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Social & Cultural Studies

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    Peril

    by Bob Woodward, Robert Costa ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history.But as # 1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis.Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the center of the turmoil, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

    Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

    by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein ...
    Narrated by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it.We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer ... Read more

    $22.49 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blackout

    How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

    by Candace Owens ...
    Narrated by Candace Owens ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt’s time for a black exit.Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right.Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    America Before

    The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

    by Graham Hancock ...
    Narrated by Graham Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 17 min

    This program is read by the author.Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.We’ve been taught that North and South America ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Marxism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Lowell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by provi. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    Permanent Record

    by Edward Snowden ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Only Plane in the Sky

    An Oral History of September 11, 2001

    by Garrett M. Graff ...
    Narrated by A Full 45-Person Cast ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is his... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Game

    by Neil Strauss ...
    Narrated by Neil Strauss ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women.This is not fiction.For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity, he began his remarkable journey from AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) ... Read more

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    La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

    by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...
    Narrated by Juan José Millás ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    El ingenio de Millás y la sabiduría de Arsuaga unidos para contar la vida como la mejor de las historias.«Una maravilla. Un libro lleno de humor y de bondad. Sí, bondad. Un libro que busca entender el misterio de la vida.»Manuel Vilas«-Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran relato sobre la existencia. ¿Lo hacemos? -dijo el escritor.-Lo hacemos -... ... Read more

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    The Immortality Key

    The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

    by Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock ...
    Narrated by Brian C. Muraresku, Graham Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs seen on The Joe Rogan Experience!**This program includes a Foreword written and read by Graham Hancock.A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations.The most influential religious historian of the 20th century, Huston ... Read more

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    Love and Rage

    The Path of Liberation through Anger

    by Lama Rod Owens ...
    Narrated by Lama Rod Owens ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    **A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERIn the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?**White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens, coauthor of Radical Dharma, ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Story

    by Chris Stewart, Elizabeth Smart ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Smart ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart.In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    Magic

    A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Narrated by Clarke Peters ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 6 min

    Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputation-thanks to the unsavory tactics of shady practitioners, and to a successful propaganda campaign on the part of religion and science, which denigrated magic as backward, irrational, and "primitive." In Magic, however, the Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden restores magic to its essential place in the history of the world ... Read more

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    Kissinger on Kissinger

    Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership

    by Winston Lord, Henry Kissinger ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Hormann ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    In a series of riveting interviews, America's senior statesman discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension.As National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger transformed America's approach to diplomacy with China, the USSR, Vietnam, and the Middle East, laying the foundations for geopolitics as we know them today.Nearly fifty years later, ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition

    Text and Documents

    by Friedrich A. Hayek ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Death of Josseline

    Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

    by Margaret Regan ...
    Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and othersFor the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Knock at Midnight

    A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

    by Brittany K. Barnett ...
    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 20 min

    LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system.“An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett is a star ... Read more

    $22.50 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The 33 Strategies of War

    by Robert Greene ...
    Narrated by Donald Coren ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 30 min

    The contemporary companion to Sun-Tzu's The Art of War, this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war can help us gain mastery in the modern world. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    Canyon Dreams

    A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

    by Michael Powell ...
    Narrated by Darrell Dennis ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is ... Read more

    $17.50 USD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Anatomy of Violence

    The Biological Roots of Crime

    by Adrian Raine ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 24 min

    With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughoutWhy do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of ... Read more

    $25.00 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Twilight of Democracy

    The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    Narrated by Anne Applebaum ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    **Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times"How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document . . . is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.**From the United States ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Racism without Racists

    Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

    by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for-and ultimately justify-racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on ... Read more

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    Zero to One

    Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters ...
    Narrated by Blake Masters ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIf you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.**The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or free with audiobook trial