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Public Affairs & Administration Audiobooks

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    For the Record

    by David Cameron ...
    Narrated by David Cameron ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours

    ‘The political memoir of the decade’ Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its origins, as well as giving a candid account of his time at the top of British politics.David Cameron was Conservative Party leader during the largest ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

    by Kati Marton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    ‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    From the Corner of the Oval Office

    One woman’s true story of her accidental career in the Obama White House

    by Beck Dorey-Stein ...
    Narrated by Beck Dorey-Stein ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of From the Corner of the Oval Office, written and read by Beck Dorey-Stein.The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love and finding her place in the world.In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    Narrated by Gina Rogers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems-but also opportunities-facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world's crises. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Preventable

    How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One

    by Devi Sridhar ...
    Narrated by Devi Sridhar ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health.Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Virus and the Host

    Protect Yourself from Infectious Disease by Reducing Toxicity, Improving Immunity, and Minimizing Chronic Illness

    by Dr. Chris Chlebowski ...
    Narrated by Nolan Chase ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    There will almost certainly be more pandemics in our future. Yet, during the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public-health official took the simple step of telling Americans what we all need to hear: robust good health?healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and freedom from stealth infection and chronic disease?is our best defense against infectious viral disease. The way our ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Where To from Here

    A Path to Canadian Prosperity

    by Bill Morneau ...
    Narrated by Bill Morneau ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Bill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can — and must — become.Much of the world reacted with surprise and admiration to the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election and the makeup of the ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    El naufragio de México

    16 ensayos sobre el futuro del país

    by Francisco Martín Moreno ...
    Narrated by Adriano Gazón ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Las decisiones gubernamentales tomadas los últimos meses han hecho saltar las alarmas. Los avances que México ha tenido -insuficientes, pero innegables- pueden desvanecerse a un altísimo costo y en un cortísimo plazo.La definición de una política energética basada en premisas inexactas; el vapuleo a la ciencia y a los científicos; los recortes a mansalva no para ahorrar recursos públicos, sino ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    What Does Jeremy Think?: Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain

    by Suzanne Heywood ...
    Narrated by Helen Llyod ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 35 min

    The Sunday Times Bestseller‘Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: “It wouldn’t have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.” … How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?’ Guardian‘This book should be read in a similar spirit to Mantel’s masterpieces – as a portrait of an exceptional man who was always at the centre ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In Defense of Public Service

    How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save our Republic

    by Cedric L. Alexander ...
    Narrated by Wes Bleed ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    “Dr. Alexander . . . brings to this book an acute understanding of both why our cherished form of government—and those who serve us in the civil service—appears to be under such unrelenting attack and how we, as citizens, should and must respond.”—from the foreword by Congressman Elijah E. CummingsWhen those we elect descend into partisan tribalism, criminal malfeasance, and emulation of foreign ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nurture Effect, The

    How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

    by Anthony Biglan ...
    Narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr. ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    A fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary way it's changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people's well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices. If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book.What if there were a way to prevent criminal ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Watchdog

    How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy

    by Richard Cordray ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own. It is no wonder consumers feel powerless: they are ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Fight of His Life

    Inside Joe Biden's White House

    by Chris Whipple ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author’s extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad.In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

    by Dieter Helm ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    19 edificios como 19 heridas

    Por qué el sismo nos pegó tan fuerte

    by Alejandro Sánchez ...
    Narrated by Gwendolyne Flores, Daniel Cubillo ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    El 19 de septiembre de 2017 un terremoto azotó México.Murieron 369 personas.Pero no las mató el sismo.Los responsables fueron la corrupción, la impunidad, la dejadez, el olvido e incluso la falta de cultura cívica.A un año del desastre, esta obra investiga qué salió mal en 19 de los edificios más dañados por el temblor. ¿Por qué hubo tantos muertos 32 años después del terrem... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    El empresariado inconsciente

    ¿Qué son la desigualdad y la pobreza para los dueños del dinero?

    by Hernán Gómez Bruera ...
    Narrated by Rubén Hernández ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    ¿Cómo conciben los empresarios la desigualdad y la pobreza? ¿Piensan igual unos y otros sobre estos problemas?¿Qué tan conscientes están de que también pueden afectarles a ellos?¿Están dispuestos a actuar y asumir responsabilidades para erradicar la miseria? ¿Aceptarían pagar más impuestos para instrumentar políticas que lo permitan?En México, y en general en América Latina, las élites empre... ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Warning

    by Anonymous ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration," the author provided ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Gaveøkonomi

    ny vej til bedre velfærd

    by Steffen Löfvall, Niels Thygesen ...
    Narrated by Fredbergs Emporium v/ Morten Fredberg ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    Vi tror som regel, at pengeøkonomien er den eneste økonomi, hvormed vi kan skabe fremtidens velfærd. Men hvis vi holder krampagtigt fast i en pengeøkonomi fremfor at tænke i et grundlæggende alternativ, vil velfærden svinde ind.Alternativet hedder gaveøkonomi. Det er først og fremmest et økonomisk princip. Og det består i at give en gave til en anden, som er forpligtet til at give igen. Pointen er ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

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    The Macat Analysis of Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation

    by Max Weber ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    ‘Politics as a Vocation’ examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one of the founding fathers of social science. On another, it reflects practical concerns about the future of Germany after its defeat in World War I. ¶Weber touches on the role of bureaucracy in government ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fixing Social Security

    The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age

    by R. Douglas Arnold ...
    Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 2 min

    Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends-longer lifespans and declining birthrates-mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. Without reforms, eighty-three million Americans will face an immediate benefit cut of twenty percent in 2034. How did we get here and what is the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

    by Ron DeSantis ...
    Narrated by Ron DeSantis, John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it.He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honours from Harvard Law School and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: he didn’t want to be part of the leftist elite.His heart was always for the people of Florida, one ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    No es normal

    by Viri Ríos ...
    Narrated by Maya Zapata ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    El juego oculto que alimenta la desigualdad mexicana y cómo cambiarlo¿Qué tiene que ver Shakira con que no tengamos buenos hospitales públicos? ¿Qué estrategia de negocio comparten las tortillerías de Palenque con las grandes farmaceúticas**? ¿Por qué hay bebés mexicanos que han trabajado13 mil años? ¿Cómo es que l... ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections

    by Prannoy Roy, Dorab R. Sopariwala ...
    Narrated by Sumit Kaul ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    What are the key factors that win or lose elections in India? What does, or does not, make India's democracy tick? Is this the end of anti-incumbency? Are opinion polls and exit polls reliable? How pervasive is the 'fear factor'? Does the Indian woman's vote matter? Does the selection of candidates impact results? Are elections becoming more democratic or less so? Can electronic voting machines ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Democracy in Danger

    How Hackers and Activists Exposed Fatal Flaws in the Election System

    by Jake Braun ...
    Narrated by James Lurie ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Cybersecurity expert Jake Braun reveals what the national security apparatus, local election administrators, and political parties have gotten wrong about election security and what we need to do to protect the ballot box in 2020 and beyond. ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial