World Affairs

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Peter Frankopan
• Narrated By Laurence Kennedy
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
• Narrated By Dan Woren
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Vietnam: The Australian War

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Paul Ham
• Narrated By Peter Byrne

Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people, Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti - war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefi eld, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war - which sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women.

Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Damien Lewis
• Narrated By Michael Fenner
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The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling modern classic: A Bravo Two Zero for the Second Gulf War. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003 M Squadron - an SBS unit with SAS embeds - was sent 1,000 kilometres behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take the surrender of the 100,000-strong Iraqi Army 5th Corps.

Hotel K (Kerobokan)

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Kathryn Bonella
• Narrated By Nicholas Bell
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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valour

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Clinton Romesha
• Narrated By Clinton Romesha, Will Damron
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On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 13-hour battle - and eventual victory - cost eight men their lives. Red Platoon is the riveting firsthand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defence of the outpost and the counterattack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Tom Wainwright
• Narrated By Brian Hutchison
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What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.

Black Hawk Down

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Mark Bowden
• Narrated By Alan Sklar

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there - and how they fought their way out. Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces and puts you in the middle of the most intense firelight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Robert Spencer
• Narrated By Jeff Riggenbach

You think you know about Islam. But, did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states, or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other "politically incorrect" facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).

The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 1 min)
• By Andrew Feinstein
• Narrated By Gildart Jackson
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The downloadable audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson.

Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Stan Grant
• Narrated By Stan Grant

In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of indigenous success - cultural, sporting, intellectual and social - that we see today. Yet this flourishing coexists with the boys of Don Dale and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation.

Civilization: The West and the Rest

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Niall Ferguson
• Narrated By Niall Ferguson

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better.

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By George Friedman
• Narrated By William Hughes
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In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his eye on the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, experiencing the dawn of a new historical cycle.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 19 mins)
• By John Perkins
• Narrated By Brian Emerson

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Dan Senor, Saul Singer
• Narrated By Sean Pratt

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources - produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Sean Parnell, John Bruning
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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At 24 years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon - a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws - and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush.

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Brinkley (foreword)
• Narrated By Simon Prebble

In No One Left to Lie to, a New York Times best seller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right.

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Tim Marshall
• Narrated By Ric Jerom
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When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob.

Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Paul Rosenzweig

Cyberspace is the 21st century’s greatest engine of change. Telecommunications, commercial and financial systems, government operations, food production - virtually every aspect of global civilization now depends on interconnected cyber systems to operate; systems that have helped advance medicine, streamline everyday commerce, and so much more.

Secret Victory: The Intelligence War That Beat the IRA

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Dr William Matchett
• Narrated By Nick Cracknell
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Terrorist leaders are not benevolent men inclined to make peace but vicious bullies. The IRA was the Islamic State of its day. Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan are similar wars. In these, an insurgency like the IRA/Sinn Fein mix is the main problem. A proven solution is the rule of law, where police intelligence dominates because investigative practices fail. The approach - widely misrepresented and commonly misunderstood - devastated the IRA. Some terrorists were killed, most were in prison, and many were on the run.

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Kim Barker
• Narrated By Kirsten Potter
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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.

Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Losing the War on Terror

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 45 mins)
• By David Kilcullen
• Narrated By Nick Farnell

Last year was a “blood year” in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flowing into Syria at a rate ten times that during the height of the Iraq War. What went wrong?In Blood Year, David Kilcullen calls on twenty-five years’ experience to answer that question.

Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Nicolas Hénin
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner

For more than a decade, French journalist Nicolas Hénin has reported from the front lines of conflict in the Middle East, much of his time spent in Iraq and Syria. He witnessed the events leading to the rise of Islamic State, and, in June 2013, he was captured by IS and spent 10 months in captivity with James Foley and others who were beheaded soon after Hénin was released.

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
• Narrated By Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
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In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris and Nawaz have produced something genuinely new: they engage one of the most polarizing issues of our time - fearlessly and fully - and actually make progress.

Encore Path to Peace for Our Children and US

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Troy McDermott
• Narrated By Troy McDermott

At times I am too late to save our nation from Climate Change (CC) and paying off our national debt. Our American Greatness! I am publishing and hope funding marshals for completion of commercializing a new electricity technology. At least give my children and their generation a chance, water is the fuel beyond other fuel methods....

The Holy Land

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Ithamar Handelman-Smith
• Narrated By Philip Bird
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In this current context of desperate geopolitical upheaval, there is no better time to address oneness, reconciliation and a statement of otherness beyond the limitations of contemporary media. The Holy Land: Contemporary Visions and Scriptures seeks dialogue with ancient lands and sacred spaces along with modern visions of the people who inhabit them and the burgeoning contradictions of their daily lives.

Marshal "Card Deck"

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Troy E. McDermott
• Narrated By Troy McDermott

At times, I am too late to save our nation from Climate Change (CC) and paying off our nation debt. Our Greatness! I am publishing and hope funding marshals for completion of commercializing a new electricity technology. At least give my children and their generation a chance!

Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Jeremy J. Schmidt
• Narrated By Colleen Patrick

Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a “resource” that linked geology, politics, and culture to American institutions.

