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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Belonging
by Geoff Cohen; read by Noah Michael Levine
In Belonging, Stanford University professor Geoffrey L. Cohen applies his and others' groundbreaking research to the myriad problems of communal existence and offers concrete solutions for improving daily life. Learn More
Beloved Beasts
by Michelle Nijhuis; read by Christina Delaine
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. Learn More
Benjamin Franklin
by D.G. Hart; read by David Cochran Heath
Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant follows Franklin's remarkable career through the lens of the trends and innovations that the Protestant Reformation started (both directly and indirectly) almost two centuries earlier. Learn More
The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln
by Edwin S. Grosvenor; read by David Drummond
Abraham Lincoln comes to life in this selection from America's leading history magazine, chosen Edwin S. Grosvenor. Learn More
The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War
by Edwin S. Grosvenor; read by Sean Pratt
Some of America's foremost historians—including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears—tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. Learn More
Better Days Will Come Again
by Travis Atria; read by David Sadzin
Better Days Will Come Again, based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Arthur Briggs's oral memoir, is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an entirely original tale of survival. Learn More
Beyond Broadway
by Stacy Wolf; read by Romy Nordlinger
The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in US culture. Learn More
Beyond Measure
by James Vincent; read by James Vincent
A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day. Learn More
Beyond Proportionality
by Thane Rosenbaum; read by Thane Rosenbaum
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The latest book from the author of Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself. Learn More
Beyond the Great Divide
by Governor George Pataki with Trey Radel; read by Trey Radel
An unprecedented, insider view into 9/11 and the inner workings of the political climate that emerged after the attacks, which continues to shape our future—politically and culturally—and how we as a country can bridge the Great Divide. Learn More
Bibliophobia
by Brian Cummings; read by Tom Perkins
Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Learn More
The Big Bang of Numbers
by Manil Suri; read by Eric Jason Martin
An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the building blocks of our universe. Learn More
The Big Book of Jack the Ripper
by Otto Penzler; read by Nigel Patterson & Esther Wane
Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Learn More
Big Mind
by Geoff Mulgan; read by Julian Elfer
Informed by the latest work on data, web platforms, and artificial intelligence, Big Mind shows how collective intelligence could help us survive and thrive. Learn More
The Big Ratchet
Ruth DeFries; read by Pam Ward
Is global warming the end of humanity? Or just another turn in a long-standing cycle of human evolution and innovation? DeFries explores the “ratchets” that have occurred over human history. Learn More
Big Science
Michael Hiltzik; read by Bob Souer
From a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big, built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industryand the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence. Learn More
Big Tech Tyrants
by Floyd Brown & Todd Cefaratti; read by Shawn Compton
Big Tech Tyrants: How Silicon Valley's Stealth Practices Addict Teens, Silence Speech, and Steal Your Privacy is an eye-opening, must-listen book for anyone living in the twenty-first century. Learn More
Bigger Than Bernie
by Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht; read by Christopher Grove
A guide to political revolution using Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign as a springboard. Learn More
The Birds of Pandemonium
Michele Raffin; read by Tamara Marston
Aviculturist Raffin introduced us to Sweetie, a special breed of quail with an outsized personality; Oscar the inspiring disabled Lady Gouldian finch; Victoria, Wing, and Coffee, sibling crowned pigeons ecstatic in reunion; and other rescued feathered friends that have been her life's work. Along the way she teaches us how conservationism is as much about saving ourselves as these rare birds. Learn More
Bitter Freedom
Maurice Walsh; read by Michael Healy
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 comes this groundbreaking history of the Irish Revolution. In this invigorating account, Walsh demonstrates how this national revolution captured worldwide attention from India to Argentina and was itself shaped by political, economic, and cultural events. Learn More
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