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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Just so stories
- By Judy Corstjens on 04-08-12
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....
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Great listen!
- By Shaun Jacques on 17-03-24
By: Joel Morris
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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Poetic, accessible, political
- By Cree on 16-03-20
By: bell hooks
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Steeple Chasing
- Around Britain by Church
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles....
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Our Storied Landscape
- By veyza on 27-05-23
By: Peter Ross
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Amazing
- By EDorey on 14-01-19
By: Bruce D. Perry, and others
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....
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Just so stories
- By Judy Corstjens on 04-08-12
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....
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Great listen!
- By Shaun Jacques on 17-03-24
By: Joel Morris
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The Will to Change
- Men, Masculinity, and Love
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....
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Poetic, accessible, political
- By Cree on 16-03-20
By: bell hooks
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Steeple Chasing
- Around Britain by Church
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles....
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Our Storied Landscape
- By veyza on 27-05-23
By: Peter Ross
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Amazing
- By EDorey on 14-01-19
By: Bruce D. Perry, and others
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
- Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops, and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
- By: David McGowan
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place....
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Smashed the Fourth wall
- By DMK on 11-08-19
By: David McGowan
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The Making of Them: The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
- By: Nick Duffell
- Narrated by: Hugh Trethowan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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At the dawn of the 21st century, British society is still shaped by a private education system devised to gentrify the Victorian middle classes and produce gentlemen to run the Empire....
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Nearly
- By Izzy on 13-11-20
By: Nick Duffell
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Hope and Glory
- The Days That Made Britain
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hope and Glory, Stuart goes in search of the places....
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Blatantly Left Wing
- By Graham H. Jones on 30-07-14
By: Stuart Maconie
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....
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Outstandingly informative
- By andrewjlockley on 02-04-23
By: Joseph Henrich
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....
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Was this recorded inside a biscuit tin?
- By hhj on 31-05-21
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The Third Chimpanzee
- The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....
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A nice precursor to Guns, Germs and Steel
- By Balor of the Evil Eye on 19-08-13
By: Jared Diamond
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Generations
- The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
- By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen presents groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another....
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....
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This book is life changing
- By Jack on 29-10-19
By: Christopher Ryan
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards....
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Poignant and moving
- By AmazonCustomer on 15-09-20
By: Peter Ross
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Summary of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- By: Book Addict
- Narrated by: Jeff Lechtanski
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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If you were told today that you come from a lineage of animals, and probably have some apes and chimpanzees as long-lost cousins, what would you think? Listen to find out more....
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information helpful
- By Monica G on 21-01-19
By: Book Addict
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A must read
- By Fataneh Hamisi on 30-04-20
By: Michael Pollan
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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Powerfully moving
- By Saskia on 28-10-15
By: Sandy Tolan
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
By: Robert Darnton
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At Work in the Ruins
- Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All Other Emergencies
- By: Dougald Hine
- Narrated by: Dougald Hine
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question....
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Dancing badgers
- By Jeremy Le Fèvre on 13-02-23
By: Dougald Hine
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The Histories
- By: Tacitus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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The Roman historian Tacitus was a successful politician who eventually became governor of the province of Asia. He is thought to have died around AD 120 and benefitted from the patronage of the Flavian emperors....
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Iinteresting bit a map would be useful?
- By Mr David Rhys-Davies on 13-04-22
By: Tacitus
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At Day's Close
- A History of Nighttime
- By: Professor A. Roger Ekirch
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Int this fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime, Ekirch explores how the night was lived in the past, through travel accounts, memoirs, letters, folklore, poems, court records and coroner's reports....
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spoilt by narration
- By Sienna T on 22-07-23
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Secrets of the Sprakkar
- Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
- By: Eliza Reid
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women....
By: Eliza Reid
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Remarkable People
- Extraordinary Stories of Everyday Lives
- By: Dan Walker
- Narrated by: Dan Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In Remarkable People, Dan Walker, the host of BBC1's Breakfast, recounts inspiring stories of the courage and selflessness of people he has met throughout his career. An uplifting tonic for the darkness and negativity of recent times....
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A remarkable listen
- By T on 10-11-20
By: Dan Walker
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Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- By: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....
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This doesn't work as an audio book.
- By Jungian on 20-05-20
By: Charles Murray
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The History of Money
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives....
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Journalistic account entertaining delivered
- By Horley, G on 27-02-21
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Great Mughals and Their India
- By: Dirk Collier
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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A fascinating and riveting saga that brings alive a spectacular bygone era, The Great Mughals and Their India is a definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world—the Mughal—from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar....
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fascinating detail
- By N. H. on 23-02-24
By: Dirk Collier
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Rethinking Narcissism
- The Bad - and Surprising Good - About Feeling Special
- By: Dr. Craig Malkin
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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In Rethinking Narcissism listeners will learn that there's far more to narcissism than its reductive invective would imply....
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very misleading
- By Anonymous User on 27-06-19
By: Dr. Craig Malkin
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The Paradox of Choice
- Why More is Less
- By: Barry Schwartz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice....
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OK - perhaps better physically reading it.
- By Bex on 14-03-20
By: Barry Schwartz
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The Nanny State Made Me
- A Story of Britain and How to Save it
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our pos-war greatness and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State....
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Stuart Maconie: Made in Britain. Like his nan.
