The Green Ember (5/5 stars, currently priced at $13.97 or 1 Audible credit) is the perfect audiobook to make the miles fly by if you’ve got a long drive in the car and kids of varying ages. With a running time of just under eight hours, this one may even get you there and back … Read more
Surely by now, you’ve heard of Marc Maron. Whether in his stand up comedy, books, WTF podcast or IFC television show, Maron’s always smart, funny, endearingly neurotic and disarmingly frank. He’s interviewed notables from Louis C.K. to President Barack Obama on his WTF podcast, which provides the backdrop for his semi-autobiographical television show. Whatever your … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal is a great pick for anyone who needs to navigate tricky professional and personal relationships. Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both (4.5/5 stars) is priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY. From Amazon: In Friend and Foe, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this … Read more
Today’s Audible DailyDeal features How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics (4/5 stars, priced at $2.95 TODAY ONLY). From Amazon: What is math? And how exactly does it work? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic of mathematics – sprinkled throughout … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal, Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist (5/5 stars, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY), is a great pick for anyone who wants to learn how to think more critically. In today’s information age, where urban myths, scams and pseudoscience are supercharged by the power of the internet, it’s more important … Read more
Mycroft Holmes (4/5 stars) is today’s Audible Daily Deal, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY. From Amazon: A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British … Read more
Bream Gives Me Hiccups, a short story collection written by actor Jesse Eisenberg and read by Eisenberg and others, is today’s Audible Daily Deal, priced at $1.95 TODAY ONLY. Note that while this audiobook only has a 3.5/5 star rating (across 45 reviews) on the Amazon site, on the Audible site its average review rating … Read more
Betty Friedan’s landmark feminist work The Feminine Mystique (4/5 stars) is available in Audible format for $4.95 TODAY ONLY, as an Audible Daily Deal. From Amazon: First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues … Read more