Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Moscow Rules

By: Antonio J. Mendez & Jonna Mendez

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A “devilishly fun” (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives.
Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous... Read more

Discurso da Servidão Voluntária

By: Étienne de La Boétie & Alexandre Pires Vieira

Narrated by: Fernando Lauletta

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

O Discurso da servidão voluntária de Étienne de La Boétie é uma análise política sobre a obediência. Afirma que estados e governos são mais vulneráveis do que as pessoas imaginam e podem entrar em colapso em um instante: assim que o consentimento dos governados é retirado. Esta é a fascinante tese defendida por La Boétie.Em tempos que... Read more

The Quaking of America

By: Resmaa Menakem

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country.
In THE QUAKING OF AMERICA, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes readers through somatic processes addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist... Read more

The Code of Capital

By: Katharina Pistor

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this... Read more

Argentina primero

By: Martín Redrado

Narrated by: Martín Redrado

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Un plan para dejar de improvisar en la Argentina post pandemia y evitar las crisis recurrentes que minan la confianza interna y externa, logrando así que se estabilice la economía, se reduzcan la inflación y la pobreza, y se inicie al fin un sendero inclusivo, virtuoso y de crecimiento sostenido.
Hace décadas que la Argentina oscila de... Read more

Populism

By: Cas Mudde & Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship... Read more

Dark Psychology

By: Amanda Grapes

Narrated by: Joseph D. Weaver

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This book contains the following 3 titles:

Book 1: People who are manipulative, often make use of secret tactics to get other people to do what they want. They try to exercise control over their victims by using hidden aggression methods. This is different from regular aggression, because it is typically sneaky and subtle.
In the third chapter of... Read more

My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Narrated by: Linda Lavin

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture.

My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender... Read more

Trust

By: Tarun Khanna

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Trust
Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built up customs and institutions like enforceable contracts, an impartial legal system,... Read more

Hunting Season

By: James Harkin

Narrated by: Paul Fox

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.

On August 19,... Read more

Social Butterflies

By: Michael Sanders & Susannah Hume

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this essential and timely book, behavioral scientists Sanders and Hume demonstrate the astonishing reach of our social networks, and why we need to reclaim their power to effect positive change in our professional and private lives.



The rise of social media has sent our social instincts into overdrive, and the impact of our networks has never... Read more

Die Wirecard-Story

By: Volker ter Haseborg & Melanie Bergermann

Narrated by: Stefan Lehnen

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Fall Wirecard ist der wohl spektakulärste Betrugsfall der deutschen Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 1,9 Milliarden Euro – der Unternehmensgewinn aus mehr als fünf Jahren – sind nicht da. 20 Milliarden Euro Börsenwert – vernichtet. Der ehemalige Konzernchef Markus Braun kam in Untersuchungshaft, Ex-Vorstand Jan Marsalek gelang eine filmreife... Read more

30 Minuten: Gotthold Ephraim Lessings "Nathan der Weise"

By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Klassiker der Weltliteratur in dreißig Minuten zusammengefasst, mit den wichtigsten Zitaten – Szene für Szene, Akt für Akt! Mit Inhaltsangabe, Informationen zu Autor, allen Charakteren, literarischer Epoche, geschichtlichem Hintergrund: Diese neue Serie wendet sich an Lernende, Studierende – und solche, die ihre Kenntnisse der klassischen... Read more

Unthinkable

By: Jamie Raskin

Narrated by: Jamie Raskin

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to... Read more

Reclaiming Hope

By: Michael R. Wear

Narrated by: Stu Gray

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller, author of Reason for God"A warm, engaging read of the author’s experience with faith, politics, and the intersection (and sometimes collision) of the two. Reclaiming Hope is an important contribution in this age of religious and political... Read more

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Ethan Williams

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is a book written by Karl Marx, a German philosopher and economist, in 1852. The book analyzes the political situation in France during the mid-19th century and provides a critique of the bourgeois republicanism that had taken hold there.The title of the book refers to the date of the coup d'état in... Read more

Dirty Work

By: Eyal Press

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who... Read more

Merchant, Soldier, Sage

By: David Priestland

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new interpretation of modern history as a struggle between three economic groupsWe are now living in an age of merchants, but it was not always so. The history of civilization, in large part, is a story of a battle between agrarian aristocracy, the military, and a class of learned experts, or priests. Yet in seventeenth-century England... Read more

Winnie and Nelson

By: Jonny Steinberg

Narrated by: Puleng Lange-Stewart

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARD WINNER • AN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • A WASHINGTON POST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela that “does justice both to the couple’s political heroism and... Read more

Menachem Begin

By: Daniel Gordis

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel’s underclass, the first Israeli to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a proud Jew but not a conventionally religious one, Menachem Begin was both complex and controversial. Born in Poland in 1913, Begin was a youthful admirer of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky and soon... Read more

At The End Of The Tunnel

By: Dr. Mohamed Wafaey

Narrated by: Pandarosh

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What will push a doctor to the edge between love and revenge, when he discovers that the corruption that his journalist lover tried to uncover could change his fate forever? Read more

Andrew Carnegie: Reichtum und sein Gebrauch

By: Andrew Carnegie

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was also ist Reichtum? Wie entsteht er und wie verteilt er sich?" Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919), der seinerzeit einer der drei reichsten Amerikaner war, schrieb einen der ersten Ratgeber für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg: "The Empire of Business". In diesem Bestseller erklärt er, wie man es nach oben schaffen kann – und begründete damit das Genre der... Read more

The Age of Walls

By: Tim Marshall

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico border or in Britain's Brexit vote but in many other places as well. China has the great... Read more

The Smear

By: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda; an effort... Read more