Political Science - Audiobooks

In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and...

We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to...

Do teachers have a front row seat to America's decline?Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so.Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he...

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and his family's--as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's...

The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of BengalIn November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated...

This is a book of radical empathy, crossing many borders - not just borders that separate nations, but also borders of form, borders of meaning, and borders of possibility. It is powerful and humane and deserves to find a wide, wandering readership. -- Mohsin...

On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is...

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and...

Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the...

JOHN BOLTON READS THE EPILOGUE! As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a "scathing and revelatory" (The New Yorker) White House memoir that...

New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book yet: A revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination. Behind a smokescreen of preparing students for the new industrial...

The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It's time for a black exit. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. Black...

Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O'Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece...

A timely manifesto on freedom from Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activist, Nathan Law, a Nobel Prize nomineeIn this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom--and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile--it...

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of...

Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted. That the Chinese government seeks to infiltrate American institutions is hardly surprising. What is wholly new, however, are the number of American elites who...

Why we need to look beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to...

Bringing together the most influential scholars in the field, the fifth edition of this bestselling book provides unrivaled coverage of international relations theories and arguments. Dunne, Kurki, and Smith explore the full spectrum of theoretical perspectives and debates, ranging from the historically dominant traditions...

The thrilling narrative of an unlikely friendship and a Guatemalan migrant-hacker's journey, revealing the chaos and cruelty U.S. immigration policies have unleashed even beyond our bordersAxel Kirschner was a lifelong New Yorker, all Queens hustle and bravado. But he was also undocumented. After a...

China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the...

Bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, antivice activist and US postal inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women's rights at the turn of the twentieth century.Anthony Comstock, special agent to the US Post Office, was...

From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world--brazenly accelerated during the pandemic--has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy. Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as...

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...

David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur develops an idea intended as a way to help poor people that will save rich people money on their taxes. He organizes and pays for...

Michael Savage--conservative talk radio host and #1 New York Times bestselling author--takes on President Obama's socialist agenda, his Chicago-style strong-arm tactics, and his Lenin-like complex in Trickle Up Poverty. Savage's quest is to help American's save America from economic Armageddon, and Trickle Up Poverty...

With nearly eight million listeners and millions more online readers, the hugely popular radio host and four-time New York Times bestselling author takes on the Obama tyranny with startling new revelations, pointed humor, and incisive analysisFor Michael Savage, the past four years have been...

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: 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...

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....