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Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Candace B. Pert
• Narrated By Candace B. Pert

How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from one another, or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? Neuroscientist Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries. She explains the scientific basis of popular wisdom and phenomena like "gut feelings" and makes comprehensible recent discoveries in cancer and AIDS research.

On Intelligence

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
• Narrated By Jeff Hawkins, Stefan Rudnicki

Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Daniel H. Pink
• Narrated By Daniel H. Pink

From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking best seller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Alain De Botton
• Narrated By David Colacci

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us. Characteristically lucid, clever, and inventive, de Botton's "song for occupations" is a celebration and exploration of an aspect of life that is all too often ignored and a book that shines a revealing light on the essential meaning of work in our lives.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Jonathan Haidt
• Narrated By George K. Wilson
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This is a book about 10 "Great Ideas". Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations - to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By J. Maarten Troost
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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At age 26, Maarten Troost decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to a remote South Pacific island. The idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. But he should have known better.

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 30 mins)
• By Epictetus (translated by Sharon Lebell)
• Narrated By Richard Bolles

The Political Mind

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 30 mins)
• By George Lakoff
• Narrated By Kent Cassella
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This passionate, erudite, and groundbreaking book will appeal to readers of Steven Pinker and Thomas Frank. It is a fascinating read for anyone interested in how the mind works, how society works, and how they work together.

The New Yorker Festival - Anarchy and Animation: Cartoon Chaos Theory

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Brad Bird, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and others
• Narrated By Tad Friend

Brad Bird is a director at Pixar Animation Studios and the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Incredibles. He also wrote and directed The Iron Giant and served as executive consultant on the TV series The Simpsons and King of the Hill. He completed his first animated film at the age of 14.

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Leonard Mlodinow
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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In this irreverent and illuminating audiobook, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious causes, when in actuality they are more profoundly influenced by chance.