Best Sellers
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Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down....
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Depth of analysis
- By Amazon Customer on 06-11-24
Written by: Steven D. Levitt,
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....
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Extraordinary
- By Akhil Siddharth on 12-03-21
Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Early Indians
- Written by: Tony Joseph
- Narrated by: Amit Bhargav
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Who are we Indians? Where did we come from? To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past–when a band of Homo sapiens first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. These were the First Indians....
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Almost grounded in facts.
- By Pizza Taco Dinosaur on 08-03-25
Written by: Tony Joseph
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When Breath Becomes Air
- Written by: Paul Kalanithi
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer....
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It is a great book with profound moments
- By Sandeep on 19-02-19
Written by: Paul Kalanithi
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
Written by: Karl Marx,
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Made to Stick
- Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Written by: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps....
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Helps to make one's message more compelling
- By Rahul Jagannathan on 26-04-25
Written by: Chip Heath,
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Freakonomics
- A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down....
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Depth of analysis
- By Amazon Customer on 06-11-24
Written by: Steven D. Levitt,
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Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....
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Extraordinary
- By Akhil Siddharth on 12-03-21
Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Early Indians
- Written by: Tony Joseph
- Narrated by: Amit Bhargav
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Who are we Indians? Where did we come from? To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past–when a band of Homo sapiens first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. These were the First Indians....
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Almost grounded in facts.
- By Pizza Taco Dinosaur on 08-03-25
Written by: Tony Joseph
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When Breath Becomes Air
- Written by: Paul Kalanithi
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer....
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It is a great book with profound moments
- By Sandeep on 19-02-19
Written by: Paul Kalanithi
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
Written by: Karl Marx,
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Made to Stick
- Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Written by: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps....
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Helps to make one's message more compelling
- By Rahul Jagannathan on 26-04-25
Written by: Chip Heath,
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Written by: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from number-one best-selling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast....
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This is a typical John Green work
- By Tushar Marpaka on 26-08-21
Written by: John Green
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The Road to Character
- Written by: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, David Brooks
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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In The Road to Character, David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success….
Written by: David Brooks
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The Order of Things
- An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
- Written by: Michel Foucault
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
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In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that man—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.
Written by: Michel Foucault
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Written by: Joseph Campbell
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, John Lee, Susan Denaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions....
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The most eye-opening work on comparative mythology
- By Samir Faraz on 06-07-21
Written by: Joseph Campbell
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Blink (Hindi Edition)
- Turant Nirnay Lene Ki Shakti [The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Neeraj Yadav
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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How can an art expert differentiate between a fake and an original piece of art within seconds? How can a marriage analyst know within minutes whether the couple will stay together or not? Some ideas like this and much more gain a true resolution in Blink....
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कहानी किस्सों की एक किताब
- By Sunil Kumar Parmar on 20-07-22
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Second Mountain
- Written by: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want....
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brought me to recommittitng to life
- By Ashish Agrawal on 14-07-23
Written by: David Brooks
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Every Patient Tells a Story
- Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Written by: Lisa Sanders
- Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis", the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D....
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importance of Physical examination in diagnosis o
- By Anonymous User on 22-08-23
Written by: Lisa Sanders
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Talk
- The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
- Written by: Alison Wood Brooks
- Narrated by: Alison Wood Brooks
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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The leading Harvard professor shows how we can all become better at conversation – and why this will help us all thrive.
Written by: Alison Wood Brooks
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The Social Animal
- The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- Written by: David Brooks
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....
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just winderfull
- By BCNigam on 28-10-24
Written by: David Brooks
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The Confidence Code
- The Science and Art of Self-Assurance - What Women Should Know
- Written by: Katty Kay, Claire Shipman
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Working women today are better educated and more well-qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world....
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Well researched and presented, a must listen.
- By Amrita on 29-10-20
Written by: Katty Kay,
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Die Wise
- A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
- Written by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well....
Written by: Stephen Jenkinson
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Black Skin, White Masks
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Written by: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the Black experience in a white world....
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Compelling perspectives but excessive rhetoric
- By sandyqbg on 31-05-23
Written by: Frantz Fanon,
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A Grief Observed
- Written by: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Written after his wife's tragic death, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss....
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A Lament
- By Dr. Manoj Kumar Khatore on 06-05-24
Written by: C. S. Lewis
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Travels with Epicurus
- Written by: Daniel Klein
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Find out....
Written by: Daniel Klein
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Introduction to Sociology 3e
- Written by: OpenStax
- Narrated by: Brian Barrick
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
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Introduction to Sociology 3e aligns to the topics and objectives of many introductory sociology courses. It is arranged in a manner that provides foundational sociological theories and contexts, then progresses through various aspects of human and societal interactions.
Written by: OpenStax
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Seeing Like a State
- Written by: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....
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Could not put this down
- By Anonymous User on 20-01-22
Written by: James C. Scott
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After
- A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
- Written by: Bruce Greyson
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Ten percent of people whose hearts stop and then restart report near-death experiences. When Dr Bruce Greyson's patients started describing events that he simply could not dismiss, he began to investigate....
