Educational Audio Books

Timothy Ferris (University of California, Berkeley)
Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Humans have long sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Here, best selling...

Richard Pipes
Communism (Unabridged) [Modern Library Chronicles]

From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

Paul Strathern
Confucius in 90 Minutes (Unabridged)

Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to....

Larry Witham
Curran vs. Catholic University: A Study of Authority and Freedom of Conflict (Unabridged)

The Curran case framed an era about authority and freedom in the Catholic Church....

Paul Strathern
Descartes in 90 Minutes

Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life....

Plato
Dialogues of Plato (Unabridged)

TheDialogues of Plato (427-347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought...

James D. Watson with Andrew Berry
DNA: The Secret of Life

Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just 24, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time...

Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About the Cosmos (Unabridged)

From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, people through the ages...

Ayn Rand
For the New Intellectual (Unabridged)

This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion that they create....

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead (Unabridged)

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears....