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    The Small and the Mighty

    Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

    by Sharon McMahon ...
    Narrated by Sharon McMahon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    **A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.**In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD

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    Faux Feminism

    Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

    by Serene Khader ...
    Narrated by Sharmila Devar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    **For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White FeminismAn incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them**After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism, political philosopher Serene Khader advocates for another feminism—one ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

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    Ultra-Processed People

    Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

    by Chris van Tulleken ...
    Narrated by Chris van Tulleken ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.This audiobook contains exclusive bonus content between Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken, where they deep-dive into what you've just listened to at the end of each part.**An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR</stro... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Diplomatic

    A Washington memoir

    by Joe Hockey ...
    Narrated by Joe Hockey ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    In September 2015, Joe Hockey's promising political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal leadership. After felling the Abbott/Hockey government, Turnbull informed Hockey that he would no longer be treasurer of Australia – a deal had been struck with Scott Morrison. Instead, Turnbull offered Hockey a new role: ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

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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

    $49.99 AUD

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    Homo Deus

    A Brief History of Tomorrow

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the t... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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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

    $19.99 AUD

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    This Changes Everything

    Capitalism vs. the Climate

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Ellen Archer ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 43 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeForget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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    Going Infinite

    The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

    by Michael Lewis ...
    Narrated by Michael Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...'**Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

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    On Fire

    The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Narrated by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Lowman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.On Fire by Naomi Klein is read by Rebecca Lowman with an introduction read by the author.For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet - and the champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its centre. Her books have defined our era. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...
    Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Blue Mind

    How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do

    by Wallace J. Nichols ...
    Narrated by Wallace J. Nichols ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mean Streak

    A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion-dollar government shake down - the powerful story of robodebt from the award winning author of One Hundred Years of Dirt

    by Rick Morton ...
    Narrated by Rick Morton, Tamblyn Lord ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak, a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned on its most vulnerable citizens.Robodebt was a new debt-creation system that was used to illegally pursue close to half a million Australian welfare recipients for fake debts generated by the thousands. It was ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Who's Afraid of Gender?

    by Judith Butler ...
    Narrated by Judith Butler ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world**Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose influential work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed "anti ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Midnight in Washington

    How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could

    by Adam Schiff ...
    Narrated by Adam Schiff ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those forces remain as potent as ever—from the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump“Engaging and informative . . . a manual for how to probe and question power, how to hold ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    How They Broke Britain

    by James O'Brien ...
    Narrated by James O'Brien ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.‘Made me so angry I had to stop listening to it while driving. Superb’ THE SECRET BARRISTERSomething has gone really wrong in Britain.Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Autocracy, Inc

    The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    Narrated by Anne Applebaum ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world**All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Revolutionary Genius of Plants

    A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

    by Stefano Mancuso ...
    Narrated by Gibson Frazier ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 14 min

    "In this thought-provoking, handsomely illustrated book, Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso considers the fundamental differences between plants and animals and challenges our assumptions about which is the ‘higher’ form of life.” —The Wall Street Journal“Fascinating…full of optimism…this quick, accessible read will appeal to anyone with interest in how plants continue to surprise us.” ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Trumpocalypse

    Restoring American Democracy

    by David Frum ...
    Narrated by David Frum ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    ""I don't take responsibility at all."" Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency.A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn’t have a place for them.If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites-mobile and increasingly global in outlook-refuse to ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Donald J. Trump

    A President Like No Other

    by Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the ... Read more

    $60.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Liars

    How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Lowell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system are eroding the foundation of this country.Politics is no longer about pointing to a shining city on the hill; it’s about promising you a shiny new car for your driveway. The candidate who tells the people what they ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Healing Justice Lineages

    Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

    by Cara Page, Erica Woodland ...
    Narrated by Sanya Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineagesWe reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across centuries and generations is to continue their legacy ... Read more

    $61.99 AUD