Israel at War

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Joel C. Rosenberg
• Narrated By Adam Verner
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New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg looks at the events developing in the Middle East and asks the tough questions: Could Israel launch a preemptive strike at any moment? How might an Israel-Iran war set the Middle East on fire? What should we be watching for? Israel at War will help you understand what is happening right now behind the scenes in this volatile region—and how this high-stakes showdown could affect the future of the Middle East and the world.

Rumble in the Jungle: Leadership from an African Perspective

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Norman Moyo
• Narrated By Norman Moyo
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change Africa. Indeed it is the only thing that would. Observing the impact that the right people in leadership positions have, people who wholly subscribe to servant leadership rather than self-serving leadership, has been a great source of inspiration.

One Shot: Trees as Our Last Chance for Survival

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 28 mins)
• By John Leary
• Narrated By Spencer Cannon
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This book provides a compelling look at the state of the world's agriculture and its evolving impact on people and the environment. One Shot takes listeners on an evolving journey from the peanut fields of Africa to the corn fields of America; connecting seven of the world's most pressing challenges to farming practices, and offering the revival of forest gardens as a core agricultural solution.

FEC v. Akins

• UNABRIDGED (3 mins)
• By A. Biographer
• Narrated By 411 Audio

What a fascinating case to delve into! FEC v. Akins!

Analysis of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything

• UNABRIDGED (10 mins)
• By Milkyway Media
• Narrated By Dwight Equitz

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014) by Naomi Klein argues that we must act now, both individually and collectively, to cut greenhouse gas emissions. If allowed to grow at the current pace, greenhouse gas emissions will destroy the Earth. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

To Quell the Korengal

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Darren Shadix
• Narrated By James Anderson Foster
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In 2007, the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade posted to northeastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province. Battle Company, the best within the Brigade, was assigned the toughest Area of Operations. It was called the Korengal Valley. During their fifteen-month tour, Battle Company saw more combat than any unit since Vietnam. Raw and unapologetic, To Quell the Korengal is a first-hand account of life on the front lines.

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Michael Vatikiotis
• Narrated By Matt Bates
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Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace and understand the reasons behind endemic violence.

The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Thomas A. Bass
• Narrated By Stephen Tupper
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The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas. It chronicles the origins of personal computers, the history of gambling, and the comedy of living a good life governed according to reason (eudaemonia).

The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By David R. Boyd
• Narrated By Corey M. Snow
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Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building - in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it.

The Path to Peace: Fight for the Future I Liberty

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 30 mins)
• By Troy McDermott
• Narrated By Troy McDermott

I wrote a letter to the entirety of The Congress of the United States of America in the last years of the 90's. I have not read that letter in over 20-years. This personal story, very close to my heart and feelings, is now a true reality, for all to accomplish a better life, standard of living and save our world from famine and hunger. Yes, it is a reality that is occurring to us all, whether through weather events, war, medical treatments, and more.

The World's War

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 56 mins)
• By David Olusoga
• Narrated By Nigel Carrington
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Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi-ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers was forgotten. The World's War brings to life the searing experiences of the hundreds of thousands of non-white troops whose bravery contributed to the final Allied victory.

Analysis of Sun Tzu's The Art of War by Milkyway

• UNABRIDGED (10 mins)
• By Milkyway Media
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

>The Art of War (2003) by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles and edited by Dallas Galvin, is a classic instructional text on the strategies and tactics of war, handed down by Sun Tzu's clan of military strategists, and dating to around the BCE fifth century. Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

Reluctant Warriors

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Nathan Szajnberg
• Narrated By Bob Sterry
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Here are elite soldiers, kibbutz-born, battle-bred. Their stories reveal their minds and souls, and what has tempered and annealed their hearts. They are citizen soldiers all - many officers - who refused career military appointments and returned to civilian life, as much as one can be a civilian in Israel. Descendants of Isaac who, like modern-day Ishmaels, seek peace while pursuing the Leviathan of war. Or are pursued by it. They also search for inner peace.

Nothing to Apologize For: The Truth About Western Civilization

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Donna Carol Voss
• Narrated By Donna Carol Voss

Western Civilization transformed the world through reason, freedom, progress, individualism, ingenuity, and the great experiment known as America. America is not all good, but we're losing what is good because we're afraid to claim it. As though somehow it's shameful to honor such an imperfect country. But the beauty of America is that we're founded on perfect ideals. And as short of those ideals as we sometimes fall, we never stop striving to attain them. That's what we need to honor. That's what we don't want to lose.

Open

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By David Price
• Narrated By Han Hills
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A collection of hactivists, hobbyists, forum-users, and maverick leaders are leading a quiet but unstoppable revolution. They are sharing everything they know, and turning knowledge into action in ways that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Driven by technology, and shaped by common values, going open has transformed the way we live. It's not so much a question of if our workplaces, schools, and colleges go open, but when.

Is Terrorism Ever Justified?

• UNABRIDGED (2 mins)
• By J.-M. Kuczynski
• Narrated By J.-M. Kuczynski

The objective of terrorism is more terrorism. Therefore, terrorism is never justified.