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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
The Regency Years
by Robert Morrison; read by Chris MacDonnell
A surprising and lively history of an overlooked era that brought the modern world of art, culture, and science decisively into view. 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
Talking Back, Talking Black
by John McWhorter; read by John McWhorter
Talking Back, Talking Black takes us on a fascinating tour of a nuanced and complex language that has moved beyond America's borders to become a dynamic force for today's youth culture around the world. Learn More
Nature's Mutiny
by Philipp Blom; read by Jonathan Keeble
An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. 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
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
by Saidiya Hartman; read by Allyson Johnson
National Book Critics Circle Finalist
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. Learn More
Oxford Handbook of IPOs
by Sofia A. Johan; read by Mike Chamberlain
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of why companies list on stock exchanges, how IPOs are regulated, initially valued, and their performance in the short and long run. Learn More
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
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
Nervous States
By William Davies; read by Chris MacDonnell
In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?
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Girl in Black and White
by Jessie Morgan-Owens; read by Allyson Johnson
The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked "white"—whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. Learn More
Smogtown
By Chip Jacobs & Wiliam J. Kelley; read by Charles Constant
Brimming with forgotten anecdotes and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age. Learn More
No One Man Should Have All That Power
By Amos Barshad; read by Johnny Heller
An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control. Learn More
Digital Civil War
by Peter Daou; read by Jonathan Yen
A deep look into the raging social media battles between red and blue Americans and the growing threat to U.S. democracy from right-wing extremism. Learn More
Vote for US
by Joshua A. Douglas; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
An expert on U.S. election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective. Learn More
Doing Time Like A Spy
by John Kiriakou; read by Jonathan Yen
Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Learn More
Worried?
by Lise Johnson & Eric Chudler
How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears—from germs to natural disasters and everything in between. 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
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by James H. Cone; read by Leon Nixon
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Learn More
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