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On the Witness Stand - Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Classic Audiobook Collection
07/22/23
•369m
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On the Witness Stand - Essays on Psychology and Crime by Hugo Munsterberg audiobook.
Genre: history
In On the Witness Stand, Harvard psychologist Hugo Munsterberg steps into the courtroom to argue that the justice system cannot afford to ignore the workings of the mind. Written as a series of sharp, accessible essays, the book follows Munsterberg as he translates the new science of psychology into practical questions for police, lawyers, judges, and jurors. How reliable is an eyewitness who is certain? How do attention, stress, and expectation reshape what a person thinks they saw? Why can suggestion, leading questions, or repeated interviews quietly manufacture details that feel true? Munsterberg explores the psychology behind testimony, identification, confession, and the interpretation of motive, insisting that honest people can be mistaken and that confident memories can be constructed. Along the way, he challenges the habits of cross-examination, the culture of the jury box, and the courtroom's faith in common sense, proposing that experiments and careful observation should guide legal decision-making. Part manifesto and part case-driven inquiry, this classic work captures a turning point where modern psychology collides with the demands of criminal law.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:11:26) Chapter 01
(00:28:08) Chapter 02
(00:46:21) Chapter 03
(01:01:21) Chapter 04
(01:16:05) Chapter 05
(01:29:07) Chapter 06
(01:46:25) Chapter 07
(02:01:59) Chapter 08
(02:22:33) Chapter 09
(02:40:03) Chapter 10
(02:57:28) Chapter 11
(03:09:43) Chapter 12
(03:29:51) Chapter 13
(03:50:00) Chapter 14
(04:09:20) Chapter 15
(04:26:09) Chapter 16
(04:48:56) Chapter 17
(05:07:49) Chapter 18
(05:23:47) Chapter 19
(05:42:32) Chapter 20
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The Secret City by Hugh Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [history]
July 21, 2023
•836m
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole audiobook.
Genre: history
In The Secret City, Hugh Walpole drops an idealistic young Englishman into Petrograd on the eve of revolution and lets the city itself become the story's most dangerous character. Henry Bohun arrives in Russia in 1916 with romantic expectations and a hunger to belong, but he is quickly confronted by shortages, rumors, surveillance, and the uneasy sense that every conversation carries a hidden meaning. Taking lodgings with the Petrovitch household, Bohun is drawn into the intimate tensions of Nicolas and Vera Petrovitch and Vera's younger sister, Nina, whose restlessness mirrors a society straining against its old restraints. Through Bohun's friendship with John Durward and his growing entanglement with the family's shifting loyalties, Walpole traces how private desires collide with public upheaval. As winter closes in and the streets harden into suspicion and fear, the arrival of the unsettling uncle Semyonov signals that trouble is no longer distant news but something that can walk through the front door. Both a vivid portrait of Petrograd in crisis and a psychological study of belonging, faith, and self-deception, the novel asks what each person is really worshipping in the 'secret city' of the heart.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:04:18) Chapter 02
(00:10:55) Chapter 03
(00:19:30) Chapter 04
(00:26:50) Chapter 05
(00:34:13) Chapter 06
(00:45:08) Chapter 07
(01:04:51) Chapter 08
(01:25:21) Chapter 09
(01:54:32) Chapter 10
(02:11:15) Chapter 11
(02:19:00) Chapter 12
(02:40:37) Chapter 13
(02:49:22) Chapter 14
(03:03:38) Chapter 15
(03:15:05) Chapter 16
(03:32:39) Chapter 17
(03:41:59) Chapter 18
(04:03:31) Chapter 19
(04:15:56) Chapter 20
(04:27:13) Chapter 21
(04:43:50) Chapter 22
(04:59:16) Chapter 23
(05:12:29) Chapter 24
(05:27:47) Chapter 25
(05:37:10) Chapter 26
(05:50:52) Chapter 27
(06:06:40) Chapter 28
(06:27:32) Chapter 29
(06:47:34) Chapter 30
(07:09:12) Chapter 31
(07:32:15) Chapter 32
(07:36:05) Chapter 33
(08:14:56) Chapter 34
(08:47:40) Chapter 35
(09:12:25) Chapter 36
(09:35:28) Chapter 37
(09:40:38) Chapter 38
(09:46:09) Chapter 39
(09:58:28) Chapter 40
(10:02:23) Chapter 41
(10:29:20) Chapter 42
(10:50:08) Chapter 43
(11:04:54) Chapter 44
(11:15:38) Chapter 45
(11:24:47) Chapter 46
(11:49:19) Chapter 47
(11:59:08) Chapter 48
(12:13:05) Chapter 49
(12:30:08) Chapter 50
(12:43:07) Chapter 51
(13:12:51) Chapter 52
(13:28:03) Chapter 53
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All in the Day's Work by Ida Tarbell ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
July 24, 2023
•933m
All in the Day's Work by Ida Tarbell audiobook.
Genre: biography
In All in the Day's Work, pioneering investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell tells the story behind the byline, tracing her path from a childhood in western Pennsylvania's oil country to the center of American letters and reform. Raised in a family shaped by boom-and-bust fortunes and fierce debates over fairness, Tarbell grows into a determined student and one of the few women pushing into professional life on her own terms. She follows opportunity into the world of magazines, reporting and editing while learning how ideas, money, and power move through a rapidly industrializing nation. Tarbell recounts formative years of study and travel, her early editorial work, and the craft of building long-form narratives from interviews, archives, and stubborn fact-checking. As her career accelerates, she navigates the pressures of deadline culture, the politics of publishing, and the skepticism reserved for a woman in a male-dominated newsroom. Along the way, she reflects on the people she profiles, the mentors and rivals who test her, and the moral calculus of exposing wrongdoing without sacrificing accuracy. Clear-eyed, witty, and intensely observant, this autobiography captures the making of a journalist and the era that demanded her kind of scrutiny.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:42:14) Chapter 02
(01:25:28) Chapter 03
(01:53:24) Chapter 04
(02:27:26) Chapter 05
(03:24:35) Chapter 06
(04:02:01) Chapter 07
(04:44:19) Chapter 08
(05:35:37) Chapter 09
(06:06:48) Chapter 10
(06:46:30) Chapter 11
(07:37:40) Chapter 12
(08:15:48) Chapter 13
(08:42:41) Chapter 14
(09:33:59) Chapter 15
(10:03:47) Chapter 16
(10:33:11) Chapter 17
(11:21:02) Chapter 18
(12:01:34) Chapter 19
(12:37:52) Chapter 20
(13:28:05) Chapter 21
(13:55:50) Chapter 22
(14:27:40) Chapter 23
(14:56:21) Chapter 24
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