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Best Sellers
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....
Written by: Susan Sontag
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The Immortal Game
- A History of Chess
- Written by: David Shenk
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives....
Written by: David Shenk
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The Upside of Irrationality
- The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
- Written by: Dan Ariely
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Ariely exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives....
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Thought provoking and insightful
- By Rajiv Puri on 21-10-23
Written by: Dan Ariely
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H-Pop
- The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
- Written by: Kunal Purohit
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it.
Written by: Kunal Purohit
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Bounce
- Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
- Written by: Matthew Syed
- Narrated by: James Clamp
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Bounce shows how competition provides a master key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world....
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Practice Matters more than Natural Ability
- By anwar ehsanullah on 18-11-20
Written by: Matthew Syed
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Exceptional experience
- By Anupam S. on 22-12-21
Written by: Michael Pollan
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....
Written by: Susan Sontag
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The Immortal Game
- A History of Chess
- Written by: David Shenk
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives....
Written by: David Shenk
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The Upside of Irrationality
- The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
- Written by: Dan Ariely
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Ariely exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives....
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Thought provoking and insightful
- By Rajiv Puri on 21-10-23
Written by: Dan Ariely
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H-Pop
- The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
- Written by: Kunal Purohit
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it.
Written by: Kunal Purohit
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Bounce
- Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
- Written by: Matthew Syed
- Narrated by: James Clamp
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Bounce shows how competition provides a master key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world....
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Practice Matters more than Natural Ability
- By anwar ehsanullah on 18-11-20
Written by: Matthew Syed
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Exceptional experience
- By Anupam S. on 22-12-21
Written by: Michael Pollan
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When to Rob a Bank
- ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
- Written by: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, Erik Bergmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the landmark Freakonomics, comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the world....
Written by: Steven D. Levitt,
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How to Become Famous
- Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case.
Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
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Emotional Design
- Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
- Written by: Don Norman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design....
Written by: Don Norman
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The Strategy of Conflict
- Written by: Thomas C. Schelling
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory - the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict....
Written by: Thomas C. Schelling
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Art of Changing Your Mind
- Written by: James O'Brien
- Narrated by: James O'Brien
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In an age of us vs them, tribal loyalties and bitter divisions, the ability to change our minds may be the most important power we have. In this intimate, personal new book, James' focus shifts from talking to other people to how you talk to yourself about what you really think....
Written by: James O'Brien
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Becoming Batman
- The Possibility of a Superhero
- Written by: E. Paul Zehr, James Kakalios - foreword
- Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Becoming Batman provides the background for attaining the realizable—though extreme—level of human performance that would allow you to be a superhero....
Written by: E. Paul Zehr,
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Emily Post's Etiquette: The Centennial Edition
- Written by: Lizzie Post, Daniel Post Senning
- Narrated by: Lizzie Post
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past one hundred years, Emily Post has been the definitive source for how to navigate—and enhance—every social interaction....
Written by: Lizzie Post,
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Steal This Book (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Written by: Abbie Hoffman, Lisa Fithian - foreword
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan, Christine Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This anniversary edition gives a new generation an insider's view into the movements of the '60s and '70s. While many of the holes in the system that Abbie exposed have since been plugged, the spirit of revolution and the passion of creative activism continue to inspire today....
Written by: Abbie Hoffman,
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Press Reset
- Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
- Written by: Jason Schreier
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart - and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next....
Written by: Jason Schreier
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The Third Wave
- Written by: Alvin Toffler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....
Written by: Alvin Toffler
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The New York Times Book Review
- 125 Years of Literary History
- Written by: The New York Times, Tina Jordan - editor, Noor Qasim - editor
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Tina Jordan, Gary Shteyngart,
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years....
Written by: The New York Times,
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Anne of Avonlea
- Written by: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Narrated by: Karen Savage
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark...
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Book 2 of the Anne novels. Karen Savage is great!
