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American Pravda
- My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News
- Written by: James O'Keefe
- Narrated by: James O'Keefe
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to....
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The Making of Star
- Written by: Vanita Kohli
- Narrated by: J. Benaifer Mirza
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
When Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corporation, blew up more than $870 million buying Star TV from Richard Li in the early 1990s, analysts were dismayed. Why on earth had Murdoch invested in a pan-Asian broadcaster that was neither fish nor fowl? Find out....
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The Good Girls Revolt
- How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
- Written by: Lynn Povich
- Narrated by: Susan Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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It was the 1960s - a time of economic boom and social strife....
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Teaching to Transgress
- Education as the Practice of Freedom
- Written by: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to....
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The Artist in the Machine
- The World of AI-Powered Creativity
- Written by: Arthur I. Miller
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools? Find out more....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century's great information empires....
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American Pravda
- My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News
- Written by: James O'Keefe
- Narrated by: James O'Keefe
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to....
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The Making of Star
- Written by: Vanita Kohli
- Narrated by: J. Benaifer Mirza
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
When Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corporation, blew up more than $870 million buying Star TV from Richard Li in the early 1990s, analysts were dismayed. Why on earth had Murdoch invested in a pan-Asian broadcaster that was neither fish nor fowl? Find out....
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The Good Girls Revolt
- How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
- Written by: Lynn Povich
- Narrated by: Susan Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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It was the 1960s - a time of economic boom and social strife....
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Teaching to Transgress
- Education as the Practice of Freedom
- Written by: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to....
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The Artist in the Machine
- The World of AI-Powered Creativity
- Written by: Arthur I. Miller
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools? Find out more....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the twentieth century's great information empires....
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The Illuminati
- The Secret Society That Hijacked the World
- Written by: Jim Marrs
- Narrated by: Terrence Bayes
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes....
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Factfulness
- Wie wir lernen, die Welt so zu sehen, wie sie wirklich ist
- Written by: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Narrated by: Uve Teschner
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Es wird alles immer schlimmer, eine schreckliche Nachricht jagt die andere: Die Reichen werden reicher, die Armen ärmer. Es gibt immer mehr Kriege...
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Personal History
- Written by: Katharine Graham
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is a book composed of both personal memoir and history....
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
- Written by: Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
In 1999, when Tom O’Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the 30th anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say....
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4 out of 5 stars
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very well done
- By Punisher on 09-11-20
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Reclaiming Conversation
- The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
- Written by: Sherry Turkle
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A repetitive conversation
- By Amazon Customer on 22-04-19
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Trust Me, I'm Lying
- Confessions of a Media Manipulator
- Written by: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 5
You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation....
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2 out of 5 stars
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ugh
- By Yash on 31-08-20
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Grey Wolf
- The Escape of Adolf Hitler
- Written by: Simon Dunstan, Gerrard Williams
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Did Hitler - code name "Grey Wolf" - really die in 1945? Gripping new evidence shows what could have happened....
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Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories
- What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
- Written by: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...
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5 out of 5 stars
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an Essential listen for today's generation
- By Dawood on 10-05-20
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Army Wives
- The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
- Written by: Tanya Biank
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring listeners into the hearts and homes of today's military wives....
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Hacking the Unconscious
- Written by: Rory Sutherland
- Narrated by: Rory Sutherland
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Advertising guru Rory Sutherland is a world-leading proponent of behavioural economics. In Hacking the Unconscious, he looks at how this emerging science is used by marketers to influence us and challenges us to reassess which ideas we hold dear....
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Hate Inc.
- Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
- Written by: Matt Taibbi
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....
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The Power of Experiments
- Decision-Making in a Data Driven World
- Written by: Michael Luca, Max H. Bazerman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
How organizations - including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook - learn from experiments in a data-driven world....
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Propaganda
- Written by: Edward Bernays, Mark Crispin Miller - introduction
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations....
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5 out of 5 stars
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old problem old solution
- By Ashish Agrawal on 15-03-21
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Digital Cash
- The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
- Written by: Finn Brunton
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is the fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators - from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies....
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Media Control
- The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy - one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great.Great.Great
- By tamanna hossain on 05-09-21
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Fighting Misinformation
- Digital Media Literacy
- Written by: Tara Susman-Peña, Mehri Druckman, Nina Oduro,
- Narrated by: Tara Susman-Peña
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Because we are continuously taking in information from a variety of sources, we are under constant threat from those who would intentionally (or accidentally) misinform - from foreign operatives, advertisers, politicians, and general scammers to our own friends and family....
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Secret Societies: Controlling the Masses
- Written by: John Stevens
- Narrated by: Charles Washington, OH Krill, Steven Woodsford
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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From the dawn of mankind, there have been groups with the power and intent to manipulate the masses to their end game of control and dominance over all humanity....
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Project Blue Book
- The Top Secret UFO Files That Revealed the Government Cover-Up
- Written by: Brad Steiger, Donald R. Schmitt - foreword
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This new edition of the blockbuster book reveals the top secret findings of the US government about UFOs....
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Post-Truth
- Written by: Lee C. McIntyre
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote....
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Youtubers
- How Youtube Shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars
- Written by: Chris Stokel-Walker
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Two billion people worldwide watch YouTube. Yet its stars remain a mystery to much of the public and media. What is the secret of their...
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Twitter and Tear Gas
- The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
- Written by: Zeynep Tufekci
- Narrated by: Carly Robins
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests - how they form, how they operate differently from past protests....
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The Advertising Effect
- Written by: Adam Ferrier, Jennifer Fleming
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Advertising Effect, respected advertising insider, Adam Ferrier, reveals the ten techniques used by some of the best-known brands across the globe....
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Die neue Einsamkeit
- Und wie wir sie als Gesellschaft überwinden können
- Written by: Diana Kinnert, Marc Bielefeld
- Narrated by: Irina Salkow
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Wir vereinsamen immer mehr - Zeit für neue Ideen für ein neues Miteinander Eine neue Einsamkeit greift immer weiter um sich...
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Breaking the Social Media Prism
- How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
- Written by: Christopher A. Bail
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online, Breaking the Social Media Prism shows how to combat online polarization without deleting our accounts....
