Modern Culture

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
    • By: Wade Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures....

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    • A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Joshua B. Freeman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears....

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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 256 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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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • How Modern Culture Is Robbing Billions of People of Happiness
    • By: Matthew Kelly
    • Narrated by: Matthew Kelly
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • This audiobook provides the practical tools necessary to help you regain your fervor and leave your mark on the world - and experience more happiness than you thought possible. Together, we can change the course of history - with humility, generosity, kindness, and joy....

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    • The Origins of the Modern Economy
    • By: Joel Mokyr
    • Narrated by: Anu Anand
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • With narration by Anu Anand, who tells the story of how Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution....

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    • How Computers Misunderstand the World
    • By: Meredith Broussard
    • Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems....

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    • Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
    • By: Ernest Freeberg
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • The late 19th century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb....

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    • Embracing Choice in a Changing World
    • By: Robert H. Mnookin
    • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The situation of American Jews today is deeply paradoxical. Jews have achieved unprecedented integration, influence, and esteem in virtually every facet of American life. But this extraordinarily diverse community now also faces four critical and often divisive challenges....

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    • The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living
    • By: Elyakim Kislev
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone - single or coupled - can benefit from accepting solo living....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
    • By: Annelise Heinz
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....

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    • Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
    • By: Sarah A. Chrisman
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
    • By: Christopher Watkin, Timothy Keller
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
    • Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • A winsome vision for biblical cultural engagement in which faithfulness to Scripture and sensitivity to culture walk hand in hand. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging and constructive voice within our culture, we need to press deeper into the core truths of the Bible....

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    • The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired
    • By: Benson Bobrick
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, from John Wycliffe, the 14 century catalyst of English Bible translation, to the committee of scholars who collaborated on the King James translation....

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    • How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
    • By: Jason Zinoman
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • While Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film....

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    • A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers
    • By: Eric Pallant
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In Sourdough Culture, environmental science professor Eric Pallant shows how throughout history, sourdough bread baking has always been about survival....

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