Education audiobooks
De waarde van het woord
By: Marita Mathijsen
Narrated by: Marita Mathijsen
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Literatuur in de 19e eeuw was geen vrijblijvend vermaak. Schrijvers wilden de maatschappij verbeteren door aandacht voor sociale problemen, maar ook door aansluiting te zoeken bij internationale kunstbewegingen. Literatuur als middelaar tussen ideaal en werkelijkheid. Rond 1880 keren nieuwe jonge schrijvers zich tegen deze generatie en... Read more
View audiobookDe atoombom
By: Maarten van Rossem
Narrated by: Maarten van Rossem
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1939 startten de Amerikanen in het geheim het Manhattan Project dat zou leiden tot de ontwikkeling van de atoombom en het gebruik ervan op Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Maarten van Rossem behandelt de geschiedenis van het ontstaan van het meest destructieve en gevreesde wapen. Een boeiend en multidisciplinair college over de atoombom en de nucleaire... Read more
View audiobookGodsgeloof of atheïsme?
By: Herman Philipse
Narrated by: Herman Philipse
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Godsdienstfilosofie beargumenteerd, met aandacht voor de grote denkers, door Buitenhof-columnist en auteur van de bestseller Het Atheïstisch Manifest Herman Philipse.
Atheïsme als wereldbeschouwing is ouder dan de meeste mensen denken. Het wordt vaak gezien als een 20e eeuws fenomeen, maar het bestond al onder de oude Chinezen en de Grieken. In... Read more
Rapid Dutch (Vol. 1)
By: Earworms Learning
Narrated by: Andrew Lodge & Martijnje Naziris Rothfusz
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Earworms MBT Rapid Dutch - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and... Read more
View audiobookMeer klassiekste klassiekers
By: Ineke Sluiter
Narrated by: Ineke Sluiter
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In dit college behandelt Ineke Sluiter werken van o.a. Sophokles, Aristophanes en Thucydides. Alle behandelde schrijvers leefden tijdens de Peloponnesische Oorlog (431 - 404 v.Chr.). Deze strijd tussen de stadstaten Athene en Sparta heeft diepe sporen nagelaten in hun werk. Sluiter weet op meesterlijke wijze de klassieke Griekse literatuur te... Read more
View audiobookHaydn
By: Thijs Bonger
Narrated by: Thijs Bonger
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Haydn bereikte de leeftijd van 77 jaar en is een soort accolade in de muziekgeschiedenis. Als negenjarige zong hij bij de begrafenis van Vivaldi. Zijn vriend Mozart stierf achttien jaar eerder dan hij en hij gaf les aan de jonge Beethoven. De laatste dertig jaar van zijn leven was hij verreweg de beroemdste componist van Europa. Zijn gigantische... Read more
View audiobookStudents Build Biological Machines
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Scientists in the growing field of synthetic biology use basic biological "building blocks" -- snippets of DNA -- to engineer useful living organisms, like bacteria that can break down plastic. Tom Bearden reports on a do-it-yourself biology competition for college students. Read more
View audiobookAt-Risk Youth Find Corporate Jobs
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
To alleviate the 30 percent unemployment rate among urban youth, the Year Up program gives at-risk youth lessons in corporate culture and work ethic. Paul Solman reports on this approach to training young, would-be entrepreneurs. Read more
View audiobookConsiga un trabajo hoy
By: Luis Cortes
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Por medio de su oganizacion Esperanza USA, el reverendo Luis Cortes Jr., ha tenido un tremendo impacto en la comunidad latina con proyectos como Hogares de Esperanza, que conseja acerca de hipotecas y asuntos financiales con el intento de que mas individuos latinos puedan ser propietarios de sus propias viviendas. El ha escrito varios libros que... Read more
View audiobookWie wäre es, gebildet zu sein? - Abridged
By: Peter Bieri
Narrated by: Peter Bieri
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Bildung beginnt mit Neugierde. Man töte in jemandem die Neugierde ab und man stiehlt ihm die Chance, sich zu bilden. Neugierde ist der unersättliche Wunsch, zu erfahren, was es in der Welt alles gibt. Bildung ist etwas, das Menschen mit sich und für sich machen: Man bildet sich. Ausbilden können uns andere, bilden kann sich jeder nur selbst.... Read more
View audiobookThe Education of Henry Adams
By: Henry Adams
Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky
Length: 21 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Few works have so firmly established their position in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. As a man of extraordinary gifts and learning and a member of one of the greatest American families, Henry Adams wrote an insightful exploration of himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived. In the words of Van Wyck Brooks, he... Read more
View audiobookYour Child's Strengths
By: Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.
