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.
by Matthew Newell, Carol Newell; read by Joe Hempel
In Healing Your Child's Brain, child development experts Matthew and Carol Newell arm parents with the knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to help their special-needs child flourish. Learn More
Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Learn More
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy's past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi's famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines. Learn More
America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author explores the fall of the American Dream and the steps we can take to bring it back. Learn More
A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life, from one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience. Learn More
The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans. Learn More
A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel. Learn More
by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy; read by Mike Chamberlain
The little-known story of poor and working-class whites, urban ethnic groups, and Black Panthers organizing side by side for social justice in the 1960s and '70s. Learn More
Discussion by 15 Prominent Music Authorities, with Musical Examples
Explores the roots of the most influential music genres of our time, from anonymous 10th century troubadours to world-renowned 20th century composers. Essential listening for students and lovers of great music. Learn More
