Political Science - Audiobooks

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the...

Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it's going next? On October 5, 2017, President Trump made...

The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day...

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day...

Since the Truman administration, America has been one push of a button away from nuclear war--a decision that rests solely in the hands of the president. Without waiting for approval from Congress or even the secretary of defense, the president can unleash America's entire...

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn,...

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable. Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth,...

Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to...

Author: Peter SchweizerISBN-10: 8200134334ISBN-13: 9798200134335Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2008Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d

Author: Barbara EhrenreichISBN-10: 8200133664ISBN-13: 9798200133666Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2008Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.70h x 5.70w x 0.60d

Author: David HarveyISBN-10: 1799978036ISBN-13: 9781799978039Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Author: Angela Y. DavisISBN-10: 1799976491ISBN-13: 9781799976493Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 5.70h x 5.80w x 0.60d

Author: Alexander A. Cooley, John HeathershawISBN-10: 1665279265ISBN-13: 9781665279260Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.60w x 1.20d

Author: Pankaj MishraISBN-10: 1665263717ISBN-13: 9781665263719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.63d

Author: Trita ParsiISBN-10: 1665254335ISBN-13: 9781665254335Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2017Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 6.14h x 6.93w x 2.05d

Author: Abraham AscherISBN-10: 1665248629ISBN-13: 9781665248624Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d

Author: Abbas AmanatISBN-10: 1665228512ISBN-13: 9781665228510Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Format: CDWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 5.70h x 6.10w x 3.70d

Author: Matthew Lloyd Davies, James HawesISBN-10: 166521290XISBN-13: 9781665212908Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.70w x 0.70d

Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Atlanta. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon had to decide whether, and how, to respond.Author: Stephen Kendrick, Paul KendrickISBN-10: 1665191767ISBN-13: 9781665191760Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2021Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.60h...

Author: Tim JudahISBN-10: 1665148209ISBN-13: 9781665148207Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2016Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d

An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state. When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend and...

Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those...

Author: Gabriel Zucman, Emmanuel SaezISBN-10: 1665118040ISBN-13: 9781665118040Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.40lbs

Author: Matthew Boston, Charles L. MarohnISBN-10: 1665111917ISBN-13: 9781665111911Publisher: KaloramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 0.60d

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt....

An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine--a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.By the time she...

Debtors have been mocked, scolded, and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We've been told there is...

The definitive book about America's perpetual wars and how to end them from bestselling author, military expert, and award-winning journalist William M. Arkin.The first rule of perpetual war is to never stop, a fact which former NBC News analyst William M. Arkin knows better...

The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.-China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump's surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing,...

"There were these two women, these two beautiful, wonderful women, and I said, 'Well, let me check it out.' It took me about two seconds to say, 'stardom.'" (Donald J. Trump)"Diamond and Silk are a national treasure, and their astonishing, heartwarming story is nothing...

Discover the truth behind the discounts.In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been five dollars at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something...

An Iraq War memoir and searing political commentary from Fox News regular and "America's Favorite Black, Gay Republican" Rob SmithMoonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran...

An audio-only collection published in partnership with CBS News's 60 Minutes. Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews offers an unprecedented glimpse into the Obama presidency, through a series of extended interviews presented with new commentary by award-winning 60 Minutes veteran Steve Kroft. Kroft conducted...

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament--and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the essential foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg,...

A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country's rising majority and exposing political forces aligned...

What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America's top-rated cable news host offers his first book in over ten years: a look at America's fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom. America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged...

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our dayThe experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot...

Do you know what the Constitution ACTUALLY says? This witty and highly relevant annotation of our founding document is the go-to guide to the ins and outs of how our government really works. Written by political savant and entertainment veteran, Ben Sheehan, and vetted...

Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe.Clinton Cash revealed the Clintons'...

US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional...

In BOOM, prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz takes a spirited road trip through the wild new frontier of energy in North America. His journey begins in subarctic Alberta, where thousands of miners labor in an industrial moonscape to extract the region's oil-rich tar sands. Horwitz...

A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his...

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including...

From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The...

Is there any hope for peace in the world? Or is terror our destiny? In our post-9/11 world, Westerners in general--and Christians in particular--remain targets of Islamic terrorism. From the White House to 10 Downing Street, radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are appeased...

Columbia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs. In a clear, concise and sometimes bitterly funny lecture, Noam Chomsky shows us who is getting the money, who is producing and...

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign...

In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting...