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The Freedom Artist
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In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner?
When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization that to find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question.
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The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms.
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Take a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was, how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature. Origins of The Wheel of Time will provide exciting knowledge and insights to both new and longtime fans.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Agenda driven ideological bend.
- De Maxwell en 06-19-23
De: Michael Livingston, y otros
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Knowing What We Know
- The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Colorful anecdotes but tiring after a while.
- De reader en 05-03-23
De: Simon Winchester
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Letters to a Young Poet
- De: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Priceless Recordings of Intense Feeling
- De David en 10-08-04
De: Rainer Maria Rilke, y otros
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Bronze Age Mindset
- De: Bronze Age Pervert
- Narrado por: Adam Smith
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Some say that this work, found in a safe-box in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated because Bronze Age Pervert refuses to learn what he calls "the low and plebeian art of writing". It isn't known how this work was transcribed. The contents are pure dynamite. He explains that you live in ant farm. That you are observed by the lords of lies, ritually probed. Ancient man had something you have lost: confidence in his instincts and strength, knowledge in his blood. BAP shows how the Bronze Age mind-set can set you free from this iron prison and help you embark on the path of power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mandatory Reading For All Men
- De Anonymous User en 11-20-18
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
- De: Richard Holloway
- Narrado por: Richard Holloway
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Effortlessly profound
- De Consi en 09-28-21
De: Richard Holloway
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How to Save the West
- Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
- De: Spencer Klavan
- Narrado por: Spencer Klavan
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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It has been proclaimed many times, but perhaps never more convincingly than now, when every news cycle seems to deliver further confirmation of a world gone mad. Is this the endgame? Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: The situation is dire. But every crisis we face today, we have faced before. And we can surmount each one. Klavan brings to the West’s defense the insights of Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and the Founding Fathers to show that in the wisdom of the past lies hope for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular! A must read!
- De M.A. en 02-15-23
De: Spencer Klavan
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Letters to a Young Poet
- De: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrado por: Marc Allen
- Duración: 1 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. This luminous translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's classic offers brilliant inspiration to all people who seek to know and express their inner truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely amazing writing, great reader.
- De Matt en 09-10-15
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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
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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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Time Travel
- A History
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 10 h
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James Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fiction gives us Truth by connecting the dots
- De Gary en 04-21-17
De: James Gleick
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The Course of Human Events
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 777
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On May 15, 2003, David McCullough presented "The Course of Human Events" as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture is a tribute to McCullough's lifetime investigation of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Pitch for History
- De Alan en 09-13-05
De: David McCullough
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- De: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and honest
- De Amazon Customer en 01-06-20
De: Thomas Ligotti
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Discourse on Colonialism
- De: Aimé Césaire
- Narrado por: J. Keith Jackson
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 74
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly 20 years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic Analytical Book on Colonialism.
- De Anonymous User en 07-12-23
De: Aimé Césaire
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- De: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrado por: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Pinker, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed primarily by self-interest.
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2 out of 5 stars
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He’s correct but he misrepresented the data
- De Andrea Allen en 02-09-21
De: Rutger Bregman, y otros
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The Written World
- The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
- De: Martin Puchner
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores 16 foundational texts selected from more than 4,000 years of world literature and reveals how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. Indeed, literature has touched generations and changed the course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and illuminating!
- De Gloria J. Petit-Clair en 12-04-17
De: Martin Puchner
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Seven Types of Atheism
- De: John Gray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself.
De: John Gray
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Batman Unauthorized
- Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City
- De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, Leah Wilson - editor
- Narrado por: Colby Elliott
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Compiled by a veteran writer of the comic series, this collection of essays explores Batman’s motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just skill, drive, and a really well-made suit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eccentric Essays Batman!
- De arthur m ball en 10-24-14
De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Freedom Artist
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The sexism though
I couldn’t finish. Okri’s progressiveness is celebrated, but I cannot stomach when writers disproportionately (and in this novel, exclusively) describe female characters’ physical appearance dichotomously: either beautiful or not beautiful (meaning fat, in one example from this book). It’s a subtle but distracting thread than runs through the narrative and undermined the critical message.
Readers who enjoy impressionistic, surreal, dreamscapes would otherwise enjoy the prose. Needless to say, the book does service to the weighty topics of censorship and consciousness.
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