Top Politics & Social Sciences Audiobooks

This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions and provides simple answers in plain English....

In this chilling true crime series, we tell the stories of pillars of the community who betrayed the trust of those around them and challenged what we all think about the people we’ve come to rely on.

What is Australia’s place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American future? In an era of rising danger for all, and dramatic choices for Australia, Hugh White explores how the world is changing and Australia should respond…

The escalation in house prices is a pain that has altered Australian society; it has increased inequality and profoundly changed the relationship between generations. Alan Kohler tells the story of how we got into this mess – and how we might get out of it....

Within these pages is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics....

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley, describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience....

You think you know about Islam....

Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent as a bone hunter....

The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give.

With over a quarter of a million copies sold, Mindfulness in Plain English is one of the most influential books in the burgeoning field of mindfulness and a timeless classic....

The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.

A collection of unspeakable degradation, fear, and agony through the eyes of an American locked up abroad....

Fromm observes that the modern person is less a self-reflective being than a composite of data....

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BCE, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.

2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died.

The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power....

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....