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Poisoner in Chief

Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

de Stephen Kinzer ...

Narrado por James Linkin ...

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12 hora 17 minutos

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at ... Leer más

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The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at
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An American Plague

The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

de Jim Murphy ...

Narrado por Pat Bottino ...

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3 hora 48 minutos

Powerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor–winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation’s capital—and the eventual triumph over the disease.Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, to flee and brought the workings of the federal government to a ... Leer más

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Powerful and riveting, this Newbery Honor–winning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nation’s capital—and the eventual triumph over the disease.Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, to flee and brought the workings of the federal government to a
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Late Victorian Holocausts

El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

de Mike Davis ...

Narrado por James Patrick Cronin ...

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15 hora 41 minutos

Examining a series of El Niño–induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: ... Leer más

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Examining a series of El Niño–induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine:
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The Science of Serial Killers

The Truth Behind Ted Bundy, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Other Notorious Murderers of Cinematic Legend

de Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence ...

Narrado por Linda Jones ...

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6 hora 48 minutos

Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more.Gothic media moguls Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Monsters, The Science of Women in Horror, and The Science of Stephen King, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film ... Leer más

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Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more.Gothic media moguls Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Monsters, The Science of Women in Horror, and The Science of Stephen King, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film
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How to Think Like Socrates

Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World

de Donald J. Robertson ...

Narrado por Donald J. Robertson ...

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11 hora 25 minutos

How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and Godfather to the Stoics. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are familiar with the wisdom he has to offer us.How to Think ... Leer más

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How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and Godfather to the Stoics. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet few people today are familiar with the wisdom he has to offer us.How to Think
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The True Flag

Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

de Stephen Kinzer ...

Narrado por Robert Petkoff ...

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10 hora 55 minutos

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again.No ... Leer más

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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again.No
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The Invisible Spy

Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America’s First Secret Agent of World War II

de Thomas Maier ...

Narrado por Stephen Graybill ...

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12 hora 49 minutos

The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson.As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill’s undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson.As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in
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Undaunted

My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

de John O. Brennan ...

Narrado por John O. Brennan ...

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14 hora 22 minutos

****Instant New York Times bestseller**This program is read by the author.A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government.**Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan’s alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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****Instant New York Times bestseller**This program is read by the author.A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government.**Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan’s alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security
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How Ike Led

The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions

de Susan Eisenhower ...

Narrado por Susan Eisenhower, Bernadette Dunne ...

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12 hora 40 minutos

**"**The work is clear-eyed but naturally imbued with a granddaughter's affection. Narrator Bernadette Dunne's amiable manner is a good match for the author's tone, objective but tinged with warmth...Dunne manages to go beyond the plain sense of the text to give us the author as an intelligent, sensible, well-spoken person who is examining an important life in a way that informs, pleases, and ... Leer más

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**"**The work is clear-eyed but naturally imbued with a granddaughter's affection. Narrator Bernadette Dunne's amiable manner is a good match for the author's tone, objective but tinged with warmth...Dunne manages to go beyond the plain sense of the text to give us the author as an intelligent, sensible, well-spoken person who is examining an important life in a way that informs, pleases, and
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User Friendly

How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

de Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant ...

Narrado por Jean Ann Douglass ...

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11 hora 18 minutos

**This program includes material read by the authors.In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.**Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks ... Leer más

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**This program includes material read by the authors.In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.**Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks
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Less Than Human

Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others

de David Livingstone Smith ...

Narrado por Peter Lerman ...

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11 hora 23 minutos

A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the
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Playing with Reality

How Games Have Shaped Our World

de Kelly Clancy ...

Narrado por Patty Nieman ...

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11 hora 39 minutos

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus“By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The EconomistA wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at
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