Social Memory

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    • Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
    • By: David McRaney
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,315 ratings
    • An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is...

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    • Linguistic Notes on Change Over Time Through Memory and Identity, Revitalization, Migration, Cognition, and Social Structures for Modern Linguists
    • By: Daniel Dinkelman
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-25
    • Language: English
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    • HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION --- This book provides an in-depth exploration of the processes that have shaped human language over ...

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    • A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,277 ratings
    • Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....

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    • How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
    • By: Gabriel Wyner
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Wyner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently—and he didn’t learn them in school. Here he wants to show others what he’s discovered.

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    • How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive
    • By: Kevin Horsley
    • Narrated by: Dan Culhane
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,694 ratings
    • In this book you'll find all the tools, strategies, and techniques you need to improve your memory....

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
    • By: Lauret Savoy
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Javier Zamora
    • Narrated by: Javier Zamora
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,027 ratings
    • Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers....

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    • Race and the Memory of Evil
    • By: Susan Neiman
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Elisa Gabbert
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world....

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    • By: Kevin Leman
    • Narrated by: Chris Fabry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Your childhood memories - along with the words and emotions you use to describe them - hold the key to understanding the person you are today....

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    • How to Create and Remember Happy Moments
    • By: Meik Wiking
    • Narrated by: Meik Wiking
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel. In his work as a happiness researcher, Meik Wiking has learned that people are happier if they hold a positive, nostalgic view of the past....

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    • The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
    • By: Lisa Genova
    • Narrated by: Lisa Genova
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and best-selling author of Still Alice....

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    • On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
    • By: Julie Sedivy
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As a child, Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language....

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    • Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
    • By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
    • Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,051 ratings
    • In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps....

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    • The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
    • By: Eric R. Kandel
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings listeners from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the 20th century: the search for the biological basis of memory....

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    • The Education of Richard Rodriguez
    • By: Richard Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum....

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