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How to Stop Fascism
- History, Ideology, Resistance
- Written by: Paul Mason
- Narrated by: Paul Mason
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right.
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How to Stop Fascism
- History, Ideology, Resistance
- Narrated by: Paul Mason
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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Duty
- Written by: Robert Gates
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
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'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there is no other word for it - I came to feel for the troops and the overwhelming sense of personal responsibility I developed for them. So much so that it would shape some of my most significant decisions and positions.'
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Duty
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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Fed Up
- An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
- Written by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In the early 2000s, as a Wall Street escapee writing a financial column for the Dallas Morning News, Booth attracted attention for her bold criticism of the Fed's low interest rate policies and her cautionary warnings about the bubbly housing market. Nobody was more surprised than she when the folks at the Dallas Federal Reserve invited her aboard. Figuring she could have more of an impact on Fed policies from the inside, she accepted the call to duty and rose to be one of Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher's closest advisors.
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Fed Up
- An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
- Narrated by: Danielle DiMartino Booth
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
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Resilient
- Written by: Rick Hanson
- Narrated by: Rick Hanson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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The author of the New York Times best-selling Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience, positive psychology and contemplative practices. In Resilient, he explains how to build the very foundations of well-being by harnessing the power of positive experiences to build an unshakeable core. Dr. Hanson has distilled 40 years of clinical work and teaching into 12 highly effective tools.
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Resilient
- Narrated by: Rick Hanson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 29-03-18
- Language: English
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
- Written by: Dr Barbara K. Lipska
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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In January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain. It was, in effect, a death sentence. She had surgery, radiation treatments and entered an immunotherapy clinical trial. And then her brain started to play tricks on her. The expert on mental illness - who had spent a career trying to work out how the brain operates and what happens when it fails - experienced what it is like to go mad.
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- Written by: Robin DiAngelo
- Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialised. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.
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Nice Racism
- How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
- Narrated by: Robin DiAngelo
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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Rough Justice
- Do we have the law we deserve?
- Written by: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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What is justice? Do our legal courts dispense it? Has our judicial process improved, for the victims, the accused and for society? What more must be done to ensure genuine justice is carried out in future? Following on the heels of her bestseller Unlawful Killings, Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph KC places her listeners at the heart of the courtroom drama, and asks questions of the institutions tasked to deliver what is right and fair. Unpicking the fatal foibles of our legal system, Joseph asks British courts to face up to their failings, as she makes her own compelling case for change.
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Rough Justice
- Do we have the law we deserve?
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Her Honour Wendy Joseph QC
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- Written by: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization -- and even "man" himself. But what, exactly, is so scary about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose influential work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, carefully examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists.
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- Written by: Ben Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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The Whole Story
- Investigating Sexual Crime - Truth, Lies and the Path to Justice
- Written by: Patrick Tidmarsh
- Narrated by: Richard Booth
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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The prevalence of sex crimes has become one of the most urgent and most widely misunderstood subjects of our times. We are living through a sea change in our attitudes to sex crimes, yet we continue to get things badly wrong in the way we respond to them. Drawing on over 30 years' experience, Patrick Tidmarsh argues that we need to find a new way to understand, investigate and talk about these crimes. He forces us all to question our own prejudices and assumptions - about both victims and perpetrators.
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The Whole Story
- Investigating Sexual Crime - Truth, Lies and the Path to Justice
- Narrated by: Richard Booth
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 29-07-21
- Language: English
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The House of Dudley
- A New History of Tudor England
- Written by: Dr Joanne Paul
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side - or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. Under Elizabeth I, the family were once again at the centre of power and would do anything to remain there. With three generations of felled favourites, what was it that caused this family to keep rising so high and falling so low?
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The House of Dudley
- A New History of Tudor England
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Rough
- How Violence Has Found Its Way into the Bedroom and What We Can Do about It
- Written by: Rachel Thompson
- Narrated by: Rachel Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Rough is a revolutionary nonfiction work exploring the narratives of sexual violence that we don't talk about. Through powerful testimony from 50 women and non-binary people, this book shines a light on the sexual violence that takes place in our bedrooms and beyond, sometimes at the hands of people we know, trust, or even love. Rough investigates violations such as 'stealthing', non-consensual choking, and non-consensual rough sex acts that our culture is only starting to recognise as sexual violence.
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Rough
- How Violence Has Found Its Way into the Bedroom and What We Can Do about It
- Narrated by: Rachel Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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The Nineties
- A Book
- Written by: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand.
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The Nineties
- A Book
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
- Written by: Sara Ahmed
- Narrated by: Sara Ahmed
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration. Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime.
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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
- Narrated by: Sara Ahmed
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- Written by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science.
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Written by: Stephen Alford
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many listeners are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently.
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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National Populism
- The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (A Pelican Book)
- Written by: Matthew Goodwin, Roger Eatwell
- Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neoliberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western liberal democracy, from the United States to France, Austria to the UK. This radical turn, we are told, is a last howl of rage from an aging electorate on the verge of extinction.
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National Populism
- The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (A Pelican Book)
- Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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His Name Is George Floyd
- One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- Written by: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, with peaceful protests sometimes erupting into violent clashes. From Shetland to Sao Paolo, people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, decrying Floyd's death and demanding an end to racial injustice. Drawing on The Washington Post's unrivalled archives, in-depth reporting and award-winning series on Floyd, His Name Is George Floyd is a definitive biography that dives deep into the myriad ways that structural racism shaped Floyd's life and death.
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His Name Is George Floyd
- One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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France on Trial
- The Case of Marshal Pétain
- Written by: Julian Jackson
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In the radio speech after this meeting, Pétain said 'It is I alone who will be judged by History.' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judegment - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived.
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France on Trial
- The Case of Marshal Pétain
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-23
- Language: English
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How to Argue with a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time)
- Written by: Ed Winters
- Narrated by: Ed Winters
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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How to Argue With a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time) is an essential companions for all vegans helping them to remain cool and calm (and win) even in the most heated debate. It comprehensively breaks down every argument used against veganism, providing listeners with impressive rebuttals to these arguments. Covering topics such as ethics, the environment, health and nutrition, as well as providing tips on how to have 'healthy' debates, this book will leave listeners feeling confident and empowered knowing that, not matter what the argument, they can win every time.
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- By Aishwarya on 27-05-24
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How to Argue with a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time)
- Narrated by: Ed Winters
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 28-12-23
- Language: English
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