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True to Our Roots
By: Paul Dolan
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the colorful backdrop of the California wine industry, True to Our Roots is the story of how Paul Dolan led his California company, Fetzer Vineyards, to become a model for sustainable businesses everywhere. His respect for the environment, responsibility to his community, avoidance of chemicals, and humanistic approach to his... Read more
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished.Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else—metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself—was... Read more
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Charlie Wilson’s War
By: George Crile
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 20 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.In the early 1980s, after a Houston... Read more
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and... Read more
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective... Read more
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Kant in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. Kant's aim was to restore metaphysics. He insisted that all experience must conform to... Read more
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought... Read more
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Jazz 101
By: John F. Szwed
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Jazz 101 is a fascinating entr├®e into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than fifty years. Szwed's complete... Read more
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism," makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's fa├ºade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the universal Will—blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery... Read more
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Scourge
By: Jonathan B. Tucker
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this... Read more
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Wonderful Memories of It’s a Wonderful Life
By: Jimmy Hawkins
Narrated by: Jimmy Hawkins
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
When the movie It’s a Wonderful Life opened in December 1946, it captured five Academy Award nominations. It also captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Over the past fifty years, It’s a Wonderful Life has become as much a holiday tradition as Thanksgiving dinner and the Christmas tree. For many people, Christmas just isn’t complete until... Read more
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The Twentieth Maine
By: John J. Pullen
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
It was at Little Round Top that the volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, with Joshua Chamberlain in command, performed one of the miracles of the Civil War and saved the left flank of the Union battle line. Outnumbered two to one, their front doubled back to the shape of a horseshoe. And with ammunition gone, the men fixed bayonets, charged,... Read more
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Hume in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which... Read more
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God—one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza’s conclusions are deeply in accord with... Read more
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Bums
By: Peter Golenbock
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 19 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. Even today, they remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has compiled a fascinating oral history of the Ebbets Field heroes with recollections from former... Read more
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Marx in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief... Read more
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Defying Hitler
By: Sebastian Haffner
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at age ninety-one in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers that offers a compelling eyewitness account of the rise of Hitler and Nazism. He describes the country's inflation and the political climate that contributed to Hitler's rise to power and also examines the... Read more
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was used to cut through the palaver of his adversaries... Read more
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Augustine’s spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy, which... Read more
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Voucher Wars
By: Clint Bolick
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more
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Silicon Gold Rush
By: Karen Southwick
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A hotbed of activity for farsighted thinkers and determined doers, the high-technology industry has given rise to a pioneering group of entrepreneurs and executives that is not only behind today’s most innovative technological advances, but at the forefront of a dynamic new movement in business.Armed with groundbreaking management approaches,... Read more
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A Conflict of Visions
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a... Read more
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One Man’s War
By: Tommy LaMore & Dan Baker
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Escaping certain death—not once but several times—lies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II. In One Man's War, B-17 pilot Tommy LaMore vividly details his experiences in war-ravaged Germany, from the horrific to the romantic and beyond.LaMore's saga began when his plane collided with another... Read more
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Commander of the Exodus
By: Yoram Kaniuk
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,” Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. It is the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to... Read more
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