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Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Robert Reich
• Narrated By Robert Reich

The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top - and where a grasping middle class simply does not have the resources to remain viable.

Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Sean B. Carroll
• Narrated By Jim Bond

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkable real story of how our world evolved.

Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Sissela Bok
• Narrated By Kellie Fitzgerald
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In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness - from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama - as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.

Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors in Modern Thought - How They Came About, Their Consequences, and How to Avoid Them

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Mortimer J. Adler
• Narrated By Simon Vance

In this delightfully lucid and accessible audiobook, America’s foremost philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler, explores 10 errors in the development of modern thought and examines the serious consequences they have in our everyday lives. Some of these mistakes include: (1) The mistake of identifying happiness with a good time rather than with that which is good for us; (2) The failure to differentiate between the perceptual and the conceptual realms of thought, by which the human mind is distinguished from the animal mind; and (3) The failure to acknowledge free will, which leads to the rejection of moral responsibility.

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Pat Califia
• Narrated By Robin Davies

Public Sex collects the best of Pat Califia's work published over the past 20 years. Providing both a chronicle of the radical sex movement in the United States, as well as the definitive opinions of America's most consistent and trenchant sexual critic, Public Sex is must-listen material for anyone interested in sexual practices, feminism, censorship, or simply the art of the political essay.

The Modern Scholar: Ethics: A History of Moral Thought

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Peter Kreeft
• Narrated By Peter Kreeft

This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us?

Hegel in 90 Minutes

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Paul Strathern
• Narrated By Robert Whitfield

With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Even Hegel conceded that "only one man understands me, and even he does not." Hegel's system included absolutely everything, but its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This method sprang from Hegel's ambition to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascended toward mind as the ultimate reality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Narrated By Jim Killavey