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  • Meet the Neighbors

    Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

    by Brandon Keim ...
    **“A true landmark in animal literature. Mandatory reading.” —Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings and EagerWhat does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?**Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Eye of the Sandpiper

    Stories from the Living World

    by Brandon Keim ...
    In The Eye of the Sandpiper**, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful.** In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural ... Read more

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    Meet the Neighbors

    Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World

    by Brandon Keim ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, science journalist Brandon ... Read more

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    The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

    by Claude M. Steele ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

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    With Malcolm Gladwell–like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multifaceted democracy and how to minimize their corrosive effects in everyday life.A pioneer of social psychology, Claude M. Steele is renowned for Whistling Vivaldi, a runaway bestseller that analyzed societal stereotypes—from beliefs about racial and gender test score gaps to the athletic prowess of ... Read more

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  • Churn

    The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

    by Claude M. Steele ...
    “Churn offers a way forward for anyone seeking to foster trust and build community during a time of seemingly insurmountable group divides.” —Jennifer Richeson, Yale UniversityNearly two decades after the publication of Whistling Vivaldi, a landmark work that analyzed stereotype threats and how we can mitigate their corrosive effects, the legendary social psychologist Claude M. Steele returns with ... Read more

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    Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    by Elizabeth Margulis ...
    Narrated by Holly Adams ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    A revelatory work—grounded in the author's own pathbreaking research—that explores the capacity for meaning-making and connection through "musical daydreams."We've all had the experience: a song comes on, and suddenly we're not where we were. We're back in the past, or living out a future that never happened, or imagining a scene that never existed. In Transported, Elizabeth Margulis explores the ... Read more

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  • Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    by Elizabeth Margulis ...
    **A Wall Street Journal Best Book To ReadA song comes on—and suddenly, you’re somewhere else.**Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds.In Transported, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, ... Read more

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    Averting Catastrophe

    Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 48 min

    The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most ... Read more

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    The King's Shadow

    Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

    by Edmund Richardson ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers.On the way into one of history's most ... Read more

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    The Great River

    The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

    by Boyce Upholt ...
    Narrated by Gabriel Vaughan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    A sweeping history of the Mississippi River—and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America.Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. But European settlers and American pioneers had a different vision: the ... Read more

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    Darkology

    Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

    by Rhae Lynn Barnes ...
    Narrated by Susan Hanfield, Patryce Williams ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 8 min

    A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unravels this complex, subterranean ... Read more

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    America, Compromised

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    "There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It's getting worse.What Lessig shows, brilliantly ... Read more

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