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Best Sellers
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- Written by: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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My mentor Gabor Maté
- By tommy manseau on 2018-10-22
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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Wow.
- By Brandon VanDyke on 2023-01-06
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Climate science unsettled? Yes and very much so.
- By Norman Klippenstein on 2021-05-22
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The Spinal Truth
- A New World of Medicine
- Written by: Caleb Slater
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Down-to-earth and easy to understand, Caleb provides real-life cases to demonstrate not only what is wrong with the current medical system but to provide guidance for the patients who are lost and feel the same way. There is a better way. A new way. And soon there will be a new world of medicine....
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Missing from the Village
- The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
- Written by: Justin Ling
- Narrated by: Justin Ling
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This extraordinary book tells the complete story of the McArthur murders. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, this is also a story of police failure, of how the queer community responded, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind....
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History lesson
- By Rick Kemp on 2021-09-15
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- Written by: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Close Encounters with Addiction
- Written by: Gabor Maté MD
- Narrated by: Daniel Maté
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....
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My mentor Gabor Maté
- By tommy manseau on 2018-10-22
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- Written by: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....
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Wow.
- By Brandon VanDyke on 2023-01-06
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Unsettled
- What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
- Written by: Steven E. Koonin
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation....
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Climate science unsettled? Yes and very much so.
- By Norman Klippenstein on 2021-05-22
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The Spinal Truth
- A New World of Medicine
- Written by: Caleb Slater
- Narrated by: J. Hunter Ackerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Down-to-earth and easy to understand, Caleb provides real-life cases to demonstrate not only what is wrong with the current medical system but to provide guidance for the patients who are lost and feel the same way. There is a better way. A new way. And soon there will be a new world of medicine....
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Missing from the Village
- The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
- Written by: Justin Ling
- Narrated by: Justin Ling
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This extraordinary book tells the complete story of the McArthur murders. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, this is also a story of police failure, of how the queer community responded, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind....
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History lesson
- By Rick Kemp on 2021-09-15
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- Written by: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
- Written by: Kate Raworth
- Narrated by: Kate Raworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....
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Economics as a tool to balance global human impact?
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-06-14
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Written by: Vaclav Smil
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....
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How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]
- By CoreDev on 2024-04-14
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Turtles All the Way Down
- Vaccine Science and Myth
- Written by: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tim Bodnar
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and looking for information that will allow you to make the best decisions for yourself and your loved ones....
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the overwhelming amount of Truth in this book and accompanying PDF
- By Tavia on 2024-03-21
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America's Cultural Revolution
- How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
- Written by: Christopher F. Rufo
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.”....
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Vital information
- By A.B. on 2024-02-13
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Written by: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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Excellent
- By grant on 2020-11-27
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....
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Life-altering, fantastic
- By Stu B. on 2019-07-31
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Fossil Future
- Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
- Written by: Alex Epstein
- Narrated by: Alex Epstein
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy....
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Clearly a salesman paid for by big energy.
- By Ben on 2022-10-04
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Poverty, by America
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A Powerful Message
- By Jezel on 2023-07-01
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Of Boys and Men
- Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- Written by: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....
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Quite Academic!
- By Pierre Gauthier on 2023-12-09
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Climate Uncertainty and Risk
- Rethinking Our Response
- Written by: Judith Curry
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change.
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Drift
- The Unmooring of American Military Power
- Written by: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails....
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I wish more books were like this.
- By 🇨🇦Jordan 🇨🇦 on 2020-02-03
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- Written by: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....
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Level Headed thinking
- By Trish on 2020-07-11
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Written by: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....
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Must read for life and death
- By Trinity on 2018-02-19
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- Written by: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....
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Mind Melting.
- By TK on 2018-09-18
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
- A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
- Written by: Linda Åkeson McGurk
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir....
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love!!!
- By Chloe on 2020-06-23
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Saving Us
- A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- Written by: Katharine Hayhoe
- Narrated by: Katharine Hayhoe
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future....
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Eye opener
- By B on 2023-08-02
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Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....
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Truly essential Chomsky
- By Dustin Lawtey on 2018-09-14
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The Checklist Manifesto
- How to Get Things Right
- Written by: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....
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3 situations and what is matter
- By Marcelo Mendonca on 2019-06-11
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Written by: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Interesting take with incomplete conclusions
- By John on 2018-08-29
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Solved
- How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
- Written by: David Miller
- Narrated by: David Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....
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Ought to be a textbook
- By Derek on 2020-04-25
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No Visible Bruises
- What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
- Written by: Rachel Louise Snyder
- Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors....
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heartbreaking and real.
- By Alexz on 2023-11-14
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UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
- Written by: Leslie Kean
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran....
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spoiler alert, ufos are real
- By stephen secord on 2021-01-17
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It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
- Written by: Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols
- Narrated by: Senator Bernie Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s OK to be angry about capitalism....
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Bernie is the voice of reason in tumultuous times
- By Bela Findlay Gyarmati on 2023-03-21
New Releases
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- Written by: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New Cold Wars—the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger—is a fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they agreed to Washington’s terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy.
Written by: David E. Sanger, and others
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- Written by: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
Written by: El Jones
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The Importance of Being Educable
- A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
- Written by: Leslie Valiant
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities?
Written by: Leslie Valiant
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The Empire of Climate
- A History of An Idea
- Written by: David N. Livingstone
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche.
Written by: David N. Livingstone
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Busting the Bankers' Club
- Finance for the Rest of Us
- Written by: Gerald Epstein
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.
Written by: Gerald Epstein
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The Conservative Environmentalist
- Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future
- Written by: Benji Backer
- Narrated by: Benji Backer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he delivers an entirely new strategy to take care of the planet while putting the economic interest of the American people first.
Written by: Benji Backer
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New Cold Wars
- China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
- Written by: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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New Cold Wars—the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger—is a fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they agreed to Washington’s terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy.
Written by: David E. Sanger, and others
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Abolitionist Intimacies
- Written by: El Jones
- Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.
Written by: El Jones
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The Importance of Being Educable
- A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
- Written by: Leslie Valiant
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind's central preoccupation. Will the unique capability that has been so foundational to our achievements and civilization continue to drive our progress, or will we fall victim to our vulnerabilities?
Written by: Leslie Valiant
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The Empire of Climate
- A History of An Idea
- Written by: David N. Livingstone
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche.
Written by: David N. Livingstone
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Busting the Bankers' Club
- Finance for the Rest of Us
- Written by: Gerald Epstein
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.
Written by: Gerald Epstein
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The Conservative Environmentalist
- Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future
- Written by: Benji Backer
- Narrated by: Benji Backer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he delivers an entirely new strategy to take care of the planet while putting the economic interest of the American people first.
Written by: Benji Backer
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The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
- How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks
- Written by: Troy Tassier PhD
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate why marginalized groups bear the largest burden of epidemic costs-and how to avoid these systemic failures in the future.
Written by: Troy Tassier PhD
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Saving Ourselves
- From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
- Written by: Dana R. Fisher
- Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective.
Written by: Dana R. Fisher
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American Doom Loop
- Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s
- Written by: Dale Maharidge
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this—and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the default answer from society's arbiters was: "The police wouldn't lie." Editors steered clear of stories about rape and sexual violence. The word "homeless" wasn't in common use. The fabric of the middle class had not yet begun fraying.
Written by: Dale Maharidge
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Medically Speaking, Who Connects Your Dots?
- A Guide to Critical Thinking
- Written by: Jill Fandrich PharmD
- Narrated by: Benjamin Fife
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Medically Speaking, Who Connects Your Dots? builds on the foundation of the need to critically think about what is happening medically in the world around you and even to you! Your eyes will be open about what the media is now permitted to "medically propagate" to you and for how long this has been occurring. Critical thinking is an extremely vital process of analyzing information--from opposing sides! This method of thinking is based on asking questions from an unbiased perspective, equally weighing all the data.
Written by: Jill Fandrich PharmD
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Health for All
- A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
- Written by: Jane Philpott
- Narrated by: Jane Philpott
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Jane Philpott has spent her life learning what makes people sick and what keeps people well. She has witnessed miracles in modern medicine. She has also watched children die of starvation in a world that has plenty of food. With Health for All, she sounds a clarion call for a radical disruption in a health care system that is broken—but not beyond repair. The vision is rooted in a deep-seated commitment to health equity.
Written by: Jane Philpott
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Slow Burn
- The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
- Written by: Robert Jisung Park
- Narrated by: Davis Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Davis Brooks reveals how the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them today.
Written by: Robert Jisung Park
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Testing Education
- A Teacher's Memoir
- Written by: Kathy Greeley
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
Written by: Kathy Greeley
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The Covid Murders
- Another American Health Policy Detective Story (The Irv Tinsley Health Policy Detective Series, Book 2)
- Written by: Greg Vigdor
- Narrated by: Greg Vigdor
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Like the first book, The Covid Murders is a fictional and captivating medical detective story, this time exploring a mysterious death in a hospital in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. But like the first, it also connects this entertaining tale simply and understandably to the very real problems of American health care policy. It explains what has gone wrong with our system historically and now, including the great impact of our recent national experience with the Covid pandemic.
Written by: Greg Vigdor
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DARE to Say No
- Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools
- Written by: Max Felker-Kantor
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.
Written by: Max Felker-Kantor
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The Human Margin
- Building the Foundations of Trust
- Written by: Katherine Meese, Quint Studer
- Narrated by: Pamela Gregory
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Respected researcher Katherine A. Meese has teamed up with Quint Studer, a well-known author and practitioner with more than 40 years of experience, in helping healthcare organizations improve performance and become better workplaces. The result is a science-backed leadership book that integrates the latest workplace research with tactics to create high-performance environments where people can flourish
Written by: Katherine Meese, and others
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Sex Cells
- The Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare
- Written by: Phyllis E. Greenberger MSW, Kalia Doner - contributor
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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This book gives listeners access to the wide world of sex-specific medical issues as they play out in the research labs and doctor’s offices—and how women pay the price, with a close look at the impact that has on minority populations. It has been challenging to get individual researchers and practitioners to accept this, as well as research and medical institutions and manufacturers of medications and devices. The journey towards equal treatment and the understanding of sex and gender differences in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is still unfolding.
Written by: Phyllis E. Greenberger MSW, and others
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Hybrid Warfare
- The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict
- Written by: Curtis L. Fox
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Shadowy assassins, little green men, poisoned door knobs, ruthless cyber attacks, and mass deception. From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, discover how Russia's institutions, historical development, and geographic positioning have shaped the Kremlin's objectives and formed its methods. Through case studies of historic Russian military operations, author and former Green Beret Curtis L. Fox demonstrates that, while Russia's methods appear to be cloaked in a shadow of mystique, their strategic realities make them consistent and predictable.
Written by: Curtis L. Fox