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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 5,294 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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    • A Trip into the Mirror World
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Naomi Klein
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 675 ratings
    • What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16,662 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 3,939 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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    • 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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    • By: Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,892 ratings
    • Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....

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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 6,333 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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    • 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 4,391 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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 8,817 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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    • 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 13,891 ratings
    • Michael Lewis intelligently - and humorously - explains the current economic crisis in The Big Short....

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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 5,686 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 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 4,003 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57,630 ratings
    • Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs....

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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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    • 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 5,753 ratings
    • This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....

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    • Gender, Race and Identity
    • By: Douglas Murray
    • Narrated by: Douglas Murray
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,277 ratings
    • In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics....

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