Top Politics & Social Sciences Audiobooks

In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....

This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism....

Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some 20-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work - one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier....

The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century....

In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for....

Beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for - and ultimately justify - racial inequalities....

A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy US senator. The next morning her body is discovered in his car at the bottom of a pond. Leo Damore's 1988 national best seller was originally entitled Senatorial Privilege....

Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

This is the landmark book that changed the way exceptional families think about their heritage, their wealth, and their legacy to future generations - now revised and expanded....

Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....

Using the insights gained from his many years of practice and teaching, Larry Rosenberg makes insight meditation practice accessible to modern practitioners....

The underlying concern of these essays is about what these very different kinds of cases say about the general direction of American society....

A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

Captured: The Secret Behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover is a thrilling journey into the hidden worlds of the tech elite, and a whistleblower’s look into the sci-fi future they’re building for all of us.

Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

This thorough guide explores those civilizations that have faded from the pages of our textbooks but played a significant role in the development of modern society....

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life....

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees....