- Racism & Discrimination (1,613)
- Religion (247)
Bestsellers
-
The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....
-
-
AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
-
Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
-
-
Enlightening!
- By Gotta Tellya on 09-11-16
By: J. D. Vance
-
How to Know a Person
- The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”....
-
-
A book he was ready to write
- By Adam Shields on 11-17-23
By: David Brooks
-
Mastery
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the best-selling The 48 Laws of Power....
-
-
Focus on passion=Less stress and more success
- By Mark on 05-04-15
By: Robert Greene
-
Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....
-
-
Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
By: Malcolm Gladwell
-
The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....
-
-
A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
-
The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....
-
-
AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
-
Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
-
-
Enlightening!
- By Gotta Tellya on 09-11-16
By: J. D. Vance
-
How to Know a Person
- The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
- By: David Brooks
- Narrated by: David Brooks
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.”....
-
-
A book he was ready to write
- By Adam Shields on 11-17-23
By: David Brooks
-
Mastery
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The eagerly anticipated new book from the author of the best-selling The 48 Laws of Power....
-
-
Focus on passion=Less stress and more success
- By Mark on 05-04-15
By: Robert Greene
-
Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the number-one New York Times best seller Outliers, reinvents the audiobook in this immersive production of Talking to Strangers, a powerful examination of our interactions with people....
-
-
Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
By: Malcolm Gladwell
-
The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....
-
-
A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
-
This Naked Mind
- Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
- By: Annie Grace
- Narrated by: Annie Grace
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Annie Grace presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence....
-
-
Not as Described
- By Sean on 07-01-18
By: Annie Grace
-
Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions....
-
-
Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- By GM on 08-05-20
By: Isabel Wilkerson
-
Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
-
-
A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
By: Atul Gawande
-
Unhumans
- The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them)
- By: Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
- Narrated by: Chase Macdonald
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up.
-
-
compelling
- By kylek on 07-04-24
By: Jack Posobiec, and others
-
Eight Dates
- Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- By: John Gottman PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman PhD, Doug Abrams, and others
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Julie McKay
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner....
-
-
What the F. Robot-reader???!?!?!
- By Anonymous User on 01-21-20
By: John Gottman PhD, and others
-
Polysecure
- Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
- By: Jessica Fern
- Narrated by: Jessica Fern, Eve Rickert, Nora Samaran
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships....
-
-
Insanely boring, poor audio quality & narration
- By shwiftyone on 03-29-21
By: Jessica Fern
-
In My Time of Dying
- How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After a near-fatal health emergency, bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger shares a powerful reflection on death—and what might follow.
-
-
The interwoven fabric of science and the afterlife
- By Ian on 05-29-24
By: Sebastian Junger
-
Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
-
-
A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
By: Matthew Desmond
-
The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
-
-
Repetitive
- By Ben on 12-29-23
By: William Strauss, and others
-
Born to Run
- A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- By: Christopher McDougall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets....
-
-
Amazing read - even for non-runners
- By Corey on 05-31-09
-
Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish....
-
-
Some good ideas, smart guy, not smart as HE thinks
- By Philo on 12-24-12
-
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- By: Joseph Campbell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, John Lee, Susan Denaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions....
-
-
Meaningful and thought-provoking
- By Learner on 02-09-16
By: Joseph Campbell
-
Fair Play
- A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) (Reese's Book Club)
- By: Eve Rodsky
- Narrated by: Eve Rodsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fair Play is a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities....
-
-
For Coupled People
- By Brandy Patrick on 10-02-19
By: Eve Rodsky
-
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....
-
-
Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- By Kate on 06-04-15
By: Anne Fadiman
-
The Art of Gathering
- How We Meet and Why It Matters
- By: Priya Parker
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home, and beyond....
-
-
Would have liked a different narrator
- By Marta on 08-26-18
By: Priya Parker
-
We Have Never Been Woke
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
- By: Musa al-Gharbi
- Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A powerful critique, We Have Never Been Woke reveals that only by challenging this elite’s self-serving narratives can we hope to address social and economic inequality effectively.
By: Musa al-Gharbi
-
Between Two Kingdoms
- A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to reentry into “normal” life....
-
-
This was painful.
- By Meredith Nutrition on 07-31-22
By: Suleika Jaouad
-
How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
- By: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.
-
-
Great on Project Mgmt But Uninformed on Renewables
- By Richard Redano on 03-09-23
By: Bent Flyvbjerg, and others
-
Driven to Distraction
- Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
- By: M.D. Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes....
