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![Wonderful Memories of It’s a Wonderful Life by Jimmy Hawkins](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481535991_1120.jpg)
![Wonderful Memories of It’s a Wonderful Life by Jimmy Hawkins](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481535991_1120.jpg)
Wonderful Memories of It’s a Wonderful Life
By: Jimmy Hawkins
Narrated by: Jimmy Hawkins
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
When the movie It’s a Wonderful Life opened in December 1946, it captured five Academy Award nominations. It also captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Over the past fifty years, It’s a Wonderful Life has become as much a holiday tradition as Thanksgiving dinner and the Christmas tree. For many people, Christmas just isn’t complete until... Read more
View audiobook![Aristotle in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536134_1120.jpg)
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided... Read more
View audiobook![Sartre in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536516_1120.jpg)
![Sartre in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536516_1120.jpg)
Sartre in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism—at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the... Read more
View audiobook![Marx in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536493_1120.jpg)
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Marx in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief... Read more
View audiobook![Four against the Arctic by David Roberts](http://covers.libro.fm/9781624607752_1120.jpg)
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Four against the Arctic
By: David Roberts
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity,... Read more
View audiobook![New World Coming by Nathan Miller](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483075129_1120.jpg)
![New World Coming by Nathan Miller](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483075129_1120.jpg)
New World Coming
By: Nathan Miller
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 18 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, Model T Fords, Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic—the 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. With scandal and crime the lifeblood of the tabloids, it was the time when the culture of celebrity... Read more
View audiobook![Antietam by James Reasoner](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599429_1120.jpg)
![Antietam by James Reasoner](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599429_1120.jpg)
Antietam
By: James Reasoner
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In early 1862, the Civil War comes within view of the Brannon family farm in Culpeper County, Virginia. The din of drilling soldiers sweeps over the quiet county seat, and another Brannon son, Mac, answers the call to arms.The long-anticipated spring offensive pitches the Union and Confederate armies against each other on the Virginia Peninsula,... Read more
View audiobook![Rothstein by David Pietrusza](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483065014_1120.jpg)
![Rothstein by David Pietrusza](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483065014_1120.jpg)
Rothstein
By: David Pietrusza
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls' Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David... Read more
View audiobook![Hegel in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536431_1120.jpg)
![Hegel in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536431_1120.jpg)
Hegel in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Hegel’s dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This sprung from Hegel’s aim to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascend toward Mind as the ultimate reality. His view of history as a process of humanity’s... Read more
View audiobook![Promise of Glory by C. X. Moreau](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599009_1120.jpg)
![Promise of Glory by C. X. Moreau](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599009_1120.jpg)
Promise of Glory
By: C. X. Moreau
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the battle of Antietam and the events leading up to the single bloodiest day in the entire Civil War, in which Union casualties topped 12,000 and Confederate casualties topped 11,000. It is also the story of such memorable figures of military history as Lee and McClellan, Burnside, Longstreet, Hooker, and Jackson, who took... Read more
View audiobook![Rousseau in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536158_1120.jpg)
![Rousseau in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536158_1120.jpg)
Rousseau in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who... Read more
View audiobook![The Masters by Curt Sampson](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599306_1120.jpg)
![The Masters by Curt Sampson](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599306_1120.jpg)
The Masters
By: Curt Sampson
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestseller Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augusta course.The Masters is an... Read more
View audiobook![Bums by Peter Golenbock](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483075020_1120.jpg)
![Bums by Peter Golenbock](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483075020_1120.jpg)
Bums
By: Peter Golenbock
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 19 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. Even today, they remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has compiled a fascinating oral history of the Ebbets Field heroes with recollections from former... Read more
View audiobook![Spinoza in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536172_1120.jpg)
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God—one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza’s conclusions are deeply in accord with... Read more
View audiobook![Hume in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536196_1120.jpg)
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Hume in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which... Read more
View audiobook![Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536219_1120.jpg)
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism," makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's fa├ºade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the universal Will—blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery... Read more
View audiobook![Socrates in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536417_1120.jpg)
![Socrates in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536417_1120.jpg)
Socrates in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was used to cut through the palaver of his adversaries... Read more
View audiobook![Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536233_1120.jpg)
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought... Read more
View audiobook![St. Augustine in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536394_1120.jpg)
![St. Augustine in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536394_1120.jpg)
St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Augustine’s spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy, which... Read more
View audiobook![Voucher Wars by Clint Bolick](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481563437_1120.jpg)
![Voucher Wars by Clint Bolick](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481563437_1120.jpg)
Voucher Wars
By: Clint Bolick
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more
View audiobook![Plato in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536011_1120.jpg)
![Plato in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481536011_1120.jpg)
Plato in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but... Read more
View audiobook![The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599207_1120.jpg)
![The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481599207_1120.jpg)
The Twentieth Maine
By: John J. Pullen
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
It was at Little Round Top that the volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, with Joshua Chamberlain in command, performed one of the miracles of the Civil War and saved the left flank of the Union battle line. Outnumbered two to one, their front doubled back to the shape of a horseshoe. And with ammunition gone, the men fixed bayonets, charged,... Read more
View audiobook![Jazz 101 by John F. Szwed](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481562591_1120.jpg)
![Jazz 101 by John F. Szwed](http://covers.libro.fm/9781481562591_1120.jpg)
Jazz 101
By: John F. Szwed
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Jazz 101 is a fascinating entr├®e into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than fifty years. Szwed's complete... Read more
View audiobook![Silicon Gold Rush by Karen Southwick](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483086262_1120.jpg)
![Silicon Gold Rush by Karen Southwick](http://covers.libro.fm/9781483086262_1120.jpg)
Silicon Gold Rush
By: Karen Southwick
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A hotbed of activity for farsighted thinkers and determined doers, the high-technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today’s most innovative technological advances, but at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business.Armed with groundbreaking management approaches,... Read more
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