Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

By: Eleanor Fitzsimons

Narrated by: Marlain Angelides

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first major biography of the trailblazing and controversial children’s author E. NesbitEdith Nesbit (1858-1924) is considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children’s adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the little-known details of her life,... Read more

El contrato social

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

„El hombre nace libre y, sin embargo, por todas partes se encuentra encadenado.“ - En El contrato social, Rousseau explora el concepto de libertad y las estructuras políticas que pueden permitir que las personas la adquieran. Argumenta que el poder soberano de un estado no reside en ningún gobernante sino en la voluntad de la población en... Read more

ابرقدرت ریاکار

By: میشائیل لودرس & سید ابراهیم تقوی

Narrated by: سید ابراهیم تقوی

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

ایالات متحده‌ی آمریکا ضامن دمکراسی و حقوق بشر به شمار می‌رود. ولی دفاع از این «ارزش‌ها» تنها یک روی سکه است. بر روی دیگر آن یک سیاست بی‌رحمانه‌ی مبتنی بر قدرت وجود دارد. با این حال افسانه‌ی آمریکایی هژمون از خود گذشته کارگر می‌افتد. از جمله به این دلیل که رسانه‌های ما اغلب معیارهایی دوگانه به کار می‌برند.میشائیل لودرس نشان می‌دهد که چه ساده... Read more

Psychology of Peoples

By: Gustave Le Bon

Narrated by: Tyler Boss

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After receiving a doctorate in medicine, Le Bon travelled in Europe, North Africa, and Asia and wrote several books on anthropology and archaeology. His interests later shifted to natural science and social psychology. Gustave Le Bon is best known for his seminal work „Crowd Psychology“ where he describes the psychological effects in various... Read more

Trust Signals

By: Scott Baradell

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What is a trust signal?
Let’s say you’re interested in a book you aren’t familiar with—this book, for example.
Before you buy it, you wonder, “Can I trust this author?” Can you trust that their book will be worth your money and your time?
The author, in turn, tries to prove their trustworthiness in a number of ways:
An accomplished and relevant... Read more

La mariscala

By: Claudia Nuñez

Narrated by: Kámala Videla

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú Read more

We Uyghurs Have No Say

By: Ilham Tohti

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The words of China's most famous political prisoner



In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of... Read more

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

By: Lerone A. Martin

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.



Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI... Read more

Ideological Fixation

By: Azar Gat

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After theorists around 1960 proclaimed the "death of ideology," ideological divides and clashes have reemerged with renewed intensity throughout the world. In the United States they have become particularly venomous. Each side in America's escalating ideological civil war charges the other with concocting "fake news" and "alternative facts." The... Read more

China's Law of the Sea

By: Isaac B. Kardon

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing "the rules" of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea.



Conflicts over specific rules lie at the heart of the disputes, which are... Read more

The Closed Partisan Mind

By: Matthew D. Luttig

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

American politics today can be defined by the intense and increasingly toxic divide between Democrats and Republicans. Matthew D. Luttig explores why so many Americans have endorsed this level of political conflict.



Luttig illustrates how the psychological need for closure leads people, regardless of whether they identify as Democrat or... Read more

The Cloud Revolution

By: Mark P. Mills

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.



The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal," where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it's going... Read more

Homelessness is a Housing Problem

By: Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area.... Read more

The Human Predicament

By: David Benatar

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions—and some people are plagued by them. Analytic philosophers have said relatively little about these important questions. The Human Predicament... Read more

Tamerlane: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mongol Conqueror

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until... Read more

Surf When You Can

By: Brett Crozier

Narrated by: Brett Crozier

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer.

Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that captured the attention of the nation. Brett Crozier, captain of the... Read more

Silent Cry

By: Dorothy J. Newton

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up. But she became the first in her family to graduate from college and moved out of poverty. She then began to live out her dreams in Dallas of a better home and life when she married celebrity superstar football player Nate Newton.... Read more

Persecuted

By: Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert & Nina Shea

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Christians are the world’s most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others.A woman is caught with a Bible and publicly shot to death. An elderly priest is abducted and never seen again. Three buses full of students and teachers are struck by roadside bombs. These... Read more

Faith Under Fire

By: Steve Rabey

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

As World War II raged, millions of men and women confronted injury, destruction, separation from home and loved ones, chaos, and death. These challenges and traumas and many others forced an entire generation of everyday heroes to take stock of their lives. And in the process, many turned to God in ways they never had before.In Faith Under Fire,... Read more

Cómo fabricar a una feminista...

By: Sara Huff

Narrated by: Raquel Villamar

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

En su primer libro con HarperEnfoque, la autora, conferenciante y exlíder feminista Sara Huff aborda el problema del verdadero feminismo, que ha corrompido y atenuado el valor y papel de las mujeres y la sociedad, al venderles una falsa libertad, y ayuda al lector a evitar caer en sus garras y en su trágica conclusión.En Cómo fabricar a una... Read more

Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro

By: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta

Narrated by: Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Leído por el autorEl premiado filósofo, conferenciante internacional y académico Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta nos trae un manifiesto filosófico que pretende animar a los lectores a aprender a pensar por sí mismos y no permitir que la tecnología domine y controle su vida.En un mundo de servicios de streaming a la carta y de interminables contenidos... Read more

Infiltration

By: Paul Sperry

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The most sinister terrorists won't be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East.They're already here.This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America, an alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture,... Read more

Sergeant York

By: John Perry

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year's conversion convinced him that killing was against God's will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer single-handedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days of World War I. He earned... Read more

Project President

By: Ben Shapiro

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Project President is a hilarious romp through American electoral history.From short, fat, bald John Adams' wig-throwing tantrums during the 1800 election to Abraham Lincoln's decision to grow a beard in 1860; from John F. Kennedy's choice to forgo the fedora at his inauguration to John Kerry's decision to get Botoxed for the 2004 race; from the... Read more