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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 228 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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    • An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
    • By: Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
    • Narrated by: Chuck Bryant, Josh Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious....

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    • You Know, I Learned Something Today
    • By: Robert Arp
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • If you think Saddam and Satan make a kinky couple, wait till you get a load of South Park and Philosophy. Get your Big Wheels ready, because we're going for a ride, as 22 philosophers take us down the road to understanding the big-picture issues in this small mountain town....

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    • The Molecule That Made the World
    • By: Nick Lane
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • Oxygen takes the listener on an enthralling journey, as gripping as a thriller, as it unravels the unexpected ways in which oxygen spurred the evolution of life and death....

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    • The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
    • By: Mitch Prinstein
    • Narrated by: Mitch Prinstein
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 404 ratings
    • No matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word popular immediately transports you back to your teenage years....

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    • Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
    • By: William Poundstone
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • How important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? William Poundstone confronts that question....

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    • With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    • By: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century and the distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology....

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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 3,430 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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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,087 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

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    • A Strange and Terrible Saga
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,619 ratings
    • First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared....

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    • By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
    • Narrated by: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Up until her twenty-fifth birthday, the number one priority in Lucinda Price’s life was to look good. She nipped, tucked, cut, plucked, shaved, tanned, crunched, squatted and starved. Then, she broke down.

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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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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

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    • A Cultural History of Alcohol
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day....

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    • By: Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,956 ratings
    • Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....

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