Best Sellers
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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So painfully blah!
- By Myself on 2019-03-13
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- Written by: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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I was with Haidt until he continued the lie...
- By JMcV on 2021-05-18
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Le cadeau idéal pour toute la famille, pour comprendre d'où nous venons, qui nous sommes et vers où va le monde...
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un livre totalement renversant. j'ai adoré !!!!
- By Anonymous User on 2018-10-10
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The Happiness Hypothesis
- Written by: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims can enrich and even transform our lives....
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I prefer Jonathan Haidt's voice
- By Heather S. on 2019-11-10
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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So painfully blah!
- By Myself on 2019-03-13
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- Written by: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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I was with Haidt until he continued the lie...
- By JMcV on 2021-05-18
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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Sapiens. Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Le cadeau idéal pour toute la famille, pour comprendre d'où nous venons, qui nous sommes et vers où va le monde...
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un livre totalement renversant. j'ai adoré !!!!
- By Anonymous User on 2018-10-10
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The Happiness Hypothesis
- Written by: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind, shows how a deeper understanding of the world's philosophical wisdom and its enduring maxims can enrich and even transform our lives....
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I prefer Jonathan Haidt's voice
- By Heather S. on 2019-11-10
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Nothing like Malcolm Gladwell in your ears
- By Hala on 2020-05-24
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Born to Run
- A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Written by: Christopher McDougall
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets....
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Fantastic story!
- By Annalise M Bekkering on 2019-04-04
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The Paradox of Choice
- Why More is Less
- Written by: Barry Schwartz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice....
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Find a summary article instead
- By Nathan Lamont on 2020-01-29
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- Written by: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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Must have for those on path of healing.
- By Grandsome on 2021-07-29
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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
- The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- Written by: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....
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no solutions
- By brian on 2023-06-14
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Sand Talk
- How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- Written by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability - and offers a new template for living....
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Australian indigenous historical perspective
- By Anonymous User on 2023-02-06
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- Written by: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....
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Enjoyed
- By Anonymous User on 2018-09-11
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- Written by: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Didn’t know what to expect
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-12
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- Written by: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....
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Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed.
- By Josh Ruberg on 2021-06-03
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Homo deus
- Une brève histoire du futur
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"Sapiens" retraçait l'histoire de l'humanité. "Homo deus" interroge son avenir. Que deviendront nos démocraties quand Google et Facebook...
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mon expérience
- By Anonymous User on 2018-11-29
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White Fragility
- Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- Written by: Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged and how these reactions maintain racial inequality....
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White guilt
- By j on 2020-06-26
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The World Until Yesterday
- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- Written by: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years....
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A wealth of knowledge and wisdom
- By Bradley Foster on 2023-02-22
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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
- Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
- Written by: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
- Narrated by: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life....
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The last few chapters broke my brain
- By Alex Laurin on 2021-09-15
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Rethinking Narcissism
- The Bad - and Surprising Good - About Feeling Special
- Written by: Dr. Craig Malkin
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Rethinking Narcissism listeners will learn that there's far more to narcissism than its reductive invective would imply....
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it taught me a lot
- By David masongsong on 2020-05-22
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The Lemon Tree
- Written by: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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If not now - when?
- By Susanne on 2023-11-11
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- Written by: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....
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A beautiful, counterintuitive storyline
- By Jerald Vandenberg on 2021-10-24
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The Cosmic Serpent
- DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
- Written by: Jeremy Narby
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it....
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Great Book
- By Gabriel on 2018-06-06
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Survival of the Friendliest
- Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
- Written by: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness....
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Present Shock
- When Everything Happens Now
- Written by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Well, the future’s arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift....
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
- Written by: Aubrey Gordon
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people....
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Insightful and thought-provoking
- By AC on 2021-06-15
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Generations
- The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
- Written by: Jean M. Twenge PhD
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen presents groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another....
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Excellently written and narrated
- By Adels on 2023-07-14
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The Geography of Genius
- A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
- Written by: Eric Weiner
- Narrated by: Eric Weiner
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas....
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Myopic romanticisms of white men
- By MontrealMitten on 2023-01-19
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The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
- Written by: Aaron Mahnke
- Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Aaron Mahnke, the host of the podcast Lore, as he explores some dreadful places and the history that haunts them. This tour of lurid landmarks and doomed destinations is just the ticket to take travelers with a taste for the macabre to places they never thought they’d visit....
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad
- Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
- Written by: Treena Orchard
- Narrated by: Treena Orchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app.
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What Doesn't Kill Us
- How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
- Written by: Scott Carney
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible....
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Very informative. Highly recommended
- By Oziryel on 2018-09-29
New Releases
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad
- Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
- Written by: Treena Orchard
- Narrated by: Treena Orchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
Written by: Treena Orchard
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- Written by: Emily Thorson
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented state": systematic misperceptions about public policy.
Written by: Emily Thorson
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Working Relationships
- Crisis and Resilience at the Heart of Employee Experience
- Written by: Aaron Delgaty
- Narrated by: Aaron Delgaty
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.
Written by: Aaron Delgaty
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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
- Unabridged
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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.
Written by: Adam Kuper
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Written by: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
Written by: Beth Linker
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They Were Here Before Us
- Stories from Our First Million Years
- Written by: Eyal Halfon, Ran Barkai
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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This provocative and panoramic book shows listeners what they can learn from their ancestors, and how the unwavering ability of prehistoric people to survive and thrive can continue into the present.
Written by: Eyal Halfon, and others
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad
- Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
- Written by: Treena Orchard
- Narrated by: Treena Orchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
Written by: Treena Orchard
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- Written by: Emily Thorson
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented state": systematic misperceptions about public policy.
Written by: Emily Thorson
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Working Relationships
- Crisis and Resilience at the Heart of Employee Experience
- Written by: Aaron Delgaty
- Narrated by: Aaron Delgaty
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.
Written by: Aaron Delgaty
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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
- Unabridged
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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.
Written by: Adam Kuper
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Written by: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
Written by: Beth Linker
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They Were Here Before Us
- Stories from Our First Million Years
- Written by: Eyal Halfon, Ran Barkai
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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This provocative and panoramic book shows listeners what they can learn from their ancestors, and how the unwavering ability of prehistoric people to survive and thrive can continue into the present.
Written by: Eyal Halfon, and others
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Muslim Cool
- Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
- Written by: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
- Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S., as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
Written by: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- Written by: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
Written by: Pamela Prickett, and others
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- Written by: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms, and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy.
Written by: Joel Morris
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
- Written by: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold. There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history.
Written by: Sally Coulthard
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society
- Written by: Bronisław Malinowski
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Bronislaw Malinowski's seminal work, Sex and Repression in Savage Society, delves into the intricate dynamics of sexuality and societal control within primitive cultures. Published in 1927, this ethnographic study challenges prevailing Victorian notions of sexuality and sheds light on the nuanced ways in which indigenous societies navigate and regulate sexual behaviors. Malinowski's immersive fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands enables him to provide a rich anthropological account, exploring the role of rituals, customs, and taboos in shaping sexual practices.
Written by: Bronisław Malinowski
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The Importance of Being Human
- Written by: Glenn Strauss
- Narrated by: Daniel Starks
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Wouldn’t it be great to just feel proud to be human? Not because you are a certain nationality or race or sex or because you have achieved something amazing. Just proud because you possess an amazing design. This book is a reminder of how important you are as a human being regardless of anything else about you. It is for those who are fed up with looking to politics and religion to find answers to our problems. It is for those who are discouraged by the failure of technology and education to make our world better. It turns out, human beings are designed to be just what this world needs.
Written by: Glenn Strauss