-
-
Informative
- By JD Herbert on 02-06-18
By: M.D. Edward M. Hallowell M.D., and others
-
Predictably Irrational
- The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- By: Dan Ariely
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways....
-
-
Good lessons, mediocre science?
- By William Stanger on 02-24-09
By: Dan Ariely
-
A Beginner's Guide to Dying
- By: Simon Boas
- Narrated by: Simon Boas
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer - it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live - optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising what really matters in life.
By: Simon Boas
-
Made to Stick
- Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps....
-
-
Even Better The Second Time
- By Jeremy Devens on 09-05-09
By: Chip Heath, and others
-
Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
-
-
Former Property Manager
- By Charla on 05-18-16
By: Matthew Desmond
-
White Trash
- The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- By: Nancy Isenberg
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash....
-
-
I have lived this experience and failed badly.
- By James W. Hoffpauir on 08-26-23
By: Nancy Isenberg
New releases
-
Bone of the Bone
- Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.
-
-
Insightful and delightful storytelling
- By Rafael Hiciano on 09-19-24
By: Sarah Smarsh
-
How to Tell When We Will Die
- On Pain, Disability, and Doom
- By: Johanna Hedva
- Narrated by: Johanna Hedva
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, “Sick Woman Theory”, became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism—a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies—we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.
By: Johanna Hedva
-
A Beginner's Guide to Dying
- By: Simon Boas
- Narrated by: Simon Boas
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Beginner's Guide to Dying Simon considers and collates the things that have given him such a great sense of peace and contentment, and why dying at 46 really isn't so bad. And for that reason it's also only partly about 'dying'. It is mostly a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life, and why giving death a place can help all of us make even more of it.
By: Simon Boas
-
Single at Heart
- The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life
- By: Bella DePaulo PhD
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life? In Single at Heart, Dr. Bella DePaulo speaks on behalf of the millions of people who are drawn to single life for all it has to offer and shares what it means to not just be happy being single for a time, but to be happy being single always.
-
-
Hope for the Superbly Single!!
- By Emjay on 08-31-24
-
The Privateers
- How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
- By: Josh Cowen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This thought-provoking work traces the origins of voucher-based education reform to mid-twentieth-century fears over school desegregation. It shows how, in the intervening decades, a cabal of billionaire conservatives supporting a host of special political interests-including economic libertarianism, religious choice, and parental rights-have converged around the issue of education freedom in an ongoing culture war. Through deliberate policymaking, legislation, and litigation, Cowen reveals, an insular advocacy network has enacted a flawed system for education finance driven largely by dogma.
-
-
Bring your tinfoil fat
- By Jay S Stooksberry on 09-20-24
By: Josh Cowen
-
Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Although Greenwich Village takes up less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area supported and nurtured so many groundbreaking artists and genres. Musician used the Village’s smokey coffeehouses and clubs to chronicle the tumultuous Sixties, rewrite jazz history, and take rock & roll into eclectic places it hadn’t been before. Based on new interviews with surviving participants, previously unseen and unheard archives, and author David Browne's years immersed in the scene, Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it has long deserved.
By: David Browne
-
Bone of the Bone
- Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.
-
-
Insightful and delightful storytelling
- By Rafael Hiciano on 09-19-24
By: Sarah Smarsh
-
How to Tell When We Will Die
- On Pain, Disability, and Doom
- By: Johanna Hedva
- Narrated by: Johanna Hedva
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, “Sick Woman Theory”, became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism—a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies—we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.
By: Johanna Hedva
-
A Beginner's Guide to Dying
- By: Simon Boas
- Narrated by: Simon Boas
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In A Beginner's Guide to Dying Simon considers and collates the things that have given him such a great sense of peace and contentment, and why dying at 46 really isn't so bad. And for that reason it's also only partly about 'dying'. It is mostly a hymn to the joy and preciousness of life, and why giving death a place can help all of us make even more of it.
By: Simon Boas
-
Single at Heart
- The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life
- By: Bella DePaulo PhD
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life? In Single at Heart, Dr. Bella DePaulo speaks on behalf of the millions of people who are drawn to single life for all it has to offer and shares what it means to not just be happy being single for a time, but to be happy being single always.
-
-
Hope for the Superbly Single!!
