The Disappearance of Childhood

Plastic Ocean

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Charles Moore, Cassandra Phillips
• Narrated By Mel Foster
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A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, which inspired a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Neil Postman
• Narrated By Jeff Riggenbach
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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 21 mins)
• By John Taylor Gatto
• Narrated By Michael Puttonen
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Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. With over 100,000 copies in print since its original publication in 2002, this book is collection of essays and speeches and includes a describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching". John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and was a New York State Teacher of the Year.

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Neil Postman
• Narrated By Jeff Riggenbach
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.

Race Matters

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Cornel West
• Narrated By Cornel West