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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse on 17-11-20
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems....
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I feel wiser
- By John on 19-02-21
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We Need to Talk About the British Empire
- By: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Making sense of the British Empire's legacy... through the stories of people who lived through it. Through six intimate conversations with a new generation of writers and historians - journalist Afua Hirsch tries to break through old cliches....
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truths people need to hear
- By west on 25-02-20
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Too little nuance
- By Santiago on 17-10-16
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse on 17-11-20
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems....
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I feel wiser
- By John on 19-02-21
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We Need to Talk About the British Empire
- By: Afua Hirsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Making sense of the British Empire's legacy... through the stories of people who lived through it. Through six intimate conversations with a new generation of writers and historians - journalist Afua Hirsch tries to break through old cliches....
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truths people need to hear
- By west on 25-02-20
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Too little nuance
- By Santiago on 17-10-16
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, best-selling author of Say Nothing....
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a story that needs to be told
- By AVg on 19-04-21
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Wake Up
- Why the World Has Gone Nuts
- By: Piers Morgan
- Narrated by: Piers Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn’t coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech....
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I can't admit to listening to this book...
- By Cathy Lewis on 22-10-20
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present....
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Grow your mind
- By Paul Murphy on 07-09-18
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In the Thick of It
- The Private Diaries of a Minister
- By: Alan Duncan
- Narrated by: Alan Duncan
- Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
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Riotously candid, these diaries of a former Tory minister cover the most turbulent period in recent British political history - from the eve of the referendum in 2016 to the UK’s eventual exit from the EU....
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Yes, dull.
- By PM on 16-04-21
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
- By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Narrated by: Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Full of passionate, personal and keenly felt argument, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is a wake-up call to a nation in denial about structural and institutional racism....
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cherry picked science to fulfill a narrative
- By Dan norman on 03-04-20
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Think Like a Spy
- By: Tazeen Ahmad, LaRae Quy, Jason Hanson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Imagine having three life-coaches who had been through the toughest mental and physical challenges; a crack team of problem-solvers who knew in their day job that one mistake could be the difference between life - and death....
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Spies like us....
- By Paolo Caldato on 27-01-20
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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Brilliant Documentary of the Cold War
- By Paul on 03-10-18
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Putin: Prisoner of Power
- By: Misha Glenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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On New Year’s Eve 1999, a young Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian TV screens — awkward, self-conscious... and the new President. Two decades later, Putin is still in power, standing self-assured and at ease on the world stage....
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More of a short story than a documentary.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-10-19
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Empireland
- How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
- By: Sathnam Sanghera
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past....
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The toxic impact of nostalgic imperialism
- By papapownall on 09-02-21
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Fantastic.
- By Amazon Customer on 21-09-20
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The Gulag Archipelago
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
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A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork....
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Absolutely compelling from start to finish..
- By K. Fairweather on 30-07-19
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Downsizing
- By: Tom Watson
- Narrated by: Tom Watson
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Watson began to put on weight in his early 20s, having developed an appetite for fast food and cheap beer while studying at the University of Hull....
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Inspirational, shocking and addictive.
- By Paul Cusick on 15-01-20
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Jews Don’t Count
- By: David Baddiel
- Narrated by: David Baddiel
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Jews Don’t Count is an audiobook for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you....
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perfect timing
- By MAH on 06-02-21
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The Madness of Crowds
- Gender, Race and Identity
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics....
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A right wing polemic
- By Tamar P. on 05-03-20
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The Assault on Truth
- Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
- By: Peter Oborne
- Narrated by: Peter Oborne
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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In The Death of Truth, a short and powerful new polemic, Oborne shows how Boris Johnson lied again and again in order to secure victory so he could force through Brexit in the face of parliamentary opposition....
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Solid book
- By David on 14-03-21
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Prisoners of Geography
- Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Ric Jerom
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Using essays and the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography offers an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history....
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An interesting and thought-provoking approach
- By Kirstine on 12-02-18
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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A shocking true story of murder, extreme politics and the deep scars left by the Troubles in Ireland of the 1970s and the human consequences. A taut tale of murder, extreme politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil....
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Immense, powerful, exquisite and raw.
- By Jings on 06-03-19
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The Power of Geography
- Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Tim Marshall's global best seller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has....
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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What Does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living....
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If you’re depressed, get money, a partner & family!
- By Tracey Clare Dunlop on 10-09-19
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Fishers of Men
- The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
- By: Rob Lewis
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit....
