Everything Must Go
The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
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A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world.
As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron and Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic social upheaval and temporary climate change, inciting a long tradition of visions of the end without gods.
With a discerning eye and acerbic wit, Lynskey examines how various doomsday tropes and predictions in literature, art, music, and film have arisen from contemporary anxieties, whether they be comets, pandemics, world wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Y2K, or the climate emergency. Far from being grim, Lynskey guides readers through a rich array of fascinating stories and surprising facts, allowing us to keep company with celebrated works of art and the people who made them, from H.G. Wells, Jack London, W.B. Yeats and J.G. Ballard to The Twilight Zone, Dr. Strangelove, Mad Max and The Terminator.
Prescient and original, Everything Must Go is a brilliant, sweeping work of history that provides many astute insights for our times and speaks to our urgent concerns for the future.
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"Clever and insightful. . . . [Lynskey] combine[s] sharp writing with capacious research, rigorous thinking, interesting mini-narratives within the larger story and well-drawn character portraits."
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The German Peasants’ War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as well over a hundred thousand people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, and castles that stood in their way. But they proved no match for the forces of the lords.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Lost History Recovered
- De C. C. Kissinger en 03-12-25
De: Lyndal Roper
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Everything Must Go
- De: Camille Pagán
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 699
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Laine Francis believes there’s a place for everything—and New York, where her family lives, isn’t her place. But no sooner does the professional organizer’s marriage begin to unravel than her sisters drop another bomb on her: their mother, Sally, may have dementia, and they need Laine to come home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Yeah …the Narrator
- De L Smith en 06-16-22
De: Camille Pagán
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Funny Because It's True
- How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire
- De: Christine Wenc
- Narrado por: Christine Wenc
- Duración: 12 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin–Madison undergrads and dropouts began publishing a free weekly newspaper with no editorial stance other than “You Are Dumb.” Just wanting to make a few bucks, they wound up becoming the bedrock of modern satire over the course of twenty years, changing the way we consume both our comedy and our news. The Onion served as a hilarious and brutally perceptive satire of the absurdity and horrors of late twentieth-century American life and grew into a global phenomenon.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Her lack of knowledge.
- De Anonymous User en 04-20-25
De: Christine Wenc
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- De: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a best seller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts", anyone?).
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1 out of 5 stars
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words from MY mouth...
- De Amazon Customer en 08-02-19
De: Dorian Lynskey
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The Prosecutor
- One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
- De: Jack Fairweather
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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At the end of the Nuremberg trials in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the legacy of the Holocaust was in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the heroic story of Fritz Bauer who survived the Nazis as a gay Jewish man to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story
- De janine en 03-25-25
De: Jack Fairweather
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Original Sins
- The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
- De: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Eve L. Ewing
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12
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Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for educators and everyone!
- De Alonna en 05-06-25
De: Eve L. Ewing
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Darkness over Germany
- A Warning from History
- De: Amy Buller
- Narrado por: Tamsin Greig
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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In this powerful audiobook, first published in 1943, Amy Buller recounts the hopes and fears of Germans engulfed in the rise of fascism during the 1930s. During the years leading up to the outbreak of war, Buller defied her critics and social norms by leading delegations of British intelligentsia to Germany to learn about and confront the appeal of the Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A message worth reviewing
- De Daren Cullimore en 09-09-18
De: Amy Buller
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Lost Man's Lane
- A Novel
- De: Scott Carson
- Narrado por: Corey Brill
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Marshall Miller would’ve remembered her face even if he hadn’t seen it on a MISSING poster. When a young woman disappears in his small town, the investigation hinges on Marshall’s haunted sighting of her, crying in the back seat of a police car driven by a cop named Maddox. There’s only one problem: no local cop named Maddox exists. But the speeding ticket he handed to Marshall certainly does.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Two Pack and Nazz
- De Katy Ryan en 04-04-24
De: Scott Carson
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Ghosts of Iron Mountain
- The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today
- De: Phil Tinline
- Narrado por: Phil Tinline
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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A compelling work of investigative journalism that explores the surprising origins and hidden ramifications of an epic late 1960s hoax, perpetrated by cultural luminaries, including Victor Navasky and E.L. Doctorow. For readers curious about the surprising connections between John F. Kennedy, Oliver Stone, Timothy McVeigh, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio quality
- De Chas30166 en 03-29-25
De: Phil Tinline
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
- De: John Cassidy
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Priestley
- Duración: 23 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company to Apple. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics.
De: John Cassidy
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Death Takes Me
- A Novel
- De: Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers - translator, Sarah Booker - translator
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General2 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 9
A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.”
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2 out of 5 stars
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So confusing
- De Amazon Customer en 06-03-25
De: Cristina Rivera Garza, 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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5 out of 5 stars
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land of opportunity
- De Anonymous User en 03-16-25
De: Yoni Appelbaum
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Vantage Point
- A Novel
- De: Sara Sligar
- Narrado por: Adam Ewer, Helen Laser, Jess Nahikian
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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Clara and her brother, Teddy, grew up on a small island in Maine in the shadow of their parents’ tragic deaths, haunted by rumors and paparazzi. Fourteen years later, they’ve mostly put their turbulent past to rest. Teddy has married Clara’s best friend, Jess, and the three of them have moved back home to take over the sprawling, remote family mansion known as Vantage Point. Then Teddy decides to run for the Senate—an unnerving prospect made much worse when intimate videos of Clara are leaked online.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What a disappointment .
- De scumble en 02-10-25
De: Sara Sligar
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Life Hacks for a Little Alien
- De: Alice Franklin
- Narrado por: Sally Phillips
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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“Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes.” Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our narrator is only a lonely little girl living in southeast England, who doesn’t understand the world the way other children seem to. So when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript—an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language—Little Alien experiences something she hasn’t before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they’re from another planet?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting perspective, had some quirks
- De Lisa S en 06-02-25
De: Alice Franklin
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Little Bosses Everywhere
- How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
- De: Bridget Read
- Narrado por: Nikki Massoud
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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In Little Bosses Everywhere, journalist Bridget Read tells the gripping story of multilevel marketing in full for the first time, winding from sunny postwar California, where a failed salesman started a vitamin business, through the devoutly religious suburbs of Michigan, where the industry built its political influence, to stadium-size conventions where today’s top sellers preach to die-hard recruits. MLM has enriched powerful people, like the DeVos and Van Andel families, Warren Buffett, and President Donald Trump, all while eroding public institutions and the social safety net.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched.
- De Donald Schuster en 05-08-25
De: Bridget Read
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President McKinley
- Architect of the American Century
- De: Robert W. Merry
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 19 h y 45 m
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Republican President William McKinley transformed America during his two terms as president. Although he does not register large in either public memory or in historians' rankings, in this revealing account, Robert W. Merry offers "a fresh twist on the old tale . . . a valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going" (The National Review).
De: Robert W. Merry
A book that I needed
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