Nonfiction Audio Books

Jack Miles
Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Unabridged)

Jack Miles's book is a provocative and revisionary look at the life of Jesus, in which many of the most well-worn truths about Christ are recontextualized and revisited....

Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience (Unabridged)

In 1849, 5 years before Henry David Thoreau published Walden, he wrote what has come to be...

Wendy McElroy and George H. Smith
Civil Disobedience and the Liberator (Knowledge Products) Giants of Political Thought Series (Unabridged)

Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's argument for the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience....

Brian Schrag
Civility and Community (Unabridged)

Civility includes not only the notions of courtesy and politeness, but also such matters as social relationships....

Crispin Sartwell
Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Chinese Philosophy (Unabridged)

China's two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed....

John Daido Loori Roshi
Connecting with the Heart Sutra: Mazu's Heart Sutra

The Heart Sutra is one of the most important teachings in all Buddhist schools, including Zen....

Wesley J. Smith
Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World (Unabridged)

Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination, but right around the corner of our lives....

Frank X. Walker
Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges: A 'This I Believe' Essay (Unabridged)

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans....

Daniel Goleman and the Dalai Lama
Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

Buddhist philosophy tells us that all personal unhappiness and interpersonal conflict lie in the three poisons...

L. Ron Hubbard
Die Hoffnung des Menschen (The Hope of Man) (Unabridged)

It was 1955 and the need for a solution to man's insanity and violence was urgent. But an idea alone was capable of altering man's circumstance with regard to war....