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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Pregnant While Black
by Monique Rainford, MD; read by Monique Rainford, MD
A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. In this book, Dr. Monique Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them. Learn More
The President and Immigration Law
by Adam Cox & Cristina M. Rodriguez; read by Gary Tiedemann
In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became the United States' immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy, they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Learn More
Presumed Guilty
by Erwin Chemerinsky; read by Perry Daniels
Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Learn More
Preventing Bullying in Schools
by Catherine P. Bradshaw & Tracy Evian Waasdorp; read by Coleen Marlo
Nearly a third of students are directly involved in bullying by the time they graduate from high school.
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The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli; translated by George Bull; read by Fritz Weaver
A masterpiece of prophecy, psychological insight, and forceful prose, The Prince is a classic of realpolitik, stunningly relevant to our times. Learn More
Pro-Aging Playbook
by Paul Jarrod Frank, MD; read by Daniel Henning
Hailed as "the Beauty Guru" by his celebrity and international patients, renowned cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank has written a book designed to help people of all ages navigate the latest technologies and lifestyle choices in the beauty and wellness industry so they can positively transform the way they look and feel. Learn More
The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic
by Kevin Kenny; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction. Learn More
The Progressive Reports
by Frank J. Connor; read by Mike Chamberlain
A satirical series of reports from a young progressive student to the DNC, outlining ways to undermine the conservative movement and create a progressive nation. Learn More
The Property Species
by Bart J. Wilson; read by Mike Lenz
What is property, and why does our species have it? In The Property Species, Bart J. Wilson explores how humans acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to understanding how property works in the twenty-first century. Learn More
Prophet's Prey
Sam Brower; foreword by Jon Krakauer; read by Jonah Cummings
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the engrossing, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a facade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman’s vision. Learn More
Prophets without Honor
by Shlomo Ben-Ami; read by David Colacci
A high-level insider's history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed. Learn More
Protestants
by Alec Ryrie ; read by Tim Bruce
Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Learn More
Proust and the Squid
Maryanne Wolf; read by Kirsten Potter
This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era. Learn More
Psychedelic Experience
by Aidan Lyon; read by Mike Cooper
A philosophical account of psychedelic experience. Learn More
Psychologically Sound
by Sheldon Roth, MD; read by John McLain
A highly respected psychiatrist challenges the media narrative that President Trump is mentally unstable. Learn More
PTSD
by Allan V. Horwitz; read by Kyle Tait
In PTSD: A Short History, Allan V. Horwitz argues that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness. Learn More
The Pursuit of Dominance
by Christopher J. Fettweis; read by Tristan Morris
A sweeping yet concise account of history's empires that managed to maintain dominance for long stretches. Learn More
The Pursuit of Power
by Richard J. Evans; read by Napoleon Ryan
From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony. Learn More
Putin Country
Anne Garrels; read by the Author
In Putin Country, longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels crafts a necessary portrait of Russia's heartland. Learn More
Queen Victoria
by Michael Ledger-Lomas; read by Anne Flosnik
This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life—from her accession to her marriage and her successive bereavements—enlarged how she defined and lived her faith. Learn More
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