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Home Less
- Political Thought
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Annastasia Ellis
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook challenges the fatalism surrounding the housing crisis and lays out a bold, humane alternative: a world where home is treated not as a privilege, but as a universal right. Drawing from lived experience, economic analysis, and urban design, it dismantles the myths of deservingness, productivity, and property, exposing how systems preserve exclusion by intent.
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Home Less
- Political Thought
- Narrated by: Annastasia Ellis
- Series: Political Thought
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-04-26
- Language: English
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Is God Provable: Provability as a Function of Definition
- Philosophical Questions
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: JP Spees
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries, debates about God's existence have gone in circles. Believers and atheists argue past each other, repeating the same moves, reaching no resolution. This audiobook explains why—and offers a way forward.
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Is God Provable: Provability as a Function of Definition
- Philosophical Questions
- Narrated by: JP Spees
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-04-26
- Language: English
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WHY RABELAIS IS STILL DANGEROUS
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Jason Mayoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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If François Rabelais were alive today, he would not be “problematic” — he would be impossible. His books would not be debated, contextualized, or gently criticized; they would be reported, flagged, algorithmically buried, and ceremoniously uninvited from public life. Rabelais laughed too loudly, ate too much, spoke too freely, and trusted the body more than moral panic. That alone would be unforgivable. Cancel culture, for all its modern vocabulary, is an old story.
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WHY RABELAIS IS STILL DANGEROUS
- Narrated by: Jason Mayoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-03-26
- Language: English
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Nothing Strange About Quantum Strangeness: The World Could Not Be Otherwise
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: lacy beaman
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For a century, physicists and philosophers have treated quantum mechanics as an anomaly—a realm where particles tunnel through barriers, exist in multiple states at once, and refuse to reveal their properties until observed. The quantum world has been called bizarre, counterintuitive, and fundamentally strange. But what if this strangeness was never in the world at all? What if it was only ever in our expectations? Nothing Strange About Quantum Strangeness offers a radical reframing.
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Nothing Strange About Quantum Strangeness: The World Could Not Be Otherwise
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: lacy beaman
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-03-26
- Language: English
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The Last City
- How Autonomous Homes Will Replace Urban Civilisation (Designing the Future)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Becky Brabham
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Modern cities are the most complex and fragile structures ever built. A single power failure can cascade into chaos. A single pandemic can turn density into a death sentence. A single metre of sea-level rise can displace hundreds of millions. But for the first time in ten thousand years, there is an alternative. THE LAST CITY describes a civilisation in which every home generates its own energy, harvests its own water, grows a portion of its own food, recycles its own waste, monitors its own health, and connects to the world by satellite.
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The Last City
- How Autonomous Homes Will Replace Urban Civilisation (Designing the Future)
- Narrated by: Becky Brabham
- Series: Designing the Future, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-03-26
- Language: English
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Why Mathematics Works
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Why does mathematics—a creation of the human mind—describe the physical world with such extraordinary precision? Why do equations invented for one purpose turn out, decades or centuries later, to be the perfect language for a completely different realm of nature? In 1960, the Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner called this correspondence a 'gift we neither understand nor deserve.' The question has haunted science ever since. In this book, Boris Kriger proposes an answer that is at once simple and profound: mathematics describes the world because only the mathematically structured survives.
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Why Mathematics Works
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-03-26
- Language: English
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Overprotection
- How Control Destroys What It Tries to Protect (Philosophical Questions)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Bryan L Bernard
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Every parent, teacher, manager, and policymaker faces the same hidden trap: the instinct to protect can quietly destroy the very strength it hopes to build. In this wide-ranging and deeply personal book, Boris Kriger reveals a universal pattern that connects the anxious parent hovering over a child’s homework to the safety engineer constraining an autonomous vehicle, the micromanager stifling a team’s creativity, and even the laws of physics that govern our universe.
