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Out of One, Many
by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Petrea Burchard
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A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Learn More
Our Own Worst Enemy
by Tom Nichols; read by Tom Nichols
A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Learn More
Our Man in Charleston
Christopher Dickey; read by Antony Ferguson
As tension over slavery and western expansion threatened to break the US into civil war, the Southern states found themselves squeezed between two nearly irreconcilable realities: the survival of the Confederate economy would require the importation of more slaves, a practice banned in America since 1807, but the existence of the Confederacy itself could not be secured without official recognition from Great Britain, who would never countenance reopening the Atlantic slave trade. How, then, could the first be achieved without dooming the possibility of the second? Learn More
The Other Side of Prospect
by Nicholas Dawidoff; read by Diontae Black
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. Learn More
The Other Paris
Luc Sante; read by the author
Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Learn More
Origin Story
by Howard Markel; read by Mike Cooper
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A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More
Orchid Muse
by Erica Hannickel; read by Nicol Zanzarella
A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature’s most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired. Learn More
Operation Underworld
by Matthew Black; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano—the US Mafia boss who put the "organized" into organized crime—was recruited by US Naval Intelligence to turn the tide of WWII. Learn More
Opening Strategy
by Richard Whittington; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Opening Strategy recounts the origins and development of Strategy as a profession from the middle of the last century to the present day. Learn More
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
by Mark Valeri; read by Bob Johnson
Using a variety of sources, The Opening of the Protestant Mind traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization of North America. Learn More
Only the Clothes on Her Back
by Laura F. Edwards; read by Stephanie Richardson
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. Learn More
The One-Cent Magenta
by James Barron; read by Jonathan Yen
An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world’s most sought-after stamp. Learn More
One Nation Under Gold
by James Ledbetter; read by Jonathan Yen
In One Nation Under Gold, acclaimed author James Ledbetter traces the origins of our national obsession with gold and expertly explores the controversies around this hallowed metal. Learn More
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
by Jia Lynn Yang; read by Laural Merlington
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates. Learn More
The Once and Future Sex
by Eleanor Janega; read by Samara Naeymi
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior. Learn More
On the Job
by Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen; read by Suzie Althens
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight for today's workers. Learn More
On Our Way Home from the Revolution
by Sonya Bilocerkowycz; read by Sonya Bilocerkowycz
In these linked essays, Sonya Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate. Learn More
On Freedom
by Cass R. Sunstein; read by Johnny Heller
From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today. Learn More
Occidentalism
by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit; read by Nigel Patterson
Occidentalism is a groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others. A work of extraordinary range and erudition, Occidentalism will permanently enlarge our collective frame of vision. Learn More
The Oath and the Office
by Corey Brettschneider; read by Mike Chamberlain
An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting—or running—for our highest office. Learn More
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