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Freakonomics
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 188
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 143
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 143

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Depth of analysis

  • By Amazon Customer on 06-11-24

Written by: Steven D. Levitt,

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Skin in the Game
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 342
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 259
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 256

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Extraordinary

  • By Akhil Siddharth on 12-03-21

Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Early Indians
  • Early Indians

  • Written by: Tony Joseph
  • Narrated by: Amit Bhargav
  • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 35
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 31
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 31

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....

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Almost grounded in facts.

  • By Pizza Taco Dinosaur on 08-03-25

Written by: Tony Joseph

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When Breath Becomes Air
  • When Breath Becomes Air

  • Written by: Paul Kalanithi
  • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra
  • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 822
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 702
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 709

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....

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto

  • Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
  • Narrated by: Malk Williams
  • Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 138
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 107
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 107

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Helps to make one's message more compelling

  • By Rahul Jagannathan on 26-04-25

Written by: Chip Heath,

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Freakonomics
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 188
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 143
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 143

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Depth of analysis

  • By Amazon Customer on 06-11-24

Written by: Steven D. Levitt,

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Skin in the Game
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 342
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 259
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 256

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Extraordinary

  • By Akhil Siddharth on 12-03-21

Written by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Early Indians
  • Early Indians

  • Written by: Tony Joseph
  • Narrated by: Amit Bhargav
  • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 35
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 31
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 31

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....

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Almost grounded in facts.

  • By Pizza Taco Dinosaur on 08-03-25

Written by: Tony Joseph

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When Breath Becomes Air
  • When Breath Becomes Air

  • Written by: Paul Kalanithi
  • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Sunil Malhotra
  • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 822
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 702
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 709

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....

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto

  • Written by: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
  • Narrated by: Malk Williams
  • Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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
  • 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
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 138
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 107
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 107

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

  • Written by: John Green
  • Narrated by: John Green
  • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 193
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 160
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 160

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from number-one best-selling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • The Road to Character

  • Written by: David Brooks
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey, David Brooks
  • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 11
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 8

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
  • The Order of Things

  • An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
  • Written by: Michel Foucault
  • Narrated by: James Gillies
  • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 22
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 16
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 16

Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 62
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 52
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 52

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....

  • 1 out of 5 stars
  • कहानी किस्सों की एक किताब

  • By Sunil Kumar Parmar on 20-07-22

Written by: Malcolm Gladwell

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The Second Mountain
  • The Second Mountain

  • Written by: David Brooks
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 9

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 14
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 12
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 11

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • importance of Physical examination in diagnosis o

  • By Anonymous User on 22-08-23

Written by: Lisa Sanders

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Talk
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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 Social Animal

  • The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
  • Written by: David Brooks
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 7

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • just winderfull

  • By BCNigam on 28-10-24

Written by: David Brooks

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The Confidence Code
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 19
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 12
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 12

Working women today are better educated and more well-qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Well researched and presented, a must listen.

  • By Amrita on 29-10-20

Written by: Katty Kay,

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Die Wise
  • Die Wise

  • A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
  • Written by: Stephen Jenkinson
  • Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
  • Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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
  • Black Skin, White Masks

  • Penguin Modern Classics
  • Written by: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox
  • Narrated by: Theo Solomon
  • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 2
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 2
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 2

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....

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Compelling perspectives but excessive rhetoric

  • By sandyqbg on 31-05-23

Written by: Frantz Fanon,

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A Grief Observed
  • A Grief Observed

  • Written by: C. S. Lewis
  • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
  • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 17
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Lament

  • By Dr. Manoj Kumar Khatore on 06-05-24

Written by: C. S. Lewis

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Travels with Epicurus
  • Travels with Epicurus

  • Written by: Daniel Klein
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2

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
  • Introduction to Sociology 3e

  • Written by: OpenStax
  • Narrated by: Brian Barrick
  • Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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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
  • Seeing Like a State

  • Written by: James C. Scott
  • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
  • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 15
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 13

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Could not put this down

  • By Anonymous User on 20-01-22

Written by: James C. Scott

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After
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Captivating

  • By Andrea on 06-06-24

Written by: Bruce Greyson

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A Feast of Vultures
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 94
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 79
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 79

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 30
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 27
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 27

Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • mixed

  • By Amit K Thakur on 11-07-20

Written by: Francis Fukuyama

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My Big TOE: Awakening
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 1
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    5 out of 5 stars 1
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    5 out of 5 stars 1

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....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Autobiography of Yogi scientist

  • By anant bhandarkar on 06-01-25

Written by: Thomas Campbell

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The Blue Zones
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 4
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3

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
  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

  • Written by: Thorstein Veblen
  • Narrated by: John Lescault
  • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 2
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    5 out of 5 stars 2
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    4 out of 5 stars 2

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
  • 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
  • Unabridged
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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
  • 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
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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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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Form Follows Fever
  • 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
  • Unabridged
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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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Selling Social Justice
  • Selling Social Justice

  • Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
  • Written by: Jennifer C. Pan
  • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
  • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
  • Unabridged
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Selling Social Justice investigates the rise and spread of contemporary antiracist ideology and shows how the rich came to embrace this particular form of justice. In this provocative account, Jennifer C. Pan explores why, in a twenty-first-century economy of increasing scarcity, antiracism is the wrong frame for understanding and fighting inequality.

Written by: Jennifer C. Pan

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The Theory of the Leisure Class
  • 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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Beyond States
  • Beyond States

  • Powers, Peoples and Global Order
  • Written by: Anthony Pagden
  • Narrated by: Michael Langan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
  • Unabridged
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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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Father Nature
  • Father Nature

  • The Science of Paternal Potential
  • Written by: James K. Rilling
  • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
  • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
  • Unabridged
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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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Sharing Risk
  • 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
  • Unabridged
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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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Form Follows Fever
  • 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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Selling Social Justice
  • Selling Social Justice

  • Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
  • Written by: Jennifer C. Pan
  • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
  • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Selling Social Justice investigates the rise and spread of contemporary antiracist ideology and shows how the rich came to embrace this particular form of justice. In this provocative account, Jennifer C. Pan explores why, in a twenty-first-century economy of increasing scarcity, antiracism is the wrong frame for understanding and fighting inequality.

Written by: Jennifer C. Pan

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The Theory of the Leisure Class
  • The Theory of the Leisure Class

  • Written by: Thorstein Veblen
  • Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
  • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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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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Beyond States
  • Beyond States

  • Powers, Peoples and Global Order
  • Written by: Anthony Pagden
  • Narrated by: Michael Langan
  • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
  • Unabridged
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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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Father Nature
  • 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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Sharing Risk
  • 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
  • Unabridged
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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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