Politics & Economy audiobooks

Diary of an Invasion

By: Andrey Kurkov

Narrated by: David Aranovich

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.



This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a... Read more

The Defiant Optimist

By: Durreen Shahnaz

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Global inequality is growing. Financial markets disenfranchise women, the 99 percent, and the planet itself. But what if we found the source of power and turned it inside out? What if we made the tools of the system available to all?



From growing up with constrained life chances, to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to... Read more

Liberty's Dawn

By: Emma Griffin

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).



This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the... Read more

We Hold Our Breath

By: Micah Fields

Narrated by: Micah Fields

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas.

When Hurricane Harvey made... Read more

Victorious in Defeat

By: Alexander V. Pantsov

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 25 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures



Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War,... Read more

The Origins of Victory

By: Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that successfully pursue disruptive innovation can gain a major advantage over their rivals, while those that fail to do so risk exposing their countries to great danger.



The... Read more

Against Decolonization

By: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.



Olúfemi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to... Read more

Killing for Coal

By: Thomas G. Andrews

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six... Read more

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

By: Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the... Read more

Platform Capitalism

By: Nick Srnicek

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how... Read more

Overreach

By: Susan L. Shirk

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions.



Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to... Read more

Crystallizing Public Opinion

By: Edward Bernays

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bare-Knuckled Truths of Edward Bernays

You may not know Edward Bernays, but Edward Bernays knows you. His 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence and manipulate public attitudes over the past century, and the mass media continues that practice today.

This... Read more

Wie man einen Drachen tötet

By: Michail Chodorkowski

Narrated by: Oliver Dupont

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Spätestens seit dem Beginn von Wladimir Putins zunehmend aggressivem Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Ukraine im Februar 2022 ist klar: Eine friedliche Weltordnung MIT Putin ist kaum denkbar. Doch wie kann ein totalitäres Regime beendet werden? Durch wen? Eher von innen oder von außen? Gäbe es überhaupt eine Chance auf einen einigermaßen friedlichen... Read more

Сумерки вождей

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Владимир Паляница

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Аудиостудия "Ардис" предлагает вашему вниманию книгу Леонида Млечина "Сумерки вождей. Повесть о Ленине и Сталине без начала и конца".Кто бы мог подумать, что судьба мира окажется в руках двух человек, которые в глазах своих современников выглядели едва ли не маргиналами. Однако вихри событий вынесли Ленина и Сталина к рычагам власти. По... Read more

China and the Chinese

By: Herbert Allen Giles

Narrated by: Thomas Collins

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation,—of its... Read more

33 Geheimnisse, die Ihnen Ihre Bank zum Thema Geldanlage nicht verrät

By: Norman Argubi

Narrated by: Norman Argubi

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

33 Geheimnisse der Geldanlage gibt Dir klare Hinweise und Tipps für Deine private Geldanlagen. Du lernst die unterschiedlichen Vertragsarten kennen und verstehst, was es mit den Bankangeboten auf sich hat. Wie verdient die Bank wirklich ihr Geld und was kann man von vermeidlich sicheren Geldanlagen halten. Nach dem Lesen oder Hören dieses Buches... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: James Joy

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Prince (c. 1500) by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise, sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to... Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Jack Shelly

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1848) is an essay from a speech by Henry David Thoreau, a lifelong abolitionist. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s-1850s. The speech dealt with slavery, but at the same time criticized American imperialism, particularly the Mexican–American War. Thoreau asserts that because governments are... Read more

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

By: John S. Mosby

Narrated by: Lawrence Skinner

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"When Lincoln's proclamation was issued, the Virginia Convention was still in session and had not passed a secession ordinance, so she was not included with States against which the proclamation was first directed. With the exception of the north-western section of the State, where there were few slaves and the Union sentiment predominated, the... Read more

Deine beste Investition

By: Patrick Greiner

Narrated by: Patrick Greiner

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

DEINE BESTE INVESTITION! Wie du das gesamte Provisionsmodell der Finanzbranche zu deinem eigenen, deutlich finanziellen Vorteil nahezu komplett ausschalten kannst. 98% der Deutschen wissen nicht, dass ihre Investments & Anlagen - wie Lebensversicherungen, Altersvorsorge & Depots etc. - nach Abzug von Provisions- und Produktkosten, sowie... Read more

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Thorben Odenholz

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, auch Das Kommunistische Manifest genannt, wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels um die Jahreswende 1847/48 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst. Es ist am 21. Februar 1848 in London erschienen, kurz vor der Februarrevolution in Frankreich und vor der Märzrevolution im Deutschen Bund und in... Read more

Nicht um jeden Preis

By: Roman Kmenta

Narrated by: Roman Kmenta

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hörbuch ist extrem wertvoll für Marketing und Vertrieb, für Handel und Gewerbe, für Dienstleister und Selbstständige, für die Gründung und die Führung von Unternehmen. Es macht sich im barsten Sinne des Wortes "bezahlt". Warum? Es geht in diesem Hörbuch zwar darum, viel zu verkaufen, aber eben nicht um jeden Preis! Dabei geht es zwar... Read more

La República

By: Platón

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La República es la más conocida e influyente obra de Platón, y es el compendio de las ideas que conforman su filosofía. Se trata de un diálogo entre Sócrates y otros personajes, como los discípulos o parientes del propio Sócrates. El tema central de la República es la reflexión sobre qué es la justicia y cómo se expresa en el hombre, lo que... Read more

Apología de Sócrates

By: Platón

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

En Apología de Sócrates, Platón da una versión del discurso que Sócrates pronunció como defensa, ante los tribunales atenienses, en el juicio en el que se le acusó de corromper a la juventud y no creer en los dioses de la polis. Aunque su datación exacta es incierta, el texto, por su temática, pertenece al ciclo platónico de las primeras obras... Read more