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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney

Narrated by Mirron Willis

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min
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 each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for ... Read more
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by Derek Perkins

Unabridged

11 hours 41 min
Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins.**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do abo... ... Read more
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America's Expiration Date

The Fall of Empires and Superpowers . . . and the Future of the United States

by Cal Thomas

Narrated by John Dowd

Unabridged

6 hours
A warning and a wake-up call to learn history so we are not doomed to repeat it. A must-read for anyone who longs for a promising future for our great nation.What is wrong with America today? Is it possible that America could crumble and our democracy fail?Questions like these plague Americans and cause us to be anxious about the future of the "land that we love." Individuals may come to different ... Read more
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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
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Optimism Over Despair

by Noam Chomsky and 1 more

Narrated by Ako Mitchell

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min
Brought to you by Penguin.We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely exist, and maybe help make the world a better place. Not much of a choice.Another essential work from a peerless political thinker, exploring the rise of neoliberalism, the refugee crisis in Europe, the Black Lives ... Read more
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The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Narrated by Richard Poe

Unabridged

23 hours 6 min
The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. ... Read more
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The Uninhabitable Earth

A Story of the Future

by David Wallace-Wells

Narrated by David Wallace-Wells

Unabridged

8 hours 33 min
Brought to you by Penguin.It is worse, much worse, than you think.The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.Over the past decades, the term ... Read more
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt

Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged

23 hours 24 min
A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an “ideological weapon for imperialism,” begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements ... Read more
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On Fire

The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

by Naomi Klein

Narrated by Naomi Klein and 1 more

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
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Global Discontents

Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

by Noam Chomsky and 1 more

Narrated by Noam Chomsky and 1 more

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Global Discontents by Noam Chomsky, read by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian.Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?From escala... ... Read more
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The Fourth Turning

by William Strauss

Narrated by Neil Howe

Abridged

6 hours 1 min
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future.”—USA WeekendWilliam Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past ... Read more
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The Fiery Angel

Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West

by Michael Walsh

Narrated by Michael Walsh

Unabridged

8 hours 44 min
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 this profound and wide-ranging historical survey, Michael ... Read more
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Capitalism

The Unknown Ideal

by Alan Greenspan and 3 more

Narrated by Anna Fields

Unabridged

14 hours 16 min
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the ... Read more
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Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

by Tim Shipman

Narrated by Rupert Farley

Unabridged

29 hours 4 min
The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017.This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa ... Read more
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

by Fintan O'Toole

Narrated by Sam Devereaux

Unabridged

6 hours
A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define ... Read more
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People vs. Democracy, The

Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

by Yascha Mounk

Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged

8 hours 31 min
The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.Two core components of liberal democracy—individual rights and the popular will—are increasingly at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of ... Read more
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Twilight of Democracy

The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

by Anne Applebaum

Narrated by Anne Applebaum

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min
Brought to you by Penguin.In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually - as this book compellingly ... Read more
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The Politics Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

by DK

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker

Unabridged

18 hours 9 min
This invaluable, easy-to-understand guide to world politics and government offers an accessible introduction to more than 80 of the most important theories and big ideas of leaders and politicians throughout history.The Politics Book makes government and politics easy to understand by explaining the big ideas simply. The key events in political history are outlined from the origins of political ... Read more
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The Will to Change

Men, Masculinity, and Love

by bell hooks

Narrated by Janina Edwards

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, ... Read more
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Donald Trump v. The United States

Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

by Michael S. Schmidt

Narrated by Michael S. Schmidt

Unabridged

14 hours 57 min
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter continues to break news about the most important political story of our lives as he chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.In the early days of the Trump presidency, the people who work in the institutions that make America ... Read more
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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
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Seeing like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

Narrated by Michael Kramer

Unabridged

16 hours 7 min
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural “modernization” in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Read more
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The Case for Democracy

The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror

by Natan Sharansky and 1 more

Narrated by Simon Vance

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min
Natan Sharansky has lived an unusual life, spending nine years as a Soviet political prisoner and nine years as an Israeli politician. In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, Sharansky and his longtime friend and advisor Ron Dermer make the case for democracy. The authors put nondemocratic societies under the microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them, and explain ... Read more
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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Power in the Era of Post-Humanity

by Slavoj Žižek

Narrated by Jamie East

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min
Penguin presents the audiobook of Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek read by Jamie East.In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ... Read more
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