Public Philosophy

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Mr Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children....

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    • Neoliberalism & Global Order
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....

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    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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    • How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
    • By: Heather Mac Donald
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

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    • Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
    • By: Bryan Caplan
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 01-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated....

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    • Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
    • By: Yascha Mounk
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk....

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    • How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
    • By: William Davies
    • Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Find out....

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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • By: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Paul B. Thompson, Patricia E. Norris
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history....

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    • Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
    • By: Lee McIntyre
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science deniers, and argues that it's important to do so. Science denial can kill....

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    • How to Fix Them
    • By: Colin Mayer
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • The world is encountering multiple crises—climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution. Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them—how it can solve not cause them....

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    • Our Collective Responsibility
    • By: Martha C. Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • By: Steven Weinberg
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize-winning author of To Explain the World....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Gary Thomas
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since the early Egyptians, human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students....

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    • Foundations for Hope
    • By: Justin Welby
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this revised and expanded edition, Justin Welby has taken fully into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and all the social and political unrest that has ensued....

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    • Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed - and What It Means for Our Future
    • By: Dale Jamieson
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do....

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