Educational Audio Books

Christopher Lee
This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century, Volume 5, 1979-1999 (Unabridged)

Volume 5, covering the years 1979-1999, looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War, and the greatest ever Royal wedding....

John Updike
Villages (Unabridged)

John Updike's 21st novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement....

Andrei Codrescu
Wakefield (Unabridged)

When the Devil comes to take him, Wakefield, a motivational speaker and architecture buff, isn't ready....

Swami Yogeshananda
Waking Up (Unabridged)

Waking Up is an attempt to answer some of the most profound questions...

Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans (Unabridged)

Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances....

Paul Strathern
Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, Paul Strathern writes, he is the last philosopher....

Charles Seife
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Unabridged)

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it to ward off heretics. Zero - infinity's twin - is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything...

Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg
A Conversation on The Writing Life

Best selling authors Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg come together for the first time to explode cherished misconceptions about who should write...

Pocket University
A Difference in Magnitude: The World's First Nuclear Attacks (Unabridged)

In post 9/11, nuclear proliferation has put new meaning to the world's first nuclear attacks....

Richard Glatzer
A Study Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, glittering wealth and decadence are played out against a backdrop of...