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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The Landscapes of Science and Religion
by Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite; read by Liam Gerrard
The latest book from the authors of Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity. Learn More
The Last American President
by Thom Hartmann; read by Sean Pratt
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From bestselling progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann comes an urgent autopsy of American democracy, showing how plutocrats, political cowardice, and systemic rot built the perfect runway for Trump's authoritarian ascent. Learn More
The Last Butterflies
by Nick Haddad; read by Eric Martin
A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction. Learn More
The Last Campaign
Thurston Clarke; read by Pete Larkin
An intimate and absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened dramas of his times. Learn More
The Last Dynasty
by Toby Wilkinson; read by Julian Elfer
One of the world's leading Egyptologists tells the rich and fascinating story of ancient Egypt's last dynasty. Learn More
The Last Englishmen
by Deborah Baker; read by James Cameron Stewart
Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker's The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. Learn More
The Last Job
by Dan Bilefsky; read by Chris MacDonnell
The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history. Learn More
The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome
by Ian Worthington; read by Gareth Richards
Viewed as postscripts to the kingdom's heyday, the last Macedonian kings (Philip V, his son Perseus, and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI) have often been denounced for self-serving ambitions, flawed policies, and questionable personal qualities. Likewise, they have been condemned for defeats by Rome that saw both the end of the monarchy and the fall of the formidable Macedonian phalanx before the Roman legion. In The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome, Ian Worthington reassesses these three kings and demonstrates how such denunciations are inaccurate. Learn More
Last Lawman
by Nils Grevillius; read by Nils Grevillius
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Last of Its Kind
by Gísli Pálsson; read by Paul Woodson
How an iconic bird's final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction. Learn More
The Last Platoon
by Bing West; read by Stephen Graybill
This authentic war story vividly displays how a warrior must replenish his own moral courage and not allow ambition to coarsen his sense of decency. Learn More
The Last Stargazers
by Emily Levesque; read by Janet Metzger
Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. Learn More
The Last Stargazers
by Emily Levesque; read by Janet Metzger
Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. Learn More
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
by Pashtana Durrani and Tamara Bralo; read by Lameece Issaq
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available March
From young Afghani activist and Amnesty International Global Youth Ambassador Pashtana Durrani, a deeply inspiring memoir about the power of learning and the value of educators in their many forms—from teachers, mentors, and role models, to fathers, mothers, and any one of us with the drive to stand against ignorance. Learn More
Latino Americans
Ray Suarez; read by the author
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This companion to the PBS documentary series, Latino Americans, vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of the United States. Learn More
Lawless Republic
by Josiah Osgood; read by David Holt
A historian of Rome "at the height of his powers" (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero. Learn More
Lead Like Walt
by Pat Williams; read by BJ Harrison
Whether you are building a small business from the ground up or managing a multinational company, you can learn the seven key traits for leadership success from one of the greatest business innovators and creative thinkers of the twentieth century: Walt Disney. Learn More
Leading in the Digital World
by Amit S. Mukherjee; read by Steve Menasche
The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity. Learn More
Lear
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
Harold Bloom, regarded by some as the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, presents an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of King Lear—the third in his series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities, hailed as Bloom's "last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination" on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. Learn More
Learning from the Germans
by Susan Neiman
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past. Learn More
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