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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • The Story of Success
    • By: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,432 ratings
    • In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....

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    • An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
    • By: Alice Roberts
    • Narrated by: Alice Roberts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....

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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

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    • And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
    • By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....

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    • A BBC Radio 4 Collection
    • By: Oliver Burkeman
    • Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman, Various
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman looks at four central ills of modernity—busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance. Talking to a range of experts, he discovers how these problems became so widespread, and how we can go about tackling them....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
    • By: Richard Seymour
    • Narrated by: John Keating
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders, the true peril lies elsewhere.

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    • Men, Masculinity, and Love
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving....

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    • How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
    • By: Joel Morris
    • Narrated by: Joel Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....

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    • A Study in Magic and Religion
    • By: Sir James George Frazer
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 44 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology....

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    • How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
    • By: Ashley Ward
    • Narrated by: Ashley Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 608 ratings
    • Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals....

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    • Life Lessons from Our Distant Past
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: Neil Oliver
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our well-being relies on remaining as present as possible....

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    • By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....

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    • Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops, and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
    • By: David McGowan
    • Narrated by: Bill Fike
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place....

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    • A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history....

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    • Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
    • By: Katherine Pangonis
    • Narrated by: Katherine Pangonis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Katherine Pangonis explores five forgotten cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage....

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    • Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
    • By: Garrett Ryan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online....

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