Education audiobooks

Pimsleur Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 2 Lessons 16-20

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Standard Arabic
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Modern Standard Arabic — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve... Read more

Pimsleur Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 2

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Standard Arabic
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Modern Standard Arabic — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve... Read more

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

By: Jeff Hobbs

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

*Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets... Read more

A Path Appears

By: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Narrated by: Olivia Wilde

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.

In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles faced by women and girls around the globe, and... Read more

Pimsleur Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 2 Lessons 11-15

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Standard Arabic
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Modern Standard Arabic — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve... Read more

Pimsleur Arabic (Modern Standard) Level 2 Lessons 26-30

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Standard Arabic
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Modern Standard Arabic — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve... Read more

Their Name Is Today

By: Johann Arnold Christoph

Narrated by: Rolland G. Smith

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide.

Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships have helped more than a million readers through life’s... Read more

Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants de Mathias Énard (Fiche de lecture)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Maria Puerto Gomez

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

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La Photo qui tue d'Anthony Horowitz (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Elena Pinaud & Florence Balt...

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez La Photo qui tue d'Anthony Horowitz avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de La Photo qui tue, le recueil de nouvelles fantastiques qui a glacé le sang des lecteurs ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un... Read more

La Mort d'Olivier Bécaille et autres nouvelles de Émile Zola (Fiche de lecture)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Cécile Perrel

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde (Fiche de lecture)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Vincent Guillaume

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Oscar Wilde avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir du Portrait de Dorian Gray, le roman incontournable de la littérature irlandaise ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un... Read more

L'Assommoir d'Émile Zola (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Marine Riguet & Johanna Biehler

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez L'Assommoir d'Émile Zola avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de L'Assommoir, le roman réaliste phare de la littérature française ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :• Un résumé complet • Une présentation des... Read more

Good Ideas

By: Michael Rosen

Narrated by: Michael Rosen

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught often excludes all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture -... Read more

Pimsleur French Level 5

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn French
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in French — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into... Read more

Blackboard

By: Lewis Buzbee

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee deftly weaves his own biography into... Read more

Building a Better Teacher

By: Elizabeth Green

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great?

Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more?
Building a Better... Read more

Colleges emphasize student ‘stickiness' to boost graduations

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tennessee, a disturbingly high dropout rate at public universities prompted the state to change how they fund schools: the more students graduate, the more a school gets paid. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the rise of performance-based funding and innovations by schools to keep students invested. Read more

Reinvention of Chicago City Colleges

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Just 20 percent of community college students complete a degree in the United States. Cheryl Hyman, chief of City Colleges of Chicago, is reshaping her school system not only to provide wide access to higher education, but to put students on the fastest track to relevant credentials. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Hyman, whose reforms have come with... Read more

Can online courses replace a campus education?

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that anyone can take from anywhere in the world, are the future of higher education or the vehicle of its demise, depending on your perspective. Hari Sreenivasan talks with the man who first created the MOOC, professors who say they undermine the goals of a college education and others who see a way the... Read more

Wisconsin group wants to turn student borrowers into activists

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state's student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc. Read more

Thinking Differently

By: David Flink

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently, David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye—a national mentoring... Read more

Online university skips class to be more accessible

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

College for America, an online degree program, has no classes, professors or credit hours. It's been cited as an innovative way to make college more affordable. But how do its students qualify for a degree? Hari Sreenivasan reports from New Hampshire on a university that gives credit based on competency at the student's own pace. Read more

Excellent Sheep

By: William Deresiewicz

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and how to find a sense of purpose.



Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with... Read more

Genius: The Divine Mission Of The Soul

By: Michael Meade

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

True genius isn’t necessarily a high IQ score or prodigy, although it often manifests as such. It’s the spirit within each of us. Meade explains that “the genius is a unique spirit in a person; it’s the part of them that makes them unique and it’s tied to their destiny, or the destination of their soul...” He asserts that we have an obligation... Read more