Politics & Economy audiobooks

Guy Gibson: The Life and Legacy of the Royal Air Force’s Most Distinguished Bomber Pilot during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Steve Knupp

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Given the RAF’s importance, it should come as no surprise that some of the pilots ranked among Britain’s most recognized war heroes, and Guy Gibson remains one of the most famous and highly decorated British soldiers in World War II. His exploits in the RAF as the leader of the audacious raid to blow up German dams in May 1943 remain renowned,... Read more

Annabhau Sathe Jivan Va Karya अण्णाभाऊ साठे जीवन व कार्य

By: Ravindra Gole

Narrated by: Meghna Ghanekar

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On behalf of Social Harmony Forum, Devagiri Province, a workshop was conducted at Latur on the life work of well-known writer and democrat Annabhau Sathe for social activists of Maharashtra. In this study class, various speakers presented topics on Anna Bhau's life work, in which various aspects of his life were tried to be discussed. We are... Read more

Wreckonomics

By: David Keen & Ruben Andersson

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running “fight against migration” has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling... Read more

Crónicas de la cercanía cultural de China y Argentina

By: Guo Cunhai

Narrated by: Ricardo Luna

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Cómo los Chinos Cuidan la Salud? Esto no sólo consiste en el título de este libro, también consiste una duda de muchos extranjeros. Con la profundización de los intercambios culturales chino-extranjeras, muchos extranjeros prestan más interés en la medicina tradicional china. En el proceso del desarrollo de la civilización de los 5000 años, se... Read more

The Old World: Die Wahrheit wird dich erschüttern!

By: Clemens Aldenbrock

Narrated by: Sonja Heuser

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Das erste deutschsprachige Buch über die alte Welt, Tartaria und das tausendjährige Friedensreich! Du denkst, dass unsere heutige Zivilisation der Höhepunkt des technologischen Fortschritts darstellt? Was wäre, wenn ich dir sage, dass dies nicht der Fall ist? The Old World, Tartaria oder das Millennial Kingdom. All diese Begriffe... Read more

El país de uno

By: Denise Dresser

Narrated by: Luciana González de León

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Denise Dresser, una de las politólogas más reconocidas de México, hace un análisis de la situación actual del país y denuncia a las figuras políticas que lo han afectado. Libro bestseller, escrito por Denise Dresser, una de las analistas políticas más críticas y respetadas en México. Un diagnóstico demoledor sobre la situación política y social... Read more

Stop the Press

By: Grant Stott, Jo Caulfield & Gary Robertson

Narrated by: Jan Ravens, Lucy Porter, Ian Rankin, Tom Urie, ...

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Grant Stott is joined by team captains Jo Caulfield and Gary Robertson in the panel game that pits journalists against the people they're reporting on

Hold the front page - it's Stop the Press, the comedy quiz where the points really matter! Recorded live in Edinburgh, each show sees well-known entertainers taking on keen newshounds in a bid to... Read more

Pikoletos

By: Juan José Mateos

Narrated by: José María Agulló

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A finales de los años 70 la ETA había impuesto su ley de hierro en las provincias vascas y Navarra, especialmente en las zonas rurales. Sus continuos y feroces atentados estremecían al país y abrumaban al Estado. Y las fuerzas de seguridad (junto a los militares, sus dianas preferidas) se veían impotentes para contrarrestar la embestida... Read more

Das Jahrzehnt der Entscheidung. Deutschland 2030

By: Verlag Herder

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wir befinden uns im Jahrzehnt der Entscheidung. Unser Handeln und Nicht-Handeln jetzt hat enorme Folgen für die kommenden Generationen und entscheidet darüber, ob sich auch für sie das Wohlstandsversprechen der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft erfüllt. Die Übernahme von Verantwortung und die Übersetzung in Handlung ist wichtiger denn je. Insofern muss... Read more

