Audible, Great Courses Partner on Audio Line

Audible has entered a production deal with the Great Courses to create a line of audio-only, nonfiction Audible Original educational courses.

The first three Audible Originals in the line were released today, and are:

  • Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories: What We Should Believe—and Why, from social scientist and historian Michael Shermer, which tackles history’s greatest and widespread conspiracy theories, carefully deconstructing them on the basis of available evidence
  • Medieval Myths and Mysteries, from medieval historian Dorsey Armstrong, which examines the realities behind common medieval myths, and in doing so sheds light on some of the medieval world’s greatest mysteries
  • No Calculator? No Problem!: Mastering Mental Math, from Arthur Benjamin, a leading expert at teaching mental math to people of all ages and mathematical backgrounds, which teaches tricks for adding and subtracting numbers as high as four digits, and multiplying two-digit numbers—all in your head—to apply to shopping, banking, tipping, cooking, and more

Additional Audible Originals with the Great Courses releasing this October include:

  • The Life & Times of Beethoven, from music historian Robert Greenberg
  • Falling in Love With Romance Movies, from Emmy award-winner and screenwriter Eric Williams
  • Raising Curious Kids, from children’s education expert and high school teacher Nicholas Provenzano
  • 10 Big Questions of the American Civil War, from director of the Nau Civil War Center Caroline Janney

Further upcoming Audible Originals will include such titles as: The History of BourbonThe Surprising Origins of Holiday Traditions, The Power of Self-Compassion, American Heiresses of the Gilded Age, and Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

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