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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 Twice-Born

by Aatish Taseer; read by Neil Shah

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge. Learn More
Coal Country Killing

by Robert K. Tanenbaum and Steve Jackson; read by Frank Block

A triumphant, uplifting true justice story led by jury trial expert, Richard A. Sprague—the indomitable, nationally renowned prosecutor who engaged in the most intense manhunt investigation in police history. Learn More
Grinnell

by John Taliaferro; read by Joe Barrett

The alarm that George Bird Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro's commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Learn More
World War II at Sea

by Craig L. Symonds; read by Eric Martin

Many have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself. Learn More
Are We Bodies or Souls?

by Richard Swinburne

Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defense of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. Learn More
Cosmogenesis

by Brian Thomas Swimme; read by Brian Thomas Swimme

From the host and cocreator of PBS's Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influenced contemporary consciousness. Learn More
The View from My Foxhole

by William Swanson; read by Michael Butler Murray

The View from My Foxhole tells William Swanson's story of fighting in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Learn More
Harnessing The Science of Learning

by Nathaniel Swain; read by Grant Cartwright

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available July

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership, and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning. Learn More
Reconsidering Race

Edited by Kazuko Suzuki & Diego A. Von Vacano, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.; read by Mirron Willis

Reconsidering Race will help shed light on multiple contemporary concerns, such as the place of race in identity formation, ethno-political conflict, immigration policy, social justice, biomedical ethics, and the carceral state. Learn More
51 Imperfect Solutions

by Jeffrey S. Sutton; Read by David Drummond

If there is a central conviction of this book, it's that an underappreciation of state constitutional law has hurt state and federal law and has undermined the appropriate balance between state and federal courts in protecting individual liberty. In trying to correct this imbalance, the book also offers several ideas for reform. Learn More
How To Think About AI

by Richard Susskind; read by Richard Susskind

NEW! Now Available

Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide that challenges us to think differently about AI. Susskind brings AI out of computing laboratories, big tech companies, and start-ups—and into everyday life. Learn More
The Big Bang of Numbers

by Manil Suri; read by Eric Jason Martin

An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the building blocks of our universe. Learn More
On Freedom

by Cass R. Sunstein; read by Johnny Heller

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today. Learn More
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Kate Summerscale; read by Simon Vance

A provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it author Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written. Learn More
Imagined Life

by James Trefil & Michael Summers; read by Paul Boehmer

Scientists Trefil and Summers bring listeners on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life—unlike anything we have experienced so far—that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Learn More
How to Be a Bad Emperor

by Suetonius; edited, translation, & introduction by Josiah Osgood; read by PJ Ochlan

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead. Learn More
A Dominant Character

by Samanth Subramanian; read by Jonathan Cowley

A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Learn More
Latino Americans

Ray Suarez; read by the author

AudioFile Best of Year Selection

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
Jonathan Swift

by John Stubbs; read by Derek Perkins

Washington Post Notable Book
LA Times Best Books 2017
Kirkus Best NonFiction of 2017

A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a "vivid, ardent, and engaging" author (New York Times Book Review). Learn More
The Marauders

by Patrick Strickland; read by Kent Klineman

This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. Learn More
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