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    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • Written by: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 506 ratings
    • In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • Written by: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2012-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • Written by: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-26
    • Language: English
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    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
    • Written by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

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    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • Written by: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

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    • My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House
    • Written by: H. R. McMaster
    • Narrated by: H. R. McMaster
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-27
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House.

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    • How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    • Written by: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2014-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • Written by: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
    • Written by: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean, David E. Sanger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago.

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • Life and Meaning in a Solved World
    • Written by: Nick Bostrom
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete.

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    • Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
    • Written by: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2013-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
    • Written by: Michael Shellenberger
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • Climate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....

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    • Written by: David Pelzer
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Series: Child Called "It", Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2007-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court....

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    • Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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