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The Ethics of Influence
- Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce poverty, and increase national security. In this book, Cass R. Sunstein, breaks new ground with a deep yet highly listenable investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, choice architecture and mandates, addressing such issues as welfare, autonomy, self-government, dignity, manipulation and the constraints and responsibilities of an ethical state.
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The Ethics of Influence
- Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
- How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks
- By: Troy Tassier
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate why marginalized groups bear the largest burden of epidemic costs—and how to avoid these systemic failures in the future.
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The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
- How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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Napoleon
- A Life in Gardens and Shadows
- By: Ruth Scurr
- Narrated by: Tanya Cubric
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. Napoleon's gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine's gardens and menageries in Paris, to gardens in Cairo, Rome and on Elba, to the walled garden of Hougoumont at the battle of Waterloo, and ultimately to Napoleon's final garden on St Helena.
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Napoleon’s gardens
- By CMCL on 21-06-21
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Napoleon
- A Life in Gardens and Shadows
- Narrated by: Tanya Cubric
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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You Goddess!
- Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
- By: Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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From famous divas like Athena to less familiar heroines such as the Japanese dawn goddess Uzume, the Mayan 'jaguar goddess of midwifery' Ixchel and the African mermaid spirit Mami Wata, E. Foley and B. Coates show how the tales of these deities have been depicted by men over the centuries, revealing the ancient roots of toxic female stereotypes (the damsel in distress, the selfless mother, the tempting harlot).
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You Goddess!
- Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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Let's Get Physical
- By: Danielle Friedman
- Narrated by: Danielle Friedman
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In Let's Get Physical, journalist Danielle Friedman reveals the fascinating hidden history of contemporary fitness culture, chronicling in vivid, cinematic prose how exercise evolved from a beauty tool sold almost exclusively as a way to 'reduce' to one millions have harnessed as a path to mental, emotional and physical well-being.
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Let's Get Physical
- Narrated by: Danielle Friedman
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-01-22
- Language: English
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Royal Audience
- 70 Years, 13 Presidents: One Queen's Special Relationship with America
- By: David Charter
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden—that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of.
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Royal Audience
- 70 Years, 13 Presidents: One Queen's Special Relationship with America
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation now known as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the "wise gals" by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering—and insisting that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved.
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Wise Gals
- The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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The Cabin in the Mountains
- By: Robert Ferguson
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh clean air, peace, isolation and the promise of a day's wood-chopping, hiking or snow-clearing amid landscapes of great beauty, the hytte - or wooden cabin home - is a crucial part of the national identity of every Norwegian. In 2016, Robert Ferguson and his wife bought a piece of land high up in the Hardangervidda, the plateau that dominates south-central Norway, and on it they built such a hytte. For Ferguson, the hytte represented the realisation of a dream that first brought him to Norway from England more than 30 years ago.
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The Cabin in the Mountains
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-10-19
- Language: English
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Himalaya
- Exploring the Roof of the World
- By: John Keay
- Narrated by: Nick Holbek
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential—and endangered—wonders. For centuries, Himalaya has captivated an illustrious succession of admirers, from explorers, surveyors and sportsmen, to botanists and zoologists, ethnologists and geologists, missionaries and mountaineers.
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so hard to understand
- By Sasha on 26-02-23
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Himalaya
- Exploring the Roof of the World
- Narrated by: Nick Holbek
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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What We Need to Do Now
- For a Zero Carbon Future
- By: Chris Goodall
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. What We Need to Do Now is an urgent, practical and inspiring book that signals a green new deal for Britain.
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An excellent book!
- By Mrs Anita F Tozzi on 16-08-22
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What We Need to Do Now
- For a Zero Carbon Future
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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Things Are Against Us
- By: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Provocative, smart, angry, wise and very, very funny, the essays in Things Are Against Us cover everything - from feminism to environmental catastrophe, labour strikes to sex strikes, Little House on the Prairie to patriarchal terrorism. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel. She rails against bras. She gives Agatha Christie a drubbing. And she pleads for sanity in a world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. Things Are Against Us is electric. It’s vital.
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Things Are Against Us
- Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-07-21
- Language: English
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Hello, Shadowlands
- Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
- By: Patrick Winn
- Narrated by: Patrick Winn
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. It also examines how China’s rise and America’s decline are creating new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive. Focusing on human stories on both sides of this crime wave, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the region who are forced to make agonizing choices in the absence of law.
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Hello, Shadowlands
- Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
- Narrated by: Patrick Winn
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Mandela: An Audio History
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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One of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid, Mandela: An Audio History tells the story of the struggle against apartheid. It weaves together more than 50 first-person interviews with an unprecedented collection of archival sound: a rare recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela’s life sentence; a visit between Mandela and his family secretly taped by a prison guard; and pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress.
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Outstanding!
- By Anonymous User on 15-02-23
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Mandela: An Audio History
- Narrated by: Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of France
- By: Lucy Wadham
- Narrated by: Ros Stockwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Everything you wanted to know about France but were too afraid to ask... At eighteen Lucy Wadham abandoned England and fell into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married, had children, and divorced in France, Lucy is perfectly placed to explore the differences between our two countries. Here she examines every aspect of French life - from sex and adultery to money, happiness, race and politics - in this funny and engrossing account of our most intriguing neighbour.
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Mixed feeling
- By Solene22 on 25-07-15
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The Secret Life of France
- Narrated by: Ros Stockwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-06-11
- Language: English
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A Pacifist's War
- By: Frances Partridge
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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When war is declared, Frances and Ralph, both pacifists, turn their house into a sanctuary for friends more materially involved. Invasion seems imminent as one by one the countries of Europe fall to the Nazis. People are even told to immobilise their car engines at night in case the Germans parachute into Britain. Yet although war looms persistently over the Partridges, only a few power cuts affect them, leaving them feeling oddly isolated from it.
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Interesting to start with but then it got boring.
- By AmazonCustomer on 02-08-24
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A Pacifist's War
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-11-17
- Language: English
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit
- What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis
- By: Assaad Razzouk
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In this provocative manifesto, Assaad Razzouk shows that for too long our ideas about what's best for the environment have been unfocused and distracted, trying to go in too many directions and concentrating on individual behavior. While some of these things can be useful, they are dwarfed by one big thing that simply has to happen very soon if we're to avoid major environmental breakdown: curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industry.
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit
- What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-12-23
- Language: English
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Voyagers
- The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
- By: Nicholas Thomas
- Narrated by: Mark Robertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonization by speakers of Austronesian languages of the western Pacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia; followed by the later settlement, by Polynesian peoples, of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and eventually New Zealand, up to AD 1250.
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Voyagers
- The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
- Narrated by: Mark Robertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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The Cost-Benefit Revolution
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favour aggressive government intervention. Others don't feel the need for any sort of climate regulation.
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Worthy topic, good content, perhaps better to read
- By Megan on 22-08-20
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The Cost-Benefit Revolution
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty....
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for reading not listening
- By Amazon Customer on 10-10-20
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Do Dice Play God?
- The Mathematics of Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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False Prophets
- British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
- By: Nigel Ashton
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain's standing in the Middle East and is often represented as the final throes of British imperialism. However, as this insightful and compelling new book reveals, successive prime ministers have all sought to extend British influence in the Middle East and their actions have often led to a disastrous outcome.
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False Prophets
- British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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