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Classical Music 101
By: Fred Plotkin
Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
Length: 19 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The author who has taught tens of thousands of people to love opera now introduces readers to the rich and soul-stirring world of classical music.From the author of the bestselling Opera 101 comes a comprehensive and highly accessible guide to discovering the glories of classical music, based on the fundamental principle of developing the skills... 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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The Masters
By: Curt Sampson
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestseller Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augusta course.The Masters is an... 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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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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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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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who... 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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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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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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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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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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Sartre in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism—at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the... 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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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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Ethnic America
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: James Bundy
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the greatest dramas in all of modern times involves the peopling of America. In Ethnic America, Thomas Sowell provides a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans.Sowell offers... Read more
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Compassion versus Guilt, and Other Essays
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Michael Kevin
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sociologist-economist Sowell, a noted conservative, draws this collection of essays from his Scripps-Howard syndicated column and his contributions to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.Sowell offers opinions on social and foreign policy, law, education, and race, criticizing the trend of American politics since... 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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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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Six Days of War
By: Michael B. Oren
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 17 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as “the Setback.” Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish... 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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Forbes Greatest Investing Stories
By: Richard Phalon
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Biotech, high tech, bubbles, and busts—no two stock markets are ever the same. Getting ahead of the game demands something hard to find on Wall Street these days: a flexible long-term strategy good for all seasons. These great investing stories provide a well-honed guide to the practicalities of dealing with the turbulent markets of the new... Read more
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The Triumph of Liberty
By: Jim Powell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 26 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Of humankind’s great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny’s iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this inspiring story through sixty-five biographical portraits. From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made... Read more
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The Great Chase
By: Harvey Rosenfeld
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is the longest-standing rivalry in baseball history—a feud that began in the late nineteenth century when both clubs were based in New York City. Then, on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" ended their pennant race—one of the most dramatic ever. Interviews, contemporary newspaper articles,... Read more
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