Traveling Black
By: Mia Bay
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to... Read more
View audiobook12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy
By: Richard Hone & Tim Saunders
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Raised in 1943 with seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and "Tunisgrad", the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler's bodyguard division, the elite... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret Body
By: Daniel M. Davis
Narrated by: Jot Davies
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.”—Bill Bryson
This audiobook narrated by Jot Davies offers revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific breakthroughs that will transform our lives
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer, or having a personalized understanding of... Read more
The Way Out
By: Peter T. Coleman
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more... Read more
View audiobookA Spy in Plain Sight
By: Lis Wiehl
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl delivers a behind-the-scenes account of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a church-going father of five, sold national security secrets to Russia for more than two decades--and how America's current political climate makes it still possible today. Three years into his career... Read more
View audiobookSports and American History
By: Matthew Andrews
Narrated by: Matthew Andrews
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Join celebrated UNC history professor Matthew Andrews to discover how sports have reflected various facets of American identity—both laudatory and troubling—throughout our nation’s history.
Whether you love sports or find the American sports obsession confounding, this course will help you answer the fascinating question of why sports have... Read more
Alpha
By: David Philipps
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An “infuriating, fast-paced” (The Washington Post) account of the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon, the startling accusations against their chief, Eddie Gallagher, and the courtroom battle that exposed the dark underbelly of America’s special forces—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter
WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD • “Nearly impossible to put... Read more
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
By: Ray Acheson
Narrated by: Roxanne Black
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
With so much at stake, from climate change and reproductive rights to threats from weapons of mass destruction and police brutality, the last decade has seen ordinary people take to the streets to challenge and change the way our governments and institutions legislate our future. Movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have had an incredible... Read more
View audiobookTunnel 29
By: Helena Merriman
Narrated by: Helena Merriman
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in.
In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape.
From the award-winning creator of... Read more
Subtle Tools
By: Karen J. Greenberg
Narrated by: Kim Niemi
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. One of today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these "subtle tools" imperiled... Read more
View audiobookWhere Beauty Survived
By: George Elliott Clarke
Narrated by: George Elliott Clarke
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished... Read more
Twilight of the Belle Epoque
By: Mary McAuliffe
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary McAuliffe's Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso,... Read more
View audiobookEmile or On Education
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
Length: 22 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality may be the two principal philosophical works for which Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is remembered today, but his educational treatise-novel, Emile or On Education, can claim to be an equally important and, for its time, radical work.
Published in 1762, it had a profound impact on the approach... Read more
Leading on the Edge
By: Rachael Robertson
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
What can an Antarctic expedition teach you about leadership? More than you might think!
If you think your job is tough, try leading a one-year expedition where you’re on duty all day, every day. Where it’s cold, windy, dark and desolate. And you’re stuck inside with 17 strangers.
Rachael Robertson was one of the youngest people to ever lead an... Read more
The Antiquities of the Jews
By: Flavius Josephus
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 51 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Among the many important historical documents from the Classical world of Greece and Rome The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus is one of the most distinctive and characterful. Josephus (37-c100 CE) set out with the clear purpose of telling the history of the Jews from the creation in Genesis to the Jewish revolt against the Romans in... Read more
View audiobookКраткая история Испании
By: Джереми Блэк
Narrated by: Юлия Тархова
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Краткая история Испании от ранних поселений, владычества Рима и арабского завоевания Пиренейского полуострова до возрождения Испании в XVII веке, войны на полуострове и революции в Испанской Америке, катастрофической Гражданской войны и тоталитарного режима Франко, Второй мировой войны и далее, до наших дней. Освещая главные вехи, включая... Read more
View audiobookBeyond The Sea
By: Christian Lamb
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War
"A WW2 heroine." - Dan Snow
Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the important Radar and Operations rooms and undertaking a vital role in D Day.
Escaping both the Spanish Flu... Read more
Die Flucht (ungekürzt)
By: Thomas Schindler
Narrated by: Volker Biock
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Geschichte einer Flucht aus der DDR im Sommer 1989, eingerahmt in die historischen Ereignisse von damals. Halle Neustadt, 27.Januar 1989 (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Ganz leise bewege ich mich mitten in der Nacht vom Flur aus durch das Wohnzimmer in Richtung Balkon. Bloß nicht meine Eltern aufwecken. Nur schnell 2 Flaschen Bier holen... Read more
View audiobookMagia Nórdica y Asatru: Una Guía Esencial para la Adivinación Nórdica, las Runas del Futhark Antiguo, el Paganismo y el Heathenry para Principiantes
By: Mari Silva
Narrated by: Fabio Persa
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Dos manuscritos en un libro: Magia nórdica para principiantes: La guía definitiva para la adivinación nórdica, la lectura de las runas del futhark antiguo y los hechizos Ásatrú: La guía definitiva del paganismo nórdico, Heathenry y Ásatrú para principiantes Algunos de los temas y preguntas cubiertos en la primera parte de este libro... Read more
View audiobookThe Black Ridge
By: Simon Ingram
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland’ Cameron McNeish, The Herald Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin. ... Read more
View audiobookSpeak, Silence
By: Carole Angier
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 19 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands
‘Spectacular’ Observer
‘A remarkable portrait’ Guardian
W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he... Read more
The Art of Action
By: Stephen Bungay
Narrated by: Andrew Hunt
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic
The surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussian Army.
For over a decade the approach known as 'mission command' has been taught at the leading HULT Ashridge International Business School and has... Read more
Sukcesy samouków - Królowie wielkiego biznesu. Tom 2
By: Andrzej Moszczyński
Narrated by: Aleksander Bromberek
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiobook, który widzisz przed sobą to druga część z serii zawierającej łącznie pięćdziesiąt krótkich biografii nieprzeciętnych ludzi – przedsiębiorców samouków, którzy często wbrew ciężkim warunkom, biedzie i brakowi szkolnej edukacji odnieśli w życiu wielkie sukcesy, w sposób zasadniczy wpływając na świat, jaki znamy.
Oto kolejnych dziesięciu... Read more
Krawumm! oder Es war einmal
By: Henning Venske
Narrated by: Christine Teelen, Elisabeth Rath & Werner Veigel
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein musikalisches Hörspiel für Eltern und Kinder, in dem vieles genau umgekehrt ist als in Wirklichkeit. Manches ist auch nur Quatsch – aber ganz schön guter! 1979: Das war eine Zeit, da wurde in der Pädagogik des wohlanständigen Bürgertums noch völkisch abgedampft, und die Ohrfeige galt als äußerst nützliches Kommunikationsmittel mit Kindern.... Read more
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