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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more
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We Want to Do More Than Survive
By: Bettina L. Love
Narrated by: Misty Monroe
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.
Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love... Read more
Overcoming Dyslexia
By: Sally Shaywitz, M.D. & Jonathan Shaywitz MD
Narrated by: Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Length: 25 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches.
Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about... Read more
Visual Thinking
By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD
“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman
“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal
A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds... Read more
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
By: Patrick Lencioni
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she... Read more
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She Comes First - Abridged
By: Ian Kerner
Narrated by: Ian Kerner
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there." —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." But in the pages of She Comes First, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue is... Read more
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The Privileged Poor
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to... Read more
Permission to Feel
By: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The mental wellbeing of our children is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.
"We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."
Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale... Read more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
By: Leah Price
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more
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To Name the Bigger Lie
By: Sarah Viren
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.
Sarah’s story begins as she’s researching what she... Read more
Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset.
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ."
So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine... Read more
Reading with Patrick
By: Michelle Kuo
Narrated by: Michelle Kuo
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The Atlantic
A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
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Letters to a Young Writer
By: Colum McCann
Narrated by: Colum McCann
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.
Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the... Read more
Teaching Fiercely
By: Kass Minor
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools, accomplished educator Kass Minor delivers an inspiring and practical exploration of what it means to be a just teacher in a system that actively incentivizes injustice. The author explains how to build joyful experiences even in the face of inevitable injustice and demonstrates how... Read more
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Resistance from the Right
By: Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal... Read more
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El vacío existencial
By: Oslos Molina
Narrated by: Oslos Molina
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
La persona con vacío existencial se aburre con frecuencia, es pesimista y padece de apatía. No encuentra nada que le genera entusiasmo o que le provoque alegría: por el contrario, siente que no hay ningún objetivo que valga la pena.Es importante tener en cuenta que, en determinadas situaciones, es normal que un sujeto sienta un vacío. Eso... Read more
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When Black Students Excel
By: Joseph F. Johnson Jr., Stanley J. Munro Jr. & C...
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools, teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they can positively change the educational experience of Black students.
When Black Students Excel offers real-life examples of outstanding elementary, middle, and high schools where teachers and school leaders have... Read more
Dependencia de un poder superior
By: oslos molina
Narrated by: oslos molina
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Dependemos de Dios todo el tiempo, y hay veces que no podemos hacer otra cosa. El Señor nos da la fe que necesitamos para superar esos momentos. Sadrac, Mesac y Abed-nego no podían hacer cambiar la voluntad del rey, y no podían disminuir el calor del horno de fuego. Sólo sabían que no podían inclinarse ante un dios falso. Fueron arrojados al... Read more
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The Great School Rethink
By: Frederick M. Hess
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US education. Now is the time, he asserts, to ask hard questions about how schools use time and talent, how they work... Read more
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ECONOMIA PARA MATIAS (AUDIOLIBRO)
By: Javier de Haedo
Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Economía para Matías es un libro escrito con la pasión de quien convirtió a la Economía en el centro de su actividad profesional desde hace ya algunas décadas. Pero es, sobre todo, un instrumento de construcción de ciudadanía. En Economía para Matías el prestigioso economista Javier de Haedo asume un desafío mayor: tratar de explicarle a los... Read more
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The Color of Civics
By: Matthew D. Nelsen
Narrated by: Michael Kirby
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Generations of Americans have regarded schools as essential for developing the knowledge and civic values necessary for sustaining democracy. Yet, as Matthew D. Nelsen argues in The Color of Civics, traditional approaches to civic education are not living up to their promise for many students, particularly students of color from disadvantaged... Read more
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Education for Extinction
By: David Wallace Adams
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of... Read more
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Delirios de grandeza
By: Oslos Molina
Narrated by: Oslos Molina
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Los delirios de grandeza ó megalomanía gira en torno a una creencia delirante donde la persona alberga una idea exagerada de su importancia, capacidades o conocimientos, incluso puede llegar a creer que es Dios. Por tanto, podríamos definirlo como un tipo de delirio asociado al poder.En Psicopatología un delirio se define como una creencia o... Read more
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Coleção Caminhos do Saber - Educação Ambiental - Abridged
By: Lara Mendes Barcellos Palharini & Alboni Marisa...
Narrated by: Carolina Manica
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Com o avanço da globalização e o aumento populacional, as cidades foram crescendo sem planejamento. O desmatamento e a degradação do meio ambiente alcançaram patamares cada vez mais elevados. As novas tecnologias contribuíram para poluir o meio ambiente. Os desastres ambientais vêm ocorrendo, nos últimos anos, com trágicas consequências. Com... Read more
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