Memory Culture

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Elisa Gabbert
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world....

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    • Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen
    • By: Herbie J Pilato, Marlo Thomas - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve Marvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Christmas TV Memories offers a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane and chronicling animated classics, variety shows, made-for-television features, and holiday-specific episodes of series like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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    • How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
    • By: Gordon Bell, David James Gemmell
    • Narrated by: John Haag
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell tap their experiences with the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research for this extraordinary book....

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    • Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
    • By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.

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    • Getting Past the Past
    • By: Lewis Hyde
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • “One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift and Trickster Makes the World, offers a playful and melancholy defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche....

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    • An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
    • By: Madhushree Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture....

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    • By: Hanna Alkaf
    • Narrated by: Samantha Tan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On Hamra's thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home. No one has remembered her special day. And so, stifled and angry, Hamra ignores something she shouldn’t: the rules of the jungle....

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    • Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
    • By: William Poundstone
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • How important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? William Poundstone confronts that question....

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    • The Memory Index, Book 2
    • By: Julian Ray Vaca
    • Narrated by: Sophia Courage, Tyler Kwiatkowski
    • Series: The Memory Index, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they’re done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist’s memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts’ next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher’s dad....

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    • By: Reshma Baig
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Memory of Hands is a collection of stories which is at once turbulent and real, sometimes frightening and evocative, but yet so lucid that "......

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    • Manchurian Candidates, Recovered Memories, and the Dark Side of Conspiracy Culture
    • By: Joseph L. Flatley
    • Narrated by: Ian Putnam
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Satan Goes to the Mind Control Convention looks at the role that conspiracy theories play in American life and the current political climate....

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    • Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory (Asian American History and Culture)
    • By: Cherstin Lyon
    • Narrated by: Collene Curran
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII....

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    • Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War
    • By: Sunder Katwala
    • Narrated by: Sunder Katwala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British....

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