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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance30
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Story30
We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking 16-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton heads into the office, the factory, the fishing fleet, and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace. Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? And why do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also the planet?
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This book is a poem
- By Maria on 22-01-17
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-07-12
- Language: English
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Surviving Ireland
- By: Colm Tobin
- Narrated by: Colm Tobin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.
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Great holiday read
- By Hassan on 12-01-16
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Surviving Ireland
- Narrated by: Colm Tobin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-15
- Language: English
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Canada
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)
- By: Juliana Tzvetkova, Diane Lemieux
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Unsuspecting outsiders often assume that Canadians are just like their American neighbors, if perhaps a little more modest. However, there is much more to it than that. Canadian society is a complex mosaic of distinct cultural identities that vary from province to province, and with high levels of immigration, it is one of the most multicultural societies in the world.
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Canada
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 3: The History
- By: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance10
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In all of Roman history there was never a more turbulent year than A.D. 69, the ill-omened "Year of the Three Emperors". By some miracle, the greatest historian of the age, Tacitus, was able to chronicle those momentous events in a work he called The History. In its pages are some of the most memorable events of Roman history described in some of the most intensely passionate prose ever devised.
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a fascinating and compelling history
- By C. D. Hough on 26-05-18
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 3: The History
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Series: The Complete Works of Tacitus, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-03-06
- Language: English
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
- Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
- By: Hal Herzog
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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“A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.”— Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave towards animals in this engaging...
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
- Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-12-21
- Language: English
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The Jaguar Smile
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes and warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister, a priest, to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room.
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The Jaguar Smile
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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Empty Planet
- The Shock of Global Population Decline
- By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance37
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Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilisations. This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanisation, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. In Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker draw on a wealth of research and firsthand reporting to illustrate the dramatic consequences of this population decline.
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Accurate, well written, well read
- By S on 24-03-19
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Empty Planet
- The Shock of Global Population Decline
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
- By: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist’s impact on global culture—and why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he feels as modern and alive as ever. The...
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Very thorough
- By Tim on 30-03-22
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Growing Up Human
- The Evolution of Childhood
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us—our uniquely long childhoods. Growing Up Human looks at how we have diverged from our ancestral roots to stay ‘forever young’—or at least what seems like forever—and how the evolution of childhood is a critical part of the human story.
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Growing Up Human
- The Evolution of Childhood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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- A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
- By: Ben Fogle
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story25
What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and...
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enjoyed fully
- By Jamie on 29-11-17
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- A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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New Zealand
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)
- By: Lyn McNamee
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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New Zealand—Culture Smart! helps you get to the heart of this diverse and multicultural nation. It examines the impact of history, religion, and politics, while tips and vital insights into Kiwi attitudes, customs, and social life will help deepen your experience of this country and its fair-minded people.
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New Zealand
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 30-12-25
- Language: English
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Losing It
- Sex Education for the 21st Century
- By: Sophia Smith Galer
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance24
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‘It’s the kind of book that makes you wonder, ‘why wasn’t this written before?’ It could change lives’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Turns everything you’ve been taught about sex on its head’ RUBY RARE What lies are we told when it comes to sex? What impossible expectations pollute our...
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An Essential, Myth-Busting Read
- By Anonymous on 21-08-22
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Losing It
- Sex Education for the 21st Century
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race
- On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
- By: Crystal M. Fleming
- Narrated by: Melanie Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance19
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A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race...
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Very eye-openingly educational
- By Tracy :) on 09-06-20
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race
- On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
- Narrated by: Melanie Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Invisible Illness
- A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID
- By: Emily Mendenhall
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Weaving together cultural history with intimate interviews, Invisible Illness upholds the experiences of those living with complex illness to expose the failures of the American healthcare system—and how we can do better.
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Invisible Illness
- A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-01-26
- Language: English
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Face
- One Square Foot of Skin
- By: Justine Bateman
- Narrated by: Justine Bateman
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women’s faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed".
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Interesting to explore this issue from various points of view, but a bit depressing!
- By KN - Hove on 25-06-24
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Face
- One Square Foot of Skin
- Narrated by: Justine Bateman
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-05-21
- Language: English
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- By: David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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From warrior queens to King Arthur, this epic collection explores the tribes, rulers and civilisations of Britain's Iron Age In the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed...
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You can get this for free on BBC sounds
- By Toby on 03-06-24
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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes
- A BBC history of Iron Age Britain
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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The Silk Road
- A New History
- By: Valerie Hansen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archaeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China.
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The Silk Road
- A New History
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- Language: English
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The Wedge
- Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience
- By: Scott Carney
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance50
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Thrive or die: That's the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in even the most hostile conditions. Others couldn't - and perished. While incremental genetic adaptations hone the physiology of nearly every creature on this planet, there's another evolutionary force that is just as important: the power of choice. In this explosive investigation into the limits of endurance, journalist Scott Carney discovers how humans can wedge control over automatic physiological responses into the breaking point between stress and biology.
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Promised a lot but has little substance
- By T.G. Court on 21-06-20
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The Wedge
- Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-04-20
- Language: English
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Neuroplasticity
- By: Moheb Costandi
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self-improvement - and has inspired countless Internet entrepreneurs who peddle dubious "brain training" games and apps. In this book, Moheb Costandi offers a concise and engaging overview of neuroplasticity for the general listener.
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Good book, well narrated
- By Mr J on 05-10-19
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Neuroplasticity
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-08-16
- Language: English
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Fed Up
- What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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As we face today’s excess of confusing and often contradictory advice on diet and wellness, Daniel E. Lieberman—bestselling author of The Story of the Human Body and Exercised, and founding chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University—gives us a brilliant...
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Fed Up
- What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-08-26
- Language: English
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