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Higher Education Audiobooks

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    The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Haidt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt.What doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wisdom from many cu... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Complaint!

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    Narrated by Pearl Hewitt ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 32 min

    In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Take Smart Notes

    One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

    by Sönke Ahrens ...
    Narrated by Nigel Fyfe ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward.The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Learn to Study

    by Aidan Moran ...
    Narrated by Aidan Moran ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    In listening to this recording, you are going to learn how to manage your own learning, and how to get down to studying. You'll receive practical tips on motivation, managing your study time, learning from lectures, listening and note-taking skills, improving your reading and summarizing skills, focusing effectively and improving your concentration.You'll be helped to remember and understand what ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Small Teaching

    Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

    by James M. Lang ...
    Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Research into how we learn has opened the door for utilizing cognitive theory to facilitate better student learning. But that's easier said than done. Many books about cognitive theory introduce radical but impractical theories, failing to make the connection to the classroom. In Small Teaching, James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Yale Needs Women

    How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

    by Anne Gardiner Perkins ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Moving Up without Losing Your Way

    The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

    by Jennifer Morton ...
    Narrated by Chloe Cannon ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Adjunct Underclass

    How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

    by Herb Childress ...
    Narrated by Edward Bauer ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage. Welcome to the life of the mind in ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Real Content vs. Para-content

    by J.-M. Kuczynski ...
    Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski ...

    Unabridged

    1 min

    Most professors are bureaucrats in disguise, and there is no real content to the work they produce, only recycled para-content. ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

    by Jeff Hobbs ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    An instant New York Times bestseller, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and others, this celebrated account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) and “mesmeric” (The New York Times Book Review).When author Jeff ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Smart Students Pay for School, 2nd Edition

    The Best Way to Save for College, Get the Right Loans, and Repay Debt

    by Reyna Gobel MBA ...
    Narrated by Meredith Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 39 min

    In the second edition of How Smart Students Pay for School, there's a valuable new section for military service members, veterans, and their families. Tax numbers are updated for the early 2013 tax filing season. Recent graduates will learn about the new income-based repayment plan, Pay as You Earn.Getting into college is just as hard as figuring out how to pay for it. In this original audiobook, ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Two Kinds of Narrowness

    by J.-M. Kuczynski ...
    Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski ...

    Unabridged

    3 min

    The excessive division of labor that takes place in defunct disciplines is modeled on, but is actually a mockery of, the division of labor that occurs in the workplace. In the work-place, the division of labor is doing specific things properly. Within a defunct discipline, it is about not doing anything. ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Law of Law School

    The Essential Guide for First-Year Law Students

    by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Jonathan Yusef Newton ...
    Narrated by Mark Kamish ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    “Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Colleges and Universities See Graying Workforce

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    In academia, many professors remain working and teaching long past traditional retirement age, leaving younger potential professors shut out from highly coveted full-time, tenured positions. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how institutions deal with aging faculty. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Colleges emphasize student ‘stickiness' to boost graduations

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    In Tennessee, a disturbingly high dropout rate at public universities prompted the state to change how they fund schools: the more students graduate, the more a school gets paid. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the rise of performance-based funding and innovations by schools to keep students invested. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Racing to the Bottom

    Thoughts on the Bureaucratization of Education

    by J.-M. Kuczynski ...
    Narrated by J.-M. Kuczynski ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    Thoughts on personal and institutional psychopathology.Zeros have replaced heroes. We used to be human beings. Now we are husks. ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Will This Be on the Test?

    What Your Professors Really Want You to Know about Succeeding in College

    by Dana T. Johnson, Jennifer E. Price ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    This lively and informative audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow is the essential survival guide for college studentsGetting into college takes plenty of hard work, but knowing what your professors expect of you once you get there can be even more challenging. Will This Be on the Test? is the essential survival guide for high-school students making the transition to college academics. In this ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to succeed in these exclusive, usually all-White, academic ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Admission Matters

    What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College

    by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider, Joyce Vining Morgan ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 58 min

    Admission Matters offers comprehensive, expert, and practical advice for parents and students to guide them through the college admissions process. From building a college list, to understanding standardized tests, to obtaining financial aid, to crafting personal statements, to making a final decision, this book guides you every step of the way with clear, sensible advice and practical tips. This ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Learning from Lectures

    Learning from lectures, listening & notetaking skills

    by Aidan Moran ...
    Narrated by Aidan Moran ...
    series For Success at College and University

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Learning from lectures, listening & notetaking skills, reading and summarising skills. Focusing effectively.Aimed at students in college and university, this new audio single “Learning from Lectures” is taken from the bestselling album: “Learn to Study” by Professor Aidan Moran which teaches students the most important study skills for success at college and university. This audio will cover the ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 7 min

    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Best Education for Free

    by Amisha Burn ...
    Narrated by Aadam Smyth ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Best Education for Free: The Essential Guide on How to Get a Scholarship to Achieve Your Dream Education for FreeA scholarship is a financial merit-based award that a student would have to apply for. The scholarship may be a package of financial aid to help the student. It could include housing and course materials as well as tuition, or just the tuition. It may only be a percentage of the tuition ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Assault on American Excellence

    by Anthony T. Kronman ...
    Narrated by Anthony T. Kronman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    **“I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it’s more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one.” —Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street JournalThe former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is a threat to our democracy.College education is under attack from all sides these days. Most of the handwringing—over free speech, safe zones, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Truth about College Admission

    A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together

    by Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the experience, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Did we miss a deadline? Should we be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small school? And what is a "FAFSA" anyway? The Truth about College Admission is the easy-to-follow, comprehensive, go-to guide for families. The expert authors-with ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial