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The Spiritual Brain
by Mario Beauregard
Available on: Audio Download ($19.00) | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented.
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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip Delves Broughton
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
As One L did for Harvard Law School, Ahead of the Curve does for Harvard Business School: providing an incisive student's-eye view that pulls the veil away from this vaunted institution and probes the methods it uses to make its students into the elite of the business world.
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio Download ($18.00) | Audio CD ($32.39) | MP3 CD ($25.19)
Rife with Dickens' disturbing descriptions of street life, the novel is buoyed by the purity of the orphan Oliver.
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Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Amy Dockser Marcus
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period (1920-1948). Amy Dockser Marcus, however, demonstrates that the bloody struggle for power actually started much earlier…
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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Available on: Audio Download ($19.99) | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Available on: Audio Download ($16.50) | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD ($18.00)
Hailed by Henry James as, "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country", Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a masterful portrayal of humanity's continuing struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
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Skinny Bitch
by Rory Freedman
Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wake-up call to all women who want to be thin.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Available on: Audio Download ($16.50) | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD
Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Part silly, part serious, these delightful stories convey Kipling's message in a way that children and adults alike will appreciate time and time again.
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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
by Sandra Blakeslee
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($25.19)
Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?
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The Wal-Mart Effect
by Charles Fishman
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Because Wal-Mart has maintained an impenetrable wall of secrecy and imposed absolute compliance in that secrecy from those it does business with, we know astonishingly little about how the company actually operates or about its impact on our lives…
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Audio Download ($16.50) | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash.
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Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Available on: Audio Download ($14.99) | Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
On a wager, the eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a challenge to circle the globe in eighty days.
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Buddha's Teachings
by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
Available on: Audio Download ($10.99) | Audio CD ($16.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Buddha's Teachings is a collection of writings on the essence of Buddhism, selected and edited from the vast Buddhist canon, and presented in a concise, easy-to-read, and nonsectarian format. It also includes a brief history of Buddhism.
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Sex on the Brain
by Daniel G. Amen
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Based on Dr. Daniel Amen's latest research in practical neuroscience, "Sex on the Brain" shares 12 lessons that help you enhance your love and sex lives through understanding and improving brain function.
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Available on: Audio Download ($11.50) | Audio CD ($20.69) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,'' the premier title in this collection, is one of the most widely anthologized American short stories and is considered Bierce's best work.
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
by Frans de Waal
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We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes?
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Ageless Face, Ageless Mind
by Nicholas Perricone
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, one of the most famous dermatologists in the world, examines the cardinal processes of aging and discusses the causes of wrinkles, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and more.
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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude.
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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Available on: Audio Download ($18.00) | Audio CD ($32.39) | MP3 CD
Emma takes Harriet Smith, a parlour boarder and unknown, under her wing and schemes for advancement through a good marriage.
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Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods
Available on: Audio Download ($10.99) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation.
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The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
The Big Con is a brilliantly revealing look at how the radical ideas of a small group of economic hucksters have taken over the American political system and perverted our nation’s policies.
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
by June Casagrande
Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Here's some good news for everyone who's ever been bullied into believing they can't speak their own language: The grammar snobs are bluffing.
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