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Status and Culture How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change [Audiobook]

Status and Culture How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09LJTZ2TB | 2022 | 13 hours and 8 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 358 MB
Solving the long-standing mysteries of culture—from the origin of our tastes and identities, to the perpetual cycles of fashions and fads—through a careful exploration of the fundamental human desire for status. All humans share a need to secure their social standing, and this universal motivation structures our behavior, forms our tastes, determines how we live, and ultimately shapes who we are. We can use status, then, to explain why some things become "cool," how stylistic innovations arise, and why there are constant changes in clothing, music, food, sports, slang, travel, hairstyles, and even dog breeds. In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together the wisdom from history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to demonstrate exactly how individual status seeking creates our cultural ecosystem.

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So Sad Today Personal Essays [Audiobook]

So Sad Today Personal Essays [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B01A61SS06 | 2016 | 5 hours and 5 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 145 MB
From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular Twitter account @sosadtoday comes a darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays. Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings and that quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores - in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic - questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.

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Savage Journey Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo [Audiobook]

Savage Journey Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BL4YC2YC | 2022 | 11 hours and 57 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 346 MB
Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Author Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America A Cultural History of the Early 1960s [Audiobook]

Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America A Cultural History of the Early 1960s [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BL2239G8 | 2022 | 13 hours and 20 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 384 MB
A rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s. In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American Century." Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For "one brief, shining moment" in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars. Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America recalls an important chapter in rock & roll and American history.

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Revenge How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics [Audiobook]

Revenge How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BK397S8W | 2022 | 7 hours and 53 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 227 MB
The man the New York State attorney general credited with inspiring her prosecution of Donald Trump—New York Times number one best-selling author Michael Cohen—tells the behind-the-scenes story of what can happen to you—and what really happened to him—when a president who believes himself to be above the law decides to go after his critics. When Michael Cohen's secret payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of Donald Trump made Cohen look like a liability to the by-then-president of the United States, the end to their decade-long relationship came swiftly—with a knock on the door from the FBI.

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No Filter The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful [Audiobook]

No Filter The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09S4SCH4C | 2022 | 5 hours and 13 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 134 MB
Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart. Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. As the face of Estée Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen.

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