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Stand Out of Our Light
By: James Williams
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Google advertising executive, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce... Read more
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War Flower
By: Brooke King
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war—the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In her riveting memoir War Flower, King breaks her silence and reveals the... Read more
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Boss Tweed: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Politician Who Ran Tammany Hall in New York City
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Scott Clem
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.” – Boss Tweed“It's hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed's system ... The Tweed ring at its height was an engineering marvel, strong and solid, strategically deployed to control key power points: the courts, the legislature, the treasury and the ballot box. Its... Read more
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My Dear Boy
By: Joanie Holzer Schirm
Narrated by: Kate Mulligan & Traber Burns
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals, vintage film, taped interviews, and photographs. In working through these various materials... Read more
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The Prince
By: Niccolo Machiavelli
Narrated by: James Joy
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Prince (c. 1500) by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise, sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to... Read more
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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
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
By: Jens Muller
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Jens Müller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944—the break that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape.
Müller was no. 43 of the 76 prisoners of war who managed to escape from the camp (now in Zagan, Poland). Together with Per Bergsland he stowed away on a ship to Gothenburg.... Read more
China and the Chinese
By: Herbert Allen Giles
Narrated by: Thomas Collins
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation,—of its... Read more
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Inside Terrorism
By: Bruce Hoffman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained a seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mindset. In this revised edition of the classic text, Hoffman analyzes the new adversaries, motivations, and tactics of global terrorism that have emerged in recent years, focusing specifically on how al Qaeda... Read more
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Grand Improvisation
By: Derek Leebaert
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 20 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower—with global insights for today.
An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years after World War II, when the British Empire—the... Read more
Dannemora
By: Charles A. Gardner
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2015 two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's "North Country," launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels... Read more
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ColdFusion Presents
By: Dagogo Altraide
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
What can history's greatest breakthroughs in science and technology teach us about the future?
New Thinking: The world has never been so unstable. Now, more than ever, we need to understand our history, learn from our mistakes, and embrace science and technology as we push into the future. In his debut book, New Thinking: The Technology and... Read more
Compassionate Counterterrorism
By: Leena Al Olaimy
Narrated by: Ana Clements
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From purchasing pay-per-view pornography to smoking pot, many so-called Muslim terrorists prove by their actions that they aren't motivated by devotion to religion, Leena Al Olaimy argues. So why do they really turn to violence, and what does that tell us about the most effective way to combat terrorism?
Al Olaimy sets the stage by providing a... Read more
Don't Label Me
By: Irshad Manji
Narrated by: Fatima Boorman & Irshad Manji
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“Charming and disarming, a story like this heals the divides that threaten to destroy America. Don’t Label Me speaks for all of us who are more than the boxes that others put us into.” — Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author.
A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the New York Timesbestselling... Read more
Prosecuting the President
By: Andrew Coan
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In Prosecuting the President, Andrew Coan offers a highly engaging look at the long, mostly forgotten history of special prosecutors in American politics. For more than a century, special prosecutors have struck fear into the hearts of Presidents, who have the power to fire them at any time. How could this be, Coan asks? And how could the nation... Read more
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Impeached
By: David O. Stewart
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state... Read more
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The Third Pillar
By: Raghuram Rajan
Narrated by: Jason Culp & Raghuram Rajan
Length: 19 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.
Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central... Read more
Hate Crime Hoax
By: Wilfred Reilly
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
If you believe the news, today’s America is plagued by an epidemic of violent hate crimes.But is that really true?In Hate Crime Hoax, Professor Wilfred Reilly examines over one hundred widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. With a critical eye and attention to detail, Reilly debunks these fabricated... Read more
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Putin's World
By: Angela Stent
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 17 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is... Read more
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Why Civil Resistance Works
By: Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan
Narrated by: Traci Odom
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation,... Read more
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Devil Take the Hindmost
By: Edward Chancellor
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the seventeenth century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to "stockjobbing" in... Read more
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A Crisis of Beliefs
By: Nicola Gennaioli & Andrei Shleifer
Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
How investor expectations move markets and the economy
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us... Read more
Impossible Subjects
By: Mae M. Ngai
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal... Read more
The Right It
By: Alberto Savoia
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Law of Market Failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed.Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia’s The Right It offers an unparalleled approach to beating the beast that is... Read more
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