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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • By: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    • By: Kelefa Sanneh
    • Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
    • Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past 50 years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop....

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    • The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
    • By: Matt MacNabb
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumors and urban legends and paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands, like Coca-Cola, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Ford, Bayer, Chanel, and BMW among others....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,405 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
    • By: Jeff Chang
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the '60s into the new millennium....

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • By: Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

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    • By: David Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
    • The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today....

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
    • By: Susannah Gora
    • Narrated by: Kelli Tager
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialized is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out like an '80s movie. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,831 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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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 86 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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    • Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 611 ratings
    • Here is the epic drama behind the making of five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967, and through them, the story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever....

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    • An Unofficial History of Resident Evil
    • By: Alex Aniel
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom's horror video game series Resident Evil - one of the most popular, innovative, and widely influential franchises of all time....

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    • By: Aaron Copland
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring listeners a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms....

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    • Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
    • By: Thomas J. Dimsdale
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band....

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