Die Angst der Eliten
By: Paul Schreyer
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Ist unsere Demokratie noch zu retten? Das System steckt in der Krise. Liegt der Ausweg in mehr direkter Demokratie? Oder ist das Volk zu dumm, um in wesentlichen Fragen selbst zu entscheiden? Lässt es sich zu leicht manipulieren und geht rechten Populisten auf den Leim? Wenn Außenseiter bei Wahlen erfolgreich sind, heißt es oft, die Bürger... Read more
View audiobookCold War Navy SEAL
By: James M. Hawes & Mary Ann Koenig
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War.Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed... Read more
View audiobookNew Power
By: Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms
Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The definitive guide to spreading ideas, building movements, and leaping ahead in our chaotic, connected age. Get the book New York Times columnist David Brooks calls "the best window I’ve seen into this new world."
Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans... Read more
The Trump White House
By: Ronald Kessler
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler
Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what Donald Trump is like, who influences him, how he makes... Read more
The Dawn Prayer (or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison)
By: Matthew Schrier
Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A photographer captured in Syria and imprisoned for seven months recounts his story and how he became the first American ever to escape al-Qaeda. "What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home... Read more
View audiobookChappaquiddick
By: Leo Damore
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy US senator. The next morning her body is discovered in his car at the bottom of a pond.This is the damning true story of the death of campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick and of the senator—a thirty-seven-year-old Senator Ted Kennedy—who left her trapped underwater while he returned... Read more
View audiobookMake Trouble
By: Cecile Richards
Narrated by: Cecile Richards
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, daughter of the late Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and “the heroine of the resistance” (Vogue), comes “an enthralling memoir” (Booklist, starred review) filled with “practical advice and inspiration for aspiring leaders... Read more
View audiobookChristian
By: Matthew Bowman
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
As Christian: The Politics of a Word in America shows, for many American Christians, concepts like liberty and equality are rooted in the transcendent claims about human nature that Christianity offers. Democracy, equality under the law, and other basic principles of American government are seen as depending on the Christian faith's sustenance... Read more
View audiobook19 Minutes to Live - Helicopter Combat in Vietnam
By: Lew Jennings
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Over 12,000 helicopters were used in the Vietnam War, which is why it became known as "The Helicopter War." Almost half of the helicopters, 5,086, were lost. Helicopter pilots and crews accounted for nearly ten percent of all the U.S. casualties suffered in Vietnam, with nearly 5,000 killed and an untold number of wounded. Lew Jennings flew over... Read more
View audiobookSurviving the Future
By: David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin
Narrated by: Shaun Chamberlin
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision. Recognizing that Lean Logic’s... Read more
View audiobookWie viele Sklaven halten Sie?
By: Evi Hartmann
Narrated by: Claudia Burges
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Moral lässt sich nicht outsourcen! Wenn Sie Kleidung tragen, Nahrung zu sich nehmen, ein Auto fahren oder ein Smartphone haben, arbeiten derzeit ungefähr 60 Sklaven für Sie und mich. Ob wir wollen oder nicht. Und ohne dass wir das veranlasst hätten. Wie fühlen Sie sich damit? Dies fragt BWL-Professorin Evi Hartmann und meint es nicht... Read more
View audiobookA History of Fascism, 1914–1945
By: Stanley G. Payne
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 21 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne (history, U. of Wisconsin) describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He also suggests that the early... Read more
View audiobookWhere There's Hope
By: Elizabeth Smart
Narrated by: Elizabeth Smart
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Elizabeth] Smart turns her story of despair amazingly into one of hope...The audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, has an extra dimension of truth and emotion." — Library Journal on My Story
This program is read by the author
Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story—about being held in captivity as a... Read more
Faith
By: Jimmy Carter
Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.
All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith. Now he shares the lessons he learned. He writes, “The issue of... Read more
Dear Madam President
By: Jennifer Palmieri
Narrated by: Jennifer Palmieri
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension,... Read more
Unscaled
By: Hemant Taneja
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society -- the economies of scale -- on its head.
An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling behemoth industries -- including corporations, banks, farms, media conglomerates, energy systems,... Read more
Advice and Dissent
By: Alan S. Blinder
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policies
American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often... Read more
Im Zeichen der Wahrheit
By: Heiko Schrang
Narrated by: Jacob Stark
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Vier Jahre nach dem Kultbuch „Die Jahrhundertlüge, die nur Insider kennen“ erscheint endlich Heiko Schrangs lang ersehntes Werk „Im Zeichen der Wahrheit“. Dieses Buch ist ein Lichtblick in einer Welt, die viele als immer dunkler empfinden. Es beleuchtet zum ersten Mal geheimes Wissen, das jahrhundertelang unter Verschluss gehalten wurde. „Im... Read more
View audiobookAsk a North Korean
By: Daniel Tudor
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan & Greta Jung
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the... Read more
View audiobookAfter Action
By: Dan Sheehan
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Dan Sheehan is a third-generation military flyer. He was eager to test his skills as a Cobra gunship pilot in the theatre of combat—and then he got his chance, first, in East Timor, then during two tours of duty in Iraq.
The scenes in Dan's military memoir crackle with tension and excitement as we follow his path into battle. Bullets pierce... Read more
How We Get Free
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization... Read more
View audiobookThe Age of Eisenhower
By: William I Hitchcock
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 25 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.
Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the... Read more
New World, Inc.
By: John Butman & Simon Targett
Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.
Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the... Read more
The Resurrection of the Romanovs
By: Greg King & Penny Wilson
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished... Read more
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