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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 36 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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    • 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 13 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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    • 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 64 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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    • 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 27 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
    • By: Todd James Pierce
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park: fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Here is the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth"....

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    • A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Barbara Mertz
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Barbara Mertz combines her doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt....

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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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    • Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
    • By: Steven L. Kent
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Series: The Ultimate History of Video Games, Book 2
    • Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Steven L. Kent has been playing video games since Pong and writing about the industry since the Nintendo Entertainment System. In volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games, he chronicled the industry’s first thirty years....

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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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    • By: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
    • Narrated by: Joseph Sepe
    • Length: 30 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A Popular History of Ireland, a detailed yet comprehensive look at Ireland’s Christian history, was written by Thomas D’Arcy McGee, a Canadian-Irish politician, journalist, and poet....

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