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Rock Me on the Water
By: Ronald Brownstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would... Read more
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Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2
By: Slavoj Zizek
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Slavoj Žižek, a new... Read more
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People of Purple Hearts
By: Adam Finley
Narrated by: Lieutenant Colonel Bill Vankat, Captain David C...
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"None of my troops have been in combat. They’re all seventeen and eighteen-year-old Marines. None of us had been in combat. We landed in Vietnam. They opened the door … I had no idea what I was supposed to do."The Purple Heart is the oldest military honor that’s still given to U.S. military members, awarded to those wounded or killed in action... Read more
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The Whiteness of Wealth
By: Dorothy A. Brown
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE • “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.”—Ibram X.... Read more
American Covenant
By: Gary E. Machlis & Michael A. Soukup
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and candid account of our national parks and their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life.
Part memoir, part critique, and paean to the value of national parks, American Covenant distills the experience and insights from two long careers in conservation. Michael A. Soukup and Gary E. Machlis show how the... Read more
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
By: Ezra F. Vogel
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 33 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton," Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had... Read more
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Blood and Soil
By: Sepp de Giampietro
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored.
First published in 1984, de Giampietro's highly-personal and... Read more
Stay Woke
By: Tehama Lopez Bunyasi & Candis Watts Smith
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily struggles of black Americans to combat racial injustice. The message resonated with millions across the country. Yet many of our political, social, and economic institutions are still embedded with racist policies and practices that devalue black lives. Stay Woke... Read more
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The Water Defenders
By: Robin Broad & John Cavanagh
Narrated by: Ximena Morris
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award
Named one of The Progressive’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and one of the “Best of Books 2021” by Foreign Affairs
The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main... Read more
Not und Gebot
By: Heribert Prantl
Narrated by: Heribert Prantl
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Im Kampf gegen die Corona-Pandemie ergreifen Staaten Maßnahmen, die sonst nur in Kriegszeiten denkbar wären. Ohne Parlament werden beispiellose Einschränkungen der Freiheit beschlossen und umgesetzt. Nicht nur Menschen, auch Grundrechte sind in Quarantäne. Not kennt kein Gebot? Falsch! Not braucht das Gebot des Grundgesetzes. Heribert Prantls... Read more
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The Sphere and Duties of Government
By: Wilhelm von Humboldt
Narrated by: Derek Le Page
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) now lives under the shadow cast by his more famous brother Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859, naturalist, explorer, geographer and much else), but Wilhelm was an important figure in Prussian-German history in his own right. He contributed considerably through his work as a diplomat, educationalist (he was one of... Read more
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
By: Alexander Lee
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 22 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas?
In... Read more
Failures of State
By: Jonathan Calvert & George Arbuthnott
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien ‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday Times The inside story of the UK’s... Read more
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Identity, Ignorance, Innovation
By: Matthew d'Ancona
Narrated by: Matthew d'Ancona
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This is political journalist Matthew D'Ancona's call to arms to challenge this age of political extremism, lazy populism and democratic torpor.
This is a call to arms.
The old tools of political analysis are obsolete - they have rusted and are no longer fit for purpose. We've grown lazy, wedded to the assumption that, after ruptures such as... Read more
Тайная дипломатия Кремля. Часть 1
By: Леонид Млечин
Narrated by: Иван Забелин
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
История внешней политики Советского Союза и России воссоздана автором в портретах наркомов и министров иностранных дел. Эта книга – прежде всего биографии знаменитых на весь мир людей, чья личность оказывала решающее влияние на разработку внешнеполитической стратегии государства. Вместе с тем автор показывает: министры меняются, а некоторые... Read more
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The Model Thinker
By: Scott E. Page
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.
From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet... Read more
Nothing to Lose
By: Pastor Darrell Scott
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Pastor Darrell Scott demolishes entrenched stereotypes and political boundaries with his candid, revealing, and often surprising story: how a devout Christian and African American has become one of President Donald Trump's leading supporters and advisors.
"What makes you think black people will vote for you? Because the word on the street is,... Read more
Uprooted
By: Grace Olmstead
Narrated by: Grace Olmstead
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands."—Kirkus Reviews
In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places we’ve left behind.
In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who leave and those who stay. Those who leave go in... Read more
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
By: Kirsten Anderson & Who HQ
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring story of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, told in the new Who HQ Now format for trending topics.
On June 26, 2018, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender from New York City, became the youngest woman ever elected to serve on Congress. Her win shocked the political world and she became a celebrity... Read more
The Tyranny of Experts
By: William Easterly
Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.
In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that... Read more
The Note Through the Wire
By: Doug Gold
Narrated by: Conrad Coleby
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life, unlikely romance between a resistance fighter and prisoner of war set in World War II Europe.
In this true love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce... Read more
This Is the Fire
By: Don Lemon
Narrated by: Don Lemon
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his... Read more
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How Rights Went Wrong
By: Jamal Greene
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling... Read more
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Border and Rule
By: Harsha Walia
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border... Read more
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