Politics & Economy audiobooks

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 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

Private Censorship

By: J.P. Messina

Narrated by: Clark Cornell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. With a few notable exceptions, complaints about censorship in the twenty-first century West are complaints about the behavior of private parties: employers, media conglomerates, social media platforms, and search engines.



To better understand the concerns... Read more

Canopy of Titans

By: Paul Koberstein & Jessica Applegate

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's... Read more

Ike in Love and War

By: Richard Striner

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the demeanor that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower so popular was a cold-as-steel intelligence that kept his country prosperous and out of danger. Because his operating methods were so deeply hidden, it is only in the past few decades that historians have grasped the full extent of his achievements.



Ike in Love and War shows the hidden... 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

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was... 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

Endgame

By: Omid Scobie

Narrated by: Omid Scobie

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince... Read more

Circle of Stars

By: Dermot Hodson

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling new history of the European Union and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today

The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of over 500 million Europeans, and its laws and policies... Read more

Druck machen!

By: Jürgen Resch

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Höchste Zeit zu handeln!
Jürgen Resch ist als Bundesgeschäftsführer der Deutschen Umwelthilfe einer der bekanntesten und wirkungsvollsten Umweltaktivisten unserer Zeit. Doch seit Jahrzehnten macht er immer wieder die bittere Erfahrung: Der Staat kapituliert vor den Interessen großer Konzerne. Wider besseres Wissen bleiben Umwelt und Klima auf der... Read more

The Long Game

By: Aoife Moore

Narrated by: Roisin McGowan

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland

Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely... Read more

Kapitalismus ohne Demokratie

By: Quinn Slobodian

Narrated by: Philipp Schepmann

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Freiheit und Demokratie, so der Investor Peter Thiel 2009, seien nicht länger kompatibel. Wer die Freiheit liebe, müsse daher versuchen, der Politik in all ihren Formen zu entkommen. Zuflucht suchen könnten Libertäre im Cyberspace, im Weltraum und auf dem offenen Meer. Das mag verblasen klingen, steht aber in einer jahrzehntealten Tradition... Read more

J. Edgar Hoover and Allen Dulles: The History of 20th Century America’s Most Controversial FBI and CIA Directors

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

No single figure in 20th century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. Edgar Hoover, the iconic first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In his time, he was arguably the most powerful non-elected figure in the U.S. government. Serving under 8 presidents (and outliving 2 of them), he remains the longest-serving head... Read more

Room 101

By: Nick Hancock

Narrated by: Nick Hancock, Paul Merton, Ian Hislop, Jenny Ec...

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Hancock finds out what people, places and pop songs his celebrity guests would consign to oblivionRoom 101 is the anti-Desert Island Discs. Instead of picking the tracks, books and luxuries they love, guests are invited to banish their least favourite things to Orwell's eponymous chamber of horrors. Twenty-seven episodes of the show were... Read more

La sombra del dictador

By: Heraldo Muñoz

Narrated by: Tomás Cebral

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Un notable retrato, a mitad de camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, sobre el Chile de Pinochet.
Publicado originalmente en inglés en 2009, este libro que retrata la vida de un militante socialista que el 11 de septiembre se encontraba en la calle con un revolver y dinamita, ofrece nuevas luces sobre la vida política y cotidiana de... Read more

Schock-Zeiten

By: Alexander Hagelüken

Narrated by: Erich Wittenberg

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

INFLATION, ENERGIEKRISE, FACHKRÄFTEMANGEL - DIE GROSSE DEUTSCHLAND-INVENTUR

Inflation, Energienot, globale Konkurrenz, Personalmangel: Wenn Deutschland nicht entschieden gegensteuert, steigt es wirtschaftlich ab. Was können wir tun?

Die Deutschen leben in Schockzeiten. Die Preise sind hoch wie nie. Viele Industrieunternehmen liebäugeln mit der... Read more

Living Democracy

By: Tim Hollo

Narrated by: Tim Hollo

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching in protest. This is living democracy.Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic... Read more

El cielo prometido

By: Gregorio Luri

Narrated by: Santiago Gómez

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

La apasionante historia de la familia Mercader Un piolet y un grito desgarrador son los elementos que cargan de dramatismo el instante en el que Ramón Mercader acabó con la vida de Trotsky, una historia que se ha convertido en uno de los mitos de nuestro tiempo. Este es sólo un episodio más del increíble devenir de la familia... Read more

Cartas de la Wehrmacht

By: Marie Moutier

Narrated by: Sara Gómez & Santiago Gómez

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

La segunda guerra mundial contada por los soldados Estas cartas de soldados alemanes, seleccionadas entre las que se guardan en el Deutsche Dienststelle de Berlín, nos ofrecen el testimonio directo de quienes lucharon en los diversos frentes, de Francia a la Unión Soviética, durante cerca de seis años. Unos testimonios que comienzan en... Read more

The Picnic

By: Matthew Longo

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German... Read more

Rethinking the Police

By: Daniel Reinhardt

Narrated by: Jim Denison

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture



Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. Rethinking the Police promises to start a more hopeful conversation.



Daniel Reinhardt spent twenty-four years as a police... Read more

Cold Rivals

By: Evan S. Medeiros

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future



The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.



The two... Read more

An Empire of Laws

By: Christian R. Burset

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years' War as the world's most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some... Read more