History • Culture
Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
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Breakfast with Einstein
by Chad Orzel; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
In Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel illuminates the strange phenomena lurking just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in his (and anyone's) morning routine. Learn More
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
by Lee Drutman; read by Christopher Grove
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop makes a compelling case for large scale electoral reform—importantly, reform not requiring a constitutional amendment—that would give America more parties, making American democracy more representative, more responsive, and ultimately more stable. Learn More
The Breakthrough
Gwen Ifill; read by the author
A veteran journalist surveys the American political landscape and illuminates the evolution of the African-American politician—and the future of American democracy. Learn More
A Brief History of the Female Body
by Dr. Deena Emera; read by Dr. Deena Emera
From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause―A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens. Learn More
A Brief History of Timekeeping
by Chad Orzel; read by Mike Lenz
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone.
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A Brief History of Timekeeping
by Chad Orzel; read by Mike Lenz
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Learn More
Brilliant
by Jane Brox; read by Randye Kaye
Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. Learn More
A Brilliant Commodity
by Saskia Coenen Snyder; read by Susan Ericksen
Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry. Learn More
Bringing Mulligan Home
Dale Maharidge; read by Pete Larkin
A son’s quest to find the members of his father’s Marine company leads to a deeper understanding of the devastating Pacific battles of WWII—and the haunted men who came home from them. Learn More
The British Empire
by Stephen W. Sears; read by Corrie James
In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Learn More
Broadcast Hysteria
A. Brad Schwartz; read by Sean Runnette
The enthralling and never-told story of the War of the Worlds radio drama and its true aftermath. Learn More
Broadway
by Fran Leadon; read by Kevin Pariseau
Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the seventeenth-century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the twentieth century's Great White Way. Learn More
Brothers at Arms
by Larrie D. Ferreiro; read by David Colacci
The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. Learn More
Brothers in Arms
by Damien Lewis; read by Peter Noble
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#1 internationally bestselling author, war reporter, and award-winning WWII historian Damien Lewis chronicles the birth of the legendary SAS, Winston Churchill's singular band of brothers, and how their extraordinary do-or-die exploits truly turned the tide of war. Learn More
Brutus
by Kathryn Tempest; read by Jennifer Dixon
A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin. Learn More
Buckley and Mailer
Kevin M. Schultz; read by Peter Berkrot
A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colorful characters. Learn More
Build
by Mark Katz; read by Michael Butler Murray
A timely study of US diplomacy, Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express and heal trauma. Learn More
Building America
by Jean H. Baker; read by Laural Merlington
Building America masterfully narrates the life and legacy of a key figure in creating an American aesthetic in the new United States. Learn More
Bunk
by Kevin Young; read by Mirron Willis
National Book Award Fiction Longlist LA Times Best Books 2017 2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Learn More
The Burden
Edited by Rochelle Riley; Foreword by Nikole Hannah Jones; read by Allyson Johnson
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past. Learn More
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