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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The Things We Make
by Bill Hammack; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. Learn More
Third Ear
by Elizabeth Rosner; read by Elizabeth Rosner
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This illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our curiosity and empathy toward the world around us. Learn More
The Third Revolution
by Elizabeth C. Economy; read by Jo Anna Perrin
In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Learn More
Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Moscow; read by Pete Simonelli
Here, from award-winning journalist Henry Moscow, is the story of one of America's greatest presidents. Learn More
A Thousand May Fall
by Brian Jordan; read by Christopher Douyard
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Learn More
Three Ordinary Girls
by Tim Brady; read by David de Vries
Three Ordinary Girls is an astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Learn More
Through a Glass Brightly
by David P. Barash; read by Charles Constant
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint—a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance—is as dangerous as it is false. Learn More
Thy Kingdom Come
Randall Balmer; read by Jeff Woodman
The distinguished author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory returns with a searing examination of a new generation of evangelical leaders who have hijacked the Christian faith on behalf of the Republican Party. Learn More
Timefulness
by Marcia Bjornerud; read by Tanya Eby
This compelling book presents a new way of thinking about our place in time, enabling us to make decisions on multigenerational timescales. The lifespan of Earth may seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth’s history—and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Learn More
Tinderbox
by Robert W. Fieseler; read by Paul Heitsch
2019 Edgar Award Winner Library Journal Best Book 2018 Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year
An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community. Learn More
The Titans of the Twentieth Century
by Michael Mandelbaum; read by Tom Parks
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An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. Learn More
To Dare More Boldly
by John C. Hulsman; read by Matthew Waterson
To Dare More Boldly creatively explains why political risk analysis is vital for business and political leaders alike, and authoritatively establishes the analytical rules of thumb that practitioners need to do it effectively. Learn More
To Fight Against This Age
by Rob Riemen; read by Liam Gerrard
An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it. Learn More
To Serve the Enemy
by Shane Darcy; read by Roger Clark
In this book, Shane Darcy examines the development and application of the relevant rules and principles of the laws of armed conflict in relation to collaboration. Learn More
To the Promised Land
by Michael K. Honey; read by J.D. Jackson
To the Promised Land asks us to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill Martin Luther King's legacy and move toward what he called "the Promised Land" in our own time. Learn More
To Walk the Earth Again
by Christopher Trigg; read by Mike Cooper
The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Learn More
Tom Paine's Iron Bridge
Edward G. Gray; read by Tom Perkins
The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States. Learn More
Too Hot
by George Brown; read by Midnite Michael
In Too Hot, drummer, keyboardist, and primary songwriter George Brown describes life in and out of Kool & The Gang, including a raucous life on the road as the band's popularity grew. Learn More
Totally Wired
by Andrew Smith; read by Adam Lofbomm
From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. Learn More
Toxic Water, Toxic System
by Michael Mascarenhas; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
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Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. Learn More
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