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Title: The Seven Deadly Virtues

Subtitle: 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life Is Funny as Hell

Author: Johnny V. Last

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

An all-star team of 18 conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett's The Book of Virtues - without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues sits down next to listeners at the bar, buys them a drink, and, an hour or three later, ushers them into the revival tent without them even realizing it.

The book's contributors include Sonny Bunch, Christopher Buckley, David "Iowahawk" Burge, Christopher Caldwell, Andrew Ferguson, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Graham, Mollie Hemingway, Rita Koganzon, Matt Labash, James Lileks, Rob Long, Larry Miller, P. J. O'Rourke, Joe Queenan, Christine Rosen, and Andrew Stiles.

Jonathan V. Last - senior writer at the Weekly Standard and editor of the collection - is also a contributor. All 18 essays in this book are appearing for the first time anywhere.

Critic Reviews:

"[I]nteresting and thought provoking...endearing enough to make the reader charitably inclined." (

Wall Street Journal)

Members Reviews:

An Insightful and Humorous Book on the Virtues, Well Worth Reading

It is a vice to judge a book by its cover, but one that I'll indulge in this instance. The book's title and subtitle mislead. Its authors essay sixteen virtues, not seven (and none deadly), and while they do so hilariously, the funniness of the virtuous life is not the point of their essays. That said, The Seven Deadly Virtues is an insightful book, humorously written, and well worth reading.

The book divides into two sections. The first examines the traditional virtues, seven in number and divisible by two: prudence, justice, courage, and temperance are the cardinal virtues; faith, hope, and charity are the Christian virtues. The second looks into everyday virtues: chastity, simplicity, thrift, honesty, fellowship, forbearance, integrity, curiosity, and perseverance.

In the Introduction, Jonathan V. Last defines virtues as "the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives." He warns against "extremism in the pursuit of virtue," saying instead that virtue is "additive." "No single virtue is sufficient in and of itself, and each one, taken on its own is corruptible. Yet each virtue becomes more valuable with the addition of others. And for any single virtue to be brought to its full bloom, it must be surrounded by its sisters."

Picking favorites among the individual essays is difficult. How do you choose between P. J. O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley? Rob Long and Matt Labash? Andrew Ferguson and Jonah Goldberg? You don't.

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Title: The Mother and Child Project

Subtitle: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

Author: Melinda Gates

Narrator: Stu Gray, James Nardella, Devon ODay, Natalie Grant, Rachel Held Evans, Kristin James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-15

Publisher: Zondervan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In The Mother and Child Project, Melinda Gates, Kay Warren, Tony Campolo, Christine Caine, and Senator William H. Frist, along with other inspirational leaders, cultural icons, political experts, academics, and service providers, provide a personal yet fact-based narrative exploring the plight of women and children living in extreme poverty in an effort to educate and inspire the church to speak up in support of maternal and child health issues in the developing world.

Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates, Melinda Gates, Kay Warren, Bill Frist, Kimberly Williams Paisley, Michael W. Smith, and more speak out about why people of faith must get involved in The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope. Almost 287,000 women die each year because of pregnancy and birth complications. Many orphans are left behind in the wake of this tragedy, and without mothers many of those children die as well. If only enough people knew. We have the resources to prevent this crisis, but we must take action.

Fortunately, Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit organization promoting awareness for healthy mothers and children worldwide, is already spreading the word. Not only can we save lives, reduce abortions, and decrease death rates but also we can help build healthier, thriving families and bring stability and sustainability to families, communities, and nations. The question is: Will you join them?

Members Reviews:

This is a great read for anyone who refuses to look the other ...

Mother and Child Project addresses real problems with real solutions mixed with cultural understanding and compassion. This is a great read for anyone who refuses to look the other way and desires to truly make a difference.

Excellent book, it tells many of the stories including ...

Excellent book, it tells many of the stories including how the mothers have to cope with all the challenges to give their children a life. A difficult life. But the mothers are doing that. Thanks

Challenging Book

This is a great book. It issues a challenge to all concerned about 3rd world poverty and suggests the start of a solution.

A wonderful read! Love that each chapter is good insight ...

A wonderful read! Love that each chapter is good insight by a different author. A must read for anyone going on mission trips or humanitarian outreach.

Anyone with a heart for mothers and children will be ...

Anyone with a heart for mothers and children will be inspired and motivated by this book. Bless the people who devote their lives to those who need them most.

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Title: The Orphan Zoo

Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Farm at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Author: Sabine Heinlein

Narrator: Susanna Vause

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Sabine Heinlein spent almost a year reporting at "The Farm", a program for mental patients at the notorious Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Originally designed to teach its "members" confidence and skills by caring for animals and plants, the Farm had long become a dysfunctional hoarder's den. The patients sat idly on chairs in a grimy dayroom filled with the therapist's "collectibles" and garbage. The room was crawling with roaches, and a neglected bunny lived in its own feces and urine under the couches. The farmland had been fallow for years, and at dawn drug dealers gathered around the nearby picnic tables. Heinlein interviewed the members of the Farm until the program finally collapsed in the summer of 2013.

Augmented with audio snippets, photos, and historic newspaper articles, The Orphan Zoo chronicles the repercussions of deinstitutionalization, the administration's decades-long lack of constructive involvement and the tragic fall of a once-promising program.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

This was an interesting read

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Title: Is Shame Necessary?

Subtitle: New Uses for an Old Tool

Author: Jennifer Jacquet

Narrator: Jennifer Jacquet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of the ways in which it might be used, sparingly and pointedly, to promote political change and social reform.

In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. Yet while guilt holds individuals to personal standards, it proves impotent in the face of corrupt corporate policies. In recent years we have been asked to assuage our guilt about these problems as consumers by buying organic foods or fair-trade products, for example. Yet unless nearly everyone participates, the impact of individual consumer consciousness is microscopic. Jennifer Jacquet persuasively argues that the solution to the limitations of guilt can be found in shame, retrofitted for the age of democracy and social media. She demonstrates how shaming can function as a nonviolent form of resistance that, in turn, challenges institutions, organizations, and even governments to actuate large-scale change. She argues that when applied in the right way, in the right quantity, and at the right time, shame has the capacity to keep us from failing other species in life's fabric and, ultimately, ourselves.

Members Reviews:

Scholarly review of this timely subject

This is a very readable book full of interesting anecdote. Dr. Jacquet challenges the reader to consider a new approach to effect positive changes in society

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Title: The Headache Godfather

Subtitle: The Story of Dr. Seymour Diamond and How He Revolutionized the Treatment of Headaches

Author: Seymour Diamond, Charlie Morey

Narrator: Christopher Kipiniak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the story of a man who lived the American dream and improved the quality of life for thousands of headache sufferers.

The Headache Godfather traces the life of Seymour Diamond, MD, who was born in 1925, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Slovakia, in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Diamond revolutionized the practice of headache as a medical specialty when he opened the United States' first private headache practice, the Diamond Headache Clinic, in 1974. It quickly became a headache haven for sufferers from around the world. He also established a nonprofit organization, the National Headache Foundation, to support research for headache relief and to spread the knowledge among doctors and headache sufferers alike.

At 89 years of age, Dr. Diamond looks back on his battles with the Food and Drug Administration over headache treatments, the political skirmishes with those who would block his will to succeed, his globe-trotting adventures to learn and share current headache knowledge, the hundreds of thankful patients who claim that his headache treatment saved their lives, a frightening and painful malpractice lawsuit, and even a relationship with a Chicago Mafia member whose family Dr. Diamond treated early in his medical career, and who was ultimately found in the trunk of a stolen automobile, shot to death. Seymour Diamond is a living example of an individual who succeeded at living the American dream. Working several jobs while attending college and medical school, applying his intelligence, energy, and imagination to the world of headache medicine, and providing for his wife Elaine and their family of three daughters while building an empire of headache health, Seymour Diamond is indeed the Headache Godfather.

Members Reviews:

Former Patient of Dr. Seymour Diamond

I've been a patient at Diamond Headache. Dr. Seymour was my Mom's headache Dr.. I remember him meeting us at various airport while he was on a lay over. So he could see how she was. Such an amazing doctor and a very good man!!

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Title: The World's Greatest Arguments Against Animal Rights

Subtitle: I Provide an Ethical and Neutral Look at Six Popular Arguments That People Against Animal Rights Would Use to Defend Their Position

Author: Trevor Clinger BBA

Narrator: Trevor Clinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-15

Publisher: Trevor Clinger

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Animal activists need to consider why the opposition keeps defending that humans fundamentally deserve more rights than animals. I use a nonbiased position to analyze these arguments and provide a perspective that can be accepted by both animal-rights activists and non-animal-rights activists. Animals have been the new revolution for testing drugs before they are given out for human consumption. They may have saved several beings' lives by being the testers of these drugs. They also have the ability to experience emotions, pain, and suffering. After evaluating these six arguments, I promise you will obtain more validity to your opinions, and who knows? This audiobook may even sway you to disregard human rights altogether. I possess a bachelor's degree in business administration and an associate's degree in management technology.

