Fool Proof
By: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, and Susan Cain’s Quiet, Fool Proof tracks the implications of the sucker construct from personal choices to cultural conflict, ultimately charting... Read more
View audiobookAbove the Pacific
By: Colin Heaton
Narrated by: Colin Heaton, Steve Hendrickson, Gary Bennett &...
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Three legendary fighter pilots from the Pacific War—all recipients of the Medal of Honor—tell their own stories in this remarkable collection.
Marine ace Pappy Boyington is perhaps the most celebrated of all American pilots in the war against Japan, fighting in the skies with both the famed Flying Tigers and his own Black Sheep Squadron. Marine... Read more
Who Was John McCain?
By: Michael Burgan & Who HQ
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
How did the son of a naval officer go on to become a United States Navy captain, an Arizona senator, and a candidate for president? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series!
In 2008, John McCain ran for president against Barack Obama, becoming a well-known national figure. But his presidential campaign was... Read more
She Persisted: Dorothy Height
By: Kelly Starling Lyons & Chelsea Clinton
Narrated by: Marie-Françoise Theodore & Chelsea Clinton
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Dorothy Height!
Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Height was denied access to a local swimming pool as well as admission to Barnard... Read more
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
By: Martin Wolf
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, and what can be done to reverse this terrifying dynamic
Martin Wolf has long been one of the wisest voices on global economic issues. He has rarely been called an optimist, yet he... Read more
A Hacker's Mind
By: Bruce Schneier
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s not just computers—hacking is everywhere.
A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exploits “tax avoidance strategies.” And there is an entire industry of “black hat” hackers
intent on... Read more
Credit Repair Secrets
By: Julian Smith
Narrated by: William Harvey Junior
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
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Have you ever felt that you are being held back by your own credit score? Have you suffered one too many loan application rejections because your credit report is too poor? Have you been trying to raise your score only to find that your efforts were getting you... Read more
Comercio de criptomonedas
By: Ryan Martinez
Narrated by: Paco
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Si no está contento con la cantidad fija de ingresos que obtiene en su trabajo de 8 a 5, entonces es posible que quiera probar el comercio de criptomonedas.
Con esta empresa, tendrá la oportunidad de ganar una cantidad ilimitada de dinero. Por supuesto, esto dependerá de sus habilidades, estrategias y actitud. Incluso lo tendrá mejor si la suerte... Read more
Saying It Loud
By: Mark Whitaker
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Whitaker “writes with the eye of a journalist and ear of a poet” (The Boston Globe) to tell the story of the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity, expressed in the slogan “Black Power,” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.
In “crisp prose” (The New... Read more
Capital: Volume 1
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 31 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. Arguing that capitalism would cause an... Read more
View audiobookCapital: Volume 2
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 26 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the working class'. This volume also contains the vital discussion of commodity - the... Read more
View audiobookThe Nerva-Antonine Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the Emperors Who Ruled the Roman Empire at Its Peak
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Elias Anderson
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Five Good Emperors,” a reference to the five emperors who ruled the Roman Empire between 96 and 180 CE (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius), was a term first coined by Machiavelli and later adopted and popularized by historian Edward Gibbon, who said that under these men, the Roman Empire “was governed by absolute... Read more
View audiobookWorld Brain
By: H.G wells
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938. Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that could... Read more
View audiobookRevanche
By: Michael Thumann
Narrated by: Alexander Bandilla
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Kaum einer kennt Russland besser als Michael Thumann, der seit über 25 Jahren aus Osteuropa für die ZEIT berichtet. Er legt nun ein atemberaubend geschriebenes Buch vor, das Russlands Absturz in eine zunehmend totalitäre Diktatur und den Weg in Putins imperialistischen Krieg aus nächster Nähe nachzeichnet. Das Motiv des Diktators und seiner... Read more
View audiobookNew Moons For Sam
By: Peter Hamilton
Narrated by: Paul Barrett
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A personal, intimate, memoir spanning 70 years, in three parts, describing my childhood in the UK and New Zealand, my 35 years as a New Zealand diplomat, and the hundreds of amazing individuals I met on the way, from farming folk to Kings, Queens and Presidents. Part One is the story of an English boy growing up on a farm in rural Devon and... Read more
View audiobookColonialism
By: Nigel Biggar
Narrated by: Matt Bates
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however,... Read more
View audiobookHunter Killer Spy
By: James E. Mack
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
‘For over a decade I worked as a secret agent in a clandestine army unit, tracking down terrorists and facilitating their arrest, capture or death. This is my story.’
James E. Mack has been in many tight spots in his life, ever since joining the JSG, a secretive British army unit that recruited and ran agents in warzones. He cut his teeth in... Read more
Defeating the Dictators
By: Charles Dunst
Narrated by: Joe Eyre
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
'A deeply-researched and engaging work that both details the challenges democracies face, and offers us clear and persuasive solutions. Dunst's writing is as sharp as his argument is necessary.' SENATOR CHRIS COONS
How we strengthen democracy in the face of rising autocracy.
The world is currently experiencing the lowest levels of democracy we... Read more
Architects of Terror
By: Paul Preston
Narrated by: Robin Laing
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on... Read more
View audiobookEl empresariado inconsciente
By: Hernán Gómez Bruera
Narrated by: Rubén Hernández
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Cómo conciben los empresarios la desigualdad y la pobreza? ¿Piensan igual unos y otros sobre estos problemas? ¿Qué tan conscientes están de que también pueden afectarles a ellos? ¿Están dispuestos a actuar y asumir responsabilidades para erradicar la miseria? ¿Aceptarían pagar más impuestos para instrumentar políticas que lo permitan? En... Read more
View audiobookGlobal gescheitert?
By: Susanne Schröter
Narrated by: Sandra Ragg
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Susanne Schröters messerscharfe Analyse über den Westen – Spiegel-Bestseller
Selten schien der Westen so geschlossen wie zu Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs. Die Werte der Freiheit und Demokratie galt es gegen ein autokratisches System zu verteidigen. Doch hinter der vermeintlichen Geschlossenheit zeigten sich schnell die ersten Bruchstellen. Wie werden... Read more
Not Zero
By: Ross Clark
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The Net Zero policy was subject to almost no parliamentary or public scrutiny, and is universally approved by our political class. But what will its consequences be?
Ross Clark argues... Read more
Die Akte Pegasus - Wie die Spionagesoftware Privatsphäre, Pressefreiheit und Demokratie attackiert (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Sandrine Rigaud & Laurent Richard
Narrated by: Tanja Fornaro & Sascha Tschorn
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
PEGASUS: der Investigativ-Bericht über den größten Spionage-Skandal seit der NSA-Affäre Die Spionage-Software Pegasus, die von der israelischen Firma NSO entwickelt wurde, kann jedes Mobiltelefon vollständig überwachen - und zwar ohne Spuren zu hinterlassen. Genutzt wird die Späh-Software von zahlreichen Regierungen weltweit, darunter... Read more
View audiobookLa otra cara de la moneda
By: Javier Guzmán Calafell
Narrated by: Santiago Padilla
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
México cambió en 1994. Las nuevas generaciones lo han escuchado como si se tratase de una leyenda urbana, pero para los millones de familias que vivieron la devaluación del peso y la turbulencia económica de la década de los noventa, es una etapa que no se olvidará. El autor nos comparte el análisis más completo publicado hasta ahora de la... Read more
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