Craig A. Godeke

Mark Tully's India

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Mark Tully
• Narrated By Mark Tully

This compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career, which coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Thomas S. Kuhn
• Narrated By Dennis Holland

Named one of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War" by the Times Literary Supplement, and one of the "100 Best Nonfiction" books by the Modern Library, Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a landmark of scientific thought. Written in 1962, Kuhn's book took an entirely different view of how scientists perceived and achieved changes in basic theoretical assumptions - what he termed "paradigm shifts".

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Dave Grossman
• Narrated By Dave Grossman
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The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating.

Between the Assassinations: A Novel in Stories

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Aravind Adiga
• Narrated By Harsh Nayyar

Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed.

Great Blunders in History: Kashmir

• UNABRIDGED (21 mins)
• By The History Channel

Right up to the moment when India and Pakistan became independent, the last British viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, was undecided as to which country should incorporate Kashmir into its borders. It was decided by the Hindu Maharajah that his largely Muslim state should join India. His decision precipitated a virtual state of war between the two countries and a bitter territorial dispute that persists to this day.

Holy Cow!: An Indian Adventure

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Sarah Macdonald
• Narrated By Kate Hosking
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After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return, and for love, she screams "Never!" and gives the country, and him, the finger.

Catch-22

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 1 min)
• By Joseph Heller
• Narrated By Jay O. Sanders
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Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever, even if he has to die in the attempt.)

Good Book: Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By David Plotz
• Narrated By David Plotz
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Good Book is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with the most profound theological questions: Does God prefer obedience or good deeds? And the most unexpected ones: Why are so many women in the Bible prostitutes? Why does God love bald men so much? Is Samson really that stupid? Good Book is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Timothy Egan
• Narrated By Patrick Lawlor
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The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region.

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Anthony Lewis
• Narrated By Stow Lovejoy
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More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just 14 words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.