"Ich komme gleich nach Goethe." Ein Abend über Brecht - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)
By: Bertholt Brecht
Narrated by: Heinrich Breloer, Burghart Klaußner & Bettina B...
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Heinrich Breloer hat mit seinen Filmen und Büchern schon viele Figuren der deutschen Geschichte zu neuem Leben erweckt. Nun also Bertolt Brecht. Der Zweiteiler wird das TV-Ereignis des Frühlings. Mit dem kongenialen Burghart Klaußner als Brecht. Über Jahrzehnte hat Breloer mit Brechts Weggefährten, mit Geliebten, Familienmitgliedern und... Read more
View audiobookTechnical Analysis for Forex Explained
By: Wayne Walker
Narrated by: Russell Newton
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Technical Analysis for Forex Explained, will ensure that you are equipped to begin using technical analysis for forex trading and execute the strategies that go along with it. Technical analysis does not operate in a vacuum, there are several other factors at play and the book addresses them.The book includes:- The Technical Analysis Quick Trade... Read more
View audiobookWas würdest du tun? - Wie uns das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen verändert - Antworten aus der Praxis (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Michael Bohmeyer & Claudia Cornelsen
Narrated by: Ingo Abel
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
2014 begann Michael Bohmeyer ein bis dahin undenkbares Gesellschaftsexperiment: Per Crowdfunding sammelte er 12.000 Euro, die er gleich wieder verloste - ein Jahr lang 1.000 Euro im Monat, bedingungslos. Der Verein "Mein Grundeinkommen" entstand. Inzwischen haben über 250 Menschen das Grundeinkommen gewonnen und das Thema ist zur... Read more
View audiobookLa imaginación conservadora
By: Gregorio Luri
Narrated by: Miguel Coll
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
La fidelidad a la transmisión de una tradición no tiene que estar reñida con el fomento de la innovación y el cambio. Sobre esta afirmación descansa La imaginación conservadora, una defensa, y al mismo tiempo un tributo, al conservadurismo, entendido como una forma de vivir y de hacer política reivindicando el legado de nuestras costumbres,... Read more
View audiobookHow To Be A Woman
By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Caitlin Moran & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A dramatisation of Caitlin Moran's bestseller, the book that brought feminism into the mainstream again.
Adapted and narrated by Caitlin Moran, this brand new radio adaptation intersperses dramatised scenes from Moran's life (from her teenage years in a crowded council house in Wolverhampton, to setting out as a music journalist, to getting... Read more
Konservativ 21.0
By: Andreas Rödder
Narrated by: Christopher Mayer
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Volksparteien sind in der Defensive. In den Jahren der großen Koalitionen hat sich der politische Meinungsstreit an die Ränder des politischen Spektrums verlagert. Sie werden immer stärker, während die politische Mitte weithin sprachlos bleibt. Die SPD befindet sich im freien Fall, doch auch die CDU verliert immer weiter an Wählerzuspruch –... Read more
View audiobookWhy Superman Doesn't Take Over The World
By: J. Brian O'Roark
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world?
Economics and comic books seem to be a world apart. But in the hands of economics professor and comic hero aficionado J. Brian O'Roark, the two form a powerful alliance. With brilliant deadpan enthusiasm he... Read more
First
By: Evan Thomas
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 16 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives—as seen on PBS’s American Experience
“She’s a hero for our time, and this is the biography for our time.”—Walter... Read more
Kushner, Inc.
By: Vicky Ward
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Vicky Ward
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump’s White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the... Read more
Fateful Decisions
By: Loch K. Johnson & Karl F. Inderfurth
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 25 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The National Security Council (NSC) is the most important formal institution in the U.S. government for the creation and implementation of foreign and defense policy. The Council's four principal members—the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense—are responsible for incredibly far-reaching decisions regarding war... Read more
View audiobookThin Blue Lie
By: Matt Stroud
Narrated by: Matt Stroud
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies peddled to cops have actually made policing worse—lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatory.American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and across the... Read more
View audiobookThe Fortunes of Africa
By: Martin Meredith
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 26 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew... Read more
The Shortest History of Germany
By: James Hawes
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE RIVETING AFTERNOON
A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of... Read more
Run to the Sound of the Guns
By: Mir Bahmanyar & Nicholas Moore
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Sweeping from frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets, and everything in between, this is the gripping and deeply personal account of an elite Ranger who nearly lost his life "leading the way" in America's secretive global wars.
As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore... Read more
The Ignorance of Bliss
By: Sandy Hanna
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with her American military family to Saigon, Vietnam, where her father, the Colonel, serves as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army.
In 1960s Saigon, Sandy finds a world of crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty; a world of streets, villas, and brothels,... Read more
Doing Justice
By: Preet Bharara
Narrated by: Preet Bharara
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
*A New York Times Bestseller*
An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast.
Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to... Read more
Arab Humanist
By: Nohad A Nassif
Narrated by: Laura Hanna & Greg Lockett
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
ARAB humanist is a story of an Arab woman, LouLou, who rebelled against her family while living in America. LouLou wanted to claim her own independence and womanhood but was crippled by her naivety, poverty, lack of a good social safety net, and other misfortunes. The intention of this story is not to demonize the Arab or the American culture.... Read more
View audiobookHeroic Failure
By: Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit.
In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of... Read more
American Cipher
By: Matt Farwell & Michael Ames
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan
”An unsettling and riveting book filled with the mysteries of human nature.” —Kirkus
Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in... Read more
The Back Channel
By: William J. Burns
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & William J. Burns
Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“A masterful diplomatic memoir” (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leaders—an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world.
Over the course of more than... Read more
Why I Run
By: Kate Childs Graham
Narrated by: Karen Peakes, Timothy Andrés Pabon, JD Jackson,...
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Just weeks before President Trump was inaugurated, President Obama said this: “If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run for office yourself.” Since then, thousands have taken that rallying cry to heart.Why I Run: 35 Progressive Candidates Who Are Changing Politics is a collection of... Read more
View audiobookOutsiders
By: Zachary Kramer
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Contemporary discrimination has changed in important ways from the forms it took in the 1960s, the era in which our civil rights law system originated. Previously, the primary targets of discrimination were groups: African Americans, women, and Latinos, among others. The goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to integrate marginalized groups... Read more
View audiobookHow We Win
By: Farah Pandith
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a war being fought, and we are losing it.Despite the billions of dollars spent since 9/11 trying to defeat terrorist organizations, the so-called Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and other groups remain a terrifying geopolitical threat. In some ways the threat has grown worse: The 9/11 hijackers came from far away; the danger today can come... Read more
View audiobookDeath in the Haymarket
By: James Green
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover.
Historian James... Read more