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Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
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The Politics of Pain
by Fintan O'Toole; read by Bruce Mann
From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism. Learn More
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
by Laura Robson; read by Lisa S. Ware
In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel. Learn More
The Politics of Maps
by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell; read by Rachel Perry
The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Learn More
The Politics Industry
by Katherine M. Gehl & Michael E. Porter; read by Stephen R. Thorne
One of 16 New Business Books You Need to Read in 2020 by Inc. magazine
The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. Learn More
Politics in the European Union, Fifth Edition
by Ian Bache, Simon Bulmer, Charlotte Burns, Stephen George, Owen Parker; read by Bruce Mann
Politics in the European Union is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the EU. Unique in its in-depth coverage of the history of the EU, the book explores a wide range of topics, including institutions and policies, making it a complete guide to understanding the complex nature of the EU. Learn More
The Politicians and the Egalitarians
Sean Wilentz; read by Joe Barrett
One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America's enduring struggle against economic inequality. Learn More
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung; read by Rebecca Lam
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"—now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party—that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Learn More
Political Realignment
by Russell J. Dalton; read by Sean Runnette
Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s—and the impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy Learn More
Policing the Second Amendment
by Jennifer Carlson; read by Teri Schnaubelt
Linking the politics of guns with the politics of policing, Policing the Second Amendment unravels the complex relationship between public law enforcement, legitimate violence, and race. Learn More
The Point of No Return
by Thomas Byrne Edsall; read by Mike Chamberlain
After Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. Learn More
Pogrom
by Steven J. Zipperstein; read by Barry Abrams
Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. Learn More
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
by Rosemary Mosco; read by Janet Metzger
Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Learn More
Poached
by Rachel Love Nuwer; read by Christina Delaine
Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the listener into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation. Learn More
The Pledge to America
by Drago Dzieran; read by Joel Richards
Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran takes listeners behind the scenes of his incredible life, from an impoverished childhood in Communist-controlled Poland to his time as a political prisoner, to his twenty years as a member of the United States military's most elite fighting force. Learn More
Playing God
by Anthony Youn, MD with Alan Eisenstock; read by Kyle Tait
In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. Learn More
A Plausible Man
by Susanna Ashton; read by Leon Nixon
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The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. Learn More
The Planter of Modern Life
by Stephen Heyman; read by Robertson Dean
How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America's most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement. Learn More
Planta Sapiens
by Paco Calvo; with Natalie Lawrence
An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Learn More
Planet Simpson
Chris Turner; read by Oliver Wyman
Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Learn More
Plagues and Their Aftermath
by Brian Michael Jenkins; read by Will Tulin
A look at the long history of epidemics and pandemics provides an enthralling account of what we can expect of a post-COVID world. Learn More
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