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Basic Knowledge of the main contentious issues.
- By F on 16-12-20
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The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches....
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Worthwhile book, annoying narration
- By DVee on 28-10-18
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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Great book - pity about the editing of the reading
- By Jeannie on 16-08-15
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Value(s)
- Building a Better World for All
- By: Mark Carney
- Narrated by: Mark Carney
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Value(s), one of the great economic thinkers of our time examines how economic value and social values became blurred, how we went from living in a market economy to a market society and how to rethink and rebuild before it’s too late....
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Values are the basis of value
- By papapownall on 05-04-21
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- By: Stephen Walker
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead - and blasts into the skies....
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Brilliant 👍
- By C. Walker Jr. on 12-04-21
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Becoming Bulletproof
- Lessons in Fearlessness from a Former Secret Service Agent
- By: Evy Poumpouras
- Narrated by: Evy Poumpouras
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Becoming Bulletproof means transforming yourself into a stronger, more confident and more powerful person....
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Best audio book I've listened to all year
- By extraordinary girl on 18-05-20
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The Laws of Human Nature
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 28 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations....
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Amazing as always
- By david joel rodrigues ferreira on 08-11-18
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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Fall
- The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
- By: John Preston
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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From the best-selling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell....
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Utterly fascinating!!
- By L. BETTLES on 08-02-21
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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Best explanation of pre-modern Humanity
- By Alex on 14-12-16
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Philip
- The Final Portrait
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history....
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Failures of State
- The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus
- By: Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus recalls in detail the extraordinary political decisions taken at the heart of Boris Johnson’s team during the global pandemic....
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Fascinating book, bizzare narration
- By Andy Jackson on 28-03-21
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The New Silk Roads
- The Present and Future of the World
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date....
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Fascinating. I learned something in every chapter
- By J.F.Penn on 19-01-19
New Releases
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Reflections on Violence
- By: Georges Sorel, T E Hulme - translator
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The French thinker and political theorist Georges Sorel (1847-1922), fired up by his interest in Marxism and his anger at the injustice of the Dreyfus case, faced this challenge and in the seven chapters of Reflections on Violence he explored the question. It proved sufficiently stimulating over succeeding decades to be espoused by both Marxists and Fascists alike: class struggle, revolution and above all radical change were central to Sorel’s thought.
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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick prison walls separating society from its dangerous criminals, a multitude of harrowing fates unfold, seldomly explored by the public. First-time offenders thrown in cells with hardened criminals, several inmates becoming heroin addicts and a system riddled with flaws. However, even in prison the sunlight cannot be kept out.
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Stop Saving the Planet!
- An Environmentalist Manifesto
- By: Jenny Price
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We've been "saving the planet" for decades...and environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing - and low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says Enough already! with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous.
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I Am a Girl from Africa
- By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life. This transformative moment inspired Elizabeth to become a humanitarian, and she vowed to dedicate her life to giving back to her community, her continent and the world.
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Planet on Fire
- A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
- By: Matthew Lawrence, Laurie Laybourn-Langton
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Everyone knows that this is happening, and yet the only politics that is emerging to tackle it are coming from the increasingly nativist far-right. How should the left respond? In Planet on Fire, two rising stars of the British left lay down a set of proposals for a fundamental re-shaping of the global economy and offer a road map for tackling climate breakdown.
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Method in the Madness
- Insights from My Career as an Insider-Outsider-Insider
- By: Parameswaran Iyer
- Narrated by: Nikhil Sangha
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Parameswaran Iyer, former secretary to the government of India, is best known for leading the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship program, which became the world's largest sanitation revolution. But Iyer is not your typical bureaucrat. In Method in the Madness, he reflects on the unique path he chose - from cracking the IAS to becoming a globe-trotting World Bank technocrat, to playing the role of a coach to his professional tennis-playing children, to finally returning to India and implementing the SBM.
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Reflections on Violence
- By: Georges Sorel, T E Hulme - translator
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The French thinker and political theorist Georges Sorel (1847-1922), fired up by his interest in Marxism and his anger at the injustice of the Dreyfus case, faced this challenge and in the seven chapters of Reflections on Violence he explored the question. It proved sufficiently stimulating over succeeding decades to be espoused by both Marxists and Fascists alike: class struggle, revolution and above all radical change were central to Sorel’s thought.
