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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: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 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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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy
    • By: Eric Beecher
    • Narrated by: Eric Beecher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 558 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy - one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled....

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    • Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
    • By: Emily Lynn Paulson
    • Narrated by: Emily Lynn Paulson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid . . . scheme....

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    • Education as the Practice of Freedom
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to....

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    • By: Frank Waters
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona—a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America—freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form.

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    • Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
    • By: Jason Hannan
    • Narrated by: Ray Greenley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. Jason Hannan builds on this thesis....

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    • How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
    • By: Kyle Chayka
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself....

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    • How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
    • By: Jason Bisnoff
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....

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    • How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
    • By: Joel Morris
    • Narrated by: Joel Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter, where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves....

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    • Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
    • By: Helen Smith PhD
    • Narrated by: Susan Boyce
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage....

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