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According To Plan
By: Kevin D. Freeman
Narrated by: Kevin D. Freeman
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
It seems so much is going wrong in America. Some say it’s because our leaders are incompetent. Others think it’s merely a coincidence. But to millions of concerned Americans, those simplistic explanations no longer ring true.Instead, they sense something else is going on…Kevin Freeman is one of them. Drawing on his deep expertise in... Read more
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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
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The Essential Hayek (Essential Scholars)
By: Donald J. Boudreaux
Narrated by: Satauna Howery & Michael Lenz
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Nobel laureate economist F.A.Hayek first revolutionized economists' understanding of markets, and then profoundly challenged the public's understanding of government. Hayek is one of only a few social scientists over the past 200 years who thoroughly rethought the relationship between individual people and both the market and the state. While... Read more
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Heidegger in Ruins
By: Richard Wolin
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?
Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University of Freiburg in the early 1930s, he worked... Read more
The Absolutely Indispensable Man
By: Kal Raustiala
Narrated by: Leon Nixon & Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 22 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so famous he handed out the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Yet... Read more
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Making the Imperial Nation
By: Gabriel Glickman
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and endorsed systems of slave labor. But English power was precarious, and colonial designs were... Read more
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Between Debt and the Devil
By: Adair Turner
Narrated by: Richard Lyddon
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Richard Lyddon, who reveals why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woes
Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning... Read more
White Torture
By: Narges Mohammadi
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons
With a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Extended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe violation of human rights. Yet it is still widely used in Iranian prisons. In White... Read more
The Essential Milton Friedman (Essential Scholars)
By: Steven E. Landsburg
Narrated by: Satauna Howery
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
When economists are called “influential,” it usually means they’ve changed the way other economists think. By that standard, Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of all time. He revolutionized the way economiststhink about consumption, about money, about stabilization policy, and about unemployment. He demonstrated the... Read more
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The Essential John Stuart Mill (Essential Scholars)
By: Sandra J. Peart
Narrated by: Satauna Howery
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he spent many of his later years, on May 7, 1873.Mill had a very extraordinary, strenuous education, overseen by his ambitious father James, who believed that one becomes improved via education and, once educated, that is the end of the matter. John... Read more
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The Essential David Hume (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
Narrated by: Charity Spencer
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
David Hume (1711–1776) is a towering and intriguing figure. He was the preeminent philosopher in what is now called the Scottish Enlightenment, a time that was “crowded with genius” and in a place regarded as the rebirth of the golden era of Athens. His writing displayed an astonishing range, addressing everything from metaphysics to politics,... Read more
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The Essential James Buchanan (Essential Scholars)
By: Donald J. Boudreaux & Randall G. Holcombe
Narrated by: Nichalia Schwartz
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel Prize in Economics when he was born in rural Tennessee on October 3rd.Many of the works on Buchanan’s extensive list of publications stemmed from a single insight from early in his career: because neither the state nor society is a singular and... Read more
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Generación idiota
By: Agustin Laje
Narrated by: Antonio Raluy Zierold
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Generación idiota nos ofrece una inmersión profunda en la desaparición de la sociedad intergeneracional y el auge de la mentalidad adolescente, que ha causado un gran daño a la política y a la sociedad.En la continuación de su best seller internacional La batalla cultural, el afamado escritor, politólogo y conferencista Agustín Laje... Read more
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Invisible Trillions
By: Raymond W. Baker
Narrated by: Dave Clark
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Essential reading for anyone truly interested in saving democracy from the predations of kleptocracy and plutocracy.
-Charles Davidson, The Journal of Democracy
This book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.
Over the last half... Read more
Untouchable
By: Elie Honig
Narrated by: Elie Honig
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ'#1 ON COSMOPOLITAN'S 11 BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOKS TO ADD TO YOUR TBR PILE IN 2023 CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal... Read more
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The Straight State
By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives,... Read more
Queer Career
By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow provides a masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an... Read more
Dark Shadows
By: Joanna Lillis
Narrated by: Polly Lee
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past... Read more
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Waco Rising
By: Kevin Cook
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.
Kevin Cook finally... Read more
Manufacturing Consensus
By: Samuel Woolley
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samuel Woolley argues, social media has democratized propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a... Read more
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The Need for an Evolutionary Movement in Politics
By: Stephen Dinan
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Dinan encourages us to ground ourselves in the deeper values that unite us such as liberty, equality, and justice for all - which are bedrock principles of the United States. He says we must take on the spirit of nonviolent evolutionaries as we hold a vision of possibility rather than one of opposition. Read more
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Täuschung
By: Maggie Haberman
Narrated by: Jutta Seifert
Length: 23 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Die mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Journalistin der New York Times enthüllt, warum dem Ex-Präsident das Comeback gelingen kann. Sie ist Donald Trumps erklärte Lieblingsfeindin unter den Journalisten, niemand hat die Berichterstattung über den Präsidenten stärker geprägt als sie: Maggie Haberman erhielt für ihre Reportagen den... Read more
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Grüner wird's nicht
By: William Sutcliffe
Narrated by: Jochen Schaible
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
DER 13-JÄHRIGE LUKE WILL EINFACH NUR GECHILLTE SOMMERFERIEN VERBRINGEN – DOCH DANN WIRBELT EINE GRUPPE VON KLIMAAKTIVISTEN SEINE NACHBARSCHAFT GRÜNDLICH DURCHEINANDER. Als Lukes große Schwester ins Protestcamp auf die andere Straßenseite zieht, liegen die Nerven der Eltern blank. In Lukes Augen sind die Öko-Rebellen mit ihren Bongo-Trommeln... Read more
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Laws
By: Plato
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Glenn
Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in prison
The Classical Greek philosopher Plato was instrumental in the development of Western philosophy and... Read more
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