- By Richard on 14-10-20
By: Stuart Maconie
New Releases
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The Price of Life
- In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
- By: Jenny Kleeman
- Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
By: Jenny Kleeman
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
By: Pamela Prickett, and others
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The Language Puzzle
- How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
- By: Steven Mithen
- Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and into today's Digital Age.
By: Steven Mithen
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The Age of Deer
- Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
- By: Erika Howsare
- Narrated by: Erika Howsare
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us.
By: Erika Howsare
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms, and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy.
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Great listen!
- By Shaun Jacques on 17-03-24
By: Joel Morris
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold. There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history.
By: Sally Coulthard
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The Price of Life
- In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
- By: Jenny Kleeman
- Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
By: Jenny Kleeman
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
By: Pamela Prickett, and others
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The Language Puzzle
- How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
- By: Steven Mithen
- Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and into today's Digital Age.
By: Steven Mithen
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The Age of Deer
- Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
- By: Erika Howsare
- Narrated by: Erika Howsare
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From the earliest cave paintings to the present day, humans and deer have a long and complex history. Royal harts were the coveted quarry of European kings, while the first Americans relied on deer for everything from buckskins to arrow heads. Once hunted to the point of extinction in some parts of the world, deer numbers have exploded in recent years, causing tension between scientists and conservationists. And yet, this is our own story, as the fortune of deer is inextricably bound up with the actions that we humans take on the world around us.
By: Erika Howsare
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Be Funny or Die
- How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
- By: Joel Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms, and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy.
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Great listen!
- By Shaun Jacques on 17-03-24
By: Joel Morris
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
- By: Sally Coulthard
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold. There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history.
By: Sally Coulthard
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society
- By: Bronisław Malinowski
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Bronislaw Malinowski's seminal work, Sex and Repression in Savage Society, delves into the intricate dynamics of sexuality and societal control within primitive cultures. Published in 1927, this ethnographic study challenges prevailing Victorian notions of sexuality and sheds light on the nuanced ways in which indigenous societies navigate and regulate sexual behaviors. Malinowski's immersive fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands enables him to provide a rich anthropological account, exploring the role of rituals, customs, and taboos in shaping sexual practices.
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The Importance of Being Human
- By: Glenn Strauss
- Narrated by: Daniel Starks
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Wouldn’t it be great to just feel proud to be human? Not because you are a certain nationality or race or sex or because you have achieved something amazing. Just proud because you possess an amazing design. This book is a reminder of how important you are as a human being regardless of anything else about you. It is for those who are fed up with looking to politics and religion to find answers to our problems. It is for those who are discouraged by the failure of technology and education to make our world better. It turns out, human beings are designed to be just what this world needs.
By: Glenn Strauss
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Comanches
- The History of a People
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
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Be a Revolution
- How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
- By: Ijeoma Oluo
- Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?
By: Ijeoma Oluo
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Discovering the Yezidis
- Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Faith
- By: Belief Bites
- Narrated by: B.K.
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In "Discovering the Yezidis—Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Faith," listeners embark on a profound journey into one of the world's most enigmatic and resilient spiritual traditions. This comprehensive exploration delves into the heart of the Yezidi faith, a path less traveled, yet rich with history, culture, and spiritual depth.
By: Belief Bites
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A Medieval Life
- Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (The Middle Ages Series)
- By: Judith M. Bennett
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general listeners. Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle Ages were peasants, humble people living socially below the knights, bishops, and kings who figure so large in history books. Judith M. Bennett shows that peasants, too, made history.
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Early Indians
- By: Tony Joseph
- Narrated by: Amit Bhargav
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Who are we Indians? Where did we come from? To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past–when a band of Homo sapiens first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. These were the First Indians. Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the subsequent large migrations of modern humans into India–of a people related to early farmers of Iran who mixed with the First Indians at the latest between 5400 BCE and 3700 BCE and of the ‘Arya’ between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, among others.
By: Tony Joseph
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How to Survive in Ancient Greece
- By: Robert Garland
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, and what help could you get if you got sick?
By: Robert Garland
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The Age of Deer
- Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
- By: Erika Howsare
- Narrated by: Erika Howsare
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They're one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence. In the twenty-first century, our relationship is full of contradictions: We hunt and protect them, we cull them from suburbs while making them an icon of wilderness, we see them both as victims and as pests. But there is no doubt that we have a connection to deer: in mythology and story, in ecosystems biological and digital, in cities and in forests.
By: Erika Howsare
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Japanese Mythology for Beginners
- Experience the Exciting Sagas of Japan and Discover Step by Step the Culture of the Country Japan
- By: Tobias Kuhn
- Narrated by: Casey Wayman
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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From a European-Western perspective, much of what is related to the state of Japan, including its history and culture and the people who live there, seems not only foreign, but also in some ways inaccessible and incomprehensible. Those who do not deal with it explicitly often have no connection to Japan at all. This, of course, is also true of Japanese mythology. In contrast to Greco-Roman or Nordic-Germanic mythology, the level of knowledge about it in the West is rather low.
By: Tobias Kuhn
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Ways of Eating
- Exploring Food through History and Culture
- By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
- Narrated by: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nuoc cham, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.
By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, and others
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Who Are the Shawnee
- We Are Shawnee, Book 1
- By: Allison Bruning
- Narrated by: Anne Charlotte
- Length: 27 mins
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Feared by settlers and natives alike, the Shawnee tribe have been misunderstood by people throughout history. Who were these conservative people? What was their daily life like? How were their villages organized? This informative book will answer these questions and more in the first volume of the We are Shawnee series.
By: Allison Bruning