Politics

Square Haunting

by Francesca Wade; read by Corrie James

Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, Mecklenburgh Square has borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. Square Haunting is a glorious portrait of five of the square's inhabitants: Hilda Doolittle, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Harrison, Eileen Power, and Virginia Woolf. Learn More

Spying on the Reich

by R. T. Howard; read by Julian Elfer

Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and their intelligence services; and the relations and rivalries between Western governments, seen through the prism of the cooperation, or lack of it, between their spy agencies. Learn More

Spy Schools

by Daniel Golden; Jonathan Yen

In Spy SchoolsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security. Learn More

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

by Amy B. Zegart; read by Amy B. Zegart

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence experts. Learn More

Spies of the Deep

by W. Craig Reed; read by Paul Woodson

Twenty years after the most terrifying submarine disaster in naval history, the untold story about why the Russians buried the truth and how Vladimir Putin used the incident to ignite a new Cold War finally comes to light. Learn More

Spies of No Country

by Matti Friedman; read by Simon Vance

Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it's all true. Learn More

The Source

by Martin Doyle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment―over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Learn More

Snowblind

by Robert Sabbag; read by Andrew Eiden

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting," Snowblind recounts the exploits of former cocaine smuggler Zachary Swan, chronicling his elaborate scams and outstanding success in the early 1970s. Learn More

Smogtown

By Chip Jacobs & Wiliam J. Kelley; read by Charles Constant

Brimming with forgotten anecdotes and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age. Learn More

Small Wars, Big Data

by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, with Vestal McIntyre; read by John McLain

The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. Learn More

Small Town, Big Oil

by David W. Moore; read by Rebecca Gibel

Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, handed Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis the most humiliating defeat of his business career and spared the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland. Learn More

The Sit Room

by David Scheffer; read by Joe Barrett

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War. Learn More

Silicon States

by Lucie Greene; read by Esther Wane

If you've been watching the news of late, you've noticed a subtle shift in the world order. Our political landscape remains bitterly divided, while a new administration seeks to obliterate wide swaths of the government. In an era where civic trust is quickly eroding away, it's easy to imagine this gap being filled by the large, international businesses many consumers have come to trust, as they begin to encroach upon all aspects of our lives. Learn More

Shortlisted

by Renee Knake Jefferson & Hannah Brenner Johnson; read by Kitty Hendrix

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court. Learn More

Shortest Way Home

by Pete Buttigieg; read by Pete Buttigieg

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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Learn More

A Short History of Police and Policing

by Clive Emsley; read by John Lee

The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of "policing" that existed in the past. Learn More

Short Circuiting Policy

by Leah Cardamore Stokes; read by Teri Schnaubelt

More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws. Learn More

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