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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
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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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Bounce
- Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
- Written by: Matthew Syed
- Narrated by: James Clamp
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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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 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
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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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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
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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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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 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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Emotional Design
- Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
- Written by: Don Norman
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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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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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 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
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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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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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Batman and Psychology
- A Dark and Stormy Knight
- Written by: Travis Langley
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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 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 Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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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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The Revenge of Analog
- Real Things and Why They Matter
- Written by: David Sax
- Narrated by: David Sax
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top 10 books of 2016. A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed....
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Nice reflection n PoV
- By Nishant Singh on 06-09-20
Written by: David Sax
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The Strategy of Conflict
- Written by: Thomas C. Schelling
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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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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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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Everything Bad Is Good for You
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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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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Original Gangstas
- The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
- Written by: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur....
Written by: Ben Westhoff
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Thailand - Culture Smart!
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Written by: Roger Jones
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For many outsiders, Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military....
Written by: Roger Jones
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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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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
- Written by: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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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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Traffic
- Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
- Written by: Ben Smith
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam, Ben Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society....
Written by: Ben Smith
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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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Inside Voice
- My Obsession with How We Sound
- Written by: Lake Bell
- Narrated by: Lake Bell, Malcolm Gladwell -Contributor, Drew Barrymore -Contributor,
- Length: 6 hrs
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A humorous, unapologetically feminist, insightful and personal deep dive into our most outward-facing, least-appreciated trait—our voice....
Written by: Lake Bell
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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
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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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Unlikeable Female Characters
- The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
- Written by: Anna Bogutskaya, Terri White - foreword
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Unlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters, examining what exactly makes them popular, how audiences have reacted to them, and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman....
Written by: Anna Bogutskaya,
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An Economist Gets Lunch
- New Rules for Everyday Foodies
- Written by: Tyler Cowen
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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One of the most influential economists of the decade boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong....
Written by: Tyler Cowen
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Hollywood Heroes
- How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God
- Written by: Frank Turek, Zach Turek
- Narrated by: Frank Turek, Taylor Lambert
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Seven fictional stories - Captain America, Iron Man, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Wonder Woman - point us to the ultimate hero, Jesus Christ....
Written by: Frank Turek,
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Trekonomics
- The Economics of Star Trek
- Written by: Manu Saadia
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward....
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A good one time listen
- By Nehha Rajpal on 14-04-22
Written by: Manu Saadia
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Press Reset
- Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
- Written by: Jason Schreier
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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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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Lost in a Good Game
- Why We Play Video Games and What They Can Do for Us
- Written by: Pete Etchells
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened....
Written by: Pete Etchells
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Turkey - Culture Smart!
- The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture
- Written by: Charlotte McPherson
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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This new, updated edition of Culture Smart! Turkey reveals a nation in transition. Over the last two decades, living conditions have improved greatly....
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such a dumb author ...
- By Lingareddy Subba Rami Reddy on 09-03-24
Written by: Charlotte McPherson
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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
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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....
Written by: Finn Brunton
New Releases
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Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Pop Classics
- Written by: Richard Rosenbaum
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon―from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s, and up to the sale of the property to Nickelodeon in 2009 and relaunch of the Turtles with new comics, cartoons, and a big-budget Hollywood film.
Written by: Richard Rosenbaum
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It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
- Pop Classics
- Written by: Adam Nayman
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that Showgirls is much smarter and deeper than it is given credit for.
Written by: Adam Nayman
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Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks
- Written by: Andy Burns
- Narrated by: Marcus Zarco
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Damn good coffee, cherry pie, and the “big bang of auteur television”―why Twin Peaks deserves to be a pop culture classic In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the medium could achieve in a one-hour drama.
Written by: Andy Burns
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Обратная связь. Часть 1
- Трансерфинг реальности
- Written by: Вадим Зеланд
- Narrated by: Михаил Черняк
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Все мы, так или иначе, находимся во власти обстоятельств. Желания не исполняются, мечты не сбываются, зато худшие ожидания, как назло, оправдываются. Неужели нельзя наоборот? Оказывается, можно.
Written by: Вадим Зеланд
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Long Live Queer Nightlife
- How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
- Written by: Amin Ghaziani
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties—club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out.
Written by: Amin Ghaziani
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Cloverfield
- Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema
- Written by: Steffen Hantke
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre's fascination with personal stories captured by found footage to the grand violence of history. Innovative and intense, Cloverfield represented blockbuster filmmaking at its best.
