Audiobooks narrated by Adam Barr

"It's goodbye world when an ancient dragon awakes. It was the opportunity of a lifetime for this podcaster when I was invited to McMurdo Station, situated in Antarctica, to debunk all the conspiracy theories surrounding that barren wasteland of ice and snow. I'm not a fan of the cold—or the grim captain in charge of babysitting me—but I'm determined to give loyal supporters of my show what they want. The truth. It turns out Antarctica does have a secret. A big one. I mean, massive, with a tail large enough to knock down mountains and teeth several times the size of me—all the better to satisfy its appetite for flesh. The dragon that has awoken isn't the cute and cuddly kind, but rather the nightmare version hellbent on destruction, and it's claimed me as its unwilling servant. Stranded in Antarctica, there is no escaping my dragon, even as my steely-eyed soldier tries his damnedest. Are we doomed to be amongst its first victims, or will the arrival of four hatchlings and their sire somehow prevent the coming massacre? Given their plan is to try and reason with their very ancient relative, I'd say grab what pleasure you can now because humanity is screwed. Contains mature themes."

Eve Langlais (Author), Adam Barr, Khristine Rivière (Narrator)

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Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction

"Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the twenty-first century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the nineteenth century, how it reached its dark apogee in the worst genocide in modern history—the Holocaust—and how Antisemitism still persists around the world today. In the edition of this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Beller brings his examination of this complex and still controversial issue up to date with a discussion of Antisemitism in light of the 2008 financial crash, the Arab Spring, and the on-going crisis between Israel and Palestine."

Steven Beller (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Rescuing the Future: Reimagining Artificial Intelligence

"AI and the Great Ontological Transformation How did we get to this horrific moment when life itself may be snuffed out on this once animated planet? For 98 per cent of the time our species has inhabited the Earth, we adapted to the temporal processes, patterns, and flows of an environment alive with agency. Two thousand years ago our ancestors changed course and began to think of our world as made up of inert substances, things, and resources to be extracted, propertized, commodified, marketed, and consumed. We quickened the pace over the past two centuries of the Industrial Age, systematically stripping the planet of agency, and now find ourselves and our fellow creatures on the brink of extinction. Philosophers describe this historical dialectic as process ontology vs. substance ontology. The existential question we now face is this: can we restore vibrant life on our planet or will we continue to exploit and degrade our Earthly largesse? The answer will depend, in great part, on how we choose to use Artificial Intelligence. The powers that be in the AI world imagine a geopolitical approach to managing the planet, where a handful of tech giants govern the future and extract the last remains of what was a thriving environment, and where even humanity is bypassed by machine intelligence, giving rise to the “singularity” alongside an AI-framed substance ontology paradigm. By contrast, a powerful alternative AI is quietly scaling with the build-out of a highly distributed AI infrastructure attached to local ecosystems and stewarded by bioregional commons governance, enjoining the collaborative intelligence of both our species and our fellow creatures. The People’s AI is pure process ontology and fosters a deep biophilic realignment with the natural world. The choice we make between holding on to an AI substance ontology or grabbing hold of a nascent AI process ontology will determine whether our planet, once brimming with life, will flourish again or perish."

Jeremy Rifkin (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Protecting My Human

"I just wanted to be left alone, but then SHE came along. Alistair's been around for eons because his gift allows him to live undetected among the humans. However, his peaceful existence on Rum Island is shaken up with the arrival of a history professor in search of treasure. Davina isn't some dry and dusty scholar but a vibrant woman in her thirties who's taken a sabbatical to write a book about Scotland's lost treasures. Her research takes her to Kinloch Castle, where the grumpy Alistair sends her packing, but when he spies her falling off a cliff, he literally swoops to her rescue, revealing his scaly side. As you can imagine, Davina is very curious about the man who can shapeshift into a legendary beast—much to Alistair's annoyance. Getting rid of her is proving troublesome, though, and not just because she intrigues him. According to a selkie, their fates are tied. The reluctant Alistair finds himself joining Davina on a trip to Loch Ness and, along the way, discovering that love is the most valuable thing a dragon can hoard. Contains mature themes."

