Politics & Economy audiobooks

What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

Narrated by: Ian Fritz

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost.

When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he... Read more

A City on Mars

By: Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Wei...

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023
* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 *

“Helpfully pulls back the curtain on some of the lesser-discussed challenges to humanity’s off-Earth pursuits . . . Any reader enthusiastic about space settlement will... Read more

Water for All

By: David Sedlak

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems are failing to meet the demands of growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change. But the grim news reports—of empty reservoirs, withering crops,... Read more

Waiting for First Light

By: Romeo Dallaire

Narrated by: Paul Gross

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life since the Rwandan genocide.


At the heart of Waiting... Read more

The Genius of Israel

By: Dan Senor & Saul Singer

Narrated by: Dan Senor

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies?

Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and... Read more

Eddie Rickenbacker and Dick Bong: The Lives of America's Top Fighter Aces during the World Wars

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during World War I. However, when pilots’ mounting of armaments on airplanes proved a successful means of defeating other aircraft and even attacking men on the ground, a much more active and systematic development of warplanes began across the continent. Each... Read more

American Shield

By: Aquilino Gonell & Susan Shapiro

Narrated by: Robb Moreira

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell’s inspirational memoir is rooted in the joys and struggles of the immigrant experience that have long defined the American experiment

Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to... Read more

Whistles from the Graveyard

By: Miles Lagoze

Narrated by: Miles Lagoze

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura.

At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people... Read more

Among the Braves

By: Shibani Mahtani & Timothy McLaughlin

Narrated by: Jason Vu

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. 

Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was... Read more

Strategic

By: Rich Horwath

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strategic, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every business challenge they face. The book offers business leaders a proven framework—the Strategic Fitness System—containing dozens of tools, techniques,... Read more

Task Force Hogan

By: William R. Hogan

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the “Spearhead,” that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany—against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf—and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II.At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is... Read more

A Death in Malta

By: Paul Caruana Galizia

Narrated by: Paul Caruana Galizia

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“A chronicle of the sort of silencing-by-murder that we might have thought happens only in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . [and] a son’s distraught but beautiful tribute to his journalist-mother. . . . Exquisite.” —Wall Street Journal

A journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that... Read more

God Calls Us to Do Hard Things

By: Katie Britt

Narrated by: Katie Britt

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Through her life story, rising Republican star Senator Katie Britt shares some candid advice for how to overcome personal challenges, appreciate blessed moments, make our lives more fulfilling, and keep an unshakeable faith in God, family and our country.

With grit and grace, Katie Britt has tackled a lot that life’s thrown at her. From working... Read more

Karma

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Karma aus der Sicht von Dawid Snowden In diesem Podcast möchte ich einen Einblick in meine Gedankenwelt geben, wie ich zu Karma stehe und was Reinkarnation nach meiner Definition ist. Dies kann von anderen Ansichten abweichen und stellt nur meine Gedankenwelt dar. Read more

Agenda 2030

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2030 Agenda, proclaimed at the 2015 United Nations Summit in New York, is a "global future contract " which national governments are expected to adhere. This agenda includes 17 so-called "sustainability goals" that look good on the surface. A closer look reveals the same actors who want nothing less than full control over the earth's... Read more

Neurosultan Volume 2

By: Abhijit Naskar

Narrated by: Abhijit Naskar

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An offering of 100 sonnets to the brave and conscientious, from Abhijit Naskar's vast ocean of over 1200 sonnets, in the voice of the humanitarian scientist himself.The volume contains selected sonnets from: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None, 2022 Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was, 2022 Divane Dynamite:... Read more

My Life in Propaganda

By: Magda Stroinska

Narrated by: Lorene Shyba

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive and emotional effects of compulsory school readings; socialist realist art and film; and Radio Free Europe and Voice... Read more

Thrive!

By: Jim Jawahar, PhD

Narrated by: Rich Palmer & Amy Jensen

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dr. Jawahar is an expert in the field of management... By reading this book you will find meaningful, time-tested strategies to apply the best of management theory in your real-life experiences. Wish I would have had this book early in my career!” —Dr. Doug Rahn, Healthcare Executive and Educator“Jim Jawahar provides practical solutions to... Read more

The End-times Handbook: Vol 2: The Beast

By: Buck Hurlbut

Narrated by: Buck Hurlbut

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Jesus told us one definitive sign that must happen before His return: the appearing of the abomination of desolation. We are told in two gospels to know what it is and to understand its impact on us and the world. Did you know that we are only two prophetic signs away from the appearing of the beast of the Revelation? Did you know that 99.3% of... Read more

Pulverfass Balkan - Wie Diktaturen Einfluss in Europa nehmen (Ungekürzt)

By: Florian Bieber

Narrated by: Nils Nelleßen

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Der nächste Brandherd vor unserer Haustür? Vor über hundert Jahren entzündete sich auf dem westlichen Balkan der Erste Weltkrieg. Verantwortlich dafür waren die Großmächte, die ihr Ringen um Vormacht in der Region austrugen. Heute baut China dort Straßen, Russland spornt Nationalisten an, die Türkei und die Golfstaaten investieren in Moscheen... Read more

Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one - Abridged

By: Gregor Sieböck

Narrated by: Gregor Sieböck

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht... Read more

Revolution Road Trip

By: Kelly Kimball, Trish Whitcomb, Andrew Frank & B...

Narrated by: Phil Morris & Linda Morris

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Kelly Kimball, Trish Whitcomb, Andrew Frank, and Barry Fadem met as political consultants, each passionate about the power and potential of democracy throughout the world. A trip to Eastern Europe in 1990 was supposed to be a chance to experience the culture they’d only witnessed from afar. But as the first election approached in Czechoslovakia,... Read more

Estados Fallidos

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Sergio Lonardi

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

En su sistemático desmantelamiento de la falsa condición de árbitros mundiales de la democracia que se atribuye Estados Unidos, Estados fallidos es la crítica más centrada y urgente de Chomsky hasta la fecha.Estados fallidos son, para Chomsky, los que carecen de capacidad para proteger a sus ciudadanos de la violencia y se consideran más allá... Read more

Del terror rojo al Estado mafioso

By: Yuri Felshtinsky y Vladimir Popov

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez & Simon Gómez

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Los servicios especiales de Rusia y su lucha por la dominación mundial La Rusia de Putin no es un Estado, es una organización mafiosa Vladimir Putin es el dirigente ruso más longevo después de Stalin, figura en la que se refleja para alcanzar los 30 años en el poder: Putin prevé ser presidente hasta el año 2036. En este libro, los prestigiosos... Read more