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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Just so stories
- By Judy Corstjens on 04-08-12
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Amazing
- By EDorey on 14-01-19
By: Bruce D. Perry, and others
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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Poetic, accessible, political
- By Cree on 16-03-20
By: bell hooks
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....
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Incredibly funny book for anybody who finds it incredibly funny.
- By Tim Brownson on 26-04-24
By: Joel Morris
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
By: Mary Beard
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Just so stories
- By Judy Corstjens on 04-08-12
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Amazing
- By EDorey on 14-01-19
By: Bruce D. Perry, and others
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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Poetic, accessible, political
- By Cree on 16-03-20
By: bell hooks
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....
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Incredibly funny book for anybody who finds it incredibly funny.
- By Tim Brownson on 26-04-24
By: Joel Morris
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
By: Mary Beard
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Free to Learn
- By: Peter Gray
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion....
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Trust
- By Anita Pickavance on 24-10-19
By: Peter Gray
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....
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Outstandingly informative
- By andrewjlockley on 02-04-23
By: Joseph Henrich
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Wisdom of the Ancients
- Life Lessons from Our Distant Past
- By: Neil Oliver
- Narrated by: Neil Oliver
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our well-being relies on remaining as present as possible....
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great work, skillfully delivered
- By mr a on 07-11-20
By: Neil Oliver
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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Powerfully moving
- By Saskia on 28-10-15
By: Sandy Tolan
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The History of Money
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....
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Journalistic account entertaining delivered
- By Horley, G on 27-02-21
By: Jack Weatherford
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Oliver Burkeman: Epidemics of Modern Life
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman, Various
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman looks at four central ills of modernity—busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance. Talking to a range of experts, he discovers how these problems became so widespread, and how we can go about tackling them....
By: Oliver Burkeman
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Steeple Chasing
- Around Britain by Church
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles....
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Our Storied Landscape
- By veyza on 27-05-23
By: Peter Ross
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Vagina
- A New Biography
- By: Naomi Wolf
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina - and consequently, how we understand women....
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Vagina
- By Susan on 24-12-12
By: Naomi Wolf
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The Paradox of Choice
- Why More is Less
- By: Barry Schwartz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice....
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OK - perhaps better physically reading it.
- By Bex on 14-03-20
By: Barry Schwartz
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....
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Was this recorded inside a biscuit tin?
- By hhj on 31-05-21
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The Fate of Empires
- Being an Inquiry into the Stability of Civilisation
- By: Arthur John Hubbard
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Fate of Empires analyzes many of the commonly held traits of the world’s historic empires and demonstrates how the presence or absence of these can determine the outcome of these societies....
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Come of Age
- The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
- By: Stephen Jenkinson, Charles Eisenstein - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species....
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Unusual
- By L. Taylor on 05-10-18
By: Stephen Jenkinson, and others
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- By: Pascal Boyer
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Pascal Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles....
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Brilliant book
- By Viktor Kazinec on 17-04-21
By: Pascal Boyer
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What Doesn't Kill Us
- How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength
- By: Scott Carney
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible....
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10% interesting 90% padding
- By BMP on 22-04-17
By: Scott Carney
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Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- By: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....
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This doesn't work as an audio book.
- By Jungian on 20-05-20
By: Charles Murray
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Ghosts of My Life
- Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen....
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Jumble of previously published articles, well-read
- By Howard on 25-01-21
By: Mark Fisher
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Remarkable People
- Extraordinary Stories of Everyday Lives
- By: Dan Walker
- Narrated by: Dan Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In Remarkable People, Dan Walker, the host of BBC1's Breakfast, recounts inspiring stories of the courage and selflessness of people he has met throughout his career. An uplifting tonic for the darkness and negativity of recent times....
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A remarkable listen
- By T on 10-11-20
By: Dan Walker
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Not Gay
- Sex Between Straight White Men
- By: Jane Ward
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality....
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Very interesting.
- By G. Morgan on 04-07-19
By: Jane Ward
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Primitive Mythology
- The Masks of God Series, Volume I
- By: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology....
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More uncovered treasures
- By Réamonn Ó Ciaráin on 22-01-20
By: Joseph Campbell, and others
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- By: Nick Duffell
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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At the dawn of the 21st century, British society is still shaped by a private education system devised to gentrify the Victorian middle classes and produce gentlemen to run the Empire....
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Nearly
- By Izzy on 13-11-20
By: Nick Duffell
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From ancient artefacts to modern-day memorabilia, this startling book weaves a rich tapestry from the fragments of our rural past....
By: Sally Coulthard
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- By: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....
