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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson - Editor, Kelly Nyks - Editor, and others
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance28
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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Brilliant ! An excellent read !
- By Jeremy Hall on 25-10-2017
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2017
- Language: English
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The Madness of Grief
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- By: Reverend Richard Coles
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner, the Reverend David Coles, died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise. For one thing, David's death at the early age of 43 was unexpected. The man that so often assists others to examine life's moral questions now found himself in need of help. He began to look to others for guidance to steer him through his grief.
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A touching read
- By karen dyer on 02-08-2024
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The Madness of Grief
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2021
- Language: English
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Fearing the Black Body
- The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- By: Sabrina Strings
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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There is an obesity epidemic in this country, and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health-care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than 200 years ago.
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Fearing the Black Body
- The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-04-2020
- Language: English
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The End of Burnout
- Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
- By: Jonathan Malesic
- Narrated by: David Booth
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.
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Empowering
- By Natalie Matson on 25-02-2024
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The End of Burnout
- Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
- Narrated by: David Booth
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- By: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.
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Excellent read… if the grid and it idiosyncrasies are of interest
- By Mark on 15-02-2023
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2016
- Language: English
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
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Interesting evolutionary view into sexuality
- By Carlos on 26-07-2023
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- The Evolution of Human Sexuality
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2018
- Language: English
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- By: Aleks Krotoski
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the “science” of eternal life? From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal quest for immortality – and its rejuvenation...
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Solid insights into tech bros hubris over biology
- By sean coady on 17-11-2025
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2025
- Language: English
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Thick
- And Other Essays
- By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Narrated by: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance24
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Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
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Thick
- And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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The Meme Machine
- By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.
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How the ape got his big brain...
- By Alaric Goldkuhl on 12-10-2020
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The Meme Machine
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- By: Safiya Umoja Noble
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance9
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Run a Google search for “black girls” - what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls”, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.
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I regret buying this book, but not listening to it
- By Anonymous on 10-10-2020
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Algorithms of Oppression
- How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-06-2018
- Language: English
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Hellenismos
- Practicing Greek Polytheism Today
- By: Tony Mierzwicki, Stephen Skinner - foreword
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The religion of the ancient Greeks has lain dormant for too long. In Hellenismos, Tony Mierzwicki shows how to bring it back in all of its primal glory. Learn how to forge personal relationships with the ancient Greek deities. Recreate the practices of the Greeks and enjoy the richness of their spiritual practices.
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Hellenismos
- Practicing Greek Polytheism Today
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance32
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Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.
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Literally A key figure in history
- By Anonymous on 13-03-2023
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Up from Slavery
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-06-2001
- Language: English
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Israelophobia
- The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What to Do About It
- By: Jake Wallis Simons
- Narrated by: Jake Wallis Simons
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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An urgent and deeply necessary book, Israelophobia will explore how - in the words of Howard Jacobson - prejudice against Israel is 'old hatred decanted into new bottles'. By coining a new term, 'Israelophobia', it will cut through arguments about where criticism of Israel ends and antisemitism begins, allowing for robust debate while exposing dangerous, hate-fuelled rhetoric.
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Israelophobia
- The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Jake Wallis Simons
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2023
- Language: English
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance46
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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger...
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End the Right-Left war and let’s actually help people
- By David Smart on 02-08-2022
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2021
- Language: English
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- By: Brooke Harrington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.
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Excellent coverage of offshore finance
- By KJ Schmitz on 06-07-2025
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Offshore
- Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
- Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2024
- Language: English
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God and the Folly of Faith
- The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
- By: Victor J. Stenger
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Dan Barker
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the development of science. In a sweeping historical survey that begins with ancient Greek science and proceeds through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to contemporary advances in physics and cosmology, Stenger makes a convincing case that not only is this conclusion false, but Christianity actually held back the progress of science for 1,000 years.
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Too technical for me.
- By rod fraser on 15-10-2025
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God and the Folly of Faith
- The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Dan Barker
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2016
- Language: English
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Against Identity
- The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
- By: Alexander Douglas
- Narrated by: Alexander Douglas
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a complex game of envy and pride. In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist René Girard – he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth.
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Against Identity
- The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
- Narrated by: Alexander Douglas
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2025
- Language: English
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- By: Richard Sennett
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2024
- Language: English
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The Vanishing American Adult
- Our Coming-of-Age Crisis - and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
- By: Ben Sasse
- Narrated by: Ben Sasse
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue.
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Thank you from down under!
- By Kelly Stork on 07-12-2019
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The Vanishing American Adult
- Our Coming-of-Age Crisis - and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
- Narrated by: Ben Sasse
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2017
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
- And the Discourse on Language
- By: Michel Foucault, A. M. Sheridan Smith(Translated by)
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
- And the Discourse on Language
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2024
- Language: English
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