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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Pessoa
by Richard Zenith; read by Hannibal Hills
Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Learn More
The Petroleum Papers
by Geoff Dembicki; read by Steve Menasche
Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More
The Philadelphia Chromosome
Jessica Wapner; read by Heather Henderson
Science journalist Jessica Wapner goes beyond the headlines to share the fascinating backstory on ground-breaking cancer research and the genetic science behind it.
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The Physics of Superheroes
by James Kakalios; Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss; read by Kevin T. Collins
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Learn More
Picasso's War
Russell Martin; read by Oliver Wyman
Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Learn More
The Picnic
by Matthew Longo; read by Tom Parks
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. Learn More
Picnic Comma Lightning
by Laurence Scott; read by Laurence Scott
What does it mean to be human in the twenty-first century? In this innovative examination of our present reality, award-winning writer Laurence Scott charts the ways our traditional mental models of the world have started to fray. Learn More
Piece By Piece
Calvin Trillin; read by the author
This original recording—his first—features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Learn More
Pigs at the Trough
Arianna Huffington; read by Alison Fraser
Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Learn More
Pity the Reader
by Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut; read by Karen White
The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Learn More
The Plague of War
by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Anne Flosnik
A fast-paced narrative of one of antiquity's most famous clashes, The Plague of War is a must-listen for history enthusiasts of all ages. Learn More
Plagues and Their Aftermath
by Brian Michael Jenkins; read by Will Tulin
A look at the long history of epidemics and pandemics provides an enthralling account of what we can expect of a post-COVID world. Learn More
Planet Simpson
Chris Turner; read by Oliver Wyman
Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Learn More
Planta Sapiens
by Paco Calvo; with Natalie Lawrence
An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Learn More
The Planter of Modern Life
by Stephen Heyman; read by Robertson Dean
How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America's most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement. Learn More
A Plausible Man
by Susanna Ashton; read by Leon Nixon
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The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. Learn More
Playing God
by Anthony Youn, MD with Alan Eisenstock; read by Kyle Tait
In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. Learn More
The Pledge to America
by Drago Dzieran; read by Joel Richards
Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran takes listeners behind the scenes of his incredible life, from an impoverished childhood in Communist-controlled Poland to his time as a political prisoner, to his twenty years as a member of the United States military's most elite fighting force. Learn More
Poached
by Rachel Love Nuwer; read by Christina Delaine
Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the listener into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation. Learn More
A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
by Rosemary Mosco; read by Janet Metzger
Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We've kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, listeners can rediscover the wonder. Learn More
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