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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- Written by: David Kaiser
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 27-06-11
- Language: English
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Star-Spangled Buddhist
- Zen, Tibetan, and Soka Gakkai Buddhism and the Quest for Enlightenment in America
- Written by: Jeff Ourvan
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Approximately four million Americans claim to be Buddhist. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Americans of various faiths read about Buddhism, are interested in its philosophical tenets, or fashionably view themselves as Buddhists. They’re part of what’s been described as the fastest growing religious movement in America: a large group of people dissatisfied with traditional religious offerings and thirsty for an approach to spirituality grounded in logic and consistent with scientific knowledge.
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Star-Spangled Buddhist
- Zen, Tibetan, and Soka Gakkai Buddhism and the Quest for Enlightenment in America
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-13
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market
- Ayn Rand and the American Right
- Written by: Jennifer Burns
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: Her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives.
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Goddess of the Market
- Ayn Rand and the American Right
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
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The Age of Reason
- Written by: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts.
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The Age of Reason
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 31-08-10
- Language: English
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Written by: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-18
- Language: English
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- Written by: Barry M. Andrews
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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A study of the spiritual practices developed by the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and a case for their necessity today.
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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Radical Hope
- Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
- Written by: Jonathan Lear
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground", he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is precisely this point - that of a people faced with the end of their way of life - that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups' story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all.
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Radical Hope
- Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Science
- From Truman to Trump
- Written by: Clifford D. Conner
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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The Tragedy of American Science explores how the US economy’s addiction to military spending distorts and deforms science by making it overwhelmingly subservient to military interests. The primary motive driving American science and technology has become the search for new and more efficient ways to kill people. This transforms science from the classic ideal of a creative force for the advancement of humankind into its destructive and antihuman opposite.
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The Tragedy of American Science
- From Truman to Trump
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 29-07-20
- Language: English
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The Lost History of Liberalism
- From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: Helena Rosenblatt
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking listeners from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism", revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights.
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The Lost History of Liberalism
- From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 12-12-18
- Language: English
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Despite the Best Intentions
- How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
- Written by: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers?
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Despite the Best Intentions
- How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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The Science of Abolition
- How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
- Written by: Eric Herschthal
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders’ scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of scientific disciplines - from chemistry, botany, and geology, to medicine and technology - to portray slaveholders as the enemies of progress.
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The Science of Abolition
- How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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The Price of Defiance
- James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
- Written by: Charles W. Eagles
- Narrated by: Kyle Munley
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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After fighting a protracted legal battle, James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. The riot that followed his arrival on campus seriously wounded scores of U.S. marshals and killed two civilians; more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. To restore order, the Kennedy administration dispatched thousands of soldiers to Oxford. In The Price of Defiance, Charles Eagles shows that the stunning eruption of violence resulted from the "closed society's" long defiance of the civil rights movement and federal law.
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The Price of Defiance
- James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
- Narrated by: Kyle Munley
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 20-08-12
- Language: English
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Apostles of Revolution
- Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
- Written by: John Ferling
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and James Monroe were in the vanguard of revolutionary ideas in the 18th century. As founding fathers, they risked their lives for American independence, but they also wanted more. Each wished for profound changes in the political and social fabric of pre-1776 America and hoped that the American Revolution would spark republican and egalitarian revolutions throughout Europe, sweeping away the old aristocratic order. Ultimately, each rejoiced at the opportunity to be a part of the French Revolution, a cause that became increasingly untenable as idealism gave way to the bloody terror.
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Apostles of Revolution
- Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Written by: George Pendle
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Arming Mother Nature
- The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
- Written by: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement - and its dire predictions - owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture.
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Arming Mother Nature
- The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 03-02-14
- Language: English
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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking
- How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
- Written by: Adam Briggle
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later, he would successfully lead a citizens' initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in Denton - the first Texas town to challenge the oil and gas industry. On his journey to learn about fracking and its effects, he leaped from the ivory tower into the fray. In beautifully narrated chapters, Briggle brings us to town hall debates and neighborhood meetings where citizens wrestle with issues few fully understand.
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A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking
- How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 11-11-15
- Language: English
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- Written by: Matthew Stewart
- Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 12-08-14
- Language: English
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The Darkened Light of Faith
- Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
- Written by: Melvin L. Rogers
- Narrated by: Diontae Black
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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African Americans have had every reason to doubt America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition, which is urgently needed today.
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The Darkened Light of Faith
- Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
- Narrated by: Diontae Black
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- Written by: Richard Haw
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
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John Roebling was one of the 19th century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the 19th century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn.
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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Discourses of the Elders
- The Aztec Huehuetlatolli: A First English Translation
- Written by: Sebastian Purcell - translator
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language—one of the earliest transcripts being the Huehuetlatolli, or Discourses of the Elders, compiled by Friar Andres de Olmos circa 1535.
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Discourses of the Elders
- The Aztec Huehuetlatolli: A First English Translation
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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