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  • News From Nowhere by William Morris ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

    News From Nowhere by William Morris ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
    Jun 3 2026
    News From Nowhere by William Morris audiobook. Genre: scifi In News From Nowhere, William Morris blends dream vision, social criticism, and speculative fiction into a vivid journey through a transformed England. After falling asleep following a heated discussion about politics and society, William Guest awakens in a future London unlike anything he has known. The city is cleaner, quieter, and shaped by beauty, craft, and cooperation rather than industry, poverty, and profit. As Guest travels along the Thames and into the countryside, he meets a series of men and women who introduce him to the customs, values, and daily life of this new world. Through these encounters, Morris explores what work, love, community, and freedom might look like in a society rebuilt from the ground up. Yet Guest is not simply a tourist in paradise - he is also a man formed by the inequalities of the old world, and his wonder is matched by questions about whether such a life can truly satisfy the human spirit. Gentle, reflective, and richly descriptive, this classic novel invites listeners to imagine not just a different future, but a different way of living. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:14) Chapter 02 (00:23:07) Chapter 03 (00:42:27) Chapter 04 (00:49:04) Chapter 05 (01:03:08) Chapter 06 (01:18:03) Chapter 07 (01:33:24) Chapter 08 (01:40:56) Chapter 09 (02:04:59) Chapter 10 (02:29:01) Chapter 11 (02:37:41) Chapter 12 (02:49:04) Chapter 13 (03:01:04) Chapter 14 (03:19:07) Chapter 15 (03:27:43) Chapter 16 (03:58:54) Chapter 17 (04:26:32) Chapter 18 (04:37:40) Chapter 19 (04:48:40) Chapter 20 (04:57:53) Chapter 21 (05:18:39) Chapter 22 (05:30:36) Chapter 23 (05:49:07) Chapter 24 (05:58:06) Chapter 25 (06:07:14) Chapter 26 (06:29:47) Chapter 27 (06:38:09) Chapter 28 (06:48:15) Chapter 29 (07:00:19) Chapter 30 (07:11:09) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    7 hrs and 38 mins
  • The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie ~ Full Audiobook [history]

    The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie ~ Full Audiobook [history]
    Jun 2 2026
    The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie audiobook. Genre: history In this compact work of historical interpretation, pioneering archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie sets out to explain why great cultures seem to rise, peak, decline, and return in recurring waves. Drawing on evidence from ancient Egypt, Minoan Crete, Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe, he compares sculpture, architecture, literature, science, politics, and wealth in an effort to map the rhythm of civilisation across centuries. Petrie serves as both guide and provocateur, arguing that art, especially sculpture, offers one of the clearest measures of a society's vitality, and then building a sweeping theory from those patterns. The book's central drama lies in its attempt to turn scattered ruins and historical fragments into a single grand story about growth, exhaustion, renewal, and the forces that push societies forward or pull them apart. Short but ambitious, it blends archaeology, cultural criticism, and philosophy of history into a bold meditation on progress, decay, and the future. Modern listeners should note that some of Petrie's assumptions about race and cultural development reflect the dated and controversial views of his era. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:59) Chapter 02 (00:24:25) Chapter 03 (00:35:27) Chapter 04 (00:47:10) Chapter 05 (01:02:52) Chapter 06 (01:27:56) Chapter 07 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • The Animate and the Inanimate by William James Sidis ~ Full Audiobook [science]

    The Animate and the Inanimate by William James Sidis ~ Full Audiobook [science]
    Jun 1 2026
    The Animate and the Inanimate by William James Sidis audiobook. Genre: science In The Animate and the Inanimate, William James Sidis offers an ambitious and highly unusual exploration of one of science's oldest questions: what truly separates living things from nonliving matter? Drawing on thermodynamics, cosmology, chemistry, and evolutionary thought, Sidis argues that the boundary between life and matter may be far less absolute than it appears. He examines the second law of thermodynamics, the flow of energy through natural systems, and the behavior of organisms and lifeless bodies in an effort to build a unified picture of the universe. Along the way, he ventures into sweeping speculation about the structure of the cosmos, the nature of entropy, the possibility of regions where physical tendencies run opposite to those we observe, and the idea that life may be part of an ongoing cosmic process rather than a single beginning. Written by one of the twentieth century's most famous prodigies, this short but challenging work is both a scientific treatise and a bold philosophical argument. It invites listeners to confront deep questions about order, disorder, existence, and humanity's place in a universe that may be stranger and more dynamic than conventional science once imagined. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:05) Chapter 01 (00:14:47) Chapter 02 (00:19:12) Chapter 03 (00:27:25) Chapter 04 (00:43:30) Chapter 05 (00:48:26) Chapter 06 (01:00:56) Chapter 07 (01:14:48) Chapter 08 (01:26:31) Chapter 09 (01:32:15) Chapter 10 (01:40:56) Chapter 11 (01:52:02) Chapter 12 (02:18:45) Chapter 13 (02:38:54) Chapter 14 (02:47:57) Chapter 15 (02:58:51) Chapter 16 (03:14:16) Chapter 17 (03:27:22) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 44 mins
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