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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Yiddish Radio Project
Produced by Henry Sapoznik and David Isay
Highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. This collection is an unprecedented intimate snapshot of American Jewish life during the 1930s and '40s. Includes broadcasts by Eli Wallach, Carl Reiner, and Isaiah Sheffer. Learn More
You Are Not Forgotten
Bryan Bender; read by Johnny Heller
The inspiring tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring him home six decades later. Learn More
You Can Prevent a Stroke
by Joshua Yamamoto, MD, FACC & Kristin E. Thomas, MD; read by Bob Souer
Strokes are usually said to be tragic and random. They are certainly tragic, but they are not random. Strokes can be avoided, and You Can Prevent a Stroke explains how. Learn More
Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean; read by John Maclean
Norman Maclean's classic account of the deadliest day in the U.S. Forest Service's history, the Mann Gulch tragedy. Winner of a 1992 National Book Critic Award. Learn More
Young Men and Fire
by Norman Maclean; read by Corey M. Snow
In Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. Learn More
Your Brain on Food
by Gary Wenk; read by Jonathan Yen
An internationally renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Wenk has been educating college and medical students about the brain and lecturing around the world for more than forty years. With this essential book, he vividly demonstrates how a little knowledge about the foods and drugs we eat can teach us a lot about how our brain functions. Learn More
Your Consent Is Not Required
by Rob Wipond; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are being subjected against their will to surveillance, indefinite detention, and powerful tranquilizing drugs, restraints, seclusion, and electroshock. Learn More
Zenith Man
by McCracken Poston Jr.; read by Lee Goettl
The fascinating true story—sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking—of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had. Learn More
The Zhivago Affair
Peter Finn and Petra Couve; read by Simon Vance
The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. Learn More
Zora and Langston
by Yuval Taylor; read by Bahni Turpin
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Zora and Langston is the dramatic and moving story of one of the most influential friendships in literature. Learn More
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