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 Pandemic Century
by Mark Honigsbaum; read by John Lee
A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease. Learn More
Pan Am at War
by Mark Cotta Vaz & John H. Hill; read by Mike Chamberlain
Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. Learn More
The Palestinian Delusion
by Robert Spencer
Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instead. Learn More
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb
by Mansoor Ahmed; read by Tom Perkins
A groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge long-held misconceptions. Learn More
Oxford Handbook of IPOs
by Sofia A. Johan; read by Mike Chamberlain
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of why companies list on stock exchanges, how IPOs are regulated, initially valued, and their performance in the short and long run. Learn More
Owning the Sun
by Alexander Zaitchik; read by Johnny Heller
An authoritative look at monopoly medicine, from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people. Learn More
Overlooking the Border
By Dana Hercbergs; read by Christina Delaine
Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Learn More
Overdiagnosed
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, Dr. Steven Woloshin; read by Sean Runnette
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Exposing the overdiagnosis of everything from high blood pressure to prostate and breast cancers , Dr. Welch traces the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of some of the worst excesses of American medical practice. Learn More
Overcome
by Amber van de Bunt; read by Amber van de Bunt
With humor, alacrity, and profound insight, Amber van de Bunt reveals her deepest, darkest secrets and pulls no punches—least of all with herself. Learn More
Over the Wall
by Kevin M. Hallinan; with Rob Travalino; read by Steve Marvel
Lieutenant Kevin M. Hallinan's adventure-packed and insightful journey through the evolution of law enforcement, the rise of counterterrorism, and the birth of modern sports security. Learn More
Outsourcing Duty
by Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser; read by Rudy Sanda
Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been exploited in this way. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Emily Midorikawa
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Walt Odets; read by Will Damron
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Emily Midorikawa; read by Rachael Beresford
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Learn More
Out of One, Many
by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Petrea Burchard
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A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Learn More
Our Own Worst Enemy
by Tom Nichols; read by Tom Nichols
A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Learn More
Our Man in Charleston
Christopher Dickey; read by Antony Ferguson
As tension over slavery and western expansion threatened to break the US into civil war, the Southern states found themselves squeezed between two nearly irreconcilable realities: the survival of the Confederate economy would require the importation of more slaves, a practice banned in America since 1807, but the existence of the Confederacy itself could not be secured without official recognition from Great Britain, who would never countenance reopening the Atlantic slave trade. How, then, could the first be achieved without dooming the possibility of the second? Learn More
Our Data, Ourselves
by Jacqueline D. Lipton; read by Corinne Davies
A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Learn More
The Other Side of Prospect
by Nicholas Dawidoff; read by Diontae Black
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. Learn More
The Other Paris
Luc Sante; read by the author
Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Learn More
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