Education audiobooks

The Essential 55 - Abridged

By: Ron Clark

Narrated by: Ron Clark

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade class in rural North Carolina, he was confronted with a tremendous challenge. The children had little interest in learning, and were sorely lacking in guidance. How would he transform a group of apathetic kids into disciplined, thoughtful, and curious students? He quickly realized that they needed to... Read more

The Myth of Laziness - Abridged

By: Mel Levine

Narrated by: Mel Levine

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,” writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or “lazy” usually suffer from what he calls “output failure”—a neurodevelopmental dysfunction that can continue to cause difficulties into adulthood if... Read more

Educating Esmé - Abridged

By: Esmé Raji Codell

Narrated by: Esmé Raji Codell

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Read more

A Mind At A Time - Abridged

By: Mel Levine

Narrated by: Mel Levine

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children... Read more

Soul Survivor - Abridged

By: Philip Yancey

Narrated by: Philip Yancey

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church."

Yancey acknowledges... Read more

Simone Weil

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of an equally complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with... Read more

Journey Into Wisdom

By: Pramila Jayapal

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world.  Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more

Beyond Rankism: Democracy For All

By: Robert Fuller

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rank has legitimate rights.  When rank has been earned and signifies excellence, then it's generally accepted, and rightfully so.  But the power of rank is often abused.  The abuse of rank, or of power, is rankism.  Treating others as invisible, as "nobodies," - insulting someone's dignity - that's rankism.  Most of us have felt its sting; most... Read more

Above and Beyond

By: Anita Roddick

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Anita Roddick, the founder of The Body Shop, dedicated herself to putting her money not only where her mouth is but where her heart is.  Roddick was the driving force behind The Body Shop's activism: challenging big business and the beauty industry to act responsibly in areas including human rights, animal rights, and women's self-esteem. Read more

Eating Wisdom

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of life's greatest pleasures is eating, according to Weil, who cuts through the national obsession with diet and weight like a knife through an overripe papaya. Dr. Andrew Weil believes there doesn't have to be a distinction between healthy food and pleasurable food. His sensible advice stems from a belief in a natural, balanced approach to... Read more

The Educated Child - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it.

The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, key excerpts from... Read more

Lift Every Voice - Abridged

By: Walter Turnbull & Howard Manly

Narrated by: Gregory T. Daniel

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Miracles can and do happen— when one does the footwork. Dr. Walter Turnbull dreamed of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem, and Lift Every Voice is the inspirational story of how he realized his dream. Dr. Turnbull shares the hard-bought wisdom he learned throughout his life— from his... Read more

Birthing, Biology And Culture

By: Barbara Findeisen, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. & Margot...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

We tend to assume that babies have little sensation or awareness before birth.  Far from it! say these researchers into the world of the unborn child.  "Emotions are chemistry in the blood," says Lipton, "and the chemistry of emotions passes through that placental barrier just as well as nutrients."  And these experiences then create lifelong... Read more

Power of Nonviolence, The:  Compassion In Action (Part 2)

By: His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, De...

Narrated by: Jeff Wessman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In part two of "Peacemaking: The Power of Non-Violence", Nobel Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Daniel Goleman, Michael Meade, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Edward James Olmos and others explore peacemaking as it applies to school and community.  We look at new models of education that include emotional intelligence, conflict resolution... Read more

Tibetan Wisdom For The West

By: Robert Thurman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 1.3 million Tibetans have lost their lives and over 6000 monasteries have been destroyed since the Chinese invasion in 1959. One of the positive legacies of this tragic story is the release of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual wisdom, hidden for thousands of years deep in the Himalayas. Robert Thurman believes this legacy is meant for... Read more

Spiritual Seeds For A Family Garden

By: Phil Catalfo

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In a heartfelt discussion, Phil Catalfo talks about how we, as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, can guide our children's spiritual development at a time when we are questioning our own. As we become disenchanted with the all-too-material world in which we live, Catalfo feels we must not only foster our children's spiritual growth, but... Read more

Saving The World, Saving Ourselves

By: Thomas Berry, C.P., Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We have discovered that the universe is dynamically alive and interconnected, and the implications are profound. Berry speaks of a vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world. He is a deep believer that recognizing our connection to the natural world is imperative to our healing of our global environmental crisis. Read more

It's All In Your Mind

By: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Lama Thondup draws on his early childhood in Tibet traveling with his nomadic parents, followed by years of classical Buddhist education in a Tibetan monastery. He had to rely on the goodness of others when forced to leave his homeland after the Chinese invasion and relocate to India, learning a new language and new skills. Read more

Global Capitalism: Beyond Conventional Wisdom

By: William Greider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

If you are curious about what global capitalism means, and concerned about how it affects human equity, justice and quality of life, you must listen to this provocative discussion with William Greider. Driven by his compassion for the people on the front lines of the factories, Greider exposes the fundamental instabilities at the heart of the... Read more

Work as Art

By: Dick Richards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are so many of us unhappy in our jobs? Dick Richards gives us many answers to this question as well as practical insights for what we can do about it. A graphic artist, poet and international organizational consultant on leadership, change, teamwork and personal growth, Richard believes "all work has the capacity to be both science and art". Read more

Chaos Made Simple

By: Myron Kellner-Rogers

Narrated by: Mark Walstrom

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a growing disillusionment in our institutions today.  We all want change, but we're afraid to experiment.  Kellner-Rogers has looked to nature for insights into creating more efficient organizations, noting that "Diversity in a healthy, living ecosystem is not an ethical or moral choice, but an absolute requirement for health." Read more

Peace is Our Natural State

By: Robdert Muller

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

We are in the kindergarten of the global age, says Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations for forty years. "Humanity, for the first time, is acquiring a global consciousness." He presents an energetic picture of how we can encourage this process, speaking from his deeply involved and caring perspective on politics,... Read more

Healing With Spirit And Intuition

By: Caroline Myss

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Biography becomes biology,” says Myss, a pioneer in the field of energetic medicine, who is able to diagnose illness by intuitive means. She presents bold insights about why we are afraid of becoming healthy, how we can overcome these fears and enter a new planetary era of maturity and empowerment. Read more

Musical Midwifery For The Dying

By: Therese Schroeder-Sheker

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From childhood this accomplished musician was fascinated by monastic music, and later observed death in many forms while working in a geriatric home. These influences came together in her work in "music thanatology," the art and science of easing the passage into death through music, sound and ritual. Read more