- By Emjay on 08-31-24
-
The Privateers
- How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
- By: Josh Cowen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This thought-provoking work traces the origins of voucher-based education reform to mid-twentieth-century fears over school desegregation. It shows how, in the intervening decades, a cabal of billionaire conservatives supporting a host of special political interests-including economic libertarianism, religious choice, and parental rights-have converged around the issue of education freedom in an ongoing culture war. Through deliberate policymaking, legislation, and litigation, Cowen reveals, an insular advocacy network has enacted a flawed system for education finance driven largely by dogma.
-
-
Bring your tinfoil fat
- By Jay S Stooksberry on 09-20-24
By: Josh Cowen
-
Talkin' Greenwich Village
- The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Although Greenwich Village takes up less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area supported and nurtured so many groundbreaking artists and genres. Musician used the Village’s smokey coffeehouses and clubs to chronicle the tumultuous Sixties, rewrite jazz history, and take rock & roll into eclectic places it hadn’t been before. Based on new interviews with surviving participants, previously unseen and unheard archives, and author David Browne's years immersed in the scene, Talkin’ Greenwich Village lends the saga the epic, panoramic scope it has long deserved.
By: David Browne
-
Computational Capitalism
- How AI Inequality Will Shape The Next Gilded Age
- By: Alexander Grant
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In an era where algorithms dictate fortunes and machines learn faster than humans, are we on the brink of a new Gilded Age? "Computational Capitalism" pulls back the curtain on the AI revolution, revealing a world where digital power concentrates in the hands of a few, reshaping our economy, society, and very way of life. This isn't just another tech book—it's a wake-up call to the defining challenge of our time. Dive into a gripping exploration of: • How AI is creating a new class of digital robber barons • The shocking parallels between today's tech titans and the industrial ...
By: Alexander Grant
-
Lay Me in God's Good Earth
- A Christian Approach to Death and Burial
- By: Kent Burreson, Beth Hoeltke
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The promises of the Christian gospel are never more precious or more beautiful than in the context of death and burial. And yet current burial practices in Western society are archaic and impersonal. They fail to confront us with the reality of death, and they make it harder to process death or to grieve properly.
By: Kent Burreson, and others
-
From the Ashes
- Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. Through in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world.
By: Sarah Jaffe
-
Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- By: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.
-
An End to Inequality
- Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
- By: Jonathan Kozol, Theodore M. Shaw - foreword
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community, the book described the abuse and neglect of children for no reason but the color of their skin. Since that National Book Award-winning volume, Kozol has spent more than fifty years visiting with children and working with their teachers in other deeply troubled and unequal public schools.
By: Jonathan Kozol, and others
-
Relationality
- How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World
- By: David Jay
- Narrated by: David Jay
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Powerful institutions, from schools to tech and social media companies, create breeding grounds for isolation by failing to invest in relational work. This obstacle stands in the way of our fight for racial equity, economic justice, and climate resilience. In Relationality, asexuality and relationship activist David Jay brings clarity to the crisis with a fresh perspective that expands upon the fundamental idea that all entities in the universe are connected. Jay draws from a range of personal experiences, including his time spent helping tech workers and policymakers reform social media.
By: David Jay
-
No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- By: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all.
-
-
Informative and humbling
- By KB on 09-08-24
By: Jacqueline Jones
-
Nexus
- By: Yuval Noah Harari, Núria Busquet Molist - traductor
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
El nou llibre del reconegut historiador i autor del fenomen global Sàpiens. Una obra que analitza com les xarxes d'informació han conformat el món i a nosaltres mateixos. A Nexus, Y. N. Harari contempla la humanitat des de l'àmplia perspectiva de la història per analitzar com les xarxes d'informació han conformat el nostre món i a nosaltres mateixos. Durant els últims 100.000 anys, els sàpiens hem acumulat un poder enorme.
By: Yuval Noah Harari, and others
-
The Detroiting of America
- What Happened to the Motor City—Why Other Cities Followed—How Detroit Is Coming Back
- By: John Perry
- Narrated by: David Cantor
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For fifty years “Detroit” has been shorthand for all that's wrong with urban America: crime, corruption, decay, racial tension, struggling businesses, failing schools, a declining tax base, and more. Since 1950 Detroit has lost two-thirds of its population, falling from fifth place in the U.S. (just behind Los Angeles) to twenty-fourth (just behind Nashville). Between 2000 and 2017 alone, its population fell 28%, a steeper drop than any other major American city.
By: John Perry
-
Burdened
- Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
- By: Ryann Liebenthal
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
College costs more today than ever and is worth less. Tuition at public colleges has more than tripled in the past 50 years. Over the same period student debt has grown from virtually nothing to more than $1.7 trillion, second only to home mortgages. Skyrocketing student-loan burdens are leading an entire generation to put off the traditional milestones of adulthood: buying homes, getting married, starting families, and saving for retirement.