Written by: Steffen Hantke
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Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Pop Classics
- Written by: Richard Rosenbaum
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon―from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s, and up to the sale of the property to Nickelodeon in 2009 and relaunch of the Turtles with new comics, cartoons, and a big-budget Hollywood film.
Written by: Richard Rosenbaum
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It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
- Pop Classics
- Written by: Adam Nayman
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that Showgirls is much smarter and deeper than it is given credit for.
Written by: Adam Nayman
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Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks
- Written by: Andy Burns
- Narrated by: Marcus Zarco
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Damn good coffee, cherry pie, and the “big bang of auteur television”―why Twin Peaks deserves to be a pop culture classic In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the medium could achieve in a one-hour drama.
Written by: Andy Burns
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Обратная связь. Часть 1
- Трансерфинг реальности
- Written by: Вадим Зеланд
- Narrated by: Михаил Черняк
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Все мы, так или иначе, находимся во власти обстоятельств. Желания не исполняются, мечты не сбываются, зато худшие ожидания, как назло, оправдываются. Неужели нельзя наоборот? Оказывается, можно.
Written by: Вадим Зеланд
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Long Live Queer Nightlife
- How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
- Written by: Amin Ghaziani
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties—club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out.
Written by: Amin Ghaziani
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Cloverfield
- Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema
- Written by: Steffen Hantke
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves's Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading the jingoistic rhetoric of retributive military aggression for serious engagement with personal and collective trauma. It applied the horror genre's fascination with personal stories captured by found footage to the grand violence of history. Innovative and intense, Cloverfield represented blockbuster filmmaking at its best.
Written by: Steffen Hantke
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Der Geist aus der Maschine
- Eine superschnelle Menschheitsgeschichte des digitalen Universums
- Written by: Andrian Kreye
- Narrated by: Steffen Groth
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Wie aus den Visionen einer Handvoll Programmierer eine wirtschaftliche und politische Weltmacht erwuchs. Noch nie hat sich ein entscheidendes Kapitel der Menschheitsgeschichte so schnell vollzogen wie die digitale Revolution. Davon handelt das neue Buch von Andrian Kreye. Der renommierte Kulturjournalist hat den Aufstieg der digitalen Technologien von einer Subkultur der Programmierer, Wissenschaftler und utopischen Denker in den 1980er-Jahren zur kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Superkraft der Gegenwart genau verfolgt, vor Ort und mit den zentralen Figuren dieser Bewegung.
Written by: Andrian Kreye
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Learning to Think
- Written by: Tracy King
- Narrated by: Tracy King
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Put yourself in Tracy King's shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia. By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity. This isn't the stuff of cult documentaries; this is the story of an ordinary family trapped in a broken system. It's a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances.
Written by: Tracy King
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Among the Trolls
- My Journey Through Conspiracyland
- Written by: Marianna Spring
- Narrated by: Marianna Spring
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you heard that Bill Gates is running a secret genocidal plot? That the war in Ukraine isn't real? Or that people are paid to act out some of the worst attacks imaginable? In Among the Trolls, BBC journalist Marianna Spring meets the people spreading online conspiracy theories—and their victims. Far from a few lone wolves, she uncovers a staggering network of true believers and conspiracy influencers engaged in an international information war.
Written by: Marianna Spring
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Nerdopoli
- Espressioni di una comunità in evoluzione
- Written by: Susanna Scrivo, Eleonora C. Caruso, Alice Cucchetti,
- Narrated by: Irene Giuliano, Gianandrea Muià
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Fino a pochi anni fa il nerd, in Italia tradotto come ‘sfigato’, era il ragazzo disadattato, fisicamente repellente, cervellone al limite del maniacale e dedito a hobby considerati ridicoli, come le storie di fantascienza e la tecnologia. Ma i tempi cambiano, e nel corso degli anni si è andato rafforzando un vero e proprio orgoglio identitario: oggi il nerd non è più lo sfigato con gli occhiali spessi, ma un uomo, o una donna, con competenze precise e consapevole del proprio valore, anche ideologico.
