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God Is Not Great
by Christopher Hitchens
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Credits: Audio Download
Kidder tells the true story of a socially conscious genius who uses his intellectual and personal gifts to solve global health problems.
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Broke
by Glenn Beck
Credits: Audio Download
In the words of Harvard economist Niall Ferguson, the United States is “an empire on the edge of chaos.” Why? Glenn Beck thinks the answer is pretty simple: Because we’ve turned our backs on the Constitution.
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Epicenter
by Joel Rosenberg
Credits: Audio Download
A riveting book about the dramatic changes that will transform the world as we know it. Americans are anxious about the future, the world's and their own.
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An Inconvenient Book
by Glenn Beck
Credits: Audio Download
With the unique fusion of entertainment and politics that he uses on his popular syndicated radio show, Beck delivers a humorous and eye-opening account of the problems that America faces today.
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Credits: Audio Download
There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John C. Bogle, founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual fund group.
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Waking Dragon: The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World
by Peter Navarro
Credits: Audio Download
In this eye-opening series of lectures, business professor and best-selling author Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications for all mankind.
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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash.
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Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation.
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The World Crisis
by Deepak Chopra
Credits: Audio Download
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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Fueling the Planet
by Michael B. McElroy
Credits: Audio Download
Renowned professor Michael B. McElroy leads a comprehensive examination of energy, including its history, use in the world today, and environmental consequences.
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The Dumbest Generation
by Mark Bauerlein
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's under-thirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
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Creating a World Without Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.
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What Future May Come?
by Don Beck
Credits: Audio Download
What happens when the editor-in-chief of WIE mediates a conference call cum roundtable discussion between three guys—all of whom happen to be brilliant, preeminent voices in their respective fields of cosmology, cultural evolution, and organizational development—and the topic is the successful continuing evolution of the human race?
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles.
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The Big Short
by Michael Lewis
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Featuring an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael LewisWhen the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news.
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Nomad
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Credits: Audio Download
In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society.
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie Chang
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women...
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Lost Boys
by James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Credits: Audio Download
Violence by young boys and adolescents is on the rise in America's suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. In light of recent school-based shootings...
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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
Credits: Audio Download
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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Donnie Brasco
by Joseph D. Pistone
Credits: Audio Download
Posing as a jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone worked undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant and deadly community of Mafia wise guys, captains and bosses.
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The Next Decade
by George Friedman
Credits: Audio Download
The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.
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The West's Last Chance
by Tony Blankley
Credits: Audio Download
The West, says author Tony Blankley in this shocking book, is down to its last chance.
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Tulia
by Nate Blakeslee
Credits: Audio Download
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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