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Crime Scene Investigation PT.2
By: Robert C. Shaler
Narrated by: Robert C. Shaler
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Profesor Robert C. Shaler continues his in-depth look at all aspects of crime scene investigation in part two. Popularized in the media by highly rated police procedurals, crime scene invesigation is an often misunderstood field of eneavor. Shaler breaks down the intricacies of how investigations are conducted in the real world, examining suhc... Read more
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Getting a B.A. Behind Bars
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting convicts through a rigorous B.A. program that would challenge even the smartest Ivy Leaguers. Read more
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Saving the Bill of Rights
By: Frank Miniter
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Our Founding Fathers created the Bill of Rights to document our inalienable rights and to strictly limit the government’s power. These ten amendments are the foundation of American Exceptionalism—yet that foundation is quickly eroding. With every new sweeping regulation and invasive policy, the Obama administration is twisting the Bill of Rights... Read more
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At the Devil's Table
By: William C. Rempel
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crime syndicate.
Colombia in the 1990s is a... Read more
SCOTUS Rules in Miranda Warnings
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that juveniles suspected of a crime are entitled to Miranda protections. Ray Suarez asks Marcia Coyle for details. Read more
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Justice John Paul Stevens
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
It's been nearly a year since Justice John Paul Stevens left the bench after the third-longest tenure on the Supreme Court. Stevens sat down with Gwen Ifill to discuss his career, his leadership of the Court's liberal wing, why he doesn't like such labels and how his tennis game is now that he's retired. Read more
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Crime Scene Investigation: Philosophy, Practice, and Science Part 1
By: Robert C. Shaler
Narrated by: Robert C. Shaler
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The director of the Forensic Science Program at Pennsylvania State University, Professor Robert C. Shaler leads a comprehensive study of the intricacies of an intriguing, and always topical, science. In these lectures, Shaler imparts a clear understanding of crime scene investigation, from archiving the scene to the presentation of evidence in... Read more
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The Federalist Papers
By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and... Read more
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Video Games
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment.The lawyer for the state of California, who was advocating for a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18 years of age, told the... Read more
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Ratification
By: Pauline Maier
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 23 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline Maier recounts the dramatic events of the ensuing debate in homes, taverns, and convention... Read more
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Interview with Sandra Day O'Connor
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Judy Woodruff speaks to former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about her efforts to improve literacy for students, judicial elections and today's court. Read more
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Making Our Democracy Work
By: Justice Stephen Breyer
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America's highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique... Read more
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Justice Breyer
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks to Jeffrey Brown about his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, the role and responsibilities of the high court, and the shift in dynamics that a new justice can bring. Read more
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The Killer of Little Shepherds
By: Douglas Starr
Narrated by: Erik Davies
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre... Read more
The Mob and Me
By: John Partington & Arlene Violet
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When U.S. Marshal John Partington suddenly found himself protecting the family of renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, he made up the rules as he went along. Among Partington's diverse activities: managing a rotating crew of U.S. Marshals; chasing the family cat; convincing Barboza's wife not to leave; keeping the witness, his wife, and... Read more
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Constitutional Journal
By: Jeffrey St. John
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
You are there, in 1787, at America’s constitutional convention, with the inside story that reads like a modern-day account of the secret proceedings in Philadelphia. Veteran print and broadcast journalist Jeffrey St. John “reports” each day’s proceedings, flavoring his dispatches with quotes from private correspondence and notes of the... Read more
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The E-Myth Attorney
By: Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong & Sanford M...
Narrated by: Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong & Sanford M...
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on his decades of experience working with small-business owners, Michael Gerber adds to his mega-selling E-Myth series withThe E-Myth Attorney, a one-of-a-kind system for transforming an attorney's practice into a business positioned for long-term growth.Many attorneys in small and mid-size practices are experts on the law but may not... Read more
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Hunting Evil
By: Guy Walters
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 18 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis... Read more
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Landmark
By: The Staff of the Washington Post
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
After a year-long political war, in March 2010 President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for seventy-five years: an overhaul of America’s health-care system. In this indispensable book, the staff of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and explains what it means for... Read more
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A Captain's Duty
By: Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty
Narrated by: George K. Wilson
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." —President Barack Obama
It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States–flagged cargo ship that was carrying, among... Read more
Supreme Power
By: Jeff Shesol
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 23 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand... Read more
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Sex, Love, and Money
By: Gerald Nissenbaum, JD & John Sedgwick
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients—how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn.
From a... Read more
Veteran Court
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A new and special court system set up in over 20 jurisdictions around the country now gives veterans a chance at treatment and not simply punishment for their crimes. Like drug courts that began in the 1980s, they’re based on the idea of treating defendants for underlying problems in order to prevent future criminal activity. Veterans in this... Read more
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SCOTUS - Patriot Act
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Patriot Act came under the microscope at the US Supreme Court today, as justices took up a case that pits free speech against national security concerns. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal provides our analysis tonight. Read more
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