Politics & Economy audiobooks

100个报价由圣雄甘地在中国国语

By: 甘地

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

圣雄甘地是一个世界著名的和平主义者人物谁管理，采用非暴力的公民不服从领导反对英国统治印度独立运动。他的道德和坚定的立场，激发了公民的权利和自由运动的所有在世界各地，前不久他在1948年遇刺后，这些100个报价都经过精挑细选，为您介绍他的性格和他的思维方式，以及你激发到一个活整体而言，道德并从事生命。 Read more

The Crowd

By: Gustave Le Bon

Narrated by: John Klickman

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, social theorist Gustave Le Bon gives historical insight into the political thinking of his era while offering timeless social commentary. Le Bon challenges the listener to contemplate how individual ideas change—often to a destructive end—when employed in a setting of groupthink. As technology and... Read more

Negroes with Guns

By: Robert F. Williams

Narrated by: John Riddle

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Contains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense against the racist violence of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his movement, first established in Monroe, NC. As prologue, the issues... Read more

100个报价由本杰明·富兰克林在中国国语

By: 本傑明·富蘭克林

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

一位开国元勋，本杰明·富兰克林也是谁的种类多得惊人域的管理，以Excel的一个天才。他是一个科学家，发明家，幽默作家，和领先的政治人物;人们可以说，他的好奇心和知识跨度让他一个完整的人。这100个报价都经过精挑细选，为您介绍了他对生活的看法，时而幽默，始终是明智的;他们会为您提供可靠的建议和尖锐的妙语，以方便和有效的格式。 Read more

100个报价由亚伯拉罕·林肯在中国国语

By: 亞伯拉罕·林肯

Narrated by: 露西·滕·杜維特

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

亚伯拉罕·林肯一直被评为最伟大的美国总统之一。他是一个天才的政治，管理维护的联盟，同时通过其最血腥的战争导致美国经济现代化，也许最大的危机，将不得不面对。在他的许多功勋，林肯被广泛用于已经铺平了废除奴隶制的路上，他在1865年被暗杀之前想起这100个报价已被选定为您介绍的是最伟大的政治思想家之一，以高效和便捷格式。 Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

Detained and Deported

By: Margaret Regan

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
 
On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported... Read more

Dreamers

By: Eileen Truax

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate, first-of-its-kind account of young undocumented immigrants fighting to live legally within the United States is a “must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate” (Booklist)
 
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up... Read more

Der Zerfall

By: William Drozdiak

Narrated by: Armand Presser

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Europa steht vor seiner wohl größten Herausforderung seit Ende des 2. Weltkriegs. Wird die Rückkehr der Nationalstaaten zu neuen Kriegen in Europa führen? Was wird aus der jahrzehntelangen engen Verbindung zwischen den USA und Europa? Sind die Werte des Westens Vergangenheit? Stehen wir am Ende des transatlantischen Zeitalters? Wie konnte es... Read more

Bully of Asia

By: Steven W. Mosher

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. It suddenly activates an air-defense identification zone over the East China Sea, and it threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. It builds roads into Indian... Read more

The Truth Matters

By: Bruce Bartlett

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and... Read more

The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin’s theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition... Read more

Yazidi women struggle to return to daily life after enduring ISIS

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Yazidi women, who were sold as sex slaves by Islamic State militants, are now returning to their families from formerly ISIS-controlled territories. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson visits the Yazidi religious community in Iraq to hear the stories of these survivors and what they are doing to move on with their lives. Read more

Kennedy

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Duke Holm

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore the Lives and Relationship of John and JackieTwo captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: John F. Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of JFK Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Part 1: Explore the Fascinating Life of John F. KennedyGallup’s List of Widely Admired People of the Twentieth... Read more

The Innovation Illusion

By: Fredrik Erixon

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a... Read more

Capitalism Without Capital

By: Jonathan Haskel & Stian Westlake

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and... Read more

Stalin, Volume II

By: Stephen Kotkin

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 49 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally... Read more

Warnings Unheeded

By: Andy Brown

Narrated by: Michael F. Cochrane

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On 20 June 1994, a gunman opened fire inside the busy hospital of Fairchild Air Force Base. Four days later, the crash of a B-52 bomber killed some of Fairchild's most veteran aviators. The twin tragedies struck suddenly – but not without warning."This nonfiction narrative is a page turner... you will not put it down." —CMSgt William Kelly,... Read more

Digital human

By: Bettina Volkens & Kai Anderson

Narrated by: Christoph Keese & Matthias Lühn

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Digitalisierung ist der Megatrend, aber auch das Schreckgespenst in allen Unternehmen. Äußerlich wird fleißig genickt, wenn es um die Wichtigkeit der Digitalisierung fürs eigene Business geht, aber innerlich ruft der Begriff Unruhe hervor: Wie geht Digitalisierung? Was heißt das für mich persönlich? Müssen wir unser komplettes Geschäftsmodell... Read more

Fall Out

By: Tim Shipman

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 29 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize... Read more

To Russian-American community, Russia has become political scapegoat

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How have strains in U.S.-Russia relations affected Russian-Americans and recent immigrants? Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports from the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first stop for many of the 3 million Russian or former Soviet Union immigrants who come to the U.S., to get their take on the charges of election meddling. Read more

The Threat Matrix

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who oversaw the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials.

Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The Threat Matrix explores the transformation of the FBI from a domestic law enforcement agency,... Read more

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

By: John Maynard Keynes

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but his name is still one to conjure with in economics and politics worldwide. Although his contributions to economic theory established and maintain his fame, he also - particularly at the time in his life when he wrote the present book, Economic Consequences of the Peace - showed a flair for practical... Read more

The Saboteur

By: Paul Kix

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur—and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain’s... Read more