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Narrated by Michelle Obama
Unabridged
19 hours 3 min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 'A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard 'A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times 'A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall Obama's a fun person to sit alongside as she tells you the story$25.51 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Narrated by Jonathan Haidt
Unabridged
11 hours 1 min
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all$59.39 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Narrated by Leighton Pugh
Unabridged
4 hours 49 min
Random House presents the audio edition of Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis, read by Leighton Pugh.Why is there so much inequality? In this short book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia’s deceptively simple question. Using personal stories and famous myths – from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein$16.05 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Narrated by Derek Perkins
Unabridged
14 hours 53 min
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between.Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century – from$21.40 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Narrated by Christopher Ragland
Unabridged
12 hours 38 min
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland. Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people$23.54 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Unabridged
9 hours 53 min
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, ‘is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation$35.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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A People’s History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Narrated by Napoleon Ryan
Unabridged
29 hours 44 min
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the$40.84 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
Narrated by Scott Peterson
Unabridged
5 hours 34 min
In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post - Cold War world would not be primarily ideological or economic, but cultural. In The Geopolitics of Emotion Dominique Moïsi, a leading authority on international affairs, demonstrates that our post-9/11 world has become divided by more than$37.11 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Narrated by Robert Wikstrom
series The Historic Moments in Speech SeriesUnabridged
10 hours 19 min
As a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America led a global counterterrorism campaign of limitless scope. Its military dimension involved major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covert operations in Yemen and elsewhere, large-scale military assistance programs for cooperative regimes, and major increases in military spending. Included are speeches from presidents, world leaders,$29.64 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
Narrated by Matthew Josdal
Unabridged
14 hours 45 min
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right" figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11, conspiracy theorists$31.18 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Narrated by Michael Prichard
Unabridged
13 hours 24 min
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled$31.18 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
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Narrated by Kofi Annan and 1 more
Unabridged
15 hours 6 min
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being taken to Robben Island, this is the remarkable story of how a man rose so far, only to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Emotive and compelling, this is$30.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial
