Pseudoscience
An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
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From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.
From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. Did you know, for example, that you can tell a person’s future by touching their butt? Rumpology. It’s a thing, but not really. Or that Stanley Kubrick made a fake moon landing film for the US government? Except he didn’t. Or that spontaneous human combustion is real? It ain’t, but it can be explained scientifically.
Pseudoscience is a wild mix of history, pop culture, and good old fashioned science–that not just entertains, but sheds a little light on why we all love to believe in things we know aren't true.
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Mavericks
- Life Stories and Lessons of History's Most Extraordinary Misfits
- De: Jenny Draper
- Narrado por: Jenny Draper
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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In her first book, popular TikTok historian J Draper uses her characteristic wit and intellect to introduce us to extraordinary figures marginalized by history, and the lessons we can learn from them. Witty and engaging TikTok historian J.D. Draper digs out unusual stories of individuals that have shaped the world, and discovers the lessons their unique experiences can teach us. Breaking away from history as told through the lens of kings, queens and nobles, this book instead lifts the lid on 24 fascinating stories of little-known underdogs, mavericks, trailblazers and oddballs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories and amazing performance
- De C. Marcello en 03-10-25
De: Jenny Draper
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Patient Zero
- A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
- De: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors’ lively style, chapters include gripping medical stories about a particular disease or virus—smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV—that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more.
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Can’t listen to the reader
- De Doug Clyde en 07-21-22
De: Lydia Kang MD, y otros
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Stuck
- How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
- De: Yoni Appelbaum
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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In this illuminating debut, Yoni Appelbaum, historian and journalist for The Atlantic, shows us that this idea has been under attack since reformers first developed zoning laws to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California. The century of legal segregation that ensued—from the zoning laws enacted to force Jewish workers back into New York’s Lower East Side to the private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in Flint, Michigan to Jane Jacobs’ efforts to protect her vision of the West Village.
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Moving?
- De D_Bear en 03-14-25
De: Yoni Appelbaum
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Death and the Victorians
- A Dark Fascination
- De: Adrian Mackinder
- Narrado por: Adrian Mackinder
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death—and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among London’s festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day.
De: Adrian Mackinder
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American Laughter, American Fury
- Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850
- De: Eran A. Zelnik
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Eran A. Zelnik offers a cultural history of early America that shows how humor among white men served to define and construct not only whiteness and masculinity but also American political culture and democracy more generally. Zelnik traces the emerging bonds of affinity that white male settlers in North America cultivated through their shared, transformative experience of mirth. This humor—a category that includes not only jokes but also play, riot, revelry, and mimicry—shaped the democratic and anti-elitist sensibilities of Americans.
De: Eran A. Zelnik
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison - was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
De: Lydia Kang, y otros
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Late Ottoman Gaza
- An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation
- De: Yuval Ben-Bassat, Johann Buessow
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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In contemporary public discourse, Gaza tends to be characterized solely as a theater of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. However, little is known about Gaza's society, politics, economy, and culture during the Ottoman era. Drawing on a range of previously untapped local and imperial sources, Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow explore the city's history from the mid-nineteenth century through WWI.
De: Yuval Ben-Bassat, y otros
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Beverly Hills Noir
- Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210
- De: Scott Huver
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Beverly Hills Noir chronicles an assortment of jaw-dropping true crime stories spanning the legendary city’s history, each with oh-so-90210 twists—including a high-profile murder mystery in the city’s most extravagant mansion, the daring exploits of a handsome cat burglar with movie star looks, a toxic Tinseltown love triangle that ended in gunplay, a brazen Rodeo Drive jewelry store holdup with tragically stunning finale, an Oscar nominated actress on shoplifting spree and more—complete with major roles and countless cameos by Hollywood idols and cultural icons.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Digs deep. Maybe too deep.
- De Jenny Atkinson en 02-24-25
De: Scott Huver
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Presidents at War
- How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush
- De: Steven M. Gillon
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 2
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World War II loomed over the latter half of the twentieth century, transforming every level of American society and international relationships and searing itself onto the psyche of an entire generation, including that of seven American presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. The lessons of World War II, more than party affiliation or ideology, defined the presidencies of these seven men.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bias
- De E.A.BRYLA en 03-06-25
De: Steven M. Gillon
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Europe Without Borders
- A History
- De: Isaac Stanley-Becker
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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Europe is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic project of transnational citizenship and a neoliberal project of international free trade. But the right of free movement always excluded non-Europeans, especially migrants of color from former colonies of the Schengen states.
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Francis of Assisi
- The Life of a Restless Saint
- De: Volker Leppin, Rhys S. Bezzant - translator
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death. He has inspired generations of Christians and other spiritual seekers, from medieval ascetics to 1960s hippies and modern environmentalists. The "poverello" wrote poems praising the sun, moon, and stars, spoke to the birds, and—so the story goes—even tamed a wolf. But what do we know for sure about who he was, and what is simply legend?
De: Volker Leppin, y otros
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- De: William von Hippel
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Why do people who have so much—leading comfortable lives filled with unprecedented freedom, choice, and abundance—often feel so unhappy and unfulfilled? This phenomenon is a defining paradox of our time and one we endlessly seek to solve. In The Social Paradox, psychologist William von Hippel argues that we need to think about this problem in a new way. By changing our perspective, we might finally see the solution, bringing us greater happiness and more satisfying relationships. The key is to understand the interplay between our two most basic psychological needs—for connection and autonomy.
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Windfall
- Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining Scandal
- De: Tim Falconer
- Narrado por: Daniela Acitelli
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Viola MacMillan had it all: success, money, and respect. Influence, even. But in 1964, after three decades in the mining industry, one of the most fascinating women in Canadian business history was the central character in one of the country's most famous stock scandals. MacMillan, who started out as a prospector in the '30s, had developed lucrative mines and put together big deals. But she still wanted "a major discovery." Early in July 1964, shares in Windfall Oil and Mines, a company she and her husband controlled, traded for around 56 cents. Then one day, the stock took off.
De: Tim Falconer
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Under Cover of Darkness
- Murders in Blackout London
- De: Amy Helen Bell
- Narrado por: Gemma Dawson
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Fear was the unacknowledged specter haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circling above, but of violence at the hands of fellow Londoners in the streets below. Mass displacement, the anonymity of shelters, and the bomb-scarred landscape offered unprecedented opportunities for violent crime. In this absorbing, sometimes shocking account, Amy Helen Bell uncovers the hidden stories of murder and violence that were rife in wartime London.
De: Amy Helen Bell
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Israel
- A History
- De: Anita Shapira, Anthony Berris - translator
- Narrado por: Dina Pearlman
- Duración: 24 h y 18 m
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Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
De: Anita Shapira, y otros
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The Science of Racism
- Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don't—Yet
- De: Keon West
- Narrado por: Keon West
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In this frank, funny, and meticulous book, a leading social scientist lays out the striking facts we know about racism, how we have uncovered them, and how we can start to fix them.
De: Keon West
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The Neverending Empire
- The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome
- De: Aldo Cazzullo, Dana Rinaldi - translation
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring historical and cultural impact, the ancient Roman Empire has long fascinated people across the world. In The Neverending Empire esteemed Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo describes an exciting new historical perspective: that the Roman Empire never fell. In fact, its influence reaches further and deeper than ever.
De: Aldo Cazzullo, y otros
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Golden State
- The Making of California
- De: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California—from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state’s meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark of progressivism—and of its indelible mark on the United States and the world.
De: Michael Hiltzik