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Author: Kamala Harris
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Brought to you by Penguin.Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was rais...
View BookAuthor: Tom Phillips
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Narrator Jonn Elledge
Duration 9h 59m
Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused—to teach us how not to fall for them. From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and some...
View BookAuthor: Samir Puri
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Duration 10h 57m
What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, former UK diplomat Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future. Many of our certainties about the present, built on centuries...
View BookAuthor: Kajal Odedra
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Duration 3h 55m
A user's guide to activism by one of the UK's biggest names in grass-roots campaigning shows in a few simple steps how we can all make a difference. People power works and is changing the world around us. This is a user's guide to activism by one of the UK's biggest names in grass-roots campaigning. It is a guide to creating change for anyone who h...
View BookAuthor: Rory Stewart
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Brought to you by Penguin.From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in ParliamentOver the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacke...
View BookAuthor: Liz Cheney
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Author Liz Cheney
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Duration 12h 14m
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on the Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of th...
View BookAuthor: Dom Joly
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Conspiracy theories are starting to become so much more than the obsession of fringe individuals. A survey by New Science magazine found that the percentage of people believing in one or more conspiracies had risen from 15% twenty years ago to 35% per cent last year. They are shaping politics, media, the way we view life itself. In The Conspiracy T...
View BookAuthor: Frantz Fanon
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Duration 7h 38m
Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors,...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Smith
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Author Victoria Smith
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In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different...
View BookAuthor: Theresa May
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Author Theresa May
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Duration 10h 6m
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case a...
View BookHow Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't
Author: Ian Dunt
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Author Ian Dunt
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Duration 11h 9m
British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually incapable of doing the job and MPs who seem temperamentally unsuited to the role. Expertise is denigrated. Lies are rewarded. And d...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Murray
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Author Douglas Murray
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' &ndas...
View BookAuthor: Emma Dabiri
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Brought to you by Penguin. An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My HairStop the denialAbandon guiltInterrogate capitalismWhen it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? With intellectual rigour and razor-sharp wit, Emma Dabiri cuts through...
View BookAuthor: Jon Sopel
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Author Jon Sopel
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Duration 1h 52m
Brought to you by Penguin. Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'Feb 26, White House briefing room:The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything ... Coronavirus is suddenly not just a public health emergency; it has the potential to upend Trump's whole campaign...'Our man in America, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel, presents a d...
View BookAuthor: Jon Sopel
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Duration 9h 27m
Brought to you by Penguin. Welcome to the White House. At the heart of Washington, there is a circus. It's raucous, noisy and full of clowns. Reporting on it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather systems are moving at warp speed. The one thing absent from the weather forecast is t...
View BookAuthor: Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi
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Author Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi
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Duration 5h 31m
As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.FOR BLACK GIRLS: Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you re...
View BookAuthor: Barack Obama
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Author Barack Obama
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Duration 29h
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing i...
View BookAuthor: David Mccullough
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Author David Mccullough
Narrator Nelson Runger
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This National Book Award winner by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough shows how sickly "Teedie" becomes the robust, energetic Teddy Roosevelt. Born in 1858, Teddy finds his priviledged Manhattan family isn't immune to pain and sorrow. Potts disease disables his older sister, and epilepsy haunts his brother. Crippled by deadly asthma, Teddy soon...
View BookAuthor: Darren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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Author Darren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Narrator Dan Woren
Duration 17h 55m
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?Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?Simply, no. None of these...
View BookAuthor: Walter Isaacson
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Author Walter Isaacson
Narrator Malcolm Hillgartner
Duration 34h 30m
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative a...
View BookAuthor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Author Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make t...
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