Eve Langlais (Author), Adam Barr, Khristine Rivière (Narrator)

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Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

"This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on 'existential risks.' Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including when humans began to worry about their own extinction and how the debate has changed over time. It establishes a new theoretical foundation for thinking about the ethics of our extinction, arguing that extinction would be very bad under most circumstances, although the outcome might be, on balance, good. The book illustrates how human choices and attitudes about extinction have evolved in Western history. In its thorough examination of humanity's past, this book also provides a starting point for understanding our future. Although accessible enough to be understood by undergraduates, Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians."

Émile P. Torres (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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The Dragocracy Chronicles: Books 1 - 3

"Training my Human: I never suspected the lava rock I threw into the firepit was actually an egg. Claims he's a dragon. Says when he grows strong enough, he wants to rule the world. I'm not about to hand over my new pet, but how's a woman who inks tattoos for a living supposed to keep a dragon safe? Can I keep my dragon out of the clutches of those who'd steal him for personal gain? Serving my Dragon: I found a half-drowned lizard while hiking, but the hungry reptile isn't the only thing I picked up in Charcani Chico. Kayleigh, a beautiful and curvy woman with amnesia, needs my help, too. First off, turns out the little lizard I came across is a dragon. That won't be easy because it turns out Kayleigh's amnesia wasn't caused by an accident. To keep both Pollita and Kayleigh safe, we end up hiding out in the jungle for a while. However, trouble ends up finding us in our piece of paradise. Taming my Human: Being a grumpy ex-soldier means I like being alone. Somehow I end sheltering a single mom on the run with her kid—and a talking lizard. Nicky and her toddler, escaping an abusive situation and looking for a fresh start. Percy, the reptile who turns out to be a dragon and needs constant feeding and protection. I might have retired from action, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten how to track down the enemy and make them pay. Contains mature themes."

Eve Langlais (Author), Adam Barr, Julio Maxwell, Laly Lauret (Narrator)

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Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews

"After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno. In this inspiring story of tenacity, character, faith, love, and forgiveness, we follow young Sol through heartbreak and fear, torment and torture. Through Sol's eyes, we learn the history of the communities in Eastern Europe, especially Lithuania, which has long been a gap in the wider history of the Holocaust. We meet the righteous few who helped save young Sol's life. After being imprisoned in five other concentration camps for a total of four years, Sol was liberated from Buchenwald on his fifteenth birthday. To this day, he still joyfully celebrates every year the day he was born and liberated. Despite the horrors of youth, Sol never lost his determination to live life to the fullest. He embarked on a new life in the United States and would thrive as a husband, father, grandfather, business owner, and an inspiration for the thousands who have heard Sol share his incredible story—and the lessons he has to share. Despite all that he suffered and all those he lost, Sol's courage and positive attitude continues to inspire as he actively seeks out and sees the good in others. He wholeheartedly believes in bashert, a Yiddish word that means 'destiny,' which gave him his 'mission to educate others to love, not to hate.' Life Must Go On is a moving and vital new addition to the history of the Holocaust and the chorus of survivor stories that resonate throughout the generations."

Bea Lurie, Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History

"If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate them for serving as capitalism's beard. Even liberals hate liberals—either because they can't manage to overcome their own prejudices, or precisely because they're so self-hating. This is the starting point for Kevin M. Schultz's lively new history of white liberals in the United States. He efficiently lays out the array of objections to liberals—ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian, and more—in a historical frame that shows how protean the concept has been throughout the past hundred years. It turns out, he declares, that how you define a 'white liberal' is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test revealing your own anxieties. Sharply assessing how decades of attacks on liberals and liberalism have steadily hollowed out the center of American political life, Schultz also explains precisely what needs to be done to avoid digging ourselves even further into the hole of polarization. The ultimate goal, he argues, is to achieve political fragmentation that will fuel the rise of a true multiparty system, where ideology will matter more, not less."

