11 Best Study & Teaching Books
Study & Teaching is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Study & Teaching audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 11 Study & Teaching audiobooks below.
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Land of Hope
- By: Wilfred M. McClay
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 20 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 21, 2020
- Language: English
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4.59(431 ratings)
4.59(431 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their ownWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land’s roots, and share in its memories, equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and consequential story of their own country.
The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical or partial outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that leads to a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society and fails to convey the greater arc of history.
A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative as an expression of its own self-understanding, and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account of the American past and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both.
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The Matter of Black Lives
- By: Jelani Cobb
- Narrator: JD Jackson
- Length: 30 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 28, 2021
- Language: English
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4.53(116 ratings)
4.53(116 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0048.99 USDA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America–including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more–with a foreword by Jelani Cobb This anthology from theA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America–including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more–with a foreword by Jelani Cobb
This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across a century, with Rebecca West’s classic account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time), and yet it also explores our current moment, from the classroom to the prison cell and the upheavals of what Jelani Cobb calls “the American Spring.” Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, Kelefa Sanneh, Doreen St. Felix, and others, the collection offers startling insights about this country’s relationship with race. The Matter of Black Lives reveals the weight of a singular history, and challenges us to envision the future anew.
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Uncover Exciting History
- By: Amy Puetz
- Narrator: Jim Hodges
- Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.5(3 ratings)
4.5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDBring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. What is history anyway? It is the story of real people who did real things. For history to be fun for everyone (even those whoBring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.
What is history anyway? It is the story of real people who did real things. For history to be fun for everyone (even those who think they hate history), it must go beyond hard facts and meaningless dates to the real people who made the significant events happen. People like George Washington, who bravely crossed the partly frozen Delaware River to attack the British at Trenton. Stories like that of the bold Americans who bravely fought against the Barbary pirates during the little-known Barbary War show how interesting history is.
In this audiobook, you will discover how the US created the Constitution, experience the miraculous victory at the Battle of New Orleans, explore America’s expansion west, and uncover one of America’s best weapons used during World War II.
This audiobook is great for history buffs, those who want the story behind the event, adults who want a snapshot view of American history, and homeschool families for students twelve and up.
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The Author’s Checklist
- By: Elizabeth K. Kracht
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.28(118 ratings)
4.28(118 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDThe bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix — once the writer sees and understands them. Over time, literaryThe bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix — once the writer sees and understands them. Over time, literary agent Elizabeth Kracht noticed that many submissions had similar problems, so she began to make a list of the pitfalls. She knew that even excellent projects could be rejected based on these surmountable issues because those on the receiving end of proposals most often don’t have the time to walk writers through needed adjustments. And writers can’t clearly judge their own creative output. The checklist Kracht has created helps writers make their manuscripts good to go. It offers short, easy-to-implement bites of advice, illustrated by inspiring — and cautionary — real-world examples. Kracht cuts to the chase and demystifies intricate issues like dialogue and pacing as well as nuts-and-bolts subjects such as query letters and agency guidelines. The result is a reliable, doable way for writers to make their work truly ready for readers. Most aspiring authors yearn for a friend in book publishing. The Author’s Checklist is just that.
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The Europeans
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrator: James Langton
- Length: 21 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.25(346 ratings)
4.25(346 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDFrom the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age ofFrom the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture
The nineteenth century in Europe was the first age of cultural globalization—an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming national barriers and creating a truly pan-European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, people across the continent were reading the same books, looking at the same art, and attending the same opera performances.
Acclaimed historian Orlando Figes moves from Parisian salons to German spa towns to Russian country houses, exploring the interplay of money and art that made this unification possible. At the book’s center is an intimate love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot; and her husband Louis Viardot, a connoisseur and political activist. Their passionate, ambitious lives caught up an astonishing array of artists and princes, poets, composers, and impresarios—Delacroix, Chopin, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among them.
As Figes observes, nearly all of civilization’s great advances have come when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Surprising, beautifully written, spanning a continent and a century, The Europeans offers the first international history of European culture—and a compelling argument for the benefits of cosmopolitanism.