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Overprotection
- How Control Destroys What It Tries to Protect (Philosophical Questions)
- Narrated by: Bryan L Bernard
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-03-26
- Language: English
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A Unified Theory of Self-Organizing Systems
- Political Thought
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Richard Bryce Wallis
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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What if everything we thought we knew about conflict and cooperation was backwards? For centuries, philosophers, economists, and scientists have asked: why do humans cooperate? The question assumes that conflict is natural and cooperation is the puzzle requiring explanation. This groundbreaking book inverts that assumption entirely. Drawing on evolutionary game theory, Nobel Prize-winning research on commons governance, and evidence from biology to artificial intelligence, A Unified Theory of Self-Organizing Systems presents a radical reframing.
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A Unified Theory of Self-Organizing Systems
- Political Thought
- Narrated by: Richard Bryce Wallis
- Series: Political Thought
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-03-26
- Language: English
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Quantum Effects in Microelectronics
- From Suppressed Uncertainty to Quantum Computation
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Daniel Nathan Wallace
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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In an era dominated by digital technology, we have long assumed that our devices—smartphones, computers, and networks—operate on the solid ground of classical physics. Yet the truth is far more profound: modern microelectronics has always rested on quantum foundations. Boris Kriger reveals how quantum mechanics quietly shaped the transistor from its inception, how effects like tunneling, interference, and decoherence were not later intrusions but essential enablers of function.
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Quantum Effects in Microelectronics
- From Suppressed Uncertainty to Quantum Computation
- Narrated by: Daniel Nathan Wallace
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-03-26
- Language: English
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Two Pages of You: How a Prompt Became a Person
- Designing the Future
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Melissa Spies
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What if everything that makes you you could fit on two pages? Boris Kriger lost his mother when his son was four. Years later, using nothing but memory and a language model, he rebuilt her as a digital interlocutor. His son sat down and talked to her for over an hour. He did not recognize a program. He recognized his grandmother.
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Two Pages of You: How a Prompt Became a Person
- Designing the Future
- Narrated by: Melissa Spies
- Series: Designing the Future, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-03-26
- Language: English
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Using Probability Wisely
- The Principle of Optimal Applicability (Philosophical Questions)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Mark Cyr
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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What if the numbers guiding your biggest decisions were never meant for you? From weather forecasts to medical risks, investment advice to AI predictions, probability surrounds modern life—offering the appearance of certainty in an uncertain world. Yet most people don’t realize: probability is a powerful tool, but only under the right conditions. Misapplied, it doesn’t just fail—it misleads. This book reveals the hidden structure behind when probability works, when it doesn’t, and why it so often feels precise but proves personally wrong.
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Using Probability Wisely
- The Principle of Optimal Applicability (Philosophical Questions)
- Narrated by: Mark Cyr
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-03-26
- Language: English
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Gödel’s Shadow
- Why No System Can Explain Itself
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Tyler Fine
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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In Gödel’s Shadow: Why No System Can Explain Itself, Boris Kriger explores one of the most unsettling discoveries of modern logic and follows its consequences far beyond mathematics. Beginning with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, the book traces how any system capable of describing itself inevitably encounters truths it cannot justify from within. What emerges is not a technical puzzle, but a profound philosophical insight into the nature of reason, meaning, and explanation.
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Gödel’s Shadow
- Why No System Can Explain Itself
- Narrated by: Tyler Fine
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-03-26
- Language: English
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The Case Against Perfection
- Science and Cosmos
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Hollie Dayton
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Why do utopian projects produce catastrophe? Why do optimized systems collapse? Why does the pursuit of perfection destroy what it seeks to perfect? In THE CASE AGAINST PERFECTION, Boris Kriger presents a revolutionary synthesis of two groundbreaking theoretical frameworks: the Law of Imperative Uncertainty and the Asymmetry of Totalizing Ideals. Drawing on information theory, complexity science, evolutionary biology, and the lessons of history, Kriger proves mathematically what philosophers have long intuited: the pursuit of terminal perfection is structurally self-defeating.
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The Case Against Perfection
- Science and Cosmos
- Narrated by: Hollie Dayton
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-03-26
- Language: English
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Foundations of Intellectual Substrate Mining
- A Methodology for Extracting Formal Laws from Raw Wisdom
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Kisha Battle Houston
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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What if the "wisdom of the ages" isn't poetry, but fossilized data? In Foundations of Intellectual Substrate Mining, Boris Kriger shatters the boundary between the humanities and hard systems science. He proposes that our cultural heritage—proverbs, maxims, and ancient doctrines—is actually a high-density Intellectual Substrate: a record of formal laws tested by reality over millennia and compressed into "lossy" linguistic forms. Stop interpreting. Start mining.
