Politics & Economy audiobooks

Gewalt im Namen der Ehre

By: Jan Ilhan Kizilhan

Narrated by: Marco Bauer

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Verbrechen aus "Ehre": Hintergründe und Strategien zur Prävention. Obwohl sogenannte Ehrenmorde nur einen kleinen Teil der Tötungsdelikte hierzulande ausmachen, erschüttern sie uns besonders, wir sind kaum in der Lage, sie rational und emotional zu verstehen. Der Gedanke, einen womöglich sogar nahestehenden Menschen zu ermorden, nur um die... Read more

McKinsey 7S Framework

By: 50minutes

Narrated by: Sara Wright

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Boost business performance, prepare for change and implement effective strategies This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing the McKinsey 7S framework, providing you with the essential information and saving time. In 50 minutes you will be able to: • Understand the 7 aspects of this dynamic model • Realize... Read more

Así no es

By: Viri Ríos & Ray Campos

Narrated by: Kerygma Flores

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo? NO, ASÍ NO ES Así no es desmitifica conceptos equivocados y devela verdades incómodas que... Read more

Der Aktien- und Börsenführerschein – Jubiläumsausgabe

By: Beate Sander

Narrated by: Ursula Berlinghof

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit der 10., komplett neu bearbeiteten Auflage erscheint der mehr als 25.000-fach verkaufte Bestseller neu mit Musterdepots für erfolgsorientierte Anleger (Aktien und EFTs) und weiterhin großem Frage- und Antwortteil für Selbsttests zum Thema Börsenwissen. Vom Portfolio-Management über unterschiedliche Anlageklassen bis hin zu ETFs,... Read more

King Mithridates the Great of Pontus: The Life and Legacy of the Leader Who Challenged Rome during the Mithridatic Wars

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps none are as enigmatic and forgotten as King Mithridates the Great of Pontus. Despite numerous ancient sources detailing the life of the foreign monarch and his wars with Rome, and despite being an interesting character who endured years as a fugitive in his... Read more

Franklin & Washington

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: Andrew Tell

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

""Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution."" —Gordon S. Wood From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's... Read more

Phoenix Sarkhi Bharari Ghenara Udyojak

By: Ravindra Zende

Narrated by: Amogh

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

यश मिळवण्यापेक्षा यश टिकवणं कठीण असतं म्हणतात. प्रचंड नुकसानीचा सामना करावा लागणाऱ्या उद्योजकांना असा अनुभव घ्यावा लागतो. अशा अनुभवांमुळे खचून न जाता जे पुन्हा स्वत:ला सिद्ध करतात, तेच उद्योजक काळाच्या कसोटीवर टिकतात. 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

America in the World

By: Robert B. Zoellick

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 24 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

America has a long history of diplomacy–ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker–now is your chance to see the impact these Americans have had on the world.
 Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have... Read more

A Man of Iron

By: Troy Senik

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—one of America’s most unusual presidents and the only one to serve two non-consecutive terms.

“Entertaining and astute” (Booklist), A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland—the honest, principled, and plain-spoken... Read more

God, Guns, and Sedition

By: Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the latest flashpoints in a process that... Read more

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

By: Russ Roberts

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A forgotten book by one of history's greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune.

Adam Smith may have become the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that when it came to the behavior of individuals—the way we perceive... Read more

Mission

By: Robert Matzen

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America’s boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in twenty often-brutal World War II combat missions over Germany and France. In mere... Read more

Trump and Me

By: Mark Singer

Narrated by: Mark Singer & David Remnick

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark... Read more

Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world

By: Chris Ryan

Narrated by: Michael Fenner

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world.

In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life. He leads you through a variety of... Read more

Why We Did It

By: Tim Miller

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism? As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to... Read more

The Ordinary Virtues

By: Michael Ignatieff

Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents... Read more

Between Two Worlds

By: Roxana Saberi

Narrated by: Roxana Saberi

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Roxana Saberi had been living and working in Iran for nearly six years when four men forced her from her Tehran apartment one morning in January 2009. That night, she ended up in solitary confinement in the notorious Evin Prison. Her captors harshly interrogated her and accused her of espionage, a charge she denied. Weeks passed before her... Read more

Conspiracy Theories

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crazy conspiracies you may have never heard before You’ve probably heard of the Illuminati, of the Denver Airport, or Area 51, but there are a lot more conspiracy theories out there. Some simply remained theories, and others turned out to be real. After all, not everybody makes things up from scratch, do they? Most theories are based on a... Read more

William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language... Read more

The Wolves of K Street

By: Brody Mullins & Luke Mullins

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a “not-so-guilty pleasure” (The New York Times): irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and impossible to put down.

In the 1970s, Washington’s center of power began to shift away from elected... Read more

Lucky

By: Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
 
Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals... Read more

The End of Normal

By: James K. Galbraith

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe-and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the... Read more

The Hidden Forces Behind Wealth and Poverty: Understanding Nations' Fates

By: Merrick Draxler

Narrated by: Rob Williamson

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hidden Forces Behind Wealth and Poverty: Understanding Nations' Fates
⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐
Are you eager to advance in your career and enhance your understanding of historical lessons to shape a better future?
In search of a comprehensive resource that encompasses all the necessary elements to grasp these crucial... Read more