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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MicroShifts
by Gary Jansen; read by Gary Jansen
2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner
With a blend of masterful storytelling and dozens of practical tips, MicroShifts suggests simple, small changes across many aspects of our lives—everything from how we greet others to how we try to talk to God—to generate big results physically, mentally, and spiritually. Learn More
The Middle Ages
by Morris Bishop; read by Michael Page
With exceptional grace and wit, Morris Bishop vividly reconstructs this distinctive era of European history in a work that will inform and delight scholars and general readers alike. Learn More
The Middle Way
by Derek Chollet; read by Christopher Grove
A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Learn More
Midnight
by Victoria Shorr; read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Learn More
Midnight in Siberia
David Greene; read by the author
NPR host David Greene travels along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, capturing an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin. Learn More
The Mind Is Flat
by Nick Chater; read by Nick Chater
In a radical reinterpretation of how the mind works, an eminent behavioral scientist reveals the illusion of mental depth. Learn More
Miracle Country
by Kendra Atleework; read by Cassandra Campbell
Like Wild, Miracle Country is a story of flight and return, bounty and emptiness, and the true meaning of home. But it also speaks to the ravages of climate change and its permanent destruction of the way of life in one particular town. Learn More
Misinformation Nation
by Jordan E. Taylor; read by Christopher P. Brown
"Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth" era. Their fears, however, were not fixated on social media, but rather on peoples' increasing reliance on news gathered from foreign newspapers. In Misinformation Nation, Jordan E. Taylor reveals how foreign news defined the boundaries of American politics and ultimately drove colonists to revolt against Britain and create a new nation. Learn More
Mission at Nuremberg
by Tim Townsend; read by James Anderson Foster
Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg. Learn More
Mission, Race, and Empire
by Jennifer C. Snow; read by Ann Marie Lee
A new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race. Learn More
Mistress of Life and Death
by Susan J. Eischeid; read by Elisabeth Lagelee
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. Learn More
Moctu and the Mammoth People
by Neil Bockoven; read by Timothy Andres Pabon
Moctu and the Mammoth People is a compelling, well-researched story of a strong, young, dark-skinned Cro-Magnon boy who must fight his rival for leadership of his tribe and the right to mate the beautiful Nuri. Learn More
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe
by Gerd-Rainer Horn; read by Michael Page
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles & Rebellions, 1943–1948 reconstructs the parameters of the contest over the shape of postwar Western Europe from a transnational perspective. Learn More
Monarch Manor
by Maureen Leurck
Maureen Leurck's Monarch Manor is an unforgettable and moving novel of sacrifice and hope, and the way love between a parent and child can transform them both. Learn More
Monopolized
by David Dayen; read by Stephen R. Thorne
From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives. Learn More
Monster of Their Own Making
by Jack Buckby; read by Dominic Vaughn
Recounting his experiences amongst far-right terrorists and extremists, Jack Buckby shows how conservatives and liberals are both wrong about the far right. Learn More
The Monster's Bones
by David K. Randall; read by Roman Howell
A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. Learn More
A Most Elegant Equation
by David Stipp; read by Sean Pratt
In David Stipp's hands, Euler's identity becomes a contemplative stroll through the glories of mathematics. The result is an ode to this magical field. Learn More
Most Honorable Son
by Gregg Jones; read by Christopher Douyard
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The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten Japanese American war hero Ben Kuroki, who fought the Axis powers during World War II and battled racism, injustice, and prejudice on the home front. Learn More
Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes; read by Donna Postel
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor. Learn More
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