Members Reviews:

Great book for animal rights activists!

Would you consider the audio edition of The World's Greatest Arguments Against Animal Rights to be better than the print version?

I would consider the audiobook because I loved hearing the narrator explain the arguments to be aloud. I can retain information better when I hear it rather than read it.

Whats the most interesting tidbit youve picked up from this book?

I have changed my position on animal rights after listening to this audiobook.

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Title: Uprising

Subtitle: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State

Author: Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly

Narrator: Brad Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot in American history took place in sleepy upstate New York town of Attica. Yet most of that blood was spilled not by the inmates who took over Attica Correctional Facility during four desperate days, but by the state's governor and future vice president Nelson Rockefeller.

This is the personal story of what those days were like, what went wrong, and how the tragedy at Attica holds up a mirror to America's dark treatment of its prison population. Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly, the authors of the acclaimed memoir Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation, take on the most urgent and least understood civil rights issue of today's society - prisoners' rights. Jones, the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former attorney and draft speechwriter, now tells the personal story of his time battling and negotiating for the inmates' survival as one of the observers and requested by the inmates during the rebellion. But Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State goes beyond memoir - Jones and Connelly use Attica as a touchstone for a clear-eyed critique of what has gone wrong with America's prison system over the last 40 years.

Members Reviews:

The truth as it should have been uncovered

This is a good non-inmates view of the uprising in Attica Prison. He was there to help negotiate and help the men to be heard by the public and then betrayed by the very people that asked for the help, due to political ambitions of the day. This was a slaughterhouse to better a politician's goals.

Anti climatic

I chose a four star rating, because I was expecting more of a thrilling story from behind the prison walls. I guess it was what it was. The author explains how everything led up to why he was selected to negotiate for the prisoners. The actual time with the prisoners was relatively short before the governor pulled the negotiators, and ordered a slaughter, The author did reveal a lot about our prison systems, and why they don't really "rehabilitate" prisoners. Overall, it was a decent read. I do agree with the author that society doesn't really care about the people in our prison system. He did open up my thinking as to why there's a problem with the penal system.

A Mixed Bag

There were some really high points to this Kindle Single, but there were also some big shortcomings as well. Jones played a first hand role in the events at Attica, asked by the leaders of the revolt to "mediate" and personally called New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller negotiate a peaceful resolution. Jones first hand account of his involvement and subsequent role in a commission investigating the tragedy makes for compelling reading. For me, this was the real strength of this Kindle Single. My main gripe with "Uprising" was the part that focused on post-Attica and Jones views on the "Incarceration State". I don't want to diminish his viewpoints and certainly don't disagree with him on many points. However, the sheer length of time to make his argument and provide ample evidence to support his viewpoints just can't be done in a Kindle Single.

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Title: Inventing Baby Food

Subtitle: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet

Author: Amy Bentley

Narrator: Therese Plummer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care.

Until the late 19th century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast milk. But over the course of a few short decades, Americans began feeding their babies formula and solid foods, frequently as early as a few weeks after birth. By the 1950s, commercial baby food had become emblematic of all things modern in postwar America. Little jars of baby food were thought to resolve a multitude of problems in the domestic sphere: They reduced parental anxieties about nutrition and health; they made caretakers feel empowered; and they offered women entering the workforce an irresistible convenience. But these baby food products laden with sugar, salt, and starch also became a gateway to the industrialized diet that blossomed during this period. Today, baby food continues to be shaped by medical, commercial, and parenting trends. Baby food producers now contend with health and nutrition problems as well as the rise of alternative food movements. All of this matters because, as the author suggests, it's during infancy that American palates become acclimated to tastes and textures, including those of highly processed, minimally nutritious, and calorie-dense industrial food products.

Members Reviews:

Great backgrounder on the weird world of baby food!

As a dietitian and mom to 5 small kids, I found this book absolutely fascinating. The level of detail and research that went into writing it was amazing. The author does an outstanding job framing the context in which baby food companies currently operate and provides a very comprehensive history of baby food production both in the home and commercially over the past 100 years. Highly recommend for any parents who are even remotely interested in how there got to be whole aisles at our grocery stores devoted entirely to foods and products that babies essentially don't need!!

