The Cryotron Files
By: Iain Dey & Douglas Buck
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting true story of Dudley Buck―American scientist, government agent, and Cold War hero―whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.Dr. Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died suddenly on May 21, 1959, at the age of thirty-two. He was the star... Read more
View audiobookTrust
By: David Johnston
Narrated by: David Johnston
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.
Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies rely. One of Canada's most revered governors general,... Read more
The Sustainable State
By: Chandran Nair
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The free-market, limited government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is only possible with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, protect the environment, and prioritize meeting their people's basic needs.
In this... Read more
Building A Winning Culture In Government
By: Patrick R. Leddin, PhD & Shawn D. Moon
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Government Culture—Our government organizations face political fallout, media scrutiny, reduced funding, and the many challenges involved in motivating large, multi-layered and highly regulated organizations. It's no surprise that many government organizations report that their employees are less engaged than ever and that leaders feel helpless... Read more
View audiobookReconsidering Race
By: Kazuko Suzuki & Diego A. von Vacano
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age of Discovery) or the eighteenth century (the Age... Read more
View audiobookBehold, America
By: Sarah Churchwell
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018
The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for
In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases -- the "American dream" and "America... Read more
Presidents of War
By: Michael Beschloss
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 26 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives
“Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.”—Bill Gates
Widely... Read more
In the First Circle
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 31 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow... Read more
View audiobookOperation Devil Horns
By: Ray Bolger & Michael Santini
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal... Read more
View audiobook#DoNotDisturb
By: Jedediah Bila
Narrated by: Jedediah Bila
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you’ve wasted the time you had set aside for more important things? Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder, and she did it without throwing... Read more
View audiobookMalala
By: Malala Yousafzai
Narrated by: Neela Vaswani
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls' education.
Malala's powerful memoir of risking her life for the right to go to school is now abridged and adapted for chapter book readers.
Raised in a changing Pakistan by an enlightened father from a poor background... Read more
Read & Riot
By: Nadya Tolokonnikova
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance.The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist,... Read more
View audiobookStop Mass Hysteria
By: Michael Savage
Narrated by: Barry Baer
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NYT bestselling author Michael Savage calls out the mass hysteria mongers and their methods, and shows Americans that we must look to history to understand the present and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic... Read more
Killing the SS
By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including... Read more
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes: Booktrack Edition
By: Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone &...
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear.
On August 21,... Read more
The Nationalist Revival
By: John B. Judis
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Why Has Nationalism Come Roaring Back?
Trump in America, Brexit in the U.K., anti-EU parties in Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, and nativist or authoritarian leaders in Turkey, Russia, India, and China -- Why has nationalism suddenly returned with a vengeance? Is the world headed back to the fractious... Read more
Right Here, Right Now
By: Stephen J. Harper
Narrated by: Stephen J. Harper
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this timely and insightful new book, Stephen J. Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, draws on a decade of experience as a G-7 leader to help leaders in business and government understand, adapt, and thrive in an age of unprecedented disruption.
The world is in flux. Disruptive technologies, ideas, and politicians are... Read more
A Duty to Resist
By: Candice Delmas
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry... Read more
View audiobookIf You Ask Me
By: Eleanor Roosevelt
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Amanda Carlin
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Experience the “heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous” (Woman’s World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.
In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her... Read more
Prius or Pickup?
By: Marc Hetherington & Jonathan Weiler
Narrated by: Scott Merriman
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America’s deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookQueen of Spies
By: Paddy Hayes
Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of Daphne Park, the female British secret intelligence officer who rose through the male-dominated ranks to become the Queen of SpiesFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life―one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of... Read more
View audiobookThe Corrosion of Conservatism
By: Max Boot
Narrated by: Max Boot
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Warning that the Trump presidency presages America's decline, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent. As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of... Read more
View audiobookThe Politics of Petulance
By: Alan Wolfe
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself—it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like... Read more
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