Politics & Economy audiobooks

Presidenta

By: Yuriria Sierra

Narrated by: Yuriria Sierra, Vivir Quintana, Hidalgo Yunuenn...

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A lo largo de más de doscientos años de existencia como país, México ha sido gobernado por una larga sucesión de presidentes varones, jamás una mujer. Eso, sin embargo, está por cambiar: el 2 de junio de este 2024, los mexicanos nos iremos a dormir con la noticia de quién será la primera presidenta de nuestra historia. Ante este parteaguas en la... Read more

Democracy

By: Ayele Teklemariam

Narrated by: AG Smith

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

"Democracy: The Political Tale" pulls readers into an exciting exploration of government complexities, directed by the author's own intimate experiences with democracy and tyranny. Leaning upon real-life events, the account digs deep into the profound effects of being forced out from a dictatorship nation and thereafter growing up in a... Read more

El Capital

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"El Capital" de Karl Marx es una crítica a la economía política y al sistema capitalista, donde Marx desarrolla la teoría del materialismo histórico, la plusvalía y la lucha de clases. A través de un análisis detallado de la producción, circulación y distribución de la riqueza, Marx busca exponer las contradicciones internas del capitalismo y su... Read more

How to Think Like an Economist

By: Robbie Mochrie

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents How to Think Like an Economist by Robbie Mochrie, read by Ben Onwukwe.

Capturing the essence of history’s most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.

We live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a... Read more

Literature for the People

By: Sarah Harkness

Narrated by: Sarah Harkness

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, Sarah Harkness.

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched... Read more

Manifiesto Comunista

By: Karl Marx & Friederich Engels

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

El "Manifiesto Comunista" de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels es un tratado político que presenta los principios del comunismo y critica las sociedades capitalistas. Marx, filósofo, economista y revolucionario socialista, junto con Engels, teórico y activista, abogan por la lucha de clases y la revolución proletaria para abolir las clases sociales. Read more

America's Plan for the Young Black Male

By: Raymond Sturgis

Narrated by: Raymond Sturgis

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As the government continues to trap black males into abnormal and senseless lives, black men are revolting against authority and common sense. They must be numb or dumb to the positive legacy their black leaders presented to them. Black-on-black crime is outrageous, and black men need to understand as long as they live, white Americans and this... Read more

World War ‘D’ The Intersection of Cyber and Biological Pandemics

By: Christopher Rence

Narrated by: Liam Alan

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Life has never been easier thanks to the advancement of technology. However, with all new technological advancements also come new risks. The most drastically increasing issue in the world today is not biological warfare but cyber warfare. Data has become the single most valuable commodity in today’s world, and of course, there are always people... Read more

The Little Book of Family Group Conferences

By: Allan Macrae & Howard Zehr

Narrated by: Adam Prugh

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Family group conferences (FGCs) are the primary forum in New Zealand for dealing with juvenile crime, as well as child welfare issues. This third volume in the Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series is about the juvenile justice system that is built around these conferences. Since their introduction in New Zealand, family group... Read more

1975 - Emergency - Nerukkadi nilai Prakadanam

By: R. Radhakrishnan

Narrated by: VVR

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

இந்தியாவில் நெருக்கடி நிலை பிரகடனம் செய்யப்பட்டு 48 ஆண்டுகளாகிவிட்டன. இன்று ஜனநாயகம், சர்வாதிகாரம், பாசிசம் போன்ற சொற்கள் அர்த்தம் புரியாமலேயே அன்றாடம் புழங்கும் சொற்களாகிவிட்டன. ஆனால் இம்மூன்றின் உண்மையான பரிமாணத்தையும் ஒரே சமயத்தில் மக்கள் உணர்ந்த தருணம் அது. நெருக்கடி நிலை அறிவிப்புக்கு முன்னும் அதுபோன்ற நாள் வந்ததில்லை. அதற்குப் பின்னும்... Read more

Why the Nineties Matter

By: Terry H. Anderson

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Why the Nineties Matter, Terry Anderson provides a broad-ranging history of America in that decade. Not simply a chronological account, the book focuses on key trends that either began or gained steam then and which have had lasting effects until this day. Threading together politics, economic transformations, and sociocultural trends, he... Read more

Fighting the Night

By: Paul Hendrickson

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Paul Hendrickson

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway’s Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father’s wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice

In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author’s father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and... Read more

Say More

By: Jen Psaki

Narrated by: Jen Psaki

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation.

Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way... Read more

Crypto the Disruptor

By: Mukesh Jindal

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Indian crypto market has experienced an exponential surge in the past few years and become a vehicle to get rich quickly. However, what exactly is crypto? How did we reach the crypto stage-- a decentralized system of finance-- from the barter system?Crypto the Disruptor answers these and other such penetrating questions as it traces the... Read more

Relentless

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Narrated by: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential reading from an expert voice: Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better.
 
A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants.

There is no one on... Read more

Under Jackie's Shadow

By: Mitchell Nathanson

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post–Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness. Read more

The Damascus Events

By: Eugene Rogan

Narrated by: Ronan Summers

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence—an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East

On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand... Read more

Free and Equal

By: Daniel Chandler

Narrated by: Daniel Chandler

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine: You are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it—rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like? This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler... Read more

No Going Back

By: Kristi Noem

Narrated by: Kristi Noem

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author, governor of South Dakota, and former congresswoman tells eye-opening stories of DC dysfunction, shares lessons from leading her state through unprecedented challenge, and explains how we seize this moment to move America forward.

Any elected official can talk about how broken our government is. But their... Read more

The Year of Living Constitutionally

By: A.J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?

“I don’t know how I learned so much while... Read more

Send Me

By: Marty Skovlund & Joe Kent

Narrated by: Joe Kent & Marty Skovlund

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as “operators.”... Read more

Natural Magic

By: Renée Bergland

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and... Read more

Incansable

By: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Narrated by: Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Lectura esencial de una voz experta que necesita nuestro país: las memorias personales y políticas de Luis Miranda revelan un profundo conocimiento de la cultura latina y el desarrollo de una comunidad que puede cambiar nuestro mundo para bien.
 
Siendo un veterano de Nueva York y de la política nacional, Luis Miranda encarna el espíritu... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Matthew Schmitz

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz.Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and... Read more