makes its leadership so successful, and how to become a better leader yourself - whatever your field.

The British Army stands or falls on the quality of its leadership. The stakes couldn't be higher. In The Habit of Excellence, Lieutenant Colonel Langley Sharp MBE - head of the... Read more

Sam le Pompier - Un sauvetage magique

By: Mattel

Narrated by: Jake Meniani

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Aujourd'hui, Nicolas a décidé de faire un film de magie ! Marie se charge de la caméra, tandis que Nicolas s'occupe des effets spéciaux de jouer le rôle d'un sorcier aux pouvoirs extraordinaires. Mais les idées du jeune garçon tournent rapidement à la catastrophe... Vite ! Sam va avoir besoin de l'aide de tous les pompiers de Pontypandy pour... Read more