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Captivating
- By Andrea on 06-06-24
Written by: Bruce Greyson
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A Feast of Vultures
- The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
- Written by: Josy Joseph
- Narrated by: Darrpan Mehta
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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A Feast of Vultures is an unprecedented, multiple-level inquiry into modern India, and the picture it reveals is both explosive and frightening. Within these covers is unimpeachable evidence against some of the country's biggest business houses and political figures....
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A book par excellence
- By Praveen on 21-06-21
Written by: Josy Joseph
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- Written by: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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mixed
- By Amit K Thakur on 11-07-20
Written by: Francis Fukuyama
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My Big TOE: Awakening
- Book One of a Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
- Written by: Thomas Campbell
- Narrated by: Thomas Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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My Big TOE: Awakening, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter....
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Autobiography of Yogi scientist
- By anant bhandarkar on 06-01-25
Written by: Thomas Campbell
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The Blue Zones
- Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest
- Written by: Dan Buettner
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Dan Buettner has traveled the world to meet the planet’s longest-lived people, and learned nine powerful yet simple lessons that could put you on the path to longer life....
Written by: Dan Buettner
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Written by: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....
Written by: Thorstein Veblen
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Over Work
- Transforming the daily grind in the quest for a better life
- Written by: Brigid Schulte
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Workers across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels report exhaustion, burnout, and the wish for more meaningful lives.
Written by: Brigid Schulte
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The Trolls of Wall Street
- How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
- Written by: Nathaniel Popper
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets into a cultural movement that moved from the fringes of the internet to the center of Wall Street, upending the global financial markets....
Written by: Nathaniel Popper
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After Life
- A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
- Written by: Rhae Lynn Barnes - editor, Keri Leigh Merritt - editor, Yohuru Williams - editor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell, David Lee Huynh, Leon Nixon,
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.
Written by: Rhae Lynn Barnes - editor,
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Dinámica de grupos
- Técnicas y tácticas
- Written by: Ethel Kupferman Silberstein, Anameli Monroy de Velasco, José de Jesús González Núñez
- Narrated by: Federico Silva
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Obra diseñada para conducir a grupos en cualquier actividad que implique el trabajo conjunto, ofrece respuestas a interrogantes que suele enfrentar quien los dirige. Distinguiendo entre tácticas (estrategias) y técnicas (procedimiento), propone un modelo congruente y unitario para que el grupo funcione, sea productivo y alcance las metas que se ha propuesto.
Written by: Ethel Kupferman Silberstein,
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Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Written by: Angie Beeman
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on divisions among progressives at the local level, in community organizations, and at the national level, in the Democratic Party.
Written by: Angie Beeman
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An Exercise in Uncertainty
- A Memoir of Illness and Hope
- Written by: Jonathan Gluck
- Narrated by: Jonathan Gluck
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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At age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. That was more than twenty years ago. Gluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years.
Written by: Jonathan Gluck
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あたらしい大麻入門
- (幻冬舎新書)
- Written by: 長吉 秀夫
- Narrated by: 小林 直人
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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2024年12月12日「大麻取締法」改正法施行!改正のポイントは3つ。医療大麻の合法化、THC濃度による規制、使用罪の適用で最長懲役7年の厳罰化!
Written by: 長吉 秀夫
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Empire Without End
- A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
- Written by: Imaobong Umoren
- Narrated by: Dami Olukoya
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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After five long centuries, the roots of colonialism still run deep. This is a powerful new reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy, its transformative effects on Britain and the Caribbean and its enduring role in systemic racism today. And it is a call for us all to learn from the challenges and failures of history and to play our part in creating a blueprint for the future. We cannot change the past. But we can repair the present.
Written by: Imaobong Umoren
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After Life
- A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
- Written by: Rhae Lynn Barnes - editor, Keri Leigh Merritt - editor, Yohuru Williams - editor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell, David Lee Huynh, Leon Nixon,
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.
Written by: Rhae Lynn Barnes - editor,
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Dinámica de grupos
- Técnicas y tácticas
- Written by: Ethel Kupferman Silberstein, Anameli Monroy de Velasco, José de Jesús González Núñez
- Narrated by: Federico Silva
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Obra diseñada para conducir a grupos en cualquier actividad que implique el trabajo conjunto, ofrece respuestas a interrogantes que suele enfrentar quien los dirige. Distinguiendo entre tácticas (estrategias) y técnicas (procedimiento), propone un modelo congruente y unitario para que el grupo funcione, sea productivo y alcance las metas que se ha propuesto.
Written by: Ethel Kupferman Silberstein,
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Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Written by: Angie Beeman
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on divisions among progressives at the local level, in community organizations, and at the national level, in the Democratic Party.
Written by: Angie Beeman
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An Exercise in Uncertainty
- A Memoir of Illness and Hope
- Written by: Jonathan Gluck
- Narrated by: Jonathan Gluck
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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At age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. That was more than twenty years ago. Gluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years.
