Top Politics & Social Sciences Audiobooks

Seneca's On the Shortness of Life is a masterpiece work of the ancient Stoic philosophy that will take you on a thought-provoking journey of timeless revelations, eye-opening insights, and profound life lessons....

On the Shortness of Life is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus....

Life is not about you. It’s about what you do for others. That’s the realization that has driven Tom Rath - the mega-bestselling expert in self-development research...

The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch....

This audiobook will share many useful tips on how you and your partner can deal with the fear of intimacy and thus create a long-lasting and meaningful relationship for many years to come....

Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language?....

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent anti-war aristocractic families in Britain....

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states....

An appreciation of the "greatest common law jurist of the 20th century". Includes a comparison and contrast of the parliamentary system of Commonwealth countries....

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and best-selling author. He made major contributions to the study of media theory. McLuhan is well-known for his expression "the medium is the message", from his 1964 book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man....

Critias is one of Plato's late dialogues and contains the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens....

Characterized by petty rivalries, self-indulgence and lack of responsibility, our actions fail to fulfill what Robert Bly describes as our true soul longing....

Qigong meditation is the art of using your mind to direct the flow of energy within your body. This energy or qi is the bioelectricity carried by your nervous system. Current physiological research has verified that these currents control your immune system, the regeneration of organ tissues...

Joey Lott's No One Home is a short and simple audio guide to the ever-present simplicity of being. Lott demonstrates in simple terms that there is no separate self....

Little is known of the life of Zen master Huang-Po (Obaku in Japanese). He was born in Fuzhou, China, and died about 850 AD. His main teacher was Pai Chang (Hyakujo) (720 - 814)....

Intrepid broadcaster Roy Mallard sets out to give us an insight into the lives of ordinary people in these two episodes form the original BBC Radio 4 series: 'The Headmaster' and 'The Solicitor'. Roy tackles the burning educational issues of the day with comprehensive school headmaster Nigel...

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907) was a true mystic....

This book is a compilation of modern and ancient techniques on using the power of the spoken word to attract prosperity and abundance in one's life....

Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it....

The streets of eighteenth-century Dublin were rife with an appalling level of poverty. Desperate mothers regularly begged for alms to feed their children, and although passersby might have occasionally contributed a few coins, no large-scale remedy had proved remotely practical....