Brave New World: CliffsNotes

Crime and Punishment: CliffsNotes

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 2 mins)
• By James L. Roberts, Ph.D.
• Narrated By Tim Wheeler
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The CliffsNotes study guide on Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Crime and Punishment.

Brave New World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aldous Huxley
• Narrated By Michael York
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When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Steven Novella

No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

Novice to Expert: 6 Steps to Learn Anything, Increase Your Knowledge, and Master New Skills

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 2 mins)
• By S.J. Scott
• Narrated By Greg Zarcone
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Want to learn a skill, but don't know how to get started? Struggle to find time for a side project? Ever quit in frustration after beginning something new? The truth is: You can learn anything...without spending lots of money...without dedicating thousands of hours to the process...and often without leaving the comfort of your home.

Brave New World: A Reader's Guide to the Aldous Huxley Novel

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 35 mins)
• By Robert Crayola
• Narrated By Thomas D. Hand
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Few science fiction novels have been so accurate in their predictions as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. With this new guide, you will have an even greater understanding of the original book. This guide is concise, easy to understand, and guaranteed to add to your enjoyment of the classic story.

1984: New Classic Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

The Stranger

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Albert Camus
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived, and is certainly one of the most important and influential books ever produced. Now, for the first time, this revered masterpiece is available as an unabridged audio production.

The Catcher in the Rye: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Novel

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 5 mins)
• By Robert Crayola
• Narrated By Sean Lenhart
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Few novels have affected readers (especially young people) like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. With this new guide, you will have an even greater understanding of the book. Included in this guide: a biography of author J.D. Salinger, a look at the book's context, its literary elements, detailed chapter summaries, analysis, and suggestions for essays. This is the definitive guide to The Catcher in the Rye, concise, easy to understand, and guaranteed to add to your enjoyment of this classic story.

Writing Creative Nonfiction

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 16 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Tilar J J. Mazzeo
• Narrated By Professor Tilar J J. Mazzeo

Bringing together the imaginative strategies of fiction storytelling and new ways of narrating true, real-life events, creative nonfiction is the fastest-growing part of the creative writing world. It's a cutting-edge genre that's reshaping how we write (and read) everything from biographies and memoirs to blogs and public speaking scripts to personal essays and magazine articles.

Lord of the Flies

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 35 mins)
• By William Golding
• Narrated By William Golding
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Marooned on a tropical island, alone in a world of uncharted possibilities, and devoid of adult supervision or rules, a group of British boys begins to forge a society with its own unique rules and rituals.

English Grammar Boot Camp

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Anne Curzan

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

Animal Farm

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 13 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!

Walden: Life in the Woods

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Henry David Thoreau
• Narrated By Alec Sand
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.

Fahrenheit 451

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Tim Robbins
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Of Mice and Men

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 11 mins)
• By John Steinbeck
• Narrated By Gary Sinese
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While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck’s work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and shared dream that make an individual’s existence meaningful.

GRE Vocabulary 3000: Official Test Prep

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Official Test Prep Content Team
• Narrated By Jared Pike, Daniela Dilorio

Introducing GRE Vocabulary 3000, the most comprehensive audio course for GRE vocabulary on the market. Learn how to master proper spelling, pronunciation, definitions, synonyms, and antonyms through the use of these unique audio exercises.

A Separate Peace

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
• By John Knowles
• Narrated By Scott Snively
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Now a modern classic, this story of two boys' friendship at an exclusive New Hampshire prep school as it parallels the inescapable and escalating atmosphere of World War II, is intense and engaging to the last word.

The Way of Men

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Jack Donovan
• Narrated By Jack Donovan
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What is masculinity? Ask ten men and you'll get ten vague, conflicting answers. Unlike any book of its kind, The Way of Men offers a simple, straightforward answer - without getting bogged down in religion, morality, or politics. It's a guide for understanding who men have been and the challenges men face today. The Way of Men captures the silent, stifling rage of men everywhere who find themselves at odds with the overregulated, overcivilized, politically correct modern world.