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Reflections on the Pandemic

COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

by Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Kimberly Camp, Kelly-Jane Cotter, David Dreyfus, Adrienne Eaton, Katherine Epstein, Paul Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman0, David Greenberg1, Jonathan Scott Holloway2, James W. Hughes3, Amy Jordan4, Amir Lighty5, Stephen Masaryk6, Yalidy Matos7, Susan Miller8, Yehoshua November9, Joyce Carol Oates0, Katherine Ognyanova1, Gregory Pardlo2, Steve Pikiell3, Benjamin Pukert4, Caridad Svich5, Mary E. O'Dowd6, Angelique Haugerud7, Leslieann Hobayan8, Stephanie Bonne9, Mark Doty0, Leah Falk1, Naomi Jackson2, Louis Masur3, Belinda McKeon4, Mackenzie Kean5, Revathi Machan6, Ms. Teresa Politano8, Dr. Vikki S. Katz, Ph.D.9, Professor Louis P. Masur0, Ms. David Orr1 ...

Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, ... Read more

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Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality,
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All Things Shining

Reading the Western Canon to Find Meaning in a Secular World

by Hubert Dreyfus, Sean Dorrance Kelly ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

The religious turn to their faith to find meaning. But what about the many people who lead secular lives and are also hungry for meaning? What guides, what approaches are available to them?Distinguished philosophers, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly explain that a secular life charged with meaning is indeed within reach. It is achieved by a passionate, skillful engagement with the people, ... Read more

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The religious turn to their faith to find meaning. But what about the many people who lead secular lives and are also hungry for meaning? What guides, what approaches are available to them?Distinguished philosophers, Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly explain that a secular life charged with meaning is indeed within reach. It is achieved by a passionate, skillful engagement with the people,
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Pandora's Seed

The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

by Spencer Wells ...

Narrated by Spencer Wells ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need to go back ten millennia, to the wheat fields of the ... Read more

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This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need to go back ten millennia, to the wheat fields of the
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Denialism

How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives

by Michael Specter ...

Narrated by Richard Poe ...

Series series Bowers Files
Unabridged

8 hours 36 min

New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council's Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress. ... Read more

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New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter has twice won the Global Health Council's Excellence in Media Award, as well as the Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Denialism, he fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.
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In Sunlight and in Shadow

by Mark Helprin ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

29 hours 54 min

Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all?New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him instantly but ... Read more

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Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all?New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him instantly but
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The Tell-Tale Brain

A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

by V. S. Ramachandran ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Synesthesia becomes a window ... Read more

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V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Synesthesia becomes a window
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Time Reborn

From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

by Lee Smolin ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

10 hours 59 min

What is time?This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come down to the nature of time.The fact that time is ... Read more

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What is time?This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come down to the nature of time.The fact that time is
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The Mind and the Brain

Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

14 hours 31 min

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's ... Read more

$32.99 USD

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's
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Griftopia

Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

by Matt Taibbi ...

Narrated by Patrick Egan ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American historyThe financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American historyThe financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the
... Read more
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Where Good Ideas Come From

The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson ...

Narrated by Erik Singer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? ... Read more

$17.99 USD

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?
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All the Devils Are Here

The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

by Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Unabridged

15 hours 29 min

The New York Times bestseller hailed as "the best business book of 2010" (Huffington Post).As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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The New York Times bestseller hailed as "the best business book of 2010" (Huffington Post).As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of
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Warped Passages

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

by Lisa Randall ...

Narrated by Donna Postel ...

Unabridged

17 hours 42 min

The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familiar three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now.Warped Passages is an altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory. One of the ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familiar three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now.Warped Passages is an altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory. One of the
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