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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,247 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • The New Science of Cause and Effect
    • By: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • "Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead....

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy
    • By: Pierce Brown
    • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
    • Series: Red Rising, Book 2
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50,368 ratings
    • Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies....

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    • The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
    • By: Bjørn Lomborg
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • The Special and the General Theory
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 430 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • Science & Maths
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
    • Length: 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Learn about the workings of the human body with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds....

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
    • By: Kim Cross
    • Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America....

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    • By: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18,132 ratings
    • Culture writer Anne Helen Petersen interviews millennials around the country about their own deeply personal experiences with “millennial burnout” and the culture that creates it....

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    • The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Colin Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder....

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    • Curious Adventures of a CSI
    • By: Dana Kollmann
    • Narrated by: Kate Zane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • The Story of a Tornado
    • By: Holly Bailey
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • The Mercy of the Sky is the harrowing inside account of Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, penned by a local writer who became a national correspondent....

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    • Alien Skulls, Underground Cities, and Fire from the Sky
    • By: Erich von Däniken
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • War of the Gods examines ancient scriptures from India, Siberia, Tahiti, and many other regions of the world independently on reports of battles in the stars. Weapons of unimaginable destructive power were used in the battle. One of the weapons used destroyed a planet completely....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,644 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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