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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, a compendium that Marx's collaborator Friedrich Engels described as 'the Bible of the working class'. One of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates.

In this gripping tale, Florent, an escaped political prisoner, seeks refuge with his half-brother Quenu and his wife Lisa Quenu, a member of the Macquart family. As he navigates life in Paris, he secures a position as a fish inspector at the bustling Les Halles markets, where his past and present collide in unexpected ways. - Summary by Mark Leder

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; book 3 begins with the fortune of the family of Brian Boru and continues through the rise of the O'Conors to the political, economic, and religious condition of the island prior to the English invasion. (Summary by Sibella Denton)

Published in 1894, 11 years after the death of Marx himself, Capital Volume 3 was the product of the untiring and meticulous work of Friedrich Engels working from Marx’s outline and notes and carried the subtitle The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. In seven parts, Marx and Engels were determined to demonstrate that private property, competition and the market economy driven by the profit motive must lead to the demise of capitalism. 

As the UK’s national narrative falters and trust in key political institutions is wavering what does the future hold? Is the UK set to become ‘Singapore on Thames?’ as some suggest? What might a future relationship with the EU look like? What would it take to rekindle a real enthusiasm for the European project, as opposed to the semi-detached relationship Britain has had with the EU? How do we rebuild trust in our institutions and create a new, 21st century national narrative for Britain? William Waldegrave says ‘Whatever happens about Brexit, Britain is going to change forever.

This edition of Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later is an audio-only ABC News special created exclusively for Audible and hosted by ABC World News Anchor Diane Sawyer. Sawyer takes listeners back to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, for a “you are there” exploration of the day of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement. In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their textbook: History of the United States. A ...

In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets.

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power. In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building...

Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. Three Years in Hell is a mordantly funny and perceptive account of three years in our troubled islands, leading up to the aftermath of Brexit (or not, as it may prove). It includes scathing portraits of the...

Le parole sono virtualmente infinite, immaginiamoci le connessioni e le storie dietro e oltre le parole! E dopo due stagioni, "Parole Preziose" scova altre decine di parole, leggende, mitologie, collegamenti, e nel dialogo tra Rick DuFer e Roberto Mercadini si dipanano ingarbugliati e ispiranti filamenti di significato e senso, tra parole come "INFINITO" ed "ABISSO", "OMBRA" e "FANTASMA": universi, dietro e dentro le parole, preziosi come solo le idee sanno essere.

Every full Three Counties breakfast show Iain did between 2012 and 2015, This is an unofficial podcast

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We...

江戸八百八町においてその名を知らぬ者のない、旗本退屈男と異名をとった直参旗本、早乙女主水之介のチャンバラ活劇オーディオブック。 禄は直参旗本の千二百石、屋敷は本所長割下水、剣の奥義は諸羽流正眼崩し、武芸十八般に通ずる無双な腕力、にもかかわらず江戸の天下は腹の立つ程な泰平ぶりを示し、腕を振るうべき戦乱もなく、ために栄達もなく、故にこの人の世が、否生きている事すら迄が、退屈で退屈でならない退屈男。清廉潔白な性格で、権力の腐敗を憂い、一方で庶民に慈悲深く、「長割下水のお殿様」とも慕われる退屈男。 「旗本退屈男」は、1930年以来、計30本の映画が製作され、テレビドラマとしても何度もリメイクされている、時代小説家・佐々木味津三による人気時代小説。 江戸の天下で繰り広げられる退屈男の痛快な「退屈払い」を、一人十役変幻自在の声色でオーディオブック化!!「ほほう、これは少々退屈払いが出来そうじゃわい。 ―退屈男」 小気味のいい男の小気味のいいオーディオブックは、これから始まるのです。 ※本作品は発表時の未熟な時代背景から、今日の社会では一般的でなく、 不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。 しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、 なるべく当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。

The Three Languages of Politics is a profoundly illuminating exploration of communication in America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. This is an accessible, precise, and insightful guide to lowering the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead, it is a book about how we communicate issues and ideologies and how language intended to persuade instead divides.

Brought to you by Penguin. For 250 years, a ghostly hand—bloodied and invisible—has scripted our lives. Telling the story of economics like never before, Everyman makes legible the ethereal ink in which it’s etched. A character-driven psychological drama, it presents economics’ leading...

This is the story of three terrible famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then reappeared under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities." 

In all of Roman history there was never a more turbulent year than A.D. 69, the ill-omened "Year of the Three Emperors". By some miracle, the greatest historian of the age, Tacitus, was able to chronicle those momentous events in a work he called The History. In its pages are some of the most memorable events of Roman history described in some of the most intensely passionate prose ever devised.

The ominous forces of militarism, nationalism, and secret alliances were finally set loose by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. As the Central Powers of Austria-Hungary and Germany move to quickly bring the issue to a speedy climax, the wheels begin to come off. Instead of quick victory, a devastating stalemate ensued.