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Abolitionism
By: Richard S. Newman
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and... Read more
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Steal This Country
By: Alexandra Styron
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by Abbie Hoffman's radical classic, Steal This Book, author Alexandra Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who don't accept "it is what it is," who want to make sure everybody gets an equal piece of the American pie, and who know that the future of the planet is now.
Styron's... Read more
The Minority Experience
By: Adrian Pei
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know the challenges of being misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced. Even when a work environment is not blatantly racist or hostile, people of... Read more
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Big Game
By: Mark Leibovich
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“A raucous, smash-mouth, first-person takedown of the National Football League." —Wall Street Journal
The New York Times bestseller
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety
Like millions of Americans, Mark... Read more
The Diversity Delusion
By: Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by: Heather Mac Donald & Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning.
America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic... Read more
Sense of Wonder
By: Bill Schelly
Narrated by: Derek Botten
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating story of growing up as a gay fan of comic books in the 1960s, building a fifty-year career as an award-winning writer, and interacting with acclaimed comic book legends
Award-winning writer Bill Schelly relates how comics and fandom saved his life in this engrossing story that begins in the burgeoning comic fandom movement of the... Read more
Confidential Confidential
By: Samantha Barbas
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including their sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison... Read more
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Goddesses
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Braden Wright
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.While Campbell’s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world... Read more
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Monster City
By: Michael Arntfield
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The never-before-told true account of the serial killers who terrorized Nashville’s music scene for decades—and the cold-case Murder Squad determined to bring an end to their sadistic sprees.Nashville—a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an... Read more
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Der allgegenwärtige Antisemit
By: Moshe Zuckermann
Narrated by: Armand Presser
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein Ungeist geht um in Deutschland - in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Antisemitismus werden wahllos und ungebrochen Begriffe durcheinandergeworfen, Menschen perfide verleumdet und verfolgt, Juden von Nicht-Juden des Antisemitismus bezichtigt. Die Debattenkultur in Deutschland ist vergiftet und die Realität völlig aus dem Blickfeld des Diskurses... Read more
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Pale Horse Rider
By: Mark Jacobson
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America...
Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest... Read more
Romance of the Grail
By: Joseph Campbell
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, edited and introduced by Arthurian scholar Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, the chair of Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute.Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged... Read more
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New... Read more
Call Them By Their True Names
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun... Read more
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Bad Stories
By: Steve Almond
Narrated by: Steve Almond
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn’t just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt, and incompetent man to the Presidency. Bad Stories: What the Hell... Read more
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Die Volksverführer
By: Daniel Bax
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Rechtspopulisten haben derzeit Auftrieb - autoritäre Demagogen liegen im Trend. Wer aber wählt diese rechten Verführer und was treibt die besorgten Bürger um? Ist es die Furcht vor wirtschaftlichem Abstieg, oder sind es andere Verlustängste? Welche Rolle spielen die Medien? Ist linker Populismus die probate Antwort? Daniel Bax zeigt die Gründe... Read more
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The Circle of Nine
By: Cherry Gilchrist
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
As women seek to cultivate an understanding of their lives, a mythological model can provide a tool for self-discovery and realizing individual potential. The Circle of Nine presents nine archetypes that represent different, but equally important aspects of the feminine psyche. They portray both the life of the individual and the story of woman... Read more
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Divergence - they are waiting
By: Michael Mish
Narrated by: Michael Mish
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
We went our separate ways: Us and Them. We went on to civilize ourselves and they remained a nomadic and indigenous people. We used the bountiful resources of nature and they simply saw themselves as being nature. Now, we look back and see how they live and how we live. DIVERGENCE offers an insightful look at how we came to be separated from our... Read more
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Lust auf Archäologie! - Abridged
By: Wolfgang Korn
Narrated by: Bernt Hahn, Ingeborg Wunderlich & Dominik Freib...
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mit verblüffendem Einfallsreichtum und originellen Methoden nehmen Archäologen die Spuren der Vergangenheit auf. Wolfgang Korn gibt uns Einblicke in eine Wissenschaft, deren Geschichten sich wie ein Krimi lesen. Wir besuchen die Grabräuber in Ägypten, begeben uns auf die Spur des schlitzohrigen Troia-Entdeckers Heinrich Schliemann, forschen nach... Read more
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How to Grow Old
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all—and why you might discover that reading and gardening are... Read more
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Rethinking Incarceration
By: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States has 5 percent of the world's population but 25 percent of the world's incarcerated. We have more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. There are more jails and prisons than degree-granting colleges and universities, and in many places more people live... Read more
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The Dog's Last Walk
By: Howard Jacobson
Narrated by: Howard Jacobson
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting, Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as did his previous volume, Whatever It Is I... Read more
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Arrest-Proof Yourself
By: Dale C. Carson & Wes Denham
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you listen to this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.
More people than ever are getting arrested—usually for... Read more
In Defense of Nuance
By: Magnus Vinding
Narrated by: RJ Bayley
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
We appear to find ourselves in a crisis of polarization and failed communication. What can we do about it?This essay argues that part of the solution may be that we all make a deliberate effort to follow certain virtues that are quite straightforward, if difficult to practice. Simply put, we should strive to be charitable toward our adversaries,... Read more
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