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    • Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
    • By: Madeline Ostrander
    • Narrated by: Madeline Ostrander
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live....

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    • The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
    • By: Michiko Kakutani
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth Michiko Kakutani examines how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril....

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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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    • How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
    • By: Michael Saylor
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....

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    • The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control
    • By: George Dyson
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution - and an unsettling vision of what comes next....

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    • Reflections on the End of a Civilization
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....

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    • Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
    • By: Rob Hopkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
    • By: Ian Bremmer
    • Narrated by: Willis Sparks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years—including the pandemic—to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade....

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    • Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism
    • By: Ari Wallach
    • Narrated by: Ari Wallach
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, and to even five hundred years from now to reclaim meaning in our lives....

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    • A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme shortsightedness....

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    • The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
    • By: John Elkington, Paul Polman - foreword
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington - dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability" - explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century....

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    • The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape, and the nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory....

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    • Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
    • By: Daniel Susskind
    • Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....

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    • How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future
    • By: Michael R. Drew, Roy H. Williams
    • Narrated by: Roy H. Williams, Michael R. Drew
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable....

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    • Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world....

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    • John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Astounding is the landmark account of the extraordinary partnership between four controversial writers - John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard - who set off a revolution in science fiction and forever changed our world....

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