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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Stolen Girls
by: Wolfgang Bauer; translated by Eric Frederick Trump; read by Bahni Turpin
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. In Stolen Girls, Wolfgang Bauer gives voice to these girls, allowing them to speak for themselves—about their lives before the abduction, about the horrors during their captivity, and their dreams of a better future.
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
by Byron Reese; read by Stephen Bel Davies
What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way? This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are—and will change how you think about our future. Learn More
Storming the Heavens
by Gerald Horne; read by Bill Quinn
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. Learn More
Stormtroopers
by Daniel Siemens; read by Roger Clark
Stormtroopers is the first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust. Learn More
Story Movements
by Caty Borum Chattoo; read by Romy Nordlinger
In Story Movements, producer and scholar Caty Borum Chattoo explores how documentaries disrupt dominant cultural narratives through complex, creative, often investigative storytelling. Featuring original interviews with award-winning documentary filmmakers and field leaders, the book reveals the influence and motivations behind the vibrant, eye-opening stories of the contemporary documentary age. Learn More
A Story of Us
by Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson; read by Mike Cooper
Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Learn More
The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump
by Dan P. McAdams; read by Matthew Josdal
The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump provides a coherent and nuanced psychological portrait of Donald Trump, drawing upon biographical events in the subject's life and contemporary scientific research and theory in personality, developmental, and social psychology. Learn More
The Strangler Vine
M.J. Carter; read by Alex Wyndham
Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.
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Strategic Vision
Zbigniew Brzezinski; read by Grover Gardner
“One of the nation’s most important voices on foreign policy” (The Washington Post) presents a blueprint for keeping America economically vital, responsibly powerful, and globally engaged in a time of immense change. Learn More
Strong Towns
by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.; read by Matthew Boston
Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Learn More
Strongmen
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat; read by Chloe Cannon
In Strongmen, Ruth Ben-Ghiat lays bare the blueprint authoritarian leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future. Learn More
The Struggle for Sea Power
Sam Willis; read by Derek Perkins
For the first time, Sam Willis offers a fascinating naval perspective to one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, who, in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? Learn More
Submerged
by Hillel Levin; read by Brandon Pollock
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November
An explosive work of investigative journalism revealing the travesty of justice that sent an innocent man to prison and let the real murderer of a teenage girl go free. Learn More
The Sullivanians
by Alexander Stille; read by Jamie Renell
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult. Learn More
The Sum of Our Dreams
by Louis P. Masur, read by Jonathan Yen
In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. Learn More
summertime
by Richard Crawford; read by David Colacci
Acclaimed music historian Richard Crawford traces the arc of Gershwin's remarkable life, seamlessly blending colorful anecdotes with a discussion of Gershwin's unforgettable oeuvre.
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The Sun
by Philip Judge; read by Patrick Lawlor
This Very Short Introduction explores what we know about the Sun—its physics, its structure, origins, and future evolution. Learn More
The Sunken Gold
by Joseph A. Williams; read by Paul Boehmer
More than an incredible story about undersea diving adventure, The Sunken Gold is a story of human persistence, bravery, and patriotism. Learn More
Super 8
by Danny Plotnick; read by Eric Jason Martin
Danny Plotnick showcases the history of Super 8 filmmaking in this must-listen book. Super 8 offers a detailed history of the beloved medium—one not only embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but by the art world, punk rockers, and ultimately popular culture. Learn More
Supernatural Psychology
Edited by Travis Langley and Lynn S. Zubernis, Introduction by Mark R. Pellegrino, Foreword by Jonathan Maberry; read by Hillary Huber and Joe Hempel
A fascinating analysis of the psychology behind the popular TV series Supernatural, from Travis Langley (Batman and Psychology; The Walking Dead Psychology; Game of Thrones Psychology) and Lynn S. Zubernis (Family Don't End with Blood; Fan Phenomena: Supernatural). Learn More
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