By: Ryann Liebenthal
-
The Guarantee
- Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy
- By: Natalie Foster, Angela Garbes - foreword
- Narrated by: Leanne Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible—and ready to implement—in twenty-first-century America.
By: Natalie Foster, and others
-
テクノ・リバタリアン世界を変える唯一の思想
- By: 橘 玲
- Narrated by: 日下 純
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
シリコンバレーの天才たちが希求する「1%のマイノリティだけの世界」そこは楽園か、ディストピアか?シリコンバレーの天才たちが希求する「数学的に正しい統治」とは?
By: 橘 玲
-
Carrera y familia [Career and Family]
- El largo viaje de las mujeres hacia la igualdad [Women's Long Journey Towards Equality]
- By: Claudia Goldin, Gala Sicart Olavide - translator
- Narrated by: Silvia Aira
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Existe una ingente cantidad de datos históricos disponibles sobre la incorporación de la mujer al mercado laboral, pero nadie antes de Claudia Goldin se había detenido a analizarlos. Los resultados de esta investigación pionera, realizada durante décadas y basada en información que se remonta a hace más de un siglo, dan lugar a un nuevo relato, revelador y muy ameno, de nuestro viaje hacia la equidad y de los orígenes de la gran brecha que aún impide a muchas mujeres y madres bien formadas incorporarse al mercado laboral en igualdad de condiciones con respecto a los hombres.
By: Claudia Goldin, and others
-
Shrink the City
- The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future
- By: Natalie Whittle
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn't need a car to reach the grocery store? What if we could get back the time we would have spent commuting and put it to other uses?
By: Natalie Whittle
-
Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage
- In den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft
- By: Rudolf Steiner
- Narrated by: Christian Clement
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mit seiner Schrift "Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage" aus dem Jahre 1919 reagiert Steiner auf die Krise des modernen Bewusstseins, die in den gesellschaftlichen Konflikten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts sowie im Ersten Weltkrieg ihren destruktiven Ausdruck gefunden hat. Er schlägt einen spirituell begründeten Ansatz zur Lösung der sozialen Frage vor, der als ein dritter Weg zwischen Sozialismus und Kapitalismus verstanden werden kann.
By: Rudolf Steiner
-
Crazy Rich
- Die geheime Welt der Superreichen
- By: Julia Friedrichs
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Wie grenzenlos der Reichtum einiger weniger wirklich ist und wie ihr Vermögen das Land verändert. Julia Friedrichs ist gelungen, was es so noch nicht gegeben hat: Sie bittet Superreiche zum Gespräch, und diese erlauben ihr umfassende Einblicke in ihre Welt und stellen sich ihren Fragen. Ist Vermögen eine Privatangelegenheit? Braucht es ein anderes Steuersystem? Kann es richtig sein, dass sich extreme Vermögen in den Händen ganz weniger ballen? Wann habe ich genug? Auf den Spuren des Geldes. Ihre Recherchereise führt die Autorin zu Luxusjachten, in Family-Offices und Steueroasen.
By: Julia Friedrichs
-
Por qué el obrero vota a la derecha
- By: Roberto Vaquero
- Narrated by: Sergi Seguí
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
¿Qué le sucede a la izquierda actual? ¿Por qué parece más preocupada por cuestiones como el ecologismo (un falso ecologismo) o un feminismo que es todo menos igualdad en vez de por los problemas que sufre una clase trabajadora cada vez más asfixiada? Este ensayo histórico y manifiesto político explica por qué amplias mayorías sociales están apostando cada vez más por opciones de derecha radical en diferentes países occidentales, especialmente en Europa, en detrimento de una izquierda perdida en su propia indefinición y entregada a los intereses de las grandes corporaciones.
By: Roberto Vaquero
-
Reisen in Europa 2
- By: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Im furiosen Abschluss seiner Europareisen besucht Stefan Zweig "Ypern", den kleinen Ort in Belgien, welcher durch den erstmaligen militärischen Einsatz von Giftgas durch den durch Patriotismus vergifteten deutschen Staat zu trauriger Berühmtheit gelangte und zeigt sich dabei etwas überrascht über die absurde touristische Vermarktung dieser europäischen Gedenkstätte, bei welcher hunderttausende Menschen für die Erhaltung der Demokratie ihr Leben ließen.
By: Stefan Zweig