Fifty-nine hours is not a book, it is a course, and it should be approached as one. Barbara Bregstein belongs to the education shelf of our catalogue, and specifically to the demanding end of it, where the aim is not to offer a taste of a language but to walk a learner the whole way through its grammar.
Step-by-step is the operative phrase. Work of this kind is written in sequence, each stage assuming the one before it, which makes it a very different listening proposition from anything you can dip into at random.