Politics & Economy audiobooks

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

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Anna Isaksen

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into Henry David Thoreau's profound essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, where he argues passionately for the right of the individual to oppose governmental injustice. Originally penned in 1849, Thoreau's insights remain as vital and relevant today, influencing civil rights leaders from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr.Thoreau... Read more

Infinite Hope

By: Anthony Graves

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.

In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house... Read more

The Scheme

By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse & Jennifer Mueller

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts, and how it influenced the Trump administration's appointment of over 230 "business-friendly" judges, including the... Read more

Sheridan’s Secret Mission

By: Robert Cwiklik

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on... Read more

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island

By: John R Bruning

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces.

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at... Read more

Peak of the Devil: 100 Questions About Peak Oil Answered

By: Chip Haynes

Narrated by: Jeremy Bartlelt

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s that peak oil thing you keep jabbering on about?“Peak oil” is the phrase used to describe the point where the world’s oil supply, well, peaks. A fairly easy concept there. It’s the best we can do, and the best we will ever do, when it comes to pumping conventional crude oil out of the ground. After peak oil, it’s all downhill,... Read more

Affärernas Sverige: efterkrigstidens politiska skandaler

By: Kenth Olsson

Narrated by: Gert Lundstedt

Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

I mångas ögon framstår Sverige som ett oskuldens och rättsstatens högborg. Men stämmer det verkligen? Historikern Kenth Olsson slår hål på den myten när han behandlar 30 av Sveriges mest omtalade affärer och politiska skandaler som tog plats under efterkrigstiden. Olsson lyfter fram före detta hemligstämplade dokument, korruption, spioneri och... Read more

So-Called Normal

By: Mark Henick

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller.” —Rosie O’Donnell“So-Called Normal is a call to arms, yes, but it’s also a call to care, highlighting the power of kindness. Required reading for anyone working with children and teens.” —The Globe and MailA vital and triumphant story of perseverance and recovery by one of Canada’s foremost advocates for... Read more

Once a Warrior

By: Jake Wood

Narrated by: Jake Wood

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"The book that America needs right now."
--Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest Generation

"Jake Wood offers one of the most soaring definitions of service I've ever seen."
--Maria Shriver, award-winning journalist and author of I've Been Thinking

From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life... Read more

Krugman- Nobel Prize in Economics

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The last of six 2008 Nobel Prizes was awarded Monday to Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his research on free trade and globalization. Krugman discusses his research and theories with Jim Lehrer. Read more

Great Britain?

By: Torsten Bell

Narrated by: Torsten Bell

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

We all want to know what on earth is going on. Why real wages are flatlining but taxes are rising, and public services are still collapsing. Why our children can’t afford a house and our neighbours are using foodbanks. We are all yearning for a way out of the repeated economic crises, generational divisions and... Read more

Nerungi Varum Idiyosai

By: Sethupathi Arunachalam

Narrated by: Uma Maheswari

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

நெருங்கி வரும் இடியோசை (நாவல்) “நான் ஏழு நாளா ஒன்னுமே சாப்டல. சின்னச் சின்ன மீன், நத்தைங்கள்லாம் பிடிச்சு சாப்பிட்டுக்கிட்டு இருந்தேன். இப்போ அதெல்லாமும் குறைஞ்சு போச்சு. தாமரைக்குளம் இருக்குல்ல, அதெல்லாம் இப்போ வெறும் சேறும் சகதியுமாய்டுச்சு. சின்னப் பசங்க, பொண்ணுங்க எல்லாம் கழுத்தளவு தண்ணில நின்னுக்கிட்டு மீன், நத்தையெல்லாம் கிடைக்காதான்னு... Read more

The Octopus of Global Control

By: Charlie Robinson

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop & Darren Grimes

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Octopus of Global Control is a controversial, nonfiction book detailing how those in positions of power are able to manipulate society for their benefit, why they believe that they are entitled to impose their warped world view of reality on mankind, and how we can break free from their grip.The eight tentacles of control that are wrapped... Read more

Against the Tide

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Against the Tide by Roger Scruton and Mark Dooley, read by Kris Dyer.

'His moral courage shines through from the start.' – Sunday Telegraph

The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume.

The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative... Read more

Billions at Play

By: NJ Ayuk

Narrated by: Adera Gandy & Boet Schouwinck

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“I agree with the points made—and with Ayuk’s case for the critical role that OPEC will play in helping African oil products achieve a much-deserved voice in the petroleum industry.” —OPEC Secretary-General, H.E. Mohammad Sanusi BarkindoTwo decades of negotiating African oil and gas deals have given NJ Ayuk a grasp of the continent's energy... Read more

The Desert and the Sea

By: Michael Scott Moore

Narrated by: Corey Snow

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty,... Read more

Parliamentary America

By: Maxwell L. Stearns

Narrated by: Maxwell L. Stearns

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill-suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our... Read more

North Korea Journal

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.

In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael... Read more

Upheaval

By: Lou Dobbs

Narrated by: Lou Dobbs

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation’s most intractable problems.

In 2012, Lou Dobbs Tonight celebrated its one-year anniversary and a steadily growing viewership. Now, expanding on the “Chalk Talks” segment from his popular program, Dobbs gives his take on some of the country’s most... Read more

The Adversity of Diversity

By: Carol M. Swain & Mike Towle

Narrated by: Carol M. Swain & Freddy Richardson

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace... Read more

المشروع الجديد

By: شيماء المرزوقي

Narrated by: رهام حمدي زيدان

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"يبحث بطلنا عن فكرة مشروعٍ يمكنه تنفيذه والمشاركة به في مسابقة المدرسة، فيسأل أفراد عائلته لمساعدته بأفكارِ مشاريعٍ يمكن أن تساعده. بالفعل يخبروه جميعًا بمقترحاتٍ متنوعة وجميلة، ولكن عندما زارتهم جدته اقترحت عليه فكرة مشروعٍ متعلق بتراث أجدادهم يُحيي به القديم ويبني جسورًا بينه وبين الحاضر. يا تُرى، ما المشروع الذي سيختاره بطلنا؟ تدعونا القصة... Read more

The Return of Resentment

By: Robert A. Schneider

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The term "resentment" has dominated US news analysis since November 2016. Despite its increased use, this word seems to defy easy categorization. Does "resentment" describe many interlocking sentiments, or is it just another way of saying "anger"? Does it suggest an irrational grievance, as opposed to a legitimate callout of injustice? Does it... Read more