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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication....
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Available on: Audio Download ($24.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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The World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
In this two-part dialogue, Deepak and Ken discuss two very different contexts for approaching the world situation. War, poverty, ecological despoliation—what can we do to curb our self-destructive ways?
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Available on: Audio Download ($23.93) | Audio CD
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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The Wal-Mart Effect
by Charles Fishman
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Because Wal-Mart has maintained an impenetrable wall of secrecy and imposed absolute compliance in that secrecy from those it does business with, we know astonishingly little about how the company actually operates or about its impact on our lives…
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A Christian Manifesto
by Francis Schaeffer
Available on: Audio Download ($13.29) | Audio CD ($15.18)
In this explosive book, Francis Schaeffer shows how law, government, education, and media have all contributed to a shift from our country's Judeo-Christian foundation.
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New Rules
by Bill Maher
Available on: Audio Download ($19.56) | Audio CD ($25.16)
Bill Maher is on the forefront of the new wave of comedians who have begun to influence and shape political debate through their comedy. He is best known not just for being funny, but for advocating truth over sensitivity and taking on the political establishment.
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What's So Great About America
by Dinesh D'Souza
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
America is under attack as never before - not only from terrorists, but from people who provide a rationale for terrorism...
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We Have to Be Those Leaders
by Lama Surya Das
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
In this wide-ranging discussion of the obstacles and opportunities of bringing a new religion into a culture-in this case, Buddhism into America-Surya Das covers a multitude of critical issues, issues that confront not merely Buddhism but spirituality in general as it encounters the modern and postmodern world.
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Team Rodent
by Carl Hiaasen
Available on: Audio Download ($7.00) | Audio Cassette
Disney is so good, it's bad. So argues Carl Hiaasen, an award-winning investigative reporter...
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Next
by Michael Lewis
Available on: Audio Download ($16.67) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In Liar's Poker, the barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined...
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The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95)
The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals, products, investments, and jobs...
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Tulia
by Nate Blakeslee
Available on: Audio Download ($27.96) | Audio CD ($49.98)
Early one morning in the summer of 1999 authorities in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers...
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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
Available on: Audio Download ($19.58) | Audio CD ($35.96)
Radio host and best-selling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of the conventional-wisdom crowd.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Available on: Audio Download ($24.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This was the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constituted a major philosophic revolution.
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Anti-Americanism
by Jean-Francois Revel
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Angered by the post-September 11 criticism of the United States, a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-François Revel has written Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that comes to America’s defense.
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Chuck Klosterman IV
by Chuck Klosterman
Available on: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD
From "one of America's top cultural critics" ("Entertainment Weekly" comes a collection of material that is Klosterman's best work yet.
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Gonzo Marketing
by Christopher Locke
Available on: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
From the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto comes Gonzo Marketing, a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meet...
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To America
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs...
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Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
Available on: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD
"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris.
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The End of Food
by Paul Roberts
Available on: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
The frightening truth about the modern food system is revealed, as the bestselling author of The End of Oil turns his attention to food and finds that the system we’ve entrusted with meeting one of our most basic needs is dramatically failing us.
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How to Be Alone
by Jonathan Franzen
Available on: Audio Download ($19.88) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001...
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This Land Is Their Land
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
America in the 'aughts---hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate" of Jonathan Swift.
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Squandering Aimlessly
by David Brancaccio
Available on: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio Cassette
What do Americans do with their money? Marketplace host David Brancaccio took a financial pilgrimage across the country to find out...
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Culture Jamming
by iMinds Audio
Available on: Audio Download ($1.00)
Learn about Culture Jamming with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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