Narrated by: Renée Raudman
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
With this groundbreaking work, educator Jenifer Fox is poised to change the conversation about education in America. For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's twenty-five years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Lecture
By: Randy Pausch
Narrated by: Eric Singer
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic."We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy PauschA lot of professors give talks titled "The Last... Read more
View audiobookTeach Like Your Hair's on Fire
By: Rafe Esquith
Narrated by: James Yaegashi
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors. Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is... Read more
View audiobookThe Trouble with Perfect
By: Elisabeth Guthrie & Kathy Matthews
Narrated by: Kathy Matthews
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on more than 15 years experience as a clinical psychiatrist, Dr. Guthrie discusses the fine line between good parenting and "pressure parenting." She concludes that if parents focus on their sons' and daughters' healthy development, families can avoid the backlash that results from the current trend of demanding perfection from children. Read more
View audiobookIt's OK if You're Clueless
By: Terry McMillan
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author of such hits as How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan utilizes her trademark sass to craft this funny and extremely useful guide for today's college-bound young adults. When she was asked to speak at her son's high school commencement, McMillan started jotting down practical tips... Read more
View audiobookHow Much Is Enough?
By: Pamela York Klainer
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Pamela York Klainer is an esteemed executive coach and workplace consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 companies such as Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb. This unique book will help you understand your personal money "story." By determining how money is tied to your sense of accomplishment, you will learn to secure the kind of... Read more
View audiobookWhen Your Heart's Work Has Broken Your Heart
By: Parker Palmer, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Doing work coming from the heart can be thwarted by the institutions for which we work. They often are driven by factors far removed from true service. We set out to do meaningful work and become broken hearted as we are forced to compromise our ideals again and again. Here is help for transforming our lives, our work, even the institutions... Read more
View audiobookThe Elements of Style
By: E.B. White & William Strunk
Narrated by: Frank McCourt
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Elements of Style has long been a valued and beloved resource for all writers. Hailed for its directness and clever insight, this unorthodox textbook was born from a professor's love for the written word and perfected years later by one of his students-famed author E.B. White. Ever since its first publication in 1959, writers have turned to... Read more
View audiobookThe Cheating Culture
By: David Callahan
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this provocative audiobook author David Callahan examines the cheating epidemic-at work, in school, on the ballfield and everywhere else-that is the new American plague. Now more than ever, people are bending rules and breaking laws to get what they want. From the Enron scandal to the dot-com collapses to the plagiarism that has rocked the... Read more
View audiobookKlinkende geschiedenis
By: Leo Samama
Narrated by: Leo Samama
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In dit acht uur durende hoorcollege neemt Leo Samama de luisteraar mee door de geschiedenis van de westerse klassieke muziek. Beginnend bij de kunstuitingen van de troubadours in Frankrijk tot de moderne composities van de 20e eeuwse componisten.
Daarnaast komen de belangrijkste periodes aan bod waaronder de barok, de Weense Klassieken, de... Read more
Van Babylon tot New York
By: Fik Meijer
Narrated by: Herman Beliën, Fik Meijer & Paul Knevel
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
De stad is een intrigerend fenomeen. Al duizenden jaren wordt er door mensen in gewoond en geleefd. Het is bovendien de plek bij uitstek waar wordt gehandeld, religie en cultuur wordt aangeboden en van waaruit wordt bestuurd. In deze collegereeks wordt een levendig overzicht gegeven van bijna 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis aan de hand van een... Read more
View audiobookChristiaan Huygens
By: Vincent Icke
Narrated by: Vincent Icke
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
De Nederlandse wetenschapper Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) heeft binnen de natuurkunde een zeer fundamentele bijdrage geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van de klassieke mechanica. Met veel begrippen uit deze theorie hebben we dagelijks te maken, zoals plaats, tijd, snelheid, versnelling, massa, kracht, energie, impuls en meer. Maar hoe werkt dit... Read more
View audiobookMohammed
By: Hans Jansen
Narrated by: Hans Jansen
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In zijn college over de historische Mohammed reconstrueert arabist Hans Jansen het leven van de profeet aan de hand van overgeleverde verhalen. Wie was Mohammed eigenlijk? Hoe betrouwbaar zijn de bronnen en in welk historisch kader moeten we ze begrijpen? Met kennis van de Arabische wereld, een heldere stijl en een juiste dosis gezond verstand... Read more
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