Gustave le Bon: Psychologie der Massen
By: Gustave le Bon
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Was passiert mit dem Individuum, wenn es sich in einer Gruppe wiederfindet? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass intelligente Menschen sich in der Masse zu Dingen hinreißen lassen, die sie als Einzelne niemals tun würden? Gustave le Bon beschrieb 1895 in seinem Standardwerk diese Mechanismen. Es ist erstaunlich und spricht für den Autor, dass die... Read more
View audiobookWelche Grenzen brauchen wir? - Zwischen Empathie und Angst - Flucht, Migration und die Zukunft von Asyl (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Gerald Knaus
Narrated by: Johannes Steck
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Kein anderes Thema hat die europäische Politik in den letzten Jahren so beeinflusst wie die Debatte um Geflüchtete, Asyl und Migration. Dabei wird die Diskussion dominiert von Schlagworten, falschen Tatsachenbehauptungen und Scheinlösungen. Gerald Knaus erklärt in seinem Buch, worum es tatsächlich geht, und zeigt, dass humane Grenzen möglich... Read more
View audiobookEveryone Versus Racism
By: Patrick Hutchinson
Narrated by: Patrick Hutchinson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun ‘I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and... Read more
View audiobookState and Revolution
By: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Narrated by: Peter Coates
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Lenin's original work on class-based revolution.In 1917, in the midst of two revolutions, Vladimir Ilich Lenin fled Russia for fear of persecution by the government. While in exile, he began work on one of his most important works, State and Revolution, an attempt to resurrect the purity of Marx's and Engels's socialist teachings, which Lenin... Read more
View audiobookCautiva en Arabia
By: Cristina Morató
Narrated by: Elisa Beuter
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
La extraordinaria historia de la condesa Marga d'Andurain, espía y aventurera en Oriente Medio, una mujer osada que llevó una vida digna de la mejor novela de aventuras. La condesa Marga d'Andurain protagonizó una vida propia de la mejor novela de aventuras. Nacida en el seno de una familia de la burguesía vascofrancesa, fue una mujer adelantada... Read more
View audiobookSoldier
By: Jay Morton
Narrated by: Jay Morton
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best. Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, strategy and excellence. Drawing on his extraordinary personal experience, it... Read more
View audiobookMeghan Misunderstood
By: Sean Smith
Narrated by: Jessica Hayles
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan Markle was eleven when she first advocated for women’s rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress when she... Read more
View audiobookThe Prime Ministers
By: Iain Dale
Narrated by: Iain Dale
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
55 profiles by 55 different writers, politicians, journalists and academics of every prime minister there's ever been, from Robert Walpole to Boris Johnson, compiled by Iain Dale.
It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 - an office which today is under scrutiny... Read more
In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
By: John Gribbin
Narrated by: Nicholas Masters-Waage
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In Search of... Read more
View audiobookJoukkomurhia ja terrorismia
By: Maailman historia
Narrated by: Jalmari Laine
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Taivas on sininen ja ilma kirkas, kun kaksi lentokonetta syöksyy World Trade Centerin kaksoistorneihin New Yorkissa. Miljoonat ihmiset katselevat avuttomana, kuinka kummassakin kuolemanloukussa alkaa 102 minuuttia kestävä selviytymistaistelu."Joukkomurhia ja terrorismia" kertoo historian kauhistuttavimmista tapahtumista. Se kuvaa hyökkäystä... Read more
View audiobookThe Invention of China
By: Bill Hayton
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative account showing that "China"—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day.
China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently... Read more
Meddling in the Ballot Box
By: Dov H. Levin
Narrated by: Lewis Arlt
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states through various covert and overt methods, with the American intervention in the 2013 Kenyan elections and the Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections being just two recent examples. Indeed, the Americans and the Soviets/Russians intervened in one... Read more
View audiobookWe Still Here
By: Marc Lamont Hill
Narrated by: Marc Lamont Hill & Jacques Morel
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.
“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable.”
The uprising of 2020... Read more
Once a Warrior
By: Jake Wood
Narrated by: Jake Wood
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"The book that America needs right now."
--Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest Generation
"Jake Wood offers one of the most soaring definitions of service I've ever seen."
--Maria Shriver, award-winning journalist and author of I've Been Thinking
From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life... Read more
Hammer and Hoe
By: Robin DG Kelley
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.
The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people... Read more
Hands Up, Don't Shoot
By: Jennifer E. Cobbina
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism
Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police... Read more
Abuse of Power
By: Fred V. Lucas
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Trump's enemies set out to remove him from office even before his inauguration—which culminated in an election-year impeachment trial.
Abuse of Power exposes: how Elizabeth Warren tried to set an impeachment trap for Trump even before the inauguration; why the depths of the Biden family's international conflict of interests are worthy of a... Read more
First Principles
By: Thomas E. Ricks
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review""Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country."" —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more
Der Wirtschafts-Virus
By: Markus Gürne & Bettina Seidl
Narrated by: Hans Henrik Wöhler
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Nicht nur Menschen haben sich mit Covid19 angesteckt, auch die Wirtschaft ist infiziert. Das Virus trifft durch Handelskriege und Zölle geschwächte Unternehmen, und Deutschland als Exportweltmeister bekommt das doppelt zu spüren. Jeder Einzelne von uns ist betroffen. Die Frage, wie es weitergeht, ist Gesprächsthema Nummer eins: Ist unsere Firma... Read more
View audiobookThrough My Eyes: Ruby Bridges
By: Ruby Bridges
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words. Read more
View audiobookThe Nazi Spy Ring in America
By: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Nazi Spy Ring in America tells the story of Hitler's attempts to interfere in American affairs by spreading anti-Semitic propaganda, stealing military technology, and mapping US defenses.
This fast-paced history provides essential insight into the role of espionage in shaping American perceptions of Germany in the years leading up to US... Read more
We Gather Together
By: Denise Kiernan
Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes a new way to look at American history through the story of giving thanks.
From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us a biography of an idea: gratitude, as a compelling human instinct and a global... Read more
Counting
By: Deborah Stone
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
What do people do when they count? What do numbers really mean? We all know that people can lie with statistics, but in this groundbreaking work, eminent political scientist Deborah Stone uncovers a much deeper problem. With help from Dr. Seuss and Cookie Monster, she explains why numbers can't be objective: in order to count, one must first... Read more
View audiobookMetropolis
By: Ben Wilson
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.
“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal
During the two... Read more