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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Christopher McDougall
• Narrated By Fred Sanders

Why we think it’s a great listen: Want to join the “superhumans”? Luckily you don’t have to run to catch up with them, thanks to McDougall’s and Sanders’ inspiring (and motivating) journey through history, science, physiology, health, entertaining characters and unlikely friendships. Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Michael J. Sandel
• Narrated By Michael J. Sandel

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell.

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Eric Greitens
• Narrated By Eric Greitens
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Like many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make a difference. During college and afterward, he traveled to the world's trouble spots, working in refugee camps, serving the sick and the poor on four continents, from Gaza to Croatia to Mother Teresa's home in Calcutta, among others. Yet he could not prevent violence or save anyone from becoming a refugee; he could only step in afterward and try to ease the damage. So Eric joined the Navy SEALs and became an elite warrior....

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Walter Kiechel
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. The concept of strategy changed all that, paving the way for the creation of the modern corporate world. The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works — and what doesn’t — when forging strategy.

The Good Soldiers

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
• By David Finkel
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it "the surge". "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic Army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Richard Dawkins
• Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.

The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Daniel Gardner
• Narrated By Scott Peterson
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From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly - believing they were avoiding risk - road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.

The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Gavin de Becker
• Narrated By Gavin de Becker

Outliers: The Story of Success

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.