Politics & Economy audiobooks

Über menschliche Freiheit - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unser Gefühl frei zu sein, Entscheidungen nach Abwägung des Für und Wider zu treffen und dann auch dafür die Verantwortung zu tragen, Autoren unseres Lebens zu sein, wird heute von einigen Neurowissenschaftlern, aber von je her von Deterministen unterschiedlicher Couleur, als eine Illusion bezeichnet. Julian Nida-Rümelin entwickelt in diesem... Read more

Shooting History - Abridged

By: Jon Snow

Narrated by: Jon Snow

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps... Read more

Die Menschenrechte sind universell - Abridged

By: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Narrated by: Julian Nida-Rümelin

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Am 10. Dezember 1948 verabschiedeten die noch jungen Vereinten Nationen die "Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte", die zur Grundlage völkerrechtlich verbindlicher Verträge in Gestalt des sogenannten Zivil- und des Sozialpaktes und weiterer völkerrechtlicher Vereinbarungen wurde. Julian Nida-Rümelin erläutert in diesem Vortrag anlässlich des... Read more

Criptomoedas - Abridged

By: Ricardo Garay

Narrated by: Alice Oratio

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolivro foi criado como um guia para ajudar você a investir e minerar criptomoedas. Oferece técnicas, meios e ferramentas para a melhor e mais eficiente prática no gerenciamento de carteiras de criptomoedas de forma inteligente, simples e prática. O guia abrange desde tipos de criptomoedas, como bitcoin, passando por como comprar e... Read more

Fiasco - Abridged

By: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

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Gestor Público - Abridged

By: Ricardo Garay

Narrated by: Alice Oratio

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este audiolivro foi baseado no software Gestor Público e oferece orientação e recursos em: Metodologia, Planejamento, Gerenciamento, Ações Públicas e Politicas Públicas. Ele oferece recursos descritivos para o gestor público para: Atividades, Auditorias, Autarquias, Despesas, Financiamentos, Gerenciamento, Licitações, Negociações, Orçamento,... Read more

Antike und moderne Demokratie - Abridged

By: Michael Stahl

Narrated by: Michael Stahl

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hat die griechische Demokratie einen Platz im modernen Geschichtsbewußtsein? Wie könnte die Brücke aussehen, über die der Historiker von seiner politischen Gegenwartserfahrung aus zu den alten Athenern gelangt? Vom Selbstverständnis der modernen Demokratie aus betrachtet, erscheint die politische Ordnung Athens in klassischer Zeit als etwas... Read more

Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You Were Wrong - Abridged

By: Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Narrated by: Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a media expert and network commentator, an engaging guide through the welter of misinformation-generated by politicians and the media alike-that surrounds political campaigns
Here, at last, is the book for anyone who ever wondered how the media extravaganzas we call political campaigns really work. Everything You Think You Know About... Read more

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more

Die Grundrechte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Abridged

By: Renate Förtsch

Narrated by: Christian Hoening & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Feudalismus, Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik sowie die Exzesse des 3. Reiches prägten die Entwicklung und Kodifizierung der 19 Grundrechtsartikel des Grundgesetzes der BRD. Sie sind Ausdruck des Aufbruchs in eine aufgeklärte, freiheitliche Welt, in der staatliche Übergriffe und Fremdbestimmung der Vergangenheit angehören sollen. "Die Würde... Read more

Imperial Grunts - Abridged

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror.
 
Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American... Read more

Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged

By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)

Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more

Sobre la tiranía - Abridged

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Edgar David Aguilera

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Nos deslizamos rápidamente hacia el fascismo. Timothy Snyder no nos permite hacernos ilusiones sobre nosotros mismos." —Svetlana Aleksiévich, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura "Timothy Snyder razona con una claridad incomparable (…) y ha escrito el tipo de libro, tan poco común, que se lee de una sentada pero al que se vuelve una y otra... Read more

Platoon Leader - Abridged

By: James R. McDonough

Narrated by: Joel Rooks

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'

"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more

The Greatest Generation Speaks - Abridged

By: Tom Brokaw

Narrated by: Tom Brokaw

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
 
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more

An Inconvenient Book - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, tackles some of our country’s biggest problems in this funny, outrageous, and entertaining book.

Glenn Beck believes that the reason why some of our biggest problems never seem to get fixed is simple: the solutions just aren’t very convenient. And as the host of a nationally... Read more

The Clinton Tapes - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Taylor Branch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.

This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an... Read more

Last Call - Abridged

By: Daniel Okrent

Narrated by: Daniel Okrent

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World... Read more

America Back on Track - Abridged

By: Edward M. Kennedy

Narrated by: Edward M. Kennedy

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With America Back on Track, his first major policy book in more than forty years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of our nation.

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No Ordinary Time - Abridged

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.

With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more

Hazardous Duty - Abridged

By: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Narrated by: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Colonel David H. Hackworth— one of America's most decorated soldiers— served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea,... Read more

La inevitable globalización - Abridged

By: Julio Corcuera Portugal, Jaime Cordero Cabrera ...

Narrated by: Roberto Sánchez

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barreras y distancias van quedando atrás. Día a día vivimos interconectados con los demás habitantes del mundo a través de un chat, una red social, una compra electrónica, una venta de productos nativos, una clase virtual o un club de fans oficial. Estamos sumergidos, sin querer, en un proceso que no termina y lo llamamos globalización. Sin... Read more

An American Life - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t miss one of our greatest presidents’ bestselling autobiographies in his own words. Ronald Reagan’s story is a work of major historical importance, a narrative that The Washington Times calls “one of our classic American success stories.”

Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in... Read more

13 Cent Killers - Abridged

By: John Culbertson

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”

In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more