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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did.
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The Modern Myths
- Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2022
- Language: English
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Ending Mass Incarceration
- Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform
- By: Katherine Beckett
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, Katherine Beckett explains how and why mass incarceration persists despite growing recognition of its many failures, plummeting crime rates, and widespread efforts by state legislators and others to reduce prison populations. Beckett identifies three primary forces sustaining incarceration rates in this country: political dynamics around violence, resistance to criminal legal system reform in suburban and rural counties, and the failure of popular drug policy reforms to reduce the reach of the criminal legal system.
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Ending Mass Incarceration
- Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2022
- Language: English
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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- By: P.E. Caquet
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded?
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Rigorous, engaging and topical
- By V Bourgeois on 02-04-2025
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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2022
- Language: English
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Disinformation
- The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era
- By: Donald A. Barclay
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces-historical, psychological, economic, and cultural-to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.
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Disinformation
- The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2022
- Language: English
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Winter in America
- A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
- By: Daniel Robert McClure
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. As neoliberal ideas gained political currency in the 1960s and 1970s, reactionary cultural turn catalyzed their ascension. The cinema, music, magazine culture, and current events discourse of the 1970s provided the space of negotiation permitting these ideas to take hold and be challenged.
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Winter in America
- A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2021
- Language: English
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White Awake
- An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
- By: Daniel Hill
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture." Confused and unsettled by this encounter, Hill began a journey of understanding his own white identity. Today he is an active participant in addressing and confronting racial and systemic injustices.
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White Awake
- An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2018
- Language: English
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Soul by Soul
- Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- By: Walter Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each.
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Soul by Soul
- Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2017
- Language: English
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Disrobed
- How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
- By: Syl Tang
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness.
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Disrobed
- How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2017
- Language: English
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New England Bound
- Slavery and Colonization in Early America
- By: Wendy Warren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America.
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- By Kindle Customer on 22-07-2025
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New England Bound
- Slavery and Colonization in Early America
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2016
- Language: English
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23/7
- Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
- By: Keramet Reiter
- Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in US prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend 23 hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact for years on end, and they are held entirely at administrators' discretion. Keramet Reiter tells the history of one "supermax", California's Pelican Bay State Prison, whose extreme conditions recently sparked a statewide hunger strike by 30,000 prisoners.
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- Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
- Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2016
- Language: English
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
- By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2015
- Language: English
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America's Original Sin
- Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
- By: Jim Wallis
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong", says best-selling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo.
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America's Original Sin
- Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2016
- Language: English
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Under Our Skin
- Getting Real About Race - and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us
- By: Benjamin Watson
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and a widely read and followed commentator on social media, Watson has taken the Internet by storm with his remarkable insights about some of the most sensitive and charged topics of our day. Now, in Under Our Skin, Watson draws from his own life, his family legacy, and his role as a father to sensitively and honestly examine both sides of the race debate and appeal to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.
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Under Our Skin
- Getting Real About Race - and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Seven Deadly Virtues
- 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life Is Funny as Hell
- By: Johnny V. Last
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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An all-star team of 18 conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett's The Book of Virtues - without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues sits down next to listeners at the bar, buys them a drink, and, an hour or three later, ushers them into the revival tent without them even realizing it.
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The Seven Deadly Virtues
- 18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life Is Funny as Hell
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost Black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical "double-consciousness" of African American life.
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2008
- Language: English
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Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
- Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
- By: Jessica Luther, Kavitha A. Davidson
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Acclaimed sports writers Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson tackle the most pressing issues in sports, why they matter, and how we can do better. For the authors, "sticking to sports" is not an option - not when our taxes are paying for the stadiums, and college athletes aren't getting paid at all. But simply quitting a favorite team won't change corrupt and deplorable practices, and the root causes of many of these problems are endemic in our wider society.
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Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
- Dilemmas of the Modern Fan
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2021
- Language: English
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400 Friends and No One to Call
- Breaking Through Isolation and Building Community
- By: Val Walker
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Social isolation can shatter our confidence. In isolating times, we're not only lonely, but we're ashamed of our loneliness because our society stigmatizes people who are alone without support. As a single, 58-year-old woman who finds herself stranded after major surgery, Val Walker has woven into the narrative her own story. A well-established rehabilitation counselor, she was too embarrassed to reveal on social media how utterly isolated she was by asking for someone to help, and it felt agonizingly awkward calling colleagues out of the blue.
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400 Friends and No One to Call
- Breaking Through Isolation and Building Community
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-03-2020
- Language: English
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You Say You Want a Revolution?
- Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences
- By: Daniel Chirot
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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From the French Revolution of the 18th century to the Mexican, Russian, German, Chinese, anticolonial, and Iranian revolutions of the 20th, Chirot finds that moderate solutions to serious social, economic, and political problems were overwhelmed by radical ideologies that promised simpler, drastic remedies. But not all revolutions had this outcome. The American Revolution didn't, although its failure to resolve the problem of slavery eventually led to the Civil War, and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was relatively peaceful, except in Yugoslavia.
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You Say You Want a Revolution?
- Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2020
- Language: English
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Show Dog
- The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
- By: Josh Dean
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Journalist Josh Dean tells the story of a lovable Australian Shepherd, Jack, on his novice tour through the exciting world of professional dog showing, following Jack from his first competitions in local school gymnasiums all the way to the great granddaddy of them all, the Westminster Dog Show. A veteran journalist, Dean shines a warm, steady light on the trials that Jack and his plucky, dedicated owners come to face, and uses their story to explore the larger histories of dog shows themselves and our complex, heartfelt relationships to the pets we grow to love.
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Show Dog
- The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2020
- Language: English
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