Written by: Susanna Scrivo,
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La guerra dei meme - Fenomenologia di uno scherzo infinito
- Written by: Alessandro Lolli
- Narrated by: Roberto Marinelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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I meme sono le immaginette buffe che tutti vediamo su Internet. Vivi, attivi e sempre rinnovati nelle loro forme, sono attualmente il mezzo di comunicazione più longevo del web. Nate come meccanismo umoristico piuttosto semplice, queste immagini si sono via via trasformate, diventando un sistema a vari livelli di leggibilità, talvolta veicolo di messaggi che vanno ben oltre il semplice humor, passando da community di Alt-right a sostegno di Donald Trump a gruppi Alt-left, che cercano di riappropriarsi della risata perduta a sinistra, con in mezzo tutto il sottobosco dell’Internet.
Written by: Alessandro Lolli
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Abschied von den Boomern
- Written by: Heinz Bude
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Die Boomer nehmen Abschied. Wer zwischen 1955 und 1970 in der Zeit der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge zur Welt gekommen ist, hat den Ruhestand erreicht oder zählt zu den Älteren, die nach und nach ihre Posten freimachen. Die Boomer verbindet das Gefühl, dass es zu viele von ihnen gibt, das spürten sie schon in überfüllten Klassenzimmern und später auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Daraus resultierte eine Haltung der Skepsis, und die Erfahrung von AIDS und Tschernobyl hat sie in einer entscheidenden Phase ihrer Biografie gelehrt, dass nichts gesichert und gar nichts garantiert ist.
Written by: Heinz Bude
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People Who Lunch
- On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
- Written by: Sally Olds
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labor, to the reign of the shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more. People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, labor and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a less than ideal world.
Written by: Sally Olds
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Irresistible
- How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World
- Written by: Joshua Paul Dale
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Seeing a cute animal triggers some of the most powerful psychological instincts we have – the ones that elicit our care and protection – but there is a deeper story behind the broad appeal of Japanese cats and saccharine greetings cards. Joshua Paul Dale, a pioneer in the burgeoning field of cuteness studies, explains how the cute aesthetic spread around the globe, from pop brands to Lolita fashion, kids' cartoons and the unstoppable rise of Hello Kitty.
Written by: Joshua Paul Dale
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Comic Book Nation
- The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
- Written by: Bradford W. Wright
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.
Written by: Bradford W. Wright
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Generation Z
- Zwischen Selbstverwirklichung, Insta-Einsamkeit und der Hoffnung auf eine bessere Welt
- Written by: Valentina Vapaux
- Narrated by: Regine Lange
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Gegenstand des Hörbuches ist eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen Jugendkultur. Welchen Einfluss haben Influencer, in wie weit prägt und verstärkt Social Media klassische Geschlechterrollen, wie sieht die von der Werbebranche getriebene online Welt wirklich aus und wie politisch sind die „Z's“? Analysiert wird außerdem wie Dating Apps Liebe und Beziehungen dieser Generation verändert und warum die Generation Z als “einsamste” Generation gesehen wird.
Written by: Valentina Vapaux
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El Perú Ilustrado. Semanario para las Familias
- Litografías y Cultura Visual en la Posguerra (1887-1892)
- Written by: Emma Patricia Victorio Cánovas
- Narrated by: Anabel Méndez
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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A mediados del siglo XIX, gracias a la invención de la fotografía y al desarrollo de la litografía, surgieron diarios, periódicos y revistas con ilustraciones que ocuparon un lugar importante en el impreso. El ejemplo más representativo es el semanario El Perú Ilustrado. En el libro El Perú Ilustrado. Semanario para las familias. Litografías y cultura visual en la posguerra (1887-1892), de Emma Patricia Victorio Cánovas, se investigan los argumentos que configuraron nuestra peruanidad a través de textos e imágenes que generaron sentimientos de pertenencia e identidad durante el periodo de posguerra.
Written by: Emma Patricia Victorio Cánovas
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Mundus muliebris
- Written by: Marc Fumaroli, José Ramón Monreal - traductor
- Narrated by: Rafael Rojas
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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En este lúcido ensayo, el erudito ensayista francés analiza la obra de Élisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, una de las pintoras más brillantes e ignoradas de las últimas decadas prerrevolucionarias en Francia. Retratista magistral "capaz de conjugar el parecido fiel con la idealización im- palpable", Vigee Le Brun fue la aliada a la que escogió María Antonieta para ofrecer una imagen humana y digna de ese mundus muliebris que ella representaba y que, supuestamente, corrompía el prestigio y la autoridad de los monarcas a fuerza de afeminarlos.
Written by: Marc Fumaroli,