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A Promised Land

The powerful political memoir from the former US President

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

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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
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On Natural Capital

The Value of the World Around Us

by Sir Partha Dasgupta ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

6 hours 12 min

Brought to you by Penguin.‘Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn’t count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognizing it…’For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture.The models and metrics tells us that our economies are healthy because they ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.‘Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn’t count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognizing it…’For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture.The models and metrics tells us that our economies are healthy because they
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Remaking the State

A New Blueprint for American Democracy

by K. Sabeel Rahman ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

American democracy is in trouble—but not only for the reasons we thinkBeyond elections, polarization, or money in politics lies a quieter, more dangerous failure: The state itself has stopped working. Policies are promised, passed, and praised—and then stall, unravel, or never arrive.In Remaking the State, K. Sabeel Rahman argues this breakdown is no accident. The old administrative state was ... Read more

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American democracy is in trouble—but not only for the reasons we thinkBeyond elections, polarization, or money in politics lies a quieter, more dangerous failure: The state itself has stopped working. Policies are promised, passed, and praised—and then stall, unravel, or never arrive.In Remaking the State, K. Sabeel Rahman argues this breakdown is no accident. The old administrative state was
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Leapfrog

What It Will Take to Win the Global Innovation War

by Josh Zoffer ...

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9 hours 18 min

The United States once defined the future of technology, from jets and nuclear energy to computer chips and the internet. Today, we have been leapfrogged as China has bet big and bet early on the technologies of the future. From cars and batteries to robotics and synthetic biology, America's leadership has been lost or imperiled.Blinkered by envy and hamstrung by risk aversion, Washington's answer ... Read more

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The United States once defined the future of technology, from jets and nuclear energy to computer chips and the internet. Today, we have been leapfrogged as China has bet big and bet early on the technologies of the future. From cars and batteries to robotics and synthetic biology, America's leadership has been lost or imperiled.Blinkered by envy and hamstrung by risk aversion, Washington's answer
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Politics On the Edge

The must-read #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

by Rory Stewart ...

Narrated by Rory Stewart ...

Unabridged

16 hours 20 min

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story ... Read more

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#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe searing inside story of our broken politics from the former Cabinet minister and co-host of The Rest Is Politics.Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story
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Digital Divide, The: Unpacking Data Colonialism in the Modern Economy

by S Williams ...

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Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era defined by the rapid expansion of digital economies, "The Digital Divide: Unpacking Data Colonialism in the Modern Economy" delves into the pressing issues of data exploitation , surveillance capitalism , and the growing chasm of inequality perpetuated by technological advancements. This groundbreaking book examines how powerful entities ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era defined by the rapid expansion of digital economies, "The Digital Divide: Unpacking Data Colonialism in the Modern Economy" delves into the pressing issues of data exploitation , surveillance capitalism , and the growing chasm of inequality perpetuated by technological advancements. This groundbreaking book examines how powerful entities
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Democracy In America — Volume 1 (Unabridged)

by Alexis de Tocqueville ...

Narrated by AI Marcus ...

Unabridged

19 hours 22 min

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina live with their brother Andrey in a provincial Russian town, and plan to return to Moscow, where they grew up, as soon as they’re able. Olga doesn’t want to continue working at the school where she’s a teacher and occasional headmaster; Masha is disillusioned in her marriage; Irina hopes to find her ... Read more

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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina live with their brother Andrey in a provincial Russian town, and plan to return to Moscow, where they grew up, as soon as they’re able. Olga doesn’t want to continue working at the school where she’s a teacher and occasional headmaster; Masha is disillusioned in her marriage; Irina hopes to find her
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Two Roads Diverged

A Second Chance for the Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, the Nation - and Ourselves

by Mark Sanford ...

Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

Former Republican governor and congressman Mark Sanford shares his brutally honest and hard-hitting political memoir. Sanford first tells the story of his two very different falls and how the hard lessons he learned from the first led him to inevitably choosing the second by maintaining his integrity and opposing Trump.In Two Roads Diverged Sanford analyzes the immense harm he believes Trump's ... Read more

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Former Republican governor and congressman Mark Sanford shares his brutally honest and hard-hitting political memoir. Sanford first tells the story of his two very different falls and how the hard lessons he learned from the first led him to inevitably choosing the second by maintaining his integrity and opposing Trump.In Two Roads Diverged Sanford analyzes the immense harm he believes Trump's
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How We Win the Civil War

Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good

by Steve Phillips ...

Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Unabridged

13 hours 16 min

Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future.Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips ... Read more

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Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future.Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips
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Unravelling the Spycops Files

by Kate Wilson ...

Narrated by Charlotte Worthing ...

Unabridged

12 hours 23 min

'It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn't have made a chapter in a memoir. But Mark was a fictional character, contrived by the British state to violate me and undermine the values I held dearest. And the entire time, EN31 was sitting around the corner, writing it all down, watching our lives unfold. ... Read more

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'It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn't have made a chapter in a memoir. But Mark was a fictional character, contrived by the British state to violate me and undermine the values I held dearest. And the entire time, EN31 was sitting around the corner, writing it all down, watching our lives unfold.
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Borgen Unplugged #50 - Er SF de nye Konservative?

by Henrik Qvortrup, Thomas Qvortrup ...

Narrated by Henrik Qvortrup, Thomas Qvortrup ...

Series Audiobook 50 - Borgen Unplugged
Unabridged

39 min

Denne podcast er oprindeligt udgivet d. 15. april 2016.SF står dårligt i meningsmålingerne, medlemstallet er vigende, og Pia Olsen Dyhr har lagt sig så tæt op ad Socialdemokraterne, at partiet risikerer at glide ud i glemslen. Ikke ligefrem det optimale udgangspunkt for SF’s landsmøde denne weekend.Thomas Qvortrup stiller spørgsmålene. Politisk kommentator Henrik Qvortrup har svarene.Thomas ... Read more

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Denne podcast er oprindeligt udgivet d. 15. april 2016.SF står dårligt i meningsmålingerne, medlemstallet er vigende, og Pia Olsen Dyhr har lagt sig så tæt op ad Socialdemokraterne, at partiet risikerer at glide ud i glemslen. Ikke ligefrem det optimale udgangspunkt for SF’s landsmøde denne weekend.Thomas Qvortrup stiller spørgsmålene. Politisk kommentator Henrik Qvortrup har svarene.Thomas
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Arguing with Socialists

by Glenn Beck ...

Narrated by Glenn Beck, Jeremy Lowell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset arms you to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go.With his trademark humor, Beck lampoons the resurgence of this bankrupt leftist philosophy with thousands of stories, facts, arguments and ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset arms you to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have once again become popular, and proves that the free market is the only way to go.With his trademark humor, Beck lampoons the resurgence of this bankrupt leftist philosophy with thousands of stories, facts, arguments and
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Hot Mess

Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

by Sarah Marie Wiebe ...

Narrated by Brianne Tucker ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian ... Read more

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No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian
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Ill Winds

Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

by Larry Diamond ...

Narrated by Larry Diamond ...

Unabridged

13 hours 12 min

***Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty**Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply ... Read more

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***Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty**Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply
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What If Reform Wins

'Strongly recommend', Alastair Campbell on The Rest Is Politics

by Peter Chappell ...

Narrated by Peter Chappell ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

Bloomsbury presents What If Reform Wins, written and read by Peter Chappell.*This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between the author and journalist John Merrick*'Farage is Britain's new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell's invigorating book does'Anthony Seldon'a dazzling imagined account of ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents What If Reform Wins, written and read by Peter Chappell.*This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between the author and journalist John Merrick*'Farage is Britain's new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell's invigorating book does'Anthony Seldon'a dazzling imagined account of
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The Hardest Job in the World

The American Presidency

by John Dickerson ...

Narrated by John Dickerson ...

Unabridged

15 hours 44 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency—and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive.**“This is a great gift to our sense of the actual presidency, a primer on leadership.”—Ken BurnsImagine you have just been elected president. You are now ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency—and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive.**“This is a great gift to our sense of the actual presidency, a primer on leadership.”—Ken BurnsImagine you have just been elected president. You are now
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Political Game, The

Engage and Transform Your Life From Apathy To Empowerment

by John Thibault, John Thibault ...

