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    • A Brief History of How We F--ked It All Up
    • By: Tom Phillips
    • Narrated by: Nish Kumar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f--k ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree to the most spectacular fails of the present day....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

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    • An Unofficial History of Resident Evil
    • By: Alex Aniel
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom's horror video game series Resident Evil - one of the most popular, innovative, and widely influential franchises of all time....

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • By: Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • By: Howard Goodall
    • Narrated by: Howard Goodall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3....

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    • How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
    • By: Tom Lean
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 11-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother....

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    • A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    • By: Kelefa Sanneh
    • Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Kelefa Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges, as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration....

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    • By: James Vincent
    • Narrated by: James Vincent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could not experiment, learn, and co-operate....

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    • How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
    • By: Kunal K. Das
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization....

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    • How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
    • By: Candy Leonard
    • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
    • By: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
    • Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 1967 and the Hippie Idea
    • By: Danny Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school....

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    • An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
    • By: Greg Jenner
    • Narrated by: Greg Jenner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern....

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