Education audiobooks

Pimsleur Spanish Level 5

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Spanish
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Spanish — 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

Smart Sugars

By: JC Spencer

Narrated by: Ross Merrick

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Smart Sugars is an easy to read book about the breakthrough of sugar technology that will change the way we live. The author explains that some 800,000 transmitting antennae called glycans actually sugar coat each of our healthy cells like fuzz on a peach. Smart Sugars will help us take the focus off of the DISEASE, TREAT and CURE because of... Read more

Soar

By: David Banks & G. F. Lichtenberg

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

David C. Banks knows a few things about at-risk boys. In 2004, he petitioned New York City's mayor to allow an all-boys public school to open in one of the most troubled districts in the country, the South Bronx. He had a point to prove: When rituals that boys are innately drawn to are combined with college prep–level instruction and community... Read more

Supernatural

By: Graham Hancock

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though... 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

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 6-10

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 39 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 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 Lessons 21-25

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 1-5

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 2 hours 54 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

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

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

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

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... 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

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

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

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