Narrated by John Thibault, John Thibault ...

Unabridged

1 hour 1 min

In this book Thibault introduces us to the political "5-3-5 Framework" and the V3SM "V3 Story Model." No, this is not about cars but it will definitely ignite your engine and get you moving in the right direction.The Political Game will take what used to be very complex, supercharge your policy engine and within 15 minutes if you can't nail an issue and get on course, then you really don't have an ... Read more

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In this book Thibault introduces us to the political "5-3-5 Framework" and the V3SM "V3 Story Model." No, this is not about cars but it will definitely ignite your engine and get you moving in the right direction.The Political Game will take what used to be very complex, supercharge your policy engine and within 15 minutes if you can't nail an issue and get on course, then you really don't have an
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Mi vida en la transición

40 años en la democracia mexicana

by Demetrio Sodi ...

Narrated by René García ...

Unabridged

4 hours 29 min

En un momento en el que se ha reconfigurado todo el mapa político del país, resulta imprescindible recordar la historia de la transición en México, para entender que no existen soluciones mágicas y que ignorar lo avanzado durante años puede representar un retroceso generacional.Decía Julio Scherer García que para entender la historia hay que analizar a los protagonistas. Y esta obra hace ... Read more

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En un momento en el que se ha reconfigurado todo el mapa político del país, resulta imprescindible recordar la historia de la transición en México, para entender que no existen soluciones mágicas y que ignorar lo avanzado durante años puede representar un retroceso generacional.Decía Julio Scherer García que para entender la historia hay que analizar a los protagonistas. Y esta obra hace
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Living Democracy

An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it

by Tim Hollo ...

Narrated by Tim Hollo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching in protest. This is living democracy.Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of ... Read more

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The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching in protest. This is living democracy.Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of
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How Ike Led

The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions

by Susan Eisenhower ...

Narrated by Susan Eisenhower, Bernadette Dunne ...

Unabridged

12 hours 40 min

**"**The work is clear-eyed but naturally imbued with a granddaughter's affection. Narrator Bernadette Dunne's amiable manner is a good match for the author's tone, objective but tinged with warmth...Dunne manages to go beyond the plain sense of the text to give us the author as an intelligent, sensible, well-spoken person who is examining an important life in a way that informs, pleases, and ... Read more

25,11 €

**"**The work is clear-eyed but naturally imbued with a granddaughter's affection. Narrator Bernadette Dunne's amiable manner is a good match for the author's tone, objective but tinged with warmth...Dunne manages to go beyond the plain sense of the text to give us the author as an intelligent, sensible, well-spoken person who is examining an important life in a way that informs, pleases, and
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The Court and the World

American Law and the New Global Realities

by Stephen Breyer ...

Narrated by Stephen Breyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 37 min

In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America’s ... Read more

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In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America’s
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Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America

by Thomas Milan Konda ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there's been an America.In this ... Read more

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It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there's been an America.In this
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Democracy Incorporated

Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

by Sheldon S. Wolin ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

12 hours 23 min

Democracy is struggling in America — by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what ... Read more

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Democracy is struggling in America — by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what
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The Narrative Gym: Introducing the ABT Framework For Messaging and Communication

by Randy Olson ...

Narrated by Randy Olson ...

Unabridged

1 hour 40 min

The Narrative Gym by Dr. Randy Olson presents a new model for messaging and communication. It's a short, practical guide to the ABT Framework (And, But, Therefore) which needs to be on the desk of everyone crafting a message, essay, strategy, novel, campaign, proposal, presentation, screenplay, argument, joke, ballad, report … pretty much all communication.There is no other book on the ABT ... Read more

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The Narrative Gym by Dr. Randy Olson presents a new model for messaging and communication. It's a short, practical guide to the ABT Framework (And, But, Therefore) which needs to be on the desk of everyone crafting a message, essay, strategy, novel, campaign, proposal, presentation, screenplay, argument, joke, ballad, report … pretty much all communication.There is no other book on the ABT
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