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The Future of Terrorism
By: Walter Laqueur & Christopher Wall
Narrated by: Christopher Price
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating audiobook, an expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?
Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists have surged in the... Read more
Cannabis - Abridged
By: Peter Cremer-Schaeffer
Narrated by: Bernd Gnann
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fluch oder Segen? Für die einen ist Cannabis eine harmlose Droge, für andere der Einstieg in eine zerstörerische Sucht. Doch die Wirkstoffe dieser Pflanze können auch als Medizin schwer kranken Menschen helfen, und ein neues Gesetz erlaubt es nun allen Ärzten, Cannabis-Arzneimittel zu verschreiben. Was dies genau bedeutet, wird in diesem Hörbuch... Read more
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The Peacemakers
By: Bruce W. Jentleson
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad range of historical... Read more
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Eisenhower vs. Warren
By: James F. Simon
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist who wanted to coax white Americans in the South into eventually accepting integration, while Warren, author of the Supreme Court's historic unanimous opinion in Brown... Read more
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Not Enough
By: Samuel Moyn
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel... Read more
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
By: Donald Shoup
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 21 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the... Read more
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The Fiery Angel
By: Michael Walsh
Narrated by: Michael Walsh
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Without an understanding and appreciation of the culture we seek to preserve and protect, the defense of Western civilization is fundamentally futile; a culture that believes in nothing cannot defend itself, because it has nothing to defend. The past not only still has something to tell us, but it also has something that it must tell us.
In... Read more
The White Working Class
By: Justin Gest
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social and political landscape. In recent years, the... Read more
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Damaged Goods
By: Oliver Shah
Narrated by: Oliver Shah
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin Audio presents Damaged Goods written and read by Oliver Shah.
DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN
In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday... Read more
Robert E. Lee for Kids
By: Various
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Smith Show Media presents Robert E. Lee for Kids. This is a biography about Robert E. Lee for children. Read more
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Invisible Countries
By: Joshua Keating
Narrated by: Joshua Keating
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
What is a country? While certain basic tenets—such as the clear demarcation of a country's borders, and the acknowledgment of its sovereignty by other countries and by international governing bodies like the United Nations—seem applicable, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules, including "breakaway,"... Read more
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Making Friends with Hitler
By: Ian Kershaw
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, was born to power and command. Scion of one of Britain’s most aristocratic families, cousin of Churchill and confidant of the king, owner of vast coal fields and landed estates, married to the doyenne of London’s social scene, Londonderry was an ornament to his class,... Read more
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How Not to Get Shot
By: D. L. Hughley & Doug Moe
Narrated by: D. L. Hughley
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House."White people are always giving out ‘helpful’ advice, such as: ‘Comply with the police and you won’t get shot.’ They’ve been doling... Read more
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Squeezed
By: Alissa Quart
Narrated by: Carly Robins
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brilliant—a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedFamilies today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh... Read more
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
By: Chol-hwan Kang & Pierre Rigoulot
Narrated by: Stephen Park
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying.
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on... Read more
Tanks in Hell
By: Romain Cansiere & Oscar E. Gilbert
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In May 1943, a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new U.S. Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the company bugler, who had salvaged his dress cap and battered horn from a sinking... Read more
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Nino and Me
By: Bryan A. Garner
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique, intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
For almost thirty years, Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and controversial Justice on the United States Supreme Court. His dynamic and witty writing devoted to... Read more
Automating Inequality
By: Virginia Eubanks
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps, and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an... Read more
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Going to the Mountain
By: Ndaba Mandela
Narrated by: Michael Boatman & Ndaba Mandela
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.
To the rest of the world, Nelson Mandela was a giant: an anti-apartheid revolutionary, a world-renowned... Read more
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
By: Malcolm Nance
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump.
In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy... Read more
Anti-Pluralism
By: William A. Galston
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today's populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete... Read more
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The Hundred Story Home
By: Kathy Izard
Narrated by: Ginny Welsh
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart?Kathy Izard was volunteering at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with a homeless man changed the course of her life. She realized that serving at the soup kitchen was feeding her soul, but not actually solving the needs of the homeless... Read more
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Sex Matters
By: Mona Charen
Narrated by: Mona Charen
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the country
In this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in... Read more
George & Barbara Bush
By: Kelly Anne Chase & Ellie LeBlond Sosa
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
"To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard," Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Sosa had asked for the secret to her and President George H.W. Bush's seventy-seven-year love affair that withstood World War II separation, a leap of faith into the oil fields of West... Read more