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Jobs
- The Man Behind the Glass
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 55 mins
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Steve Jobs didn’t invent the future. He made it feel inevitable. From a California garage to global godhood, this is the story of the man who turned computers into companions, products into rituals, and simplicity into a cult. But beneath the keynote charisma and polished glass lies something deeper: obsession, control, intuition, rage, and raw design philosophy that reshaped the modern world. Jobs: The Man Behind the Glass goes beyond the black turtleneck myth to uncover the ghost still flickering inside every screen. Because what he built wasn’t just a company.
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Jobs
- The Man Behind the Glass
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2026
- Language: English
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Science isn’t a subject — it’s a system. A way of seeing, testing, and making sense of everything. From ancient myths to AI-powered labs, Science 101 tells the story of how humans figured out how to figure things out. This isn’t about listing facts or memorizing disciplines — it’s about the evolution of the scientific mindset. How did we go from believing lightning was a god… to splitting atoms? How did we learn to measure, test, repeat, and doubt? And what happens when machines start doing the science for us?
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 12
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2026
- Language: English
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Dayton
- The City That Invented the Future
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: JD Lake
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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DAYTON: The City That Invented the Future is a raw, heartfelt, and sharply written portrait of one of America’s most important and misunderstood cities. From the Wright brothers to Funk music, from NCR to GM, from the Great Flood to the Oregon District, JJ walks through the neighborhoods, memories, machines, and people that made Dayton what it is. But this isn’t just a local history book. It’s personal. And it’s layered. Told through the eyes of someone who grew up here, it's part memoir, part diagnosis, and part love letter to a city that changed the world and got left behind in the process.
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This Is a Rock
- How We Learned to Talk
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Christopher S Ransom
- Length: 48 mins
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Before grammar, stories, or history, there was pointing. Grunting. Guesswork. And somehow, from that, we built language. This isn’t a textbook. It’s the story of how humans learned to name the world, how we stitched together meaning from noise, and how the system we invented ended up running us. From cave mouths to cuneiform, slang to syntax, sacred scripts to AI chatbots, this book tells the full arc of the original human software: invented, forgotten, rediscovered, and now automated. This Is a Rock doesn’t teach you how to talk. It shows you how we figured out that we could.
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This Is a Rock
- How We Learned to Talk
- Narrated by: Christopher S Ransom
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2026
- Language: English
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Government 101
- A History of Rule (How We Figured It Out)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Emiliana Kingsley
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Who put them in charge? And why did everyone else listen? Government 101: A History of Rule is a gripping walkthrough of how human beings have governed each other — from tribal chiefs and god-kings to empires, revolutions, bureaucracies, and beyond. This isn’t a textbook. It’s not about “how a bill becomes a law.” It’s about power — how it’s taken, how it’s enforced, how it breaks, and how it evolves. JJ breaks down the real story behind human rule.
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Government 101
- A History of Rule (How We Figured It Out)
- Narrated by: Emiliana Kingsley
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 3
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2026
- Language: English
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OBAMA
- The Man Who Played the Game Perfectly (Commanders-in-Chief)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Barack Obama didn’t break the system. He mastered it. This is not a tribute. And it’s not a takedown. It’s a clear-eyed walk through one of the most disciplined presidencies in American history. From a kid with no defined center to a commander-in-chief who made calm look presidential and control look easy. He didn’t storm in with fire. He played the long game. He passed healthcare reform when everyone said it couldn’t be done. He ordered drone strikes with surgical silence. He addressed racism while trying not to set the country on fire.
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OBAMA
- The Man Who Played the Game Perfectly (Commanders-in-Chief)
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2026
- Language: English
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Anatomy 101
- A History of the Human Body
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Hannah Gomberg
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do we have bodies? Where did this weird meat suit come from? And how did we go from ancient guesses about "black bile" to installing pacemakers and printing 3D organs? In this audiobook, JJ takes you on a full-body tour through the history of anatomy, from mummified pharaohs to modern mind uploads. We crack it open, name the parts, track the fluids, x-ray the bones, and watch as the human body goes from sacred vessel to scanned-and-sold biometric data. This isn't a textbook. It's a scalpel with jokes. And it's got everything inside.
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Anatomy 101
- A History of the Human Body
- Narrated by: Hannah Gomberg
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 6
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2025
- Language: English
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The World Is on Fire
- How We Broke the Planet
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jerome Ferguson
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The world isn’t going to burn. It already is. The World Is on Fire is a devastating, clear-eyed walkthrough of the climate crisis as it actually exists. Not as a theory, not as a threat, but as a daily reality. JJ doesn’t waste time with doomer panic or soft-focus optimism. Instead, he tells the story straight: how we lit the fuse with coal and oil, how the corporations lied, how the system got stuck, and how the poorest people on Earth are already paying the price.
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The World Is on Fire
- How We Broke the Planet
- Narrated by: Jerome Ferguson
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2025
- Language: English
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Stalin: The Man Who Killed the Future
- The Tyrants
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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He didn’t lead the revolution. He survived it. Joseph Stalin rose from a shoeless Georgian childhood to become the most feared dictator of the 20th century. Not by inspiring crowds, but by outliving, outkilling, and outmaneuvering everyone in his path. He purged his rivals, starved his people, rewrote the past, and built a police state so vast it swallowed truth itself. He didn’t just kill millions. He turned fear into policy, propaganda into scripture, and loyalty into silence. This audiobook is not a tribute.