- By Nadeem Kazi on 31-10-23
Written by: Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The Culture Code
- An Ingenious Way To Understand Why People Around The World Live And Buy As They Do
- Written by: Clotaire Rapaille
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices....
Written by: Clotaire Rapaille
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Batman and Psychology
- A Dark and Stormy Knight
- Written by: Travis Langley
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Batman is one of the most compelling characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased since his first appearance in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us?
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You love The Caped Crusader's world? must have!
- By Siddheshvar on 25-05-22
Written by: Travis Langley
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The Master Switch
- The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
- Written by: Tim Wu
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century's great information empires....
Written by: Tim Wu
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PIHKAL
- A Chemical Love Story
- Written by: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Petrea Burchard
- Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
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Alexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs....
Written by: Alexander Shulgin,
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Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- Written by: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....
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I am Afraid
- By Sasidharan Karthikeyan on 28-03-21
Written by: Helen Pluckrose,
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Status and Culture
- How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
- Written by: W. David Marx
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Solving the long-standing mysteries of culture—from the origin of our tastes and identities, to the perpetual cycles of fashions and fads—through a careful exploration of the fundamental human desire for status....
Written by: W. David Marx
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Acid Dreams
- The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
- Written by: Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD....
Written by: Martin A. Lee,
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- Written by: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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In 1968, with the publication of Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan, the spiritual search was revealed to be as incredibly exciting as any death-defying adventure....
Written by: Carlos Castaneda
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Everything Bad Is Good for You
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before....
Written by: Steven Johnson
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Notorious RBG
- The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Written by: Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly a half century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The octogenarian won the Internet....
Written by: Irin Carmon,
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Pimpology
- The 48 Laws of the Game
- Written by: Pimpin' Ken
- Narrated by: Mr. Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction....
Written by: Pimpin' Ken
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Suspicious Minds
- How Culture Shapes Madness
- Written by: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Narrated by: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Combining extraordinary true stories with the latest research, Joel and Ian Gold take us on a wild journey through the delusional brain to explore the intersection of neuroscience, biology, and culture.
Written by: Joel Gold,
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Get the Picture
- A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
- Written by: Bianca Bosker
- Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bianca Bosker plunges deep inside the world of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators and, of course, artists themselves—the kind who work multiple jobs and let their paintings sleep soundly in the studio while they wake up covered in cat pee on a friend's couch. Encompassing everything from color theory to evolutionary biology, and from ancient cave paintings to Instagram as it attempts to discern art's role in our culture, our economy and our hearts, Get the Picture is a rollicking adventure that will change the way you see forever.
Written by: Bianca Bosker
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Zeus y familia
- Dioses, héroes y templos
- Written by: Fermín Bocos
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Un relato erudito y humorístico de la mitología griega y romana. En Zeus y familia, Fermín Bocos dibuja un fresco impresionista en el que con humor y una gran erudición nos presenta un catálogo de los mitos y rituales más notorios del mundo clásico. Una obra amena de divulgación cultural que rezuma amor por la historia, la filosofía y el arte, y que lanza puentes con el mundo actual para dejar constancia de la influyente vigencia que la producción intelectual de griegos y romanos tienen hoy en día.
Written by: Fermín Bocos
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Dissipazioni
- Di carte, corpi e memorie
- Written by: Giuseppe Marcenaro
- Narrated by: Nicola Stravalaci
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Il mondo non è dei viventi, è delle ombre. In ciò che apparentemente è secondario, dietro ciò che non si vede o non si trova più, c’è un segreto ancora più profondo degli uomini e delle vite nelle quali si sono dibattuti. Ricomporre i frammenti, meticolosamente studiarli, amarli e restituirli alla luce significa compiere la trasmutazione alchemica del tempo perduto in tempo ritrovato. Questa è la missione di Dissipazioni.
Written by: Giuseppe Marcenaro
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È tanto che aspetti?
