Audiobooks narrated by Chris Matthews

'Eric Sloane's Weather Book' is a captivating and educational journey into the world of weather and meteorology, crafted by the renowned artist and author Eric Sloane. This classic work, first published in 1952, remains a cherished resource for weather enthusiasts, students, and anyone fascinated by the natural world. Sloane's ability to blend art and science is on full display, as he combines his exquisite illustrations with clear, engaging explanations of weather phenomena. The book begins with an introduction to basic weather concepts, such as the composition of the atmosphere and the process of cloud formation. Sloane then delves into more specific topics, including different types of clouds, precipitation, storms, and atmospheric pressure. Each chapter is richly illustrated with Sloane's distinctive drawings, which not only enhance the text but also serve as valuable visual aids for understanding complex ideas. Sloane's narrative is both informative and accessible, making intricate meteorological concepts easy to grasp. He explains how to read weather maps, understand weather forecasts, and recognize the signs of impending weather changes. The book also explores historical weather events and their impact on human activities, adding a layer of historical context to the scientific content. Throughout the book, Sloane's passion for weather and his deep appreciation for nature shine through. His writing is infused with a sense of wonder and respect for the forces that shape our environment. 'Eric Sloane's Weather Book' is not just a textbook on meteorology; it is a work of art that inspires readers to observe and appreciate the ever-changing sky. Whether you are a budding meteorologist, a seasoned weather watcher, or simply someone who enjoys learning about the natural world, 'Eric Sloane's Weather Book' offers a delightful and enriching reading experience. Its timeless blend of art and science ensures that it will continue to be a valuable and beloved reference for generations to come.

Eric Sloane (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

'The Egyptian Book of the Dead,' translated by E.A. Wallis Budge, is a pivotal work that opened the ancient Egyptian world of the afterlife to the West. Comprising a collection of spells, rituals, and incantations, this sacred text was designed to guide the deceased through the Duat (the Egyptian underworld) and ensure their safe passage to the afterlife. Budge's translation, first published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was among the first to make these complex and profound religious texts accessible to an English-speaking audience. Despite its scholarly criticism for inaccuracies by contemporary Egyptologists, Budge's work remains an essential piece of literature, celebrated for its historical significance and its role in introducing the mystique of ancient Egyptian spirituality to the wider world.

E.A. Wallis Budge (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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Start Telling People: The guide to marketing strategy and brand building for future-defining startup

At last, a book focused on revealing the marketing strategies, tactics, and opportunities unique to early-stage startups as they emerge, grow, and change the world! *** “If you’re a hardware founder, ‘Start Telling People’ will stop you from screwing up your biggest opportunities to shine.” Andra Keay Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, IEEE Entrepreneurship Vice Chair, 2023 *** 'No one wants to read a lecture on marketing theory. That's exactly why we need books like Start Telling People...The book doesn't focus on overnight successes or crash-and-burn failures, but rather on the hard work that goes into building a company day-to-day. If you're a startup founder, read this book.' Megan Lamb Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Cutline Communications At some point, every early-stage startup needs to stop being a secret and start telling people. As your company begins to take shape, building fast attention and strong demand become essential - and just buying ads won't be enough. Matthews provides frameworks, examples, and interviews that reinforce the book’s central thesis: marketing is a discipline, not just an activity. The book offers practical, jargon-free ideas that seamlessly blend marketing fundamentals with the functional realities of fast-paced, growth-focused startups. Key topics include market positioning for new companies and categories, how to balance creativity and data in decision making, mastering product demos, crafting exceptional customer experiences, communications strategy, and much more - all specifically tailored to the realities of early-stage startups. Matthews' clear, engaging narrative, combined with actionable advice, transforms this book into a unique and relevant resource for early-stage startup founders, investors, and marketers.

Chris Matthews (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective 'truth' on their victims' minds. The first two and one-half years of WWII, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at first-hand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion...Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially.... After the war, he came to the United States...As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed - Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others - his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime... It is Dr. Meerloo's position that through pressure on the weak points in men's makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a 'traitor.' And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized 'rape of the mind.' He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.

