Nonfiction audiobooks

Nonviolence

By: Mark Kurlansky & H.H. Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Richard Dreyfuss

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred... Read more

A Short History of Africa

By: Roland Oliver & J. D. Fage

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

During the twentieth century the center of the world shifted. The dramatic alterations in political power have corrected the once prevalent vision of a European-centered world. While the centers of European culture flourished, decayed, and sprouted in turn, empires in Africa rose, ruled, resisted, and succumbed. Much of Africa's past has now... Read more

Digital Barbarism

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its... Read more

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory

By: George Musser

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything is connected.We're living in the midst of a scientific revolution that's captured the general public's attention and imagination. The aim of this new revolution is to develop a "theory of everything," a set of laws of physics that will explain all that can be explained, ranging from the tiniest subatomic particle to the universe as a... Read more

Negotiate Your Way to Riches

By: Peter Wink

Narrated by: Peter Wink

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike any negotiating book you’ve ever heard! If you buy or sell anything personally or professionally, this audio book can make or save you a fortune! This complete guide to negotiating great deals gives you step-by-step instructions to get anything you want for personal or business use for a fraction of the asking price…or, better yet, no... Read more

Angels in My Hair

By: Lorna Byrne

Narrated by: Sile Bermingham

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For anyone who has ever wondered about the mysteries that lie beyond everyday experience, or doubted the reality of the afterlife, Angels in My Hair is a moving and deeply inspirational journey into the unseen world.

For as long as she can remember, Lorna Byrne has seen angels. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the otherworldly... Read more

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

By: Roy Porter

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

In this boldly drawn portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. This text’s broad scope makes it a must-have for... Read more

Destiny Disrupted

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world views the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world... Read more

Skinny Bastard

By: Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fed up with being fat? Good! That means you're ready to get ripped—and there's nothing mamsy-pamsy about wanting to look good.Hundreds of thousands of women have been inspired to get real about the food they eat after reading the best-selling manifestoSkinny Bitch. Now it's time for the guys to have a book of their own.Guys like the Milwaukee... Read more

Showing Up for Life

By: Bill Gates, Sr. & Mary Ann Mackin

Narrated by: Patrick Egan & Bill Gates, Sr.

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill... Read more

The End of Overeating

By: David A. Kessler MD

Narrated by: Blair Hardman

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food -- when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating -- even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food?

Dr. David Kessler,... Read more

Back to Basics Management

By: Matthew J. Culligan, C. Suzanne Deakins & Arthu...

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Back to Basics Management explains the difference between business administration and business management, how this distinction has been obscured, and the need to revive the craft of leadership in management. It is an invaluable book for every conscientious manager, detailing the tools used in effective management, and it offers concise and... Read more

Guerrilla P.R.

By: Michael Levine

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen can attest to the fact that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. If you are a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, here are the resources necessary to mount... Read more

Google Speaks

By: Janet Lowe

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In many ways, Google is the prototype of a successful twenty-first century company. It uses technology in new ways to make information universally accessible; promotes a corporate culture that encourages creativity among its employees; and takes its role as a corporate citizen very seriously, investing in green initiatives and developing the... Read more

The Global Deal

By: Nicholas Stern

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, economist Nicholas Stern was commissioned by the British government to direct the largest study ever conducted into the scientific reality of global warming. The Stern Report, which made headlines around the world, is far and away the deepest and most far-reaching exploration into the economic and ethical consequences of this... Read more

Applied Economics

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly revised and updated, this is the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America’s most revered economists.Applied Economics is an accessible guide to how our economic decisions develop. It explains the application of economics to major world problems, including housing, medical care, discrimination,... Read more

Buying Secrets Retailers Don't Want You to Know

By: Peter Wink

Narrated by: Peter Wink

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Let world-renowned dealmaker Peter Wink teach you how to buy items for pennies on the dollar AND how to use a little known dealmaking strategy to get products and services for NO MONEY OUT OF POCKET! The best-selling author of the internationally acclaimed book, "Negotiate Your Way to Riches" and "Striking it Rich at Garage Sales and Flea... Read more

Golf’s Greatest Championship

By: Julian I. Graubart

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The 1960 US Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all US Open championships. In 1960, the young lions of the game were eager to reach the top-tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. In this championship game,... Read more

The Big Leap

By: Gay Hendricks

Narrated by: Gay Hendricks

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gay Hendricks is a great role model for true success. He enjoys abundance and a deep connection with his own spiritual essence, and at the same time has lived for three decades in a thriving marriage. Now, he shows us how to do it for ourselves.”
— Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Cracking the Millionaire Code In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the... Read more

How Sex Works

By: Sharon Moalem

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”
— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History ""How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag.""
—O magazine Medical... Read more

Promises I Made My Mother

By: Sam Haskell & David Rensin

Narrated by: Sam Haskell

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself?

What would my mother say?

Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day.

When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the values of character, faith, and honor by setting an... Read more

Keeping the Edge

By: Dick Schaaf

Narrated by: Glenn Birney

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

What is a company’s balance point between the demands of its customers and the profit expectations of its shareholders? In the era of “lean and mean” operations, is quality service still the key to a business’ bottom line? To answer these corporate life-and-death questions, Dick Schaaf, a leading authority on the subject and co-author of The... Read more

Dreams, with eBook

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams—what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams.



Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing... Read more

Yogi Berra

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs.



In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's... Read more