What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage
By: Amy Sutherland
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life?The next time her husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin... Read more
View audiobookRaus aus der Zwangsfalle - Hörbuch
By: Katarina Stengler
Narrated by: Christina Lederhaas, Karl Menrad & Alexander Ts...
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Gesundheit zum Hören! In rund 73 Minuten lernen Sie von der führenden Expertin alles Wichtige zum Thema Zwangserkrankungen. Informiert umfassend, spannend aufbereitet, sofort umsetzbar: Selbsthilfe zum Hören. GRUNDLAGEN 01 Einführung 2:21 02 Wenn Zwänge das Leben bestimmen 5:23 03 Beispiel eines Patienten mit Zwangserkrankung ... Read more
View audiobookMan's Search for Ultimate Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound... Read more
View audiobookStaring at the Sun
By: Irvin D. Yalom
Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in Irvin Yalom’s inimitable storytelling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Boy
By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne LamottNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.What had happened to... Read more
View audiobookGang Leader for a Day
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
Narrated by: Reg Rogers & Stephen J. Dubner
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic... Read more
View audiobookGroup Genius
By: Keith Sawyer
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, and whole industries are built on this idea. But what if the most common beliefs about how creativity works are wrong? In this authoritative and fascinating new audiobook, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some... Read more
View audiobookThe Geography of Bliss
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.
Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more
The How of Happiness - Abridged
By: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more
View audiobookThe Memory Doctor
By: Douglas Mason & Spencer Smith
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Are You Becoming Forgetful? The Doctor is In!Do you have trouble finding your keys in the morning or forget what you were looking for altogether? When you meet new people, do you often forget their names—as soon as they leave the room? Don't panic! Just because you can't remember why you picked up this audiobook doesn't mean you're losing your... Read more
View audiobookLeadership Therapy - Abridged
By: Anna Rowley
Narrated by: Anna Rowley
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful audiobook, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them. She distills the characteristics every leader must have to succeed in... Read more
View audiobookAfter the Affair - Abridged
By: Janis A. Spring
Narrated by: Janis A. Spring
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Dr. Spring possesses a remarkable combination of clarity, wisdom, spirit, and heart. This is an extremely helpful and healing book—a gift to us all.”
—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger“It is ‘must’ reading for any couple who has experienced the violation of trust as a result of an affair.”
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. A staggering... Read more
Meditation, Emotion & Healing
By: William G. DeFoore
Narrated by: William G. DeFoore
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn how to meditate in this practical and encouraging program. Discover the ways in which meditation can lead you to a healthier and happier life. For many people, regular practice of these techniques results in a greater sense of peace, more emotional control, better stress management and improvement in immune function. As you get to know... Read more
View audiobookThe Spiritual Brain
By: Mario Beauregard, Ph.D. & Denyse O'Leary
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make... Read more
View audiobookThe Head Trip
By: Jeff Warren
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more
View audiobookWhen You Need a Lift
By: Joy Behar
Narrated by: Renée Raudman & David Drummond
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Joy Behar, comedian and cohost of ABC's The View, offers a follow-up to her Joy Schtick with this compilation written by 100 of her friends, associates, and role models, including Barbara Bush, Donald Trump, and James Earl Jones. Behar asked her celebrity friends to share whatever picks them up when they're down in the dumps, and as each... Read more
View audiobookWhy Beautiful People Have More Daughters
By: Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.
With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this... Read more
Soul to Soul
By: Gary Zukav
Narrated by: Gary Zukav
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOUL
In Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.
Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights... Read more
Musicophilia
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more
View audiobookMusicophilia - Abridged
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more
View audiobookSwitching Time
By: Richard Baer
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.
In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer... Read more
The Center Cannot Hold
By: Elyn R. Saks
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. In The Center Cannot Hold, Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most... Read more
View audiobookThe Body Has a Mind of Its Own
By: Matthew Blakeslee & Sandra Blakeslee
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?
The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point... Read more
Look Me in the Eye
By: John Elder Robison
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more
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