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Nobody's Normal
- How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Written by: Roy Richard Grinker
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma - from the 18th century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.
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Nobody's Normal
- How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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The Death of Truth
- Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
- Written by: Michiko Kakutani
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases.
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Partisan but informative
- By Dylan on 2018-12-09
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The Death of Truth
- Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-17
- Language: English
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Nigger
- The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - with a New Introduction by the Author
- Written by: Randall Kennedy
- Narrated by: Langston Darby
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Nigger: it is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of “the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience.” In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy - author of the highly acclaimed Race, Crime, and the Law - “put[s] a tracer on nigger”, to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies to which it has given rise.
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Good book
- By Amacustomer on 2023-09-01
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Nigger
- The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word - with a New Introduction by the Author
- Narrated by: Langston Darby
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-08
- Language: English
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The Genius Factory
- The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
- Written by: David Plotz
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice, nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank, opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor from its roster of Nobel-laureate scientists, mathematical prodigies, successful businessmen, and star athletes.
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The Genius Factory
- The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2005-06-07
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages
- The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
- Written by: Thomas Cahill
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science, and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages
- The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Hinges of History
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2006-10-03
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Charles King
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced". What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature.
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who we were
- By Nadine Trodel on 2020-07-06
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-06
- Language: English
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The Sleeping Beauties
- And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Written by: Suzanne O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Suzanne O'Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes - specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment - that affect people throughout the world.
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Great stories illustrating a complex topic… and very much engrossing
- By SarahJane on 2022-01-30
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The Sleeping Beauties
- And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Narrated by: Suzanne O'Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-21
- Language: English
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Seek You
- A Journey Through American Loneliness
- Written by: Kristen Radtke
- Narrated by: Kristen Radtke
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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In Seek You, Kristen Radtke's wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. Through the lenses of gender and violence, technology and art, Radtke ushers us through a history of loneliness and longing and shares what feels impossible to share.
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Emotional
- By Anonymous User on 2022-03-15
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Seek You
- A Journey Through American Loneliness
- Narrated by: Kristen Radtke
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-13
- Language: English
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Underground
- A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- Written by: Will Hunt
- Narrated by: Will Hunt
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities - an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.
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Underground
- A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- Narrated by: Will Hunt
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-29
- Language: English
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Tailspin
- The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It
- Written by: Steven Brill
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself - have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction.
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The Museum of Other People
- From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
- Written by: Adam Kuper
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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In this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as colonial enterprises, their halls were populated by displays of plundered art, artifacts, dioramas, bones, and relics.
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The Museum of Other People
- From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-16
- Language: English
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Darwin's Ghosts
- The Secret History of Evolution
- Written by: Rebecca Stott
- Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others.
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Darwin's Ghosts
- The Secret History of Evolution
- Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-12
- Language: English
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Our Towns
- A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
- Written by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
- Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, businesspeople, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign. The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems, but it is also crafting solutions.
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Our Towns
- A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
- Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-08
- Language: English
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Italian Lessons
- Fifty Things We Know About Life Now
- Written by: Beppe Severgnini
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, Beppe Severgnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
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Italian Lessons
- Fifty Things We Know About Life Now
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-03
- Language: English
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Life Inc.
- How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back
- Written by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.
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Life Inc.
- How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back
- Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2009-06-25
- Language: English
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American Poison
- How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
- Written by: Eduardo Porter
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez, Eduardo Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is largely to blame. In American Poison, the New York Times veteran shows how racial animus has stunted the development of nearly every institution crucial for a healthy society, including organized labor, public education, and the social safety net. The consequences are profound and are only growing graver with time.
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American Poison
- How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
- Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez, Eduardo Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-17
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages
- The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
- Written by: Thomas Cahill
- Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe, Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages
- The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
- Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
- Series: The Hinges of History (Abridged), Book 5
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2006-10-05
- Language: English
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
- A Journey Into the Heart of Fan Mania
- Written by: Warren St. John
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Warren St. John decided to find out why people care so much about the outcomes of games they're not playing in by joining a group where the particulars of the fan psyche would show themselves in sharp relief: the caravan of hundreds of RVs that follow the Alabama Crimson Tide across the South, taking over college towns with a moveable feast of Weber grills, karaoke machines, Igloo coolers, and fast-draining liquor bottles.
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
- A Journey Into the Heart of Fan Mania
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2004-08-11
- Language: English
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God Is in the Crowd
- Twenty-First-Century Judaism
- Written by: Tal Keinan
- Narrated by: Tal Keinan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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God Is in the Crowd is an original and provocative blueprint for Judaism in the 21st century. Presented through the lens of Tal Keinan’s unusual personal story, it a sobering analysis of the threat to Jewish continuity. As the Jewish people has become concentrated in just two hubs - America and Israel - it has lost the subtle code of governance that endowed Judaism with dynamism and relevance in the age of Diaspora.
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must read/listen at least once and probably more
- By brian on 2019-09-08
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God Is in the Crowd
- Twenty-First-Century Judaism
- Narrated by: Tal Keinan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-25
- Language: English
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Futureface
- A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
- Written by: Alex Wagner
- Narrated by: Alex Wagner
- Length: 9 hrs
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The daughter of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Alex Wagner grew up thinking of herself as a "futureface" - an avatar of a mixed-race future when all races would merge into a brown singularity. But when one family mystery leads to another, Wagner's postracial ideals fray as she becomes obsessed with the specifics of her own family's racial and ethnic history. Drawn into the wild world of ancestry, she embarks upon a quest around the world - and into her own DNA - to answer the ultimate questions of who she really is and where she belongs.
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Insightful and Revealing
- By Jasmine Thoo on 2020-12-08
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Futureface
- A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
- Narrated by: Alex Wagner
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 2018-04-17
- Language: English
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