Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Audiobook

Audiobook

Savage Inequalities

Children in America's Schools

by Jonathan Kozol ...

Narrated by Mark Winston ...

Unabridged

8 hours 44 min

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Listening to the Bees

by Mark Winston, Renée Sarojini Saklikar ...

Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world?Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Renée Saklikar reflect on the tension of being an individual living in a society, and about the devastation wrought by overly intensive management of ... Read more

$13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Listening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world?Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Renée Saklikar reflect on the tension of being an individual living in a society, and about the devastation wrought by overly intensive management of
... Read more
Bee Time

Lessons from the Hive

by Mark L. Winston ...

Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes—from the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and beeswax, to the sight of workers flying back and forth between flowers and the hive. The experience of an apiary slows our sense of time, heightens our awareness, and inspires awe. Bee Time presents Winston’s reflections on three decades spent studying ... Read more

$16.59 USD

Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes—from the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and beeswax, to the sight of workers flying back and forth between flowers and the hive. The experience of an apiary slows our sense of time, heightens our awareness, and inspires awe. Bee Time presents Winston’s reflections on three decades spent studying
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

Breeder Reaction

The Cost Of A Perfect Product

by Winston Marks ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

29 min

Some breakthroughs look like miracles right up until they work too well. In Breeder Reaction, Winston Marks delivers a sharp, darkly comic science fiction tale where ambition, ego, and profit collide with forces no one fully understands. What starts as a routine attempt to manufacture public desire escalates into a chain reaction that refuses to stay contained, raising uncomfortable questions ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Some breakthroughs look like miracles right up until they work too well. In Breeder Reaction, Winston Marks delivers a sharp, darkly comic science fiction tale where ambition, ego, and profit collide with forces no one fully understands. What starts as a routine attempt to manufacture public desire escalates into a chain reaction that refuses to stay contained, raising uncomfortable questions
... Read more
The Incredible Life-Form

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Winston K. Marks ...

An intergalactic investigator arrives on Earth to witness an astonishing experiment: self-aware diamonds, newly granted life, are probing the limits of creation itself. At the center is Prime, a brilliant, vain diamond whose curiosity quickly becomes ambition as he invents life forms of increasing complexity, from simple organisms to plants and animals, redefining what "organic" can mean and ... Read more

$1.99 USD

An intergalactic investigator arrives on Earth to witness an astonishing experiment: self-aware diamonds, newly granted life, are probing the limits of creation itself. At the center is Prime, a brilliant, vain diamond whose curiosity quickly becomes ambition as he invents life forms of increasing complexity, from simple organisms to plants and animals, redefining what "organic" can mean and
... Read more
The Deadly Daughters

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Winston K. Marks ...

In a future America ruled by the Humanist Party, political science professor Dr. Hubert Long makes himself a target by denouncing the government as a feminist oligarchy disguised as democracy. His fiery campus speech spreads across the country, turning him into a notorious dissident and drawing the attention of Emily Bogarth, the hard-edged chief of Internal Security, who orders his elimination ... Read more

$1.99 USD

In a future America ruled by the Humanist Party, political science professor Dr. Hubert Long makes himself a target by denouncing the government as a feminist oligarchy disguised as democracy. His fiery campus speech spreads across the country, turning him into a notorious dissident and drawing the attention of Emily Bogarth, the hard-edged chief of Internal Security, who orders his elimination
... Read more
The Geisha Memory

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Winston K. Marks ...

Peter Duncan, a young public relations man for General Fission, is sent on a miserable voyage to Mars to investigate a song that has begun circulating among returned miners on Earth. Its suggestive refrain hints at a secret buried in the realities of Martian life, and Duncan's mission is to discover what it means before it harms recruitment for the Mars mining program. What he finds is a colony ... Read more

$1.99 USD

Peter Duncan, a young public relations man for General Fission, is sent on a miserable voyage to Mars to investigate a song that has begun circulating among returned miners on Earth. Its suggestive refrain hints at a secret buried in the realities of Martian life, and Duncan's mission is to discover what it means before it harms recruitment for the Mars mining program. What he finds is a colony
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

Vegans Were Curious, The

The Sirian Who Stayed Too Long

by Winston Marks ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 528 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

31 min

The Vegans Were Curious by Winston Marks takes us to a strange corner of the galaxy, where superior beings hover over Earth and try to understand the unpredictable creatures who live here. When a Sirian decides to investigate humans firsthand, he discovers their nuclear experiments, their laws, their emotions, and their bizarre social habits — with consequences that are both dangerous and ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Vegans Were Curious by Winston Marks takes us to a strange corner of the galaxy, where superior beings hover over Earth and try to understand the unpredictable creatures who live here. When a Sirian decides to investigate humans firsthand, he discovers their nuclear experiments, their laws, their emotions, and their bizarre social habits — with consequences that are both dangerous and
... Read more
Breeder Reaction

by Winston Marks ...

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look—just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more! ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look—just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 5

From Hanging Strangers to Hungry Water: Vintage Sci-Fi at Its Weirdest

by Philip K. Dick, Winston Marks, James McKimmey Jr., Mack Reynolds ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi 5 Book Box Sets
Unabridged

2 hours 40 min

Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 5 marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey into the Golden Age of science fiction. These five unforgettable stories introduced readers to the imagination, suspense, and bold ideas that would become the foundation of the Lost Sci-Fi collection.Philip K. Dick opens with The Hanging Stranger, a gripping tale of paranoia and quiet terror where one ordinary man notices ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Lost Sci-Fi Books 1 thru 5 marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey into the Golden Age of science fiction. These five unforgettable stories introduced readers to the imagination, suspense, and bold ideas that would become the foundation of the Lost Sci-Fi collection.Philip K. Dick opens with The Hanging Stranger, a gripping tale of paranoia and quiet terror where one ordinary man notices
... Read more
Backlash

by Winston Marks ...

They were the perfect servants—they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing? ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

They were the perfect servants—they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?
... Read more
Audiobook

Audiobook

Forsyte’s Retreat

Managing the Impossible

by Winston Marks ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook 50 - Lost Sci-Fi
Unabridged

37 min

Sextus Rollo Forsyte is a man who survives by keeping the world at arm’s length. He is polished, capable, and deeply private, a hotel manager who understands systems, schedules, and human behavior with practiced ease. When he accepts a seemingly perfect position in a coastal hotel, he expects chaos of the ordinary kind—staff conflicts, demanding guests, and endless logistics. What he finds instead ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sextus Rollo Forsyte is a man who survives by keeping the world at arm’s length. He is polished, capable, and deeply private, a hotel manager who understands systems, schedules, and human behavior with practiced ease. When he accepts a seemingly perfect position in a coastal hotel, he expects chaos of the ordinary kind—staff conflicts, demanding guests, and endless logistics. What he finds instead
... Read more