LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 8)

This is a book by the famous 20th century British philosopher Bertrand Russell on Political Ideals. It was written during the course of Worl…

Public Opinion

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Walter Lippmann

Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippman, is a critical assessment of functional democratic government, especially the irrational, and often…

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)

Read by D.E. Wittkower

Immanuel Kant

This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

Read by Allyson Hester

United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency

This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effe…

The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273

Read by Pamela Nagami

Beatrice A. Lees

Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…

Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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Imbert De Saint-Amand

"Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the prese…

The Octopus

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Frank Norris

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…

Macht oder ökonomisches Gesetz?

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Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk

Böhm-Bawerk, Mitbegründer der Österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie, erörtert, ob ökonomische Gesetze a…

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

Bertrand Russell

This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…

O Abolicionismo

Read by Rachel Moraes

Joaquim Nabuco

“O Abolicionismo” é uma das obras mais importantes para a abolição da escravatura, no Brasil. Ela propõe, como t…

Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

The Law

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Frédéric Bastiat

"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…

Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen

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Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Ein klassicher Text des deutschen Liberalismus (Summary by redaer)

Sabotage

Read by Enko

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…

Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

Read by John Greenman

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. Hi…

Democracy - An American Novel

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Henry Brooks Adams

Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Henry Morgenthau

Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

Twenty Years at Hull House

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Jane Addams

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

The Federalist Papers (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison

“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that …

Political Science

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison