Politics & Economy audiobooks

Can Intervention Work?

By: Rory Stewart

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus distill their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of 'nation building.' As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans, the expansion of the EU, and the... Read more

التجربة الالمانية.. دراسة في عوامل النجاح السياسي

By: محمد صادق إسماعيل

Narrated by: رهام الزين

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

تعدّ التجربة الألمانية تجربةً ناجحة اقتصادية في الأساس ويعدو ذلك إلى النظام الذي وضعه المستشار بيسمارك في القرن التاسع عشر والذي كان سببًا في منحه لقب المستشار الحديدي حيث وضع نظام التقاعد والضمان الاجتماعي والصحي والتي لا زالت قائمة حتى وقتنا الحالي.. لكن كيف استفادت ألمانيا من هذا سياسيًا؟! وكيف انتقلت إلى الواجهة السياسية عنوة؟ ولماذا تعدّ... Read more

Erasmus

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Renaissance theologist who brought new light to Dutch changes during the Protestant wars against Spain. He stood for humanism, children’s rights, and theological ideologies that he wasn’t afraid to spread across the Dutch nation, which was going through some dramatic transformations at that time. His political and theological ideas should not... Read more

Madame: Minna Craucherin levoton elämä

By: Kari Selén

Narrated by: Tuija Kosonen

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanki, valemiljonääri, vakooja. Vuonna 1891 vaatimattomiin oloihin syntynyt Maria Lindell tunnetaan paremmin nimellä Minna Craucher. Pikkurikollisena toiminut Lindell päätti 1920-luvulla luoda itsensä uudelleen vapauduttuaan jälleen kerran vankilasta. Syntyi madame Minna Craucher, hurmaava ja viehättävä seurapiirinainen. Järjestelmällisesti... Read more

Whatever It Took

By: Henry Langrehr & Jim DeFelice

Narrated by: Mike Ortego

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom. 

Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares... Read more

In Search of the Color Purple

By: Salamishah Tillet

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more

1978. El año que marchamos a la guerra

By: Guillermo Parvex

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

El mismo autor del exitoso Un veterano de tres guerras entrega este relato que cobra actualidad a 40 años de una guerra que no fue
Mientras estudiaba Periodismo en la Universidad de Chile, Guillermo Parvex fue llamado por el Ejército para recibir instrucción militar específica y ser parte de las milicias chilenas que se dirigirían a la ... Read more

Misch dich ein!

By: Andrea Rings

Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Arguments for Future: Argumentieren lernen wie Luisa und Greta in fünf kurzen knackigen Kapiteln: Was kommt auf uns zu? Inwiefern sind Gesellschaft und Politik dafür verantwortlich? Wie kann ich Klimamythen entschärfen? Tipps, wie Klimakommunikation gelingen kann. Und Ideen für eigenes Engagement und Gesprächstaktiken. Also, "Misch dich ein"! Read more

System Error

By: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.”—Reed Hastings, cofounder and CEO of Netflix""A triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated."" — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA... Read more

Kauhun aika: neljä väkivallan kuukautta Jämsässä 1918

By: Jukka Rislakki

Narrated by: Markus Asunta

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Vaikka Jämsässä ei sodittu vuonna 1918, siellä koettiin kammottava ja verinen puhdistus, jollaista ei todistettu missään muualla Suomessa sotatoimialueen ulkopuolella. Poikkeuksellista oli sekin, että kymmenet murhatyöt tapahtuivat kirkossa ja sen lähistöllä. Tapahtumat jäivät arvoituksiksi vuosikymmenien ajaksi, eikä kukaan rohjennut käsitellä... Read more

Alexander Hamilton

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Hamilton was a Caribbean-born American leader, political leader, legal scholar, army leader, legal representative, lender, and economic expert who lived from January eleventh, 1755 or 1757 till July twelfth, in 1804. He was a founding father of the US of America.He was the creator of the country's monetary system, the Federalist Party,... Read more

Siege

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

Just one year into Donald Trump’s term as president, Michael Wolff told the electrifying story of a White House consumed by controversy, chaos, and intense rivalries. Fire and Fury, an instant... Read more

Churchill

By: Roy Jenkins

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 38 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. From a very young age, Churchill believed he was destined to play a great role in the life of his nation, and he determined to prepare himself for the task. Roy Jenkins shows in fascinating detail how Churchill educated himself for greatness, how he worked out his livelihood through writing as well... Read more

The Storm Is Here

By: Luke Mogelson

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory power

After years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the... Read more

Los Superhéroes están en Todas Partes

By: Kamala Harris

Narrated by: Jane Santos

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Antes de que Kamala Harris se convirtiera en abogada, senadora y vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos, fue una niña a la que le encantaban los superhéroes. Y cuando los buscaba a su alrededor, ¡se sorprendía al encontrarlos en todas partes! Los había en su familia, entre sus amigos, incluso en su misma calle; los superhéroes estaban dondequiera que... Read more

فن التجسس: "السي.آي.إيه" الجهاز الخفي لوكالة الاستخبارات المركزية الأميركية

By: هنري كرامبتون

Narrated by: علي سطوف

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

يوجز هذا الكتاب "فن التجسس" للمؤلف هنري كرامبتون عالماً جديداً من المخاطر ودور جمع الاستخبارات والعمل الخفي في عوالم مجهولة. ويشتمل على استكشاف المبادئ الإستراتيجية والدينامية المعقدة الموجودة بين النزاع والاستخبارات والحكم والمجتمع، كل ذلك مكتوب بلغة حكائية، سردية، ادبية. مؤلف هذا الكتاب يتبنى بوضوح الآراء الواردة في كتاب الصيني الشهير صن تزو... Read more

Planet Canada

By: John Stackhouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Watton

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.

Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and... Read more

America: The Farewell Tour

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.

America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris... Read more

33 politische Situationen - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Navid Kermani

Narrated by: Navid Kermani & Sonia Mikich

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum ein Wort in Deutschland hat solches Gewicht: Der Träger des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels Navid Kermani hat sich zu einer der führenden intellektuellen Stimmen seiner Generation entwickelt. Wachsam wie zweifelnd beobachtet er die Gegenwart, berichtet aus Regionen, die nicht im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit stehen, und gibt der... Read more

Wo? Stehen wir in der Kris - Vom Scheitern der Politik und neuen Chancen (ungekürzt)

By: Marita Kühne

Narrated by: Vincent Schott

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsere Kinder drohen die großen Verlierer der Corona-Krise zu werden - und zwar aufgrund eines schlechten Krisenmanagements. In diesem Buch zeigt Marita Kühne schonungslos auf, wie die Politik nicht nur in Sachen Schulpolitik versagt. Krisen fordern uns heraus, doch wir drohen an verschiedenen Faktoren zu scheitern. Durch die Wirren der... Read more

Salvador Allende. La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular

By: Daniel Mansuy

Narrated by: Axel Cornelli

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década de 1970 hasta la actualidad.
En su último libro, el filósofo y ensayista chileno Daniel Mansuy lleva a cabo un profundo análisis del legado político de Salvador Allende durante los mil días del gobierno de la Unidad Popular. A través de un ... Read more

1917

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution.In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice;... Read more

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocking bestseller: the original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent seventy-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.New revelations: featuring fifteen explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins’s classic... Read more

Woman Walking Ahead

By: Eileen Pollack

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was... Read more