Nonfiction audiobooks
Beans
By: Leslie Yerkes & Charles Decker
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this little book is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes. As the coffee shop owner looks for ways to retain his customer base, a consultant helps him focus on what really matters. Authors Yerkes and Decker, renowned for their consulting and business savvy, have done... Read more
View audiobookStrengthening Your Ability To Pay Attention
By: Winifred Gallagher
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
How may we focus on what is important to us? How can we avoid technology overload? Why do certain things grab our attention and not others? With so many things now demanding our attention — emails, cell phones, text messages — many of us are overwhelmed by a plethora of distractions. Our lives may be described as the sum of what we focus on. Read more
View audiobookCreating Equal
By: Ward Connerly
Narrated by: Ward Connerly
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of a man who searched his conscience, decided that the American Dream should be colorblind, and then set out to change the rules. Part memoir, part history lesson, and part road map, Creating Equal tells how a black man fought against affirmative action in California and Washington state.It begins in segregated Louisiana with a... Read more
View audiobookPromises 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
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
View audiobookAngels 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
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
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
View audiobookDigital 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookHow 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
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
View audiobookApplied 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
View audiobookThe 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
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
View audiobookEnglish 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
View audiobookGolf’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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookGoogle 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
View audiobookShowing 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
View audiobookSkinny 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
View audiobookGuerrilla 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
View audiobookBack 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
View audiobookLords of Finance
By: Liaquat Ahamed
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for... Read more
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