- Written by: Alberto Dallo Specchio
- Narrated by: Francesco Gabrielli
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Nel libro, attraverso la narrazione di alcune situazioni in cui mi è capitato di trovarmi, esprimo i miei punti di vista su vari aspetti della nostra vita quotidiana, sulle nostre abitudini, sui nostri usi e costumi. Siamo sempre più influenzati da modi di pensare stereotipati, da luoghi comuni dai quali si fa sempre fatica a staccarsi. Siamo spesso testimoni di episodi che denotano la mancanza di civiltà, di buona educazione, di senso del rispetto per il prossimo, per le cose, per l’ambiente, delle regole.
Written by: Alberto Dallo Specchio
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How to Become Famous
- Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why some individuals become famous and others don't, and offers a new understanding of the role of greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame.
Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
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La tribu vertical
- Historia de los ultras, hooligans y otras bandas radicales del fútbol español
- Written by: Borja Bauzá
- Narrated by: Hermógenes Alonso
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Borja Bauzá no escribe de oídas. Él mismo formó parte de una banda ultra en su juventud, y para escribir este libro ha pasado años recorriendo España de norte a sur y de este a oeste para entrevistarse con docenas de hooligans de todas las aficiones y de todas las ideologías. Este no es un libro denuncia ni un libro blanqueador. Es una enciclopedia sociológica, cultural y política de un fenómeno de masas desde sus orígenes en los años 70 hasta el día de hoy, pasando por el caos de los años 80, el salvajismo de los años 90 y la sofisticación que llegó a partir del 2000 con las nuevas tecnologías.
Written by: Borja Bauzá
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Get the Picture
- A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
- Written by: Bianca Bosker
- Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bianca Bosker plunges deep inside the world of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators and, of course, artists themselves—the kind who work multiple jobs and let their paintings sleep soundly in the studio while they wake up covered in cat pee on a friend's couch. Encompassing everything from color theory to evolutionary biology, and from ancient cave paintings to Instagram as it attempts to discern art's role in our culture, our economy and our hearts, Get the Picture is a rollicking adventure that will change the way you see forever.
Written by: Bianca Bosker
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Zeus y familia
- Dioses, héroes y templos
- Written by: Fermín Bocos
- Narrated by: Santiago Gómez, Simon Gómez
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Un relato erudito y humorístico de la mitología griega y romana. En Zeus y familia, Fermín Bocos dibuja un fresco impresionista en el que con humor y una gran erudición nos presenta un catálogo de los mitos y rituales más notorios del mundo clásico. Una obra amena de divulgación cultural que rezuma amor por la historia, la filosofía y el arte, y que lanza puentes con el mundo actual para dejar constancia de la influyente vigencia que la producción intelectual de griegos y romanos tienen hoy en día.
Written by: Fermín Bocos
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Dissipazioni
- Di carte, corpi e memorie
- Written by: Giuseppe Marcenaro
- Narrated by: Nicola Stravalaci
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Il mondo non è dei viventi, è delle ombre. In ciò che apparentemente è secondario, dietro ciò che non si vede o non si trova più, c’è un segreto ancora più profondo degli uomini e delle vite nelle quali si sono dibattuti. Ricomporre i frammenti, meticolosamente studiarli, amarli e restituirli alla luce significa compiere la trasmutazione alchemica del tempo perduto in tempo ritrovato. Questa è la missione di Dissipazioni.
Written by: Giuseppe Marcenaro
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È tanto che aspetti?
- Written by: Alberto Dallo Specchio
- Narrated by: Francesco Gabrielli
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Nel libro, attraverso la narrazione di alcune situazioni in cui mi è capitato di trovarmi, esprimo i miei punti di vista su vari aspetti della nostra vita quotidiana, sulle nostre abitudini, sui nostri usi e costumi. Siamo sempre più influenzati da modi di pensare stereotipati, da luoghi comuni dai quali si fa sempre fatica a staccarsi. Siamo spesso testimoni di episodi che denotano la mancanza di civiltà, di buona educazione, di senso del rispetto per il prossimo, per le cose, per l’ambiente, delle regole.
