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Brought to you by Penguin. A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler After the fall of France in June 1940, only Britain stood between Hitler and total victory. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did...

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.

This provocative audiobook addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory - why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zoning laws in order to expand its facilities to better serve the needy, while a secular soup kitchen with the same goal cannot?

Twenty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protestors became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offence. Kenan Malik examines how the Rushdie affair transformed the debate worldwide on multiculturalism, tolerance and free speech, helped fuel the rise of radical Islam and pointed the way to the horrors of 9/11 and 7/7.

"Riz Ahmed's Double Identity: Actor and Rapper" is from the August 27, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by Joe Coscarelli and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate" is from the US section of The New York Times. It was written by Louise Story and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

“The Mendacity of Hope should help wake up all those Obama-voters who've been napping while the wars escalate, the recession deepens, and the environment goes straight to hell.” —Barbara Ehrenreich From the former editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine comes a bold manifesto exposing...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.' Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the...

"Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya Wins Men's Marathon" is from the August 21, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeré Longman and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Advice as Markets React to 'Brexit': Take Some Deep Breaths and Don't Do a Thing" is from the June 24, 2016, Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Ron Lieber and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Exploring Bob Dylan's New York" is from the October 30, 2016 Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Justin Sablich and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Study Shows Promise for Expensive Cholesterol Drugs, but They Are Still Hard to Obtain" is from the November 14, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Gina Kolata and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"As War Strangles Yemen, Many Fear the Grip Will Never Break" is from the May 10, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Kareem Fahim and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"The Pentagon's 'Terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own" is from the October 25, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Matthew Rosenberg and John Markoff and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Cleveland Finally Won a Title. What's the Most Cursed Sports City Now?" is from the June 20, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Victor Mather and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Gawker's General Counsel Takes on a Leadership Role" is from the June 12, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Sydney Ember and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"How to See London Theater on the Cheap" is from the September 04, 2016 Travel section of The New York Times. It was written by Lucas Peterson and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The Obama administration is blacklisting five Russians, including the government’s chief public investigator who is a close aide to President Vladimir Putin, for human-rights abuses, throwing down a gauntlet to President-elect Donald Trump nearly two weeks before he takes office with a promise to thaw relations with Russia.

"U.S. Blacklists 5 Russians, a Close Putin Aide Among Them" is from the January 09, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Landler and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Years before September 11, our enemy warned us - and we weren't listening. We are being warned today - by enemies like Iran, North Korea, and radicals and terrorists across the globe - but we are still not listening. Sounding the alarm is best-selling author Jed Babbin (former deputy undersecretary of defense), who exposes the demagogues, dictators, and death squads openly threatening America - with potentially devastating consequences, if we aren't alert to the danger.

In 1982, at the height of Guatemala’s civil war, 20 soldiers from the army’s commando unit, called the Kaibiles, invaded the farming village of Dos Erres. Masquerading as leftist guerillas, the squad members cut their way through the small town, killing more than 250 men, women, and children. Only a handful of people survived. One of them, a young boy, was adopted by Kaibil lieutenant Ramrez and raised by Ramrez’s family, who named him Oscar. Just three years old at the time of the massacre, Oscar grew up unaware of his true origins. It wasn’t until almost 30 years later, living in the suburbs of Boston with a family of his own, that Oscar would learn the truth.