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Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
By: Josh Mauldin
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminiscent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe.
Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each... Read more
What We Owe Each Other
By: Minouche Shafik
Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive
Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting... Read more
Frag immer erst: warum
By: Simon Sinek
Narrated by: Björn Brost
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Am Beginn einer jeden Erfolgsgeschichte steht eine einfache Frage: Warum? Warum sind manche Organisationen profitabler als andere? Warum werden einige Führungskräfte von ihren Mitarbeitern mehr geschätzt und andere weniger? Warum sind manche Menschen in der Lage, immer und immer wieder erfolgreich zu sein? In seinem Bestseller, der nun zum... Read more
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Wir denken neu – Damit sich Deutschland nicht weiter spaltet - Abridged
By: Verena Bentele, Philipp Stielow & Dr. Ines Vers...
Narrated by: Dagmar Bittner
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deutschland am Wendepunkt: Wie lässt sich die zunehmende Spaltung der Gesellschaft verhindern? Wir befinden uns in einer historisch einmaligen Situation. Die Corona-Pandemie verändert unser Land grundlegend – und sie zeigt uns in aller Schärfe, was gut und was schlecht ist. Viele Menschen befürchten, dass sich die Ungleichheit in Deutschland... Read more
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Getestete Forex-Strategien
By: Wayne Walker
Narrated by: Christian Wölfig
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Lerne die Techniken, die professionelle und erfolgreiche Trader verwenden. Diese Konzepte sind von Kunden aus seinen Kursen getestet und anerkannt.Bonus Inhalt: Forex News Trading-Strategien, Delta-Konzepte und andere Insider-Taktiken. Read more
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Don't Be a Soyboy!
By: Liam Schwartz
Narrated by: Jason Belvill
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
What's the Biggest Threat to American Society? It's an Infection like none other: Soyboys. A Generation of Limp Wristed Beta Males has corrupted our American Society, lowered the Birthrate for Western Civilizations and is causing mass migration. No Woman Wants a Boy, much Less a SoyBoy. In this Book, you'll understand why Soy is lowering male... Read more
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Empire of Silver
By: Jin Xu
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty... Read more
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Indigenomics
By: Carol Anne Hilton
Narrated by: Denise Halfyard
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Igniting the $100 billion Indigenous economyIt is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around... Read more
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Stop Saving the Planet!
By: Jenny Price
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"Pithy, funny, exasperated, and informed . . . You cannot read a more important hundred pages than Stop Saving the Planet!" —Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands
We've been "saving the planet" for decades! . . . And environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to... Read more
Warum Deutschland es besser macht - Ein bewundernder Blick von außen (Ungekürzt)
By: John Kampfner
Narrated by: Till Hagen
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
John Kampfner ist Brite und zeigt, wie sehr sich das Deutschland-Bild im Ausland in den letzten Jahren verändert hat. Die deutsche Krisenpolitik hält er für Weltklasse: Corona-Bekämpfung, Finanzkrise, Flüchtlingskrise - kein Land navigiere so erfolgreich und souverän durch schwierige Zeiten wie Deutschland. Während anderswo autoritäre Politiker... Read more
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Rettet die Demokratie!
By: Dirk Neubauer
Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Weckruf aus dem Osten: Wie unsere Demokratie noch zu retten ist Dies ist die Streitschrift zum Wahljahr: Dirk Neubauer, der Bürgermeister der sächsischen Stadt Augustusburg, will unser politisches System umbauen. Denn: Die Demokratie erreicht die Menschen nicht mehr. Das will Neubauer ändern. Sein Weg aus der Krise: das System vom Kopf auf die... Read more
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Above the Rim
By: Jen Bryant
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball’s all-time-greatest players—an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One... Read more
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Stalin's War
By: Sean McMeekin
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 24 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead... Read more
Madam Speaker
By: Susan Page
Narrated by: Susan Page
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.
Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her best—and a series of in-depth, news-making... Read more
Planet on Fire
By: Matthew Lawrence & Laurie Laybourn-Langton
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A radical manifesto for how to deal with climate breakdown
The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Everyone knows that this is happening, and yet the only politics that is emerging to tackle it are coming from the increasingly nativist far-right. How should the left respond?
In Planet on Fire, two... Read more
I Am a Girl from Africa
By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.
When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to... Read more
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
By: Colin Jerolmack
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy
Shale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid... Read more
Heart of Fire
By: Mazie K. Hirono
Narrated by: Mazie K. Hirono
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“Heart of Fire is a revelatory, evocative, deeply moving book.” —Washington Post
“Amazing . . . a memoir I really loved.” —Secretary Hillary Clinton, “You and Me Both” podcast
“A beautiful book.” —Trevor Noah, The Daily Show
The intimate and inspiring life story of Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the... Read more
Central America's Forgotten History
By: Aviva Chomsky
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.
At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in... Read more
For the People
By: Larry Krasner
Narrated by: Nathan Krasner
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney offers an inspiring vision of how people can take back power to reform criminal justice, based on lessons from a life’s work as an advocate for the accused.
“Larry Krasner is at the forefront of a movement to disrupt a system. This is a story that needs to be read by millions.”—Bryan Stevenson, author... Read more
The Social Licence for Financial Markets
By: David Rouch
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is about what Mark Carney has called 'the social licence for financial markets' and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality... Read more
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Ages of American Capitalism
By: Jonathan Levy
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 31 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.
“The best one-volume history of American capitalism . . . It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding its economic history. This... Read more
The Free World
By: Louis Menand
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 34 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile Magazine
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural... Read more
Overheated
By: Kate Aronoff
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.
It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the... Read more