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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

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    • By: Merrill Markoe, Megan Koester
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,749 ratings
    • It’s the 21st Century. Why the hell are women - 51% of the population - being treated like second class citizens? The Indignities of Being a Woman candidly traces the history of womanhood and investigates how much things have really changed for womankind....

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? 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 65 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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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
    • By: Scott Eyman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Scott Eyman tells the story of the remarkable friendship of two Hollywood legends....

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    • HBR 20-Minute Manager Series
    • By: Harvard Business Review
    • Narrated by: Mark Cabus
    • Series: 20 Minute Manager: Virtual Work
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics....

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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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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues....

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    • The Genius and the Absurdity
    • By: Iliza Shlesinger
    • Narrated by: Mayim Bialik, Iliza Shlesinger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,708 ratings
    • From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Ed Sikov
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Film Studies is an indispensable introduction to the study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and training the spectator to be an active listener and critic....

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    • Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
    • By: Richard O. Prum
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow....

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    • By: Francis Ford Coppola
    • Narrated by: Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Mantegna
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola's notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic films....

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    • The Study and Practice of Style in Composition
    • By: Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey W. Evans
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a vehicle for performance....

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    • How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
    • By: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution....

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    • A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
    • By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Natalie Duke
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing in stitches, drag has played a vital role in the creative life of New York City....

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    • Performing Blackness in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • For more than 30 years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture....

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