Politics & Economy audiobooks

What Are the Olympics For?

By: Jules Boykoff

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes... Read more

Five American Women Rebels: The Lives and Legacies of Some of the Women Who Decisively Changed American Society

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: KC Wayman

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

For much of American history, women were second-class citizens in the sense they could not vote or run for office and had few property rights. However, women were often able to overcome social restrictions and forcefully affect the world around them, sometimes nationally. This took a real force of character, determination, and sometimes... Read more

Estrategias Comerciales Binarias

By: Wayne Walker

Narrated by: César Salazar Tovar

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Como principiante en opciones binarias, después de leer este libro, usted podrá comprender, identificar y ejecutar diferentes estrategias para operar con opciones binarias en el mercado. ¿Estás listo para ganar dinero con el comercio de opciones binarias? ¡Sigue leyendo! Read more

Keeping Each Other Alive

By: Norman Hile

Narrated by: Norman Hile

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 sent him to serve a one year combat tour in South Vietnam’s I Corps, where the war was hottest. “Keeping Each Other Alive” is Hile’s memoir of that combat tour. Quoting from letters he wrote home... Read more

Jaanbaaz Rakha

By: A.R.Darshi

Narrated by: Bhupinder Singh

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jaanbaaz Rakha" by A.R.DarshiThe author of the book is a retired officer from the Punjab Civil Services, who has had firsthand experience with government policies. In this book, he shares an honest account of important historical events related to Punjab and Sikh history, particularly focusing on the life of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The... Read more

Drugs and the FDA

By: Mikkael A. Sekeres

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Thomas More's Utopia has spurred debate, reflection, and critical thinking since its original publication in the sixteenth century. More's fictional island of Utopia provides an exploration of issues that shook him and his contemporaries and that continue to be problematic in the modern day. The details of More's utopian society, such as the... Read more

7 Ways To Make Money For Kids

By: Frank Dixon

Narrated by: Shawn Lennox

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Do You Want to Set Your Kids Up For Financial Success?And Do You Want to Teach Your Kids Skills That Will Last a Lifetime and Make Their Life Easier and More Successful?The sad truth is that most children grow up knowing nothing about how to obtain, maintain and grow any kind of financial wealth…...which leads them to living a life of constant... Read more

The Nixon Conspiracy

By: Geoff Shepard

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Geoff Shepard’s shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American history.

Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon’s staff, he personally transcribed... Read more

Political Ideals (Unabridged)

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Francisca Jacobs, Alex Valliere & Jose Lemoyne

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Political Ideals," Bertrand Russell, the renowned philosopher and Nobel laureate, delves into the fundamental principles that shape political thought. With his characteristic clarity and incisiveness, Russell examines the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, exploring their historical origins, philosophical underpinnings, and... Read more

Looking at Lincoln

By: Maira Kalman

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lincoln's legacy is everywhere - there he is on your penny and five-dollar bill. And we are still the United States because Lincoln helped hold them together. But who was he, really? The little girl in this video wants to find out. Among the many other things, she discovers our sixteenth president was a man who believed in freedom for all, had a... Read more

The Great U.S.-China Tech War

By: Gordon G. Chang

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Beijing was not considered a tech contender a decade ago. Now, some call it a leader. America is already behind in critical areas. It is no surprise how Chinese leaders made their regime a tech powerhouse. They first developed and then implemented multiyear plans and projects, adopting a determined, methodical, and disciplined approach. As a... Read more

Portuguese Macau

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Macau is known as the Las Vegas of China. It attracts many tourists every year, and it has a unique set of laws and history behind it. How did it become this way? Well, one of the reasons is that it used to be part of the Portuguese Empire. We have probably all heard about the British in China, the Opium Wars, and the tea export, but you might... Read more

How The Light Gets In

By: Ashok Alexander

Narrated by: Ashok Alexander

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his memoir of an improbable start-up in public health, Ashok Alaxander writes about an organization with the audacious goal of ending needless deaths and sickness at scale, amongst India's poorest mothers and children. It is a great leap emboldened by an unshakable faith in the 'idea that cannot be denied'. It is a tale of adventure filled... Read more

Meine Spielzüge

By: Volker Struth

Narrated by: Stefan Lehnen

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Spielerberater sind sagenumwobene Figuren des Profifußballs. Volker Struth ist einer von ihnen, und sein Leben ist eine Abenteuergeschichte mit märchenhaftem Ende: Aufgewachsen in der Arbeitersiedlung von Pulheim bei Köln, machte ihn sein Ideenreichtum zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer und zum größten Spielerberater Deutschlands. Nun gewährt er... Read more

Outraged

By: Kurt Gray

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK • A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us

"A riveting read. . . . Overturns widespread assumptions about why we’re divided and reveals how we can come... Read more

Dresden

By: Victor Gregg

Narrated by: David John & Victor Gregg

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Dresden by Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud, read by David John and Victor Gregg.

'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged... Read more

Every Nation for Itself

By: Ian Bremmer

Narrated by: Willis Sparks

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget the G-7 and the G-20; we are entering a leaderless "G- Zero" era- with profound implications for every country and corporation.

The world power structure is facing a vacuum at the top. With the unifying urgency of the financial crisis behind us, the diverse political and economic values of the G-20 are curtailing the world's most powerful... Read more

Rwandan Genocide

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

I guess during the time I was struggling with middle school peers and worried about what other girls thought of my clothes, something nasty happened approximately 6,500 miles away, which is only an 8-hour flight from where I used to live. Who would have thought that even in the 90s, such atrocities would be committed? The movie Hotel Rwanda has... Read more

The Teachers

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

***A National Bestseller***

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
 
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always... Read more

Russia Without Putin

By: Tony Wood

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia



It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia... Read more

Kollision

By: Matthias Nass

Narrated by: Heiko Grauel

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

ZEITENWENDE IM INDOPAZIFIK: DER KOLLISIONSKURS ZWISCHEN CHINA UND DEN USA

Während die Welt gebannt auf die Ukraine schaut, formiert sich viele tausend Kilometer entfernt ein noch viel größerer Konflikt – China und die USA sind im Indopazifik auf Kollisionskurs. Denn hier entscheidet sich, wer im 21. Jahrhundert die weltpolitische Vorherrschaft... Read more

Wage Labor And Capital

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labor and Capital were intended to give an overview of Marx’s central theories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes “labor” from “labor-power”, and... Read more

Warriors of God

By: Nicholas Blanford

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle against Israel. Based on more than a decade and... Read more