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The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

Anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wengrow narrate the history of our social evolution, questioning the social constructs dividing human history into distinct demographics.

Business
Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Career & Success

The Dawn of the Four-Day Week

Today in Focus, Michael Safi, Heather Stewart

In this March 2023 episode of Today in Focus, the Guardian reporter Michael Safi sheds light on the growing global initiatives to shorten the standard workweek.

Culture & Society

The Day Sports Stood Still

Antoine Fuqua

The HBO documentary, The Day Sports Stood Still, directed by Antoine Fuqua, explores how professional athletes became full-time activists amid the global pandemic and social justice revolution of 2020.

Biographies
Culture & Society

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

David France

This Netflix documentary explores the life of one of America's most beloved LGBTQ+ rights activists, Marsha P. Johnson, and the circumstances of her death.

Culture & Society

The Deepest Breath

Laura McGann

This documentary chronicles the lives and relationship of record-setting freediver Alessia Zecchini and world-renowned safety diver Steve Keenan.

Biographies
Business
Career & Success

The Defiant Ones

Allen Hughes

The Defiant Ones is a fascinating look behind the curtain at one of hip-hop's most successful duos, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.

Culture & Society

The Deficit Myth

Stephanie Kelton

A brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory and how we may be able to use it to build a fairer and more prosperous society.

Mind & Philosophy

The Defining Decade

Meg Jay

In The Defining Decade, author Meg Jay uses years of research to explain how your work, relationships, personality, and identity undergo massive shifts during your twenties, and how you can make the most of this pivotal decade.

Culture & Society
History

The Delightful History of Pubs

Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark, Charles Bryant

In this April 2022 episode of the Stuff You Should Know podcast, hosts Josh Clark and Charles Bryant discuss the transitions that pubs have made throughout British and Irish history.

Culture & Society
Mind & Philosophy
Science & Environment

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

Cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker explores the cultural beliefs, practices, and philosophies surrounding death and why we work so hard to avoid it.

History
Culture & Society

The Descent of Man

Grayson Perry

The Turner Prize-winning English artist Grayson Perry critiques and offers alternatives to the prevailing characteristics of masculinity.

Arts & Design
Business
Technology & the Future
Lifestyle

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

The Design of Everyday Things shows how the inability to use certain products is often the result of bad design, demonstrating how companies can use cognitive psychology to implement better design principles that will solve problems rather than create them.

Lifestyle
Arts & Design

The Designer's Guide to Writing and Research

Steven Heller

Art director and design author Steven Heller teaches the essential writing skills for designers wishing to create art through language.

Personal Growth

The Desire Map

Danielle LaPorte

The Desire Map gives our goal-setting mechanisms a makeover by showing us that we must rely on our own feelings to navigate life, instead of giving in to the pressure from the outside world.

Biographies

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

American journalist Erik Larson takes a behind-the-scenes look at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the serial killer it attracted.

Money & Investing

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett  – CEO, entrepreneur, and host of the award-winning podcast The Diary of a CEO – takes us through his 33 guiding laws and principles to guarantee success in life and teaches us how to achieve our full potential.

Culture & Society
Biographies

The Diary of a Drag Queen

Crystal Rasmussen

British drag queen Crystal Rasmussen shares her personal diary, providing readers with the intimate and authentic experience of both the onstage and offstage life of a drag performer.

History

The Dictionary People

Sarah Ogilvie

Linguist and lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie charts the fascinating history of how the first Oxford English Dictionary came to be, telling the stories of the extraordinary people who worked tirelessly to produce it.

Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Personal Growth
Business

The Dip

Seth Godin

Between starting and succeeding, there's a time of struggle when we should either pursue excellence or quit strategically - The Dip teaches us how to choose between the two.

Science & Environment

The Disordered Cosmos

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

From the pen of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, theoretical cosmologist and Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, comes an extraordinary tale that intertwines theoretical physics, philosophy, history, sociology, feminism, and politics.

Culture & Society

The Dissident

Bryan Fogel

In this documentary, Academy Award-winning director Bryan Fogel exposes the tangled web of power and corruption behind the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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