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Expect Great Things
- The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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Stunning
- De Laura en 03-12-19
De: Maria Popova
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Nature
- De: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Phil Paonessa
- Duración: 51 m
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This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: commodity, beauty, language and discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another, and their understanding of the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Classic, rushed reading
- De Chris C. en 01-07-21
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The Book That Changed America
- How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
- De: Randall Fuller
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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The compelling story of the effect of Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species on a diverse group of American writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, in 1860.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oversold
- De Roger en 03-03-17
De: Randall Fuller
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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Nature
- De: Sam Torode - foreword, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Sam Torode
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is perhaps the greatest original work of philosophy written by an American. This specially-prepared edition includes a foreword on the origin and significance the book.
De: Sam Torode - foreword, y otros
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The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- De: Willis George Emerson
- Narrado por: Shea Taylor
- Duración: 2 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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The Smoky God is a classic tale from the genre of hollow Earth or subterranean literature. A once-favorite tale of Amazing Stories publisher Ray Palmer, The Smoky God is the (purportedly true) tale of two Norwegian fishermen Jens and Olaf Jansen, who sailed their fishing vessel into the inner Earth in the year 1829. While in the center of the Earth, they find an entire society and meet a race and of advanced giants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Rodney C Kilgore en 07-25-21
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Self Reliance
- De: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Alana Munro
- Duración: 1 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,015
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this
- De Leah L en 07-31-16
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Native American Wisdom
- De: Kent Nerburn Ph.D., Louise Mengelkock M.A.
- Narrado por: Kent Nerburn, Marc Allen
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Capture the beauty, power, and wisdom of the Native American oral tradition with this superlative collection of readings taken from the writings and speeches of people from many different tribes. The collection offers insights into Native American ways of living, learning, and dying, and helps us to feel a reconnection with the land and ourselves. The words of Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Ohiyesa, Black Elk, and others create a powerful listening experience.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the right format, and maybe not the right book
- De Mark Grannis en 07-09-04
De: Kent Nerburn Ph.D., y otros
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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The New York Times best-selling author of seagoing epics now celebrates an American classic.Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest of the Great American Novels, yet its length and esoteric subject matter create an aura of difficulty that too often keeps readers at bay. Fortunately, one unabashed fan wants passionately to give Melville's masterpiece the broad contemporary audience it deserves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful love letter to an amazing novel
- De Darwin8u en 10-20-12
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and thought provoking.
- De Holly Stockley en 04-24-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 490
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
De: Philip Zaleski, y otros
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What Is Man?
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Carl Reiner
- Duración: 3 h
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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What Is Man? appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic, who debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is meaningless given how the environment shapes us, and whether man truly has impulses other than to pursue pleasure and avoid pain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm 21, this shit was crazy. But I loved it.
- De Trina en 10-16-17
De: Mark Twain
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Essays of E. B. White
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 228
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Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest." Covering a large number of subjects, this classic collection features 31 of White's most memorable essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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E.B. White writes honestly, fearlessly and clearly
- De Bonny en 09-03-17
De: E. B. White
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The Sun and the Moon
- Hoaxers, Showmen, and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th-Century New York
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Sun and the Moon tells the delightful and surprisingly true story of how a series of articles in the Sun newspaper in 1835 convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. Purporting to reveal discoveries of a famous British astronomer, the series described such moon life as unicorns, beavers that walked upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. It quickly became the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era.
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3 out of 5 stars
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some very good some very bad
- De peter en 10-30-10
De: Matthew Goodman
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- De: Joseph Campbell
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- De Anonymous User en 08-11-18
De: Joseph Campbell
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-19-17
staccato read ruins book
I was looking forward to listening to this book. it does sound like the reader was in a hurry to finish. I wish I had my credit back.
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