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Equality for Women = Prosperity for All
By: Augusto Lopez-Claros & Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Narrated by: Augusto Lopez-Claros, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani & Son...
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Equality for Women = Prosperity for All by Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a groundbreaking audiobook about the direct relationship between a woman's rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of her country.
The economics of gender inequality is often reduced to equal pay for equal work. But there is much more to it than... Read more
Queen Unseen
By: Peter Hince
Narrated by: Rupert Holliday Evans & Peter Hince
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the globe and being there as they perform at some of the best and biggest music venues in the world. Peter Hince didn't have to imagine: for more than a decade, he lived a life that other people can only dream of as he worked with Queen as the head of their road... Read more
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Trumponomics
By: Stephen Moore & Arthur B. Laffer
Narrated by: Adam North
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Obama. But he didn’t adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas–tax cuts, deregulation, more power to the states–with more traditional... Read more
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Reporting Pakistan
By: Meena Menon
Narrated by: Mary Joseph
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Meena Menon was The Hindu's correspondent in Islamabad till she was expelled by the Pakistani authorities in May 2014. In spite of her truncated stay, and the restrictions placed on her movements, Menon managed to write on a range of subjects covering swathes of life in Islamabad. She spoke to people from the persecuted Ahmadi... Read more
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Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City
By: David Churchill
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding... Read more
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A Covert Action
By: Seth G. Jones
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched a sophisticated intelligence campaign supporting... Read more
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The Truth Has Changed
By: Josh Fox
Narrated by: Josh Fox & Tom Parks
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben.The rules have changed.
The water has changed.
The climate has changed.
The truth has changed.
We must change.In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very... Read more
Why I Stand
By: Burgess Owens
Narrated by: Rich Cade
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Why I Stand highlights the threat of Marxist Socialism to our American culture. The victor will determine the heart, soul, and freedom of our nation for future generations.American Individualism has been the crown jewel of a nation that, based on its Judeo-Christian values, has prioritized God, family, and freedom to out-dream its obstacles. It... Read more
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The Age of Reform
By: Richard Hofstadter
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and... Read more
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Trading with the Enemy
By: Hugo Meijer
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic interests in its relationship with the People's Republic of China (PRC). To do so, Hugo Meijer... Read more
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A New Republic of the Heart
By: Terry Patten
Narrated by: Terry Patten
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A vision to address our environment, economy, politics, culture, and to catalyze the radical whole-system change we need now
Recasting current problems as emergent opportunities, Terry Patten offers creative responses, practices, and conscious conversations for tackling the profound inner and outer work we must do to build an integral future. In... Read more
Unsavory Truth
By: Marion Nestle
Narrated by: Norah Tocci
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit.
Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as... Read more
Lioness
By: Francine Klagsbrun
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 32 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to... Read more
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We Few
By: Nick Brokhausen
Narrated by: George Spelvin
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officially, it was known as the Studies and Observations group. In fact, this Special Forces squad, which Brokhausen calls "an unwashed, profane, ribald,... Read more
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the... Read more
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Spin
By: Clive Veroni
Narrated by: Clive Veroni
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Spin has been updated with a new introduction reflecting on the current era of Brexit and Trump.Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Clive Veroni analyzes the inner workings of campaign organizations to show how they... Read more
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History of the Supreme Court
By: Tim Huebner
Narrated by: Tim Huebner
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you like to know about the Supreme Court’s evolution, its immense impact, and its crucial role in democracy?
Now is your chance to explore the law of the land with an acclaimed expert on the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court. In 24 stimulating lectures, you will survey the history of the Supreme Court from its... Read more
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
By: David Ricardo
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The works of the English political economist David Ricardo (1772-1823), and particularly his most important work, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, lie at the heart of the laissez faire school of economics, preceded by Adam Smith and followed by John Stuart Mill.
Economic growth, economic freedom - free trade rather than... Read more
A Political History of the World
By: Jonathan Holslag
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan.
In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at... Read more
The Next Republic
By: D. D. Guttenplan
Narrated by: D. D. Guttenplan
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A book for this moment: Both an assessment of our current political leadership and a vision of those who can bring substantive change.Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan's The Next Republic is an... Read more
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Boudica
By: Caitlin C. Gillespie
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St. Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers,... Read more
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis.
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In... Read more
Three Felonies A Day
By: Harvey A. Silverglate
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and... Read more
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The Rise of Andrew Jackson
By: David S Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler
Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible
Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in... Read more