Education audiobooks

Is College Worth It?

By: William J. Bennett & David Wilezol

Narrated by: Tommy Cresswell

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Is college worth the ever-increasing cost?From the mouths of politicians and parents alike, the notion that "everyone should go to college" is conventional wisdom in America. Yet half of today's college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. They have little to show for their time in school but a massive amount of student-loan debt and an... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 21-25

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

San Francisco's Exploratorium

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco's Exploratorium, one of the nation's most successful science and technology centers, has just opened its brand new location. Spencer Michels reports on how the center's hands-on teaching approach peaks the imaginations of children and adults alike. Read more

College (Un)bound

By: Jeffrey J. Selingo

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the value of a college degree?The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people are beginning to question that value. Is a college diploma still worth pursuing at... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 26-30

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 11-15

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 16-20

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 1-5

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Pimsleur Dari Persian Level 2 Lessons 6-10

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Dari Persian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Dari Persian — 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... Read more

Hacking Your Education

By: Dale J. Stephens

Narrated by: Kyle McCarley

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no secret that college doesn't prepare students for the real world. Student loan debt recently eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in history and now tops one trillion dollars. And the throngs of unemployed graduates chasing the same jobs makes us wonder whether there's a better way to "make it" in today's marketplace.



There is—and... Read more

Through My Eyes

By: Tim Tebow

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Tim Tebow: He grew up playing every sport imaginable, but football was his true passion. Even from an early age, Tim has always had the drive to be the best player and person that he could be. Through his hard work and determination, he established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and as a top... Read more

Atlanta Teachers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

It was deadline day in Atlanta for 35 former educators to voluntarily turn themselves to face charges of crimes related to widespread, coordinated cheating by principals and teachers. Margaret Warner talks with Mike Winerip of The New York Times for more on the allegations, possible motives and how it has affected students. Read more

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

By: John Hunter

Narrated by: John Hunter

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In John Hunter’s classroom, students fearlessly tackle global problems and discover surprising solutions by playing his groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids—from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well funded and underresourced—take on the roles of politicians, tribal leaders, diplomats, bankers, and military... Read more

Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In a New York City classroom, teachers use rap songs to teach complex science. Playlists are used as a metaphor to convey natural selection, and students compose raps songs to reinforce concepts. Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness of this strategy and interviews hip-hop legend (and science geek) GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. Read more

Colleges and Universities See Graying Workforce

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In academia, many professors remain working and teaching long past traditional retirement age, leaving younger potential professors shut out from highly coveted full-time, tenured positions. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how institutions deal with aging faculty. Read more

How Smart Students Pay for School, 2nd Edition

By: Reyna Gobel

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second edition of How Smart Students Pay for School, there's a valuable new section for military service members, veterans, and their families. Tax numbers are updated for the early 2013 tax filing season. Recent graduates will learn about the new income-based repayment plan, Pay as You Earn.Getting into college is just as hard as... Read more

C. S. Lewis - A Life

By: Alister McGrath

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis — A... Read more

Pimsleur Italian Level 4

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Italian
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Italian — 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... Read more

Sticks and Stones

By: Emily Bazelon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.
 
No writer is... Read more

Give Me Everything You Have

By: James Lasdun

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist, who began trying, in her words, to 'ruin him.' Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her... Read more

Radical

By: Michelle Rhee

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings—not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the... Read more

Leading the Learning Revolution

By: Jeff Cobb

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lifelong learning has become a multibillion-dollar business, with more than 60 million adults currently engaged in webinars, webcasts, in-house training, continuing education classes, and more. But it is also an industry in flux, as newcomers topple old-guard organizations that can’t keep pace with the need for instant access to materials and... Read more

Monteverdi

By: Leo Samama

Narrated by: Leo Samama

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) is zonder twijfel de belangrijkste componist geweest uit de boeiende periode waarin de renaissance overging in de barok. In deze periode componeerde Monteverdi aanvankelijk zuiver vocale madrigalen. Vanaf de eeuwwisseling schrijft hij steeds meer madrigalen die door instrumenten worden begeleid. In 1607 verscheen... Read more