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How the Irish Became White
- Routledge Classics
- By: Noel Ignatiev
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country–a land of opportunity–they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book–the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians–tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors.
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How the Irish Became White
- Routledge Classics
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy
- The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States
- By: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the...
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SUPERB, insightful and addictive - a must listen
- By Miss on 15-11-16
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Hillbilly Elegy
- The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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English Pastoral
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the beloved number one best seller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm. James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, that landscape had profoundly changed.
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One of the most important books I’ve ever read
- By hannah kenway on 20-09-20
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English Pastoral
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-09-20
- Language: English
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Doing Time
- 25 Years of Prison Writing
- By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.
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Very good stories
- By jakeyglen on 23-01-23
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Doing Time
- 25 Years of Prison Writing
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-13
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Slavery
- By: Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the 18th and 19th centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision.
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Classic
- By T S on 21-01-23
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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The Culting of America
- What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
- By: Daniella Mestyanek Young, Amy Reed
- Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young, Lizy Freudmann, Rebecca Slue
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Culting of America, cult survivor, military veteran, and bestselling author of Uncultured Daniella Mestyanek Young delivers a gripping investigation into the invisible systems of control shaping our lives. Raised in the notorious sex cult the Children of God, she escaped to America as a teenager—only to find herself inside another rigid institution: the U.S. Army. Years later, as a Harvard-trained expert in organizational psychology, she began asking a dangerous question: What if we’re all in cults—and America is built to keep us there?
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The Culting of America
- What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
- Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young, Lizy Freudmann, Rebecca Slue
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-01-26
- Language: English
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- By: Clare Carlisle
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage.
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Engaging and informative
- By Lady Macbeth on 21-08-23
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Inheritocracy
- It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad: The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Eliza Filby
- Narrated by: Eliza Filby
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Sunday Times Bestseller! Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and...
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Brilliant!
- By S.J.P on 08-08-25
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Inheritocracy
- It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad: The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Eliza Filby
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- By: Luke Kemp
- Narrated by: Luke Kemp
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance45
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Brought to you by Penguin. A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. ‘A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably...
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Enlightening but poor narration
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-25
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Goliath’s Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- Narrated by: Luke Kemp
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-07-25
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,018
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Performance878
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Story869
Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its...
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More of the podcast
- By Anonymous on 12-07-21
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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The Madness of Grief
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- By: Reverend Richard Coles
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall807
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Performance730
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Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife, or being called out to perform the last rites, death is part of the Reverend Richard Coles's life and work. But when his partner, the Reverend David Coles, died, shortly before Christmas in 2019, much about death took Coles by surprise. For one thing, David's death at the early age of 43 was unexpected. The man that so often assists others to examine life's moral questions now found himself in need of help. He began to look to others for guidance to steer him through his grief.
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Everyone needs this book
- By MS RUTH SHAW on 01-04-21
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The Madness of Grief
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- By: Rebecca Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 ‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN *Winner of The Lakeland Book of the Year 2024* Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the...
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Thoroughly interesting, enjoyable and absorbing.
- By Anonymous on 15-06-23
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- By: Aleks Krotoski
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the “science” of eternal life? From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal quest for immortality – and its rejuvenation...
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance105
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Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...
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Sobering and Necessary
- By Luke S on 29-08-18
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America: The Farewell Tour
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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The Racial Contract
- By: Charles Wade Mills
- Narrated by: Jeff Wilburn
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last 500 years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed.
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A profound and important book.
- By Ifayomi on 27-12-25
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The Racial Contract
- Narrated by: Jeff Wilburn
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-05-16
- Language: English
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
- Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- By: Brook Noel, Pamela D. Blair Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Tapping their personal histories and drawing on numerous interviews, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D., explore unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye provides survivors with a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
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Must listen!
- By Linds on 28-01-19
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
- Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-05-12
- Language: English
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Are You Really the Doctor?
- My Life as a Black Doctor in the NHS
- By: Dr Matthew Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Benji Waterhouse, Dr Matthew Hutchinson
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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As a black doctor working on the frontline of the NHS, Matt Hutchinson hears these words all too often. In this book, he offers a compelling glimpse into the unvarnished reality of working in healthcare as an ethnic minority. Tracing his journey from medical school through to working at some of the country's most chaotic hospitals, Matt uncovers how the true backbone of the NHS is the diverse community of immigrant healthcare workers who work tirelessly to keep the show on the road.
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Are You Really the Doctor?
- My Life as a Black Doctor in the NHS
- Narrated by: Benji Waterhouse, Dr Matthew Hutchinson
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance54
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Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past 30 years.
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Impossible to hear this boring robotic narration
- By Anonymous on 21-09-21
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Doppelganger
- A Trip Into the Mirror World
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall566
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Performance523
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Brought to you by Penguin. *WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT* When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different...
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Brilliant
- By Tony R. on 16-09-23
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Doppelganger
- A Trip Into the Mirror World
- Narrated by: Naomi Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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Backfired: Attention Deficit
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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ADHD may be the defining diagnosis of our time. According to the latest data, more than 10 percent of American children (that’s 7.1 million kids) have been diagnosed with ADHD. And the number of stimulant prescriptions for adults in their 30s has shot up nearly threefold since 2012. In recent years, this explosion in demand has combined with other factors to create a widespread stimulant shortage in the US. In the second installment of Backfired, cohosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes look at the unintended consequences of the ADHD industry, and trace the surprising path that brought us here.
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ADHD reality check
- By Richard Gascoigne on 04-10-24
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Backfired: Attention Deficit
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
- Series: Backfired
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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