Politics & Economy audiobooks

Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Narrated by: Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements
'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia GraceIn the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living.... Read more

Commander in Chief

By: Casey B. K. Dominguez

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The constitutional balance of war powers has shifted from Congress to the president over time. Today, presidents broadly define their constitutional authority as commander in chief. In the nineteenth century, however, Congress was the institution that claimed and defended expansive war powers authority. This discrepancy raises important... Read more

Trabajo asalariado y capital

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: José Peña Coto

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducción accesible a los conceptos clave del pensamiento marxista.Trabajo asalariado y capital es crucial para entender las bases del pensamiento marxista sobre la economía y la sociedad. Proporciona una crítica incisiva del capitalismo y sienta las bases de la obra posterior de Karl Marx, uno de los pensadores más influyentes de la historia... Read more

Hercules

By: Scott Bateman

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules jet, told through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman


Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian emergency, for over fifty years the RAF’s Hercules force was the first in and last out of any crisis faced by the UK government... Read more

Terrible Humans

By: Patrick Alley

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'Few people have shown more commitment to investigative journalism than Patrick Alley. His latest book is a vivid, compelling testament to the importance of revealing corruption and wrong-doing and shining a light into dark places, wherever in the world they are.' -Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale

A small number of people, motivated... Read more

Rivals in the Storm

By: Damian Collins

Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Rivals in the Storm by Damian Collins, read by Dyfrig Morris.

A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world’s greatest statesmen.

Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through... Read more

Mao's Great Famine

By: Frank Dikötter

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh.

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre

‘A critical contribution to Chinese... Read more

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Abridged

By: Joseph A. Schumpeter

Narrated by: John Clickman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy," authored by Joseph A. Schumpeter and first published in 1942, stands as a cornerstone in the study of economics and political science. In this profound and ambitious work, Schumpeter delves into the intricate mechanisms that drive capitalist economies and the transformative forces that shape them. Central... Read more

Psychologie der Massen

By: Gustave Le Bon

Narrated by: Herbert Schäfer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Psychologie der Massen" ist ein wegweisendes Werk von Gustave Le Bon, das die Dynamiken und Verhaltensweisen von Menschen in Massengesellschaften untersucht. Le Bon beschreibt, wie individuelle Rationalität und Kontrolle in der Masse oft durch Emotionen, Impulse und Ansteckungseffekte ersetzt werden. Er analysiert Phänomene wie Mobmentalität,... Read more

The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich Hayek

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek, the collectivist... Read more

Grand Old Unraveling

By: John Kenneth White

Narrated by: Bob Johnson

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It didn't begin with Donald Trump. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status—a predisposition that eventually posed a threat to democracy. John Kenneth... Read more

The High Seas

By: Olive Heffernan

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas” (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world’s leading voices on the issue tracks the race to exploit and protect our last frontier.

Two thirds of the world’s oceans lie beyond national borders. Owned by all nations and no nation simultaneously,... Read more

La isla oculta

By: Abraham Jiménez Enoa

Narrated by: Ernesto Rumbaut & Javier Lacroix

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

La isla oculta no es otro libro más sobre Cuba, un país que forma parte de nuestro imaginario colectivo desde su Revolución, sino una colección de crónicas que nos lleva a sus lugares menos conocidos con una mirada conmovedora, triste y a la vez pícara. Un puzle del último lustro de Cuba que muestra otra isla, acaso subterránea.
Jiménez Enoa... Read more

From Wall Street to the White House and Back

By: Anthony Scaramucci

Narrated by: Anthony Scaramucci

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn from the successes, the fights, and the failures of businessman and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci.

Have you just been fired? Did that job you were hoping to get not pan out? Did you recently end up embarrassing yourself in a major way in front of people you really wanted to impress?

Not to worry. There’s a way... Read more

La austeridad mata

By: Nayeli Roldán

Narrated by: Alejandra Garza

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

La política de la 4T que dejó a México en ruinas La «Cuarta Transformación» prometió mejorar la vida del pueblo a través de una estricta política de austeridad en el Gobierno; sin embargo, lo que parecía ser una medida positiva, pronto se convirtió en tragedia nacional. A medida que los gastos suntuosos se reducían, los programas... Read more

When Left Moves Right

By: Maria Snegovaya

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past two decades, postcommunist countries have witnessed a sudden shift in the electoral fortunes of their political parties: previously successful center-left parties suffered dramatic electoral defeats and disappeared from the political scene, while right-wing populist parties soared in popularity and came to power. This dynamic... Read more

The Way of Ronin

By: Tu Lam

Narrated by: Tu Lam & Pun Bandhu

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Special Forces veteran and internationally respected teacher of Rōnin Tactics to streaming and videogame fan favorite, Tu Lam’s memoir will captivate, astonish, exhilarate, and even profoundly resonate.

Tu Lam has become known not just for his accomplishments as a decorated Green Beret, but also for his work outside the military,... Read more

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Duquette

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical... Read more

Forging Queer Leaders

By: Bree Fram & Elizabeth Cavallaro

Narrated by: Bree Fram, George Weightman, Liz Cavallaro & Sa...

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It's an enormous obstacle - but also prepares them for leadership in a fast-moving, volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive working world.
The book explores the unique and inspiring developmental experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders,... Read more

Swimming Against the Current

By: Riley Gaines

Narrated by: Riley Gaines

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports shares her unbelievable story and inspires readers to embrace common sense and truth in discussions about women's rights. Riley Gaines has been called many things: Collegiate athlete. All-American. Champion. But in 2022, everything changed. The narrative shifted. Now, critics... Read more

The Last Plantation

By: James R. Jones

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Racism continues to infuse Congress's daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in Congress call it the "Last Plantation." He shows that even as the civil rights movement gained momentum and antidiscrimination laws were... Read more

Plastic Capitalism

By: Sean H. Vanatta

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.



America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after... Read more

La burguesía catalana

By: Manel Pérez

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Un retrato de los poderes económicos y sociales de Cataluña y del proceso que llevó a la desaparición de su influencia política. La burguesía catalana acumula un siglo de decadencia. Lejos queda la época en la que comandaba la política y la economía española, lideraba la banca y el mundo empresarial. Una realidad encubierta durante décadas, en... Read more

El futuro de la prosperidad

By: José Moisés Martín Carretero

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Un ensayo esperanzador que combate el pesimismo económico al que nos enfrentamos. Al pensar en el futuro, nos invade una sensación de desánimo, miedo y desesperación que no hace más que alimentarse cuando observamos con detenimiento el tiempo convulso que nos ha tocado vivir. En este ensayo, el economista José Moisés Martín propone una visión... Read more