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The Children’s Book of America
- By: William J. Bennett
- Narrator: Elayne Glover Bennett
- Length: 1 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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4.25(120 ratings)
4.25(120 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.95 USDFrom the author of the bestselling book The Educated Child comes a compelling and inspiring book that answers any question a young child may have about America. Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes AmericaFrom the author of the bestselling book The Educated Child comes a compelling and inspiring book that answers any question a young child may have about America.
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Where did America come from? What does it mean to be an American? What makes America great? No volume will provide more compelling and inspiring answers to our children’s questions than William Bennett’s marvelous new treasury, The Children’s Book of America. Filled with history and folktales, songs and poems, heroes and everyday Americans, this indispensable audiobook is a classic collection of great Americana.
This lasting testament to our beloved country features performances by Elayne Bennett, Hinton Battle, John McMartin, Phylicia Rashad, and more. The Children’s Book of America is a marvelous celebration of our nation’s history and spirit for the youngest Americans. -
Do Dice Play God?
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.02(1337 ratings)
4.02(1337 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictableWe would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect... Read moreA celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictableWe would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty — indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact — and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong.Thankfully, there is hope. As award-winning mathematician Ian Stewart reveals, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some of the tools we need to better manage the uncertainty that pervades our lives. From forecasting, to medical research, to figuring out how to win Let’s Make a Deal, Do Dice Play God? is a surprising and satisfying tour of what we can know, and what we never will. -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies
- By: Blake Snyder
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 17, 2019
- Language: English
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4(1310 ratings)
4(1310 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the perfect companion piece to his first book, Blake Snyder delivers even more insider information gleaned from a twenty-year track record as one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters. Designed for screenwriters, novelists, andIn the perfect companion piece to his first book, Blake Snyder delivers even more insider information gleaned from a twenty-year track record as one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters. Designed for screenwriters, novelists, and movie fans, this book gives listeners key breakdowns of the fifty most instructional movies from the past thirty years. From M*A*S*H to Crash, Alien to Saw, and 10 to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snyder reveals how screenwriters in the past tackled the same challenges faced by screenwriters today.
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How to Read a Book
- By: Mortimer J. Adler
- Narrator: Edward Holland
- Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.98(17729 ratings)
3.98(17729 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDA CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It‘ s masterfully done.” –Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic thatA CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It‘ s masterfully done.” –Farheed Zakaria
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Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them–from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Audiences will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.
Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy, and social science works. -
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
- By: Chad Orzel
- Narrator: Will Collyer
- Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.88(463 ratings)
3.88(463 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction toThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity?
Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein’s physics. Through armchair- and sometimes passenger-seat-conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds of dog and cat motion or the logistics of squirrel-chasing, Orzel translates complex Einsteinian ideas — the slowing of time for a moving observer, the shrinking of moving objects, the effects of gravity on light and time, black holes, the Big Bang, and of course, E=mc2 — into examples simple enough for a dog to understand.
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A lively romp through one of the great theories of modern physics, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about space, time, and anything else you might have slept through in high school physics class. -
A Delicate Aggression
- By: David O. Dowling
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.55(31 ratings)
3.55(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishingA vibrant history of the renowned and often controversial Iowa Writers’ Workshop and its celebrated alumni and faculty
As the world’s preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, six US poet laureates, and numerous National Book Award winners. This volume follows the program from its rise to prominence in the early 1940s under director Paul Engle, who promoted the “workshop” method of classroom peer criticism.
Meant to simulate the rigors of editorial and critical scrutiny in the publishing industry, this educational style created an environment of both competition and community, cooperation and rivalry. Focusing on some of the exceptional authors who have participated in the program–such as Flannery O’Connor, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Smiley, Sandra Cisneros, T. C. Boyle, and Marilynne Robinson–David Dowling examines how the Iowa Writers’ Workshop has shaped professional authorship, publishing industries, and the course of American literature.
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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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