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    The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

    by Erik Vance ...
    National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Suggestible You

    The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

    by Erik Vance ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains?Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    The Influential Mind

    What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

    by Tali Sharot ...
    Narrated by Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect others—from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Money Mischief

    Episodes in Monetary History

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Milton Friedman demonstrates through historical events the mischief that can result from misunderstanding the monetary system; how, for example, the work of two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to appease a few senators from the American West helped communism triumph in China.He discusses the creation ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Amity and Prosperity

    One Family and the Fracturing of America

    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction*Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating indictment of energy politics in America.Stacey ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Sacred Liberty

    America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention.” Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    No Dream Is Too High

    Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon

    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He’s a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, and the best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men on the moon. Now he pauses to reflect and share what he has learned, from the vantage point not only of outer space but also of time: still a nonstop ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Influential Mind

    What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others

    by Tali Sharot ...
    A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect others—from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • No Dream Is Too High

    Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

    Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Edge of Physics

    A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    A tour of the exotic and remote outposts where scientists seek answers to the great mysteries: "A thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos." —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to HereIn The Edge of Physics, a science writer journeys to the ends of the Earth—visiting remote and sometimes dangerous places—in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money Mischief

    Episodes in Monetary History

    The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets.In this "lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history" ( Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes offers a journey through history to illustrate the importance of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Division

    Berlin, the Wall, and the Cold War

    by Ann Tusa ...
    “A brilliant paper chase—an excellent book.”—Library JournalJFK, Khrushchev, Reagan, and a city divided.Berlin has played a major role in world politics since the Nazi era and continues to be in the spotlight today as the once-again-great capital of Germany. Ann Tusa presents an engaging chronicle of the Cold War partitions of this historic city, from the political strife and administrative ... Read more

    $16.99 USD