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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Rise of the Machines
Thomas Rid; read by Robertson Dean
Drawing on new sources and interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths, and spies, Thomas Rid's Rise of the Machines offers an unparalleled perspective into our anxious embrace of technology and today’s clash of digital privacy and security. Learn More
The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes
by Peter Nowak; read by Peter Nowak
Lifelong comic-book fan and veteran journalist Peter Nowak meets with real-life superheroes in North America and around the world to get their stories and investigate what the movement means for the future of society.
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The Rise of Athens
by Anthony Everitt; read by Michael Page
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian. Learn More
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
by Manisha Sinha; read by Deepa Samuel
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A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. Learn More
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
by Gary Gerstle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. Learn More
The Ripple Effect
by Enze Han; read by David Pham Huynh
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Many studies of China's relations with Southeast Asia focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional influence. Yet, scholars and pundits often fail to appreciate the complexity of the contemporary Chinese state and society, and just how fragmented, decentralized, and internationalized China is today. In The Ripple Effect, Enze Han argues that a focus on the Chinese state alone is not sufficient for a comprehensive understanding of China's influence in Southeast Asia. Learn More
Righteous Rebels, Revised Edition
by Patrick Range McDonald; read by Paul Boehmer
In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. Learn More
Rhythm Man
by Stephanie Stein Crease; read by James Fouhey
The first comprehensive biography of the Swing Era's pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader. Learn More
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz; read by Robertson Dean
A companion to his acclaimed work in Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy, Joseph E. Stiglitz, along with Carter Dougherty and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, lays out the economic framework for a Europe with faster growth that is more equitably shared. Learn More
The Revolutionary Self
by Lynn Hunt; read by Kate Udall
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An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions. Learn More
Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783
by William L. Kidder; read by Paul Heitsch
Discover how eighteenth-century Princeton and its residents—including two signers of the Declaration of Independence—contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution. Learn More
Revolution on the Hudson
George C. Daughan; read by Jonathan Yen
The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley—the control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War. Learn More
Revolution and Terror
by Graeme Gill; read by Julian Elfer
Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror. There are three such types: revolutionary terror, in which the aim is to destroy enemies and thereby consolidate the regime; transformational terror, designed to drive the politico-socio-economic transformation of society that is the purpose of the 'great' revolutions; and inverted terror, which is when terror is turned against part of the elite and regime more broadly. Revolution and Terror explains how these different types of terror are related to the revolutionary seizure of power. Learn More
Revolution
by KT McFarland; read by KT McFarland
When Trump's first Deputy National Security Advisor left Washington, she disappeared from sight. Now former government official and political commentator KT McFarland returns with tenacity, resolve, and the truth about the Trump Administration and those seeking to destroy it. Learn More
Revenants of the German Empire
by Sean Andrew Wempe; read by David De Vries
Revenants of the German Empire tracks the difficulties Colonial Germans encountered while they adjusted to their new circumstances, as repatriates to Weimar Germany or as subjects of the War's victors in the new African Mandates. Learn More
Rethinking Rescue
by Carol Mithers; read by Christina Delaine
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Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the very humane question, Who deserves the love of a pet? Learn More
Rethinking Consciousness
by Michael S. A. Graziano; read by David de Vries
Neuroscientist and psychologist Michael S. A. Graziano puts forward a groundbreaking new theory on the origin of consciousness.
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy
edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Andrew Preston; read by Teri Schnaubelt, Steve Menasche
A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy.
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Restraining Great Powers
by T.V. Paul; read by Paul Heitsch
Professor T.V. Paul's Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era provides the first comprehensive history and overview of soft balancing. Learn More
The Rest I Will Kill
by Brian McGinty; read by Sean Crisden
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring―and long-forgotten―heroes of the Civil War. Learn More
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