Education audiobooks

The Natural Mind - Waking Up

By: Alan Orr

Narrated by: alan orr

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Imagine if just by reading one book you could transform your thinking, open your mind to new possibilities and embark on a mind adventure on a voyage of self discovery that will not only benefit you, your loved ones, friends and family but has the power to benefit humanity. This is that book.
The journey of personal deconstruction is not an easy... Read more

Stones into Schools

By: Greg Mortenson

Narrated by: Atossa Leoni

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in... Read more

Changing the World, Seven Boys At a Time

By: Michael Rosen, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the lead of his racially color-blind son, Michael Rosen and his wife found themselves adopting a group of underprivileged African American boys within the context of their very privileged Caucasian world. What began as a kids' baseball game in the park, became a commitment that would bridge the racial and cultural divide. Read more

32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny

By: Phillip Done

Narrated by: Phillip Done

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Phillip Done fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung “Happy Birthday” 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires listeners with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized... Read more

Archives of the Centuries

By: Roberto Trujillo

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it take to create a library-in particular, a research library worthy of Stanford University? Robert Trujillo has been developing special collections at Stanford for more than three decades. In this interview he shares the fascinating story of how the vast literary resources we rely on are generated. Read more

New Meaning to "Playtime"

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Arts education is typically not a staple of some heartland communities, so for nearly 40 years the Missoula Children's Theatre has been giving disadvantaged children an opportunity to discover their inner thespian. Jeffrey Brown reports. Read more

Science Matters

By: Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers.“Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book Review

Knowledge of the basic... Read more

Recollections of a Truant Officer

By: Alfred Canecchia

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Recollections of a Truant Officer” is a collection of on the job anecdotes. It traces the journey of a classroom teacher in the N.Y.C. Public schools in the inner city. He notices that some of his absent students live on the same block as the school. He decides to visit them during his lunch period. While entering a building, he is... Read more

Work Hard. Be Nice.

By: Jay Mathews

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly... Read more

Borges in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges’ frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges’ focus on universal themes early on came to belittle the... Read more

Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection. Under the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and their progressive... Read more

Beckett in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Samuel Beckett’s work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving us blinking with stinging eyes at unremitting reality. Beckett’s... Read more

Rethinking Our Past

By: James Loewen

Narrated by: James Loewen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today. Read more

The Story of My Life, with eBook

By: Helen Keller

Narrated by: Frances Cassidy

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." —Helen Keller



Before she was two years old, scarlet fever destroyed Helen Keller's sight and hearing. At seven, alone and withdrawn, she was rescued by Anne Sullivan, her teacher and friend. She learned to read (in several different languages) and speak so well that she graduated with honors in... Read more

Rapid Dutch (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Andrew Lodge & Martijnje Naziris Rothfusz

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Dutch - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and... Read more

Tweede Wereldoorlog

By: Maarten van Rossem

Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Nederlands bekendste historicus Maarten van Rossem analyseert het ontstaan, het verloop en de gevolgen van het omvangrijkste gewapende conflict dat de wereld gekend heeft. In zijn vier uur durende hoorcollege neemt hij de luisteraar mee langs de belangrijkste beslismomenten die van doorslaggevende betekenis waren. Met kennis van de vele... Read more

Debussy

By: Leo Samama

Narrated by: Leo Samama

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

De Franse componist Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) was één van de belangrijkste componisten van het begin van de 20e eeuw. Zijn werk markeert de transitie van de late romantiek naar de moderne muziek. Tijdens zijn leven kwam hij in contact met andere componisten, waaronder Tsjaikovski en Wagner. Hij ontwikkelde zijn eigen klank en brak daarmee... Read more

De atoombom

By: Maarten van Rossem

Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1939 startten de Amerikanen in het geheim het Manhattan Project dat zou leiden tot de ontwikkeling van de atoombom en het gebruik ervan op Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Maarten van Rossem behandelt de geschiedenis van het ontstaan van het meest destructieve en gevreesde wapen. Een boeiend en multidisciplinair college over de atoombom en de nucleaire... Read more

Haydn

By: Thijs Bonger

Narrated by: Thijs Bonger

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Haydn bereikte de leeftijd van 77 jaar en is een soort accolade in de muziekgeschiedenis. Als negenjarige zong hij bij de begrafenis van Vivaldi. Zijn vriend Mozart stierf achttien jaar eerder dan hij en hij gaf les aan de jonge Beethoven. De laatste dertig jaar van zijn leven was hij verreweg de beroemdste componist van Europa. Zijn gigantische... Read more

Niemand regeert

By: Marc Chavannes

Narrated by: Marc Chavannes

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Niemand regeert leest Marc Chavannes een selectie van zijn columns voor die eerder werden gepubliceerd in de NRC.



‘De Nederlandse overheid is als een broodje zacht open asfaltbeton. Twee identieke zachte happen met een toegankelijk lijkende harde laag ertussen.’ Dat ontdekte Marc Chavannes na zijn terugkeer uit Frankrijk en Amerika.



Nederland... Read more

11 класс. География

By: O. Masychev

Narrated by: Ilya Glukhov

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Данное издание охватывает основные разделы изучения школьной программы по географии для учащихся 11 классов общеобразовательных учреждений.
Учебник является информативным пособием по географии, предназначенным для углубленного изучения предмета, подготовки к экзаменам и повторения.

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01 Общая характеристика мира. Современная политическая... Read more

Aarde en klimaat

By: Salomon Kroonenberg

Narrated by: Salomon Kroonenberg

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Wij hanteren voor onze planeet vaak de menselijke maat en niet de maat van de aarde zelf. De aarde heeft een eigen leven dat al vier en een half miljard jaar duurt. Alle natuurrampen hebben in het verleden al eens plaatsgevonden: een tweehonderd meter hogere en honderd meter lagere zeespiegel, een broeikasaarde met meer dan twintig keer zoveel... Read more

Godsgeloof of atheïsme?

By: Herman Philipse

Narrated by: Herman Philipse

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Godsdienstfilosofie beargumenteerd, met aandacht voor de grote denkers, door Buitenhof-columnist en auteur van de bestseller Het Atheïstisch Manifest Herman Philipse.

Atheïsme als wereldbeschouwing is ouder dan de meeste mensen denken. Het wordt vaak gezien als een 20e eeuws fenomeen, maar het bestond al onder de oude Chinezen en de Grieken. In... Read more

De waarde van het woord

By: Marita Mathijsen

Narrated by: Marita Mathijsen

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Literatuur in de 19e eeuw was geen vrijblijvend vermaak. Schrijvers wilden de maatschappij verbeteren door aandacht voor sociale problemen, maar ook door aansluiting te zoeken bij internationale kunstbewegingen. Literatuur als middelaar tussen ideaal en werkelijkheid. Rond 1880 keren nieuwe jonge schrijvers zich tegen deze generatie en... Read more