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Thunder in the Mountains
By: Daniel Sharfstein
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 18 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for... Read more
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Svenska svindlare och fuskare
By: Fredrik Kullberg
Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more
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Wie wir arbeiten, und was wir fordern
By: Philipp Riederle
Narrated by: Philipp Riederle
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Deutschlands jüngster Unternehmensberater Philipp Riederle erklärt in diesem Debattenbuch, wie die digitale Generation wirklich tickt: Viele Unternehmen befürchten, keinen qualifizierten Nachwuchs mehr zu bekommen, denn die nun auf den Arbeitsmarkt drängende Generation - die sogenannte Handy-Generation - gilt bei Managern und Personalern als... Read more
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The NASA Conspiracies
By: Nick Redfern
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration—NASA—was established on July 29, 1958. Ever since that day, NASA has been at the forefront of efforts to explore outerspace, resulting in the Apollo missions to the moon, the Skylab space-station, and today's space shuttle.
But behind the open face of NASA, there is a much more mysterious world.... Read more
Game Changers
By: Art Chansky
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous change, Smith and Scott helped transform... Read more
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Just around Midnight
By: Jack Hamilton
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses... Read more
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What Algorithms Want
By: Ed Finn
Narrated by: Scott Merriman
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations--the marriage vow, the shaman's curse--do not merely... Read more
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Old School
By: Bill O'Reilly & Bruce Feirstein
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly & Holter Graham
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.
Old School is in session....
You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.
It’s a values thing. The anti–Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not... Read more
Superfandom
By: Zoe Fraade-Blanar & Aaron M. Glazer
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given all organizations?from traditional businesses to tech startups?direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it's easy to forget that this access flows both ways. This is the... Read more
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The Creative Spark
By: Agustín Fuentes
Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight. Agustín... Read more
A Colony in a Nation
By: Chris Hayes
Narrated by: Chris Hayes
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely... Read more
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Sex and the Constitution
By: Geoffrey R. Stone
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and... Read more
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Why is job opportunity still lagging for people with disabilities?
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The unemployment rate for people with a disability is more than double than for those without. Even though the law bars such discrimination, it can be difficult for these Americans to get hired. But that’s not the full story: Some employers are seeing how the special abilities of workers on the autism spectrum can boost their bottom lines.... Read more
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Black Lies Matter
By: Taleeb Starkes
Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Chicago a.k.a "Chiraq," the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore's 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year—on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit's police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, criminal subculture.
Unfortunately, these cities aren't anomalies. Year... Read more
Born Both
By: Hida Viloria
Narrated by: Hida Viloria
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt... Read more
The Rules Do Not Apply
By: Ariel Levy
Narrated by: Ariel Levy
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Vogue• Time• Esquire• Entertainment Weekly• The Guardian• Harper’s Bazaar• Library Journal• NPR
All her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too... Read more
Gender Medicine
By: Marek Glezerman, MD
Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the obvious sexual and reproductive variances: men... Read more
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Free Women, Free Men
By: Camille Paglia
Narrated by: Camille Paglia
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of... Read more
To Sleep with the Angels
By: David Cowan & John Kuenster
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost fifty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families physically and psychologically... Read more
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Deadliest Enemy
By: Mark Olshaker & Michael T. Osterholm
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19.
Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period... Read more
Cafe Neandertal
By: Beebe Bahrami
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date on the research, exploration, and recovery of our... Read more
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How To Get Over A Breakup For Women
By: HowExpert
Narrated by: Krystle L. Minkoff
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have just undergone a break up, then get this "How to Get Over a Breakup For Women" step-by-step guide.It is written by a person who has also gone through the break up and lose loved ones.In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to overcome and endure the pain cause by the break up.- How to reflect and accept difficult... Read more
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Born on Third Base
By: Chuck Collins
Narrated by: Chuck Collins
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor—all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further... Read more
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Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann - Begegnungen mit einem Mörder (ungekürzt)
By: Steffen Schroeder
Narrated by: Steffen Schroeder
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
2013 stehen sich Steffen Schroeder und Micha im Gefängnis Berlin-Tegel zum ersten Mal gegenüber. Ein Gespräch über ihre schwierige Jugend bringt sie einander näher, bei allen Unterschieden: Schroeder wurde Schauspieler, Micha rutschte ins rechte Milieu ab, brachte einen Menschen um. Es beginnt eine besondere Beziehung: Schroeder, bekannt als... Read more
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