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The Prison Teacher
By: Mim Skinner
Narrated by: Mim Skinner
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, JAILBIRDS is this year's book you need to read.
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"Did you know . . .
. . . that 48 per cent of the women in prison have committed an offence in order to support the drug use of someone else?
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Identidad
By: Francis Fukuyama
Narrated by: Miguel Coll
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
En algún momento a mediados de la segunda década del siglo XXI, la política mundial cambió drásticamente. Desde entonces, ha estado guiada por demandas de carácter identitario. Las ideas de nación, religión, raza, género, etnia y clase han sustituido a una noción más amplia e inclusiva de quiénes somos: simples ciudadanos. Hemos construido muros... Read more
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I Spy
By: Tom Marcus
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire & Jason Langley
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun
'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton
The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm.... Read more
Criptomoedas - Abridged
By: Ricardo Garay
Narrated by: Alice Oratio
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Este audiolivro foi criado como um guia para ajudar você a investir e minerar criptomoedas. Oferece técnicas, meios e ferramentas para a melhor e mais eficiente prática no gerenciamento de carteiras de criptomoedas de forma inteligente, simples e prática. O guia abrange desde tipos de criptomoedas, como bitcoin, passando por como comprar e... Read more
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A Life Without Limits
By: Sir Bert Massie
Narrated by: Paul Broughton
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering as a boy why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, and not the other way round. In his teens he began to campaign for rights for disabled people, and having battled his way through prejudice and the... Read more
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The Mystery of Capital
By: Hernando de Soto
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A renowned economist's classic book on capitalism in the developing world, showing how property rights are the key to overcoming poverty.
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up... Read more
This America
By: Jill Lepore
Narrated by: Jill Lepore
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.
At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes,... Read more
The Levelling
By: Michael O'Sullivan
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.
The world is at a turning point similar to the fall of communism. Then, many focused on the collapse itself, and failed to see that a bigger trend, globalization, was about to take... Read more
Oliver Wendell Holmes
By: Stephen Budiansky
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity.
Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age... Read more
Putin v. the People
By: Samuel A. Greene & Graeme B. Robertson
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile then we think
What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam... Read more
The Washington War
By: James Lacey
Narrated by: Ray Porter & James Lacey
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A Team of Rivals for World War II—the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.
The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital’s halls of power—and how... Read more
America at Night
By: Larry J. Kolb
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A former CIA spy and author of Overworld recounts the stories of master criminals Robert Sensi and Richard Hirschfeld, describing their ties to the Republican Party and al-Qaeda, their numerous multi-million-dollar investment scams, and the partnership by which they smuggled billionaire Russian mafiosos into the United States. Read more
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Fight like a Mother
By: Shannon Watts
Narrated by: Shannon Watts
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents grew into Moms Demand Action, a national movement with... Read more
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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads
By: Carles Boix
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalism.
The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by... Read more
Assad or We Burn the Country
By: Sam Dagher
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 19 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster.
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to... Read more
Every Man a Hero
By: Ray Lambert & Jim DeFelice
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFORGETTABLE NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF D-DAYSeventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs of our time, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes... Read more
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Bitcoin Mining
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Bitcoin is entirely a new idea and it seems to be here to stay. It is not like any other thing that the world had seen in a very long time. In bitcoin, you will have access to one of the most inexpensive and fastest means of money transfer across international barriers. Via bitcoin, revolution has been birthed in commerce and modern day concept... Read more
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Russian Civil War - Abridged
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Russian Civil War is regarded as one of the most important occurrences in the 20th century. There were not one but many reasons which sparked the Civil War in Russia. The event is at times clubbed together with the Great War. The number of people died in the Russian Civil War was so high that it shadowed the American Civil War. The end of... Read more
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Richest Cities in the World
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Modern times are hard and competition seems to be in the air. Even the most underdeveloped cities seem to be moving ahead rapidly to catch up with the developed ones to earn themselves a place in the prestigious top ten richest cities in the world. Technology has developed fast and is spreading like fire. Governments are spending on their... Read more
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Not-So-Great Presidents
By: Ben Thompson & Erik Slader
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From heroic George Washington to the dastardly Richard Nixon, the oval office has been occupied by larger-than-life personalities since 1789. The position comes with enormous power and responsibility, and every American president thus far has managed to achieve great things. However, the President of the United States is only human?and... Read more
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The Art of War
By: Sun Tzu
Narrated by: Arthur Grey
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years it was the lead... Read more
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Twenty-Two on Peleliu
By: George Peto
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was twenty-two-year-old George Peto.
Growing up on a farm in Ohio, George always preferred being outdoors and... Read more
The Moscow Rules
By: Antonio J. Mendez & Jonna Mendez
Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo, discover the "real-life spy thriller" of the brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives who developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold War (Malcolm Nance).
Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s,... Read more
Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths—And How We Can Stop!
By: Bill Eddy
Narrated by: Tom Dheere
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have gained power in governments worldwide—and what citizens can do to keep these people out of office.
Democracy is under siege. The reason isn't politics but personalities: too many countries have come under the sway of... Read more