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Fascinating and Accessible Update
- By veyza on 14-08-23
By: Madelaine Böhme
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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The 20th century
- By common reader on 15-01-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
By: Mary Beard
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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American Disgust
- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
- By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 10 hrs
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At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.
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Good Sex
- Transforming America Through the New Gender and Sexual Revolution
- By: Catherine M. Roach
- Narrated by: Holly Myers
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Good Sex is the manifesto or Manisexto, if you will for this cultural revolution. Same-sex marriage is legal, the #MeToo movement has exploded, colleges nationwide now teach consent-based sexual health, the media celebrates body positivity, and transgender visibility has become mainstream. Defining "good sex" as both ethical and pleasurable, Catherine M. Roach features such topics as equity, intersectionality, and shared pleasure while offering a lively discussion that is inclusively feminist, queer-friendly, and sex-positive without being divisive.
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad
- Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
- By: Treena Orchard
- Narrated by: Treena Orchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
By: Treena Orchard
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- By: Emily Thorson
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented state": systematic misperceptions about public policy.
By: Emily Thorson
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
By: Mary Beard
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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American Disgust
- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
- By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 10 hrs
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At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.
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Good Sex
- Transforming America Through the New Gender and Sexual Revolution
- By: Catherine M. Roach
- Narrated by: Holly Myers
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Good Sex is the manifesto or Manisexto, if you will for this cultural revolution. Same-sex marriage is legal, the #MeToo movement has exploded, colleges nationwide now teach consent-based sexual health, the media celebrates body positivity, and transgender visibility has become mainstream. Defining "good sex" as both ethical and pleasurable, Catherine M. Roach features such topics as equity, intersectionality, and shared pleasure while offering a lively discussion that is inclusively feminist, queer-friendly, and sex-positive without being divisive.
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Sticky, Sexy, Sad
- Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
- By: Treena Orchard
- Narrated by: Treena Orchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
By: Treena Orchard
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The Invented State
- Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
- By: Emily Thorson
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish, leading to what Thorson terms the "invented state": systematic misperceptions about public policy.
By: Emily Thorson
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Working Relationships
- Crisis and Resilience at the Heart of Employee Experience
- By: Aaron Delgaty
- Narrated by: Aaron Delgaty
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Working Relationships is an original exploration of the interplay between crisis, resilience, and employee experience in the workplace. The book delves into how working relationships - the relationships we develop with the work that we do, the people with whom we work, and the organizations for which we work - are formed and sustained, focusing on four key elements: continuity, reciprocity, purpose, and hope.
By: Aaron Delgaty
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- By: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history, from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with powerful queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
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Well researched but very predictable
- By Inge on 20-04-24
By: Zeinab Badawi
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The Ritual Effect
- The Transformative Power of Our Everyday Actions
- By: Michael Norton
- Narrated by: Michael Norton
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Think of the way you keep up quirky family traditions. How listening to a certain song before speaking in public can calm you down. Or why it feels so strange to sleep on the opposite side of the bed. These are rituals: practices that are imbued with symbolic meaning. And they have the power to turn black-and-white moments into technicolour. Harvard professor and world-leading rituals expert Michael Norton uses his cutting-edge research to show the impact that these everyday actions have on our lives -- and how transforming habits into rituals can give us purpose and pleasure.
By: Michael Norton
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They Were Here Before Us
- Stories from Our First Million Years
- By: Eyal Halfon, Ran Barkai
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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This provocative and panoramic book shows listeners what they can learn from their ancestors, and how the unwavering ability of prehistoric people to survive and thrive can continue into the present.
By: Eyal Halfon, and others
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- By: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
By: Beth Linker
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Africa
- The Definitive History of a Continent
- By: DK, David Olusoga
- Narrated by: Itoya Osagiede
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the world's second-largest continent is as intricate as it is vast. Starting with prehistory and the fossils left behind in Ethiopia by the earliest humans, this book captures a narrative that traverses great ancient civilizations, from the Kingdom of Aksum to the empires of West Africa and sultanates of the East, and explores history-defining events such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the liberation of Nelson Mandela.
By: DK, and others
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Muslim Cool
- Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
- By: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
- Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S., as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
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The Price of Life
- In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
- By: Jenny Kleeman
- Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
By: Jenny Kleeman
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
By: Pamela Prickett, and others
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The Language Puzzle
- How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
- By: Steven Mithen
- Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and into today's Digital Age.
By: Steven Mithen
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The Age of Deer
- Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
- By: Erika Howsare
- Narrated by: Erika Howsare
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us.
By: Erika Howsare
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms, and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy.
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Incredibly funny book for anybody who finds it incredibly funny.
- By Tim Brownson on 26-04-24
By: Joel Morris