Such an Interesting Book

Such an interesting book about the relationship American babies and parents have had with food over history. I got this book for research for a university course essay, and it had great additional sources for that. However this book is written in such a way that the casual ready would also enjoy it.

Four Stars

Really interesting. History of a product you would have never thought much about.

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Title: Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?

Subtitle: The Evolution of Sex and Gender

Author: Lewis Wolpert

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers - based in evolution, genetics, and biology - increasingly difficult. Still, significant differences between the sexes are apparent everyday to both men and women. Whether it's a boyfriend's infidelity or a wife's inability to orgasm during sex, the differences between the sexes affect how we act, interact, and think about one another. Developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert has devoted years of research on sex and gender and aims to dispel the myths and further scientific understanding of the Xs and Ys that make us all who we are.

Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman? is an exercise in critical and unbiased thinking. From fertilization and evolution to aggressive men and emotional women, Wolpert explores the whole gamut of sexual development and gender differentiation. With some surprising discoveries along the way, he explains how men are fundamentally "modified females," as well as takes a close look at evolution's effect on our differing brain chemistry - giving women an advantage in verbal tasks and episodic memory, men the advantage in spatial perception and orientation, and couples virtually no chance at understanding one another.

Ladies and gentleman, if you've ever questioned whether men were truly better at math; imagined that women ruled the world and ended all wars; or asked, "Why can't a man be more like a woman?" (or vice versa!), this book offers the answers and insight needed to have an informed conversation about sex and gender with your partner or friends... political correctness be damned.

Members Reviews:

A Fascinating and Controversial Book About Sex Differences And Similarities

Lewis Wolpert is a developmental biologist who tackles the issue of evolution and its relation to sex and gender, particularly exploring the issue of whether men and women think and act differently, and whether this is biological, culturally conditioned, genetic, etc. The answer is "yes!"

He helpfully indicates when the evidence is weak and he is speculating (using "it seems" or other cautious wording). Wolpert includes evidence from polls, studies, and brain scans throughout the book. The end contains a helpful reference section, although the book doesn't contain individual footnotes.

This book is controversial, because it is "in vogue" to downplay sex differences, and common to suggest that all male and female personality differences are socially conditioned. These academics suggest that if society just stopped being so patriarchal, men would cry more than women, women would become just as physically aggressive as men, boys would play with pink baby dolls over toy cars, and women would dominate in math and science fields (and dominate in the bedroom, instead of reporting they want to "be dominated"). But, what if there is actually a biological and evolutionary basis for all of this, and it is not just "nurture" in action?

The answer Wolpert comes up with is that yes, there are differences in the way men and women view the world, and this is a result of evolution, hormonal differences (particularly testosterone and estrogen exposure in the womb, but also during adolescence), and structural differences in the brain.

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Title: The Meaty Truth

Subtitle: Why Our Food Is Destroying Our Health and Environment - and Who Is Responsible

Author: Shushana Castle, Amy-Lee Goodman

Narrator: Hannah Johnston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population's food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other dairy products are filled with toxins, antibiotics, untested growth hormones, ammonia, and animal pus and manure. The current conditions of the food production industry must drastically improve, and until they do, it is absolutely vital to monitor what you eat. Castle and Goodman take a hard-hitting look at what America is putting into its food, the negative effects this has on the world, and the best ways to make healthy, informed decisions about eating.

As the antibiotic age ends, the rise of pandemic diseases is approaching. Approximately half of the illnesses that claim American lives today are related to what we eat, and our health-care system is focused on treating the sick, not preventing illnesses from occurring. To fix our health problems, to continue feeding the worlds ever-growing population, and to save our planet from ecological destruction, we can no longer avoid making changes to how American meat and dairy are produced. This guide is easy to comprehend, applicable to anyones lifestyle, and impossible to put down.

Members Reviews:

Time for a Change! - Here is your jump start!

Where does The Meaty Truth rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Couldn't turn it off.

What other book might you compare The Meaty Truth to and why?

I don't know of any other books that I would compare The Meaty Truth to, but I would compare it to the documentary, Food Inc.

Which character as performed by Hannah Johnston was your favorite?

Hannah Johnston did a excellent job reading this book with emphasis in all the right areas.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

We drink soy now... non-GMO soy... and the book was listened to by my kids in a car with me on a vacation, and now they call all milk, puss and rocket fuel! So it has helped the kids transition to a healthier alternative.