Visionary History

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    • The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
    • By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Conquering the Electron offers listeners a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad....

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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • By: Kevin Brockmeier
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • All residents of the City have recently died, and will remain only as long as someone living remembers them....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
    • By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers....

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    • The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness (The Definitive Edition of Supernatural)
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Graham Hancock
    • Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings
    • Discover the pathway to the gods. In Visionary, Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this mysterious "before-and-after moment" and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to modern human mind....

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    • By: Julian Barnes
    • Narrated by: Alex Jennings
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies....

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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

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    • The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
    • By: Alec Nevala-Lee
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....

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    • Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
    • By: Jerry Saltz
    • Narrated by: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art....

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    • Reading Scripture Like the Book of Mormon's Visionary Men
    • By: D. John Butler
    • Narrated by: David Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Nephi puts us on notice in his very first sentence that The Book of Mormon was written by temple worshippers and for temple worshippers.

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    • The Life of an American Visionary
    • By: Joe Jackson
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 676 ratings
    • Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West....

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    • American Visionary
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Meticulously researched and masterfully written, John Quincy Adams paints a rich portrait of this brilliant leader and his significance to the nation and our own lives....

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    • The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
    • By: Kevin R. C. Gutzman
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Jeffersonians is a complete chronicle of the men who served as president from 1801 to 1825 and implemented the foreign policy, domestic, and constitutional agenda of the radical wing of the American Revolution, setting guideposts for later American liberals to follow....

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    • By: Matt James
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A fierce sandstorm hits southern Algeria and uncovers a lost ruin, its location unknown to modern man...until now. A team led by slacker ...

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    • Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Erik Davis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s....

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Monica Byrne
    • Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Kareem Ferguson, Gisela Chipe
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • The Actual Star takes listeners on a journey over thousands of years and six continents—collapsing three separate timelines into one cave in the Belizean jungle....

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