Modern Age

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    • Notes on Modern Irrationality
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Amanda Montell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

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    • 1914-1991
    • By: Eric Hobsbawm
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, the Golden Age, and the Landslide, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution....

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    • The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
    • By: Richard Snow
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • I Invented the Modern Age reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it....

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    • A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
    • By: Adam Gopnik
    • Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday, this insightful account sheds new light on the two men....

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    • The Now Age Guide to a High-Vibe Life
    • By: Ruby Warrington
    • Narrated by: Ruby Warrington
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Inspired by the consciousness-shifting traditions that have moved seekers for generations, Material Girl, Mystical World is a fabulous adventure in the "Now Age"....

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    • By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,833 ratings
    • Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is the Holy Grail a cup, or something else altogether? Did Europeans really burn millions of people at the stake for witchcraft? These are just a few of the questions you will explore with the help of medieval scholar Dorsey Armstrong....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career
    • By: Keith Phipps
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Age of Cage is a smart, beguiling book about the films of Nicolas Cage and the actor himself, as well as a sharp-eyed examination of the changes that have taken place in Hollywood over the course of his career....

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    • History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age (Story of the World)
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jim Weiss
    • Series: The Story of the World, Book Volume 4
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Spend an entire year investigating the fascinating story of the modern world, from the American Civil War through the end of the twentieth century—from Europe and the Middle East through India, China, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia, and both North and South America....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • By: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Madness and Civilization will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself....

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    • The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans looks at the development of the era, what life on Earth was like, and the origins of archaic humans....

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    • A Modern Rendering of the 1928 Edition
    • By: Manly Hall
    • Narrated by: Dennis Logan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Unveil the wisdom of antiquity with the immersive audiobook version of Manly P. Hall's magnum opus, The Secret Teachings of All Ages....

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    • Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
    • By: Ben Stuart
    • Narrated by: Michael Lenz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • The vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement, and marriage in their twenties. Yet they are delaying marriage....

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    • From the Ice Age to the Modern Day, a Comprehensive Overview of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland & the Vikings
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Jack Nolan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Nestled in the northernmost corner of Europe lies a land of rugged coastlines, vast forests, and a rich cultural heritage. Step back in time and immerse yourself in the history of Scandinavia, a land of Vikings, legends, and achievements that have influenced the world....

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    • A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas....

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    • How to Lead in a Polarized World
    • By: Karthik Ramanna
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • People are angry with the world—in some cases, rightfully so—and now view companies as they do governments, as targets of their wrath and potential forces for social change.

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