Essays audiobooks
Jet Screamer
By: M. P. MacDougall
Narrated by: M. P. MacDougall
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
M.P. MacDougall is the youngest of twelve kids. He grew up surrounded by obnoxious cows, Big Meanies, perilous expeditions, ravenous Sasquatches, mindless herds of picnickers, and meals that would make Julia Child roll over in her grave. His only means to survive it all was to assume a powerful alter-ego: Jet Screamer!
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Street Hearts
By: Emma Smith & Anthony Smith
Narrated by: Melanie Crawley & Paul Paul Tyreman
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith works tirelessly to change the destiny of street dogs. These animals are abandoned and neglected, and sometimes in... Read more
View audiobookCuanta más gente se muere, más ganas de vivir tengo
By: Maruja Torres
Narrated by: Nuria Llop
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
EL ESPERADO REGRESO DE MARUJA TORRES Vivir para contarlo. Tal vez sea una frase muy manida, pero lo cierto es que resume a la perfección el retorno a las librerías de una de las voces más descaradas de nuestro país. Maruja Torres saca punta a las rutinas de su día a día para conservar los destellos de un mundo que se apaga a través de... Read more
View audiobookDie Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens
By: Rudolf Steiner
Narrated by: Christian Clement
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Innerhalb der intellektuellen Entwicklung Steiners nimmt seine Schrift über die Mystik von 1901 - zusammen mit der Zwillingsschrift ›Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache‹ eine zentrale Stellung ein. Sie dokumentiert den Übergang des Philosophen Steiner zum Mystiker und Esoteriker und steht somit im Brennpunkt aktueller Forschungskontroversen,... Read more
View audiobookA Miscellany Of Men
By: GK Chesterton
Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"before I finally desert the illusions of rationalism for the actualities of romance, I should very much like to write one last roaring, raging book telling all the rationalists not to be so utterly irrational... Do not talk such bosh. I implore you, I supplicate you not to talk such bosh. Utterly and absolutely abolish all such bosh—and we may... Read more
View audiobookGoethes Weltanschauung
By: Rudolf Steiner
Narrated by: Christian Clement
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In "Goethes Weltanschauung" fasste Steiner die Ergebnisse seiner von 1883 bis 1897 sich erstreckenden Studien über Wesen und Bedeutung der naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Goethes in einer bündigen und zugänglichen Weise zusammen. Steiner sah in Goethe einen wichtigen Vordenker, der in seiner Morphologie als erster eine dem Organischen... Read more
View audiobookDie Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage
By: Rudolf Steiner
Narrated by: Christian Clement
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Mit seiner Schrift ›Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage‹ aus dem Jahre 1919 reagiert Steiner auf die Krise des modernen Bewusstseins, die in den gesellschaftlichen Konflikten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts sowie im Ersten Weltkrieg ihren destruktiven Ausdruck gefunden hat. Er schlägt einen spirituell begründeten Ansatz zur Lösung der sozialen Frage... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Transformation
By: Karl Polanyi
Narrated by: David Pickering
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New... Read more
View audiobookChicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny!
By: Amy Newmark
Narrated by: William DeMeritt & Yinka Ladeinde
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
You’ll be laughing your way through these feel-good stories that will bring some sunshine into your life! Chicken Soup for the Soul has gathered some great storytellers to document the mishaps and misadventures of everyday life and celebrate humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. There’s no holding back in these pages, so prepare for lots of... Read more
View audiobookThe Virtues of Captain America, 2nd Edition
By: Mark D. White
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Virtues of Captain America, philosopher and long-time comics fan Mark D. White shows us that this fictional superhero's "old-fashioned" moral code is exactly what we need today to restore kindness and respect in our personal and civic lives.
Now in its second edition, The Virtues of Captain America is updated to include all the new... Read more
On Trails
By: Robert Moor
Narrated by: Robert Moor
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club
From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a... Read more
Ted Lasso and Philosophy
By: Marybeth Baggett, David Baggett & William Irwin
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Ted Lasso and Philosophy explores the hidden depths beneath the vibrant veneer of AppleTV's breakout, award-winning sitcom. Blending philosophical sophistication with winsome appreciation of this feel-good comedy, the collection features original essays canvassing the breadth of the series and carefully considering the ideas it presents,... Read more
View audiobookChristian Science
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Todd Kramer
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian Science is a collection of essays Twain wrote about Christian science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910).
Twain's first article about Christian... Read more
The Age of Loneliness
By: Laura Marris
Narrated by: Laura Marris
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
How do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what’s missing in the landscapes closest to us? In her debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental loss by setting aside the catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, which is marked by the... Read more
View audiobookPilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie... Read more
View audiobookHegel, Marx and Vygotsky
By: Andy Blunden
Narrated by: Gary MacFadden
Length: 22 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Andy Blunden’s Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism as an interdisciplinary science. This allows psychologists and social theorists to share... Read more
View audiobookZwischen Depression und Witzelsucht (ungekürzt)
By: Sven Regener
Narrated by: Sven Regener
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Wenn sich einer der profiliertesten deutschsprachigen Autoren unserer Zeit mit dem Thema Humor in der Li- teratur auseinandersetzt, braucht er gute Gründe. Sven Regener hatte sie: Er war 2016 eingeladen, als Inhaber der Grimm-Professur der Universität Kassel eine Poetik-Vorlesung zu halten und er schlägt sich, seit er Romane veröffentlicht,... Read more
View audiobookAlarms & Discursions
By: GK Chesterton
Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the... Read more
View audiobookTurning to Stone
By: Marcia Bjornerud
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.
Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable to interpret the language of the rocks that surround... Read more
You're Embarrassing Yourself
By: Desiree Akhavan
Narrated by: Desiree Akhavan
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut.
“Hilariously raw, relatable, and—dare I even say—sexy.”—Jessi Klein
When it comes to shame, Desiree Akhavan knows what she’s talking about—whether it’s winning... Read more
A Classic Collection of Philosophical Essays
By: Will Durant
Narrated by: Mark Bowen & Peter Coates
Length: 22 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"A Classic Collection of Philosophical Essays: Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell and Many Others" by Will Durant offers an insightful and comprehensive anthology of essays on some of the most influential philosophers in Western thought. This collection captures the essence of each... Read more
View audiobookA Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well
By: Jared Gleaton
Narrated by: Mason Hunter
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Embark on an incredible weight loss journey that shed 170 pounds in just one year through A Feast for the Senses - a unique culinary guide that redefines the concept of dieting. This book delves into the fascinating world of food psychology (foodology), exploring how the five senses influence our food choices and decisions. Author Jared Gleaton... Read more
View audiobookConduct of Life, volume 3
By: Moses Almosnino & Walter Hilliger
Narrated by: Dan Hilliger & AAC
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The major work of Rabbi Moses Almosnino (1515-1580), “Conduct of Life,” remains to this day an essential reference in classical Judeo-Spanish literature, now finally available in English in its first translation.
First published in Ladino in 1564 as, Sefer Hanhagat hahayim and in 1729 as “Regimiento de la vida”, this three-volume edition is part... Read more
Conduct of Life, volume 2
By: Moses Almosnino & Walter Hilliger
Narrated by: Dan Hilliger & AAC
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The major work of Rabbi Moses Almosnino (1515-1580), “Conduct of Life,” remains to this day an essential reference in classical Judeo-Spanish literature, now finally available in English in its first translation.
First published in Ladino in 1564 as, Sefer Hanhagat ha-hayim and in 1729 as “Regimiento de la vida”, this three-volume edition is... Read more