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Stalin: The Man Who Killed the Future
- The Tyrants
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2025
- Language: English
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Electricity 101: A History of Power
- How We Figured It Out
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Merrill
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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What is electricity? Not just in theory, but really. What is it? Where did it come from? Who figured it out? How does it move, store, think, and shape the entire world? This isn’t a textbook. It’s the real story of how humans stumbled into one of the most powerful forces in nature and slowly, painfully, turned it into the thing that runs civilization.
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Electricity 101: A History of Power
- How We Figured It Out
- Narrated by: Tom Merrill
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 5
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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PLATO: The Man Who Drew the Line
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Adam Schuster
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Plato wasn’t just a philosopher, he was the architect of the mind. Born into a collapsing democracy, haunted by the death of Socrates, and obsessed with a world that didn’t yet exist, Plato set out to do the impossible: rebuild reality from scratch.
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PLATO: The Man Who Drew the Line
- Narrated by: Adam Schuster
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2025
- Language: English
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Leonardo
- The Mind That Could Do Anything
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: J D Lake
- Length: 48 mins
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Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.
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The Mirage
- How Saudi Arabia Built a Gas Station Empire
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Tarek Kalaaji
- Length: 36 mins
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The Mirage: How Saudi Arabia Built a Gas Station Empire is a sharp, unsettling deep-dive into how one royal family turned a desert into a kingdom, an oil company into a superpower, and a religious movement into a global firewall. This is not ancient history — it all started in the 20th century. Through brutal conquest, British backing, American oil deals, and decades of carefully manufactured silence, the House of Saud built something that looks like a country… but behaves like a brand.
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The Mirage
- How Saudi Arabia Built a Gas Station Empire
- Narrated by: Tarek Kalaaji
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Biology 101
- A History of Life (How We Figured It Out)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Daniel Meeks
- Length: 52 mins
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Biology 101: A History of Life is the story of how humans discovered life from the outside in. Poking, slicing, sketching, sequencing, and arguing our way toward understanding what it means to be alive. From Aristotle’s animal lists to Darwin’s dangerous idea. From Mendel’s peas to the human genome. From hand-ground glass to CRISPR gene editing. This is not a textbook. It’s a history of discovery. The brilliant, chaotic, often accidental process that turned biology from folklore into code.
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Biology 101
- A History of Life (How We Figured It Out)
- Narrated by: Daniel Meeks
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 7
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Burton
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: DeMika Ferguson
- Length: 58 mins
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He never stopped drawing. Not even when the world told him to grow up. Tim Burton didn’t try to fit in — he turned his alienation into art. From the suburban shadows of Burbank to the soundstages of Hollywood, he built an empire of monsters, misfits, and melancholy hearts.
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Burton
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- Narrated by: DeMika Ferguson
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Andrew Jackson
- The Republic’s Iron Fist (Commanders-in-Chief)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: J.D. Lake
- Length: 48 mins
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Andrew Jackson: The Republic’s Iron Fist traces the full arc of one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history. From his muddy birth on the Carolina frontier to the battlefield at New Orleans, from the dueling grounds of Tennessee to the Oval Office, Jackson’s life was war—and he never stopped swinging. This audiobook doesn’t glorify. It doesn’t condemn.
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Andrew Jackson
- The Republic’s Iron Fist (Commanders-in-Chief)
- Narrated by: J.D. Lake
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Color
- The Secret Life of the Spectrum
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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What is color? Not just pigment. Not just light. Not even just perception. Color is a system. A language written in wavelengths, built by biology, shaped by culture, and weaponized by power. From ancient dyes to modern marketing, from the psychology of red to the physics of violet, COLOR is a vibrant walk through everything we think we see… and everything we’ve been trained to feel. Explore how the brain edits the spectrum, how flags and uniforms manipulate emotion, how art history is lined with poison, and why no one saw “blue” until they invented a word for it. This is not a book about art.
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Color
- The Secret Life of the Spectrum
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-12-2025
- Language: English
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Physics 101: A History of Laws
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Derek Ashley
- Length: 43 mins
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What do apples, atoms, black holes, and time machines all have in common? They all follow the same rules, the laws of physics. Physics 101 is is a fast-paced, story-driven walkthrough of how we figured out the rules that govern reality. From ancient thinkers dropping guesses to modern geniuses dropping equations, this book tracks the wild, mind-bending history of motion, matter, energy, and everything in between.
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Physics 101: A History of Laws
- Narrated by: Derek Ashley
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 2
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2025
- Language: English
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Lobbied
- How They Bought the Government
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Andrew J Sholl
- Length: 53 mins
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Lobbied: How They Bought the Government is a brutal exposé of the real power behind American politics. From Big Pharma to Big Oil, weapons manufacturers to food conglomerates, this book shows how corporations and special interests didn’t just bend the rules, they wrote them. With billions spent on lobbying every year, legislation isn’t made, it’s purchased. Behind closed doors. With checks, access, and influence you’ll never have. This isn’t just about backroom deals in Washington. It’s your insulin prices. Your student debt. Your rent. Your food. Your vote. And your future.
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Lobbied
- How They Bought the Government
- Narrated by: Andrew J Sholl
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2025
- Language: English
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COLUMBUS
- The Man Who Didn’t Discover America
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Steve Krumlauf
- Length: 54 mins
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COLUMBUS: The Man Who Didn’t Discover America is a clear-eyed biography of one of history’s most mythologized figures. Drawing from primary sources, letters, and eyewitness accounts, this book traces the life and legacy of Christopher Columbus. From his early years in Genoa to his final voyage across the Atlantic. Rather than retelling the story through rose-colored legend, the book offers a grounded account of who Columbus actually was, what he believed, and what happened when he made landfall in the Caribbean.
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COLUMBUS
- The Man Who Didn’t Discover America
- Narrated by: Steve Krumlauf
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2025
- Language: English
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