Politics & Economy audiobooks

Struggle Makes Us Human

By: Vijay Prashad

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.



Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad,... Read more

From Conquest to Colony

By: Kirsten Schultz

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance



Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the... Read more

One Bright Moon

By: Andrew Kwong

Narrated by: Jason Chong

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Michael Crouch Award, debut category of the National Biography Award: From famine to freedom, how a young boy fled Chairman Mao's China to a new life in Australia
Andrew Kwong was only seven when he witnessed his first execution. The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his commitment as a revolutionary in... Read more

You May Never See Us Again

By: Jane Martinson

Narrated by: Olivia Poulet

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The untold story of post-war Britain. Told through the lives of the two men who helped shape it: Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay.You May Never See Us Again is the only definitive story of David and Frederick Barclay - commonly known as the Barclay brothers. Born poor, these enigmatic twins built one of the... Read more

Ciudad Feliz

By: Charles Montgomery

Narrated by: Martin Untrojb

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Un viaje por todo el mundo y una exploración reveladora de cómo las ciudades pueden hacer -y hacen- que seamos más felices.'Ciudad feliz', de Charles Montgomery, está revolucionando la forma de concebir la vida urbana.Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito... Read more

Der Grüne Blackout

By: Alexander Wendt

Narrated by: Mark Bremer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Energiewende steckt in einer tiefen Krise: Regierungspolitiker räumen mittlerweile ein, dass kaum etwas in dem deutschen Musterschülerprojekt nach Plan läuft. Millionen Stromkunden bringen mehr als 20 Milliarden Euro an jährlichen Subventionen auf, während nur wenige profitieren. Das grüne Jobwunder fand nur in Prognosen statt. Und zur... Read more

Die DNA der USA

By: Sandra Navidi

Narrated by: Katja Amberger

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Amerika durchlebt ein epochales Gesellschaftsbeben. Mit faschistischen Methoden versuchen die Republikaner, die Demokratie zu kapern und eine autokratische Herrschaft zu etablieren: Sie befeuern die militante Spaltung der Gesellschaft, fördern einen Führerkult, rufen zu Gewalt auf und erschaffen mittels Propaganda eine fiktive Realität. Dabei... Read more

Sodan vanki

By: Seppo Jääskeläinen

Narrated by: Juha Seppänen

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Edesmenneen sotavangin karu tarina näyttää, millaiset haavat sotavankeus voi ihmiseen jättää.Kun Kannaksen puolustuslinja sortuu puna-armeijan suurhyökkäyksen edessä kesäkuussa 1944, Ville Skarp joutuu sotavangiksi. Metsätyömies Skarp marssii uuvuttavan matkan Neuvostoliittoon sotavankileirille, jossa häntä pidetään viisi kovaa kuukautta. Vaikka... Read more

Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Irene Machado, Ramsé...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

En abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos que asisten al movimiento de liberación africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro años después del asesinato del presidente socialista democráticamente electo, Patrice Lumumba.
Porque el diario trata el admitido "fracaso" del Che, examina... Read more

Otra Vez

By: Ernesto Che Guevara

Narrated by: Ignacio Rodriguez de Anca & Gustavo Dardes

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

El diario del segundo viaje a lo largo de Latinoamérica de un joven argentino, revelando el afloramiento de un comprometido revolucionario conocido como "el Che."

Esta secuela a Diarios de motocicleta incluye cartas, poesía y periodismo que documentan el segundo viaje latinoamericano del joven Ernesto Guevara después de obtener su título de la... Read more

Has the West Lost It?

By: Kishore Mahbubani

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble.

The West's centuries-old status as the centre of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers - China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America - rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react?... Read more

The Bank That Lived a Little

By: Philip Augar

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Bank that Lived a Little by Phillip Augar, read by Jonathan Keeble.

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British high street since Big Bang in 1986. Philip Augar... Read more

The Ethical Capitalist: How to Make Business Work Better for Society

By: Julian Richer

Narrated by: Julian Richer

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Ethical Capitalist, written and read by Julian Richer.

*A Financial Times Book of the Month*

Capitalism has lost its way. Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes, and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at the system... Read more

History in the House

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: Ric Jerrom

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established... Read more

امپراتوری USA

By: دانیله گانزر & سید ابراهیم تقوی

Narrated by: سید ابراهیم تقوی

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

«بیایید ابتدا نگرشمان را درباره‌ی صلح بازنگری کنیم. تعداد بیش از حد زیادی از ما آن را ناممکن می‌پنداریم... اما این پنداری خطرناک و شکست باورانه است. به این نتیجه‌گیری می‌انجامد که جنگ اجتناب ناپذیر است، که بشریت محکوم به نابودی است... اما مشکلات ما ساخته‌ی دست بشر است و لذا می‌تواند به دست بشر حل نیز بشود.»جان اف. کندی (رئیس جمهور ایالات متحده... Read more

World Economic Meltdown 2.0

By: Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti

Narrated by: Alan Courtright

Length: 15 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Want to understand what causes financial crises so you can protect your nest egg? Learn more about the global economy to prepare yourself for what’s coming. Does the crash of 2008 still give you nightmares? Want to stay ahead of future collapses? Rogue economist Khafra K. Om-Ra-Seti can help you do just that. After studying global finance for... Read more

The End of Woman

By: Carrie Gress

Narrated by: Monroe Jillian

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life,... Read more

This Land

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: Owen Jones

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The No.1 bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent, revelatory account of where the Left - and Britain - goes next

On 12th December 2019, the Left died. That at least was the view of much of Britain's media and political establishment, who saw the electoral defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour... Read more

Breviario dei politici secondo il Cardinale Mazzarino

By: Giulio Mazzarino

Narrated by: Serafino Balduzzi & Vittorio Volpi

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Il breviario dei politici contiene una raccolta delle massime di comportamento e strategie elaborate dal cardinale Mazzarino per manipolare le leve del potere. Il libro si costituisce come una guida politica dedicata all'individuo che vuole prevalere sugli altri, con astuzia e dissimulazione.- Read more

The Moment

By: Bakari Sellers

Narrated by: Bakari Sellers

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Toni Morrison once said, ‘The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.’ In The Moment, Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely cuts through the noise of the calculated, well-financed, and relentless campaign by conservative media, think tanks, and politicians to end the post-George Floyd ‘racial reckoning’ and reverse the... Read more

Apprentice in Wonderland

By: Ramin Setoodeh

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, the never-fully-told, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality series that catapulted him to the White House.Here for the first time is the definitive untold story of... Read more

Follow the Science

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma has continuously put profits over people with dangerous results. Now,... Read more

The Doctor's In: Treating America's Greatest Cyber Security Threat

By: Alan D. Weinberger

Narrated by: Roy Stinson

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

About the BookMany have compared the “Roaring Twenties” from the last century, to the 2020s of the 21st century. The new freedoms of this era (similar to 100 years ago) have caused disruptions, mainly as the Internet ‘flattens’ our world and accelerates outcomes that can be felt around the globe. One certainty, no matter how the new economic,... Read more

Gurkha

By: Kailash Limbu

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words.


In the... Read more