Popular Culture Theory

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,123 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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    • Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to science and critical thinking, these ideas fall flat....

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • By: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
    • Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,299 ratings
    • Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....

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    • By: Rick Steves
    • Narrated by: Rick Steves
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates....

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    • The Illuminati, Ancient Aliens, and Pop Culture
    • By: Isaac Weishaupt
    • Narrated by: Eric Burns
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • This is a comprehensive beginner's guide to all things conspiracy! Learn how to decode Illuminati symbolism that's hidden in plain sight with the help of an expert in spotting occult secrets....

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    • How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
    • By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,760 ratings
    • Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

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    • Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
    • By: Barry Glassner
    • Narrated by: William Dufris, Michael Moore - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. But are we living in exceptionally perilous times....

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    • The Power of Diverse Thinking
    • By: Matthew Syed
    • Narrated by: Matthew Syed
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Matthew Syed argues that our brainpower as individuals isn't enough. To tackle problems from climate change to economic decline, we'll need to employ the power of "cognitive diversity"....

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    • A Theory
    • By: Aaron James
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existentially necessary....

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    • By: Mark Fisher
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • K-Punk: Politics shows Fisher at his most combative and incendiary, wrangling with the contradictions and complexities of capitalism and setting out the way forward into a more just, fair and equal future for all....

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    • Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture
    • By: Chris Richardson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture....

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    • A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    • By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
    • Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Assume nothing, question everything. This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down....

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    • William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
    • By: Mark Jacobson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • A former US naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one best seller in the American prison system....

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    • 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
    • By: Ronald Brownstein
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • In this exceptional cultural history, Ronald Brownstein tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become....

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    • The Economics of Star Trek
    • By: Manu Saadia
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 845 ratings
    • What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward....

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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

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