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Technology vs. Truth

Deception in the Digital Age

by Scientific American ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth, and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the ... Read more

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In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth, and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the
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Words without Music

A Memoir

by Philip Glass ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

15 hours 6 min

World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow one to experience the moments of creative fusion when ... Read more

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World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow one to experience the moments of creative fusion when
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Way Hollywood Tells It, The

Story and Style in Modern Movies

by David Bordwell ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

8 hours 56 min

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters.American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

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Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters.American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that
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Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

12 hours 29 min

America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they?As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they?As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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Pictures at a Revolution

Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

by Mark Harris ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

17 hours 20 min

The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967—Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde—and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.It's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals such as Mary ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967—Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde—and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.It's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals such as Mary
... Read more

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The Europeans

by Henry James ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins.Eugenia wins the attentions of Robert Acton, the most appropriate suitor in the area, while also seducing her younger cousin, Clifford. But her foreign gentility and ... Read more

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Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins.Eugenia wins the attentions of Robert Acton, the most appropriate suitor in the area, while also seducing her younger cousin, Clifford. But her foreign gentility and
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New World Coming

The 1920s and the Making of Modern America

by Nathan Miller ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

18 hours 32 min

Jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, Model T Fords, Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic—the 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. With scandal and crime the lifeblood of the tabloids, it was the time when the culture of celebrity and sensationalism took root and journalism became ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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Jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, Model T Fords, Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic—the 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. With scandal and crime the lifeblood of the tabloids, it was the time when the culture of celebrity and sensationalism took root and journalism became
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King's Cross

The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

by Timothy Keller ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

The most influential man to ever walk the earth has had his story told in hundreds of different ways for thousands of years. Can any more be said?Now, Timothy Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and the man Newsweek called a “C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century,” unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ as he explores how Jesus came as a king, but a king ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The most influential man to ever walk the earth has had his story told in hundreds of different ways for thousands of years. Can any more be said?Now, Timothy Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and the man Newsweek called a “C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century,” unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ as he explores how Jesus came as a king, but a king
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Report from Engine Co. 82

by Dennis Smith ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Abridged

2 hours 55 min

Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day.
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Primary Colors

A Novel of Politics

by Anonymous ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

14 hours 46 min

Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider’s look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and exposé to discover a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other—sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider’s look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and exposé to discover a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other—sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama
... Read more
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Manufacturing Consensus

Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

by Samuel Woolley ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samuel Woolley argues, social media has democratized propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced, propaganda ... Read more

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An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samuel Woolley argues, social media has democratized propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced, propaganda
... Read more
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Switching Time

A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

by Richard Baer ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

12 hours 58 min

Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer complaining of depression. She poured out a litany of ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer complaining of depression. She poured out a litany of
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