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Period : The Real Story of Menstruation
Clancy, KatePrinceton University Press 2023 UnabridgedThis audiobook narrated by Kate Clancy shares a bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does...
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The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity
Graeber, David; Wengrow, DavidFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2021INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of ag...
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The Book of Hope : A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Goodall, Jane; Abrams, DouglasMacmillan Audio 2021 UnabridgedIn a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a...
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Love People, Use Things : Because the Opposite Never Works
Millburn, Joshua Fields; Nicodemus, RyanMacmillan Audio 2021 Unabridged"The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live...
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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Gordon, AubreyBeacon Press 2020From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice....
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The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Muraresku, Brian C.Macmillan Audio 2020 UnabridgedNow updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times best...
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Ace : What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Chen, AngelaBeacon Press 2020An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity...
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Race: Are We So Different?
Goodman, Alan H.; Moses, Yolanda T.; Jones, Joseph L.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2020 2. editionThe second edition of the bestselling title on modern notions of race, providing timely examination of perspectives on race, racism, and human biological variation In this fully up...
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The Dozier School for Boys : Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past
Murray, Elizabeth A.Lerner Publishing Group 2019Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the chi...
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An American Summer : Love and Death in Chicago
Kotlowitz, AlexKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are sta...
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race : On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Fleming, Crystal M.Beacon Press 2018A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide...
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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
DiAngelo, RobinBeacon Press 2018The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain...
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Who We Are and How We Got Here : Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Reich, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2018A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of g...
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Bad Girls of Japan
Miller, Laura; Bardsley, JanSpringer 2005 1. editionTable of contents1. IntroductionLaura Miller, Jan Bardsley2. Mythical Bad Girls: The Corpse, the Crone, and the SnakeRebecca Copeland3. Bad Girls Confined: Okuni, Geisha, and the N...
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Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Pinker, StevenPenguin Publishing Group 2018INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." —Bill Gates If you think the w...
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The Road to Jonestown : Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Guinn, JeffSimon & Schuster 20172018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime "A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)—the definit...
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Behaving Badly : The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Collinsworth, EdenKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2017What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingl...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
Preston, DouglasBloomsbury Publishing 2017Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors...
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Lab Girl : A Memoir
Jahren, HopeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2016NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory t...
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Lecture on Ethics
Levy, D. K.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2014 1. editionThe most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s o...