The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: David Medlow
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
A short treatise on how to acquire power, create a state, and keep it, The Prince represents Machiavelli’s effort to provide a guide for political action based on the lessons of history and his own experience as a foreign secretary in Florence. Read more
View audiobookThe Myth of the American Dream
By: D.L. Mayfield
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus's command to love our neighbor as ourselves?
In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our... Read more
The Bird Way
By: Jennifer Ackerman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think.
“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique... Read more
Rules of Reason
By: Bo Bennett, PhD
Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Claims are constantly being made, many of which are confusing, ambiguous, too general to be of value, exaggerated, unfalsifiable, and suggest a dichotomy when no such dichotomy exists. Good critical thinking requires a thorough understanding of the claim before attempting to determine its veracity. Good communication requires the ability to make... Read more
View audiobookThe Triumph of Doubt
By: David Michaels
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy—and where it's happening today.
Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is... Read more
Detox Your Thoughts
By: Andrea Bonior
Narrated by: Andrea Bonior
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In Detox Your Thoughts, popular psychologist Andrea Bonior, PhD, identifies the 12 most prevalent thought patterns that make people feel anxious, insecure, and generally just bad.
To overcome the most common mental traps, you must completely change the way you relate to your thoughts.
If breaking free of negative thought patterns could be cured... Read more
Cynicism
By: Ansgar Allen
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly—"I hate to be a cynic, but . . ."—before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute. The Cynicism of the ancient Greeks, however, was very different. Bold and shameless,... Read more
View audiobookYou Can't Lie to Me
By: Janine Driver
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Janine Driver was trained as a lie detection expert for the ATF, FBI, and the CIA and is a New York Times bestselling author (You Say More Than You Think). Now she makes a powerful and incontrovertible declaration: You Can't Lie to Me. Driver—who is known in professional circles as "the Lyin’ Tamer" and has demonstrated her world-renowned... Read more
View audiobookThe Florence Prescription
By: Joe Tye
Narrated by: Diana Cossi
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
No one has ever faced a healthcare crisis as dire as the one that confronted Florence Nightingale at the Scutari Barrack Hospital, yet despite the challenges over a two-year period she defined the nursing profession and created a blueprint for the hospital as we know it today. Now she returns to Memorial Medical Center to help the leadership... Read more
View audiobookLanguage Unlimited
By: David Adger
Narrated by: David Adger
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the... Read more
View audiobookForensic Psychology
By: Connor Whiteley
Narrated by: Connor Whiteley
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you want to learn what forensic psychology is?Do you want to learn about the psychology of courts?Do you want to learn about the psychology of imprisonment and rehabilitation?If the answer is yes, then this is the book for you!By the end of this book, you will have a lot of knowledge about forensic psychology and you’ll learn... Read more
View audiobookGolf's Holy War
By: Brett Cyrgalis
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
As Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, this “highly entertaining, very smart book” (James Patterson) takes us inside golf’s clash between its hallowed artistic tradition and its scientific future.
The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional... Read more
Galileo
By: Mario Livio
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
An “intriguing and accessible” (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. “We really need this story now, because we’re living through the next chapter of science denial” (Bill... Read more
View audiobookThe Crying Book
By: Heather Christle
Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a... Read more
View audiobookThe Power of Good Habits: How to Change Yourself in Easy Steps and Feel Great
By: Alex Canny
Narrated by: Adam Hebert
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
With this audiobook you will learn you how to:
be a better person
reach your goals easy
change your habits
be highly effective
sleep well
eat healthy
be motivated
focus on important things
be successful in life
never fail again
and much, much more!
The Power of Good Habits is a strategy to create permanent healthy habits. Some categories include: eating... Read more
Anxiety, Leave Me Alone: Simple Ways To End Anxiety Now
By: Alex Canny
Narrated by: Nathan Rooks
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn how to understand your inner self and equip yourself with scientific strategies to conquer your ANXIETY!
Do you find yourself over thinking every step you are taking? Feel vulnerable every time your friend say “pull yourself together drama queen?” (or king)? Struggle with a professional failure or a personal issue? Long for reclaiming power... Read more
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
By: Donald R. Prothero
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings... Read more
View audiobookWho Ate the First Oyster?
By: Cody Cassidy
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.
Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first... Read more
Neurodharma
By: Rick Hanson, PhD
Narrated by: Rick Hanson, PhD
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
“This deeply researched and compassionate guide offers an easy-to-follow road map for creating day-to-day inner peace in today’s increasingly complex world.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise and strong, happy... Read more
Remembering Satan
By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when... Read more
View audiobookTruth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
By: Tom Phillips
Narrated by: Tom Phillips
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a book about TRUTH—and all the ways we try to avoid it—from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up.
We live in a “post-truth” world, we’re told. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? Or have people been lying, fibbing and just plain bullsh*tting since the beginning of time?
Tom... Read more
Ask the Experts: The Environment
By: Scientific American
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth book in our Ask the Experts series, The Environment tackles questions about the world around us. In this book, our experts field queries on the weather, natural disasters, natural resources, climate change, and unusual phenomena. Read more
View audiobookA Biography of Loneliness
By: Fay Bound Alberti
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite 21st-century fears of an "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the... Read more
View audiobookWorry-Proofing Your Anxious Child
By: Bev Aisbett
Narrated by: Miranda Nation
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Living with IT and Taming the Black Dog comes a practical guide for parents of anxious children.
If your child is too often: seeks reassurance, invents illnesses, avoids interactions, avoids trying new things, becomes emotional over minor upsets, or is clingy, afraid to sleep alone, reluctant to go to school or... Read more