Politics & Economy audiobooks

A Madman's Will

By: Gregory May

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s... Read more

Excluded

By: Richard D Kahlenberg

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to... Read more

The Deepest Map

By: Laura Trethewey

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.Five oceans—the... Read more

The New Fish

By: Simen Saetre & Kjetil Ostli

Narrated by: Erik Madsen

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?

In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster... Read more

Symbols of Freedom

By: Matthew J. Clavin

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to "life, liberty, and... Read more

The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most famous trade company in all of history, the East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its... Read more

Laughter in the Dark

By: Yasmine El Rashidi

Narrated by: Ali Nasser

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?

A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world’s attention and sent ripples across the Middle East. But the so-called “Arab Spring” quickly faded, and a return to the status quo—of authoritarian rule—was cemented. What happened to the energy... Read more

Killing for Coal

By: Thomas G. Andrews

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six... Read more

Missing in Action

By: Pranay Kotasthane & Raghu S. Jaitley

Narrated by: Ashish David

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Search of an Adarsh Indian StateIn India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pervasiveness, yeh public sab nahin jaanti hai (the public doesn't know it all).Questions are rarely asked of the Indian State-the institution that makes rules, bends them and punishes others for breaking the laws it creates. The privileged can afford... Read more

Atomic Days

By: Joshua Frank

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl.



The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in... Read more

General Grant and the Verdict of History

By: Dr. Frank P. Varney

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union. But has he received too much credit? Have others who fought the war with him suffered unfairly? General Grant and the Verdict of History explores these issues.



Professor Frank P. Varney examines... Read more

No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

Narrated by: Jane Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

""A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul.Jane Ferguson... Read more

Horas extra

By: Will Stronge & Kyle Lewis

Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

El tiempo de trabajo es, y siempre ha sido, un asunto político relacionado con la distribución de la riqueza y del poder. Cuando desnaturalicemos la forma en que trabajamos (un objetivo al que este libro pretende contribuir) y tengamos más capacidad de tomar decisiones sobre el propósito de nuestras economías, nos enfrentaremos a las preguntas... Read more

On the Tracks of a Shadow

By: Carlos Usín

Narrated by: Luis Cruz

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour,... Read more

Crossing the Line

By: Nick McKenzie

Narrated by: Stephen Phillips

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE 2024 DANGER AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME

'There is no doubt the truth would have been concealed and our concerns buried without Nick McKenzie's relentless pursuit of... Read more

The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged Version)

By: Karl Marx & F. Engels

Narrated by: Mark Harrietha

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to an unprecedented audio journey into Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" - the unabridged edition that remains unswervingly loyal to the original text. Its ground-breaking insights into class struggle, capitalism, and communism have left an indelible mark on the history of political thought.
Crafted for the... Read more

China After Mao

By: Frank Dikötter

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents China After Mao by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh.

“A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of China’s rise.”—Financial Times

From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a myth­-shattering history of China from the death of Chairman Mao... Read more

Dictatorland

By: Paul Kenyon

Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod.

A Financial Times Book of the Year

'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express
'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times
'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times

The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of... Read more

Origen Y Características Del Fascismo Italiano

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Se denomina fascista al período de la historia de Italia durante el cual dicho reino europeo fue gobernado por un régimen sustentado en la ideología del fascismo y encabezado por el dictador Benito Mussolini, fundador del fascismo y del Partido Nacional Fascista. El fascismo surge tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, como reacción de ciertos grupos... Read more

Estado e ideologia - Abridged

By: Alaor Caffé Alves

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 24 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O Estado normalmente aparece na figura do Presidente da República, dos Ministros, das Forças Armadas, da polícia, dos deputados, do poder judiciário, das repartições públicas etc. Porém o Estado não são esses elementos empiricamente concretos e separados. Sua essência e unidade, na verdade, são invisíveis aos sentidos do corpo. O que é o Estado,... Read more

Popular Presidents

By: Susan Hill

Narrated by: Susan Hill

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about the American presidents and how they lived. Read more

UN Agenda 2030

By: Dawid Snowden

Narrated by: Dawid Snowden

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Agenda 2030, die 2015 auf dem Gipfeltreffen der Vereinten Nationen in New York ausgerufen wurde, ist ein "Weltzukunftsvertrag", dem sich die nationalen Regierungen unterwerfen sollen. Diese Agenda umfasst 17 sogenannte "Nachhaltigkeitsziele", die nur auf den ersten Blick gut aussehen. Beschäftigt man sich eingehender mit ihnen, kommt man... Read more

President Garfield

By: CW Goodyear

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.

In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to... Read more

Controversial Essays

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects. Read more