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Identity and Violence
By: Amartya Sen
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer
In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by... Read more
El poder de las palabras
By: Simone Weil
Narrated by: Cecilia Bona
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
El síntoma más angustiante de la mayoría de los conflictos que ven el día en la actualidad es su carácter irreal. Tienen aún menos realidad que el conflicto entre griegos y troyanos. En el centro de la guerra de Troya había, al menos, una mujer que era, por cierto, la perfección de la belleza. Para nuestros contemporáneos el lugar de Helena lo... Read more
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Confesiones de un incrédulo y otros ensayos escogidos (Confessions of Unfaith and Other Selected Essays)
By: H.P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Walter Krochmal
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Se ofrece aquí una selección de artículos y ensayos de H. P. Lovecraft sobre filosofía, ciencia, política y literatura. Aparecidos en periódicos, revistas amateury cartas, e inéditos en nuestro idioma, nos presentan una faceta totalmente desconocida —y acaso silenciada— de este influyente genio del imaginario literario del terror y la fantasía.... Read more
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The Book of All Books
By: Roberto Calasso
Narrated by: Al Kessel
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Roberto Calasso's The Book of All Books is a narration that moves through the Bible as if through a forest, where every branch—every verse—may offer some revelation. Where a man named Saul becomes the first king of a people because his father sent him off to search for some donkeys that had gone astray. Where, in answer to an invitation from... Read more
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The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: Paul Adams
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but... Read more
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Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Cori Samuel
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A caustic criticism of nearly every philosophic predecessor and a challenge of traditionally held views on right and wrong, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil paved the way for modern philosophical thought. Through nearly three hundred transformative aphorisms, Nietzsche presents a worldview in which neither truth nor morality are... Read more
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Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: George Allen, Linda Johnson & Gemma L. Myers
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers. The "Meditations," which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy expressions of this system, and exhibit... Read more
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Shaped by Saints
By: Devi Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dr. Aditya Gait
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaped by Saints Author, Devi Mukherjee takes the reader on a profoundly inspiring pilgrimage to meet saints and realized masters of modern India in forest ashrams, mountain caves, holy places, and shrines. He shares many insights and lessons from the great ones and tells many previously unpublished stories of Yogananda’s early life and return... Read more
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Große Erwartungen
By: Thomas E. Schmidt
Narrated by: Bodo Henkel
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Babyboomer gehen in Rente. Die große Generation tritt ab, die die Bundesrepublik geprägt hat wie keine vor ihr - auf wenig aufsehenerregende, aber souveräne Weise. Die zwischen 1955 und 1969 Geborenen waren der Kindersegen und das statistisch Allgemeine, und sie waren immer mittendrin: zwischen den Ruinen des Krieges, mit Adenauer und... Read more
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Henry David Thoreau: Wo ich lebte und wofür ich lebte
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Walden oder Das Leben in den Wäldern - seit Jahrhunderten das Buch für Aussteiger, Frugalisten, Konsumverweigerer - oder auch ganz einfach nur Naturliebhaber! In ihm beschreibt Henry David Thoreau, wie er zwei Jahre lang die Stadt verließ, um im Wald nur mit eigenen Mitteln zu leben. Im Kapitel "Wo ich lebte und wofür ich lebte" legt er dar,... Read more
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Job - The World English Bible, Book 18 (Unabridged)
By: Various Authors
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text. The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife, his three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar), a man named Elihu, God, and angels (one of whom is named Satan). It begins with an introduction to Job's... Read more
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Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
Narrated by: Volker Braumann
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ich gehöre zu den Lesern Schopenhauers", schrieb Friedrich Nietzsche, "welche, nachdem sie die erste Seite von ihm gelesen haben, mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass sie alle Seiten lesen und auf jedes Wort hören werden, das er überhaupt gesagt hat". Und so wie es Nietzsche mit der Lektüre von Schopenhauer ging, so ging - und geht es bis heute -... Read more
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Esther - The World English Bible, Book 17 (Unabridged)
By: Various Authors
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Book of Esther, also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section of the Jewish Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). It is one of the five Scrolls (Megillot) in the Hebrew Bible and later became part of the Christian Old Testament. The book relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as... Read more
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La Voz del Silencio
By: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Narrated by: Artur Mas
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Este libro narra el viaje del discípulo a lo largo del sendero de la vida, cuenta los peligros que lo acechan y advierte acerca de las precauciones que hay que observar en el camino. Se trata de un viaje iniciático que lleva al viajero hasta el corazón de su templo interior, y en la cual la voz del silencio, el eco de la propia alma, es la única... Read more
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Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home
By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Transform your home into a haven of calm and achieve your ideal lifestyle with this inspirational guide, from the Netflix star and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up until... Read more
Appalachian Zen
By: Steve Kanji Ruhl
Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This luminous memoir combines the hardscrabble setting of Appalachia with the spiritual wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
Appalachian Zen describes a journey we all take, one that Buddhism calls "seeking our true home." Edgy, lyrical, and lovingly rendered, this book recounts how a kid from a Pennsylvania mill-town trailer... Read more
El Discurso Del Método
By: Rodrigo Martinez
Narrated by: René Descartes
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
El Discurso del método, cuyo título completo es Discurso del método para conducir bien la propia razón y buscar la verdad en las ciencias es la principal obra escrita por René Descartes y una obra fundamental de la filosofía occidental con implicaciones para el desarrollo de la filosofía y de la ciencia.Se publicó de forma anónima... Read more
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Complicit
By: Max H. Bazerman
Narrated by: Nancy Crane
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane reveals what all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported... Read more
Ley Natural
By: Lysander Spooner
Narrated by: Juan Padilla
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Lysander Spooner (19 de enero de 1808 - 14 de mayo de 1887) fue un filósofo político, ensayista, escritor de panfletos, unitario, abolicionista, teórico del derecho y empresario estadounidense del siglo XIX. Fue un firme defensor del movimiento obrero y severamente antiautoritario e individualista en sus puntos de vista políticos.
La ley natural... Read more
The Idea of Prison Abolition
By: Tommie Shelby
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment
Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences... Read more
The Fate of Man
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In the design of this book three primary themes interlace and pursue and develop each other.There is first, that invention and science have completely altered the material environment ofhuman life. Next, that the disruptive driving force of an excess of bored and unemployed young men., which must in some manner find relief, will probably shatter... Read more
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Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth
By: William James
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
William James was one of the most influential figures in 19th-century American philosophy and psychology. His Pragmatism is a set of lectures that he gave in 1906–07 in answer to the enduring debate between empiricism and rationalism. Shifting between them, he proposed pragmatism as a method, the idea being that the value of any truth is... Read more
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Maat, la Déesse de la Justice de l'Ancienne Egypte
By: Anna Mancini
Narrated by: Anna Mancini
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Depuis que l'Egyptologie existe, les spécialistes n'ont cessé d'accumuler des textes parlant de Maat, déesse égyptienne de la justice. Pourtant Maat est demeurée un mystère pour les Egyptologues du monde entier. Jusqu'à ce jour, ils avouent ne pas savoir exactement ce qu'est la Maat. Ce qu'ils déplorent, car il s'agit là d'un concept-clef de la... Read more
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Khalil Gibran: The Prophet
By: Khalil Gibran
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve years - that's how long the prophet Almustafa has been waiting for the ship that is to take him back home. The people of the City of Orphalese ask him to tell them about his insights regarding human life: work, love, death, for example. In the ensuing 26 speeches, he does just that. Ever since its first publication in 1923, millions of... Read more
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