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Knowledge = Power
by Rita
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.
Episodes
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (“A masterpiece of science writing.” —Washington Post) and “one of the stars of modern paleontology” (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs A New History of a Lost World
A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY." — Scientific American The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great...
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The...
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Building Applications with AI Agents
Generative AI has revolutionized how organizations tackle problems, accelerating the journey from concept to prototype to solution. As the models become increasingly capable, we have witnessed a new design pattern emerge: AI agents. By combining tools, knowledge, memory, and learning with…
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Open to Work - How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Work is changing for everyone, everywhere. Standing still isn't an option. Ryan Roslansky and Aneesh Raman, CEO and Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, show you how to take control of this moment with clarity and confidence. The future of work is…
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The Economist Audio Edition - May 02, 2026
The Economist Audio Edition - May 02, 2026
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The Economist Audio Edition - April 25th-May 1st 2026
The Economist Audio Edition - April 25th-May 1st 2026
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The Haunting of Hill House – Unabridged Shirley Jackson
Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for…
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Eknath Easwaran - The Bhagavad Gita Unabridged
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound. Easwaran's extensive introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its...
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Jay L. Garfield, The Great Courses - The Meaning of Life Perspectives from the Worlds Great Intellectual Traditions
What is the meaning of life? It's a question every thoughtful person has pondered at one time or another. Indeed, it may be the biggest question of all - at once profound and universal, but also deeply personal. We want to understand the world in which we live, but we also want to understand how…
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The Art of Investing Lessons from History's Greatest Traders
Great investors like Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio will tell you they're no geniuses; they're simply observant, open-minded, and industrious. Using these key traits, the world's most outstanding traders have employed a remarkable mix of strategies to build huge fortunes. Their careers are a how-to...
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AI Engineering - Building Applications with Foundation Models
Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use....
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Xenophon - The March of the Ten Thousand (The Anabasis)
Translated by W. E. D. Rouse, The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most admired and widely read pieces of ancient literature to come down to us. Xenophon employs a very simple, straightforward style to describe what is probably the most exciting military adventure ever undertaken. When...
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The Bhagavad Gita A Walkthrough for Westerners (Unabridged)
The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. In this audio version of his classic book The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, Jack Hawley makes its wisdom clear to Western seekers.
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The Roman Catholic Bible Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Christopher Glyn
Renowned for his hugely popular narration of the King James Bible, Christopher Glyn now brings his considerable inspirational talents to a unique new audiobook of the complete Catholic Bible. And it’s not just Christopher’s voice that will be familiar to listeners - because this recording…
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (by Oliver Read) (Penguin Classic)
“A truly great translation . . . This English version . . .really is better.” —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s “psychological record of a crime” gives his dark masterpiece…
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Jay L. Garfield, The Great Courses - The Meaning of Life Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions
What is the meaning of life? It's a question every thoughtful person has pondered at one time or another. Indeed, it may be the biggest question of all - at once profound and universal, but also deeply personal. We want to understand the world in which we live, but we also want to understand how…
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The Quran A New Translation by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
"Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know." The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching…
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War and Peace (Penguin Classics) – by Leo Tolstoy
Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace—presented here in the first new English translation in forty...
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Listener's Audio Bible—New International Version, NIV Complete Bible Vocal Performance by Max McLean
Verses you have read many times will impact you in a new way when you hear them read aloud Read in a single voice with subtle background music, the NIV Listener’s Audio Bible features Max McLean’s skillful, engaging, but never over-dramatized style reading the entire text of the Bible. This audio...
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The Audio Quran (Full-Cast Edition): A Cinematic Experience (in English) – Unabridged
2025 SOVAS NOMINEE: OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION - AUDIOBOOK - BEST PRODUCER “Enter the World of the Qur'an!” Hear the Qur'an in English like never before! AudioIlm presents the first fully dramatized, full-cast audiobook of the holiest scripture of Islam in English. The full Qur'an, brought to life...
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Fouché - Stefan Zweig
Fouché - Stefan Zweig
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Bill Gates - Source Code
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age “A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known…
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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s...
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Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych
Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the masterpiece of his late fiction. The book is about many things: the tyranny of bourgeois niceties, the terrible weak spots of the human heart, and it is about death. But more than anything, it deals with the consequences of living without meaning, that…
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Resurrection – Unabridged Leo Tolstoy
When Prince Dmitri Nekhludov is called for jury duty on a murder case, he little knows how the experience will change his life. Faced with the accused, a prostitute, he recognizes Katusha, the young girl he seduced and abandoned many years before, and realizes his responsibility for the life of...
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Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation When Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has...
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 3 - Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 3 - Master of the Senate
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 2 - Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 2 - Means of Ascent
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 1 - The Path to Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Volume 1 - The Path to Power
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Robert A. Caro - Robert Moses
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest...
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The Hitler Youth How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation
The Hitler Youth How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
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Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled oldest daughter of a...
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The Red Badge of Courage (AmazonClassics Edition)
The Red Badge of Courage (AmazonClassics Edition)
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Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (read by Peter Francis James)
Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (read by Peter Francis James)
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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises [William Hurt-2006]
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises [William Hurt-2006]
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Henry A. Kissinger et al. - The Age of AI
Henry A. Kissinger et al. - The Age of AI
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Robert Greene, 50 Cent - The 50th Law (Unabridged)
Robert Greene, 50 Cent - The 50th Law (Unabridged)
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Mastery - Greene, Robert
Mastery - Greene, Robert
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Leadership Six Studies in World Strategy - Henry Kissinger
Leadership Six Studies in World Strategy - Henry Kissinger
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Metternich Strategist and Visionary
Metternich Strategist and Visionary
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Henry Kissinger - China
Henry Kissinger - China
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Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
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Henry Kissinger - World Order
Henry Kissinger - World Order
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The_Art_of_Seduction Robert Greene
The_Art_of_Seduction Robert Greene
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The 48 Laws of Power (Abridged)
The 48 Laws of Power (Abridged)
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Kissinger the Negotiator Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
Kissinger the Negotiator Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises - Ray Dalio
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises - Ray Dalio
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