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Play Anything
- The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
- Written by: Ian Bogost
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games.
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Book is refreshing
- By MADHAV NANDAN on 31-03-24
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Play Anything
- The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
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Very Important People
- Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- Written by: Ashley Mears
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men.
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Very Important People
- Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-20
- Language: English
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How Do You Like It?
- A Guide for Getting What You Want (in Bed)
- Written by: Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn
- Narrated by: Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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The Internet’s most popular sex coach answers every TMI question about sex, dating, and relationships in this guide to sexual satisfaction that also features well-researched studies, prompts, and more. Dubbed the “Internet’s Resident Sexpert” by Paper magazine and known as the “Queen of Sex” on TikTok, Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn believes every person has the right to an incredible and fulfilling sex life, a message she preaches to her more than 2.3 million followers on social media.
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How Do You Like It?
- A Guide for Getting What You Want (in Bed)
- Narrated by: Dr. Tara Suwinyattichaiporn
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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These Fists Break Bricks
- How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
- Written by: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as kung fu movies kicked off a craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, sell hundreds of thousands of video tapes, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-White stars.
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These Fists Break Bricks
- How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
- Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 15-09-21
- Language: English
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A Better Ape
- The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human
- Written by: Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved? In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution.
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A Better Ape
- The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 24-05-22
- Language: English
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How To Survive a Horror Movie
- All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
- Written by: Seth Grahame-Smith
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Seth Grahame-Smith delivers the definitive, essential guide to making it through a horror movie in one piece. As hilarious as it is useful (if you’re trapped in a scary flick, that is), How to Survive a Horror Movie covers all the bases. Trapped in a haunted house? Check. Stalked by an evil doll? Check. Wandering aimlessly through the remains of the old world as a plague of zombies sweeps over the planet? Check.
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How To Survive a Horror Movie
- All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 11-08-11
- Language: English
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How to Think More and Better
- Being Reasonable in Unreasonable Times
- Written by: William B. Irvine
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Even the most reasonable of us can be selective about when we think reasonably. We may realize that the best thing to do is to take the advice of our doctor when facing a medical issue. When shopping for a new car or appliance we might carefully assess online reviews and weigh our options calmly before making an informed decision. But when it comes to things that feel more fraught, we might throw this approach out the window, dismissing facts and patterns that form a body of evidence, and trust our gut.
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How to Think More and Better
- Being Reasonable in Unreasonable Times
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 05-01-26
- Language: English
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Psalms of My People
- A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop
- Written by: Lenny Duncan
- Narrated by: Lenny Duncan
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you must understand hip-hop, and Psalms of My People is your guide. Treating hip-hop like sacred scripture, lenny duncan traces its history—the artists, their lyrics, and the cultural context—to reveal its role as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights Era through the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of america.
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Psalms of My People
- A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop
- Narrated by: Lenny Duncan
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Perfect
- Feeling Judged on Social Media
- Written by: Rosalind Gill
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Sastre
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’, don't try hard enough and you're slacking. Rosalind Gill challenges polarized perspectives that see young women as either passive victims of social media or as savvy digital natives. She argues the real picture is far more ambivalent.
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Perfect
- Feeling Judged on Social Media
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Sastre
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 02-01-24
- Language: English
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- Written by: Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep, working around the clock to develop a nonprofit COVID-19 vaccine and to keep the public informed. During that time, he was one of the most trusted voices on the pandemic and was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his selfless work. He also became one of the main targets of anti-science rhetoric that gained traction through conservative news media.
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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True Story
- What Reality TV Says About Us
- Written by: Danielle J. Lindemann
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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What do we see when we watch reality television? Sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the “funhouse mirror” of this genre, from countless rose ceremonies on The Bachelor to the White House and more (so much more!). Beginning with the first episodes of The Real World, reality TV has not only remade our entertainment and cultural landscape—it also uniquely refracts our everyday experiences and social topography.
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True Story
- What Reality TV Says About Us
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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Head in the Cloud
- Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
- Written by: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? Best-selling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud.
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Head in the Cloud
- Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Written by: Rachel Sherman
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-17
- Language: English
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- Written by: Moira Weigel
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do. This isn't a guide to "getting the guy". There are no ridiculous "rules" to follow. Instead Weigel helps us understand how looking for love shapes who we are and hopefully leads us closer to the happy ending that dating promises.
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Labor of Love
- The Invention of Dating
- Narrated by: Kyra Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 17-05-16
- Language: English
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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
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In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society, but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible.
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Not what it projects
- By Manu on 26-08-23
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Breaking the Social Media Prism
- How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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Play It Forward
- How Women Are Changing Sports to Change the World
- Written by: TOGETHXR, Sue Bird - afterword, Alex Morgan - foreword,
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, Justis Bolding, Libby McKnight,
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Play It Forward features twenty‑five inspirational stories of badass women from all corners of the sports universe, curated by TOGETHXR, a sports media company founded by legends Sue Bird, Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel, and Chloe Kim. From profiles of professional athletes and Olympians at the top of their game to everyday women putting in the work without a crowd, these are true tales of fierce competitors, dedicated teammates, and passionate advocates who are all too accustomed to hearing the word “no.”
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Play It Forward
- How Women Are Changing Sports to Change the World
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, Justis Bolding, Libby McKnight, Kyla García, Fareeda Pasha
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- Written by: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.
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The Random Factor
- How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
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