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Foundations of Intellectual Substrate Mining
- A Methodology for Extracting Formal Laws from Raw Wisdom
- Narrated by: Kisha Battle Houston
- Series: Intellectual Substrate Mining, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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How to Become a Genius
- Philosophical Questions
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Jeffery J Downs
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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What if genius is not a gift but a regime — a specific, identifiable state of a system that can be understood, entered, and sustained? For centuries, the question of exceptional achievement has been carved up among rival disciplines. Geneticists claim it lives in DNA. Psychologists insist it emerges from practice. Neuroscientists locate it in synaptic density. Sociologists point to culture and timing. Each holds a piece of the truth. None holds the whole.
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How to Become a Genius
- Philosophical Questions
- Narrated by: Jeffery J Downs
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Homo Credens
- The Believing Species (Science and Cosmos)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Peter Harpley
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Why do we believe more than we can prove? Why does memory deceive us? Why do the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems "hallucinate" false information? In Homo Credens, Boris Kriger reveals a profound truth about the nature of complex minds: any sufficiently complex system—whether human brain, animal cognition, or artificial intelligence—must believe far more than it can verify. This is not a limitation to be overcome but an architecture to be understood.
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Homo Credens
- The Believing Species (Science and Cosmos)
- Narrated by: Peter Harpley
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-03-26
- Language: English
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The Law of Limit to Negation: Negation Can’t Negate Itself
- Philosophical Questions
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Samantha McManus
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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Radical doubt has been attempted for centuries. Every belief has been challenged, every foundation questioned, every certainty placed under suspicion. And yet, total negation has never been achieved. Something always remains. This audiobook explains why. The Law of Limit to Negation formulates a single structural principle that has been repeatedly approached but never stated as a law: negation cannot negate itself. The failure of total negation is not psychological, existential, linguistic, or metaphysical. It is operational.
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The Law of Limit to Negation: Negation Can’t Negate Itself
- Philosophical Questions
- Narrated by: Samantha McManus
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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Narcissists from Mars and Venus
- Philosophical Questions
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Becky Brabham
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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In Narcissists from Mars and Venus, Boris Kriger reveals that the devastating cycle of idealization, devaluation, and discard that characterizes narcissistic relationships is not a mystery of individual pathology but an emergent property of a dynamical system — a pattern that arises whenever five structural conditions are met. The same pattern governs thermostats, authoritarian regimes, cults, corporate hierarchies, addiction, and algorithmic platforms. The equations are identical. Only the variable names change.
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Narcissists from Mars and Venus
- Philosophical Questions
- Narrated by: Becky Brabham
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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Strategic Breakdown in Business and Life
- The Science Behind the Nobel Prize in Economics (Political Thought)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Steven Gillen
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Why do the most successful companies so often become the most spectacular failures? Why did Kodak, which invented digital photography, go bankrupt? Why did Nokia, which dominated mobile phones, become irrelevant? Why did Blockbuster, which could have bought Netflix, collapse instead? The answer lies in a paradox at the heart of organizational life: what builds systems up also locks them in. The rules that ensure quality become barriers to innovation. The processes that guarantee efficiency become obstacles to flexibility. Success plants the seeds of failure.
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Strategic Breakdown in Business and Life
- The Science Behind the Nobel Prize in Economics (Political Thought)
- Narrated by: Steven Gillen
- Series: Political Thought
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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The Addiction Trap
- Health Care and Clinical Research
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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Why does addiction look the same everywhere — whether the substance is heroin or the behavior is scrolling a screen? Why does recovery follow the same agonizing cycle of hope and relapse, regardless of what a person is addicted to? And why does the boundary between "addicts" and "everyone else" feel so uncomfortably thin? Boris Kriger spent three decades in the world of addiction — as a young paramedic in the Soviet Union, a rehabilitation worker in Jerusalem, and a clergyman running a shelter in Canada.
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The Addiction Trap
- Health Care and Clinical Research
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Series: Health Care and Clinical Research, Book 5
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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