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Political Audiobooks

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    12 Rules for Life

    An Antidote to Chaos

    by Jordan B. Peterson ...
    Narrated by Jordan B. Peterson ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The #1 Sunday Times and Audible bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - read by the man himself.How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Republic

    by Plato ...
    Narrated by Jim Barclay ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Jim Barclay, best known for their roles in The Young Ones and Jeeves and Wooster. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe, also read by Jim Barclay.'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we would find justice in it'The Republic, Plato's masterwork, ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Beyond Order

    12 More Rules for Life

    by Jordan B. Peterson ...
    Narrated by Jordan B. Peterson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world.Now ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Start With Why

    The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose

    by Simon Sinek ...
    Narrated by Simon Sinek ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Why are some people and organizations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?Because in business it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it.Steve Jobs, the Wright brothers and Martin Luther King have one thing in common: they STARTED WITH WHY.This book is for anyone who wants to ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How To Be an Antiracist

    THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    Narrated by Ibram X. Kendi ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER**NOT BEING RACIST IS NOT ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO BE ANTIRACIST.'Transformative and revolutionary' ROBIN DIANGELO, author of White Fragility'So vital' IJEOMA OLUO, author of So You Want to Talk About RaceIn this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Ken... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    Narrated by Douglas Murray ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

    by Jia Tolentino ...
    Narrated by Jia Tolentino ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year **‘Magnificent’**The Times ‘Dazzling’ New Statesman ‘It filled me with hope’ Zadie SmithWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Small Is Beautiful

    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    by E F Schumacher ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher.How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the ... Read more

    $19.99 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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    Consequences of Capitalism

    Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

    by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Narrated by Simon Callow ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Callow, actor and director, known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and the BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol.**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Making Sense

    Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity

    by Sam Harris ...
    Narrated by Sam Harris, Babette Deutsch, Timothy Snyder, Robert M Sapolsky, Daniel Kahneman, Max Tegmark, Anil Seth, David Krakauer, Glenn C. Loury, Nick Bostrom0, Thomas Metzinger1, David J. Chalmers2 ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 26 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam HarrisNeuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world.Harris’ search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

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    The View from the Cheap Seats

    Selected Nonfiction

    by Neil Gaiman ...
    Narrated by Neil Gaiman ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 29 min

    The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed**, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.**</p... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Self-Confidence: A Philosophy

    by Charles Pépin ...
    Narrated by Chris Courtenay ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 18 min

    An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence.Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? Why are some people more confident than others? On the surface, these seem like simple questions – but answers can feel hard to come by when we need them most.In this bestselling book, Charles Pépin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence. Pépin ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Rebel Ideas

    The Power of Diverse Thinking

    by Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd ...
    Narrated by Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    Where do the best ideas come from?And how do we apply these ideas to the problems we face - at work, in the education of our children, and in the biggest shared challenges of our age: rising obesity, terrorism and climate change?In this bold and inspiring new book, Matthew Syed - the bestselling author of Bounce and Black Box Thinking - argues that individual intelligence is no longer enough; that ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Second Mountain

    The Quest for a Moral Life

    by David Brooks ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 59 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition ofThe Secnd Mountain, written by David Brooks, read by Arthur Morey.Are you on your first or second mountain?Is life about you - or others?About success - or something deeper?The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Sacred Nature

    How we can recover our bond with the natural world

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    Narrated by Karen Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For most of human history nature was held to be sacred, and our God or gods were believed to be present everywhere in nature. That was true of almost all the world's cultures and religious traditions. When people in the West began to separate God and nature in the seventeenth century, it was not just a profound breach with thousands of years of accumulated wisdom and ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Has Populism Won?

    The War on Liberal Democracy

    by Daniel Drache, Marc D. Froese ...
    Narrated by Carmel Amit ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Has populism won? Two experts show us how and why this disturbing global political trend has taken root and what it will take to turn the tideFrom Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia, and from Poland to the Philippines, rapid change and rising inequality have fueled a retreat into tribalist nationalism fed by a fear of being left behind. Populist leaders tap into this fear, with empty promises of ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Good-Enough Life

    by Avram Alpert ...
    Narrated by William Hope ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    This audiobook narrated by William Hope explains how an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

    Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    Narrated by Caitlin Thorburn ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 31 min

    'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie'A great mind that is constantly exploring, searching, "becoming" . . . an impressive collection' Elif Shafak, ObserverA TRAIL-BLAZING AND INSPIRING COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON ART, FEMINISM, NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Intact

    A Defence of the Unmodified Body

    by Clare Chambers ...
    Narrated by Alix Dunmore ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In an age of social media and selfies, of pixel-perfect pictures and surgically-enhanced celebrities, the pressure to change our bodies can often seem overwhelming. We are told we should conceal the signs of ageing and get our bodies back after pregnancy. We ought to perfect our complexions, build our biceps, trim our waistlines, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

    A Warning to the Global Middle Class

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial