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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- Written by: Rick Perlstein
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
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In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term - until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon’s resignation “our long national nightmare is over” - but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives.
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SO SO!
- By Stephen on 2024-01-17
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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
- Release date: 2014-08-05
- Language: English
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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Fantastic
- By Ryan on 2023-01-27
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2010-08-15
- Language: English
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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Better read than listened to
- By Mike Reiter on 2018-01-02
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-04
- Language: English
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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- Written by: T. J. Stiles
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.
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Excellent Narration. Very easy to listen to.
- By Jack on 2024-04-17
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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-01
- Language: English
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The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
- Why Are We Here?
- Written by: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: Lawrence Krauss
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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In this grand poetic vision of the universe, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world that underlies reality - and our place within it. Reality is not what you think or sense - it’s weird, wild, and counterintuitive, and its inner workings seem at least as implausible as the idea that something can come from nothing. With his trademark wit and accessible style, Krauss leads us to realms so small that they are invisible to microscopes, to the birth and rebirth of light, and into the natural forces that govern our existence.
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Interesting but complex
- By Maurmesa on 2020-12-23
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The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far
- Why Are We Here?
- Narrated by: Lawrence Krauss
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-21
- Language: English
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- Written by: Kai-Fu Lee
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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Great Insight to the Future
- By Geoff on 2020-09-08
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-25
- Language: English
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Written by: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?
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Stunning
- By Anonymous User on 2023-02-02
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-25
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Written by: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Meant for reading not listening
- By Christine Tan on 2019-01-26
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-26
- Language: English
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Spook
- Science Tackles the Afterlife
- Written by: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Bernadette Quigley
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences.
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The readers accents were extremely distracting
- By Fatima on 2020-08-17
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Spook
- Science Tackles the Afterlife
- Narrated by: Bernadette Quigley
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2008-05-07
- Language: English
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-15
- Language: English
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The Flip
- Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
- Written by: Jeffrey J. Kripal
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an extreme, life-changing experience. The Flip is Kripal’s ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars.
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The Flip
- Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-18
- Language: English
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American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Written by: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
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A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.
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American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-04
- Language: English
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Pathways to Bliss
- Mythology and Personal Transformation (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- Written by: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world’s most powerful myths support the individual’s heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth.
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Revivifying !
- By Lara on 2018-07-29
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Pathways to Bliss
- Mythology and Personal Transformation (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-20
- Language: English
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Reality Is Broken
- Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
- Written by: Jane McGonigal
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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In today’s society, games are fulfilling real human needs in ways that reality is not. Hundreds of millions of people globally - 174 million in the United States alone - regularly inhabit game worlds because they provide the rewards, stimulating challenges and epic victories that are so often lacking in the real world. Jane McGonigal argues that we need to figure out how to make the real world—our homes, our businesses and our communities—engage us in the way that games do.
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Gaming at its best
- By mmimee on 2018-07-31
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Reality Is Broken
- Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2011-01-20
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Written by: Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, and others
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 37 hrs
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception.
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 37 hrs
- Release date: 2018-01-16
- Language: English
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Reality+
- Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
- Written by: David J. Chalmers
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already.
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Reality+
- Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-25
- Language: English
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- Written by: Bob Fu, Nancy French
- Narrated by: Hayden Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.
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Beautiful
- By morgan on 2024-01-28
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- Narrated by: Hayden Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-09
- Language: English
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Brothers
- The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
- Written by: David Talbot
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
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For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged - until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. Talbot has written a gripping political history.
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Exceptional.
- By Jane Hargrow on 2023-07-05
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Brothers
- The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-23
- Language: English
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What Matters Most
- Living a More Considered Life
- Written by: James Hollis Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Taking a fresh look at the concept of happiness, Hollis uses a warm, accessible tone to encourage listeners to learn to tolerate ambiguity, embrace growth rather than security, respect the power of Eros, engage spiritual crises, and acknowledge the shadow of mortality. Providing inspiring wisdom and personal reflections to address our deepest worries, What Matters Most yields far more than mere self-help clichés.
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What Matters Most
- Living a More Considered Life
- Narrated by: Jim Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2008-12-26
- Language: English
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- Written by: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church.-
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not what I thought
- By Tina on 2022-12-29
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-13
- Language: English
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