CDs, Podcasts & Audiobooks for College & Adult

Explore 48 curated cds, podcasts & audiobooks for College & Adult students. Each resource has been reviewed for quality and age-appropriateness.

Biology: The Ultimate Self Teaching Guide - Introduction to the Wonderful World of Biology

If you have ever wanted to know more about biology, but thought it would too confusing, then this is the book for you. We take the concepts of biology and put them in simple terms, allowing you to better understand the amazing diversity of our planet...

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Piano: Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now! (Teach Yourself Series)

Learn to play the piano and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about...

Fluenz Portuguese

Portuguese 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Portuguese-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyon...

Spanish (Latin American)

Do you want to learn Spanish but haven't had the time? Look no further, Pimsleur offers Latin American Spanish lessons. Our unique learning method will help you quickly learn Latin American Spanish online. Start today and you'll be speaking Spanish a...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to under...

Stuff! Good Synth Players Should Know: An A-Z Guide to Getting Better

Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary with this all-encompassing book/CD pack for synthesizer players. Whether your interest lies in keyboard synths or virtual software synths, you'll receive valuable tips on...

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Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and c...

Fluenz Spanish

Spanish 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Spanish-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simp...

Learn & Master Drums with Dann Sherrill

Learn how to practice, tune, and play your own drumset with a variety of musical styles

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize acade...

Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extr...

Experience And Education

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (D...

Pimsleur Japanese Basic Course - Level 1, Lessons 1-10

Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced...

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition)

The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to ?understand?, to be well-rounde...

The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning

What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking. This is a handy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning. For ages twelve through adult. Fun to use -- learn skills you can us...

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright&#8...

Fluenz German

German 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the German-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple...

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck: Advice to Make Any Amateur Look Like a Pro

How to think like a director, regardless of equipment (amateurs think about the camera, pros think about communication). It's about the rules developed over a century of movie-making—which work just as well when shooting a two-year-old&rs...

English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S.

The warm and witty authors of Celebrate the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language and Culture in the U.S. get you started on your ESL journey with English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S. English the America...

The Practical Guide to Modern Music Theory for Guitarists: Second Edition

Master Music Theory for Guitar While Playing and Hearing it in Context. Over 200 Notated Audio Examples! + Professional Backing Tracks Guitarists are often very guilty of ‘collecting' musical theory without taking the time to learn to a...

Drumset: Beginning, Intermediate, Mastering

Anyone interested in playing the drumset can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include stick techniques, snare drum rudiments, accents, dynamics, and reading drumset music. Intermediate topic...

Is College Worth It?: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education

For many students, a bachelor's degree is considered the golden ticket to a more financially and intellectually fulfilling life. But the disturbing reality is that debt, unemployment, and politically charged pseudo learning are more likely outc...

Fluenz Italian

Italian 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Italian-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simp...

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture c...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. S...

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestseller Are you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using 'who” when a 'whom” is called for? Do you avoid the words 'affect&rdquo...

Big Data: Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics To Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Illustrated with numerous real-world examples from a cross section of companies and organisations, Big Data will take you through the five steps of the SMART model: Start with Strategy, Measure Metrics and Data, Apply Analytics, Report Results, Trans...

Fluenz French

French 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the French-speaking world. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple...

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Ma...

Learn & Master Blues Guitar with Steve Krenz

Learn the concepts, chords, techniques, and riffs that allow you to enter the world of great blues guitar playing.

Learn & Master Fingerstyle Guitar with Steve Krenz

From professional Nashville guitarist and Acoustic Guitar Magazine award-winning educator, Steve Krenz

Learn & Master Guitar Maintenance with Greg Voros

An in-depth, step-by-step course on how to set up your guitar in your own home using a few easy-to-use tools.

Parenting With Love And Logic

This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through...

Learn & Master Piano with Will Barrow

Now is your chance to master the keys of this beautiful instrument.

Learn & Master Ballroom Dance with Jaimee Simon & Mark Short

Discover the beauty and fun of ballroom dancing from the comfort of your own home.

Learn & Master Photography with Vince Wallace

All you need to know in order to capture perfectly exposed, well composed, emotionally exciting images.

French

Start Speaking French using the Pimsleur App! It's now possible to speak and understand a foreign language effortlessly. The world-famous Pimsleur Method™ combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuiti...

German

It's now possible to speak and understand a foreign language effortlessly. The world-famous Pimsleur Method™ combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuitive process to get you speaking right from the...

5 Hour Classroom Lesson Plan: How to Shoot Video

Free free 5 hour lesson plan to help your students do better video in the classroom. No sign up, no subscription-- just click and download. Hosted on the companion website to the book "How to Shoot Video that Doesn't Suck", which also has...

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin)

The Pimsleur Method™ combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuitive process to get you speaking right from the first day. All Pimsleur® courses feature real-world context and flexible vocabulary enabling you to...

Italian

It's now possible to speak and understand a foreign language effortlessly. The world-famous Pimsleur Method™ combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuitive process to get you speaking right from the...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation&#821...

Learn & Master Painting with Gayle Levée

By far the world's most complete video instruction course for painting.

Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar (Full 25 Disc Edition)

The most complete course available for learning guitar.

Hindi: A Complete Course for Beginners (Book & 6 Audio CDs)

This simple and effective introduction to Hindi will teach you everything you need to speak, understand, read, and write in Hindi. This program assumes no background in the language, and it explains each new concept clearly with plenty of examples, m...

WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr; has a degree in history from James Madison University. I've been obsessed with the events and people from WWII since I first learned of them. I've been waiting years for someone to do a podcast on WWII and couldn't wa...

Discovering the Entrepreneur in You

Discovering the Entrepreneur in You Discovering the Entrepreneur in You will allow you to experience the thrill of being in business for yourself! This course will teach the basic principles of business by showing you how to really do it with a hand...

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

A series of podcasts by Professor Peter Adamson of LMU in Munich and King's College London that cover philosophers and major ideas. He covers philosophers from all over the world and all periods of time, including: Pythagoras Plato Socrate...