Politics & Economy audiobooks

Causa de muerte: Cuestionar al poder

By: Alejandra Ibarra

Narrated by: Alejandra Ibarra

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Con esta obra Alejandra Ibarra confirma que con la muerte de estos también activistas y defensores de los ciudadanos la libertad de expresión sufre una de las mayores vejaciones. México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se... Read more

The Book That Changed Me: 20 Essays on Influential Literature

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of BBC Radio 3's 'The Essay' strand, The Book That Changed Me features writers, academics and other eminent professionals discussing the literary works that have had the greatest impact on their lives.

This fascinating selection contains some of the best episodes from the series, including legendary songwriter Steve Earle on Truman Capote's... Read more

Brutal Campaign

By: Robert L. Fleegler

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest presidential campaigns that anyone can remember." It was a landslide victory for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, and yet Bush would serve only one... Read more

The King of Late Night

By: Greg Gutfeld

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto.

Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights... Read more

The Secret Listener

By: Yuan-Tsung Chen

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 1949 and 1976, its great opening to the world under Deng, and the... Read more

We've Got You Covered

By: Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in... Read more

Into the Bright Sunshine

By: Samuel G. Freedman

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil... Read more

Cover of Darkness

By: Roderick Chisholm

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A pilot's captivating autobiography that traces the development of night-flying from the early days of the Battle of Britain to the final triumph over Germany.

Perfect for fans of Geoffrey Wellum, Eric Brown, and Norman Hanson.

What was it like to soar through the night sky fighting enemy aircraft in the Second World War?

After completing... Read more

Too Dumb for Democracy?

By: David Moscrop

Narrated by: David Moscrop

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In this accessible and compelling investigation narrated by the author, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work... Read more

Theoderic the Great

By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454–526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in... Read more

Losing Our Religion

By: Russell Moore

Narrated by: Russell Moore

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism

American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian... Read more

La travesía del redentor

By: Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui

Narrated by: Hilda Gómez

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

De los mítines a las mañaneras: claves para entender el éxito político de AMLO Sobre Andrés Manuel López Obrador se ha escrito bastante y desde distintas perspectivas, pero en limitadas ocasiones de manera objetiva. Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui se vale de las herramientas de análisis de la Ciencia Política y la Historia para ofrecernos la visión... Read more

Menschenzuchthaltung

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ich frage mich, ob ein Hund sich so lange von Politikern treten lassen würde, wie es die Menschen derzeit tun Respekt, so ein Durchhaltevermögen, eigentlich unbegreiflich. Nach diversen Gesprächen mit befreundeten Psychologen wurde mir klar, dass dieses unterwürfige Verhalten seit Generationen schleichend geprägt und systematisch programmiert... Read more

1978. El año que marchamos a la guerra

By: Guillermo Parvex

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

El mismo autor del exitoso Un veterano de tres guerras entrega este relato que cobra actualidad a 40 años de una guerra que no fue
Mientras estudiaba Periodismo en la Universidad de Chile, Guillermo Parvex fue llamado por el Ejército para recibir instrucción militar específica y ser parte de las milicias chilenas que se dirigirían a la ... Read more

امپراتوری USA

By: دانیله گانزر & سید ابراهیم تقوی

Narrated by: سید ابراهیم تقوی

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

«بیایید ابتدا نگرشمان را درباره‌ی صلح بازنگری کنیم. تعداد بیش از حد زیادی از ما آن را ناممکن می‌پنداریم... اما این پنداری خطرناک و شکست باورانه است. به این نتیجه‌گیری می‌انجامد که جنگ اجتناب ناپذیر است، که بشریت محکوم به نابودی است... اما مشکلات ما ساخته‌ی دست بشر است و لذا می‌تواند به دست بشر حل نیز بشود.»جان اف. کندی (رئیس جمهور ایالات متحده... Read more

Hans-Ulrich Rudel: The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Deadliest Stuka Pilot

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Few people personified the advancements, abilities, and tactical adeptness of the Luftwaffe like Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the most successful dive bomber in the history of warfare. Like hundreds of millions of others born in the early 20th century, his life was shaped by the Second World War, which started when he was just 23. He was born into and... Read more

The Supreme Court

By: Newbury Publishing

Narrated by: Jim D. Johnson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

As the highest court in what has become the world's most powerful nation, The Supreme Court of the United States sits at the faultline between the ideal and the real, between justice and power, between the serene majesty of The Law and the sometimes bombastic, sometimes grubby disputes that define our politics.In the arguments before the court,... Read more

30 Minuten: Franz Kafkas "Die Verwandlung"

By: Franz Kafka & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen... Read more

Free Your Mind

By: Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan

Narrated by: Henry Nott

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’ ... Read more

The News Quiz: Another Vintage Collection

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have an appetite for sharp satirical comedy blended with vintage news items, be sure to sample these 14 archive episodes of BBC Radio 4's long-running panel show, chaired by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart and Sandi Toksvig.

This latest smorgasbord of editions, all first broadcast between 1980 and 2012, has for its subjects such delicacies as... Read more

The War Came To Us

By: Christopher Miller

Narrated by: Craig Van Ness

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The War Came To Us by Christopher Miller, read by Craig Van Ness.

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine’s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a decade.

'Vivid…... Read more

Big Caesars and Little Caesars

By: Ferdinand Mount

Narrated by: Paul Blezard

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount, read by Paul Blezard.

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR

Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a... Read more

Putin's Prisoner

By: Aiden Aslin & John Sweeney

Narrated by: Paul Slack & Steve John Shepherd

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.

Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege... Read more

La herida perpetua

By: Almudena Grandes

Narrated by: Marta Barriuso & Eugenio Gómez

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro necesario para entender la España de hoy. En enero de 2008, Almudena Grandes iniciaba una colaboración semanal como columnista en el diario El País. En sus textos, la escritora española más reconocida de las últimas décadas recorre con una mirada crítica y aguda la realidad política y social de España. En sus columnas aparecen los... Read more