Kevin M. Schultz (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Rescuing my Dragon

"The most wonderful thing about a dragon? You tell me, because mine is a bossy jerk. I thought my grandfather could be demanding, but that was before a baby dragon came into my life. My orange menace seems to think he'll rule the world. I have my doubts, seeing as how I've encountered squirrels bigger than him. Keeping his secret hasn't been easy because he keeps talking to everyone—and decreeing them his servants. It's like he wants the wrong sorts to come after him. And no surprise, they do. When he's kidnapped, rather than wash my hands clean of his Bossy Highness, I team up with a hunky billionaire to get him back. Apollo has the resources, and I've got the determination to rescue my dragon from the clutches of an evil doctor. If we succeed, then what? How will I keep my dragon safe? And is there a future for an ordinary woman and the hot dude who can afford caviar for breakfast? Contains mature themes."

Eve Langlais (Author), Adam Barr, Khristine Rivière (Narrator)

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The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France

"A new history of slavery and the French Revolution When the French revolutionaries passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, they immediately faced a burning question: did that document's first article—'Men are born and remain free and equal in rights'—apply to the 800,000 enslaved Black people in the country's colonies? Over the next dozen years, revolutionary leaders fought over this question. The First Emancipation tells how French lawmakers initially protected slavery in their constitution but reversed themselves in 1794, making France the first western country to abolish slavery throughout its empire. Yet only eight years later, in 1802, Napoleon tried to force the emancipated Black populations of the colonies back into slavery. His decision led to his first major military defeat and to the proclamation of the independence of the Black nation of Haiti, but also to the reestablishment of slavery in other French colonies, where it would not finally be abolished until 1848. The story of how France emancipated its enslaved people and declared them full citizens only to return many of them to bondage, The First Emancipation reveals that the course of abolition in the modern world was more winding and halting than is often remembered."

Jeremy D. Popkin (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide

"When the Second World War began, Theodor Meron was a Jewish-born boy of just nine. He survived ghettos, camps, and unimaginable atrocities, but lost most of his family, finding sanctuary in British Palestine after the Holocaust. Now, more than eight decades later, Judge Meron is a recognized world leader in both the scholarship and practice of international criminal justice—having served as the president of three UN tribunals, delivering landmark decisions on genocide and war crimes. This extraordinary memoir revisits Meron's time as a legal adviser to governments, often swimming against the tide; as a restless diplomat, a boundary-pushing scholar, and ultimately a groundbreaking international judge. Meron has given his life to the service of justice. He is famous for his 1967 opinion finding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be illegal under international law, an opinion he issued as a legal adviser to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More recently, he has advised the International Criminal Court on potential crimes in the Russia-Ukraine war, and in Israel and Gaza since 2023. The founding institutions of international justice today face unprecedented threats. Meron's life story could not be a better timed reminder of the importance of accountability."

Theodor Meron (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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Nothing to Lose

"Pax West has no past, no future, and nothing to lose. A former CIA ghost, he's barely off the train in Portland before a detective slaps him with a murder charge — the victim was the cop's niece, and he's not interested in due process. Pax doesn't fight it. It's a mistake. It'll sort itself out by morning. Prison's as good a place as any to sleep tonight. Then he watches four men nearly beat an inmate to death — and something in him won't let it happen. He saves Elliot Brooks. Elliot curses him for it. Death would've been a mercy. Two years ago, Elliot woke up covered in his daughter's blood with no memory of the night and a life sentence for her murder. Then his sister handed him a photograph: a little girl at Sea World, two years older, unmistakably his daughter. Alive. Now Elliot has one reason to live — and one way out. He needs an escape. He needs Pax. The question is whether Pax is willing to burn down his own freedom to buy someone else's."

Christopher Cartwright, Scott Medbury (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

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