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Delusion and Mass Delusion
By: Joost A. M. Meerloo
Narrated by: John Riddle
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"Delusion and Mass Delusion" by Joost A. M. Meerloo is a seminal work that dissects the intricate psychology behind individual and collective delusions. Published in 1949, this insightful book delves into the mechanisms through which manipulation, propaganda, and coercion can sway individuals and entire societies into embracing false beliefs and... Read more
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The Delusion
By: T.O. Paine
Narrated by: Melynda Sims
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. It’ll drive you crazy. Literally.Hotel ballroom lights flicker as the University of Baltimore announces the winner of this year’s Tiberian Research Award in Psychology. Years of toil and sacrifice weigh on Emma’s shoulders. Years of enduring her professor’s unearthly demands. Years of... Read more
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The Romeo & Juliet Delusion
By: Lori Abbott
Narrated by: Lori Abbott
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this compelling memoir Lori Abbott chronicles her dangerous relationship with her ex-fiancé who was a meth and heroin addict. In addition to the overwhelming aspects of loving a drug addict, there was domestic abuse, including a series of traumatic events during the relationship that escalated to an attempt being taken on her life 2015. Lori... Read more
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Grand Delusion
By: Steven Simon
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Steven Simon
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“A comprehensive, even magisterial review . . . This is strong stuff, but Simon does not flinch.” —Foreign Affairs
A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East
The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand... Read more
The Self Delusion
By: Gregory Berns
Narrated by: Byron Wagner
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times–bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don’t just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena,... Read more
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Weapons of Mass Delusion
By: Robert Draper
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022
The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge
The... Read more
The Uses of Delusion
By: Stuart Vyse
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Although reason and rationality are our friends in almost all contexts, in some cases people are better off putting reason aside. In a number of very important situations, we benefit by not seeing the world as it is, and by not behaving like logic-driven machines.
The Uses of Delusion is about aspects of human nature that are not altogether... Read more
The Platform Delusion
By: Jonathan A. Knee
Narrated by: Jonathan A. Knee
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An investment banker and professor explains what really drives success in the tech economy
Many think that they understand the secrets to the success of the biggest tech companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. It's the platform economy, or network effects, or some other magical power that makes their ultimate world domination... Read more
Democracy and Delusion
By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
Narrated by: Hangwi Lephatsi
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in an old and dusty box - but the self-evident truths are not, in fact, so indisputable. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. He argues that free education is far from impossible, the ANC's liberation narrative is too idyllic to... Read more
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Reality or Delusion
By: Henry Wood
Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Daniel, a young man and son of the late bailiff, with rather superior ways of a gentleman but no money to back them up becomes involved in a love triangle. Engaged to Maria, a plain looking girl but with proper manners, Daniel begins stepping out on the sly with a pretty young woman from France called Harriet (really Henriette, but a name too... Read more
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The Innovation Delusion
By: Lee Vinsel & Andrew L. Russell
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?
“The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it:... Read more
The Self Delusion
By: Tom Oliver
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES
'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN
'[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE
WE ARE MUCH MORE CONNECTED TO NATURE AND EACH OTHER THAN WE REALISE . . .
- Most of our 37 trillion cells have such a short lifespan that we are essentially made anew every few weeks
- The molecules forming our bodies have... Read more
The Palestinian Delusion
By: Robert Spencer
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every new American president has a plan to bring about peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and every one fails. Every "peace process" has failed in its primary objective: to establish a stable and lasting accord between the two parties, such that they can live together side-by-side in friendship rather than enmity. But why? And what... Read more
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The AI Delusion
By: Gary Smith
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before. But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their... Read more
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The Diversity Delusion
By: Heather Mac Donald
Narrated by: Heather Mac Donald & Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning.
America is in crisis, from the university to the workplace. Toxic ideas first spread by higher education have undermined humanistic... Read more
The Growth Delusion
By: David Pilling
Narrated by: Elliot Hill
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth
We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines how much we can spend on our schools,... Read more
Darwinian Delusion
By: Russ Miller
Narrated by: Claton Butcher
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Philosopher Malcolm Muggeridge stated in the Pascal Lectures, University of Waterloo, that “The theory of evolution…will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted.” This report exposes the lies of Darwinism. The authors make a case strictly... Read more
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The Delusion
By: Laura Gallier
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Owen was a normal high school student with a great life. He had a beautiful girlfriend, played on the football team, and was surrounded by a group of great friends. That is, until he found a well on some abandoned land, and a man who offered him a drink of water that changed his life forever. Suddenly, Owen is seeing things that no one else... Read more
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The Science Delusion
By: Curtis White
Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
One of our most brilliant social critics-- author of the bestselling The Middle Mind-- presents a scathing critique of the " delusions" of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the " big" questions. With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm... Read more
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The Disease Delusion
By: Jeffrey S. Bland
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than... Read more
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Delusion In Death
By: J. D. Robb
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Lieutenant Eve Dallas must foil a terrorist plot in this explosive thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.It was just another after-work happy hour at a bar downtown—until the madness descended. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, more than eighty people lay dead. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the... Read more
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Delusion In Death - Abridged
By: J. D. Robb
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified. The crowd seemed oppressive. Some sharp words were... Read more
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Delusion
By: Peter Abrahams
Narrated by: Ken Marks
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as a master of suspense, award-winning author Peter Abrahams crafts an absorbing psychological thriller. Twenty years ago, Alvin DuPree was jailed for murdering Nell Jarreau's boyfriend-on the strength of Nell's testimony. Now, Alvin has been exonerated. Wondering whether she was delusional, Nell searches for answers by digging through... Read more
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The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins & Lalla Ward
Length: 20 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution.
Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the... Read more