The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period
By: Benjamin Jowett
Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse & Laurence Kennedy
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Laws is the longest of Plato's Dialogues and actually doesn't feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger' who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta). The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Man and the Sand Eel
By: Will Millard
Narrated by: Will Millard
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Old Man and the Sand Eel, written and read by Will Millard.
Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his competitive urge to catch more and bigger fish led... Read more
Wenn Maschinen Meinung machen
By: Günther Rager & Michael Steinbrecher
Narrated by: Armand Presser
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Wie Big Data unsere Gesellschaft verändert Big Data, die digitale Transformation, künstliche Intelligenz - wir wissen mittlerweile, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft rasant verändert. Welche Begriffe auch immer durch die Debatte geistern, deutlich wird: Neue Technologien schaffen auch neue Probleme, die wir bisher noch nicht mal ansatzweise... Read more
View audiobookHow To Seduce Women Born On December 7 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People
By: Kate Bazilevsky
Narrated by: Kevin Iggens
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This book reveals, legalizes a recipe of seduction applicable to ALL of approximately 10 million women born on December 7 of common years and provides details about their sexual factor: behavior, preferences, desires, fantasies, dislikes; frequency of sexual activity, potency, preferred positions, attitude towards monogamy and polygamy, sexual... Read more
View audiobookEmbrace the Misery
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Mark Foo's Last Ride
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Machine Translation
By: Thierry Poibeau
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided this service in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since the advent of computers, research has focused on the design of digital machine translation tools—computer programs capable of automatically translating a text... Read more
View audiobookSkin in the Game
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more
The Abundance of Less
By: Andy Couturier
Narrated by: Adam Riley
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspiring stories of 10 people who left urban Japan to live ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains—for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese counterculture, and Eastern spirituality
“Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author
The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable... Read more
How to Think Like a Cat
By: St‚phane Garnier
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The Cat is calm, observant, charismatic, independent, proud, and joyful; he knows how to strut and is impervious to judgement; he accepts himself as he is and adapts quickly; he knows to say nothing and to avoid conflicts, and yet he knows exactly what he wants and dares to ask for it. The Cat is free. After observing his cat, Ziggy, for years,... Read more
View audiobookPrecious Cargo
By: Craig Davidson
Narrated by: John Cleland
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs.With his last novel, Cataract City, Craig Davidson established himself as one of our most... Read more
Yamas & Niyamas
By: Deborah Adele
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment... Read more
View audiobookThe Truth Machine
By: Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at... Read more
View audiobookAfter the Fall
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Death and Anger on Everest
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Fred Beckey Is Still On the Loose
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Narrated by: John Chancer
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger,... Read more
Text Analytics
By: David Feldspar
Narrated by: Jason R. Gray
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Words and texts are powerful, and you will be given the means to analyze them.
In a time when everyone is trying to advertise online and offline, the meaning people attach to a word can be significant. With all the unstructured data out there, and the guidance we need to take texts apart and look at them from a logical perspective, analyzing... Read more
Gates of the Arctic
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Descent to Mars
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
The Virility Paradox
By: Charles J. Ryan
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Testosterone propels our drive for exploration and risk, for competition and creation, and even our survival. The effects of testosterone permeate the traditions, philosophy, and literature of every known culture—without it, the world would be a drastically different place.
It also has a role in humanity's darker side, contributing to violence,... Read more
Living Under the Volcano
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Loving Them to Death
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.
From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more
Strange Survivors
By: One R. Pagan
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies. From sharp claws to brute strength, camouflage to venom—all these tools and abilities share one purpose: to keep their bearer alive long enough to reproduce, helping the species avoid extinction. Every living... Read more
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