Showing results by publisher "Picador" in Politics & Social Sciences
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May Day
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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May Day is the long-awaited collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.
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May Day
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2024
- Language: English
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Tomorrow's People
- The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers
- By: Paul Morland
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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The great forces of population change—the balance of births, deaths and migrations—have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity. The same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through 10 illuminating indicators, Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.
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Tomorrow's People
- The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2022
- Language: English
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- By: Nathaniel Rich
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next 10 years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalisingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster.
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We all know this, quite depressing.
- By Kindle Customer on 16-06-2023
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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Strangers and Intimates
- The Rise and Fall of Private Life
- By: Tiffany Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Tiffany Jenkins’s groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent – and hard-won – achievement. Strangers and Intimates is animated by dramatic human confrontations: from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke’s rallying cry that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and more.
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Strangers and Intimates
- The Rise and Fall of Private Life
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2025
- Language: English
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White
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In White, with the same originality displayed in his fiction, Ellis pours himself out and, in doing so, eviscerates the perceived good that the social media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likability. White is both a denunciation of censorship, particularly the self-inflicted sort committed in hopes of being 'accepted', and a bracing view of a life devoted to authenticity. Provocative, incisive, funny and surprisingly poignant, White reveals not only what is visible on the glittering, pristine surface but also the riotous truths that are hidden underneath.
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Thrilling cultural critique
- By Anonymous User on 08-04-2020
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White
- Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2019
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America’s southern border for nearly a decade, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Blitzer goes back to the beginning: to the shadowy civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s; to the American prison system in the 1990s and the policies of mass deportation that transformed local street criminals into international crime syndicates.
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2024
- Language: English
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On Consolation
- Finding Solace in Dark Times
- By: Michael Ignatieff
- Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff.
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On Consolation
- Finding Solace in Dark Times
- Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Book of Minds
- Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to Aliens
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
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Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world of experience has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries. How do we even begin to think about ‘minds’ that are not human? That is the question explored in this ground-breaking book. Award-winning science writer Philip Ball argues that in order to understand our own minds and imagine those of others, we need to move on from considering the human mind as a standard against which all others should be measured.
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The Book of Minds
- Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to Aliens
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2022
- Language: English
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This Is Europe
- The Way We Live Now
- By: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Dan Connolly
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our crisscrossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start?
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This Is Europe
- The Way We Live Now
- Narrated by: Dan Connolly
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2023
- Language: English
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- A Memoir
- By: Shoji Morimoto, Don Knotting - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a ‘do-nothing’ because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out, to do nothing. In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- Language: English
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Mapmatics
- How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
- By: Paulina Rowinska
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Through entertaining stories, surprising real-world examples and a cast of unforgettable characters, Mapmatics helps us to appreciate the mathematical methods and ideas behind maps. And, by illuminating how our world works, leaves us better equipped to understand and look after it.
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Mapmatics
- How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2024
- Language: English
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- By: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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Russia has been locked into a winter of authoritarian rule at home and military adventures abroad under Vladimir Putin. In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, one of our finest historians of Russia, plots the seasonal shifts in events since 2012 and those that may be expected in the immediate future. When Mikhail Gorbachëv introduced perestroika in the mid-1980s, the USSR went through a springtime of growth and release.
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2019
- Language: English
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Antisocial
- How Online Extremists Broke America
- By: Andrew Marantz
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became ‘fake news’, how fringe ideas spread and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded with alt-right propagandists, who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda.
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Only complaint is he adopts voices for quotes
- By Anonymous User on 23-07-2020
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Antisocial
- How Online Extremists Broke America
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2020
- Language: English
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The Man Who Saved Britain
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: James Bond. Written with passion, wit and a great deal of personal insight and affection, this book is his wildly amusing attempt to get to grips with Bond’s legacy and the difficult decades in which it really mattered.
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The Man Who Saved Britain
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- By: Polly Morland, Richard Baker - illustrator
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Polly Morland was clearing her late mother’s house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf. Opening it, she was astonished to see an old photograph of the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. The book was A Fortunate Man, John Berger’s classic account of a country doctor working in the same valley more than half a century earlier. This chance discovery led Morland to the remarkable doctor who serves that valley community today, a woman whose own medical vocation was inspired by reading the very same book as a teenager.
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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Mistresses
- Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
- By: Linda Porter
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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According to the great diarist John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, including material in private archives, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both glamorous and sordid.
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Mistresses
- Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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I Heard What You Said
- A Black Teacher, A White System
- By: Jeffrey Boakye
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Before Jeffrey Boakye was a Black teacher, he was a Black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only Black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration—from the outside looking in. In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system.
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I Heard What You Said
- A Black Teacher, A White System
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- By: Nadav Eyal
- Narrated by: Haim Watzman, Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt or simply unresponsive to urgent needs.
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- Narrated by: Haim Watzman, Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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This Is London
- Life and Death in the World City
- By: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.
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the 1% creative writers book
- By Christopher on 02-09-2023
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This Is London
- Life and Death in the World City
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2019
- Language: English
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Fans
- A Journey into the Psychology of Belonging
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Michael Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Fans takes the listener on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condition. Part behavioural study, part entertainment, at its heart the book is a story of collectives, of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. The human brain is wired to reach out, and while our groupish tendencies can bring much strife (religious intolerance, racism, war, etc.), they are also the source of some of our greatest satisfactions.
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Fans
- A Journey into the Psychology of Belonging
- Narrated by: Michael Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2023
- Language: English
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