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    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES AND AUDIBLE BESTSELLERA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Audacity of Hope

    Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 10 min

    In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics–a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Democracies Die

    The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future

    by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, read by Fred Sanders.Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face todayDemocracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Fifth Risk

    Undoing Democracy

    by Michael Lewis ...
    Narrated by Victor Bevine ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 10 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, read by Victor Bevine.The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    Narrated by Michael J. Sandel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Road to Unfreedom

    Russia, Europe, America

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder.The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Adults In The Room

    My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 14 min

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis.*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Democracy Rules

    by Jan-Werner Müller ...
    Narrated by Raj Ghatak ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first centuryEveryone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics.In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

    by Maggie Haberman ...
    Narrated by Maggie Haberman ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 36 min

    *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times Book of the Year**Economist Book of the Year*‘A political epic’ – Guardian‘This is the book Trump fears most.’ – AxiosFew journalists have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few better understand the polarizing 45th president or his motivations. In this astonishing, illuminating book,... ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism

    by Bernie Sanders ...
    Narrated by Bernie Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 59 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it so good, with more money than they could spend in a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Narrated by Brian Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald TrumpNoam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Democracy at Work

    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    No Is Not Enough

    Defeating the New Shock Politics

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Brit Marling ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein, read by Brit Marling.Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age.'Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News–from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Roger Davis ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    On Tyranny

    Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder.History does not repeat, but it does instruct.In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

    by Martin Wolf ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How to Stand Up to a Dictator

    Radio 4 Book of the Week

    by Maria Ressa ...
    Narrated by Maria Ressa ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Persuaders

    Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age

    by Anand Giridharadas ...
    Narrated by Anand Giridharadas ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracyThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    My Seditious Heart

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Narrated by Tania Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 16 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy, read by Tania Rodrigues.My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essays speak in a uniquely spirited voice, marked by ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Our Own Worst Enemy

    The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

    by Tom Nichols ...
    Narrated by Tom Nichols ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 30 min

    Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble-but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The New Corporation

    How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy

    by Joel Bakan ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 41 min

    A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Age of The Strongman

    How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    Narrated by Gideon Rachman, John Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy.We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Weapons of Math Destruction

    How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

    by Cathy O'Neil ...
    Narrated by Cathy O'Neil ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial