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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The Triumph of Doubt
by David Michaels; read by Paul Boehmer
Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy—and where it's happening today. Learn More
The Tribe
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; read by Gary Tiedemann
Teeming with life and compulsively listenable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement. Learn More
Trauma, Tresses, and Truth
by Lyzette Wanzer; read by L. Malaika Cooper
From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Particularly relevant during this time of emboldened White supremacy, racism, and provocative othering, this work explores how writing about one of the still-remaining systemic biases in schools, academia, and corporate America might lead to greater understanding and respect. Learn More
The Transpacific Experiment
by Matt Sheehan; read by PJ Ochlan
In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan lays bare the new reality of twenty-first-century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. Learn More
Transient and Strange
by Nell Greenfieldboyce; read by Nell Greenfieldboyce
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An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. Learn More
Transforming Harry
Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller; read by Shaun Grindell and Esther Wane
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. Learn More
The Traitor
by V.S. Alexander; read by Christa Lewis
Drawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history's darkest hours. Learn More
Trafficking Data
by Aynne Kokas; read by Hannah Choi
From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. Learn More
The Tradition
by Jericho Brown; read by JD Jackson
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Lambda Literary Award Winner 2019 National Book Award Finalist Publishers Weekly Best of 2019
Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Learn More
Trading with the Enemy
by Hugo Meijer; read by Liam Gerrard
Trading with the Enemy is the first monograph on this dimension of the US-China relationship in the post-Cold War. Learn More
Trade Battles
by Tamara Kay & R.L. Evans; read by Pam Ward
A timely contribution, Trade Battles seeks to understand the role of civil society in shaping state policy. Learn More
Toxic Water, Toxic System
by Michael Mascarenhas; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
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Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. Learn More
Totally Wired
by Andrew Smith; read by Adam Lofbomm
From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. Learn More
Too Hot
by George Brown; read by Midnite Michael
In Too Hot, drummer, keyboardist, and primary songwriter George Brown describes life in and out of Kool & The Gang, including a raucous life on the road as the band's popularity grew. Learn More
Tom Paine's Iron Bridge
Edward G. Gray; read by Tom Perkins
The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States. Learn More
To Walk the Earth Again
by Christopher Trigg; read by Mike Cooper
The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Learn More
To the Promised Land
by Michael K. Honey; read by J.D. Jackson
To the Promised Land asks us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill Martin Luther King's legacy and move toward what he called "the Promised Land" in our own time. Learn More
To Serve the Enemy
by Shane Darcy; read by Roger Clark
In this book, Shane Darcy examines the development and application of the relevant rules and principles of the laws of armed conflict in relation to collaboration. Learn More
To Fight Against This Age
by Rob Riemen; read by Liam Gerrard
An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it. Learn More
To Dare More Boldly
by John C. Hulsman; read by Matthew Waterson
To Dare More Boldly creatively explains why political risk analysis is vital for business and political leaders alike, and authoritatively establishes the analytical rules of thumb that practitioners need to do it effectively. Learn More
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