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Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion
- By: Benjamin E. Zeller
- Narrated by: Eric Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In March 1997, 39 people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven's Gate, Zeller shows that the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.
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More essay than book
- By Jonathan Wilson on 23-05-24
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Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion
- Narrated by: Eric Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-08-17
- Language: English
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.
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Oh dear Lord…
- By Lee on 08-02-23
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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Overwhelmed
- Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
- By: Brigid Schulte
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration.
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Interesting, but too long
- By Przemyslaw on 25-06-23
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Overwhelmed
- Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-04-14
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus
- By: Daniel Klein
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Daniel Klein ponders whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly and live an authentic old age. He journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of ageing happily. Drawing on the lives of Greek locals as well as philosophers, he uncovers the pleasures that are available only late in life.
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Working with the Aging Process
- By Mark Counsellor Cambs. on 03-04-22
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Travels with Epicurus
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-06-15
- Language: English
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better. But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?
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Definitive guide to progressive capitalism
- By Anonymous User on 28-07-24
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-04-24
- Language: English
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Muslims Don't Matter
- By: Sayeeda Warsi
- Narrated by: Sayeeda Warsi
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Modern Britain has seen an insidious rise in Islamophobia on both the right and the left. From misleading media stories like the Trojan Horse Affair in Birmingham's schools to the hatred directed at Muslim politicians and public figures during the Gaza conflict, this prejudice has gone frighteningly unchecked. In Muslims Don't Matter, Conservative peer, campaigner and podcaster Sayeeda Warsi unapologetically challenges the consensus, argues passionately that bigotry should never pass the dinner table test and urges Britain to change course.
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Breaking the Silence: An open discourse on Islamophobia finally
- By Student of Knowledge on 31-10-24
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Muslims Don't Matter
- Narrated by: Sayeeda Warsi
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The Invisible Gorilla
- And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us
- By: Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Insightful, witty and fascinating, The Invisible Gorilla closely examines the false impressions that most profoundly influence our lives and gives practical advice on how we can minimise their negative impact.
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The Invisible Gorilla
- And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- By: Anne Fadiman
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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An Amazing Story, badly let down by the Narrator
- By Lou Tribus on 21-03-18
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 18-03-15
- Language: English
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Holding the Baby
- Milk, Sweat and Tears from the Frontline of Motherhood
- By: Nell Frizzell
- Narrated by: Nell Frizzell
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: What effect does parenting have on your career? How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once?
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honesty
- By Joanna on 11-08-24
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Holding the Baby
- Milk, Sweat and Tears from the Frontline of Motherhood
- Narrated by: Nell Frizzell
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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Black Friend
- Essays
- By: Ziwe
- Narrated by: Ziwe
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, Ziwe combines pop-culture commentary and personal stories that grapple with her own (mis)understanding of identity. From a hilarious case of mistaken identity via a jumbotron to a terrifying fight-or-flight encounter in the woods, Ziwe raises difficult questions for comedic relief.
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This girl is a force of nature!!!
- By H. Birkett on 08-07-24
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Black Friend
- Essays
- Narrated by: Ziwe
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
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A very good read
- By Anonymous User on 27-08-24
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Notes of a Native Son
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- By: Parker J. Palmer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do. "Let your life speak" is a time-honored Quaker admonition to live one's life as witness to the deepest truths one knows. But as Parker Palmer explains, those words can also mean "listen to your life, and let it tell you what your truth is."
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Work and life as a spiritual journey
- By Bmtrtn on 27-02-24
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Let Your Life Speak
- Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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Living a Committed Life
- Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
- By: Lynne Twist
- Narrated by: Lynne Twist
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self. In five parts, Lynne Twist shows how to make and keep commitments, engage in individual and collective action, and discover ways to connect and collaborate to make a difference.
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Just wonderful
- By Gg on 07-06-23
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Living a Committed Life
- Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself
- Narrated by: Lynne Twist
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Length: Not Yet Known
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For too long, under the influence of corporate giants and tech enthusiasts, we’ve accepted the idea that change always means better. But rapidly developing technology isn’t neutral – it’s ambivalent, and capable of enormous harm. To improve our well-being, help future generations flourish and recover our shared humanity, we must become more critical, mindful users of technology, and more discerning of how it uses us.
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- By: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
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Absolutely awful!
- By Jen on 17-03-21
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- By: Gary Webb
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
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In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Not what I was expecting
- By Benjamin on 20-05-14
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Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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All the Living and the Dead
- A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
- By: Hayley Campbell
- Narrated by: Hayley Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Fuelled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers and a former executioner who is responsible for ending 62 lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a detective and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.
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A Thorough Dig
- By elaine4queen on 04-04-22
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All the Living and the Dead
- A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade
- Narrated by: Hayley Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Tenants
- The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
- By: Vicky Spratt
- Narrated by: Vicky Spratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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In this fierce and moving account, journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad policy decisions to show how and why the British dream of homeownership has withered and the safety net of social housing has broken. Through the lives of those in the renting trap, she illuminates the ways this crisis is devastating our health, communities and political landscape. But, as the COVID epidemic showed, there are also real, radical steps we can take to give everyone the chance of a good home.
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Hugely important book
- By Mike Bobbett on 04-06-23
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Tenants
- The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
- Narrated by: Vicky Spratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- By: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers’ retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming ‘a writer again’. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and were forever changed by it.
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Fantastic book but ….
- By Chris Norfolk on 05-10-24
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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The Yoga Manifesto
- How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
- By: Nadia Gilani
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for more than 25 years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential. However, over her years in the wellness industry, Nadia has noticed not only yoga's rising popularity, but also how its modern incarnation no longer serves people of colour, working-class people or many other groups who originally pioneered its creation.
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Self righteous!!!!
- By Cheryl on 15-11-23
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The Yoga Manifesto
- How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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