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Power Hungry
By: Suzanne Cope
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them.
In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community center laden with boxes of donated food to cook for the neighborhood children. By the end of... Read more
Being Texan
By: Editors of Texas Monthly
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Luis Selgas, Coleen Marlo, Michae...
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors.Big hats, big trucks, big oil fortunesāTexas clichĆ©s all. And while those elements do flourish throughout Texas, they alone hardly define the place. The Lone Star... Read more
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Thinking About History
By: Sarah Maza
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is... Read more
The Land Beyond the Border
By: Johannes Becke
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on three case studies from the Middle East, The Land beyond the Border advances an innovative theoretical framework for the study of state expansions and state contractions. Johannes Becke argues that state expansion can be theorized according to four basic ideal typesāa form of patronage (patronization), the imposition of a satellite... Read more
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Our National Forests
By: Greg M. Peters
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
āAn inspiring reminder of the incredible resource that is our public lands.ā āBrendan Leonard, author ofĀ The Camping LifeĀ andĀ Surviving the Great Outdoors
Ā
Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. They welcome 170 million... Read more
Scientist
By: Richard Rhodes
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our timeāfrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
āAn impressive account of one of the 20th centuryās most prominent biologists,... Read more
James Madison
By: Jay Cost
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know itāÆ
How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal... Read more
A Natural History of the Future
By: Rob Dunn
Narrated by: Donald Chang
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. InāÆA Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts... Read more
Watching Darkness Fall
By: David McKean
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the US Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau.
As German forces closed in on the French capital, Bullitt... Read more
Led Zeppelin
By: Bob Spitz
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 21 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
āIn this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling.ā āPEOPLE
From the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguable the greatest rock band of all time.
Rock star. Whatever that term... Read more
Adidas Versus Puma
By: Philip Barlow
Narrated by: Dominic Edwards
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Former employees of Adidas and Puma will remember for a long time what the first dozen years of fierce competition between the two brothers looked like. A rivalry that left its mark on the life of the entire Herzogenaurach, where they came from and where they founded the company Adolf and Rudolf Dassler.
How did this emotional conflict arise? Who... Read more
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (UngekĆ¼rzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Sigmund Freud - Erfinder der Psychoanalyse Als Vater der Psychoanalyse erschuf Sigmund Freud eines der bedeutendsten tiefenpsychologischen Gedankenkonstrukte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die erfahrenen Autoren Richard Braun und Bert Alexander Petzold (Hg.) nehmen uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erlƤutern verstƤndlich, unterhaltsam und... Read more
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (UngekĆ¼rzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wer Strukturen und Prozesse totaler Herrschaftssysteme verstehen will, der sollte Leben und Werke der Publizistin kennen. Der erfahrende Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und erlƤutert verstƤndlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Hannah Arendt. Die deutsche JĆ¼din Hannah Arendt... Read more
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Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) und Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (UngekĆ¼rzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: RenƩ Wagner
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno - Sozialphilosophen der Frankfurter Schule Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erlƤutert verstƤndlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu den bedeutenden Vertretern der Kritischen Theorie, bekannt als Frankfurter Schule, Max... Read more
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (UngekĆ¼rzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Aufgrund seiner bahnbrechenden Errungenschaften auf dem Gebiet der Physik wird Albert Einstein (1879-1955) der bekannteste Forscher des 20. Jahrhunderts - und zum Inbegriff des Wissenschaftlers, Genies und Pazifisten. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erlƤutert... Read more
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Winter in America
By: Daniel Robert McClure
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the... Read more
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung - Basiswissen (UngekĆ¼rzt)
By: Bert Alexander Petzold
Narrated by: Cora Hillekamp
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Wer die Philosophien zur Moderne verstehen will, der sollte Leben und Werke der franzƶsischen Existenzialistin und Feministin kennen. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und erlƤutert verstƤndlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Simone de Beauvoir. Simone de... Read more
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Wallflower Pen Pals
By: K.L. Estrada
Narrated by: Castle Productions
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a true story romance which consists of letters written between two young pen pals that started in the summer of 1955. This real-life story begins with a couple who wrote to each other before they even met. In the beginning, the exchange was friendly but very revealing of their vulnerabilities and innocence. However, these pen pals soon... Read more
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The Cheyenne Wars
By: Joseph J. Millard
Narrated by: Mike
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades the Cheyennes endured abuses from the white settlers without spilling a single drop of white blood in well-merited reprisal. Finally goaded beyond human endurance, they turned on their tormentors with pent-up ferocity.
They fought with desperate courage, but also with a high sense of honor, and gave the U.S. Army some of its bloodiest... Read more
True Stories of the Civil War
By: Joseph J. Millard
Narrated by: Mike
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
TRUE STORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR collects true tales of the Civil War, meticulously researched by Civil War authority Joseph J. Millard. These classic works, all originally published in TRUE Magazine, are great reading for any Civil War buff!
"The Spy Who Saved the Union" āThe tale of the amateur spy who single-handed wrecked the greatest treason... Read more
LA VIDA SEXUAL DE LOS MĆS GRANDES PERSONAJES DE LA HISTORIA
By: ANABELL SAUNDER
Narrated by: Martin Keels
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Muchas veces leemos libros de historia y solamente nos quedamos con lo que cuentan superficialmente, siempre con los tĆpicos detalles de su vida polĆtica o inventiva y algo de su vida familiar, pero nunca dan detalles de cĆ³mo fue su vida Ćntima, sus secretos y sus pasiones. En este audiolibro te muestro la vida sexual de los personajes mĆ”s... Read more
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Great Saints of India
By: Venkataraman M
Narrated by: Venkataraman M
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Saints are the great souls who have devoted their life, energy and experience for the welfare of the people. They are extraordinary human beings having great wisdom, vast experience and character worthy of imitation. They gifted everything to the world without seeking fame or any kind of gain. Welfare of the world was their sole objective.India... Read more
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In God We Don't Trust
By: David Bercot
Narrated by: Benjamin Good
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In God We Donāt TrustĀ Ā A Look at the Founding of American in the Light of Jesusā TeachingsĀ Here is the compelling narrative of the founding of America ā told from a perspective that few people have ever heard.Ā That perspective is the Kingdom of God.Ā Our currency declares, āIn God We Trust.āĀ But did the American colonists truly trust in God in... Read more
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War Clouds Over Blackberry Farm
By: Rosie Clarke
Narrated by: Claire Morgan
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The start of a brand NEW series from bestselling author Rosie ClarkeCambridgeshire - March 1939
As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe, the Talbot family of rural Blackberry Farm will be torn apart, just as so many families all over the world will be. Life will never be the same again.
Whilst in London, the Salmons family will feel the... Read more