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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick prison walls separating society from its dangerous criminals, a multitude of harrowing fates unfold, seldomly explored by the public. First-time offenders thrown in cells with hardened criminals, several inmates becoming heroin addicts and a system riddled with flaws. However, even in prison the sunlight cannot be kept out.
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Stop Saving the Planet!
- An Environmentalist Manifesto
- By: Jenny Price
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We've been "saving the planet" for decades...and environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing - and low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says Enough already! with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous.
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I Am a Girl from Africa
- By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life. This transformative moment inspired Elizabeth to become a humanitarian, and she vowed to dedicate her life to giving back to her community, her continent and the world.
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Planet on Fire
- A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
- By: Matthew Lawrence, Laurie Laybourn-Langton
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. Everyone knows that this is happening, and yet the only politics that is emerging to tackle it are coming from the increasingly nativist far-right. How should the left respond? In Planet on Fire, two rising stars of the British left lay down a set of proposals for a fundamental re-shaping of the global economy and offer a road map for tackling climate breakdown.
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Method in the Madness
- Insights from My Career as an Insider-Outsider-Insider
- By: Parameswaran Iyer
- Narrated by: Nikhil Sangha
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Parameswaran Iyer, former secretary to the government of India, is best known for leading the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship program, which became the world's largest sanitation revolution. But Iyer is not your typical bureaucrat. In Method in the Madness, he reflects on the unique path he chose - from cracking the IAS to becoming a globe-trotting World Bank technocrat, to playing the role of a coach to his professional tennis-playing children, to finally returning to India and implementing the SBM.
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White Evangelical Racism
- The Politics of Morality in America
- By: Anthea Butler
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.
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Heart of Fire
- An Immigrant Daughter's Story
- By: Mazie K. Hirono
- Narrated by: Mazie K. Hirono
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The compelling and moving account of Mazie Hirono, a woman coming into her own power over the course of a lifetime in public service, and of the mother whose courageous choices made her life possible, Heart of Fire is the story of a uniquely American journey, told by one of those fighting hardest to ensure that a story like hers is still possible in this country.
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Areopagitic
- a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England
- By: John Milton
- Narrated by: Martin Oldfield
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A prose polemic delivered to Parliament in 1644, "Areopagitica" stands as one of the most impassioned defenses of the freedom of expression in Western history.
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People's Power
- Reclaiming the Energy Commons
- By: Ashley Dawson
- Narrated by: Joel Simler
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. This history frames accounts of contemporary campaigns, in both the United States and Europe, that eschew market fundamentalism and sclerotic state power in favor of energy that is green, democratically managed, and equitably shared.
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Daughter of Apartheid
- By: Lindi Tardif
- Narrated by: Luana Maranz
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A black woman who suffered the outrages of apartheid - including the murder of her father - shares her outlook on her struggles with humanity and forgiveness.
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Where Great Powers Meet
- America and China in Southeast Asia
- By: David Shambaugh
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area - and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence.
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Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- By: Falcon Press
- Narrated by: Debra Smith
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Surveillance capitalism claims human experience as free raw material that can be translated into behavioral data for a commercial purpose....
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The Maverick Leadership Party Flourishes
- A Third Parties Short Story
- By: Andrew Bushard
- Narrated by: Daniel Chao
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maverick Leadership Party Flourishes: A Third Parties Short Story blends the accomplishments of third parties with the aspirations of third parties to create a pathway that, God willing, shall enable third parties to succeed, excel, and flourish.
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On Liberty (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: John Stuart Mill
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A celebration of individuality, diversity, and nonconformity, On Liberty still makes a persuasive argument for what John Stuart Mill believed to be humankind’s essential liberties: the freedoms of speech, assembly, and the pursuit of pleasure, so long as one’s actions do not impede the liberty of another. These freedoms, he maintained, result in a far more successful society than one ruled by the tyranny of the majority. This treatise on personal liberty has inspired debate since its publication in 1859, and has provided the foundation for modern liberal political thought.
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The Punitive Turn in American Life
- How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
- By: Michael S. Sherry
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime", and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies.
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
- Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
- By: Colin Jerolmack
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Shale gas extraction - commonly known as fracking - is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet - whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the land beneath our feet - is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public's consent.
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John Locke Collection
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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Credited as the Father of Liberalism and revered for his ground-breaking theories, John Locke left behind a legacy which has radically shaped political and philosophical thought for over 300 years. His writings continue to inspire and educate people to this day, from founding our central ideas of consciousness and knowledge to creating a framework for society which greatly influenced America’s founding fathers.