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- A Singular Life in a Crowded World
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Award-winning author Michael Harris examines why our experience of solitude has become so impoverished and how we may grow to love it again in the frenzy of our digital landscape. Solitude is an optimistic and encouraging story about discovering true quiet inside the city, inside the crowd, inside our busy and urbane lives. Harris guides listeners away from a life of ceaseless pings toward a state of measured connectivity, one that balances solitude and companionship.
Rich with true stories about the life-changing power of solitude, and interwoven with reporting from the world's foremost brain researchers, psychologists, and tech entrepreneurs, Solitude is a beautiful and convincing statement on the benefits of being alone.
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Surprisingly profound, if you get past whimsy
- De Ryan en 10-16-11
De: David Eagleman
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Smarter Than You Think
- How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
- De: Clive Thompson
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson documents how every technological innovation - from the printing press to the telegraph - has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt, learning to use the new and retaining what’s good of the old.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Title should be Getting Smarter Through Technology
- De A. Yoshida en 03-10-17
De: Clive Thompson
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Finding Your Way in a Wild New World
- Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want
- De: Martha Beck
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 361
Many people feel called to help others and change the world, but they just don’t know how to fulfill their potential. They have the creativity and passion, but often get lost, not knowing how to direct their energies. Now, popular life coach Martha Beck shows how readers can find their calling in service and healing - while realizing their destiny. With a sparkling, compassionate, and often irreverent style, Beck draws from a combination of ancient wisdom and modern science to help readers consciously embrace vital skills that may be embedded in our DNA and are now made accessible again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! This is a fun book!
- De m en 08-25-12
De: Martha Beck
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The Life We're Looking For
- Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
- De: Andy Crouch
- Narrado por: Andy Crouch
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Our greatest need is to be recognized—to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century, we’ve displaced that need with the ease of technology. We’ve dreamed of mastery without relationship (what the premodern world called magic) and abundance without dependence (what Jesus called Mammon). Yet even before a pandemic disrupted that quest, we felt threatened and strangely out of place: lonely, anxious, bored amid endless options, oddly disconnected amid infinite connections.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Way too much scripture
- De Lee Nettles en 05-11-22
De: Andy Crouch
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,049
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 923
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 917
Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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The Geography of Genius
- A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
- De: Eric Weiner
- Narrado por: Eric Weiner
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 423
In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very, very disappointing
- De Tamara Greer en 06-08-16
De: Eric Weiner
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Maphead
- Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
- De: Ken Jennings
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Romp through Maps
- De Lynn en 01-27-12
De: Ken Jennings
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The Enchanted Hour
- The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
- De: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Narrado por: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 211
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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advice to take to heart
- De Brian en 04-30-20
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Broad Band
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
- De: Claire L. Evans
- Narrado por: Claire L. Evans
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. Vice reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her insightful social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the Internet what it is today. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can't imagine life without.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- De Jean en 03-29-18
De: Claire L. Evans
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Walking
- One Step at a Time
- De: Erling Kagge, Becky L. Crook - translator
- Narrado por: Atli Gunnarsson
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
A lyrical account of an activity that is essential for our sanity, equilibrium, and well-being, from the author of Silence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful and essential book
- De Yogans en 05-02-19
De: Erling Kagge, y otros
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Thinking Machines
- The Quest for Artificial Intelligence - and Where It's Taking Us Next
- De: Luke Dormehl
- Narrado por: Gus Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
When most of us think about artificial intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that artificial intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly platitudes with no depth
- De Gary en 03-24-17
De: Luke Dormehl
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- De: Kate Devlin
- Narrado por: Kate Devlin
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems? Sex robots are here and here to stay, and more are coming. This audiobook explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nuanced, Smart, and Compassionate
- De Karen en 01-20-19
De: Kate Devlin
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The Fire Seekers
- The Babel Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Richard Farr
- Narrado por: Scott Merriman
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 160
An undeciphered language in Crete. A rash of mysterious disappearances, from Bolivia to Japan. An ancient warning at the ruins of Babel. And a new spiritual leader, who claims that human history as we understand it is about to come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fresh story!
- De AB en 02-08-15
De: Richard Farr
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The Secret History of Kindness
- Learning from How Dogs Learn
- De: Melissa Holbrook Pierson
- Narrado por: Ann Osmond
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves. Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the techniques of positive reinforcement.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Warning: praises ABA done to autistic people
- De Rosslyn en 03-09-16
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Speak
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Hall
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- De: David McRaney
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,454
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a lot of guidance
- De A. Yoshida en 02-08-14
De: David McRaney
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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The Shallows
- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- De: Nicholas Carr
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,109
Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the internet is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It is not consistant, so it is frustrating.
- De Adam Shields en 08-03-12
De: Nicholas Carr