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Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ... Read more

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.”
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How I Learned to Understand the World

A Memoir

by Hans Rosling ...

Translated by Dr Anna Paterson ...

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that ... Read more

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The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that
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Factfulness

Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund ...

Narrated by Richard Harries ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live ... Read more

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For fans of Freakonomics and Thinking, Fast and Slow, here is a book by Hans Rosling, the scientist called "a true inspiration" by Bill Gates, that teaches us how to see the world as it truly is. Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends-what percentage of the world's population live
... Read more

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How I Learned to Understand the World

A Memoir

by Hans Rosling ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine, Simon Slater ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling RönnlundThis is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that
... Read more

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Encounter

Essays

by Milan Kundera ...

Narrated by Graeme Malcolm ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels, ... Read more

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“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book ReviewMilan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and ideas that characterizes his bestselling novels,
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The Great Mental Models, Volume 4

Economics and Art

by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Great Mental Models Series
Unabridged

11 hours 2 min

**From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish.The fourth and final installment in the timeless Great Mental Models series.**Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields.Mastering a small ... Read more

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**From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish.The fourth and final installment in the timeless Great Mental Models series.**Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields.Mastering a small
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Ingrained

The Making of a Craftsman

by Callum Robinson ...

Narrated by Callum Robinson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees,
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Accountable

The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

by Michael O'Leary, Warren Valdmanis ...

Narrated by Joe Knezevich ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

“More than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.” – Dr. Rajiv Shah**, president** of the Rockefeller Foundation“Unwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, O’Leary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.” – Senator Michael F. BennetThis provocative book takes us insi... ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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“More than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.” – Dr. Rajiv Shah**, president** of the Rockefeller Foundation“Unwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, O’Leary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.” – Senator Michael F. BennetThis provocative book takes us insi...
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Limitless

The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis

by Jeanna Smialek ...

Narrated by Jeanna Smialek, Barrie Kreinik ...

Unabridged

10 hours 51 min

**AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • This fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions—the Federal Reserve—is “a riveting narrative...[and] an invaluable guide to the monetary policy debates of the last few years" (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance).“The best book on the Fed in our time and a model of financial writing.” ... Read more

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**AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • This fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions—the Federal Reserve—is “a riveting narrative...[and] an invaluable guide to the monetary policy debates of the last few years" (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance).“The best book on the Fed in our time and a model of financial writing.”
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Surf When You Can

Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain

by Brett Crozier ...

Narrated by Brett Crozier ...

Unabridged

5 hours 51 min

Inspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer.Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that captured the attention of the nation. Brett Crozier, captain of the most powerful and prestigious aircraft carrier in the ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

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Inspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer.Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that captured the attention of the nation. Brett Crozier, captain of the most powerful and prestigious aircraft carrier in the
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Oscar Wilde

A Life

by Matthew Sturgis ...

Narrated by John Pirkis ...

Unabridged

34 hours 27 min

**The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life."Simply the best modern ... Read more

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**The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life."Simply the best modern
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New York Burning

Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

by Jill Lepore ...

Narrated by Beth McDonald ...

Abridged

7 hours 30 min

The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted. ... Read more

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The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted.
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