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Secrets were buried. Evidence disappeared. Official explanations left questions behind. Conspiracies of the World: Book 1 investigates twenty of history’s most famous and unsettling mysteries, cover-ups, suspicious deaths, secret experiments, vanished evidence, and unanswered questions.

Brought to you by Penguin. Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she’s not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the “Jewish Space...

Brought to you by Penguin. Edward Stourton was born into a life of privilege. The son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, Ed was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, at the time when, it was latter revealed, the school and monastery were the setting for...

The definitive behind-the-scenes history of the dawn of video games and their rise into a multibillion-dollar business “For industry insiders and game players alike, this book is a must-have.”—Mark Turmell, designer for Midway Games and creator of NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, and WrestleMania ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Have you ever wanted to write something to a partner or ex? What is the best and worst message you’ve received on a dating app? What would you say to your last hook up? Following ten years after the publication of This Modern Love, Will Darbyshire - now in his...

'One of the most important books you'll read this year ' THE NEW FEMINIST 'A bold, unapologetic exploration of modern relationships, self-image, and the complexities of navigating social media and intimacy in today's world' MARIE CLAIRE Are women asking for it because of their outfits, routes...

No One Planned This: How Platforms Rewired Entertainment traces the shift from studios and networks to feeds and ranking systems. From Netflix's streaming pivot to YouTube's industrialized creator model, from infinite scroll to algorithmic dominance, it reveals how infrastructure—not talent—began deciding what gets seen, what gets paid, and what endures.

In the tradition of Neil Postman's masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today's zillion-channel, internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump. 

当专家访谈、短视频和家长群的育儿建议如潮水般涌来，原本为了缓解焦虑的知识搜索，反而让你陷入了深深的自我怀疑与内疚之中。在这个信息过载的数字时代，每一条看似权威的育儿“标准答案”，都在无形中掠夺你作为...

National parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of Americans and foreign tourists flock to national parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.

Massenbewegungen, Aufstände und Revolutionen, Krisen, destabilisierte Länder - wie komplex und verwirrend die aktuellen Ereignisse auch erscheinen mögen, es geschieht nichts zufällig. Die Völker der Welt geben ihm viele Namen. Auch in der modernen Zeit führt er - nennen wir ihn einfach Teufel - seinen Kampf gegen die Menschheit. Er unterwandert Politik, Wirtschaft, Medien und die Religionen, sabotiert internationale und soziale Beziehungen, verdirbt Kunst, Kultur und Bildung. Er verführt die Jugend zu einer beeinflussbaren Masse - entwurzelt und haltlos.

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and...

The Facebook Narcissist is the first book dedicated to exploring the relationship between narcissism and social media. Lena Derhally, a licensed psychotherapist certified in Imago therapy, delves into how social media enhances individual and cultural narcissism and how it may create or exacerbate toxic narcissistic tendencies in people who use it. Social media is here to stay, but with education and awareness on how it makes us and the world more narcissistic, we can change the narrative and focus on the ways in which social media can be positive, and even improve the world.

Many of us are becoming aware of a growing global problem with national economies and terrorism, but some believe we are being led down this path by powerful people determined to destroy our free society in favor of their own greed. So, is this conspiracy nonsense?

La Conjura, sin duda ella mejor obra acerca de cómo se tramó el asalto a La Moneda, puede ser oída como el relato de la conspiración que condujo al golpe y, a la vez, como una narración de las vicisitudes y características personales de quienes participaron en él. Pero este audiolibro no es solamente el relato de una conspiración y de los personajes que en ella, como víctimas o victimarios, participaron. También es el registro de las circunstancias que llevaron a Augusto Pinochet a ser lo que llegó a ser: un dictador como no lo hubo nunca en la historia de Chile.

Voices for Justice is an educational guide to digital citizenship, media literacy, and peaceful civic engagement in the modern internet age. In a world where headlines spread faster than facts, this audiobook helps listeners understand how online narratives form, how reputations can be shaped overnight, and how ordinary people can respond responsibly—without hate, harassment, or misinformation.

Volume 1 from the five-volume Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. This document focuses on Russian efforts to attack US election infrastructure and explains security concerns with various US voting machines, the ability for DHS to provide support to the states, and scenarios for potential disruption to future elections. To help with the listening experience, it provides a description of the amount of redacted material within the document. 

Hudson Pound, a small-town hardware store owner, never imagined he'd be running for president. But when a cabal of shadowy billionaires handpicks him as their puppet candidate, he's thrust into a cutthroat political arena where nothing is as it seems. As Hudson navigates the treacherous campaign trail, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of American democracy. With each revelation, the target on his back grows larger, and the line between allies and enemies blurs.

Voices for Justice is an educational guide to digital citizenship, media literacy, and peaceful civic engagement in the modern internet age. In a world where headlines spread faster than facts, this book helps listeners understand how online narratives form, how reputations can be shaped overnight, and how ordinary people can respond responsibly—without hate, harassment, or misinformation.

Head of an elite anti-terrorist unit, Major Noah Blakeley is hunting for the clandestine organization he believes to be at the center of a spate of seemingly random acts of terror. When his ex-wife is killed while on an archaeological expedition to Mongolia, closely followed by an attempt on his life, Noah finds himself hurled into a world where the lines between historical research and present-day terrorism are blurred. To discover the answers, Noah must trace his wife's final footsteps and beyond.