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    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31,009 ratings
    • 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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    • And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    • By: Caitlin Doughty
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,815 ratings
    • 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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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,332 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • Science as a Candle in the Dark
    • By: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,293 ratings
    • 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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    • How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
    • By: Merlin Sheldrake
    • Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,938 ratings
    • When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems....

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,001 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Yaa Gyasi
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,417 ratings
    • Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort....

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    • Learning to Lead
    • By: Jim Mattis, Bing West
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,685 ratings
    • Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’ storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East....

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    • The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Graham Hancock
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,626 ratings
    • Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • By: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,750 ratings
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,390 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • The Art and Science of Prediction
    • By: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,777 ratings
    • From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

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    • Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,890 ratings
    • Michael Lewis intelligently - and humorously - explains the current economic crisis in The Big Short....

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    • The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,752 ratings
    • This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....

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    • The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    • By: Dan Ariely
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,535 ratings
    • In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways....

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    • The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Graham Hancock
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,084 ratings
    • America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization rewrites American history as we know it. It is a mind-dilating exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing archaeological discoveries, and profound implications for how we lead our lives today....

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