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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- By: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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Interesting but feels incomplete
- By Chris on 09-02-21
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Dopamine Nation
- Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
- Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-24-21
- Language: English
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This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential....
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-02-10
- Language: English
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- By: Gad Saad
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life, Dr. Gad Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, why we need to be paying more attention to these trends, and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking....
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Some pros and some cons
- By chris boutte on 10-11-20
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The Parasitic Mind
- How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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Serving as a powerful follow-up to Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life, Dr. Gad Saad unpacks what is really happening in progressive safe zones, why we need to be paying more attention to these trends, and what we must do to stop the spread of dangerous thinking....
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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On the face of it, a simple book of 26 poem fables sharing one man’s wisdom. But The Prophet is so much more than that....
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Riz Ahmed's Narraration Is So Moving!
- By Dee Tree on 09-12-21
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The Prophet
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 08-26-21
- Language: English
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On the face of it, a simple book of 26 poem fables sharing one man’s wisdom. But The Prophet is so much more than that....
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Between the World and Me
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis....
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A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
- By T Spencer on 07-30-15
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Between the World and Me
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-14-15
- Language: English
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis....
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....
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Worthwhile if you have the patience
- By Scott Feuless on 08-12-19
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 08-18-11
- Language: English
- A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....
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The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
- Incerto, Book 2
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was....
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Interesting, but over the top
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-19
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The Black Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
- Incerto, Book 2
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was....
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The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....
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You'll Never Look at Languages the Same Way Again
- By SAMA on 03-11-14
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
- Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system....
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-21-14
- Language: English
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system....
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Flowers for Algernon
- By: Daniel Keyes
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by....
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Walk with a Swagger
- By Tim on 05-30-14
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Flowers for Algernon
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-31-09
- Language: English
- Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by....
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- By: Dan Carlin
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did....
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Hardcore Histories Greatest Hits
- By Steven Glover on 10-31-19
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did....
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Know My Name
- A Memoir
- By: Chanel Miller
- Narrated by: Chanel Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus....
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Just, thank you.
- By Alysha DeShaé on 09-25-19
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Know My Name
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Chanel Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-24-19
- Language: English
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus....
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Ancient Greek Civilization
- By: Jeremy McInerney, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeremy McInerney PhD University of California at Berkeley
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Clearly, the Greeks are a source of much that we esteem in our own culture.....
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A little disappointed
- By Jay on 02-18-14
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Ancient Greek Civilization
- Narrated by: Jeremy McInerney PhD University of California at Berkeley
- Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-08-13
- Language: English
- Clearly, the Greeks are a source of much that we esteem in our own culture.....
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- By: Caitlin Doughty
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory....
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Loved it So Much I Bought it After Reading it Free
- By J. Mattox on 05-17-17
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-19-14
- Language: English
- Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty - a 20-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre - took a job at a crematory....
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- By: Ray Kurzweil
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....
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RUINED audio.
- By Fred on 06-25-21
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The Singularity Is Near
- When Humans Transcend Biology
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-10-19
- Language: English
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-20-12
- Language: English
- Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies....
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Except for the author, this book is good!
- By Johan on 03-14-21
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with an account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies....
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James
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....
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Can we ever be free
- By J. Stirling on 04-04-24
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James
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....
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The Ride of a Lifetime
- Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- By: Robert Iger
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his 15 years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies....
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Joins “Shoe Dog” as required biographies.
- By Matt S. on 01-02-20
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The Ride of a Lifetime
- Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Robert Iger
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-23-19
- Language: English
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A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his 15 years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies....
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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Some good points, but not a great book
- By William Jenks on 07-25-19
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-30-17
- Language: English
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....
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