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Man They Wanted Me to Be
by Jared Yates Sexton; read by Jared Yates Sexton
A Big Other Most Anticipated Small Press Book of the Year
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity, using his upbringing in rural Indiana to examine the personal and societal dangers of the patriarchy. Learn More
White House Warriors
by John Gans; read by David Marantz
This revelatory history of the elusive National Security Council shows how staffers operating in the shadows have driven foreign policy clandestinely for decades. Learn More
The Scientific Attitude
by Lee McIntyre; read by Mike Chamberlain
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. 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
Riskwork
by Michael Power; read by Shawn Compton
This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings—aviation, mental health, railway project management, energy, toy manufacture, financial services, chemicals regulation, and NGOs. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Walt Odets; read by Will Damron
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically. Learn More
1931
by Tobias Straumann; read by Nigel Patterson
Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. In 1931, Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party. Learn More
The Land of Flickering Lights
by Michael Bennet; read by Michael Bennet
Michael Bennet eloquently chronicles the dramatic full stories behind five debates and decisions crucial to all Americans, each of which exemplifies the hyper-partisan politics that have upended our democracy. Learn More
Small Town, Big Oil
by David W. Moore; read by Rebecca Gibel
Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, handed Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis the most humiliating defeat of his business career and spared the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland. Learn More
Norco '80
by Peter Houlahan; read by Joe Barrett
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Hammett Prize Finalist
In the spirit of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Onion Field, Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in U.S. history. Learn More
Words No Bars Can Hold
by Deborah Appleman; foreword by Jimmy Santiago Baca; read by Virginia Wolf
Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Learn More
The Capital
by Robert Menasse; read by Gildart Jackson
Mordantly funny and piercingly urgent, The Capital, the winner of Germany's highest fiction prize, is an "elegantly written, beautifully constructed" (Die Zeit) feat of world literature. Learn More
Eyes in the Sky
by Arthur Holland Michel; read by LJ Ganser
The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens. Learn More
Reaching for the Moon
by Roger D. Launius; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers. Learn More
Five Miles Away, A World Apart
by Ryan E. James; read by Adam Lofbomm
Exhaustively researched and elegantly written by one of the nation's leading education law scholars, Five Miles Away, A World Apart ties together, like no other book, a half-century's worth of education law and politics into a coherent, if disturbing, whole. It will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered why our schools are so unequal and whether there is anything to be done about it. Learn More
Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management
by David J. Teece; read by Christopher Grove
How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. Learn More
Black Site
by Philip Mudd; read by Robertson Dean
A bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, Black Site tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA. Learn More
Health Justice Now
by Timothy Faust; read by Brian Holden
In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer healthcare is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won. Learn More
Let the Children Play
by Pasi Sahlberg & Wiliam Doyles; read by Randye Kaye
In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren. Learn More
The Transpacific Experiment
by Matt Sheehan; read by PJ Ochlan
In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan lays bare the new reality of twenty-first-century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. Learn More
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