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Talentos ocultos
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
La fenomenal historia de mujeres matemáticas afroamericanas de la NASA en la vanguardia del movimiento feminista y de derechos civiles, cuyos cálculos impulsaron uno de los mayores logros espaciales de Estados Unidos. Pronto será una gran película protagonizada por Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, y Kevin Costner.... Read more
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The Uses of Enchantment
By: Bruno Bettelheim
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.
Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little... Read more
On Tyranny
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)
“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more
Nobody’s Son
By: Cathy Glass
Narrated by: Denica Fairman
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’s already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he’ll only... Read more
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Now We Are 40
By: Tiffanie Darke
Narrated by: Tiffanie Darke
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers – but what about us? The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool? Generation X? Remember them? The kids who believed they'd never grow up. The generation Douglas Coupland... Read more
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The Art of Cruelty
By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn... Read more
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Why I Am Not A Feminist
By: Jessa Crispin
Narrated by: Jessa Crispin
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism… and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the... Read more
Unwarranted
By: Barry Friedman
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues... Read more
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Bullies
By: Ben Shapiro
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Shapiro uncovers the simple strategy used by liberals and their friends in the media: bully the living hell out of conservatives. Play the race card, the class card, the sexism card. Use any and every means at your disposal to demonize your opposition—to shut them up. Then pretend that such bullying is justified, because, after all,... Read more
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Drop the Ball
By: Tiffany Dufu
Narrated by: Tiffany Dufu
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“We won’t reach equality in the workplace without equality in the home. Drop the Ball shows how our relationships and our lives are richer when we lean in together.” — Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
This program is read by the author.
Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball is a bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's... Read more
The Unnatural World
By: David Biello
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The Unnatural World chronicles a disparate band of unlikely heroes: an effervescent mad scientist who would fertilize the seas; a pigeon obsessive bent on bringing back the extinct; a low-level government functionary in China doing his best to clean up his city, and more. These scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people are all working toward... Read more
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Cannibalism
By: Bill Schutt
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of... Read more
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Tides
By: Jonathan White
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a... Read more
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Do All Lives Matter?
By: Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins
Narrated by: Calvin Robinson
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong.
The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents — but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence and mistreatment, and some of us defensively... Read more
A Midwife’s Tale
By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she... Read more
Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
By: Roberta Michnick Golink, PhD; Kathy Hirsh-Pase...
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller!
Bronze medal winner of the Living Now Book Awards for Parenting!
In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck... Read more
Sex Scandal
By: Ashley McGuire
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism—the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book, Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural, biological distinctions between men and women... Read more
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The Matristic Culture of Pre-historic Europe
By: Mary Mackey, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
There was a time in human history when a matristic culture dominated the social structure. When ask to describe the difference between matriarchal and matristic cultures, Mackey responded, “Patriarchy is men in charge, matriarchy would be women in charge . . . Matristic is a more collaborative, partnership, a communal way of governing. It’s a... Read more
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Rethink
By: Steven Poole
Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored... Read more
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Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren
By: Dr. Daniele Ganser
Narrated by: Dr. Daniele Ganser
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wir, die Völker der Vereinten Nationen – fest entschlossen, künftige Geschlechter vor der Geißel des Krieges zu bewahren, die zweimal zu unseren Lebzeiten unsagbares Leid über die Menschheit gebracht hat –, haben beschlossen: Alle Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede gegen die territoriale Unversehrtheit oder die... Read more
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Woman Walking Ahead
By: Eileen Pollack
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was... Read more
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Hit Makers
By: Derek Thompson
Narrated by: Derek Thompson
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“Enthralling - full of 'aha' moments about why some ideas soar and others never get off the ground. This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off." —Adam Grant
Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real... Read more
All the Lives I Want
By: Alana Massey
Narrated by: Alana Massey
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her." -- Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
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Kein Wohlstand für alle!?
By: Ulrich Schneider
Narrated by: Martin Harbauer
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Deutschland fällt auseinander „Wohlstand für alle“ lautet seit Ludwig Erhard das zentrale Versprechen aller Regierungen. Tatsächlich jedoch werden seit Jahrzehnten Reiche immer reicher, während immer größere Teile der Mittelschicht abgehängt werden und von der Hand in den Mund leben müssen. Das ist weder Zufall noch Schicksal, sondern das... Read more
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