Written by: Alberto Dallo Specchio
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How to Become Famous
- Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why some individuals become famous and others don't, and offers a new understanding of the role of greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame.
Written by: Cass R. Sunstein
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La tribu vertical
- Historia de los ultras, hooligans y otras bandas radicales del fútbol español
- Written by: Borja Bauzá
- Narrated by: Hermógenes Alonso
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Borja Bauzá no escribe de oídas. Él mismo formó parte de una banda ultra en su juventud, y para escribir este libro ha pasado años recorriendo España de norte a sur y de este a oeste para entrevistarse con docenas de hooligans de todas las aficiones y de todas las ideologías. Este no es un libro denuncia ni un libro blanqueador. Es una enciclopedia sociológica, cultural y política de un fenómeno de masas desde sus orígenes en los años 70 hasta el día de hoy, pasando por el caos de los años 80, el salvajismo de los años 90 y la sofisticación que llegó a partir del 2000 con las nuevas tecnologías.
Written by: Borja Bauzá
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Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho
- Pop Classics
- Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.
Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
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The Amazing Pub Quiz - Volume 1
- Four Hundred Questions and Answers
- Written by: Jack Goldstein
- Narrated by: Charles King
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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This fantastic quiz features four hundred questions split into forty sections covering all areas of geography, history, literature, music, sport, science and general knowledge. Whether you are a trivia master or a beginner on the quest to prove your knowledge, this is a perfect addition to your Audiobook catalogue.
Written by: Jack Goldstein
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
Written by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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Baseball: The Movie
- Written by: Noah Gittell
- Narrated by: Noah Gittell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.
Written by: Noah Gittell
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Somebody Told Me
- One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies
- Written by: Danny Wallace
- Narrated by: Danny Wallace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens.
Written by: Danny Wallace
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The Giant on the Skyline
- On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go
- Written by: Clover Stroud
- Narrated by: Clover Stroud
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Clover's eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Pete's work is in America. The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC. Forced to leave the home she loves and consider these questions, Clover sets out to explore the place where she lives, walk the Ridgway, understand a little of the history of her landscape and work out why it is that it is so hard for her to go.
Written by: Clover Stroud
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Forever Barbie
- The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll
- Written by: M. G. Lord
- Narrated by: Robin Weigart
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie’s impact has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to oppress women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what was expected of them, for better or for worse. Whether tarred-and-glittered as antifeminist puffery or celebrated as a feminist icon, Barbie has undeniably influenced generations of girls. In Forever Barbie, cultural critic, investigative journalist, and first-generation Barbie owner M. G. Lord uncovers the surprising story behind Barbie’s smash success.
Written by: M. G. Lord
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The Dead Don't Need Reminding
- In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd S--t
- Written by: Julian Randall
- Narrated by: Julian Randall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather.
Written by: Julian Randall
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Magic Pill
- The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
- Written by: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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These drugs are about to change our world, for better and for worse. Everybody needs to understand how they work – scientifically, emotionally and culturally. Magic Pill is an essential guide to the revolution that has already begun – and which one leading expert argues could be as transformative as the invention of the smartphone.
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Obesity:Problem and Solutions
- By Benny Benjamin on 23-05-24
Written by: Johann Hari
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H-Pop
- The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
- Written by: Kunal Purohit
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in kavi sammelans to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand of 'breaking news' to books rescripting historical events, 'Hindutva Pop' or H-Pop is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva's core beliefs.
Written by: Kunal Purohit
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K-Drama School
- A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television
- Written by: Grace Jung
- Narrated by: Grace Jung
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television—but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them? From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television.
Written by: Grace Jung
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The Man Who Saved Britain
- Written by: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: James Bond. Written with passion, wit and a great deal of personal insight and affection, this book is his wildly amusing attempt to get to grips with Bond’s legacy and the difficult decades in which it really mattered.
Written by: Simon Winder