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 Plutarch and Prudentius; translated by Michael Fontaine
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available July
In this addition to the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers (AWMR) series, Michael Fontaine offers new and fresh translations of two key texts on coping with internal appetites and external pressure, with different perspectives. Learn More
Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in this extensively revised and expanded edition. Learn More
by Ari Herstand; read by Ari Herstand with Derek Sivers
"The single best book on the music business 2016. An absolute must-read for every musician."―Derek Sivers, bestselling author and founder of CD Baby Learn More
Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in a significantly revised and expanded third edition. Learn More
After generations of foreign policy failures, the United States can finally try to make the world safer—not by relying on utopian goals but by working pragmatically with nondemocracies. Learn More
by Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas; read by Matthew Josdal
In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves. Learn More
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. Learn More
Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide that challenges us to think differently about AI. Susskind brings AI out of computing laboratories, big tech companies, and start-ups—and into everyday life. Learn More