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The Score
- How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
- By: C. Thi Nguyen
- Narrated by: C. Thi Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Is this the game you want to be playing? Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the fit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings – they have become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our...
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Mildly interesting but way too long for a Harvard Business Review piece
- By Mr. D. Whittaker on 15-04-26
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The Score
- How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
- Narrated by: C. Thi Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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Homo Ludens
- A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
- By: Johan Huizinga
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-listen” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or “man the player” through medieval times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization.
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poorly recorded.
- By Firas on 02-01-23
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Homo Ludens
- A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- By: Jeremy Lent
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance46
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other and at odds with the natural world, has passed its expiration date. Yet another world is possible. Award-winning author Jeremy Lent investigates humanity's age-old questions - who am I? why am I? how should I live? - from a fresh perspective.
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The Patterning Instinct Repeated.
- By Terry Miles on 18-10-21
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Freedom
- A Disease Without Cure
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new...
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Bit partisan and not his sharpest most thoughtful writing, more sporadic musings.
- By StuP on 23-05-26
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Freedom
- A Disease Without Cure
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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How to Own the Room
- Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
- By: Viv Groskop
- Narrated by: Viv Groskop
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance203
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Most books about public speaking don’t tell you what to do when you open your mouth and nothing comes out. And they don’t tell you how to get over the anxiety about performance that most people naturally have. They don’t tell you what to do in the moments when you are made, as a woman, to feel small. They don’t tell you how to own the room. This book does.
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Meh. Too much of the author's politics seeping in
- By In A Bookish Mood on 25-02-20
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How to Own the Room
- Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
- Narrated by: Viv Groskop
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Overall91
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Performance64
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From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing...
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Brilliant.
- By Caroline on 21-06-22
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-04-06
- Language: English
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Status Anxiety
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall115
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Performance85
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change it...
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Talking about taboos
- By Judy Corstjens on 16-07-10
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Status Anxiety
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-05-05
- Language: English
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How to Die
- An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
- By: Seneca, James S. Romm - Introduction
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance14
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"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die", wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always", and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Seneca's remarkable meditations on death and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out.
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Is this read by AI?
- By M on 06-02-26
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How to Die
- An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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Civilized To Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall390
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Performance341
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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist)...
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This book is life changing
- By Jack on 29-10-19
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Civilized To Death
- The Price of Progress
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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History for Tomorrow
- Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
- By: Roman Krznaric
- Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Brought to you by Penguin. What can humankind’s rich history of radical revolts teach us about the power of disobedience to tackle the climate crisis? What inspiration could we take from eighteenth century Japan to create a regenerative economy today? How might understanding the origins of...
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Excellently written and deeply interesting
- By Kenneth Cukier (or family) on 15-12-25
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History for Tomorrow
- Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Roman Krznaric
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- By: César A. Hidalgo
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin. The celebrated scientist and author of Why Information Grows reveals how knowledge moves, drives progress and shapes the world We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us are aware of the principles that govern...
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The Infinite Alphabet
- And the Laws of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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A Short History of Stupidity
- By: Stuart Jeffries
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, Stuart Jeffries analyzes how we got into this parlous state and wonders if the stupid, like the poor, are always with us, or if, rather, stupidity is like Japanese knotweed, difficult to root out but to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
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A Short History of Stupidity
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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Question Everything
- A Stone Reader
- By: Simon Critchley - editor, Peter Catapano - editor
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson, Brad Sanders, Bruce Conner, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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When The Stone Reader—a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times’ award-winning philosophy column—first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact rhetoric. Now, as disinformation continues to run rampant and our rights are increasingly called into question, editors Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley contend that philosophy in the public sphere is more crucial than ever.
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Question Everything
- A Stone Reader
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson, Brad Sanders, Bruce Conner, Caroline Slaughter, Christopher Hampton, Jamie Renell, Justin Price, Kevin Stillwell, Lee Osorio, Naomi Mayo, Nick Tecosky, Tony Messano, Widdi Turner
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 29-10-22
- Language: English
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending intimate stories with the analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue.
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Life: A User’s Manual
- Philosophy for Every and Any Eventuality
- By: Julian Baggini, Antonia Macaro
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path.
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Excellent audio book worthy of multiple listens
- By Adisha on 27-12-22
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Life: A User’s Manual
- Philosophy for Every and Any Eventuality
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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The Beta Male Revolution
- Why Many Men Have Totally Lost Interest in Marriage in Today's Society
- By: Alan Roger Currie
- Narrated by: Alan Roger Currie
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance19
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For male listeners, author and professional dating coach Alan Roger Currie goes into detail explaining the difference in the appeal of an Alpha male versus a Beta male in the eyes of women and how each type of man satisfies different needs for women.
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No Need to Stick to the Script
- By User4739251 on 12-08-16
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The Beta Male Revolution
- Why Many Men Have Totally Lost Interest in Marriage in Today's Society
- Narrated by: Alan Roger Currie
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,319
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Brought to you by Penguin. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow...
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A must for everyone.
- By ANDREW NORRIS on 15-02-18
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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Psychologie des foules
- By: Gustave Le Bon
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Processus électoraux, sociétés de consommation, marketing, téléréalité et réseaux sociaux, mondialisation, plus que jamais notre époque moderne plonge davantage dans cette "ère des foules" prévue par Le Bon. Un livre audio indispensable pour qui veut comprendre les ressorts des comportements collectifs.
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Psychologie des foules
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-05-11
- Language: French
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Take My Course, Please! The Philosophy of Humor
- By: Steven Gimbel, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Steven Gimbel
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Performance24
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In recent decades, the philosophy of humor has been recognized as a legitimate subfield of philosophy. The reason for this? Because to understand how humor works is to better understand the nature of human experience. In these 24 insightful, informative, illuminating, and (yes) humorous lectures, explore the philosophical theories and explanations of humor, from blatantly obvious puns to complex narratives to sly twists of language.
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Very enjoyable and interesting
- By Mr. J. A. Ball on 02-06-20
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Take My Course, Please! The Philosophy of Humor
- Narrated by: Steven Gimbel
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-11-18
- Language: English
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Death in a Shallow Pond
- A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
- By: David Edmonds
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine this: You're walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You're the only person who can save her and you must act immediately. But as you approach the pond you remember that you're wearing your most expensive shoes. Wading into the water will ruin them—and might make you late for a meeting. Should you let the child drown?
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Engaging philosophical biography of EA
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-26
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Death in a Shallow Pond
- A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
- Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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