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Headhunter
By: Peter C. Svoboda
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar.... Read more
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Radicalizing Her
By: Nimmi Gowrinathan
Narrated by: Pratima Mani
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and power, demanding that we see all women as political actors.
“Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.”
Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up nearly 30% of militant movements... Read more
Bird Uncaged
By: Marlon Peterson
Narrated by: Marlon Peterson
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and... Read more
What the Founding Fathers were Really Like (and What We can Learn from Them Today)
By: Carol Berkin
Narrated by: Carol Berkin
Length: 39 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. Most of us know that America's Founding Fathers... Read more
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Jackpot
By: Michael Mechanic
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.
Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace,... Read more
The Long Road Home
By: Adrian Vincent
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The honest account of one prisoner-of-war's struggle to survive through five years of Nazi imprisonment. An essential book for listeners of Horace Greasley, Alistair Urquhart, and Heather Morris.
On a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion. His war didn't last long. Within five days the Siege of Calais was... Read more
Lincolnomics
By: John F. Wasik
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy—but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War: visions of a country linked by railroads running ocean to ocean, canals turning small towns into... Read more
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Walk a War in My Shoes
By: Murray Ernest Hall
Narrated by: Geoffrey Boyes
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
On the 25th August 1895, Ernest Alfred Hall was born into a pioneering Australian family that lived on a 313-acre property called 'Cloverdale' near the hamlet of Beech Forest, south of the Otway Ranges, some 200 kilometres south west of Melbourne, Victoria. As a child, it seemed he would be destined for the life of a farmer in a country that was... Read more
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Digital Humanitarians
By: Patrick Meier
Narrated by: Trevor White
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information—social media, satellite imagery and more—is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional... Read more
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Sex, Lies and Question Time
By: Kate Ellis
Narrated by: Jo Van Es
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In Sex, Lies and Question Time, former MP Kate Ellis looks at what it is really like to be a woman in Australian politics today.
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's... Read more
Symposium ( Unabridged )
By: Plato
Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of... Read more
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The Enchiridion ( Unabridged )
By: Epictetus
Narrated by: Barrie Buckner
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The Enchiridion (also translated as “Handbook” or “Manual”) of Epictetus is a short collection of Stoic precepts compiled by Arrian, a student of Epictetus. Epictetus (c. 50 – 135 AD) was a Greek philosopher and a champion of Stoicism, a philosophy dedicated to tranquility of the mind and soul via practical, actionable advice. Popular in the... Read more
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La Révolution racialiste, et autres virus idéologiques
By: Mathieu Bock-Côté
Narrated by: Mathieu Bock-Côté
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
L'essayiste québécois analyse ce qu'il appelle la vision diversitaire du monde, une forme de terrorisme intellectuel qui, dans les pays occidentaux, inverserait le devoir d'intégration en faisant droit aux revendications issues de minorités ethniques. Il pointe une poussée racialiste, dont la radicalité serait propice à un nouveau totalitarisme... Read more
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Why The New Deal Matters
By: Eric Rauchway
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The greatest peaceable expression of common purpose in US history, the New Deal altered Americans' relationship with politics, economics, and one another in ways that continue to resonate today. No matter where you look in America, there is likely a building or bridge built through New Deal initiatives. If you have taken out a small business... Read more
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El dominio mental
By: Pedro Baños
Narrated by: Miguel Coll
Length: 19 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Tras los exitosos Así se domina el mundo (traducido a 11 idiomas) y El dominio mundial, Pedro Baños dirige su atención en este nuevo libro a las técnicas que el poder utiliza para controlar nuestras emociones, porque quien consigue controlar nuestra mente controla el poder. Con su reconocida amenidad y lucidez, Pedro Baños aborda en El dominio... Read more
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Dreams and Visions
By: Tom Doyle
Narrated by: Tom Doyle
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you do if Jesus appeared to you in a dream and told you to follow Him? What if these visions continued for over thirty days? And what if you were Muslim?Pastor Tom Doyle has spent eleven years as a full-time missionary in the Middle East and Central Asia, spreading the word of Jesus Christ. Throughout his journey he has encountered a... Read more
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Weak Strongman
By: Timothy Frye
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Why we need to look beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works
Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies—and recognizing this illuminates the... Read more
Puffin Lives: Mahatma Gandhi
By: Subhadra Sen Gupta
Narrated by: Rohini Vij
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
'On his passport he was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The poet Rabindranath Tagore gave him the title Mahatma - the great soul- but he was rather uncomfortable with that. Nelson Mandela calls him a sacred warrior , others describe him as the the saint of the spinning wheel and we now declare him as our Father of the Nation . A courageous freedom... Read more
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Didi: The Untold Mamata Banerjee
By: Shutapa Paul
Narrated by: Nilam Batabyal
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Mamata Banerjee, with her unique style of politics, was able to defeat the formidable three-decade-old Left Front Government in 2011. Exploring her struggles and achievements, Didi opens a window to the life and times of one of the most dynamic politicians of our country.
'The general elections of 2019 can see [Mamata Banerjee] play kingmaker . .... Read more
Signs of Hope
By: Amy Wolff
Narrated by: Amy Wolff
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Changing the world--or at least your corner of it--is easier than you think.Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author!With so much suffering in our communities and in the world, it can feel impossible to make an impact. "What good can I possibly do?" we ask. Amy Wolff, a busy mom and small business owner, often felt this... Read more
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My Own Blood
By: Ashley Bristowe
Narrated by: Ashley Bristowe
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing all you've got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother's voice like no other we've heard.
When their second child, Alexander, is... Read more
Beautiful Things
By: Hunter Biden
Narrated by: Hunter Biden
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and “unflinchingly honest” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother... Read more
Psychedelic Refugee
By: Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Narrated by: Kristy Gill
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir by one of the original female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s
• Shares Rosemary’s early experimentation with psychedelics in the 1950s, her development through the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, and her involvement, at first exciting but then heartbreaking, with Dr. Timothy Leary
• Describes her LSD trips with Leary, their time... Read more
Moving To Higher Ground
By: John Englander
Narrated by: John Englander
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and…Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans - and... Read more
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