Written by: Jonathan Gluck
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あたらしい大麻入門
- (幻冬舎新書)
- Written by: 長吉 秀夫
- Narrated by: 小林 直人
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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2024年12月12日「大麻取締法」改正法施行!改正のポイントは3つ。医療大麻の合法化、THC濃度による規制、使用罪の適用で最長懲役7年の厳罰化!
Written by: 長吉 秀夫
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Empire Without End
- A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
- Written by: Imaobong Umoren
- Narrated by: Dami Olukoya
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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After five long centuries, the roots of colonialism still run deep. This is a powerful new reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy, its transformative effects on Britain and the Caribbean and its enduring role in systemic racism today. And it is a call for us all to learn from the challenges and failures of history and to play our part in creating a blueprint for the future. We cannot change the past. But we can repair the present.
Written by: Imaobong Umoren
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Deep House
- The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
- Written by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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It’s 1996, and Jeremy has met the British boy of his dreams — just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights, including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion shows, Berlin sex clubs and East Village hotel rooms. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco. Deep House moves through the couple’s domiciles while unlocking doors to a lineage of gay men who have come before.
Written by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Written by: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1890s America Thorstein Veblen attacked a careless acceptance of prevailing social structures, identifying ancient roots for ‘pecuniary culture’ and ‘conspicuous consumption’–realities that promoted materialism and squashed fulfilment. In The Theory of the Leisure Class the worthy Engineer, creating essential products for all, is pitted against the predatory Businessman, exempt from grubby industrial toil and focussed on useless profits.
Written by: Thorstein Veblen
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Father Nature
- The Science of Paternal Potential
- Written by: James K. Rilling
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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We all know the importance of mothers. They are typically as paramount in the wild as they are in human relationships. But what about fathers? In most mammals, fathers have little to no involvement in raising their offspring—and sometimes even kill the offspring sired by other fathers. How, then, can we explain modern fathers having the capacity to be highly engaged parents? In Father Nature, James Rilling explores how humans have evolved to endow modern fathers with this potential and considers why this capacity evolved in humans.
Written by: James K. Rilling
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The Many Lives of Syeda X
- A People’s History of Invisible India
- Written by: Neha Dixit
- Narrated by: Manju Malhi
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Syeda X left the holy city of Banaras (now Varanasi) for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots and communal violence in the early '90s. In Delhi, she settled into the life of a poor migrant, juggling multiple jobs a day - from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions. Syeda has held over 50 different jobs in 30 years, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant.
Written by: Neha Dixit
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In Defence of Leisure
- Experiments in Living with Marion Milner
- Written by: Akshi Singh
- Narrated by: Akshi Singh
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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In Defence of Leisure presents Marion Milner as a writer for our times. In asking the simple question: how do I want to spend my free time? Milner developed a method for discovering her true likes and dislikes. As Singh follows Milner's approach - from keeping a diary to painting, building a home and travelling to the sea - she discovers the importance of rest, creativity and play in all of our lives, and how it can open the door to achieving what we truly desire.
Written by: Akshi Singh
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Blackface
- Written by: Professor Ayanna Thompson
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren’t there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread—sometimes it’s tied into a noose—that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism.
Written by: Professor Ayanna Thompson
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Form Follows Fever
- Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841-1849
- Written by: Christopher Cowell
- Narrated by: Christopher Cowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent early years of settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapour or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better.
Written by: Christopher Cowell
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Joyful Militancy
- Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
- Written by: carla bergman, Nick Montgomery, Hari Alluri - introduction
- Narrated by: Zach Bergman
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into social movements, posing as the “correct” way of being radical. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of political currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone.
Written by: carla bergman,
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Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?
- Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas
- Written by: Jessi Streib, Betsy Leondar-Wright
- Narrated by: Mary Pochatko
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem simple on their face, but which invite a host of tangled responses. Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.
Written by: Jessi Streib,
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Beyond States
- Powers, Peoples and Global Order
- Written by: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Today, the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single culture, a single rule of law, and a single source of sovereign authority. But will they continue to do so in the future? None of the major challenges that confront humanity today—from climate change to disease, from terrorism to mass migration—can be handled effectively by single nation-states, no matter how powerful.
Written by: Anthony Pagden
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Sharing Risk
- The Path to Economic Well-Being for All
- Written by: Patricia A. McCoy
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly offloaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions of people to the financial breaking point, worsened social inequity, and jeopardized US democracy. In Sharing Risk, consumer advocate and scholar Patricia A. McCoy draws on the nation’s traditions of risk sharing to argue that society should lift up families by pooling and spreading the financial risks that they now must bear alone.
Written by: Patricia A. McCoy
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Minding the Wealth Gap
- Our Playbook to Close It Together
- Written by: Cliff Goins IV
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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The US racial wealth gap is large, and it's compounding. It's time to close it. Minding the Wealth Gap shines a light on people doing this important work and explores how you can get involved too. Generations of public and private practices have left Black households $15 trillion and 400 years behind white households. Minding the Wealth Gap is both a powerful catalyst and a call to arms, urging America's entrepreneurs, executives, government officials, and other leaders to join these efforts and take meaningful steps toward a more equitable future for all.
Written by: Cliff Goins IV