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Riddle of the Compass - Abridged
By: Amir D. Aczel
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the... Read more
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Thinking Together: A Socratic Dialogue
By: Christopher Phillips
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1996, Phillips started on a journey across America introducing his love of questions, using the Socratic method, to anyone who was interested.ย In creating his first Socrates Cafรฉ, he created an atmosphere of free exchange and energetic thinking, reviving the pleasures of examining one's most cherished beliefs. Read more
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Religion and Science - Abridged
By: Bertrand Russell
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"New truth is often uncomfortable," Bertrand Russell wrote, "but it is the most important achievement of our species." In Religion and Science (1961), his popular polemic against religious dogma, he covers the ground from demonology to quantum physics, yet concedes that science cannot touch the profound feelings of personal religious experience. Read more
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Theories of the Universe - Abridged
By: Stephen Hawking
Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The theoretical physicist shares his latest thoughts on the nature of space and time in this anthology of selections from Princeton University Press. Along with eminent colleagues, Hawking extends theoretical frontiers by speculating on the big questions of modern cosmology. Read more
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Relativity - Abridged
By: Albert Einstein
Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms. Read more
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Next
By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Michael Lewis
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In Liar's Poker barbarians seized control of the bond markets. In The New New Thing some guys from Silicon Valley redefined the American economy. Now, with his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged great change in the way we live, work, and think. He finds that we are in the midst of one of the... Read more
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The Art of Seduction - Abridged
By: Robert Greene
Narrated by: Jeff David
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Robert Greene's previous bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power, distilled 3,000 years of scheming into a guide People praised as "beguiling... literate... fascinating" and Kirkus denounced as "an anti-Book of Virtues."
In Art of Seduction, Greene returns with a new instruction book on the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of powerโbecause... Read more
The Power of Myth
By: Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series whose message about myth, ritual, and spiritual potentialities exhilarated millions of people.
Contents:
Program 1: The Hero's Adventure
Program 2: The Message of the Myth
Program 3: The First Storytellers
Program 4: Sacrifice and Bliss
Program 5: Love and the Goddess
Program 6: Masks... Read more
De l'amitiรฉ (Cicรฉron)
By: Cicรฉron
Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Michaรซl
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Scaevola, vieillard et augure, rapporte ร Cicรฉron une conversation tenue avec Laelius et Fannius sur l'amitiรฉ. Cicรฉron รฉcrit alors un traitรฉ oรน se mรชlent dialogues et rรฉcits sur le sens que doit avoir l'amitiรฉ, et la conduite qu'elle dicte aux hommes qui se rรฉclament d'elle. Ce texte, รฉcrit en 44 avant J.-C., s'inspire de la philosophie... Read more
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Matter Of Perception, A:ย Seeing Your World with Clarity
By: Susan Gregg
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Susan Gregg tells us thatย "life is as it is," and our whole concept of reality is colored by what we tell ourselves about it.ย She offers us an ancient Toltec formula for changing our experience of life without changing external situations. Read more
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Journey Into Wisdom
By: Pramila Jayapal
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world.ย Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more
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Cyberselfish - Abridged
By: Pauline Borsook
Narrated by: Paula Parker
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From one of the most controversial personalities in the high-tech world comes this rare critique of the narcissism, ignorance and anti-communitarianism of the digital elite and their culture. Until now, the lofty pronouncements of the high-tech gurus and society's obsession with them have seldom been questioned. Sub-titled 'A Critical Romp... Read more
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The Relationship Cure - Abridged
By: John Gottman, PhD & Joan De Claire
Narrated by: John Gottman, PhD & Joan De Claire
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A groundbreaking, practical program for transforming troubled relationships into positive ones
โThis is the best book on relationships I have ever read. . . . John Gottman has decoded the subtle secrets that can either enrich or destroy the quality of our ties with others.โ Daniel B. Wile, Ph.D., author of After the Fight: Using Your... Read more
The Monticello Dialogues, Part I: Democratic Design
By: William McDonough
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
McDonough shares how his early life growing up in Hong Kong affected his worldview, and how his work has been influenced by innovative designs of Thomas Jefferson. He describes his work with chemist Michael Braungart in designing from the point of view of nature. Read more
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Close to Shore - Abridged
By: Michael Capuzzo
Narrated by: Len Cariou
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual... Read more
Dot-Gone
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Spencer Michels reports from San Francisco on the ongoing corporate bloodletting in the dot-com industry. Read more
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What Is Your Calling?
By: Richard Leider
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Leider points out that a calling is more than just finding a job; it involves talents, passions, environment and values. Read more
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The Global Wisdom Society
By: Winston Franklin & Chris Bache
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The power of the individual, standing together with others of like mind in community and working for creative change, serves as the focal point of this spirited dialogue about the rise of a global wisdom society. Read more
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Emotional Alchemy
By: Tara Bennett-Goleman & Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
We all have coping strategies that let us adapt to adversity. Yet as we grow older these thought patterns are no longer needed and we can even pay a price if we continue to use them. Learn about these patterns, called schemas, that hide our mental habits and shatter our peace of mind. Read more
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Radical Son
By: David Horowitz
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 18 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more
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Engaging Creativity / Riding Change
By: David La Chapelle
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more
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The Wonder of Mysticism
By: Wilson Van Dusen
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style.ย His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more
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The Bhagavad Gita
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchellโthe acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Chingโhas produced a... Read more
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World War 3.0 - Abridged
By: Ken Auletta
Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are considered healthy emotions, corporate violence... Read more
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