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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 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
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
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
Left Bank
by Agnes Poirier; read by Christa Lewis
An incandescent group portrait of the mid-century artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris. Learn More
Leftover in China
by Roseann Lake; read by Janet Song
Roseann Lake's Leftover in China employs colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how the "leftovers" are the ultimate linchpin to China’s future. Learn More
A Legacy of Discrimination
by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective. Learn More
Lenin Lives?
by Christopher Read; read by Mike Cooper
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This study examines the key elements of Lenin's life and career, the consolidation of his ideas into the doctrines of "Leninism," the influence of Leninism in promoting revolutionary movements around the globe, and the currently disputed issue of whether his ideas still have any relevance today. Learn More
Let the Children Play
by Pasi Sahlberg & Wiliam Doyles; read by Randye Kaye
In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren. Learn More
Let the People Rule
Geoffrey Cowan; read by Joe Barrett
The colorful, dramatic, and surprising story of four crucial months in Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 campaign that fundamentally altered the American political process. Learn More
Let the People Rule
by John G. Matsusaka; read by Christopher Grove
With a crisis of representation hobbling democracies across the globe, Let the People Rule offers important new ideas about the crucial role the referendum can play in the future of government. Learn More
Let Them Eat Tweets
by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson; read by Peter Berkrot
A groundbreaking account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals—and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy. Learn More
Letter to a Young Female Physician
by Suzanne Koven; read by Suzanne Koven
A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. Learn More
Levon
by Sandra B. Tooze; read by Rosemary Benson
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm—the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. Learn More
Lewis and Clark
by Ralph K. Andrist; read by Joe Barrett
Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the dramatic story of the epic journey of Lewis and Clark. Learn More
Lexington and Concord
by George C. Daughan; read by Mike Chamberlain
George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the battle of Lexington and Concord will challenge the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. Authoritative and immersive, Lexington and Concord offers new understanding of a battle that became a template for colonial uprising in later centuries. Learn More
Liberty Equality Fashion
by Anne Higonnet; read by Elisabeth Lagelee and Anne Higonnet
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This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor. Learn More
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