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Das kleine Handbuch des Stoizismus
By: Jonas Salzgeber
Narrated by: Peter Wolter
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wie lange willst du warten, bis du das Beste von dir verlangst?" Epiktet Oft werden wir im Alltagsstress von unseren Gefühlen übermannt und wissen nicht, wie wir mit unseren Ängsten umgehen oder unsere innere Stärke wiederfinden können. Hier kann die stoische Philosophie eine große Hilfe sein. Schon in der Antike war sie eine der... Read more
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From Here to There
By: Michael Bond
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we’ve never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it’s also critical to our species’ evolutionary success. In From... Read more
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The Mystery of Sleep
By: Scientific American
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The reason we need sleep has long mystified scientists, but it’s crystal clear that we do need it. In fact, the more we learn about what happens while we snooze, the more we discover new benefits for multiple processes including hormone balance, immune function, emotional health, learning, and memory. Studies show that even one night of... Read more
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Benjamin Franklin
By: Kathleen Krull
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America’s Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. And they may even have some vague idea that he once flew a kite during a lightning storm. What Kathleen Krull sets out to do in this very different biography is show Ben Franklin as... Read more
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Such a Pretty Girl
By: Nadina LaSpina
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel... Read more
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After Awareness
By: Greg Goode
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by leading non-duality author Greg Goode, After Awareness offers an insider's look at the Direct Path—a set of liberating spiritual teachings inspired by Shri Atmananda (Krishna Menon). This book shares secrets of the Direct Path that are rarely revealed. It examines topics hardly ever mentioned in non-duality discussions, such as the... Read more
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Albert Camus
By: Oliver Gloag
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts.
In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life. From a poor... Read more
How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
By: Harriet Shugarman
Narrated by: Victoria Cruz
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyWith catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis?Help is at hand. Written by Harriet... Read more
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The Ultimate Engineer
By: Richard Jurek
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's... Read more
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In Praise of Walking
By: Shane O'Mara
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity.
In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill. From walking’s evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms... Read more
Unstressed
By: Alane K Daugherty & Habib Sadeghi
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In the midst of daily stress and turmoil, this book exposes the power of our emotions to heal us—and offers new hope for reclaiming contentment, connection, and a greater sense of well-being.Do you feel stressed out during the day and lie awake at night worrying? You’re not alone. In today’s hectic, fast-paced world, stress and anxiety have... Read more
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American Secession
By: F.H. Buckley
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue—it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries. In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are... Read more
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
By: Mary Seacole
Narrated by: Yasmin Mwanza
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Yasmin Mwanza. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Sarah Salih.
Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and... Read more
Reasoning With An Optimist
By: Jack Bresette-Mills
Narrated by: Jack Bresette-Mills
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
This book seems short and simple, but is actually a guide to the depths of your relationship with yourself and the world. Through it, you may discover how to understand and manipulate your belief system, which will then alter (for the better) how you see yourself as part of a living, responsive world/universe. At every point, you will let your... Read more
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The Opposite of Certainty
By: Janine Urbaniak Reid
Narrated by: Ginny Welsch
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason’s diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis.All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted was for everyone she loved to be okay so she might... Read more
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Bezonomics
By: Brian Dumaine
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An “illuminating, lucid, and finely detailed” (The Washington Post) look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Amazon, and “how Jeff Bezos turned Amazon into the world’s lockdown necessity” (The Times, UK)—from an award-winning Fortune magazine writer.
Like Henry Ford, Sam... Read more
Atomic Spy
By: Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, told with fresh sources and empathy." --Kai Bird, author of The Good Spy and coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert... Read more
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Marie Curie
By: Kathleen Krull
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Krull presents another top-notch scientific biography in the outstanding Giants of Science series. Readers have come to expect chatty, direct narratives that develop distinct characters and place those individuals squarely in the context of both their times and their disciplines, and this account of the noted physicist’s life delivers the goods.... Read more
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
By: Wade Davis
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried.... Read more
No tocar
By: Deborah García Bello
Narrated by: Deborah García Bello
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Un audiolibro urgente y necesario. Un arma de construcción masiva para que la evidencia científica se imponga ante la desinformación. La actual pandemia de COVID-19 es como un agujero negro de incertidumbre e inseguridad. Vivimos en una situación de excepción y por las grietas del miedo nos cuelan informaciones, a menudo sin mala intención, que... Read more
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Hundeerziehung - Abridged
By: Matthias Sommer
Narrated by: Philipp Riegels
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Das Beste für Ihren Hund Hunde sind unglaublich faszinierende Tiere! Wir sind immer wieder aufs Neue überrascht, wie viele verborgene Talente in den kleinen Vierbeinern stecken. Doch Talente wollen und müssen auch gefördert werden! Hundetrainer wissen: Hunde haben viele Bedürfnisse und einen außerordentlich großen Bewegungsdrang! Genau... Read more
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Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
By: Immanuel Kant
Narrated by: Patrick Beck
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ist bis heute einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen. Die "Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten" ist eine der wichtigsten Schriften Immanuel Kants. Sie wurde zum ersten Mal im Jahre 1785 gedruckt. Zahlreiche Nachdrucke belegen ihre Aktualität bis in die heutige Zeit. Hier stellt Kant eine wesentliche Regel für sittliches... Read more
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ALPHA MALE BIBLE
By: SEAN WAYNE
Narrated by: Perdens Studio & Ross Pipkin
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Fulfill Your Potential and Create the Life of Your Dreams with Alpha Male Bible.Do you want to Supercharge your Confidence and Charisma, kickstart your Self-Esteem and Embrace Your Destiny as a REAL ALPHA MAN?Are you looking for a Highly-Effective and down-to-earth guide that’s designed to turn you into the Man You Want To Be?This book is... Read more
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Treat Your Own Back
By: Robin McKenzie OBE CNZM
Narrated by: Catherine Popert
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This patient handbook provides an easy-to-follow self-treatment plan to quickly and effectively diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating back and related pains, even for the long-term sufferer. First in the best-selling " Treat Your Own" Series, written by internationally-acclaimed Physiotherapist Robin Mckenzie OBE CNZM, this book... Read more
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