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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- By: Peter Moskos
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the 1970s to the early 1990s, New York City was seen, justifiably, as out of control. The city approached bankruptcy, the subways were covered with graffiti, and murders were at a record high. Right-wing fearmongering and vigilante justice were countered by liberal pleas to end poverty and provide drug treatment—none of which happened. Then, in a surprising break from the past, new NYPD leadership decided to focus on crime. Between 1993 and 1996, New York City's murder numbers were cut in half, dropping to under 1,000 for the first time in decades.
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Putting the good people in charge
- By Amazon Customer on 22-08-2025
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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2025
- Language: English
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On Bigotry
- Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It
- By: Nicholas Ensley Mitchell
- Narrated by: Nicholas Ensley Mitchell
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On Bigotry is a field guide for understanding how bigots think and teach others to think, how bigotry disguises itself, how bigotry teaches people to act politically, and, most importantly, what individuals and communities can do about it. This is an essential listen for anyone interested in challenging the spread of bigotry in society, regardless of who engages in it and why.
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On Bigotry
- Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Nicholas Ensley Mitchell
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-08-2025
- Language: English
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Handing Down the Faith
- How Parents Pass Their Religion On to the Next Generation
- By: Christian Smith, Amy Adamczyk
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith transmission. However we know much less about the actual beliefs, feelings, and activities of the parents themselves. To address that gap, this book reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents in the United States.
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Handing Down the Faith
- How Parents Pass Their Religion On to the Next Generation
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2021
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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On Juneteenth
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2021
- Language: English
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Back and Neck Health
- Mayo Clinic Guide to Treating and Preventing Back and Neck Pain
- By: Mohamed Byden
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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In the Mayo Clinic book Back and Neck Health, acclaimed neurosurgeon Mohamad Bydon, MD, evaluates the primary back and neck conditions plaguing working adults today and identifies everyday actions that may exacerbate the pain. The book also outlines the variety of treatment options available to those living with chronic back and neck pain, including home treatments, physical therapy, interventional approaches, and different types of surgery.
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Back and Neck Health
- Mayo Clinic Guide to Treating and Preventing Back and Neck Pain
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- By: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2024
- Language: English
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Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
- The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales
- By: Robert Root-Bernstein, Michéle Root-Bernstein
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Eating clay, drinking urine, applying honey to deep wounds and mere plaster to crushed these are all folk remedies for ailments, passed on through the generations and thoroughly discounted by modern science. It is too bad, write scientist-historian couple Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, who...
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Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
- The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Professor in the Cage
- Why Men Fight and Why We like to Watch
- By: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Quincy Dunn-Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge and an opportunity. Pushing 40, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified.
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OMG I LOVED THIS BOOK.
- By John Birmingham on 10-02-2019
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The Professor in the Cage
- Why Men Fight and Why We like to Watch
- Narrated by: Quincy Dunn-Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Human Network
- How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
- By: Matthew O. Jackson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail to assimilate basic facts, and enlarge our understanding of patterns of contagion - from the spread of disease to financial crises. Despite their primary role in shaping our lives, human networks are often overlooked when we try to account for our most important political and economic practices.
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The Human Network
- How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2019
- Language: English
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Sundown Towns
- A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
- By: James Loewen
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
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Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design.
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Sundown Towns
- A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2008
- Language: English
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Exhale
- Hope, Healing, and Life in Transplant
- By: David Weill MD
- Narrated by: David Weill MD
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by several hospitals. A kid considered not “smart enough” to be worthy of a transplant. A young mother dying on the waiting list in front of her two small children. A father losing his oldest daughter after a transplant goes awry. The nights waiting for donor lungs to become available, understanding that someone needed to die so that another patient could live. These are some of the stories in this memoir about Dr. Weill’s 10 years spent directing the lung transplant program at Stanford.
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Exhale
- Hope, Healing, and Life in Transplant
- Narrated by: David Weill MD
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2021
- Language: English
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Don’t Go
- Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
- By: Maria Krysan, Tonika Lewis Johnson
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, Robb Moreira, Maria Krysan, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ignorant, and the bigoted: “don’t go”—avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become bywords for social disorder and urban decay. This book is a collection of intimate stories that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt “don’t go” messages and the segregation they perpetuate in Chicago.
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Don’t Go
- Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, Robb Moreira, Maria Krysan, Kevin R. Free, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Jonathan Todd Ross, Lynnette R. Freeman, Marisol Ramirez, Cindy Kay, Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2024
- Language: English
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Immortality, Inc.
- Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
- By: Chip Walter
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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This gripping narrative explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death. We live in an age when billionaires are betting their fortunes on laboratory advances to prove aging unnecessary and death a disease that can be cured.
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Surprisingly engaging history about longevity
- By Richard Morton on 26-04-2020
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Immortality, Inc.
- Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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Reputation
- What Is It and Why It Matters
- By: Gloria Origgi, Stephen Holmes, Noga Arikha
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary? Why do we care so much about how others see us that we may even do irrational and harmful things to try to influence their opinion? In this engaging book, Gloria Origgi draws on philosophy, social psychology, sociology, economics, and more to offer an illuminating account of an important yet oddly neglected subject.
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Reputation
- What Is It and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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My Father and Atticus Finch
- A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930's Alabama
- By: Joseph Madison Beck
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories - when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a Black man charged with raping a White woman. Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was 12 years old.
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My Father and Atticus Finch
- A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930's Alabama
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2016
- Language: English
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Poor Your Soul
- By: Mira Ptacin
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 9 hrs
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At age 28, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. But five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Her story is woven together with the story of Mira's mother, who immigrated from Poland (also at the age of 28) and adopted a son, Julian.
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Poor Your Soul
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 12-01-2016
- Language: English
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- By: Serena Zabin
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2020
- Language: English
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The Complete Guide to Food Allergies in Adults and Children
- By: Scott H. Sicherer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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In this comprehensive, evidence-based guide for adults and children with food allergies and those who care for them, Dr. Scott H. Sicherer provides all the critical information you need on preventing, testing, living with, and treating food allergies. Organized in an accessible Q&A format and illustrated with case studies, the book explains how to prevent exposure to a known allergen at home, at work, at school, in restaurants, and elsewhere. Emphasizing recent advances, Sicherer touches on everything from handling an anaphylactic emergency to diagnosing allergies and intolerances.
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The Complete Guide to Food Allergies in Adults and Children
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2022
- Language: English
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The Well-Tuned Brain
- Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived
- By: Peter C. Whybrow
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of today's technology, most of us take for granted that progress brings improvement. Despite spectacular material advance, however, the evidence grows that we are failing to create a sustainable future for humanity. We are out of tune with the planet that nurtures us.
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The Well-Tuned Brain
- Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2015
- Language: English
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- By: Moira Weigel
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do. This isn't a guide to "getting the guy". There are no ridiculous "rules" to follow. Instead Weigel helps us understand how looking for love shapes who we are and hopefully leads us closer to the happy ending that dating promises.
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Great overview of dating and various related aspects
- By Ahzzz on 17-05-2025
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2016
- Language: English
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