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Inside Studio 54
- By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections that lead him to Studio 54.
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To Experience the Studio Effect
- By Debra on 31-05-2021
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Inside Studio 54
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2018
- Language: English
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Battle Scars
- A Story of War and All That Follows
- By: Jason Fox
- Narrated by: Jason Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Jason Fox served with the SBS for over a decade, thriving on the close bonds of the Special Forces brotherhood and the ‘death or glory’ nature of their missions. Battle Scars tells the story of his career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service to a battle of a very different kind: the psychological devastation of combat that ultimately forced him to leave the military and the hard reality of what takes place in the mind of a man once a career of imagined invincibility has come to an end.
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Outstanding read!
- By Sam on 10-11-2018
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Battle Scars
- A Story of War and All That Follows
- Narrated by: Jason Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-11-2018
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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How boring it is
- By Janet on 23-07-2024
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The Devil in the White City
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2024
- Language: English
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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 06-02-2024
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- By: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.
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A great book
- By Sarah on 23-11-2020
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
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Fascinating book, let down by the narration
- By Helen Engstrom on 24-06-2023
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2021
- Language: English
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2024
- Language: English
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Stop Doing That Sh*t
- By: Gary John Bishop
- Narrated by: Gary John Bishop
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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From the author of the New York Times and international best seller Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was time to stop making excuses - to recognise and take responsibility for the negative self-talk holding us back. In Stop Doing That Sh*t, he builds on that message, teaching us how to stop self-sabotaging behaviour. Bishop explains how our destructive cycles come down to the way we’re wired.
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wow. just what I needed to save me from myself
- By Andrea on 17-05-2019
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Stop Doing That Sh*t
- Narrated by: Gary John Bishop
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2019
- Language: English
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- By: Ben Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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Great story, can't handle the lector
- By Michal on 09-04-2021
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 13-09-2011
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- By: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Gang-fighters! Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes! The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. Then a young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. This is one of the century's great true stories. Over 14 million copies in print!
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Incredible. One of the best books I've heard.
- By Sarah on 17-06-2017
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 17-01-2011
- Language: English
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- By: Geoffrey West
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
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Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses. Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing, cancer, human life spans and the increasing pace of life but also encourages us to question the world around us.
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Insightful, elegant and enthralling
- By David Elliott Johnson on 02-08-2018
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Scale
- The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2017
- 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
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Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.
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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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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.
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Fascinating!
- By Benjamin on 22-07-2017
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2013
- Language: English
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.
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Lion City
- Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
- By: Jeevan Vasagar
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and essential guide to the city and how its remarkable rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.
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Updated and insightful
- By Anonymous User on 27-06-2023
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Lion City
- Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: English
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Humanise
- A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
- By: Thomas Heatherwick
- Narrated by: Thomas Heatherwick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and 'efficiency' has engulfed our towns and cities and hardened into a form of bland minimalism. But it doesn't have to be this way: there are other ways to build - with the power to lift our spirits, engage and connect us.
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Humanise
- A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
- Narrated by: Thomas Heatherwick
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2023
- Language: English
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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useful but too long
- By Edward Burrowes on 22-07-2022
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Seeing Like a State
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2018
- Language: English
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Budapest
- Between East and West
- By: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side. Throughout history, the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between this division of East and West—culturally, politically, emotionally.
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Budapest
- Between East and West
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2022
- Language: English
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