Joost Meerloo (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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Baruch My Own Story

Bernard M. Baruch - one of the most remarkable men of our time - was an office boy at nineteen, a Wall Street partner at twenty-five, and a millionaire before he was thirty-five. For some men this success would mark the climax of a career; for Baruch it was only the beginning of a still greater one. In the fifty years since he made his first fortune, Bernard Baruch has been a trusted counselor of Presidents, an adviser on social and economic reforms, a statesman who has worked with two political parties and won the respect of both. In this, the first volume of his memoirs, Mr. Baruch analyzes his personal philosophy and shows how it helped him solve the many problems that confronted him in his public life as chairman of the War Industries Board during World War I and as United States representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Informal yet penetrating, intimate yet never losing sight of major events and issues, BARUCH: My Own Story is infused with the remarkable personality of a truly distinguished American.

Bernard Baruch (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Secret Destiny of America

From the author of the landmark Secret Teachings of All Ages comes two classic works on the mysterious origins and unique mission of America: The Secret Destiny of America and America’s Assignment with Destiny. Focusing on often-forgotten moments in history, Manley P. Hall proposes that there was a Great Plan put forth one thousand years before our nation’s founding: humanistic and mystical organizations wished for the continent to be the location for an experiment in self-government and religious freedom. As one of the leading esoteric scholars of the twentieth century, Hall offers an intriguing view of our past, discussing everything from the symbolism of the Great Seal of the U.S. to the prophecy announced at George Washington’s birth.

Manly P. Hall (Author), Chris Matthew, Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Secret Destiny of America

Is America an 'assignment of destiny?' What is the symbolism of the Great Seal of the U.S.? Who was the mysterious stranger who swayed the signers of the Declaration of Independence? According to Lord Bacon, 'The New Atlantis' seems to have been set apart for the great experiment of enlightened self-government long before the founding fathers envisioned the rise of the American Republic. Investigating the often neglected fragments of history, evidence is presented indicating that the seeds of democracy were planted one thousand years before the beginning of the Christian Era.

Manly P. Hall (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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How To Sell Your Way Through Life

The book consists of four parts. In Part I the author has described the psychology of negotiation through which successful men and women sell their way through life with a minimum amount of friction in their relationships with people. Part II has been devoted entirely to the psychology of selling personal services of every kind, with particular emphasis on facts of great value to young men and young women on the threshold of their careers. The third part is a comprehensive analysis of the methods by which one of America's greatest and richest men, Hery Ford, sold himself from poverty to fame and fortune. Part IV has been devoted to the analysis of a principle which has been responsible for all that is good in our present civilization - the principle which must be understood and applied by every person who hopes to attain and hold any worth-while station in life.

Napoleon Hill (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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What Life Should Mean To You

Adler, along with Freud and Jung, created an entirely new branch of psychology, namely psychoanalysis. What Life Should Mean to You brings his conclusions to a popular audience. The book covers adolescence, feelings of superiority and inferiority, the importance of cooperation, work, friendship, love and marriage.

Alfred Adler (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life." That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled." In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dic-k. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.

Nat Love (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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A Summary of Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) details the unexpected ways that moral, social, and economic incentives influence social outcomes. Incentives are factors that influence the choices an individual or group makes; a driver is incentivized to keep the speed limit, for example, by the desire to avoid getting a speeding ticket....

Steven D. Levitt's (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all of history. Embodying a ritual to be performed for the dead, with detailed instructions for the behaviors of the disembodied spirit in the Land of the Gods, it served as the most important repository of religious authority for some 3,000 years. Chapters were carved on the pyramids of the ancient fifth dynasty, texts were written in papyrus, and selections were painted on mummy cases well into the Christian Era. In a certain sense, it stood behind all Egyptian civilization. In the year 1888, Dr. E. Wallis Budge, then purchasing agent for the British Museum, followed rumors he heard of a spectacular archaeological find in Upper Egypt, and found in an 18th Dynasty tomb near Luxor 'the largest roll of papyrus I had ever seen, tied with a thick band of papyrus, and in a perfect state of preservation'. It was a copy of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, written around 1500 BC for Ani, royal scribe of Thebes, overseer of the granaries of the lords of Abydos, and scribe of the offerings of the lord of Thebes. This Papyrus of Ani, a full version of the Theban recension, is presented here by Dr. Budge, who later became perhaps the world's most renowned Egyptologist. Reproduced in full are a clear copy of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, an interlinear transliteration of their sounds (as reconstructed), a word-for-word translation, and separately a complete, smooth translation. All this is preceded by an introduction. As a result of this, the listener has a unique opportunity to savor all aspects of the Book of the Dead, or as it is otherwise known, The Book of the Great Awakening.

E.A. Wallis Budge (Author), Chris Matthews (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Chris Matthews