Capitalismo

By: Jeannette Von Wolfersdorff

Narrated by: Valeria Gómez

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Un brillante ensayo que analizar y profundiza en las bondades y problemas del modelo económico y social que nos rige.
En su debut como ensayista, la destacada economista alemana reflexiona sobre el capitalismo, mirado desde los lentes de la actualidad, de la historia y de la ciencia evolutiva y la neurociencia. Abordando cuestiones como... Read more

La vida es eterna

By: Mario Amorós

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Abraham

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

En el año de la conmemoración de los 50 años del Golpe de Estado, el periodista e historiador Mario Amorós lanza la biografía definitiva de Víctor Jara.
Con el rigor bibliográfico y documental que lo caracteriza, además de su reconocida capacidad narrativa, Mario Amorós traza la más completa biografía del ícono chileno hasta hoy publicada.... Read more

The Price of Misfortune

By: Daniel Platt

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

A history of the struggle for debtors’ rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression

What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those questions,... Read more

El oro de Mussolini

By: Manuel Aguilera Povedano

Narrated by: Joel Valverde

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

En 1937, tras un año de guerra civil, el gobierno de la república activó la Operación Schulmeister con el objetivo de lograr la retirada de la ayuda de Hitler y Mussolini al bando nacional, para lo cual se planteó la cesión de territorios como las Baleares, Canarias o el Marruecos español. Dada la importancia del botín en juego, las grandes... Read more

HOW TO SCALE SMALL BUSINESS TO INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS

By: Keith Andrus

Narrated by: Peter Finch

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"How to Scale Small Business to International Success" is a comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to expand their operations on a global scale. This book covers all the essential steps and strategies needed to successfully navigate the complexities of international business, from market research and cultural... Read more

I Am the Famous Carlos

By: Christina Hoag

Narrated by: André G. Chapoy

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue... Read more

The Fabulist

By: Mark Chiusano

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos.

America is used to larger-than-life politicians, from Telfon Don to AOC and from Dark Brandon to MTG. The political arena has been injected... Read more

The Lost Peace

By: Richard Sakwa

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The end of the Cold War was an opportunity—our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition



1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be resolved. Now, three decades on, that peace has been lost. With war in Ukraine and increasing... Read more

Reimagine Inclusion

By: Mita Mallick

Narrated by: Mita Mallick

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Reimagining what inclusion can look like in our organizations starts with understanding why these thirteen DEI myths are not true—with effective strategies for implementing transformative inclusivity.



In Reimagine Inclusion, veteran DEI leader Mita Mallick debunks thirteen myths that hold us back from transforming our workplaces. She delivers... Read more

Duel in the Dark

By: Peter Townsend

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Adolf Hitler's plan to eliminate Britain from WWII early using the destructive might of the Luftwaffe was thwarted by defeat in the Battle of Britain in 1940.



Still determined to force the British to surrender, Hitler launched a relentless night bombing offensive whose objective was to bomb Winston Churchill and his people into submission.



But he... Read more

The Value of a Whale

By: Adrienne Buller

Narrated by: Anu Anand

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and... Read more

Canada and Climate Change

By: William Leiss

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience The federal government recently announced... Read more

How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps

By: Gretchen Woelfle

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Franklin was a proud citizen of America all his life. And a proud subject of the British Empire. Until he wasn’t.Under British rule Franklin prospered as a printer, newspaper publisher, and writer.• He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly that made laws for the colony.• He led campaigns to build the first college, library, hospital, and... Read more

Activating the Common Good

By: Peter Block

Narrated by: Alex Christiansen

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification.

This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are.

The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are... Read more

American Eagles

By: Charles Whiting

Narrated by: Dallas Britt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Of the 6,600 paratroopers of the 101st 'Screaming Eagles' Airborne Division who parachuted into France in the early hours of 6 June 1944—D-Day—some 3,500 were listed as missing by midnight that same night. Yet it was only the beginning of their 'rendezvous with destiny.'



American Eagles is the remarkable true story of the United States 101st... Read more