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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,214 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

    Regular price: $18.03

    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
    • By: Larry D. Rosen, Adam Gazzaley
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • In The Distracted Mind, leading psychologist Larry Rosen and pioneering neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley explain why our minds have become addicted to email, text messages, and social media....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Resisting the Attention Economy
    • By: Jenny Odell
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 759 ratings
    • A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
    • By: Mary S. Lovell
    • Narrated by: Jill Rolls
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of 40 years....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
    • By: Eleanor Janega
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Gilded Age family mystery
    • By: Robert Bordas
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • Old sins cast long shadows. Overcoming years of hardship, Hungarian immigrant George Bodnár established a comfortable life for his family in ...

    Regular price: $6.99

    • How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris
    • By: Caroline Weber
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society....

    Regular price: $27.00

    • Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Joseph E. Aoun
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover - to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated AI agent cannot....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Unveil High Society’s Opulence, Groundbreaking Inventions, and Transformative Social Shifts of a Defining Era in a Few Days
    • By: Lennon Publishing
    • Narrated by: Scotty Kwas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Step into the dazzling world of America’s Gilded Age—an era of groundbreaking inventions, powerful industrialists, and dramatic social change.

    Regular price: $14.95

    • A Guide for the Perplexed
    • By: Richard Susskind
    • Narrated by: Richard Susskind
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide that challenges us to think differently about AI. Susskind brings AI out of computing laboratories, big tech companies, and start-ups—and into everyday life.

    Regular price: $11.19

    • The Last Season
    • By: Anne deCourcy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Steve Marvel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed The Viceroy's Daughters, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Life of Grace Kelly
    • By: Donald Spoto
    • Narrated by: George K Wilson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In just seven years---from 1950 through 1956---Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in 11 movies....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
    • By: Geoff Colvin
    • Narrated by: Geoff Colvin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • As technology races ahead, what will people do better than computers? It’s easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
    • By: Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous-in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Daniel Kalla
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a twisty psychological thriller about a pioneering psychiatrist hiding dark secrets.

    Regular price: $13.49

    • The Hidden History of Yale's Secret Societies
    • By: David Alan Richards
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 25 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The mysterious, highly influential hidden world of Yale's secret societies is revealed in a definitive and scholarly history....

    Regular price: $39.95